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From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions by Murray Edelman
RRP: £23.00£22.13In this book, Murray Edelman continues his quest to understand the influence of perception on the political process by turning to the role of art. He argues that political ideas, language, and actions cannot help but be based upon the images and... -
Childhoods in Context Alison Clark (School of Education, Roehampton University) 9781447305811
RRP: £27.99£21.97Childhoods in context offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social context of children and young people's lives. Three key themes are explored: * Childhood is always located somewhere. The book offers insights... -
In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes Barbara Perry 9780415927734
RRP: £47.99£41.81In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively... -
The Vatersay Raiders by Ben Buxton 9781839830327
RRP: £12.99£8.94All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where... -
Brexit: Sociological Responses by William Outhwaite 9781783086450
RRP: £25.00£23.78Brexit traces the implications of the UK's projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society. This book provides a forum for leading... -
Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites by Monika Krause
RRP: £24.00£23.03In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular... -
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions by Michael Jivaka 9780823280391
RRP: £16.99£13.14Now available for the first time-more than 50 years after it was written-is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering... -
Promoting children's wellbeing: Policy and practice Janet Collins (Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University) 9781847420596
RRP: £24.99£19.79'Promoting children's wellbeing' examines the wide-ranging and growing number of policies and practices which are intended to contribute to children's wellbeing. Topics include the development of children's identities, the value of play in the lives of... -
Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence by Nancy Whittier
£22.08What happens when enemies work to advance similar goals? Who wins, who loses, and why? In Frenemies, Nancy Whittier addresses this question through a study of feminist and conservative opposition to pornography, campaigns against child sexual abuse, and... -
Self-Leadership and Personal Resilience in Health and Social Care by Jane Holroyd 9781473916241
RRP: £37.99£31.08This is essential reading for professionals making judgements under pressure. It demonstrates how self-leadership is not only about surviving but thriving in a continually changing environment and introduces key theories, skills and debates to help... -
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century by Serena Dyer
RRP: £28.99£27.77Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making... -
Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War?: 50 Facts You Need to Know - Europe by Emma Hartley 9781840467949
RRP: £7.99£5.46This book includes attention grabbing facts and punchy popular analysis. It is a sequel to the bestselling "50 Facts that Should Change the World". It includes facts such as: there are half a million machine guns in Swiss homes; without Islam Europe... -
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: Developing Evidence-Based International Practice by James K. Whittaker 9781849057929
RRP: £100.00£95.25Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support. Featuring contributions from distinguished... -
Storytelling for Life: Why Stories Matter and Ways of Telling Them by Josie Felce
RRP: £16.99£12.28This practical and inspirational book introduces readers to the value of storytelling throughout life, discussing the importance of traditional tales, and how they can transform our lives from childhood through to old age. Children develop emotional... -
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna 9780571374922
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Uproarious.' The Times'Terrifically entertaining.' Evening Standard'Irresistible.' Daily Mail'Gripping.' Sunday Telegraph'A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating, culturally fascinating, and a book which effortlessly... -
Early Dynastic Egypt by Toby A. H. Wilkinson 9780415260114
RRP: £37.99£33.78Early Dynastic Egypt spans the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This was the formative period of ancient Egyptian civilization, and it witnessed the creation of a distinctive culture that was to endure for 3,000... -
Birth of an Empire by Yuri Pines 9780520289741
RRP: £34.00£27.37In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study,... -
The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 9780901072511
£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901072511Author W. Y. Evans-WentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Colin Smythe LtdPublisher Colin Smythe Ltd -
Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? by Rachel Rosen 9781787350656
RRP: £22.99£20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350656Author Rachel RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 595g -
Archaeology, Nation and Race Archaeology and Nationalism: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel by Raphael Greenberg 9781009160254
RRP: £19.99£16.26Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid... -
Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment by Brian G. Gilmartin 9780761860594
RRP: £88.00£77.49Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes-both biomedical as well as situational-of... -
In Praise of Prejudice: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past by Theodore Dalrymple 9781594032028
RRP: £14.99£9.88Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows... -
Handbook on Sexual Violence by Jennifer M. Brown
RRP: £54.99£48.72This book contextualizes the complexity of sexual violence within its broader context - from war to the resolution of interpersonal disputes - and covers a wide span including sexual harassment, bullying, rape and murder as well as domestic violence... -
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life by Tavia Nyong'o
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues for a conception of... -
Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of British Towns in Their European Setting by John Schofield 9781845530389
RRP: £30.00£28.91Archaeologists have shown that towns can claim to be more representative of the nature of society of which they formed part than any other type of site. In towns we are most likely to find archaeological evidence of both long-distance and local trade, of... -
Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alaimo 9780816628384
RRP: £20.99£18.37Opening with the statement "The anthropocene is no time to set things straight," Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and... -
What Being Black Is And What Being Black Isn't Jacob Whittingham 9781906190309
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190309Author Jacob WhittinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 406g -
Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing Ricca Edmondson (Department of Political Science and Sociology/Irish centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway.) 9781847422910
RRP: £30.99£23.74How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, "Valuing older people" argues that... -
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney 9781469614489
RRP: £29.95£26.42Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how... -
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial by Paul Pettitt 9780415354905
RRP: £37.99£33.38Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel... -
The Stains of Imprisonment: Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses by Alice Ievins
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence. The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the... -
The Impact of the Social Sciences: How Academics and their Research Make a Difference by Simon Bastow
RRP: £34.99£28.71The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social... -
Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford 9780914171515
RRP: £27.99£21.34Traces the history of the use of hallucinogenic drugs and discusses the psychological and physical effects of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and other drugs.Book InformationISBN 9780914171515Author Peter StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Ronin... -
Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith 9780812212808
RRP: £31.00£27.76Tourism-one of the world's largest industries-has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry,... -
Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past by Roberta Gilchrist 9780415216005
RRP: £36.99£32.53Gender and Archaeology is the first volume to critically review the development of this now key topic internationally, across a range of periods and material culture. ^l Roberta Gilchrist explores the significance of the feminist epistemologies. She... -
The Off-Modern by Svetlana Boym
£25.45Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of... -
Qualitative Analysis: Eight Approaches for the Social Sciences by Margaretha Jarvinen 9781526465252
RRP: £37.99£32.08Introducing eight analytical approaches that are key to successful social science research, this book helps you get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis. With two 'matched chapters' dedicated to each approach, it provides a balance... -
Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology by Tison Pugh
RRP: £45.00£39.18Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a metatextual space of queer narrative potential. By focusing on... -
With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma by Sonia Cancian
RRP: £35.00£29.35Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With Antonietta's family moving to... -
Lifestyle Sports and Identities: Subcultural Careers Through the Life Course Tyler Dupont 9781032052397
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines how different stages of adult life affect participation in lifestyle sports and in the construction of identity. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, it explores how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and location, in conjunction...