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Doing Narrative Research by Professor Molly Andrews
RRP: £51.00£41.51Written by an international team of experts in the field, the second edition of this popular text considers both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative research. The authors take the reader from initial decisions about... -
Art On Deck: An Exploration of Supreme Skateboards from 1994-2018 by Byron Hawes 9781576879382
RRP: £61.99£42.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879382Author Byron HawesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S. -
Our stories, our lives: Inspiring Muslim women's voices Wahida Shaffi (Wahida Shaffi) 9781847424105
RRP: £12.99£10.15In the early years of the 21st century, a number of Muslim women have achieved positions of influence. Women who care about the society in which they live and bring up their children are increasingly finding a voice and working together to make things... -
Research Design in Social Research by David De Vaus 9780761953470
RRP: £51.00£41.34`With this book David de Vaus has written one of the best general research methods textbooks around. The use of different types of research design as the point of departure is a different and very helpful approach to take, especially since many textbooks... -
Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture by Irit Rogoff
RRP: £36.99£32.53In an age of 'ethnic cleansing' and forced migration, of contested borders and nations in turmoil, how have issues of place and identity, and of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture? In Terra Infirma, Irit Rogoff examines... -
Island Girl To Airline Pilot by Silva Mcleod
RRP: £14.99£10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922539618Author Silva McLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media by Jose van Dijck 9780199970780
RRP: £34.49£20.47Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first... -
Research Methods for Social Workers by Linda Bell
£34.23This handy book is a one-stop introduction to research and evaluation for social workers. Including unique project examples, exercises, discussion points and extensive signposting to further reading, and drawing on the author's many years of teaching... -
My First Booke of My Life by Alice Thornton
RRP: £23.99£20.84An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents... -
What is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745399652
RRP: £16.99£13.58Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in... -
Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois 9780520254985
£32.11This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... -
Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues by John Borrows
RRP: £25.99£20.84Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is... -
Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives Baptiste Brossard (University of York) 9781529215052
RRP: £24.99£19.39How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social... -
Grassroots Youth Work: Policy, Passion and Resistance in Practice Tania De St Croix (Kings College London) 9781447328605
RRP: £26.99£20.84The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate. This book paints a picture of passionate practitioners who build meaningful relationships with marginalised young people, at a time when their practice is... -
The Gentle Art Of Verbal Self Defense At Work by Suzette Haden Elgin 9780735200890
£11.35For some employees, verbal abuse can be the everyday language of doing business. Defending yourself from these verbal abusers-calmly, professionally, and successfully-can be crucial to your on-the-job success. Nationally recognized linguistics expert... -
Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community by Lia Shimada
RRP: £29.99£29.09This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The... -
Introduction to Human Geography, An Peter Daniels 9781292082950
RRP: £59.99£54.42The fifth edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography, including food security and population, geopolitics and territory, inequality and power, production, consumption, the global financial... -
Polperro's Smuggling Story by Jeremy Rowett Johns 9780953001200
RRP: £6.95£6.26This tale of smuggling is told through extracts from the letter-books of Zephaniah Job, the schoolteacher who became known as "Smugglers' Banker" for his role in the highly-organized contraband trade carried on in this Cornish village at the end of the... -
Sexuality Jeffrey Weeks 9781032105345
RRP: £19.99£17.69Sexuality is the fifth revised and updated edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality. This new edition brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+... -
Young, Muslim and Criminal: Experiences, Identities and Pathways into Crime Mohammed Qasim 9781447341505
RRP: £26.99£20.84Very little is known about young British male Muslims who offend. Qasim gained unique first-hand insight into the multifaceted lives of a group after spending 4 years studying them. He unwraps their lives, explores their identities and explains what... -
Live Coding: A User's Manual by Alan F. Blackwell
RRP: £33.00£30.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544818Author Alan F. BlackwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy Valerie Hedquist 9781032401317
RRP: £39.99£35.06The reception of Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in... -
Introduction to Manuscript Studies by Raymond Clemens
£48.02Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in... -
Sports Journalism: The State of Play Tom Bradshaw 9781138583528
RRP: £36.99£32.53Based on interviews with leading sports journalists and grounded in the authors' experience and expertise in both the sports journalism industry and sports media research, Sports Journalism gives in-depth insight into the editorial and ethical challenges... -
Slave Species of the Gods: The Secret History of the Anunnaki and Their Mission on Earth by Michael Tellinger
RRP: £21.00£17.72* Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet * Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our... -
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography by Henri Lefebvre 9781517904692
RRP: £23.99£20.84A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but lesser-known writings on rural... -
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail by Mary Jordan 9780143037170
RRP: £24.00£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037170Author Mary JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm *... -
Social Work Practice Learning by David Edmondson 9781446208915
RRP: £35.99£29.51This book provides essential knowledge and skills to address all the new social work education requirements for placements and practice learning. It will help you successfully pass your compulsory social work placement whilst meeting the Professional... -
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault 9780679724698
£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724698Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691170152
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and... -
Rethinking residential child care: Positive perspectives Mark Smith 9781861349088
RRP: £27.99£21.57Residential child care is a crucial, though relatively neglected area of social work. And yet, revelations of abuse and questions of effectiveness have led to increasingly regulatory and procedural approaches to practice and heightened political and... -
Intimacy Directing for Theatre: Creating a Culture of Consent in the Classroom and Beyond by . Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson 9781032333762
RRP: £31.99£28.33Intimacy Directing for Theatre provides much needed strategies on how teachers and artists can do intimacy work in the classroom and rehearsal room that is safe and just.This book puts forth intimacy work that is based on human rights and consent for... -
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose by Ian O'Donnell
RRP: £23.99£20.84How prisons around the world shape the social lives of their inhabitants Prison Life offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organize their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is... -
Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann 9780804739078
RRP: £29.99£26.90This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art-in its rigor and in its having... -
Habitus and Field: General Sociology, Volume 2 (1982-1983) Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9781509526697
RRP: £65.00£56.55This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual... -
The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
RRP: £13.99£9.75'A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air'Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You'A wonderful book.' Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council ... -
Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide by Christopher Mee 9780192880581
RRP: £55.00£50.12Greece, with all its temples, cities, and sanctuaries created by Europe's most formative ancient civilization, is a must-see for the archaeological traveller. This guide provides: * Coverage of all the main archaeological sites in Greece, ranging... -
Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity by Elizabeth Wilson
RRP: £19.99£17.61When "Adorned in Dreams" was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none'. Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity... -
Informed, Aware, Empowered: A Self-Guided Journey to Clear Paps by Denell Nawrocki 9780960049165
RRP: £22.00£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960049165Author Denell NawrockiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Smokeblood LLCPublisher Smokeblood LLCWeight(grams) 286g -
Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, and Design a More Purposeful Life by Majo Molfino
RRP: £11.99£10.17"A must-read for any woman who is ready to design a life on her own terms." - Sophia Amoruso, Founder and CEO, GirlbossWomen: it's time to break the good girl myths that are holding you back and share your true gifts with this groundbreaking book from...