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The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan 9781526126146
RRP: £25.00£17.62Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the... -
Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past by Jeb J. Card
£48.33Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day... -
Men, Caregiving and the Media: The Dad Dilemma Sarah C. Hunter 9781032083759
RRP: £39.99£35.06Analysing diverse media representations of men who provide primary care to their children, this book demonstrates how the practice of fatherhood - and of masculinity - is changing, and the ways media representations sensationalise and reinforce gender... -
Archival and Secondary Data by Tarani Chandola
RRP: £31.99£26.43Data archives provide rich and expansive sources of information for researchers. This book highlights the utility of secondary data analyses whilst showing you how to select the right datasets for your study, and in turn get the most out of your research... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy? by Paul Bernal 9781529707670
RRP: £11.99£9.74Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to... -
Crime, Justice and the Media Ian Marsh 9781138362253
RRP: £36.99£32.53Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. This expanded and fully updated third edition considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media... -
High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference by Graham W. Pulford 9780750684378
£85.35High-Security Mechanical Locks comprehensively surveys and explains the highly technical area of high security locks in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. Well over 100 different locks are presented, organized into 6 basic types. Each chapter... -
Why So Slow?: The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian
RRP: £33.00£21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720311Author Virginia ValianFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
What is Essential to Being Human?: Can AI Robots Not Share It? Margaret S. Archer (University of Warwick, UK) 9781032041216
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement - a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future. Considering what might... -
Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion Karen Soldatic (Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia) 9780367345778
RRP: £48.99£42.66Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame... -
Irish Folk Tales by Henry Glassie
RRP: £14.99£14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679774129Author Henry GlassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell 9781394187935
RRP: £18.99£12.91Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to... -
Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals by Shanna Katz Kattari 9781032311517
RRP: £36.99£32.93Offering a current, comprehensive, and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers, this book synthesizes existing scholarship on culturally responsive practices that assist in exploring, understanding, and affirming the... -
Social Work Research in Practice: Ethical and Political Contexts by Heather D'Cruz 9781446200797
RRP: £39.99£37.41This new edition of Social Work Research in Practice: Ethical and Political Contexts explores the intrinsic connection between knowledge, research and practice in social work. The authors argue that through a better appreciation of research, the highest... -
All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom by Deborah Santana 9780997296211
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997296211Author Deborah SantanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Nothing But The Truth, LLCPublisher Nothing But The Truth, LLC -
Separation--Individuation: Essays in Honor of Margaret S. Mahler by Margaret S. Mahler 9781568212241
RRP: £78.00£68.48A collection of the papers of Margaret S. Mahler, providing an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.Book InformationISBN 9781568212241Author Margaret S. MahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Jason Aronson Inc... -
Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £37.99£33.38Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus.Book InformationISBN... -
Peterloo: The English Uprising by Robert Poole
RRP: £31.49£23.37On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them... -
Can We Know Better?: Reflections for development Professor Robert Chambers (Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)) 9781853399459
RRP: £9.95£7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399459Author Professor Robert ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action... -
Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality William Robson 9781138311701
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1976, Welfare State and Welfare Society breaks away from the prevailing notion that the welfare state is mainly concerned with the well-being of the entire nation. The book distinguishes the welfare state from the welfare society,... -
Lakota Belief and Ritual by James R. Walker 9780803297319
RRP: £20.99£18.37A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas. Journal of American Folklore Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysisProvides raw narratives without any pretension... -
Qualitative Research Interviewing: Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods by Tom Wengraf
RRP: £57.00£46.46`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications... -
Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond by Natasha Iskander
RRP: £25.00£19.59An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill-specifically the distinction between the "skilled" and "unskilled"-is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make... -
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds
RRP: £17.99£15.90A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court... -
Journalism Ethics at the Crossroads: Democracy, Fake News, and the News Crisis by Roger Patching 9780367197285
RRP: £34.99£19.70This book provides journalism students with an easy-to-read yet theoretically rich guide to the dialectics, contradictions, problems, and promises encapsulated in the term 'journalism ethics'. Offering an overview of a series of crises that have shaken... -
Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh
RRP: £10.99£9.60Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into... -
We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World by Mark Levine
RRP: £25.00£19.99In his iconic musical travelogue Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine first brought the views and experiences of a still-young generation to the world. In We'll Play till We Die, he joins with this generation's leading voices to write a definitive history of... -
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
RRP: £19.00£8.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223721Author Chanel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745607900
RRP: £16.99£15.22The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with... -
Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK: Possibilities for Intersectional Richness by Stephanie Davis
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book explores the meanings of Queer and Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) activist groups in the UK, considering the tensions around inclusion and belonging across lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) and of colour communities and wider... -
Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Sanja Bahun 9781350150874
RRP: £35.99£31.69Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526156082
RRP: £25.00£17.92This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being 'beyond race'.Paying attention to the... -
The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society Alfonso Ortiz 9780226633077
RRP: £21.00£20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226633077Author Alfonso OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Social Work Practice in Mental Health: An Introduction Robert Bland 9781760529499
RRP: £35.99£31.69This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved. Organised into two parts and 11 chapters, the book focuses on... -
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India's liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for... -
The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives Ruth Pearce (University of Warwick, UK) 9781138504103
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to... -
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and TRANS Bodies and Lives by Miguel M. Morales
RRP: £16.99£13.47AASECT Book Award for General Audience'A joy to read' ESSIE DENNIS'A beautifully written collection' JUNO ROCHEWe're here. We're queer. We're fat.This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer... -
Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street by Kylie Message 9780367777814
RRP: £21.99£19.34Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of 'the 99%'.Examining processes of collection development as a lens... -
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma 9780195336160
RRP: £25.49£19.45Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker... -
Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives Stephen Cowden 9781447337423
RRP: £24.99£19.39Unparalleled in its coverage of concepts and themes, this textbook uses insights from across sociology, psychology, criminology and other areas of expertise to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives...