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The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures by Gregory J. Seigworth 9781478024910
RRP: £26.99£23.32Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in... -
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Stephen Prince
RRP: £15.99£14.31Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing, and slow motion quickly became the normative style for... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 by Michael Mann
RRP: £34.99£27.50Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century... -
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook by Elizabeth
RRP: £23.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047692Author ElizabethFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Bullying and Harassment at Work: An Innovative Approach to Understanding and Prevention David D. Van Fleet 9781035320400
RRP: £32.95£29.96Bullying, harassment and other unacceptable workplace behaviors pose significant problems for organizations. This exploration of the issue notes that factors from within the organization may help determine who and why some individuals become targets and... -
Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci
RRP: £22.99£20.01For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumaci draws on... -
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
RRP: £14.99£13.41Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra... -
Child Sexual Exploitation After Rotherham: Understanding the Consequences and Recommendations for Practice by Angie Heal
RRP: £27.99£27.23The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the extent of child abuse in their area and consider how to respond efficiently. Drawing on lessons learned from... -
Jesus Christ Superstar - Revised Edition: A Rock Opera by Warner Bros.
RRP: £22.50£14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881885415Author Warner Bros.Page Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Deaf Identities in the Making Jan-Kare Breivik 9781563685903
RRP: £37.50£36.23Familiar sounds and shared songs are an integral part of how we build our identities and a sense of place. But for deaf individuals, this missing piece can create a feeling of distance, fueling a desire to seek out community in different ways. In this... -
Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice by Ian Milligan 9781412908511
RRP: £44.99£36.59`This excellent book faces the difficulties of residential child care with integrity. The emphasis on collaboration is both timely and important since it is a major theme in the training of social workers in the UK, where this book will be a valuable... -
Analyzing Qualitative Data by Graham R. Gibbs
RRP: £35.99£29.51This book tackles the challenges of how to make sense of qualitative data. It offers students and researchers a hands-on guide to the practicalities of coding, comparing data, and using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. Lastly, Gibbs shows you... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: £22.00£17.36Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering... -
Sequence Analysis by Marcel Raab
RRP: £33.99£31.95Sequence analysis (SA) was developed to study social processes that unfold over time as sequences of events. It has gained increasing attention as the availability of longitudinal data made it possible to address sequence-oriented questions. This volume... -
Social Constructivism as Paradigm?: The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality by Michaela Pfadenhauer
RRP: £41.99£37.15Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann's classic foundational text, The Social Construction of... -
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age by Sonia Livingstone
RRP: £24.99£21.67An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world. Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.org Do today's youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks,... -
Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star by Geoffrey C. Bowker
RRP: £38.00£32.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2016 Best Information Science Book Award, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2016.Book InformationISBN... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: £25.00£19.59Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser by David P. Celani
RRP: £30.00£23.29Domestic violence is a pervasive problem in our society that has only recently come to be acknowledged in public discussion. Though many see it as a social and political problem grounded in unequal gender roles, this level of analysis fails to explain... -
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 9781419735219
RRP: £17.00£12.05Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy,... -
Intangible Heritage and the Museum: New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation Marilena Alivizatou 9781611321517
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of "intangible heritage." She charts the rise of intangible heritage within the global sphere of UN cultural policy and... -
Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
RRP: £9.99£6.64New York Times Bestseller "Sharp and prescient...The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it...Sex Object is an antidote to the fun... -
Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Hell’s Under New Management by Cori Mathis 9781666929782
RRP: £92.00£80.93Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from around the world, Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Hell's Under New Management presents perspectives on the television show that situates it within contemporary discourses of genre,... -
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer
RRP: £21.99£19.19Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new... -
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £15.99£12.54At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and... -
An Introduction to Social Policy by Sandra Shaw 9781446207598
RRP: £35.99£29.51An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care. - Part One examines key concepts including... -
Iron in the Soul: Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus by Peter Loizos 9781845454449
RRP: £99.00£80.47In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loizos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By... -
Anthropologies of Revolution: Forging Time, People, and Worlds by Igor Cherstich
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions,... -
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
RRP: £16.99£15.07"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended . . . " -Choice" . . . the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to... -
The Eternal One by Dorothy Boux 9780856832192
RRP: £12.95£11.93Dorothy Boux has transcribed in calligraphy and illustrated an ancient account of the creation of the universe. Not much can be said about its origin, except that it came to the attention of H.P. Blavatsky during her extensive travels in India and Tibet... -
Parenting Beyond Pink And Blue by Christia Spears Brown
RRP: £12.99£8.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607745020Author Christia Spears BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)... -
Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others by Charlotte Aull Davies
RRP: £39.99£35.06Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical... -
Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories by Webb Keane 9780691167732
RRP: £35.00£27.74The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is... -
A Social History of the Media Asa Briggs (Chancellor of the Open University, formerly Provost of Worcester College, Oxford) 9781509533725
RRP: £18.99£17.27The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time... -
The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein
RRP: £22.99£20.01For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial,... -
Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave by Margaret Bennett
RRP: £18.95£12.60A highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave draws upon a broad range of literary and oral sources. Scotland has been fortunate to have written accounts of... -
The Public Relations Strategic Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Successful Public Relations Practice Alison Theaker 9781138678675
RRP: £38.99£34.62The Public Relations Strategic Toolkit presents guidance to instruct and educate students and professionals of public relations and corporate communications. Alison Theaker and Heather Yaxley cover every aspect of critical practice, including definitions... -
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic by Gareth M. Thomas
RRP: £39.99£35.06Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that... -
Struggling to be seen by Anandi Ramamurthy
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832807Author Anandi RamamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 375g -
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss 9780691203836
RRP: £25.00£19.59A 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...