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Mental Health Social Work Reimagined Ian Cummins (University of Salford) 9781447335610
RRP: £23.99£18.66Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the... -
The Life Story Interview by Robert Atkinson 9780761904281
RRP: £33.99£30.09First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. One of the latest volumes in the Qualitative Research Methods series, The Life Story Interview provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life... -
The New Enlightenment And The Fight To Free Knowledge Peter B. Kaufman 9781644210604
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210604Author Peter B. KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Personalisation in Practice: Supporting Young People with Disabilities Through the Transition to Adulthood by Suzie Franklin
RRP: £19.99£19.24This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living... -
Greek Whisky: The Localization of a Global Commodity by Tryfon Bampilis 9780857458773
RRP: £99.00£80.47In many contexts of Greek social life, Scotch whisky has coincidentally become a symbol of "Greekness," national identity, modernity and middle class. This ethnographic study follows the social life of Scotch in Greece through three distinct... -
The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America by Meika Loe
RRP: £23.99£20.84The first book to details the history and social implications of the little blue pill Since its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the most sought after drugs in history, the little blue... -
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu 9780385547772
RRP: £26.00£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book... -
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
RRP: £16.99£15.01From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in "dancing goddesses," mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist,... -
The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment by John Ravenscroft 9780367670597
RRP: £42.99£37.99The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic... -
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry
RRP: £22.99£20.01In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critical focus from the published texts of acclaimed writers to unfamiliar practitioners whose works... -
No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men by Anthony Esolen
RRP: £29.99£17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512348Author Anthony EsolenFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Bodies Beneath by William Fowler
RRP: £17.99£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222726Author William FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Lindow Man by Jody Joy
£9.82Lindow Man was accidentally discovered by peat-cutters in Cheshire in the 1980s. He was first thought to be a modern murder victim, but scientific investigations soon proved that he had died in the first century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest... -
The Butch Lesbians of the '50s, '60s, and '70s Coloring Book by Avery Cassell 9780997048797
RRP: £15.00£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997048797Author Jon MacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Stacked Deck PressPublisher Stacked Deck PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine Olga Baysha (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 9781032455358
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to... -
Handbook of Political Anthropology Harald Wydra 9781839108358
RRP: £51.95£46.45This ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic... -
Business and Populism: The Odd Couple? by Magnus Feldmann 9780192894335
RRP: £117.50£106.11Business and Populism analyses the relationship between right wing populism and business with a focus on business responses and strategies in the face of the global populist turn. In the neoliberal era business had become accustomed to favourable... -
Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction by Davide Nicolini
RRP: £47.49£36.74What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization? Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing... -
Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
RRP: £20.99£18.37Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of... -
Welcome to the New World: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by Jake Halpern
RRP: £16.99£12.92--- GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR --- --- OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH --- THE GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC NOVEL A story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times. On the eve of the US elections, a... -
Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum Jonathan Darling (Durham University) 9780745340487
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Elegant and disturbing. A brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain' - Ash Amin Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in... -
Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance in Everyday Life by Laurie Taylor
RRP: £47.99£41.81From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But... -
Unemployment, Poverty and Health in Interwar South Wales by Steve Thompson
RRP: £16.99£14.50The economic depression of the interwar period marks a fundamental turning-point in Welsh history, and in particular the history of south Wales, when decades of breakneck industrialisation, urbanisation and in-migration came to an end and were followed... -
Fixed Effects Regression Models by Paul D. Allison 9780761924975
RRP: £33.99£30.09This book demonstrates how to estimate and interpret fixed-effects models in a variety of different modeling contexts: linear models, logistic models, Poisson models, Cox regression models, and structural equation models. Both advantages and... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Böhme
RRP: £19.99£13.56"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
How to Do Media and Cultural Studies by Jane Stokes 9781526427755
RRP: £39.99£33.17A favourite with both students and lecturers, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise they need to carry out their project or dissertation. Giving them hands-on guidance on managing the whole... -
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich 9781904113492
RRP: £32.95£30.36This highly acclaimed study depicts and evaluates in an original and imaginative fashion the 'Golden Age' of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II. Based on exhaustive and meticulous research, Professor Wistrich's reconstruction... -
Decriminalising Abortion in the UK: What Would It Mean? Sally Sheldon 9781447354017
RRP: £12.99£10.15Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by dispute regarding basic questions of fact. And all too often, claims of... -
The Birth (and Death) of the Cool by Ted Gioia
RRP: £17.95£12.79It's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a world where people no longer aspire to coolness. In this intriguing cultural history, nationally acclaimed author Ted... -
Inside Kinship Care: Understanding Family Dynamics and Providing Effective Support by David Pitcher
RRP: £32.99£31.88Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.This book takes an in-depth look at... -
Multiple Modernities Shmuel N. Eisenstadt 9780765809261
RRP: £45.99£40.13How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this... -
Let's Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911617617Author Anna SaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribe PublicationsPublisher Scribe Publications -
Practice Placement in Social Work: Innovative Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning Avril Bellinger (University of Plymouth and Students and Refugees Together (START)) 9781447318613
RRP: £24.99£19.39Involved in educating social work professionals? Overwhelmed and demoralised by the current climate of cuts to services and over-regulation? This unique book written by practice educators, students and academics offers hope. This collection of... -
The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020: Bones, Rumours & Spirits by Professor Joost Fontein 9781847013644
RRP: £24.99£20.29Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics. In 1898, just before she was hanged for rebelling against colonial rule, Charwe Nyakasikana, spirit medium of the legendary ancestor... -
What's Happened To The University?: A sociological exploration of its infantilisation by Frank Furedi
RRP: £37.99£33.38The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in... -
Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect by Nigel Thrift 9780415393218
RRP: £45.99£40.13This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of... -
Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists Matthew Burgess 9781138793217
RRP: £36.99£32.53Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists is written to inform, instruct and inspire journalists on the investigative possibilities offered by the Freedom of Information Act. Covering exactly what the Act is, how to make FOI requests... -
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
RRP: £21.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award 2014 and Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2014 and Lukas Prize Project: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2014 and... -
Judge This by Chip Kidd
RRP: £7.99£5.23Part of the TED series: Judge This!First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how strongly we feel. This is especially true when it comes to design. And design is all around... -
Law and the Citizen by Austin Sarat 9781800430280
RRP: £77.99£43.88This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues around citizenship and the law. Topics covered include the constitutive nature of citizenship laws and the...