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Market and Violence: Technology and Socio-economic Progress: Traps and Opportunities for the Future by Heide Gerstenberger 9781642599909
RRP: $77.40$51.42Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only... -
Anti-vaxxers by Jonathan M. Berman
RRP: $23.21$15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539326Author Jonathan M. BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms by Katy Deepwell
RRP: $35.48$30.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095725Author Katy DeepwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
The McDonaldization of Society: Into the Digital Age by George Ritzer 9781544398013
RRP: $122.55$102.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544398013Author George RitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sage Publications, IncPublisher Sage Publications, IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The Impact of Co-production: From Community Engagement to Social Justice Deirdre Heddon 9781447330295
RRP: $38.69$29.70Bringing together academics, artists, practitioners and 'community activists', this book explores the possibilities for, and tensions of, social justice work under the contemporary drive for community-orientated 'impact' in the academy. Threading a line... -
Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall by Sean R. Taylor
$98.21Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley reports on a series of fieldwork projects carried out in the Tregurra Valley, to the east of Truro, Cornwall. The work was undertaken over a period of seven years between... -
An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Saivism D.E. Osto 9781032400471
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Saivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historical overview of the seminal people and groups responsible for the revival, the book compares the... -
Stories from England by James Reeves
RRP: $10.31$7.04Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone. This lively collection brings to... -
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King by Dr. William F. Pepper
RRP: $16.76$14.20On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers had been paid to remove the gun after the fatal shot was... -
Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age by Roderick P. Hart
RRP: $47.72$41.96Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines - political science and communication - asked to identify the most pressing problems facing the American people and how... -
Public Opinion, Crime, And Criminal Justice Julian Roberts 9780813367934
RRP: $70.94$61.56Taking on one of the most popular issues of the day-crime and the way we make sense of it-Julian Roberts and Loretta Stalans reveal the mismatch between the public perception of crime and the reality of crime statistics. Discussing such issues as public... -
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Omar Dewachi
RRP: $27.08$23.70Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions... -
On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City by John D. Boy
RRP: $24.50$21.05Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram's reputation for shallowness, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas... -
Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures by Sarah Pink
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.The authors, specialising in design... -
Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum Janet Picton 9781598742510
RRP: $76.10$67.18The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his... -
Living with Oil and Coal: <i>Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India</i> by Dolly Kikon
RRP: $32.24$31.14The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and... -
The Assertive Social Worker Patricia McBride 9781857424218
RRP: $67.07$58.30Would you like to feel more in control of yourself and your work? To cope comfortably with any demands the day throws at you? Deal easily with situations without guilt or worry? If so, this is the book for you! Social work is a stimulating and exciting... -
The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful by Gregg Barak
RRP: $56.75$50.10Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies... -
The Culture of Design by Guy Julier
RRP: $55.46$45.18What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and... -
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans by William Keyse Rudolph 9780917860577
RRP: $32.24$22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860577Author William Keyse RudolphFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U... -
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism by Waltraud Ernst
RRP: $56.75$49.59This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices,... -
Bloody Sacrifice: A Personal Experience of Contemporary Blood Rites by Charlotte Rodgers 9781906958305
RRP: $14.18$9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958305Author Charlotte RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 226g -
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us by S. Lochlann Jain 9780520276574
RRP: $32.25$25.27Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding,... -
Qualitative Secondary Analysis by Kahryn Hughes 9781526445254
RRP: $49.01$40.09A comprehensive guide to carrying out Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA) that brings together expert advice and professional insight from leading researchers who have developed innovative theories and methods of QSA. Exploring crucial components of... -
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific by Christine Reiko Yano
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization-the spread of... -
Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation by Qween Jean
RRP: $45.15$29.72Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring power of photography in activism, advocacy, and community. ... -
Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall by Rob Collins
RRP: $64.50$58.81What is Hadrian's Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian's Wall using a geological approach... -
Social Work Placements: A Traveller's Guide by Mark Doel 9780415499125
RRP: $46.43$40.88Placements can be one of the most exciting parts of your social work training but also one of the most daunting. This Guide will help you to make the most of your practice learning opportunities.The guide highlights how you can make the most of your... -
Aliens & Strangers?: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals by Anna Strhan
RRP: $34.82$31.28In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. 'St John's' is a vibrant church, with a congregation of young and middle-aged members,... -
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher 9781250796646
RRP: $21.92$15.71Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialisation, policing, and criminalisation of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and... -
Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion: Promoting Social Justice in Social Work John H. Pierson 9780415742993
RRP: $47.72$41.96In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered... -
Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors Daniel Miller 9781859735855
RRP: $46.43$40.88Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our... -
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming by Steven L Kent
RRP: $27.09$25.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984825438Author Steven L. KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice by Mario Luis Small 9780190090432
RRP: $33.53$24.72Winner of the James Coleman Award for Best Book from the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Society Winner of the Outstanding Recent Contribution from the Social Psychology section of the American Sociological Association ... -
When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany by Renate Bridenthal
$21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456438Author Renate BridenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 499g -
Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos by Piers Vitebsky
RRP: $30.96$30.22Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their... -
Inventing Adulthoods: A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions by Sheila J. Henderson 9781412930697
RRP: $55.46$45.34'The series Youth: Perspectives and Practice provides a distinctive and rare combination of expert commentary, new research, original theorising and critical reflection on how we should understand youth and work with young people. These books deserve a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by Jenifer Neils
RRP: $45.14$39.33Named for a goddess, epicenter of the first democracy, birthplace of tragic and comic theatre, locus of the major philosophical schools, artistically in the vanguard for centuries, ancient Athens looms large in contemporary study of the ancient world... -
Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain by L. Ayu Saraswati
RRP: $27.08$23.70PROSE Award Winner for Biography and Autobiography Named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023. Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in... -
Literature Review and Research Design: A Guide to Effective Research Practice by Dave Harris 9780367250379
RRP: $33.53$29.19Designing a research project is possibly the most difficult task a dissertation writer faces. It is fraught with uncertainty: what is the best subject? What is the best method? For every answer found, there are often multiple subsequent questions, so...