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Society & Social Sciences
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Galway: Making a Capital of Culture€16.99
This 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€26.99
This 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 Persuaders : Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age€12.99
The 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€23.99
What 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€16.99
From 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€26.99
This 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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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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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.