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Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past by Andrew Albin 9780823285563
RRP: £16.99£15.07Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval... -
And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007327Author Ricky TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe by Apostolos Andrikopoulos
RRP: £24.00£23.03Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in... -
Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship by Ezekiel Gebissa 9781569022801
RRP: £29.95£19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022801Author Ezekiel GebissaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 360g -
Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa by Caroline K. Mackenzie 9781789692907
£15.23Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. The villa today, in the Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of... -
The Social Psychology of Crime: Groups, Teams and Networks Laurence Alison 9781840144970
RRP: £58.99£51.08Crime is always part of a social process. In many cases that process determines the form the crime takes. In this ground-breaking book, a wide range of crimes are examined in terms of the social psychological processes that influence the participants... -
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia
RRP: £30.00£27.39Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one's shadow, and praise of the seraphim was as sacred... -
Futures of Black Radicalism Gaye Theresa Johnson 9781784787585
RRP: £19.99£16.42Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recalls the... -
Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life: Working with Everyday Life Materials by Svend Brinkmann 9780857024763
RRP: £44.99£36.59This book is a 'survival guide' for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations... -
Indian Roots, Ivy Admits:: 85 Essays that got Indian Students Into the Ivy League and Stanford by Mridula Maluste Viral Doshi
£24.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391242718Author Mridula Maluste Viral DoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Manjul Publishing House Pvt LtdPublisher Manjul Publishing House Pvt... -
Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm by Rowland Atkinson
RRP: £25.99£22.63Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designed to be... -
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech by James Muldoon 9780745346953
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom... -
Shakespeare and Money Graham Holderness 9781789206722
RRP: £19.95£16.40Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this... -
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Biographical Approaches for Inclusive Care and Support by Richard Ward
RRP: £27.99£27.23Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people often face unique challenges as they grow older. It is vital that those providing them with care and support understand their needs, wishes and experiences. This book demonstrates how biographical... -
Use Your Interview Data: Little Quick Fix by Helen Kara
RRP: £9.99£8.22Interviews are often seen as a quick, cheap, and seemingly low-stress data collection method, but once students obtain data, they can be overwhelmed at the amount of information they have to manage, sort, and analyse, even if they only have a few... -
Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State Madonna Harrington Meyer 9780415925426
RRP: £47.99£41.81Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so... -
The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard 9780745612225
RRP: £15.99£14.41In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism.About the... -
Intermediaries in the Criminal Justice System: Improving Communication for Vulnerable Witnesses and Defendants Joyce Plotnikoff 9781447326069
RRP: £28.99£22.29This is the first book about the intermediary scheme, criminal justice's untold 'good news story'. Intermediaries are independent communication specialists who assist children and vulnerable adults at police interviews and trials, helping to improve the... -
Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine by Luis Eduardo Luna 9780907791591
RRP: £19.99£13.96This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who... -
Family Group Conferences in Social Work: Involving Families in Social Care Decision Making by Deanna Edwards 9781447335825
RRP: £28.99£22.29Family group conferences (FGCs) are a strengths-based approach to social work practice, empowering families to take responsibility for decision-making. It is a cost-effective service, which is currently used by the majority of local authorities. This... -
The Boiling River by Andres Ruzo 9781471151583
RRP: £7.99£5.63Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age of discovery - paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 9780815386551
RRP: £44.99£39.28Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England by Sarah Bendall
RRP: £28.99£27.77Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and... -
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 by Peter Morey
RRP: £35.95£28.96Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the... -
Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall
RRP: £14.99£10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385124744Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Key Thinkers on Space and Place by Phil Hubbard 9781849201025
RRP: £62.99£62.17In this latest edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, editors Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 key thinkers on space and place. Unique in its concept, the book is a... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780099595823
RRP: £9.99£7.11A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. ... -
Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory by Robert Nichols
RRP: £20.99£18.37Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of... -
Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England by Kathryn A. Morrison
RRP: £40.00£35.99When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose-drivers couldn't travel very far or quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the architecture,... -
Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Methods by O'Connor Terry
RRP: £25.00£18.94This title provides a survey of the scientific techniques which are used in archaeology to analyse ancient human environments and which give a fascinating insight into the context of prehistory.About the AuthorTerry O'Connor is Professor of... -
Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism by A. Sivanandan 9781788732567
£17.13Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the Institute of Race Relations for forty years, his work changed the way that we think about race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Communities of... -
Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice by Roger S. Smith 9780415626514
RRP: £47.99£41.81The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second... -
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
RRP: £20.99£18.37A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new edition of Talkin'... -
Guvnor General: How I Survived Childhood Hell, Football Violence, Hard Drugs and United's Red Army by Andrew Bennion 9781905769230
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769230Author Andrew BennionFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide by Boris Wiseman
RRP: £7.99£5.46Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest... -
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times Margaret K. Nydell 9781473669970
RRP: £18.99£12.75For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and... -
On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word by Simon Frith
RRP: £35.99£32.09Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known... -
Child Development and the Brain: From Embryo to Adolescence Rob Abbott (Department of Childhood and Youth, University of Chichester.) 9781447355670
RRP: £21.99£17.21This bestselling textbook provides social science students with an accessible introduction to neuroscience and the implications for our understandings of child development, considering the links between brain development and social and cultural issues. ... -
Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong--and How to Know What's Right: A Reader-Friendly Remix of Cynical Theories by Rebecca Christiansen
RRP: £16.95£12.72This is a book about ideas. Specifically, this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas, and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race, gender, and identity today. Have you heard someone refer to language... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
£21.83In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture to...