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The How To of Qualitative Research by Janice Aurini
RRP: £36.99£30.79This book will support you through each milestone of your research project with step-by-step instructions to doing qualitative research. Whatever type of data or data collection method you use, it will help you to navigate the nuts and bolts of... -
Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters by Melanie Joy 9781590565803
RRP: £13.99£9.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565803Author Melanie JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Research Methods in Linguistics Dr. Lia Litosseliti 9781350043435
RRP: £31.99£28.97Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research. It is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students looking for clear introductions to key... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
Self-Neglect and Hoarding: A Guide to Safeguarding and Support by Deborah Barnett
RRP: £25.99£24.68Self-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming and challenging on a social worker's caseload.A skilled, thorough risk assessment of the behaviours of... -
The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream Kathryn Strother Ratcliff 9781509504329
RRP: £17.99£16.04This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world - and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system - is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery... -
Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith by Sean Richardson 9781910170601
RRP: £7.99£6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170601Author Sean RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta
RRP: £23.99£20.84Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the... -
Integration: The Power of Being Co-Active in Work and Life Ann Betz 9781782798651
RRP: £12.99£11.46We live in a world of both profound separation and deep longing for connection. Betz and Kimsey-House explore not only the historical and spiritual history of our disconnection and its cost to individual and societal well-being, but also provide a... -
Refusing the Veil by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 9781849547505
RRP: £10.00£7.27This topic divides people - and it will divide readers of this book too. Many Muslims worldwide either support or adopt religious veiling, and those who argue against it are often criticised, or worse. But, according to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the veil... -
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546850Author Andrew LawlerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Haunted Air by Ossian Brown
RRP: £30.00£21.35A collection of anonymous Hallowe'en Photographs from America, c.1875 - 1955The roots of Hallowe'en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on... -
Valuing Quality in Early Childhood Services: New Approaches to Defining Quality by Peter Moss
RRP: £52.00£42.30`Not only does this book offer a great deal of insight into evaluating early childhood services, it also provides a focal point for those interested in establishing goals, objectives and evaluation criteria for their own early childhood programmes' -... -
Enticements: Queer Legal Studies by Joseph J. Fischel 9781479807611
RRP: £32.00£28.21Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex, gender, reproduction, and family. In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of... -
Misbehaving: Stories of protest sparked by the 1970 Miss World contest by Sue Finch
RRP: £15.99£14.47Protests at the Miss World contest in 1970 attracted headlines around the world. This book portrays the new and vibrant women's liberation movement of the 70s. It tells how women protested inside and outside the Albert Hall, who they were, what took... -
Work: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Fineman
RRP: £8.99£6.45The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us,... -
The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman 9780674046368
RRP: £47.95£39.24In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are... -
What to Eat: Food that's good for your health, pocket and plate by Joanna Blythman
RRP: £12.99£9.09Covering all our pressing food dilemmas, the award-winning food writer leads the way to sensible and practical choices about what to eat. Food should be one of life's greatest pleasures yet, increasingly, choosing it is becoming a chore... -
Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies by Amber Murrey 9780745347141
RRP: £22.99£17.94This is a book about teaching 'disobedient pedagogies' from the heart of empire. The authors show how educators, activists and students are cultivating anti-racist decolonial practices, leading with a radical call to eradicate development studies, and... -
Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain: An Inequality of Power Maddy Power (University of York) 9781447358558
RRP: £26.99£20.84Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates. It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how... -
Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community Larry Yang 9781614293514
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293514Author Larry YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin 9781842778609
RRP: £23.99£20.94This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura... -
The Vanishing American Dream: Immigration, Population, Debt, Scarcity Virginia Deane Abernethy 9781412863377
RRP: £39.99£35.06The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government-abetted by mass media-that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help... -
A Realist Approach for Qualitative Research Joseph A. Maxwell 9780761929239
RRP: £54.00£50.14Are cultural and material phenomena equally real? How can one study the relationships between cultural constructions, social behaviour and material conditions and draw a valid conclusion from the data? In contrast to interpretive or constructivist... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: £25.00£20.92An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
Doing Document Analysis: A Practice-Oriented Method by Kristin Asdal
RRP: £35.99£29.60Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic... -
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism by Alison Gibbons
£48.28Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of... -
Hash: The Chilling Inside Story of the Secret Underworld Behind the World's Most Lucrative Drug by Wensley Clarkson
RRP: £12.99£7.51For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea. But in Hash Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld... -
Protecting Children: A Social Model Brid Featherstone 9781447332756
RRP: £23.99£18.66The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection. Against this tense background, this innovative book argues... -
The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention by Bernard Mayer
RRP: £52.00£45.60The Dynamics of Conflict When it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer's The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and... -
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media and the End of Welfare Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London) 9781509525072
RRP: £15.99£14.41In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: £27.00£21.06When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband
RRP: £12.99£11.01When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him - from both left and right - praised his work and character. He was lauded as "one of the best-known... -
The Notorious Guide to Britain: A fascinating tour of the weird, wonderful, murderous and marvellous Paul Donnelley 9781914451072
RRP: £12.99£8.60A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal,... -
Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy
RRP: £22.00£16.63A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an... -
Dirty Kids: Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads by Chris Urquhart
RRP: £9.99£6.75"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." -Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of ManAt age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the... -
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Latino Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525580454Author Wade HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig 9781447234814
£17.13In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious... -
The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender by Charles King
RRP: £10.99£7.77*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist... -
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein 9780367762452
RRP: £130.00£112.11Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides an accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major...