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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris 9781982154394
RRP: £35.00£20.16Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The... -
Models of Social Intervention and Constructionism: Current Narratives Laura Karina Castro Saucedo (Autonomous University of Coahuila (UAdeC), Mexico) 9781774911891
RRP: £116.00£100.61Describes in detail the main principles of social constructionismDiscusses the "know how" of building social intervention models based on social constructionismShows the experiences and results of making of these models in real casesPresents a variety of... -
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas by Petrus Liu
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's... -
Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media by Maria Mellins
RRP: £34.99£33.26This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects. From a range of contributors, it touches on a wide... -
Organizing Color: Toward a Chromatics of the Social by Timon Beyes 9781503638617
RRP: £23.99£20.84We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years,... -
Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers and Healing by Brandon Weston
RRP: £17.99£15.97Bring ancient methods of healing and magic into the modern world with this impressive book on Ozark folk magic. Providing lore, herbs, magical alignments, verbal charms, and more, folk healer Brandon Weston sheds light on the region s secretive culture... -
Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: £29.00£22.94In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive,... -
Technology And Social Change In Rural Areas: A Festschrift For Eugene A. Wilkening Gene F Summers 9780367305123
RRP: £28.99£25.09The possibility of nuclear war, the failure of the Green Revolution, the capabilities of genetic engineering, and other actual and potential effects of technological innovations have created demands for a more humane application of technology. Addressing... -
Theories of Development, Third Edition: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives Richard Peet 9781462519576
£46.97This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics... -
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Noemie Ndiaye
RRP: £54.00£46.79Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new... -
Fractured Society: Causes Effects and Resolutions by Hugh Roberts
RRP: £9.95£7.08Scanning across recent decades, Fractured Society ... Causes, Effects and Resolutions looks at how human relations have been coming apart psychologically, a situation summarised by a failure to understand each other. Young people seem more stressed than... -
Forensic Botany: A Practical Guide by David W. Hall 9780470661239
RRP: £62.95£54.44FORENSIC BOTANY A PRACTICAL GUIDE Forensic Botany: A Practical Guide is an accessible introduction to the way in which botanical evidence is identified, collected and analysed in criminal cases. This form of evidence is becoming increasingly important in... -
Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future Kris Ostergaard 9781119583509
RRP: £18.99£16.87Expert guidance on how to grow innovation and optimize already-successful areas of established organizations Transforming Legacy Organizations provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new... -
The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, with a New Introduction by Hilary Charlesworth
RRP: £35.00£24.70In the first book-length treatment of the application of feminist theories of international law, Charlesworth and Chinkin argue that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has... -
First Farmers – The Origins of Agricultural Societies by P Bellwood
RRP: £37.95£33.36A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production... -
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation by Fadi A. Bardawil
RRP: £21.99£19.19The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of... -
Celtic Myth in the 21st Century: The Gods and their Stories in a Global Perspective by Emily Lyle 9781786832054
RRP: £45.00£36.75This wide-ranging book contains twelve chapters by scholars who explore aspects of the fascinating field of Celtic mythology - from myth and the medieval to comparative mythology, and the new cosmological approach. Examples of the innovative research... -
Remembering Absence: The Sense of Life in Island Greece by Nicolas Argenti 9780253040664
RRP: £27.99£24.14Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their... -
Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars Kristin Lieb 9781138064164
RRP: £36.99£32.53Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry combines interview data with music industry professionals with theoretical frameworks from sociology, mass communication, and marketing to explain and explore the gender differences female artists... -
On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation by Luc Boltanski
RRP: £17.99£16.04The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile... -
Prisons of Poverty by Loic Wacquant
RRP: £17.99£15.90In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law... -
Intersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and revolutionizing studies of crime by Hillary Potter
RRP: £37.99£33.38The use of intersectionality theory in the social sciences has proliferated in the past several years, putting forward the argument that the interconnected identities of individuals, and the way these identities are perceived and responded to by others,... -
The Fifth Kingdom by Rudyard Ulrich
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398482050Author Rudyard UlrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Narrative as Topic and Method in Social Research by Donileen R. Loseke
RRP: £33.99£31.95Narrative research is an increasingly popular qualitative method across the social sciences. This book has two purposes: firstly to show students and researchers how to do research on narrative topics, particularly on questions about narrative... -
Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques by Alistair Harkness
RRP: £39.99£35.06Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the... -
Same Sex Unions In Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell 9780679751649
£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751649Author John BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Reckonings: Essays by Lacy M Johnson
RRP: £19.99£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Changing Difference Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre) 9780745651095
RRP: £15.99£14.41Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD In the post-feminist age the fact that 'woman' finds herself deprived of her 'essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: 'woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in... -
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor
RRP: £25.99£22.49Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness,... -
The Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood: A wayward compass in Lakeland by Malcolm Craig 9781784918712
£47.85The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood travelled extensively,... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism Barbara Winslow 9781839761621
RRP: £16.99£14.10Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however,... -
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia by Shenila Khoja-Moolji 9780520298408
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the... -
Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society by David Howes 9780415697156
RRP: £41.99£36.75Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and... -
Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews by Timothy Archibald 9780976082231
RRP: £23.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Sexuality/Relationships) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780976082231Author Timothy ArchibaldFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint... -
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland 9781529046007
RRP: £14.99£13.53The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the... -
Designs upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages Professor Oliver Creighton 9781843838258
RRP: £24.99£21.30The phrase "designed landscape" is generally associated with the great parks and gardens of the post-medieval period, with grand country houses surrounded by parkland, such as Chatsworth and Longleat. However, recent research has made it clear... -
Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy by Professor Dick Hobbs 9780199288007
RRP: £24.99£24.65In recent years, the expansion of night-time leisure has emerged as a key indicator of post-industrial urban prosperity, attracting investment, creating employment and re-generating the built environment. These leisure economies are youth-dominated,... -
Cato's Letters, Volumes 1 & 2: Essays on Liberty, Civil & Religious & Other Important Subjects by John Trenchard 9780865971288
RRP: £29.95£26.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971288Author John TrenchardFormat HardbackPage Count 1064Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2085g -
Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race by Gavin Evans
RRP: £18.99£14.32Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask). MYTH: Early Europeans were white. REALITY: The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes. MYTH: Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution'... -
Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities & Practices by Mary Jane Kehily 9781412930659
RRP: £48.99£40.74'The series Youth: Perspectives and Practice provides a distinctive 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 wide...