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The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A Singh
RRP: $28.38$21.50A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety... -
Equality and Diversity in Social Work Practice by Chris Gaine
RRP: $45.14$37.04Social workers must develop a sensitive yet informed approach when working with service users from different social and cultural groups. In many aspects of life, including accessing human services, people are marginalised, ignored, stigmatised or... -
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty by Mark Robert Rank
RRP: $31.59$26.30What if the idealized image of American society-a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success-is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America... -
The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen 9781526722034
$27.80She is the most prolific children's author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous... -
Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier Technologies and Criminology in the Twenty-First Century by Sanja Milivojevic
RRP: $47.72$41.96Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime... -
Frank Sinatra Chris Rojek (Nittingham Trent University) 9780745630915
RRP: $20.63$18.59Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high rolling, fast living 'Rat Pack' era, to the protracted... -
Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber
RRP: $21.92$12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373898Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Anatomies of Revolution by George Lawson 9781108710855
RRP: $34.82$29.41Recent years have seen renewed interest in the study of revolution. Spurred by events like the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the rise of Islamic State, and the emergence of populism, a new age of revolution has generated... -
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt 9780691243542
RRP: $36.12$28.12A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating,... -
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd
$15.98Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, the issues surrounding Black hair in America continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century. Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological... -
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Mine and Yours: A Personal and Clinical Perspective by Scott M Granet 9781476682655
RRP: $19.34$16.19As many as 5-10 million Americans may suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) yet it remains under-recognized by both mental health professionals and the general public. Tormented by obsessive thoughts associated with physical appearance, and... -
Feminist Writings, Volume 1 by Simone De Beauvoir
RRP: $25.79$22.63The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for... -
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859 by Christian Michael Gonzales
RRP: $49.01$43.06Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States.With an aggressively expanding United States... -
In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City by Yosef Garfinkel
RRP: $32.19$29.18King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which provides stirring accounts of his deeds, including the slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath and the founding of his capital in Jerusalem. However, no certain archaeological finds from the period of... -
Specialist Journalism by Sharon Wheeler
RRP: $51.59$45.23Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex... -
Health Studies: An Introduction by Jennie Naidoo 9789811621482
RRP: $51.59$44.36This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in... -
The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer 9781526436924
RRP: $46.43$38.07A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of... -
Motherpeace by Vicki Noble 9780062510853
$16.76For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore,... -
An Introduction to Criminal Psychology Russil Durrant (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 9781138650961
RRP: $61.91$54.45This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology,... -
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry Jane L. Collins 9780226113722
RRP: $30.96$29.71Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third... -
Warped: Gay Normality And Queer Anti-capitalism: Historical Materialism, Volume 92 by Peter Drucker
RRP: $32.25$24.78Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been perplexing for activists with radical sympathies. Global in scope and drawing on a wide range of feminist,... -
Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage Ronda L. Brulotte 9781138634947
RRP: $67.07$58.30Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing... -
Social Advantage and Disadvantage by Hartley Dean
$58.93Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes,... -
Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima Becky Alexis-Martin 9780745339207
RRP: $32.24$25.01***Winner of the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2020*** ***Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2020*** Since the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, the history of nuclear warfare has been tangled with the spaces and places... -
Social History of Art, Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age by Arnold Hauser
RRP: $46.43$42.53First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details... -
The Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner 9780300115352
RRP: $29.03$27.97A search for authentic Celtic culture and its scattered, endangered survivors Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a... -
Translocational Belongings: Intersectional Dilemmas and Social Inequalities Floya Anthias 9781138304291
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging. It contributes to understanding categories of difference as a building block for forms of belonging and inequality in... -
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Graham Leyburn 9780807842591
RRP: $32.19$21.29Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... -
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by Neda Atanasoski 9781478003861
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing... -
Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation, 1937-2001 by Amy M. Davis
RRP: $28.37$24.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966738Author Amy M. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 649g -
Philosophy of Social Science Alexander Rosenberg 9780813349732
RRP: $56.75$49.59Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging... -
How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners Suchitra Vijayan 9780745347981
RRP: $21.92$14.89Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively 'Hindu' India, while targeting anyone... -
We Will Tell Our Own Story!: The Lions of Africa Speak! by Adebayo C Akomolafe 9780982532768
RRP: $58.30$48.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982532768Author Adebayo C AkomolafeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Universal Write Publications LLCPublisher Universal Write Publications... -
Roman Warships Michael Pitassi 9781783274147
RRP: $32.24$26.96An examination of Roman naval development, drawing upon archaeological evidence, documentary accounts and visual representation. The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development... -
Police: Streetcorner Politicians by William Ker Muir, Jr. 9780226546339
RRP: $38.70$37.73"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good... -
The Future of Media Joanna Zylinska 9781913380144
RRP: $34.83$25.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380144Author Joanna ZylinskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood Johan Farkas (Malmoe University, Sweden) 9781032563039
RRP: $46.43$40.88The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of... -
Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries by Robin Tolmach Lakoff 9780195167573
RRP: $61.26$42.27The 1975 publication of Language and Woman's Place, with its argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This volume presents the original text along with commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other... -
What Use is Sociology?: Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745671253
RRP: $19.34$17.52What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book... -
Women and Alcohol: Social Perspectives Patsy Staddon (University of Plymouth) 9781447318897
RRP: $37.40$28.75Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts. This research and practice based book explores social models of alcohol misuse to offer a sociological approach to its treatment. Through...