Social Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866397Author Santiago RivasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a significant thread of British cultural history. The lasting...

Abortion is now recognised as primarily a medical issue, rather than one of political and social importance; its regulation determined by the authority of doctors and other medical professionals. In the first comprehensive historical study of the...

This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind.Harm reduction is an approach to helping people who engage in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354934Author LeRoi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 252g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175979Author Da'Shaun L. HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesWalking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient...

There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as...

"Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate friendships." In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence...

The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music and youth culture that changed the...

The young 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell's wonderfully researched, beautifully told "The Devil's Horn". Beginning with "a sound never heard before," Segell's portrait follows the iconographic instrument as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859666Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the...

'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'A moreish page-turner of a book' - HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise,...

"Engrossing ... [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating--and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share." --Scientific American Parasites can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658207Author James TaberyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the...

Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in...

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that...

Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his...

Ever seen a fat fox? Didn't think so. Why it is that only humans - or animals in the care of humans - develop obesity? In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney delves into the history of the human relationship with food. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892816248Author Julius EvolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399160400Author Corey O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608689033Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Do you remember how we used to live? British indie favourites Saint Etienne do. But they also remember a load of other stuff that never happened, so maybe they aren't the best people to ask. Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065374Author Eliot AsinofFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the...

Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,...

Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations...

Jason Byrne is 17. With his leaving cert under his belt but no idea what to do next, who better to ask for advice than his dad, Paddy? There's a (very) short stint studying accountancy (he was asked to leave); a FAS course with juvenile offenders to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986237959Author Ronald Dalton JrFormat PaperbackImprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 1388g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631184826Author Manly P HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Lamp of TrismegistusPublisher Lamp of TrismegistusWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and...

*Winner in the Health and Social Care category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*Risk is central to professional practice, assessment and decision-making in dementia care. Yet theories of risk are often complex and difficult to...

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority...

Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to...

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986237911Author Ronald Dalton JrFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 1642g

The Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the myriad consequences that has set in store for all of us. The millennial generation was the unfortunate victim of several...