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A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering by Iain Wilkinson 9780520287235
RRP: £25.00£19.59What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social... -
Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad by Nicole Constable 9780295984872
RRP: £27.99£24.14Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and... -
Migration and the Making of Ireland by Professor Bryan Fanning 9781910820254
RRP: £20.00£18.81Migration and the Making of Ireland richly explores accounts of migrant experiences across more than four centuries. The motivations that drove migration to Ireland and emigration from Ireland since the Plantation of Ulster are assessed. Political,... -
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method Judith Okely 9781845206031
RRP: £32.99£29.16Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with... -
Queer/Early/Modern by Carla A. Freccero
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in... -
In Search of Mina Wylie by Grace Barnes
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398437715Author Grace BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff, Warren Mitchell and Lionel Bart by Isabelle Seddon 9781912676354
RRP: £50.00£37.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676354Author Isabelle SeddonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction by Tyler VanderWeele
RRP: £115.00£111.35The book provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of methods for mediation and interaction. There has been considerable and rapid methodological development on mediation and moderation/interaction analysis within the causal-inference literature... -
City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary by Suzanne Hall
RRP: £37.99£33.38How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps... -
Black Holocaust for Beginners by S. E. Anderson 9781934389034
RRP: £12.99£11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389034Author S.E. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders Rachel Condry 9781843925019
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families, but few studies have looked specifically at those... -
Making Research Matter: Steps to Impact for Health and Care Researchers Tara Lamont (Wessex Institute, University of Southampton) 9781447361152
RRP: £19.99£15.76EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination in health and social care. ... -
The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Aries 9780394751566
RRP: £26.00£20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394751566Author Philippe AriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)... -
What is Historical Sociology? Richard Lachmann (University at Albany, SUNY) 9780745660097
RRP: £15.99£14.41Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful... -
The Revival of Death by Tony Walter
RRP: £47.99£41.81Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the... -
The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life by Eviatar Zerubavel
RRP: £30.00£29.25Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time or object or concept from another, and presents witty... -
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics by Marion Nestle
RRP: £25.00£19.59"A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it's never too late."-New York Times Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and a founder... -
Autoethnography as Feminist Method: Sensitising the feminist 'I' by Elizabeth Ettorre
RRP: £39.99£35.06Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the 'feminist I'. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of... -
The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction by Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
RRP: £26.99£23.25Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications... -
On Critical Race Theory by Victor Ray 9780593446461
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593446461Author Victor RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future Gert J. J. Biesta 9781594512346
RRP: £39.99£35.06Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen... -
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen
RRP: £32.00£24.76A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceansIn The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment... -
Religion and Belief Literacy: Reconnecting a Chain of Learning Adam Dinham (Goldsmiths, University of London) 9781447344650
RRP: £26.99£20.84This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. As understanding different religions, beliefs and influences becomes increasingly important, it fills a gap for a resource in... -
Nature is a Battlefield: Towards a Political Ecology Razmig Keucheyan 9781509503780
RRP: £16.99£15.22In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to 'overcome its divisions' and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is... -
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States by Edwidge Danticat
RRP: £22.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Anthology) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9781569472187Author Edwidge DanticatFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SohoCrime,USPublisher Soho... -
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities by Davarian L. Baldwin
RRP: £25.00£19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588926Author Davarian L. BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey by Wendy A. Vogt 9780520298552
RRP: £25.00£19.59Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants... -
Fashion Ethics by Sue Thomas
RRP: £36.99£32.53Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental... -
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University, USA) 9781350297661
RRP: £24.99£21.93Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. Ana Lucia Araujo... -
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer
RRP: £26.95£24.01The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a... -
Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room by Daniel Beunza 9780691204772
RRP: £22.00£17.36An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today's financial systemDebates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured-organizational... -
The Psychology of Criminal Investigation: From Theory to Practice by Andy Griffiths
RRP: £41.99£36.75The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ... -
Moral Panics by Professor Kenneth Thompson 9780415119771
RRP: £35.99£31.69It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies. This concise survey... -
History Of Islamic Philosophy Henry Corbin 9780415760089
RRP: £45.99£40.53First published in 1993. Published here for the first time in English, this highly important work by Henry Corbin, the Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian of religion, is a definitive interpretation of traditional Islamic philosophy from the... -
Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Svelch
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047753Author Jaroslav SvelchFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Age and Generation in Modern Britain by Jane Pilcher
£62.41Covering an increasingly important topic in sociology, this book is a thorough and lively introduction to the role and importance of age in contemporary British society. The first two chapters introduce the reader to thinking about age from a... -
Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men by Roy F. Baumeister 9780195374100
RRP: £28.99£22.88Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything... -
In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka by Sharika Thiranagama
RRP: £27.99£26.67In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-better known as the Tamil Tigers-officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities... -
Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial by Laura E. Perez
RRP: £22.99£20.41In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of... -
Physical Security: 150 Things You Should Know by Lawrence J. Fennelly 9780128094877
RRP: £58.99£52.68Physical Security: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition is a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career. This practical guide covers the latest technological trends for managing the physical security needs of buildings and...