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Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development by John G. Stehlin
RRP: $27.08$23.70A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United StatesNot long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities... -
Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious by Jonathan Hall
RRP: $38.70$25.65Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through... -
Contemporary Social Problems in the UK: A Comprehensive Overview by Selwyn Stanley
RRP: $46.43$40.88Social problems are endemic to all societies. The UK is no exception and is grappling with a plethora of issues including poverty, family breakdown, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, child abuse and neglect, youth offending, alcohol and drug misuse,... -
The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities in Europe and Civic Marginalisation by Julija Sardelic 9781526174635
RRP: $25.80$23.01This book presents a socio-legal enquiry into the civic marginalisation of Roma in Europe. Instead of looking only at Roma's position as migrants, an ethnic minority or a socio-economically disadvantage group, it considers them as European citizens,... -
Bristol 650: Essays on the Future of Bristol by Andrew Kelly 9781909446373
RRP: $25.80$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446373Author Andrew KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CICDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 16mm -
Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo by Stacey Hannem
RRP: $25.80$24.82Defining Sexual Misconduct investigates shifts in media coverage of sexual violence and details significant changes in public discourse about sexual harm. In 2015, the New York Times ran just a single headline with the term "sexual misconduct." Three... -
Vessels of Influence: China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by Nicole Rousmaniere
$37.50"Vessels of Influence", while examining in depth the role of Chinese ceramics in Japan, also delves into the meaning, motivation for, and rapid development of Japanese porcelain from many angles, including archaeology, heirloom and documentary evidence... -
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone by Tania Murray Li 9781478014959
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation... -
A Systems Theory of Religion by Niklas Luhmann
RRP: $28.37$24.76A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of Andre Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work... -
Guyana: History And Literature by Frank Birbalsingh 9781910553312
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553312Author Frank BirbalsinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 481g -
Making Doctors: An Institutional Apprenticeship Simon Sinclair 9781859739556
RRP: $46.43$40.88Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical... -
Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People by Jonathan Parker 9781473994584
RRP: $37.40$30.11Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students not only understand the powers and processes that lead to disadvantage and marginalisation but develop the... -
Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences David L. Weakliem 9781462525652
$72.11Examining the major approaches to hypothesis testing and model selection, this book blends statistical theory with recommendations for practice, illustrated with real-world social science examples. It systematically compares classical (frequentist) and... -
New Ethnicities And Urban Culture: Social Identity And Racism In The Lives Of Young People Les Back 9781857282528
RRP: $61.91$53.93Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South... -
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen
$39.64Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had... -
Marx On Religion by John Raines 9781566399401
RRP: $32.24$27.95Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." How can one reconcile such different... -
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators Lisa Underwood 9781560232858
RRP: $79.97$69.16Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and... -
Digital Geographies by James Ash
RRP: $55.46$45.69As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include:... -
Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd Janet Arnold 9781909662537
RRP: $92.87$82.11This book provides photographs of portraits, miniatures, tomb sculptures, engravings, woven textiles and embroideries of clothes found in the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth. It is an invaluable reference for students of the history of dress and embroidery,... -
Signature by Dr. Hunter Dukes
RRP: $12.89$9.89Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness-as if the scrawl itself is not... -
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by Stuart Y. McDougal
RRP: $20.63$16.46Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' brings together critically informed essays about one of the most powerful, important and controversial films ever made. Following an introduction that provides an overview of the film and its production history, a... -
An Introduction to Islamic Law by Joseph Schacht
$96.32An Introduction to Islamic Law presents a broad account of our present knowledge of the history and outlines of the system of Islamic law. It is not intended in the first place for specialists, although it is hoped that it will attract study to this... -
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade 9780822360407
RRP: $27.08$22.33Revised and Expanded EditionWait-what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms... -
Gender Archaeology by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen 9780745620152
RRP: $23.21$20.69This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages with... -
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Margaret T. Hodgen
RRP: $50.31$44.01Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational... -
The Practitioner Guide to Participatory Research with Groups and Communities Kaz Stuart (University of Cumbria (up to 9th Feb 2022)) 9781447362272
RRP: $21.92$17.52Avoiding both over-simplification and jargon-riddled complexity, this book is an invaluable, straightforward guide to participatory research for you and your fellow practitioners working with community groups and organisations. The book offers a route... -
Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights Judith Orr 9781447339113
RRP: $18.05$14.71In this hard-hitting timely book Judith Orr, leading pro-choice campaigner, argues that it's time women had the right to control their fertility without the practical, legal and ideological barriers they have faced for generations. Donald Trump's... -
Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital Miriam Harris (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) 9781138702981
RRP: $47.72$41.96Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, focuses on both experimental animation's deep roots in the twentieth century, and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape.Each chapter incorporates a variety of theoretical... -
Decadence of Industrial Democracies by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: $21.92$19.63Translated by DANIEL ROSS Bernard Stiegler is one of the most original philosophers writing today about new technologies and their implications for social, political and personal life. Drawing on sources ranging from Plato and Marx to Freud, Heidegger... -
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy by Sharon Zukin 9780197621608
RRP: $27.72$25.16An in-depth look at how New York adopted "innovation" and became a destination for startups and large tech companies. In recent years, the language of "innovation" has spurred visions of urban economic revival led by digital technology. Investors,... -
Relocating Postcolonialism by David Theo Goldberg 9780631208051
RRP: $54.12$47.90Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry.About the Author David Theo... -
Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius by Leora Hadas
RRP: $50.30$44.14This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. mainstream media, including franchise film, network television, and triple-A video games. The research takes a... -
Ayahuasca Visions by Luis Eduardo Luna
RRP: $46.44$34.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433115Author Pablo AmaringoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The SAGE Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work by Brian J. Taylor 9781529790191
RRP: $174.15$142.22The Sage Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field. With 49 chapters and four section summaries, this... -
Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences by Andrew Abbott 9780393978148
$30.86Abbott helps social science students discover what questions to ask. This exciting book is not about habits and the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by... -
Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving
RRP: $34.19$28.50The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds,... -
Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment by Yarimar Bonilla
RRP: $30.96$29.71As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions-or even paradoxes-in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles... -
How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics by Professor Ted Schrecker 9781137463098
RRP: $128.99$72.19Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure... -
Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction by Mark Knapp 9781133311591
$65.35NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN HUMAN INTERACTION is the most comprehensive and readable compendium of research and theory on nonverbal communication available today. Written by a communication scholar and two social psychologists, the book offers an... -
Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology by Dr Vandana Shiva
RRP: $19.29$12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170622Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...