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The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present by Sian Jones
RRP: £37.99£33.38The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains... -
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display by Saloni Mathur 9780520252318
RRP: £30.00£23.29"India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the... -
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
RRP: £16.99£9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544104402Author Paul ToughFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation: Young People's Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics Stuart C. Aitken 9781138212947
RRP: £53.99£46.87Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is born, a universal health care bill is voted into... -
Education and Race from Empire to Brexit Sally Tomlinson (Department of Education, University of Oxford) 9781447345848
RRP: £24.99£19.39Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether... -
The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex by Hida Viloria
RRP: £14.99£14.69This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity.Introducing readers to seven variations of human sex, commonly considered intersex, the book challenges the myth that sex and gender are... -
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne) 9780745628387
RRP: £15.99£14.41Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male... -
Way of the Conscious Warrior, The: A Handbook for 21st Century Men P.T. Mistlberger 9781785358746
RRP: £14.99£13.03The early 21st century is a complex time presenting unique challenges for men. This book examines many of those challenges, from dysfunctional relationships and confusion about what it means to be `male' in the postmodern world, to understanding the dark... -
More Bad News From Israel Greg Philo 9780745329789
RRP: £28.99£19.20Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior... -
Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism Brett Christophers (Uppsala University, Sweden) 9781444338287
RRP: £19.99£17.69This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking... -
The Social Work Skills Workbook by Barry Cournoyer 9781305633780
£66.07THE SOCIAL WORK SKILLS WORKBOOK, Eighth Edition, enables you to develop proficiency in professionalism and the essential social work skills. After introducing 10 dimensions of professionalism, the book offers multiple opportunities to rehearse, practice,... -
Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality by Kat Banyard
RRP: £12.99£8.56Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First... -
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig
RRP: £27.99£24.14Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In... -
Radical Chains: Why Class Matters Chris Nineham 9781789049350
RRP: £14.99£13.03At a time of almost unimaginable inequality, the mainstream still tries to ignore class. Radical Chains: Why Class Matters argues that denial of class is no coincidence but in fact central to the system's survival. Exploring largely ignored histories of... -
Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The Triple Divide Bryan Fanning (University College Dublin, Ireland) 9781804557259
RRP: £24.00£17.22How is public morality understood in the twenty-first century, and what effect does this have on legislation and social policy? Public Morality and the Culture Wars is a strictly non-polemical analysis of the intellectual and ideological conflicts at... -
Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison Lucy Baldwin (De Montfort University) 9781447363385
RRP: £47.99£37.05Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into the criminal justice system's response to pregnant and... -
Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers Cara Courage (UK) 9781787432864
RRP: £17.99£13.22Leading scholars combine their love of The Archers with their specialist subjects, in Custard, Culverts and Cake - a sometimes serious, but most often wry look at the people of Ambridge. A group of Archers Academics take on subjects such as food,... -
Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies Jennifer Robinson (Indiana University, USA) 9781119697558
RRP: £19.99£18.09COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson... -
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime by Henning Hillmann
RRP: £30.00£23.29Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant... -
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Marta Russell 9781608466863
RRP: £16.99£12.71Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell's various... -
Evidence by Howard S. Becker 9780226466378
RRP: £19.00£18.50Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What... -
The Perennials: How to Unlock the Potential of our Multigenerational Society by Mauro Guillen 9781788706650
RRP: £20.00£13.65'Will open your mind to your own future and show you a new world of adventure.' - ARTHUR C. BROOKSFor the first time in human history, eight defined generations live together side by side, from Alphas to the Greatest Generation by way of Boomers,... -
Racism, Crime and Justice by Benjamin Bowling
RRP: £54.99£49.08Racism, Crime and Justice offers a broad overview of this challenging and underexplored field. The book synthesises a great deal of empirical research evidence, documentary accounts and illustrative examples in order to give a minority perspective on the... -
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson
RRP: £16.00£13.84In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children mostly girls have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's... -
The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe
RRP: £30.00£23.29In "The Hadza", Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention... -
Making Sense of Men's Magazines Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield) 9780745621760
RRP: £17.99£16.04The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising important questions of a more general kind. What is the significance of the rise of men's lifestyle magazines for gender politics? Are we witnessing a backlash... -
Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle by William Knipe 9780752455372
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from... -
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe by Fatima El-Tayeb 9780816670161
RRP: £21.99£19.19European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new... -
Islams and Modernities by Aziz Al-Azmeh
£20.49Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new "Green Menace"-intolerant, medieval and barbaric-which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western... -
Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky 9780367430580
RRP: £33.99£30.00In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky... -
The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty by Kathryn G. Herr 9781483333106
RRP: £76.00£67.24The first edition of this book was a first-of-its-kind reference, distilling the authors' decades of action research experience into a handy guide for graduate students. The Second Edition continues to provide an accessible roadmap that honors the... -
Understanding Social Work Research by Hugh McLaughlin 9780857028723
RRP: £44.99£36.59Social work students need to understand the relationship between research, knowledge and practice to be effective practitioners. In the second edition of this highly regarded book, Hugh McLaughlin shows how a research-minded perspective and an... -
How the World Changed Social Media by Elisabetta Costa 9781910634486
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634486Author Daniel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 425g -
The Practice of Social Research by Earl Babbie
£74.15Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this... -
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach 9780226032023
RRP: £27.00£26.47Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a... -
Decolonize Hipsters by Gregory Pierrot
RRP: £12.99£8.63Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of... -
Forbidden Relatives: THE AMERICAN MYTH OF COUSIN MARRIAGE by Martin Ottenheimer 9780252065408
RRP: £18.99£16.72Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief--widely held in the United States--that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the U.S. prohibition against such unions... -
The Last Gift of Time: Life beyond Sixty by Carolyn Heilbrun 9780345422958
RRP: £20.00£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345422958Author Carolyn G. HeilbrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call That Set the Americas Ablaze by LASTESIS
RRP: £8.99£7.40After the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance "A Rapist in Your Path" in their native Chile, it went viral across the globe, becoming the anthem of the grassroots feminist movements in South America and around the world. This is... -
The Animal Rights Debate by Carl Cohen 9780847696635
RRP: £47.00£41.20Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in...