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Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos by Piers Vitebsky
RRP: £24.00£23.43Just 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: £42.99£35.15'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: £34.99£30.49Named 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: £20.99£18.37PROSE 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: £25.99£22.63Designing 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... -
Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair by Christopher Oldstone-Moore 9780226479200
RRP: £19.00£16.20Beards they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters... -
Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice Sally Thorne 9781629582993
RRP: £43.99£38.44The first edition of Interpretive Description established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes. In the second edition, leading... -
Dynamics of Contention by Doug McAdam
RRP: £30.99£23.50In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The... -
Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste by Michael Picard 9781800085190
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085190Author Michael Hennessy PicardFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 12mm -
Feminisms by Sandra Kemp 9780192892706
RRP: £47.99£47.02`A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.' Michele Le Doeuff Spanning nearly two decades (1980-1996), the six sections of this reader investigate the debates which have most characterized feminist theory to date. ... -
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Colin Renfrew
RRP: £26.99£23.85Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the... -
Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar 9781848310841
RRP: £8.99£6.70Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of... -
Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers by Viviene E. Cree
RRP: £35.99£31.69How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work? Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research and places them firmly into the... -
The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain Arun Kundnani 9780745326450
RRP: £29.99£19.40Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism. Exacerbated by... -
Brain Sex by David Jessel
RRP: £18.00£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311830Author Anne MoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Growing Up Bad: Black Youth, Road Culture and Badness in an East London Neighborhood by Anthony Gunter
RRP: £11.95£7.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872767031Author Anthony GunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Tufnell PressPublisher Tufnell PressWeight(grams) 274g -
The Heart of the Matter: How Papworth Hospital transformed modern heart and lung care by Peter Pugh
RRP: £16.99£11.58Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, founded in 1916 to tackle the great killer disease of tuberculosis, is famous for carrying out the UK's first heart transplant operation in 1979. It followed this up not only with many other heart transplants but also... -
The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy: Chronicling Continuity and Change by Victor Strazzeri 9781642599893
RRP: £30.00£19.88The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of the classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx,' specifically focusing on his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. Offering... -
Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Radical Approaches to Prevention, Protection and Support Sarah Nelson 9781447313878
RRP: £25.99£20.11In this outspoken and challenging book, Sarah Nelson argues that progress in addressing childhood sexual abuse has been in fearful or complacent retreat. She proposes new models for child-centred, perpetrator-focussed child protection, for community... -
Introducing Criminology Clive Coleman 9781903240090
RRP: £37.99£33.38Criminology, or the study of crime, has developed rapidly as a subject in recent years, while crime and the problem of how to respond to it have become major concerns for society as a whole. This book provides a succinct, highly readable - and much... -
Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge) 9780745639819
RRP: £22.99£20.16This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today... -
The Jewellery Of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions by Catherine Johns 9780415516129
RRP: £53.99£46.87This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th... -
Criminalising Social Policy: Anti-social Behaviour and Welfare in a De-civilised Society John Rodger 9781843923268
RRP: £37.99£33.38Recent legislative and policy developments in contemporary Britain have ushered in a new approach to criminal justice. The focus on criminal dispositions and welfarism has given way to a strategy which now involves the management of social exclusion,... -
Women, Violence and Social Change by R. Emerson Dobash
RRP: £46.99£40.97Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United... -
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin
RRP: £8.99£6.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553259209Author Bernard EvslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Cybercrime and Society by Majid Yar 9781529772074
RRP: £33.99£28.41Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this complex and fascinating topic. But just what are cybercrimes? And... -
Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices by Stuart Aitken
RRP: £51.00£41.74"The book covers some of the (traditionally) most obtuse and difficult-to-grasp philosophical ideas that have influenced geographers/geography. The fact that these are presented in an inclusive and accessible manner is a key strength. Many students have... -
Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society by Sun-ha Hong
RRP: £24.99£21.67An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today's major... -
Criminal Justice Theory: An Introduction by Roger Hopkins Burke
RRP: £43.99£38.44Criminal Justice Theory examines the theoretical foundations of criminal justice in the modern era, whilst also considering legal philosophy and ethics, explaining criminal behaviour, and discussing policing, the court process, and penology in the... -
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Dr Naomi Wolf 9780060512187
RRP: £16.99£11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060512187Author Dr Naomi WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming Liz Carlisle 9781642832211
RRP: £21.99£18.55A powerful movement is happening in farming today-farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that's meant learning her tribe's history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it's meant preserving forest... -
Diary Method: Research Methods by Ruth Bartlett
RRP: £18.99£16.78First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Diary Method?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book provides an up-to-date, concise, and engaging introduction to... -
Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City by Alistair Fraser 9780198728610
£73.17As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and... -
Age of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis
£18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805074031Author Anthony PratkanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 418gDimensions(mm)... -
Applied Conversation Analysis: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings by Jessica N. Lester 9781506351261
RRP: £76.00£67.24Focusing on applied conversation analysis (CA), this timely book offers practical insights and guidelines for CA scholars studying social interactions in institutional settings. Written in an accessible style and packed with case studies, examples,... -
Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) 9781405125963
RRP: £33.95£30.38Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of critical contemporary thinking in the study of European prehistory. Presents essays by some of the most dynamic researchers and leading European scholars in... -
The Irish Women's Movement: From Revolution to Devolution by Linda Connolly
RRP: £14.99£13.64This superbly incisive, comprehensive history of the Irish women's movement from the 1860s to the twenty-first century - appearing for the first time in paperback - shows how a network of constituent organizations and individuals was transformed into an... -
Dread: Facing Futureless Futures David Theo Goldberg (University of California, Irvine) 9781509544448
RRP: £50.00£43.51A pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many long-targeted populations, it is now surfacing as a broad social... -
Group Work with Children and Adolescents: A Handbook by Kedar Nath Dwivedi
RRP: £35.00£33.75It is a particular and very personal pleasure to contribute a foreword to this important book... I congratulate the authors and editor on their achievement, and warmly recommend Group Work with Children and Adolescents as vital reading for all those... -
A Reader on Punishment by R. A. Duff
RRP: £63.99£59.61Why we punish, who we punish and how we punish are central elements of any discussion of the role of law in modern society. In this impressive and timely collection, two leading experts on the theory of punishment have selected a range of articles...