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Policing and the Legacy of Lawrence Doreen Lawrence OBE 9781843925057
RRP: $49.01$43.06February 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Inquiry into the events surrounding the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. This book marks this anniversary and examines various dimensions of the impact of Lawrence on... -
Critical Muslim 20: PostWest by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $25.79$22.99Shanon Shah investigates the connections between geography and identity; Jasper M. Trautsch explains the invention of the West; Nazry Bahrawi asks if the collapse of Western civilisation is imminent; Gordon Blaine Steffey explores what a post- Western... -
Middle Kingdom: Faerie World of Ireland by Diarmuid A. McManus
$11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900675829Author Diarmuid A. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Colin Smythe LtdPublisher Colin Smythe Ltd -
Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer 9780192861849
RRP: $61.91$48.09A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him... -
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment Mari J Matsuda 9780813384283
RRP: $64.49$56.12Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first... -
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice by Lorna Gibb 9781783782642
RRP: $12.89$8.64From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of people... -
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places by Sharon Zukin
RRP: $34.17$22.72As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, and funky ethnic restaurants. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the pervasive demand for authenticity has... -
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts by Michael Biggs 9780415697941
RRP: $63.20$55.55The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying,... -
Healing the Hidden Hurts: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults by Caroline Archer
RRP: $36.11$35.13Healing the Hidden Hurts: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment... -
Refugee Resilience and Adaptation in the Middle East: Reclaiming Agency in the Informal Economies of Lebanon and Jordan Haya Al-Dajani 9781032253121
RRP: $161.25$139.14This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy. Focusing on Lebanon and Jordan, which between 2011 and 2020 received more refugees as a proportion of their... -
The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies - History, Politics, and Societies by Adrien Fauve
RRP: $114.81$101.07This handbook is the first collection of comprehensive teaching materials for teachers and students of Central Asian Studies (CAS) with a strong pedagogic dimension. It presents 22 chapters, clustered around five themes, with contributions from more than... -
One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement Paul Kingsnorth 9780743220279
RRP: $14.18$10.02It could turn out to be the biggest political movement of the twenty-first century: a global coalition of millions, united in resisting an out-of-control global economy, and already building alternatives to it. It emerged in Mexico in 1994, when the... -
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman 9781551522647
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781551522647Author S. Bear BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Arsenal Pulp... -
Getting Started in Your Educational Research: Design, Data Production and Analysis by Clive Opie
RRP: $45.14$37.55A one-stop shop for anyone undertaking educational research for the first time, this text focuses on the development and application of key skills necessary for successful research. Packed with useful exercises, checklists and case studies, this book... -
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture by Emily Martin 9780691141060
RRP: $41.28$32.46Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the... -
But You're Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer
RRP: $27.08$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744830Author Kayleen SchaeferFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Domination and Subjugation in Everyday Life Lonnie Athens 9781412857154
RRP: $174.15$151.29Reputable scholars have long charged that symbolic interactionism, which is based on the principle of "sociality," discounts the importance that subordination plays in human groups. Emphasizing dominance and power, Athens explains how... -
Doing Qualitative Research Online by Janet Salmons 9781529714128
RRP: $49.01$40.74New to online research? This book will give you the foundation you need to confidently design and conduct a project using internet methods. First providing an overview of online qualitative research, it then provides how-to guidance for studying the... -
Unthinking Social Science: Limits Of 19Th Century Paradigms by Immanuel Wallerstein
RRP: $28.37$24.76In this new edition of a classic work -- now with a new preface -- on the roots of social scientific thinking, Immanuel Wallerstein develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new... -
When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture by David A. Green 9780199653522
$42.22When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide. The book explores the reasons underlying the vastly... -
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political by Judith Butler
RRP: $21.92$21.32Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of... -
Race, Culture and Media by Anamik Saha
RRP: $45.14$37.16How do media 'make' race? How do legacies of empire shape our understandings of race and media? How does racism structure the media industries? Is the internet an inherently white space? Understanding the relationship between race, culture and media... -
Burden by Courtney Hargrave
RRP: $21.92$16.98A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film, with a foreword by writer/director Andrew Heckler In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina,... -
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Schurman
RRP: $25.80$17.21A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen-and explores what it could mean for our collective future. Societies all over the world are getting older, the... -
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur
RRP: $30.96$29.71Big cats-tigers, leopards, and lions-that make prey of humans are commonly known as "man-eaters." Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become "crooked." Building upon fifteen years of... -
Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book by W Kamau Bell
RRP: $29.61$18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523514281Author W Kamau BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 277mm *... -
Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body by Beverly Yuen Thompson 9780814789209
RRP: $30.95$26.88A small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade-among the women who make up the twenty percent of all adults in the USA who have tattoos, these are by far the most popular choices... -
Youth Offending and Restorative Justice Adam Crawford (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) 9781843920120
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the criminal justice system,... -
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal by Rosalind Fredericks
RRP: $25.79$22.63Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been... -
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away by Keith Boykin 9781541703315
RRP: $32.25$22.87The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to... -
Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count Joel Bleifuss 9781583226872
RRP: $14.18$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226872Author Joel BleifussFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 334g -
The Catholic Church and Soviet Russia, 1917-39 Dennis Dunn 9781138595712
RRP: $56.75$49.59This book, based on extensive research including in the Russian and Vatican archives, charts the development of relations between the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the death of Pope Pius XI in 1939. It... -
The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: $32.25$25.27Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most... -
Mediated Memories in the Digital Age by Jose van Dijck
RRP: $25.79$22.63Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxes to retrieve at a later moment in life. Autobiographical memory, its tools, and its objects are... -
Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang by Lukas Ley
RRP: $27.08$23.70A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast... -
Fascists by Michael Mann
RRP: $39.98$30.01Fascists presents a theory of fascism based on intensive analysis of the men and women who became fascists. It covers the six European countries in which fascism became most dominant - Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Spain. It is a... -
Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry by Angela Jones
RRP: $32.24$27.95Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The first inside look at how sex... -
The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants Michel Agier (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris) 9781509530618
RRP: $20.63$18.59For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis... -
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance by Karen Levy
RRP: $36.12$28.12A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued... -
The Misguided Search for the Political Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford, UK) 9780745662633
RRP: $23.21$20.69There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to 'real' politics. Echoing these debates, Lois McNay examines in this book some theories of radical...