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Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research by Penny Tinkler 9780857020376
RRP: $59.33$48.22Sophisticated, original and comprehensive, this book investigates photographic research practices and the conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin them. Using international case studies and 'behind the scenes' interviews, Penny Tinkler sets... -
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke by Thomas Cleary 9780804831901
RRP: $14.18$12.59Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu.Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the... -
Dana Island: The Greatest Shipyard of the Ancient Mediterranean by Hakan OEniz
$69.70Dana Island: The Greatest Shipyard of the Ancient Mediterranean presents the dramatic archaeological discoveries from Dana Island, off the coast of Rough Cilicia in southern Turkey, where underwater investigations and surface survey in advance of... -
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones 9781566893749
RRP: $15.47$10.32Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."--FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." --ElevenEleven "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they... -
The Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel: An Esoteric Study by Richard Seddon
RRP: $16.76$14.20The ancient and dramatic headland of Tintagel and its ruins, on the windswept north Cornish coast, have been linked to the legends of Merlin, King Arthur and his Knights since ancient times. In this well-researched, illustrated book, Richard Seddon... -
Agent-Based Models by Nigel Gilbert 9781506355603
RRP: $43.85$39.16Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities and their interactions are directly represented. The Second Edition of Nigel... -
Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering by Sherman A. Jackson
RRP: $43.85$25.79In his controversial 1973 book, Is God a White Racist?, William R. Jones sharply criticized black theologians for their agnostic approach to black suffering, noting that the doctrine of an ominibenevolent God poses very significant problems for a... -
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
RRP: $25.79$22.63Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional... -
Materiality by Daniel Miller
RRP: $29.66$25.81Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the... -
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation: Person-Centred Practice in Health and Social Care by Helen Sanderson
RRP: $38.69$38.04Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised services, professionals and carers need to do more than just hand over financial control: they need to... -
The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas 9780486417110
RRP: $14.18$9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486417110Author W.Jenkyn ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 275gDimensions(mm)... -
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu-Lughod 9780520292499
$36.29First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two... -
A Woman's Place, 1910-1975 by Ruth Adam 9781903155097
RRP: $20.64$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155097Author Ruth AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 138mm * 28mm -
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges
RRP: $25.79$22.63Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queernessIn queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a... -
Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: $32.24$28.47Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to... -
Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector Sam Ladner 9781611323900
RRP: $47.72$41.96Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate... -
Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen
RRP: $16.76$13.22The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that... -
Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest and Mutual Aid by Wren Awry
RRP: $24.50$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639925Author Wren AwryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Adoption Is a Family Affair!: What Relatives and Friends Must Know, by Patricia Irwin Johnston
RRP: $19.34$18.95A child is coming - whether you approve or not it's time to get with the program!If someone you care about - a family member, co-worker, or close friend - has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions... -
Cultural Misunderstandings: French-American Experience by Raymonde Carroll
RRP: $20.64$20.34Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans-and indeed any members of different cultures-can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings,... -
The PlayStation Dreamworld by Alfie Bown 9781509518036
RRP: $19.34$18.95From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is - to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek - the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames... -
Assembling Past Worlds: Materials, Bodies and Architecture in Neolithic Britain by Oliver J.T. Harris
RRP: $47.72$41.96Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment... -
Immigration under New Labour Will Somerville 9781861349675
RRP: $37.40$28.75Lurid headlines on every aspect of migration have been a consistent feature of the last decade, from worries over asylum seekers to concerns about unprecedented economic immigration from Eastern Europe. This book presents the first comprehensive account... -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
$27.53Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason Dave Rubin 9781472134516
RRP: $19.34$12.64'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. PetersonFrom host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly censored world... -
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $16.76$11.04Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars.A striking edition of this modernist masterpiece, published to coincide with the fiftieth... -
Understanding Police Intelligence Work Adrian James 9781447326410
RRP: $29.66$23.14Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how... -
Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults by Kelvin Sparks 9781839970436
RRP: $21.92$21.30Does a post-vaginoplasty vagina have a G-spot? Why do some trans people find they enjoy anal sex more after testosterone? And can people with post-surgical vaginas experience vaginismus?Written by renowned sex blogger and educator Kelvin Sparks, Trans... -
Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner
RRP: $29.66$25.23Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of... -
50 Finds From Somerset: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Laura Burnett
RRP: $20.63$14.00Somerset has a varied landscape, from upland Exmoor to the low-lying wetland levels and moors, and the mineral rich Mendips to the agricultural land of South Somerset. This diversity has shaped, and been shaped by, our predecessors - millions of people... -
What Have Charities Ever Done for Us?: The Stories Behind the Headlines Stephen Cook (Journalist) 9781447359883
RRP: $19.34$15.65When the coronavirus pandemic took hold early in 2020, charities were among the first to respond to the resulting social and economic distress. But recent scandals and a more critical climate have overshadowed the vital role they play. What Have... -
Unseen Lives: The Hidden World of Modern Slavery by Kate Garbers
RRP: $21.92$21.30'...a fully grown man utterly broken by what he had experienced, physically and mentally exhausted with physical evidence showing the overt signs of the abuse he had been through.'This is how Kate Garbers met Riso, a man who had been trafficked and in... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk 9781788169295
RRP: $12.89$10.00WINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK 'Magnificently marvellous' Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions ... a... -
Paying It Forward: How to Be A Social Entrepreneur by Josh Littlejohn 9781788708883
RRP: $19.34$19.25* With a Foreword by Sir Bob Geldof *'Josh Littlejohn is a rockstar of social impact. Paying It Forward is a much-needed reminder about what is really important.' - Irvine WelshWhen Josh Littlejohn started a small sandwich shop in his home city of... -
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran 9781529149166
RRP: $21.92$16.94'A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It's magnificent' Bob Mortimer'Our greatest modern writer on women turns her eyes on men - and it's all good' David BaddielAs any feminist who talks about the... -
Media Studies: The Basics Julian McDougall 9781138349162
RRP: $25.79$22.82Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Media Studies: The Basics is the ideal guide to the changing landscape of media and Media Studies. There have been seismic shifts in what constitutes (the) media in recent years with technological advances... -
A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: $25.80$21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951528Author Gary TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Working with Young Women: Activities for Exploring Personal, Social and Emotional Issues by Vanessa Rogers
RRP: $36.11$35.13Packed with fun sessions and practical group activities, Working with Young Women presents a multitude of opportunities for young women to build self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness. From art activities to life story work, the author offers ideas... -
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies by Matthias Gross 9780367608149
RRP: $56.75$50.10Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion;... -
This is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me) Marisa Meltzer 9781784742393
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A life-changing book' Viv GroskopMarisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food.Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant...