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Prison Readings Yvonne Jewkes 9781843921486
RRP: £45.99£40.53Prison Readings provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment, bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject, along with a comprehensive introduction and... -
Cities: The First 6,000 Years by Monica L. Smith 9781471163654
RRP: £20.00£12.86A FASCINATING INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORY OF CITIES: WHY DID THEY OCCUR, HOW HAVE THEY EVOLVED, WHY DO SO MANY OF US CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THEM AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT US? 'Monica Smith is the person best qualified to write a book about the big problems... -
Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd
RRP: £23.99£20.84Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of... -
We Travelled: Essays and Poems by David Hare 9780571369515
RRP: £14.99£14.72'David Hare's great quality has always been his refusal to accept the division between fact and imagination. His creative invention is fired by public realities and in turn he makes those realities feel deeply personal. That same quality is wonderfully... -
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s by Kathleen M. Blee
RRP: £25.00£19.59Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offers a misleading picture. In "Women of the Klan", sociologist Kathleen M. Blee dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism,... -
Technology's Child: Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up by Katie Davis
RRP: £27.00£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046961Author Katie DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Surveillance After Snowden by David Lyon
£17.13In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of 'security'. In this compelling account,... -
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach by Thad Dunning
RRP: £34.99£30.49This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference,... -
Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing: How to Survive in the Digital Age Mary Hogarth 9781138205772
RRP: £36.99£32.53Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing explores tactics for creating financially sustainable publications in the 21st century. Mary Hogarth, media specialist, Senior Fellow (HEA) and lecturer in Journalism at Bournemouth University, analyses the... -
Fulfilling the Potential of Your Doctoral Experience by Pam Denicolo 9781473974791
RRP: £36.99£30.29Do you want to thrive in your doctoral research? Do you want to do more than just survive? If so this is the book for you. Focused on empowering the doctoral researcher, it is packed with advice on how to make the best of opportunities and enjoy your... -
Intimations of Postmodernity by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: £47.99£41.81This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.Book InformationISBN 9780415067508Author Zygmunt BaumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis... -
The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness Susan Greenwood 9781845200954
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice... -
Comparative Criminal Justice Francis Pakes 9781138039353
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice. It examines and reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the criminal justice process, from policing, to systems of trial, to... -
Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair by Christopher Oldstone-Moore
RRP: £26.00£25.25Beards-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... -
Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice by Eileen Gambrill 9780190463359
RRP: £48.99£22.85In Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice, Eileen Gambrill provides a focused overview of the implementation of evidence-based practices necessary for competent and ethical practice. This authoritative book introduces readers to the... -
Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary by Martin Duberman
RRP: £21.99£14.83From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and... -
Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums by Alice Stevenson 9781787351417
RRP: £22.99£20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351417Author Alice StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 640g -
Rita Moreno by Rita Moreno
RRP: £16.99£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416391Author Rita MorenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CelebraPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Donors: Curious Connections in Donor Conception by Petra Nordqvist
RRP: £25.99£21.69What is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men and women's own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these connections mean to... -
Understanding National Identity by David McCrone
RRP: £24.99£19.99We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great... -
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up by Philip N. Howard
RRP: £18.99£16.18A foremost digital expert looks at the most powerful political tool ever created-the internet of things. Will it be like the internet of surveillance and censorship we have now, or will it be something better? Should we fear or welcome the internet's... -
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment by Michael Fiddler 9781479842438
RRP: £27.99£24.14The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often... -
Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman 9780062428301
RRP: £20.00£14.43Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove Knausgaard; and David Foster Wallace; in this unique... -
Burmese Supernaturalism Melford E. Spiro 9781560008828
RRP: £43.99£38.44Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the... -
Redefining the Poverty Debate: Why a War on Markets is No Substitute for a War on Poverty by Kristian Niemietz 9780255366526
RRP: £12.50£11.55The political debate about poverty is entirely dominated by groups calling for more income transfers to the poor. However, now that the scope of our welfare state has reached - or even surpassed - Scandinavian levels, surely this approach has run its... -
Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside Out by Gavin Lucas
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology - but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.Rather than... -
Timeline. The Archaeology of the South Wales Gas Pipeline: Excavations between Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire and Tirley, Gloucestershire by Timothy Darvill
RRP: £20.00£18.74The construction of a natural gas pipeline across southern Wales and into Herefordshire and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2007 resulted in numerous archaeological discoveries, including sites of national significance. The project not only produced a... -
Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism Rosemary Hennessy 9781138283626
RRP: £36.99£32.53Profit and Pleasure, Second Edition is a classic intervention into the relationship between capitalism and sexual identity. Rosemary Hennessy boldly reorients queer theory toward an up-close analysis of the structures of consumption, labor, and... -
Introductory Statistics Using SPSS by Herschel E. Knapp 9781506341002
RRP: £103.00£90.64Each chapter is structured to answer questions that students most want answered: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Using examples,... -
Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches Momin Rahman (Trent University, Canada) 9780745633770
RRP: £17.99£16.04This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and... -
Change the World 9 to 5: 50 Ways to Change the World at Work by Steve Henry 9781904977483
RRP: £9.95£6.78"Change the World 9 to 5" is the latest book from the team that brought you the best selling "Change the World for a Fiver". "Change the World 9 to 5" features 50 simple, practical things which we can all do during the... -
The Sociology of Sports Coaching by Robyn L. Jones
RRP: £45.99£40.13Sports coaching is a social activity. At its heart lies a complex interaction between coach and athlete played out within the context of sport, itself a socio-culturally defined set of practices. In this ground-breaking book, leading international... -
The Precinct of Mut at South Karnak: An Archaeological Guide by Richard A Fazzini 9789774169731
RRP: £19.99£16.42Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was as the daughter of the sun god, much akin to Hathor. Like Nekhbet and Wadjet and the other lioness... -
In Search of the Global Labor Market by Ursula Mense-Petermann 9781642599251
RRP: £29.99£19.87This volume addresses pertinent questions related to cross-border labor migration and puts forward a "labor market" perspective that goes beyond the national frame of reference prevailing in most of the extant labor market scholarship. In four sections,... -
From Pariahs to Partners: How parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system by David Tobis 9780195099881
RRP: £39.49£32.34At the end of the 20th century, New York City had one of the worst child welfare systems in the United States. Often families' difficulties festered without help from the city until the situation exploded in the mid-90s. The city's response was to place... -
Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey by Leyla Jagiella
RRP: £20.00£17.84A courageously personal exploration of gender identity across Muslim cultures, from the West to South Asia. From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that she would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate these... -
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East by Henri Frankfort
RRP: £23.00£22.13The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the... -
Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization by Professor Ralph Schroeder 9781787351233
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351233Author Professor Ralph SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 300g -
Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter by Laurie Essig 9780520300491
RRP: £23.00£18.10The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood-meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need? Author Laurie Essig... -
Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia: 2018 by Ann-Charlotte Nedlund
RRP: £35.00£31.73Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia prioritises the ordinary lives of people with dementia, and thereby broadens the agenda towards everyday citizenship. The contributors bring to the fore the idea that a person living with dementia has...