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Sociology & Anthropology
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Religion and the Rise of Sport in England€43.99
Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties. They have sometimes been in competition for people's resources of time and money, but can also be mutually supportive.
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Living Together : Searching for Community in a Fractured World€18.99
Seventy-six per cent of British adults feel that we've become more distanced from our neighbours in the last 20 years. We are less likely than our grandparents, or even our parents, to know the names of our neighbours, to enjoy multi-generational friendships or to share resources and childcare.
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Human Growth and Development across the Lifespan€33.99
Full colour, updated 3rd edition of this hugely popular book introducing the concept of human growth and development across the lifespan.
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Sexual/Liberation€9.95
Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of achieving equality within a grossly unequal social order.
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Abolish the Family : A Manifesto for Care and Liberation€12.00
What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.
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Whatever Happened to Tradition? : History, Belonging and the Future of the West€13.99
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religious.
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The Seed Detective : Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables€23.99
Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables on his quest to save our heritage produce. Have you ever wondered how everyday staples such as peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates?
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Gaffs : Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it€17.99
The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.
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The Amur River : Between Russia and China€13.99
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China.
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The Fairy Tellers : A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales€13.99
The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them and were in turn formed by them.