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Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World by Jathan Sadowski
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538589Author Jathan SadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 16mm -
Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians Abigail Gardner 9781138048065
RRP: £135.00£117.28Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are 'aged' in popular music.Framing contemporary female musicians... -
Race, Gangs and Youth Violence: Policy, Prevention and Policing Anthony Gunter (University of East London) 9781447322870
RRP: £26.99£20.84This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written by an expert with over 14 years' experience in the field, it brings together research, theory and practice... -
Digital Timescapes – Technology, Temporality and Society by R Kitchin
RRP: £17.99£16.04Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the... -
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn Ginwright
RRP: £16.99£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175429Author Shawn GinwrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice by Jean Lave
RRP: £30.00£29.25In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a... -
A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine) by Vincent Collette
RRP: £70.00£60.31A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine) brings to life the hopes and dreams of Nakoda (Assiniboine) elders. The Nakoda language-also known as Assiniboine, an Ojibwe ethnonym meaning "Stone Enemy"-is an endangered Siouan language of the Mississippi... -
The Emergence of Footballing Cultures: Manchester, 1840-1919 by Gary James 9781526148001
RRP: £25.00£21.79This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester... -
The Routledge Companion to Media and Class Erika Polson 9781032084213
RRP: £42.99£37.59This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire... -
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements by Donatella Della Porta
£41.09The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond... -
The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745642116
RRP: £17.99£16.04WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or... -
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich
RRP: £19.99£17.54In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness,... -
Street Kid: One Child’s Desperate Fight for Survival by Judy Westwater 9780007222018
RRP: £10.99£8.29John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on ‘Home Truths’. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living... -
Standpoints: 10 Old Ideas In a New World by Svend Brinkmann 9781509523733
RRP: £12.99£8.87Self-help gurus, life coaches and business consultants love to tell us that we must strive for constant self-improvement to realize our full potential and become truly happy. But it doesn't seem to work - for many of us, life still seems hollow and... -
Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count Phil Buchanan 9781541742253
RRP: £25.00£18.04Charitable giving in the U.S. reached a new high in 2017 of more than $400 billion, with the majority of American households giving to charity. And every giver, from the tech titan to the everyday middle class citizen, needs to answer the same question:... -
The Spiritual Power of Masks: Doorways to Realms Unseen by Nigel Pennick
RRP: £18.99£12.67Explores ancient mask customs, rituals, and traditions throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and England to Germany and France to Greece and Rome* Reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral... -
Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy Charles Derber 9781594518126
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism... -
The Comfort of People Daniel Miller (University College London, UK) 9781509524327
RRP: £15.99£14.41At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of... -
An Introduction to African Politics by Alex Thomson
RRP: £29.99£26.64This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions... -
The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song by J. Kameron Carter 9781478025030
RRP: £19.99£17.54In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black... -
Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography: Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice by Darcy White
RRP: £33.99£28.01Northern landscapes are both real places and representations, imagined spaces - notions which are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists from Germany, Finland, Scandinavia, the US, and... -
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal by Christopher Eagle 9780367867782
RRP: £39.99£35.06Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is... -
Personal Connections in the Digital Age Nancy K. Baym (Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas) 9780745670348
RRP: £15.99£14.41The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this second edition of her timely and vibrant book, Nancy Baym... -
The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics by Gerry Simpson 9780192849793
RRP: £36.99£33.78The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a... -
The Foundations of the Welfare State by Pat Thane 9780582279520
RRP: £61.99£60.00A fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in the shaping of social policy.It retains the excellent... -
A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities Byron J. Good (Harvard Medical School, USA) 9781405183147
RRP: £39.95£36.04A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors comprehensive... -
Mother and Baby Homes: A Survey of Homes for Unmarried Mothers Jill Nicholson 9781032064741
RRP: £27.99£24.28During the 1960s there had been much discussion about the plight of the unmarried mother and her child; but very little of it had been based on fact. At the time Mother and Baby Homes catered for between 11,000 and 12,000 unmarried mothers each year, out... -
Eleven Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exiles by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
RRP: £16.99£11.67Written by the refugees themselves, this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled, reflections on the events that led to being displaced, and the raw experience... -
Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality by Adam Daniel
RRP: £20.99£18.03Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage' to post-cinematic new media forms such as YouTube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms... -
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Eli Sagan
RRP: £18.00£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345384720Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
End The Fed by Ron Paul
RRP: £12.99£11.55During the 2008 presidential campaign over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican candidate Ron Paul speak. As he began to address the topics of monetary policy and the coming depression, a chant came from the crowd,... -
Health Intervention Research: Understanding Research Design and Methods by Souraya Sidani
RRP: £39.99£32.66At a time when evidence-based practice is the standard bearer for understanding health behaviour, problems and interventions, ensuring that researchers know the appropriate designs and methods for their research is more paramount than ever. Health... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330570
RRP: £16.99£13.58Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and... -
A Century of Spin: How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power David Miller 9780745326887
RRP: £24.99£16.38This book charts the relentless rise of the public relations industry and how it has transformed our society. Revealing the roots of the PR movement in the years leading up to the First World War, it shows how it became a key tool in the struggle to... -
Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams
RRP: £14.99£13.58Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes... -
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
RRP: £16.99£12.08For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her... -
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
RRP: £20.99£18.37Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual... -
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper
RRP: £19.95£18.76What is Fat Activism and why is it important? Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offering a fresh perspective on one of the major... -
Respondent-Centred Surveys: Stop, Listen and then Design by Laura Wilson 9781529701265
RRP: £40.99£33.56Achieve your survey goals by empowering your survey respondents. Too often, surveys are designed for the analyst, rather than the respondent. This book challenges the status quo by putting respondents' needs at the heart of survey development. It... -
An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture Peter Block (Peter Block Company and Designed Learning) 9781119194729
RRP: £12.99£8.60Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The...