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Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought by Naila Kabeer
£24.55Reversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current development policy.Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of... -
On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman ; Translated by Kristina Maki
RRP: £22.95£14.62A new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and material reality, we are told it is an identity. Anyone who declares herself to be a woman is a woman; the body has henceforth become irrelevant. Gender, we... -
Assemblage Thought and Archaeology Ben Jervis 9781138067509
RRP: £37.99£33.38From examinations of prehistoric burial to understanding post-industrial spaces and heritage practices, the writing of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is gaining increasing importance within archaeological thought. Their concept of 'assemblages' allows... -
Post-Qualifying Mental Health Social Work Practice by Jim Campbell 9781848609952
RRP: £39.99£32.66Social workers and other professionals working in the area of mental health often face complex and difficult practice dilemmas shaped by increasingly demanding policy and legal contexts across the UK. Jim Campbell and Gavin Davidson focus on the... -
Unfolding lives: Youth, gender and change Rachel Thomson (Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University) 9781847429025
RRP: £29.99£23.02The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing. "Unfolding lives" presents a unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question... -
Legitimation Crisis by Jurgen Habermas 9780745606095
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states. ... -
Children and Media: A Global Perspective Dafna Lemish (Southern Illinois University, USA) 9781118786772
RRP: £35.95£31.67Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood. Primer to global issues... -
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools: A 360-Degree View of the Research and Practice Principles by Johhny Kim 9780190607258
RRP: £41.99£27.40Since the publication of the First Edition, there have been several advances on the research on Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in schools. This Second Edition contains updates on how to apply SFBT to specific problem areas that school social... -
Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction in tidyverse by Kosuke Imai 9780691222288
RRP: £48.00£37.60A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fieldsQuantitative analysis is an essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas... -
Personalisation in Social Work by Ali Gardner
RRP: £31.99£26.36The government agenda on Personalisation and self-directed support is fast-moving and rapidly changing. It is vital therefore that students and practitioners alike are aware of the key issues and debates, as well as the policy that surrounds this area of... -
Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated Randall Collins 9781594516016
RRP: £58.99£51.08This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the... -
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy by Russell K. Skowronek 9780813030791
RRP: £27.95£20.01This collection piques the imagination with historical evidence about the actual exploits of pirates as revealed in the archaeological record of such ships as Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge, recently discovered off Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina; the... -
Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield, UK) 9780415827225
RRP: £42.99£37.59In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: £32.99£24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic by Nanjala Nyabola
RRP: £14.99£13.64A devastating critique of global inequities and prejudices exposed by Covid-19, and a vivid first-hand account of Africa's pandemic. In this new collection, Nanjala Nyabola takes stock of a world in crisis. Her incisive yet moving prose unpacks the... -
The Politics of Waking Up: Power and possibility in the fractal age by Indra Adnan
RRP: £14.00£11.79Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking... -
Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression by Royce Mahawatte
RRP: £74.99£67.73This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are... -
The Doomsday Prepping Crash Course: The Ultimate Prepper's Guide to Getting Prepared When You're on a Tight Budget by Patty Hahne
£6.30Disaster can strike at any moment. Luckily, Patty Hahne's Doomsday Prepping Crash Course can show you how to prepare your home for any emergency-including the end of the world. This simple, easy-to-follow guide will provide you with tips and tricks for... -
The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion - Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
RRP: £27.00£26.47In this work, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann examines public opinion as a form of social control in which individuals, almost instinctively sensing the opinions of those around them, shape their behaviour to prevailing attitudes about what is acceptable. For... -
The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, Unemployment and State Policy in Northern Ireland Maura Sheehan 9781138364400
RRP: £21.99£19.34First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants. The Unequal Unemployed uses the important and... -
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust Eimear McBride 9781788162876
RRP: £7.99£5.79The searing, must-read feminist essay from the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing 'Fearless ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinead Gleeson 'Formidable' Vogue In this galvanizing essay, Eimear McBride... -
Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland 4th Edition by John Waddell 9781913934781
RRP: £50.00£35.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934781Author John WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184189Author Elise HuFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order by Corneliu Bjola 9781032571317
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations.This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes... -
Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids by Matthias Doepke
RRP: £25.00£19.99An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American... -
Acting for Animators by Ed Hooks
RRP: £28.99£26.93Analyses of specific, animated films with timecodes give concrete lessons with pinpointed examples: Flee, Soul, Porco Rosso, and The Triplets of Belleville. Makes acting theory simple and straightforward for non-expert animation professionals and... -
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
RRP: £35.00£27.74For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of... -
Transitions: Our Stories of Being TRANS by Juno Roche
RRP: £14.99£14.69World Book Night 2022A visionary, moving and one-of-a-kind anthology of writing on what it means to be trans today and every day.From the daily bite of anxiety as you go to leave the house, to the freedom found swimming in the wild, through to moments of... -
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
RRP: £17.99£12.69A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities... -
Strangers at Our Door Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9781509512171
RRP: £9.99£8.95Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear... -
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea-and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects... -
Irish/Ness is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland by Olaf Zenker 9781785332067
RRP: £27.95£22.58Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language,... -
Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods by Jennifer Leigh
£19.04Embodied inquiry is the process of using embodied approaches in order to study, explore or investigate a topic. But what does it actually mean to be 'embodied'? This book explores why and how we use our bodies in order to research, what an embodied... -
The Village and the World: My Life, Our Times Mies Maria 9781876756826
RRP: £19.95£12.84Maria Mies' achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of "housewifisation", the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights... -
Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich 9780714525105
RRP: £11.95£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525105Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Evidence-Based Policy: A Realist Perspective by Ray Pawson
RRP: £52.00£42.12In this important new book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. Few major public initiatives are mounted these days in the absence of a sustained attempt to evaluate them. Programmes are tried,... -
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits James Walvin (University of York, UK) 9781119166221
RRP: £25.95£22.60Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on... -
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies Lisa Zunshine (Bush-Holbrook Professor of English, University of Kentucky) 9780801894886
RRP: £33.00£32.05Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and... -
Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old by Jean L. Briggs 9780300080643
RRP: £19.99£19.39"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child's... -
Bande de Filles: Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France by Frances Smith 9781032570303
RRP: £19.99£17.69Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book provides an in-depth examination of Celine Sciamma's film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in...