Social Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954560706Author Ronald ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Jill Dando Institute Of Crime SciencePublisher Jill Dando Institute Of Crime...

Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black...

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention. The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years...

Working with Qualitative Data provides a practical and accessible introduction to how to develop and apply strategies for the analysis of qualitative data by exploring the ways in which analysis is related to all aspects of research. By situating...

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247328Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789874716Author J D BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as:How and why is...

Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital ingredient in shaping our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions, as they circulate through the media, can also be divisive and exclusionary. ...

A pioneer of childhood studies, Liebel uses a broad array of international case studies to examine the repercussions of colonial conquest on children's lives and childhood policies today. Looking at how children in the Global South are affected by...

Stuart Hall's Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall's intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book-which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death-as an evocation of friendship understood as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613739358Author Jim ElledgeFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525541943Author Eve RodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 207mm *...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media...

This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. The contributors bring together many current trends of thought-Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction,...

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the...

Society on the Line presents a new way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). It offers a clear overview of information in the digital age, and explains how social...

"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out...

Tools for People with Disabilities from a Person with a Disability"Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride is fun, practical, and no-nonsense."-Stephanie Thomas, TEDx Speaker and founder, stylist, and editor-in-chief of the disability fashion lifestyle...

The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life. Assembles key...

Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking "How do we do queer theory?" Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all...

Racism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality. The main argument of the book is that color-blind racism, a new racial ideology that emerged in the post-Civil Rights era, has emerged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578771052Author K a OppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Jackanapes PressPublisher Jackanapes PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Presumed intimacy refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of presumed intimacy , where audiences form strong identifications...

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityLove, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces shape how parents raise their children. In countries with increasing economic inequality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408499Author Paul B. PreciadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over 3 percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city,...

In a time of intensified global white supremacist and patriarchal violence, anti-racist feminist movements and analyses have never been more vital. Women of colour are at the forefront of these struggles worldwide - but are white feminists really by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339147Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in...

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James...

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this...

Chatbots are sure to have a significant impact on the way we read, write and think. For better or worse, they are being used to find information, influence public opinion, diagnose illness and shape political discussion online. How did we get to this...

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among living non-human primates, to a uniquely human pattern of...

Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis of feminism in England examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change over tow centuries. Professor Caine investigates the complex question surrounding the concept...

In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction's implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of...

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of...

Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to primate studies in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787356016Author Rodney HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g