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A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland by James Waller
RRP: £31.49£27.58In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as "the Troubles" the risk of a return to violent conflict is not only present but growing. Drawing on ethnographic... -
Linguistic Ethnography: Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data by Fiona Copland
RRP: £42.99£35.02This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It... -
The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950 by Ross McKibbin 9780198205111
£41.25The recent history of the working class is essential to any account of modern Britain: between 1880 and 1950 manual workers and their dependents made up three-quarters of the British population. In this fascinating collection of essays, Ross McKibbin... -
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction by Helen Anne Curry 9780520307698
RRP: £25.00£19.59Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture... -
Letters to Friends of the Spirit: Martinist Views & Others by Sylvie Boyer-Camax 9781947907218
RRP: £32.95£23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947907218Author Sylvie Boyer-CamaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Rose Circle PublicationsPublisher Rose Circle PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Fighters and Singers: The lives of some Australian Aboriginal women Isobel White 9780868616209
RRP: £39.99£35.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868616209Author Isobel WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 480g -
A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao by Emily Ng 9780520303034
RRP: £30.00£23.29Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of... -
The Future of Difference: Beyond the Toxic Entanglement of Racism, Sexism and Feminism by Sabine Hark 9781788738026
£22.49The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of 'other and rule' thoroughly permeates the social and the political; our contemporary condition is... -
How to Focus an Evaluation by Brian M. Stecher 9780803931275
RRP: £54.00£47.18Reflecting the tremendous explosion of interest in this vital area of the evaluation process, this volume recognizes that deciding what to evaluate is a complex negotiation process that involves the methodological predisposition of the evaluator and the... -
Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World by Frederick Cooper
RRP: £31.00£24.43Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new... -
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland William Ian Miller 9780226526805
RRP: £27.00£26.87This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. William Miller's readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code aim to reconstruct and... -
Conspiracy!: 49 Reasons to Doubt, 50 Reasons to Believe. by Ian Shircore 9781843583776
£8.32Would British scientists really test sarin never poison on young volunteers and tell them it was research for a cure for colds? Would they really release E coli in Swindon and Southampton to try out germ warfare techniques? Even 50 years on, on-one's... -
Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius by I. Augustus Durham 9781478025528
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black... -
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower by Roseann Lake
RRP: £20.99£17.16Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Then the one-child policy resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters-girls who were pushed to study, achieve and succeed as if they... -
Family Troubles?: Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People Jane Ribbens McCarthy 9781447304449
RRP: £28.99£22.69As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between "normal" family troubles and... -
Veil by Rafia Zakaria
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony... -
What is Academic Freedom?: A Century of Debate, 1915 - Present by Daniel Gordon
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university... -
Emotions in the Digital World: Exploring Affective Experience and Expression in Online Interactions by Robin L. Nabi 9780197520536
RRP: £59.00£53.65This edited volume examines the ways in which rapidly changing technologies and patterns of media use influence, and are influenced by, our emotional experiences. Following introductory chapters outlining common conceptual frameworks used in the study of... -
The Art of Life Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745643267
RRP: £15.99£14.41In our individualized society we are all artists of life - whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and... -
Sexuality & Socialism by Sherry Wolf
RRP: £16.99£13.09The movement for LGBT rights has greatly expanded sexual freedom, but many challenges confront this struggle for equality. Sherry Wolf offers a Marxist analysis that links today's struggles for equal rights to a future based on genuine liberation.-- Send... -
Passing the Time in Ballymenone by Henry Glassie
RRP: £27.99£25.14"This is an extraordinary book." -Progress in Human Geography". . . fresh and fascinating." -Come-All-Ye" . . . an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. . . . it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's breath of the people... -
Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses by Bridget Harris 9780367312930
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence. Of interest too is critique of government and non-government activities in this arena and how... -
Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History Martin Conboy 9781138299757
RRP: £32.99£29.16Taking a contextual and historical approach, Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice provides an accessible introduction to the various stages of journalism's adoption and exploitation of technology from print to digital.This foundational text... -
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India by Sarah Pinto 9781512823745
RRP: £20.99£18.37In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of... -
The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia: Intersectional, Feminist, and Non-Binary Approaches in 21st-Century Speculative Literature and Culture by Katarzyna Ostalska 9780367537067
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a... -
Cynicism and Postmodernity by Timothy Bewes
£20.27Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical... -
Gather Your Data Online: Little Quick Fix by Janet Salmons 9781526490292
RRP: £9.99£8.22Between the comfort of using a medium they use daily and the perceived easiness of access and use, students are increasingly quick to choose online methods for their research projects. However getting data online isn't as easy as it seems. No matter how... -
The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion Cameron Cartiere (Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Canada) 9781138829213
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. It follows the highly successful publication The... -
Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics Ihnji Jon 9780745341507
RRP: £22.99£17.94Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a... -
Funeral Arranging and End of Life Decisions: A Step by Step Guide by Sarah Chapman
RRP: £9.99£7.11Since the rise in deaths through Covid-19, there has been an increase in the need for personal, heartfelt ceremonies to celebrate the end of life. More and more people are questioning traditional ideas and realising that there are choices out there. ... -
Designing Research in Education: Concepts and Methodologies by Jon Swain 9781446294260
RRP: £38.99£31.87This is a clear introduction to the methodological and philosophical debates in the field of education research. It sets out the key ideas, questions, and dilemmas which inform all research and then, through the careful use of case studies and practical... -
Where were you?: A Profile of Modern Slavery by Matthew S. Friedman 9789814954433
£15.87My boots-on-the-ground work to fight human trafficking throughout Asia.There are more slaves in the world today than any other time in history.Enter the world of human trafficking and explore what we can do together to end this global crime. Where Were... -
Blood On the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner by Colin Evans
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425219379Author Colin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Conversations About Activism and Change: Independent Living Movement Ireland and Thirty Years of Disability Rights by Sarah Fitzgerald
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739608606Author Sarah FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MartelloPublisher MartelloDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 15mm -
Theory in Planning Research by Yvonne Rydin 9789813365674
RRP: £29.99£27.40Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes. While most texts on such research emphasise... -
The Creative Qualitative Researcher: Writing That Makes Readers Want to Read by Ronald J. Pelias
RRP: £28.99£25.09The Creative Qualitative Researcher is designed to help readers see the range of possibilities of creative scholarship. The phrase "creative qualitative researchers" points toward scholars who call upon their literary skills to evoke the emotional and... -
Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil by Theresa L. Miller
RRP: £23.99£22.61The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhao State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah), a biome threatened with deforestation and... -
Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global Ananya Roy (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 9781405192767
RRP: £19.99£17.69Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of... -
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell by Constance Classen
RRP: £49.99£43.50Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or... -
Social Research Methods: A Reader by Clive Seale 9780415300841
RRP: £68.99£60.52Bringing together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, this book gives students direct access to methodological debates and examples of practical research across the qualitative/quantitative divide. The...