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Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins
RRP: $47.72$41.96This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions... -
Cybercrime Prevention: Theory and Applications by Russell Brewer
RRP: $70.94$63.67This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm... -
Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses: The Untold History Behind the Battle for the Crown by Jo Romero 9781399066167
RRP: $32.25$20.81The Wars of the Roses were fought in England from the mid-fifteenth century, as the supporters of Lancaster and York wrestled over control of the crown. Books have analyzed the politics, battles and motives of its key characters. However, a discussion of... -
Becoming A Social Worker For Dummies Yodit Betru 9781394200870
RRP: $24.50$16.45Be an agent of positive change with a rewarding career in social work Social workers are trained to address major social issues and provide therapeutic services for children, youth, and families. Becoming a Social Worker for Dummies will introduce you to... -
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs 9781400076703
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781400076703Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: $37.41$31.08In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These groundbreaking projects courageously confronted issues of... -
Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry Jacques M. Chevalier (Carleton University, Canada) 9781138491328
RRP: $61.91$53.93Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides new theoretical insights and many robust tools that will guide researchers, professionals and students from all disciplines through the process of conducting... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf Abdullah Hamidaddin 9780755644285
RRP: $29.66$24.36The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought... -
The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for Our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future Anthony Costello 9781912664009
RRP: $32.25$26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912664009Author Anthony CostelloFormat HardbackPage Count 525Imprint ThornwickPublisher Thornwick -
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis 9780060968830
RRP: $12.89$12.78"But what about me?" "Is it possible to go one day without dealing with the survivor's issues?" "Will we ever make love again?" "Will the survivor love me in the end?" "How do I know if I should throw in the towel?" Based on in-depth interviews and her... -
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters by Charles Perrow
RRP: $25.80$20.50Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights... -
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond Sonia Shah 9781250118004
RRP: $16.76$11.09More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two... -
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory by Julian Go
$34.64Social scientists have long been resistant to the set of ideas known as "postcolonial thought." Meanwhile, postcolonial scholars have considered social science to be an impoverished discipline that is part of the intellectual problem for postcolonial... -
Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research by Richard A. Krueger 9781483365244
RRP: $98.04$92.05Using an engaging, straightforward writing style, the authors draw on their more than 50 years of hands-on experience in the field to cut through theory and offer practical guidance on every facet of the focus process, including tips for avoiding... -
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
$17.12Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science,... -
Dancing with the Wheel by Sun Bear 9780671767327
$21.10Explains the concept of the medicine wheel, and shows how to use it in practical exercises and ceremonies to gain energy from the spirits.Book InformationISBN 9780671767327Author Sun BearFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt by Lisa Gail Collins
RRP: $30.95$23.94In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself,... -
Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph F. O'Brien 9780440212294
RRP: $12.89$9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440212294Author Joseph F. O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective by Michael Butter
RRP: $46.43$40.88Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world.Covid conspiracy theories have attracted... -
The Kabbalah Unveiled: Containing the following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery; The Greater Holy Assembly; The Lesser Holy Assembly by S L MacGregor Mathers 9782357285675
$22.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357285675Author S L MacGregor MathersFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization by Eviane Leidig 9780231210171
RRP: $28.38$22.39On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant women propagate the "pure" white race and post behind-the-scenes selfies at antivaccination rallies. These... -
The Wealden Iron Industry by Jeremy Hodgkinson
RRP: $25.80$19.40For two periods of British history - the first part of the Roman occupation and the Tudor and early Stuart periods - the Weald of south-east England was the most productive iron-producing region in the country. Looking across the tranquil Wealden... -
Karnak: Evolution of a Temple by Elizabeth Blyth 9780415404877
$58.91The first publication in English, this book fills a gap in the market and presents an in-depth examination of the significant temple site at Karnak. It is visited by thousands of tourists each year and is one of the most famous ancient temples in the... -
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood 9780691153285
RRP: $28.38$22.39The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political... -
Birmingham's Front Line: True Police Stories by Michael Layton
RRP: $21.92$14.80Birmingham's Front Line offers a fascinating and unique insight into police culture and the problems faced by those on the thin blue line during a tumultuous time in Britain's second city. Containing accounts from the author and his former colleagues... -
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer
RRP: $32.24$27.95Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements... -
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander
RRP: $32.24$28.47M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285958
RRP: $32.25$25.79"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop... -
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn 9780300090888
RRP: $25.79$25.01All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what... -
The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability by Carolyn Merchant
RRP: $25.80$21.90A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original... -
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century by Tamara Tenenbaum 9781787704978
RRP: $16.76$11.04"A feast for the mind." -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg's or Irene Nemirovsky's." -GUADALUPE NETTEL, author of Still Born "Nuanced, deeply rich, and a joy to read." -CHARLOTTE FOX-WEBER, author of What We... -
Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today by Eboni K. Williams
RRP: $28.38$21.50Essence Magazine 2023 Must ReadEboni K. Williams knew that an important part of her mission as a media personality would be to unabashedly place Blackness on a pedestal. Williams has long known that Blackness is a rich, expansive place that centres... -
Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders by Christina Richards 9781137510525
RRP: $51.59$45.42This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis for good practice when... -
The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology & Sacred Psychology by Jean Huston 9780874778717
$22.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778717Author Jean HustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Society and Economy: Framework and Principles by Mark Granovetter
RRP: $48.96$39.36Society and Economy-a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology-is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate... -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: $39.99$38.95The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the... -
The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage by Daniel Rigney 9780231149488
RRP: $36.12$28.12The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named... -
The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex by Manon Garcia 9780674279131
RRP: $30.90$22.33"From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, 'consent' is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool... -
Bali: Sekala & Niskala: Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art Fred B. Eiseman 9780804840989
RRP: $25.79$17.22"The best book on Bali for the serious visitor...Has the freshness of personal experience."-Dr. Hildred Geertz, author of Kinship in Bali and Professor of Anthropology at Princeton UniversityIn Bali, what you see-sekala-is a colorful world of ceremony,... -
The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t by Janet M Stovall 9781955985581
$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955985581Author Janet M StovallFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Publish Your PurposePublisher Publish Your PurposeWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...