Social Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060574659Author Kerry Max CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Oliver Cromwell, a pivotal and often contentious character, has long been the focus of many historical works that chart his meteoric rise from middle-aged East Anglian farmer with no previous military experience, to command the army and become one of...

As seen on Good Morning America A darkly humorous and inspiring first-person account of the larger-than-life exploits and ultimate redemption of an Irish gangster-turned-actor-turned-sober-storyteller-written in collaboration with the creators of Silicon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073530Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

Finding out that your child has Asperger's Syndrome or Autism can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.9 per cent of all food and drink in the known universe, the fun really starts. This was the situation the author...

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world...

With applications using SmartPLS -the primary software used in partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM)-this practical guide provides concise instructions on how to use this evolving statistical technique to conduct research and...

In a segregated society in which black scholars, writers, and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to communities throughout the United States. The black press has offered incisive critiques...

The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country...

Enjoy a rich collection of folktales, myths and legends from all over Africa and the Caribbean, re-told for young readers. From the trickster tales of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the leopard got his spots; ...

'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress. Since the abolishment of...

Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's arresting book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we...

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002582Author Mona EltahawyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 15mm

The New York Times Top Ten BestsellerFrom the author of Writers & Lovers, Euphoria is Lily King's gripping novel inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world.'Pretty much perfect' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of...

In the eleventh edition of Understanding Research Methods: An Overview of the Essentials, Newhart and Patten leverage the principles of learning and content design to present the fundamentals students need to get started in research. Basics of...

This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History...

A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote; 'A huge achievement' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Glorious' Sunday Times 'A...

Exam board: WJEC and EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: AS: Summer 2017, A-level: Summer 2018Target success in WJEC and Eduqas AS/A-level Geography with this proven formula for effective, structured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988982048Author J Micha-El Thomas HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Samaritan SentinelPublisher Samaritan SentinelWeight(grams)...

'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey 'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA 'Funny and...

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project. The new edition of this bestselling book will help you: - Explain research theory within the context of your...

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Drawing on his experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than sixty countries, Greg Power explores how social norms, public expectations and the personal interests of MPs influence the path of political development. Where states are...

The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of...

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American...

In ancient Rome (753 BC - 476 AD) mythology was integral to various aspects of society, from religion, to politics, to the founding of the city. Today, we may encounter the legacy of these stories before we encounter the stories themselves, whether this...

Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890933Author Margaret Juhae LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853301387Author Alice A. BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lucis Press LtdPublisher Lucis Press LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

Dave Saunders' spirited introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches, controversies and functions pertaining to non-fiction filmmaking. Saunders examines the many methods by which documentary...

In the past two decades, a new breed of historians, anthropologists and archaeologist have uncovered a fuller, richer and surprising view of the entire American Indian experience. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a long...

This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's...

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by challenge and conflict. This text offers a new concept of social work that explains the nature of these...

A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution. Zeros and Ones is an intelligent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176341Author Oswald MosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Sanctuary Press LtdPublisher Sanctuary Press LtdWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Perhaps the foremost issue in the emerging area of inquiry known as lesbian and gay studies is the social constructionist controversy. Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation are cultural constructs rather than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942266952Author Dennis GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and...