Society & Social Sciences
Delve into Smeikalbooks’ collection of society and social sciences books. Explore analyses that explain social behaviors and cultural phenomena. And remember you can create your bundle, add 5 books to your cart, and you will receive an extra 15% discount. Buy 10 books, and you will get 30% off!
Fascism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
Centrism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You
From the beloved author and artist behind Bad Girls Throughout History comes this lushly illustrated book of goddesses from around the world. Aphro...
View full detailsPublic Management: A Critical Text (Management, Work and Organisations)
This is a critical, international text examining key concepts and ideas of public management not only in terms of their efficacy, but also in terms...
View full detailsWorldwide History of Dress - Arabic Edition
Now available in Arabic. Here is the definitive costume book, embodying a wealth of research that is unlikely ever to be superseded. From the plant...
View full detailsBeijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES **A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK...
View full detailsDumb Money: GameStop VS Wall Street
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze an...
View full details100 Science Lessons for Year 6 with CDRom
A comprehensive scheme for science, restructured to match QCA Science Scheme of Work. The key features of the book include: even better coverage of...
View full detailsWords Will Break Cement
On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Chr...
View full detailsNew Horizons: Tibet-Turning the Wheel of Life
Product Description Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans – oppressive a...
View full detailsPower Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our nati...
View full detailsThe Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are ...
View full detailsYour Amazing Teen Brain
Your teen brain is amazing! These fun and easy "brain hacks" will help you make the most of your growing mind, deal with ALL the feelings, build fr...
View full detailsBad Data
'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a p...
View full detailsThe Edge
Review One of the best commentators on defence and diplomacy . . . always a reliably authoritative presence . . . Concise and cogently argued, Urb...
View full detailsMonogamy
Review A joy to read: penetrating, questioning and witty. ― Sunday Times His genius is the way in which he voices all those things we knew instin...
View full detailsThe Word and the Bomb
About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...
View full detailsIn Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed
DON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But i...
View full detailsThe Super Tutor
What do you remember from your school days? Analysing poems that didn't make sense? The dreaded set texts? The Super Tutor celebrates the love of l...
View full detailsCharacter Toolkit for Teachers
This accessible and much-needed resource sets out advice on how to develop character and encourage wellbeing in pupils aged 5-11. Schools are incr...
View full detailsDynamo: A Personality Notebook (Note to Self)
About the Author Dr Sanna Balsari-Palsule is a behavioural scientist and expert in the psychology of personality. An associate at Judge Business S...
View full detailsBrainwashed
'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian 'This book will make you think differently about our world' - FT 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide...
View full detailsHow to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood
Review Byrne's book is about scientific parenting, and it is very welcome indeed ... At its best it is an overview of what we know about child dev...
View full detailsFeminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation
Review Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book -- Melanie Reid ― The Times Bindel . . . has written a R...
View full detailsStiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
Review At last, a scrupulously honest insight into private boarding education in Britain - ranging from the abuse to which it subjects the child, ...
View full detailsNot Working: Why We Have to Stop
'A PROBING EXPLORATION OF THE CREATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF INACTIVITY' FINANCIAL TIMES 'To do nothing at all is the most difficult th...
View full detailsHow To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World
Review Extract: How can we live with those who are different from us? This is an old question and a tricky one. It may also be the most urgent pro...
View full detailsThe Meat Paradox: ‘Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying’ Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Review In all the best ways, The Meat Paradox complicates the ongoing debate between omnivores and herbivores. It's a funny, reverent reminder tha...
View full detailsLooking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
Product Description "Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, aut...
View full detailsStress in Teachers of Children with Special Educational Needs
Examining the causes and types of stress among teachers of children with special educational needs, this volume has practical ideas on how teachers...
View full detailsHinterland
All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he ha...
View full detailsNew Studies in Post-Cold War Security
Adopting an approach as the first post-Cold War generation of security analysts, the contributors to this book examine themes such as the question ...
View full detailsWhat is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? & Other Big Questions
Product Description Masculinity is being discussed more than ever before, in a range of contexts. People talk about 'toxic masculinity', claim...
View full detailsSchool Blues
Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning...
View full detailsYW 96: The Year's Work: v. 6
The second set in the series, The Year's Work in English Studies Volume 77 edited by Peter Kitson, and The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural The...
View full detailsDesigning Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, t...
View full detailsOn the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades
This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of hal...
View full detailsChildren's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives
This volume, first published in 1999, describes children's development in its cultural context. It stresses the point that children's development i...
View full detailsRegional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorgan...
View full detailsScience: Book 5 Ages 9-11: Bk. 5 (Ready Resources)
The time-consuming process of finding, making and gathering together the resources needed when starting a new area of study in science can be solve...
View full detailsAssessment Activities (Early Years Activity Chest)
This series provides practical dip-in activities to support the 'Early Learning Goals'. The ideas will provide a collection of quick-to-use timed a...
View full detailsSongs for Role Play with CD (Fun Songs for the Early Years)
Get your early years children singing with a song for every occasion! No musical ability is required - we've sung so you don't have to! This title ...
View full details? Myself with CD Rom (Themes for Early Years)
"Themes for Early Years" is back - fully revised and better than ever with a fantastic CD-ROM! This title features on screen drag and drop activiti...
View full details100 Science Lessons for Year 5 with CDRom
This is a comprehensive scheme for science, restructured to match QCA Science Scheme of Work. It offers even better coverage of the Science curricu...
View full details100 New Literacy Framework Lessons for Year 3 with CD-Rom
Best-selling resources to support teachers with the Renewed Literacy Framework with interactive activities on CD-ROM for interactive whiteboards. *...
View full details50 Maths Lessons for More Able Learners Ages 7-9: Ages 7-9
50 Maths Lessons for More Able Learners is a new series of books that will provide a range of standalone activities covering the objectives for a t...
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