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Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums Franklin D Vagnone 9781629581712
RRP: £29.99£26.64In these days of an aging traditional audience, shrinking attendance, tightened budgets, increased competition, and exponential growth in new types of communication methods, America's house museums need to take bold steps and expand their overall purpose... -
Embodied Research Methods by Torkild Thanem
RRP: £39.99£32.66Disembodied research erects false dichotomies between flesh and reason, and between the corporeal and the social. By contrast, Torkild Thanem and David Knights engage with approaches and practices that exploit the body's capacity to generate knowledge,... -
The Inheritance: Poisoned Fruit of JFK's Assassination by Christopher Fulton 9781634242172
RRP: £21.95£16.77Christopher Fulton's journey began with the death of Evelyn Lincoln, late secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through Lincoln, crucial evidence ended up in Christopher's hands-evidence that was going to be used to facilitate a new future for America... -
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age by Matthew J. Salganik 9780691158648
RRP: £45.00£36.32An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile phones, and numerous other digital marvels. In addition to changing how... -
The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema by Agnieszka Piotrowska 9780367492991
RRP: £19.99£17.69The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the 'nasty woman' as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. The phrase is... -
The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results by Lisa Wyatt Knowlton 9781452216751
RRP: £76.00£66.76The Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a... -
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss 9780393320435
RRP: £15.95£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393320435Author Marcel MaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex by Matilda Bickers
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639918Author Matilda BickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of its Relationship with Archaeology and Esotericism by Liz Henty
RRP: £38.00£35.31Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of the skyscape is materialised in culture, by alignments... -
A New Weave of Power, People and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation Lisa VeneKlasen 9781853396441
RRP: £24.95£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396441Author Lisa VeneKlasenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Leisure Activities in Context: A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure Robert A. Stebbins 9781412864121
RRP: £135.00£117.28There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact... -
Men and Masculinity: The Basics by Nigel Edley
RRP: £19.99£17.69Men and Masculinity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity which outlines the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. Providing readers with a framework for understanding these issues, it... -
Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological by Sharon M. Ravitch 9781544333816
RRP: £76.00£68.24This comprehensive text helps student understand the central concepts, topics, and skills necessary to engage in rigorous, valid, and respectful qualitative research. The authors balance communicating the foundations and processes of qualitative research... -
Taiwan: A New History: A New History Murray A. Rubinstein 9781563248160
RRP: £53.99£47.27This book explores Taiwan's development from its beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Mingloyalist regime, to its centuries as a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of... -
Huey P. Newton Reader, The New Huey P. Newton 9781609809003
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809003Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Rite of Urban Passage: The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation by Reza Masoudi 9781800736498
RRP: £23.95£19.49The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that... -
In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry
RRP: £14.26£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479431Author William A. HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Implementing Evidence-Based Research: A How-to Guide for Police Organizations Laura Huey (University of Western Ontario) 9781447353591
RRP: £34.99£27.38When it comes to adopting evidence based approaches, does the size of an organisation really matter? This practical guide brings leading police and sociology experts together to demonstrate how police forces of all sizes can successfully embed evidence... -
The A-Z of Social Research: A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Concepts by Robert Lee Miller
RRP: £44.99£39.88`A detailed and valuable addition to the literature that will be a very useful resource for lecturers, as well as having a wide appeal among students' - Tim May, University of Salford Have you ever wondered what a concise, comprehensive book providing... -
Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power by Diana Galeeva 9781032215822
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power.The author demonstrates how Qatar's emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier... -
Village in the Vaucluse: Third Edition by Laurence Wylie 9780674939363
RRP: £31.95£31.90Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his study of... -
Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £23.99£23.84Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to... -
Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating by Apryl Williams 9781503635043
RRP: £87.00£75.53In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom... -
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity by Ralina L. Joseph
RRP: £24.99£21.67Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the... -
Dazed and Confused by Mark Sanders 9781861541383
RRP: £39.95£37.66London-based 'Dazed and Confused' magazine started life as a group voice for the capital's exploding creative scene. This volume combines the best of past 'Dazed' editorial and images with new commissions from fashion photographers, artists and... -
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation by Calvin L. Warren
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the... -
Vital Bodies: Living with Illness Charlotte Bates (Cardiff University) 9781447335061
RRP: £23.99£18.66This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book reveals the significance of the things that we usually take for granted, from what we eat to when we sleep, how... -
Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography Stuart Elden 9780754646556
RRP: £39.99£35.46Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail... -
The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line Kojo Koram 9780745338804
RRP: £24.99£19.39The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production,... -
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton
RRP: £22.99£20.41First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.About the AuthorEsther Newton... -
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning from Cases by Howard Saul Becker 9780226166490
RRP: £16.00£15.77In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his... -
London: The Privatised City by Mike Raco
RRP: £24.99£23.26As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, London has become a mass generator of employment and a magnet for inward migration. Yet London is also a divided city, whose expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book explores the... -
British Goblins by Wirt Sikes 9781912368181
£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368181Author Wirt SikesFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books -
Sociological Research Methods Martin Bulmer 9780878558148
RRP: £43.99£38.44A rich source of ideas about sociological research methods to assist the researcher in determining what method will provide the most reliable and useful knowledge, how to choose between different methodologies, and what constitutes the most fruitful... -
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya by Virginie Collombier 9781787389854
RRP: £25.00£22.03Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new... -
Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence by Jok Madut Jok
£13.77Sudan has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After decades of civil war, rebel uprisings and power struggles, in 2011 it gave birth to the world's newest country - South Sudan. But it's not been an easy transition, and the secession... -
Understanding Social Problems: Issues in Social Policy by Margaret May 9780631220305
RRP: £32.95£30.38This up-to-date and accessible text fills an important gap in the market by introducing students to social policy perspectives on social problems. Written in an accessible, student-friendly style, using subheadings, boxed material, tables, and... -
The Legacy of Slavery in Britain by Nigel Sadler
RRP: £15.99£10.85Slavery was illegal in Britain, but the transatlantic slave trade left a physical mark on the UK. There are monuments to philanthropists who made their wealth through slavery, there were houses built from the profits made from slavery, and enslaved... -
The Path of Freemasonry: The Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Mark Stavish
RRP: £16.99£13.46A practical guide to the symbols and rituals of Freemasonry as a path of spiritual development and self-realization* Shares the history and meaning of Freemasonry and its symbols * Offers thoughtful explorations of different areas of Masonic experience,... -
Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies Andrew McWilliam 9781032400846
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring...