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The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett 9780300151190
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $17.62Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves... -
The Foreigner by Richard Sennett 9781907903083
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to... -
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book,... -
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values. The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780141007571
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Are we now so... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than... -
Together, Closer: Stories of Intimacy in Friendship, Love, and Family by Giovanni Frazzetto
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.71A deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from a leading neuroscientist and author of How We Feel.What is intimacy and why do we need it?Intimacy is that... -
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together by Clay Shirky 9780141030623
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Clay Shirky's international bestseller Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society. ... -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other... -
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins 9781350374270
Booksplease Price: $22.77Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial... -
Sonic Urbanism: Resonances In A New Field 9781916186408
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $6.12Following our first colloquium, 'Crafting a Sonic Urbanism', which took place at the MSH Paris Nord in September 2018, we are excited to present a publication on Sonic Urbanism. Edited by &beyond,... -
Embodying Otherness 9781916186446
RRP: $10.05Booksplease Price: $8.58Embodying Otherness explores the presence, stillness and movement of bodies in the city, and the ways they are constantly restricted, codified and practiced. How can we challenge codes embedded in... -
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character by David Riesman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.80"The Lonely Crowd . . . remains not only the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large."-Orlando... -
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development by David Harvey
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes... -
Woman's Estate Juliet Mitchell 9781804299586
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist liberation movement, with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Women's Estate is one of the most influential socialist feminist... -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.41In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured... -
On Suicide by Emile Durkheim
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the... -
The Ways of the World David Harvey 9781781255322
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist thinker: this book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how... -
The New Imperialism by David Harvey
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $36.30People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What... -
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and... -
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science by Sissela Bok
Booksplease Price: $18.65From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders, writers, and artists In this smart and timely book, the... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.40How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our... -
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking... -
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RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.51**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom by John Tusa
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.36"In equal parts a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of our best-loved institutions and a guide on how governing boards should work" - HRDirector Throughout the world, thousands of... -
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Booksplease Price: $29.59What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and...