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Society & Social Sciences
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Architects of Terror€21.99Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.
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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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Capitalist Realism - Is there no alternative?€10.99After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded.
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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.
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Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror€20.99Part manifesto, part exploration of what justice truly means for survivors of trauma and abuse, Judith Herman forces us to reconsider our perspective on victims, revealing uncomfortable truths about our justice systems and proposing new ways to implement justice.
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Religion and the Rise of Sport in England€43.99Tells 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€18.99Seventy-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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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow 3e : Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems€72.99Through a recent series of breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data.
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Painted People : Humanity in 21 Tattoos€24.99Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to OEtzi, the 'iceman', whose mummy allows us a brief glimpse into the prehistory of the practice.