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Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
RRP: £35.00£27.74Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost... -
Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution 1895-1915 by Frank P. Kessler
RRP: £23.99£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966813Author Frank KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 699g -
Storytelling In Daily Life: Performing Narrative Kristin Langellier 9781592132133
RRP: £27.99£25.35Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and "get a life." So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely... -
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method by Tom Boellstorff 9780691149516
RRP: £28.00£21.80Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and... -
The Anthrobscene by Jussi Parikka 9780816696079
RRP: £9.00£7.98Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite... -
Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste by Mattias Frey
RRP: £25.00£19.59Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both... -
The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader by Fiona Hovenden 9780415220910
RRP: £42.99£37.99The Gendered Cyborg explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The contributors argue that the figure of the cyborg offers ways of thinking about the relationship between culture and... -
Anthropology of Religion: The Basics James Bielo 9780415731256
RRP: £19.99£17.69Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is... -
An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives by Pamela Abbott 9780415312592
RRP: £39.99£35.46This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the wide range of feminist contributions in key areas of sociological concern... -
The Suffering of the Immigrant Abdelmalek Sayad (Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at CNRS (National Centre for Sociological Research) 9780745626437
RRP: £26.00£22.64This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration... -
The Effects of Imprisonment Alison Liebling 9781843922179
RRP: £44.99£40.28As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both... -
Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde by Kristian Williams
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353205Author Kristian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa by Adriaan van Klinken
RRP: £20.00£17.84Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by... -
Making sense of Every Child Matters: Multi-professional practice guidance Richard Barker (Head of Subject Division of Child and Family Studies, Northumbria University) 9781847420114
RRP: £24.99£19.39This much-needed book examines the implications of the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) national and local framework for working with children. It analyses the key issues from the perspective of the different professions that make up the 'new children's... -
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia by Aparecida Vilaca
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, "We... -
Intersex (for Lack Of A Better Word) by Thea Hillman 9781933149240
RRP: £13.99£12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 2008. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781933149240Author Thea... -
White Boy Running by Christopher Hope
RRP: £9.99£6.70In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait... -
The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture Catriona Morton 9781398700567
RRP: £9.99£6.80'This book will often hurt. It will make you angry, it will make you feel. My hope is that this hurt, this anger and these feelings will move you to change the way we talk about surviving sexual violence.' Sexual violence is an epidemic happening across... -
Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts Elizabeth Hallam 9781138244597
RRP: £47.99£41.81Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow... -
Crime in an Insecure World by Richard V. Ericson 9780745638294
£18.09Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. It... -
Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry by Cathy-Mae Karelse 9781526162069
RRP: £85.00£75.05Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as 'apolitical' forges institutions that fit comfortably into... -
A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory by Shaun Best
RRP: £60.00£52.30`This book is accessible, as a beginner's guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come' - John Hughes, Lancaster University At last, a book that... -
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism by Ali Bhagat 9781501773617
RRP: £21.99£19.19Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of... -
Youth Offending and Restorative Justice Adam Crawford (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) 9781843920113
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the criminal justice system,... -
Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations by Mike Michael
RRP: £38.99£31.87In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Mike Michael brings us a powerful overview of Actor-Network Theory. Covering a breadth of topics, Michael demonstrates how ANT has become a major theoretical framework, influencing scholarly work across a... -
Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice by Jean Lave 9781108727433
RRP: £19.99£17.13Written by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, apprenticeship and everyday life, through a critical... -
Theorizing Crime and Deviance: A New Perspective by Steve Hall 9781848606722
RRP: £44.99£36.59"Anything that takes away from the terminally off key karaoke of so much that passes for theory in criminology is to be welcomed, and this is a fine effort to connect the study of crime and control to an innovative set of theoretical possibilities. A... -
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village by Tone Bringa 9780691001753
RRP: £48.00£37.60"I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes. In the late 1980s people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990 they were full of optimism for the future. In January... -
Public Religions in the Modern World by Jose Casanova
RRP: £28.00£27.79In this reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism... -
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss
RRP: £22.99£20.01Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area's pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more... -
Key Thinkers on Cities by Regan Koch
RRP: £36.99£30.29Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the... -
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 9780062282712
RRP: £17.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062282712Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g -
The Philosophy of Social Research by John A. Hughes 9780582311053
RRP: £71.99£69.10This fully revised, updated and extended edition of a successful text, introduces some of the important philosophical issues arising from social research practices and historical research in the social sciences. Since its initial publication the field of... -
The Politics of Abolition Revisited Thomas Mathiesen 9781138687691
RRP: £49.99£43.90Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen's The Politics of Abolition is a landmark text in critical criminology. In its... -
Come Together: Years of Gay Liberation by Aubrey Walter
RRP: £12.99£11.01Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom. Before marriage equality or... -
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950 by Carl Trocki 9780415215008
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a... -
The Amish of Lancaster County by Donald B. Kraybill
RRP: £14.99£12.60More than 8.5 million people visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, every year to experience the culture of the oldest Amish community in the world. This book by the leading scholar of the Amish explains the uncommon lifestyle of these simple-living... -
Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy by Dave Elder-Vass 9781316509388
RRP: £34.99£30.09Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and... -
A Comparative Study of Rock Art in Later Prehistoric Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: £17.00£14.72The Element summarises the state of knowledge about four styles of prehistoric rock art in Europe current between the late Mesolithic period and the Iron Age. They are the Levantine, Macroschematic and Schematic traditions in the Iberian Peninsula; the... -
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life by Leo Charney
RRP: £31.00£29.88Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading...