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Introduction to Sociology Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745629711
RRP: $23.21$20.69This book provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology.About the AuthorTheodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a prominent member of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential thinkers of the... -
Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales by Sam Lucy
RRP: $54.17$47.92This volume brings together a series of studies concerned with aspects of the archaeology of burial in early medieval England and Wales during the period c. A.D. 400-1100. The demographic composition of cemeteries, burial rites and mortuary behaviour are... -
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley
RRP: $15.47$10.32Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black... -
Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema Ulka Anjaria 9780367265441
RRP: $45.14$41.65This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, and provides insight on topics of political and social significance.Arguing that Bollywood films are not realist... -
Embodied Social Justice Rae Johnson 9781032139388
RRP: $46.43$40.88Embodied Social Justice introduces an embodied approach to working with oppression. Grounded in current research, the book integrates key findings from education, psychology, sociology, and somatic studies while addressing critical gaps in how these... -
Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview by E. Richard Atleo
RRP: $36.11$31.14Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition.In Tsawalk,... -
Managing with Plans and Budgets in Health and Social Care by Richard Field
RRP: $47.72$39.20This book provides a guide for managers engaged in planning and budgeting within health and social care organisations. Taking a very practical approach, the book focuses on planning processes and tools that can be used in many managerial situations, in... -
In Sorcery's Shadow: Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger by Paul Stoller
RRP: $30.96$29.71The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world. Book InformationISBN... -
Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT): A manual by Bevill Packer 9781853392689
RRP: $23.16$20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853392689Author Bevill PackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ITDG PublishingPublisher ITDG PublishingWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 176mm... -
Class, Self, Culture by Beverley Skeggs
RRP: $61.91$53.93Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a... -
Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most by Rafael A Mangual 9781546001522
RRP: $21.92$14.89In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing... -
Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines For Girls Growing Up In England, 1920-1950 by Penny Tinkler 9780748402854
RRP: $174.15$151.29This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the role of magazines in the lives of contemporary girls. In addressing this theme, the book explores... -
Web of Lies: The lure and danger of conspiracy theories by Aoife Gallagher
RRP: $24.50$16.69Web of Lies is a fascinating and far-reaching examination of the rising threat of far-right extremist thought in Ireland and internationally, and looks at how these movements utilise the online world to spread disinformation, polarising society in the... -
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America by David A. Banks
RRP: $29.67$23.35One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers-and why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City... -
The Persistence of Gender Inequality Mary Evans (University of Kent) 9780745689920
RRP: $20.63$18.59Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation... -
The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation Heejung Chung (University of Kent) 9781447354789
RRP: $34.82$26.88Does flexible working really provide a better work-life balance? Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible working has become the norm for many workers. This volume offers an original examination of flexible working using data from 30 European... -
Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China by Judith Farquhar
RRP: $30.95$27.40Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television,... -
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social by Patricia Ticineto Clough
RRP: $29.66$25.81"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of... -
Heritage Revitalisation for Tourism in Hong Kong: The Role of Interpretive Planning by Chris White
RRP: $28.37$24.95Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself at the confluence of several post-colonial economic, political and social developments and with this comes... -
The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda by Catherine A. Honeyman 9780804799850
RRP: $32.24$27.95The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the same time, Rwanda's post-war government has begun to... -
Why Do People Sing?: On Voice Paddy Scannell (University of Central London) 9781509529438
RRP: $19.34$6.37In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices... -
Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia Navtej K. Purewal 9781845204686
RRP: $46.43$40.88The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in many parts of Asia, its contemporary expressions... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Michael Taussig 9781138242982
RRP: $51.59$45.23In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically... -
Politics and Religion Steve Bruce (University of Aberdeen) 9780745628202
RRP: $25.79$22.82Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession of holy sites; in Egypt, Israel and India political leaders are murdered by religious zealots. In many... -
Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles by Marina Peterson
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International... -
And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America by Margaret Mead 9781571812179
RRP: $127.71$103.81Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a... -
Ending Hunger: The quest to feed the world without destroying it by Anthony Warner 9780861542185
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A provocative vision.' Sunday Times In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases... -
Understanding New Media by Eugenia Siapera
RRP: $46.43$38.07The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to understand and explain the complexity of our digital world. Understanding New Media gives students... -
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society Dustin Kidd 9780813350660
RRP: $49.01$43.06Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media... -
Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between by Ed Pulford
RRP: $28.38$25.18'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria,... -
The Black Image in Antiquity: Beautiful, Royal and Divine by Runoko Rashidi 9780993503689
RRP: $38.69$36.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993503689Author Runoko RashidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa Ltd -
American Pie: The Anatomy of Vulgar Teen Comedy by Bill Osgerby
RRP: $28.37$24.95American Pie represents the most commercially successful example of the vulgar teen comedy, and this book analyses the film's development, audience-appeal and cultural significance.American Pie (1999) is a film that exemplifies that most disparaged of... -
Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World by David Moinina Sengeh
RRP: $29.66$20.32As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served-not to mention his family and friends-shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. He was shocked to learn that... -
Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America by Stephen Bullivant
RRP: $27.08$23.14An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no... -
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations by Roger Bastide
RRP: $32.90$29.46Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of... -
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art Elena Marchevska 9781032082196
RRP: $51.59$45.23The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between... -
Native American Stories by Michael J. Caduto 9781555910945
RRP: $24.50$20.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Criminology for the Police Craig Paterson 9780367532307
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book offers an applied approach to criminology suitable for prospective police officers. It covers the fundamentals of criminological knowledge, theory and research, and their relevance to policing. The book is split into two parts, the first... -
Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, Modernity by John Rundell 9780367332969
RRP: $54.17$47.41Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukacs, this... -
The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age by Sadie Plant
RRP: $70.94$61.56This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the...