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Society & Social Sciences
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Galway: Making a Capital of Culture€16.99This book offers a fresh perspective on contemporary place development, using the unique case of Galway, Ireland. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, sociology, planning cultural and Irish studies. While a specific case study, the story of Galway is an international one.
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The Good Enough Life€26.99This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.
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The Conspiracy Tourist : Travels Through a Strange World€26.99Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so. Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh.
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The Persuaders : Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age€12.99The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over.
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The Naked Neanderthal€23.99What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions.
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Caste: The Origins of our Discontents€16.99From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives
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It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live : Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate€26.99This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there.
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Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance (Hardback)€72.00Covering almost 8% of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze.
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Ireland Through a Critical Lense : A Miscellany of Life-Writing on Politics, Culture and Film€51.00This compendium gathers together his published work and films produced over the last forty years. Sociology of Ireland.