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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745610771
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.82This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general... -
Refiguring in Black by Tendayi Sithole 9781509557028
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life, and a meditation on the questions and concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the form of a critical engagement with the thought of... -
Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions by Alex Byrne 9781509560011
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.29Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary... -
A Brief Global History of the Left by Shlomo Sand 9781509558254
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.02What is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the... -
Child Care Today Penelope Leach (Penelope Leach is Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck ) 9780745647005
Booksplease Price: $11.03Child care is the 21st century's biggest unsolved conundrum: children's needs have not changed, but in a world that puts a premium on paid employment and personal fulfilment, who should, who can, and... -
Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature Lisa Garforth 9780745684741
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos... -
The Case for the Centre Right by David Gauke 9781509560820
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.10In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that... -
Masculine Domination Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745622651
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into... -
Uncertain Times by Jacques Ranciere 9781509558681
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.24The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace... -
Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman 9781509564101
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises... -
Wuhan: A Documentary Novel by Liao Yiwu 9781509562992
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $16.29As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really... -
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton 9781509559718
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.60Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm,... -
Disavowal by Alenka Zupančič 9781509561209
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.72This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to... -
A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace by Robert Jutte 9780745629582
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $27.81This path--breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different traditions, images, metaphors and ideas that have... -
The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values by Marlene Wind
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and... -
Minsky Daniel H. Neilson 9781509528509
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" - that the seeds of the bust are... -
Along the Trenches: A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani 9781509535576
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.30Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster - the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that... -
In a Human Voice by Carol Gilligan 9781509556793
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25Carol Gilligan’s landmark book In a Different Voice – the “little book that started a revolution” – brought women’s voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be... -
The Horn of Africa Kidane Mengisteab (Pennsylvania State University) 9780745651224
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts,... -
Smartphones as Locative Media Jordan Frith 9780745685014
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.96Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these... -
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509560936
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.42Across the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination,... -
Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 by Mark Garnett 9781509560967
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.02Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied. Sadly for the... -
The War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its History Frank Furedi 9781509561254
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.96A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it’s toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past... -
Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott 9781509555437
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.32Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals,... -
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People by Martijn Konings 9781509564323
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?In The... -
Rethinking Emancipation: Conversations with Aliocha Wald Lasowski by Jacques Ranciere 9781509559237
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and... -
The Refusalist International: A Theory of the New Protest Cycle by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 9781509568284
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89The many mass protests that have taken place since 2011 have been characterised by an unmistakable need to challenge, overthrow and destroy the prevailing political representations without proposing... -
Social Movements in Global Politics by David West 9780745649603
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, extra-institutional activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a... -
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745609874
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.71The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and... -
Security and Public Health Simon Rushton 9781509515899
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from... -
Thinking Like an Iceberg Olivier Remaud (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris) 9781509551477
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating... -
Peace Agreements: Finding Solutions to Intra-state Conflicts Nina Caspersen (University of York) 9780745680279
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. How have these... -
Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences Geoffrey Craig 9780745689623
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a... -
Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power Susan George 9780745697826
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now... -
Familiar Violence: A History of Child Abuse by Heather Montgomery 9781509552917
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $18.60Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those... -
If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls by Bruno Latour 9781509560462
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.38In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560431
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.35Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary... -
First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge between Metaphysics and the Sciences by Giorgio Agamben 9781509560523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.54What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called “first philosophy” or “metaphysics”? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it... -
Social Policy for Social Work: Placing Social Work in its Wider Context Lorraine Green (University of Manchester) 9780745660837
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $29.25Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social... -
Nations, States and Empires by John A. Hall 9781509563258
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56This book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires...