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David Harvey: A Critical Reader Noel Castree (Manchester University) 9780631235101
RRP: £19.99£18.09This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.Written... -
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans by Fred Ho
RRP: £23.99£21.24With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing... -
The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New Andreas Reckwitz 9780745697048
RRP: £22.99£20.16Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an... -
A Critical Introduction to Social Research by Matt Henn
RRP: £51.00£41.74A Critical Introduction to Social Research is the new, updated and improved edition of A Short Introduction to Social Research. This book introduces students and researchers to the key ideas and issues that inform research practice. In it, Henn,... -
Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life by Nikolas Rose 9780745641010
£18.09The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for... -
The Road Movie Book by Steven Cohan 9780415149372
RRP: £38.99£34.62The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological... -
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema by Yvonne Tasker 9780415092241
RRP: £36.99£32.53While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism.Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities... -
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin
RRP: £16.99£11.54In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the... -
Working with Adolescents: A Guide for Practitioners by Julie Anne Laser
£42.41Noted for its multisystemic-ecological perspective, this accessible text and practitioner resource has now been revised and expanded with 60% new material. The book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and explores effective ways to... -
Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State by Joe Sim 9780761960041
RRP: £44.99£36.59'Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross... -
Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary by Rob Wilson 9780822317128
RRP: £23.99£21.24This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we... -
Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook by C. Michael Bowers 9780123820006
RRP: £78.00£71.11Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigators Handbook highlights the discussion regarding unjust convictions caused by inaccurate bitemark opinions. The book focuses on cases that use forensic techniques, emphasizing modern methods and protocols. Through... -
Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. Lester 9780520385740
RRP: £25.00£19.59When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old-and again when she was eighteen-she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating... -
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434865Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 139g -
To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement Stephen Ellingson 9780226367385
RRP: £26.00£24.85Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV." The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a... -
Policy Analysis as Problem Solving: A Flexible and Evidence-Based Framework Rachel Meltzer 9781138630178
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drawing extensively from real-life cases, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving helps students develop the analytic skills necessary to advise government officials and nonprofit executives on a wide range of policy issues. Unlike other texts, Policy... -
Food, Politics, and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System by Alejandro Colas
RRP: £25.00£19.59Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class... -
Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect by Britta Timm Knudsen 9781349553051
RRP: £64.99£59.61The collection proposes inventive research strategies for the study of the affective and fluctuating dimensions of cultural life. It presents studies of nightclubs, YouTube memes, political provocations, heritage sites, blogging, education development,... -
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar Yukiko Nishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) 9781032213668
RRP: £39.99£35.06Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image, while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests.In the liberal international... -
Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It by Ben Tarnoff
RRP: £11.99£8.29In Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data... -
Social Media in Social Work Practice by Joanne Westwood
RRP: £34.99£28.71Should you respond to friend requests from service users? How can you be sure that your own online profile is secure? Do service users understand the global and permanent nature of social media posts? Mapped against UK regulatory bodies' standards this... -
Social Research with Children and Young People: A Practical Guide by Louca-Mai Brady 9781447351146
RRP: £13.99£11.40Capturing the views and experiences of children and young people directly and involving them more actively in the research process are increasingly seen as essential for good research, evaluation, and policy and service development. Written by two... -
A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality by Claire W. Herbert
RRP: £25.00£21.19Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert lived in the city for almost five years to get a ground-view sense of how... -
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry Tankard Reist Melinda 9781876756895
RRP: £21.95£14.03Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as 'just a bit of fun' Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography.About the... -
The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns by Bassey W. Andah
RRP: £54.99£49.32Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of... -
Gender Equality in the Welfare State? Gillian Pascall (School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham) 9781847426642
RRP: £26.99£20.84The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western welfare states of the post-war era were built on assumptions about gender difference: they treated men as... -
The Sociologist's Eye: Reflections on Social Life Kai T. Erikson 9780300106671
RRP: £32.50£31.98A masterful introduction to and appreciation of sociology as a window into our world The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the... -
Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today by Hans Lucht 9780520270732
RRP: £25.00£19.59This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around... -
Doing Digital Methods by Richard Rogers 9781526487995
RRP: £31.99£26.76Get 12 months FREE access to the Digital Methods Manual (the abridged, interactive eBook that provides handy step-by-step guidance to your phone, tablet, laptop or reading device) when purchasing ISBN: 9781526487995 Paperback and & Interactive eBook*... -
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People by Viviane Namaste
RRP: £30.00£29.25Through combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced" by medicine or psychiatry as they are "erased", or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. An analysis is... -
Santorini (Thira): The Lost Island of Atlantis by Jill Dudley 9780993537813
£3.14The myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Caldera and the Akrotiri Archaeological site. It is one of six 'Put It in Your Pocket series' on Greek islands... -
The Politics of Social Democracy: Issues, Dilemmas and Futures for the Centre-Left by Rob Manwaring 9780367135447
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book... -
Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century Katy Gardner 9780745333649
RRP: £27.99£21.57Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. This book engages with nearly... -
Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans by Luke Gittos 9781845408374
£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845408374Author Luke GittosFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g -
Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide by Lyn Richards 9781526490773
RRP: £40.99£33.56Viewing data as the heart of qualitative research, this book provides clear guidance on the steps involved in collecting and managing primary & secondary data while equipping you with a toolkit that they can apply to data in any context. In her... -
Conversations With Landscape Karl Benediktsson 9781138244634
RRP: £47.99£41.81Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the... -
Feminist Criminology by Claire M. Renzetti 9780415381420
RRP: £37.99£33.38Feminist criminology grew out of the Women's Movement of the 1970s, in response to the male dominance of mainstream criminology - which meant that not only were women largely excluded from carrying out criminological research, they were also barely... -
Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing Nigel Fielding 9781032083674
RRP: £39.99£35.06Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare. In recent years it has begun to make its mark in criminal justice. As engagement with EBP has... -
The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader by Neil Badmington
RRP: £42.99£37.99Everything is open to question. Nothing is sacred.Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how we interpret the world around us.The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory... -
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert S. Wistrich
RRP: £58.00£51.17From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a...