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The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Provocative 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 Foreigner by Richard Sennett 9781907903083
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Richard 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... -
Authority by Richard Sennett 9780393310276
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.40A master of the interplay between politics and psychology, Richard Sennett here analyzes the nature, the role, and the faces of authority-authority in personal life, in the public realm, authority as... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett 9780300151190
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.83Craftsmanship, 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... -
Palais-Royal by Richard Sennett 9780393312515
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.06Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers-Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest-each of whom is struggling for... -
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A 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... -
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett 9781839764080
Booksplease Price: £17.19When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'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... -
Construir Y Habitar by Richard Sennett 9788433964335
Booksplease Price: £26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964335Author Richard SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint AnagramaPublisher... -
Democracy and Urban Form by Richard Sennett 9781915609472
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609472Author Richard SennettFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780393353747
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.31A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780141007571
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Richard 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 in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett 9780393325379
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780300285581
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300285581Author Richard SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Yale University... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics Richard Sennett 9781802062793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Richard 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... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and... -
Marine Steam Engines by Professor Richard Sennett 9783861954590
RRP: £59.90Booksplease Price: £53.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783861954590Author Professor Richard SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Salzwasser-Verlag... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Living 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... -
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett 9780393313918
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.96Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they... -
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life by Richard Sennett 9780393309096
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.75The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults-both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents-into rigid attitudes that... -
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett 9780393308785
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.52From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem-a study of the physical fabric of the... -
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life by Richard Sennett 9780300148275
Booksplease Price: £27.47Richard Sennett is one of the world's leading sociologists, and this book, first published in 1970, was his first single-authored work. It launched his exploration of communities and how they live in... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.95In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on... -
A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical... -
Together, Closer: Stories of Intimacy in Friendship, Love, and Family by Giovanni Frazzetto
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77A 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... -
The Lure of Communication: Sociology through Rhetoric by Andrea Lombardinilo 9781349960835
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £96.71This book addresses the convergence of sociology, communication and rhetoric, with particular reference to the contemporary expressive and social patterns of mass communication. Using rhetoric as a... -
The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America by Michael H. Carriere
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.35In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and... -
Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life Neal Curtis 9780745331553
Booksplease Price: £31.52Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this... -
The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban Philip Sheldrake (Cambridge Theological Federation, UK and Oblate School of Theology, USA) 9781118855669
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.51A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by... -
The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban by Philip Sheldrake 9781118830512
Booksplease Price: £82.33A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by... -
Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism by Cassim Shepard
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.08Cities are where solutions to the twenty-first century's key challenges - addressing inequality, fostering political participation, responding to climate change - will be tested. And as cities adapt... -
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together by Clay Shirky 9780141030623
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Clay 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'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... -
The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda Un-Habitat 9780815379294
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In... -
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins 9781350374270
Booksplease Price: £20.35Why 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... -
The Division of Rationalized Labor Michelle Jackson 9780674296220
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92A pathbreaking study of why, paradoxically, workforce specialization and job responsibilities have increased hand in hand.In the United States and other late-industrial countries, the division of... -
Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime by Sanford F. Schram
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes... -
Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework by Yehudi A. Cohen
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24How do specific activities and institutions in which people are involved fit into the overall adaptive strategy of their society? What are the particular pressures leading to change in each of these...