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Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans by Robert J. Wallis
RRP: £39.99£35.06In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft... -
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics by Laura Kurgan
RRP: £25.00£18.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130789Author Laura KurganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 186mm * 17mm -
The Nature of Space by Milton Santos
RRP: £22.99£20.01In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between... -
The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild 9780520214880
RRP: £30.00£23.29Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three "New York Times" Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family... -
Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology by Henrietta L. Moore
RRP: £62.95£54.84This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology... -
Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture Christina Buse 9781119499732
RRP: £19.99£17.69Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture. Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to... -
Hot House by Pete Earley
RRP: £7.99£6.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553560237Author Pete EarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives by Jane Catherine Ribbens 9780761956655
RRP: £52.00£42.30How can researchers produce work with relevance to theoretical and formal traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while still remaining faithful to the experiences and accounts of research participants based in private settings? Feminist... -
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Making Black Lives Matter by Andre Henry
RRP: £25.99£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239889Author Andre HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 144mm *... -
Contemporary Family Justice: Policy and Practice in Complex Child Protection Decisions by Kim Holt
RRP: £22.99£21.96Demonstrating how the law and statutory guidance applies in practice, this book is a critical account of current family justice policy and practice.It draws on recent legislation, case law and research findings to provide clear, accessible information... -
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkerley) 9781405123587
RRP: £34.95£31.23This title provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization - bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance - from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other... -
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity by Joshua Barker 9780824837419
RRP: £24.95£22.58We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of... -
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong
RRP: £21.99£19.80Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the first substantial account of elite Roman concubines and courtesans. Exploring the blurred line between proper matron and wicked prostitute, it illuminates the lives of sexually promiscuous women like... -
Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society by Andre Gorz 9780745621289
RRP: £15.99£15.61Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been reversing into the future.About the AuthorAndre Gorz is one of the leading social and political thinkers of our time, and is the author of many books, including Critique of Economic Reason,... -
Methods for Community Participation: A complete guide for practitioners by Somesh Kumar
RRP: £29.95£27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853395543Author Somesh KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
'Race Is Everything': Art and Human Difference by David Bindman
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Race Is Everything' looks at ideas of 'racial science' in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and how art was influenced by it. It looks at race in general, but with a particular concentration on attitudes towards and... -
Corporal Hitlers Pistol by Tom Keneally 9781760893224
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760893224Author Tom KeneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook, Second Edition by Jeremy Green 9780367605605
RRP: £37.99£33.78Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field. With new information about the use of computers and Global Positioning Systems, the second edition of this handbook shows how to... -
Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia: Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 Dr Svetlana Pankova 9781789696479
RRP: £80.00£67.68Masters of the Steppe: the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia consists of 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum in 2017 on the occasion of the BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of... -
Drugs and Crime: Theories and Practices by Richard Hammersley 9780745636184
£19.04Why are we so concerned about drugs and crime? Is the relationship between drug-taking and criminal behaviour as straightforward as it is sometimes made to appear? What should be done about the problem? This thought-provoking book argues that much... -
Wasted: How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future Georgia Gould 9780349139364
RRP: £12.99£8.60Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose after the Second World War are straining under the... -
Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video by Amy Mollett 9781412962223
RRP: £38.99£31.87This dynamic, engaging guide empowers you to go beyond bar charts and jargon-filled journal articles to bring your research online and present it in a way that highlights and maximises its relevance through social media. Drawing upon a wealth of... -
I Still Believe Anita Hill by Amy Richards
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618091Author Amy RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge) 9780745634784
RRP: £19.99£18.09The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing... -
Change and Continuity in Children's Services Roy Parker (Centre for Social Policy) 9781447322221
RRP: £95.99£73.60This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant... -
Regression Diagnostics: An Introduction by John Fox 9781544375229
RRP: £33.99£30.36Regression diagnostics are methods for determining whether a regression model that has been fit to data adequately represents the structure of the data. For example, if the model assumes a linear (straight-line) relationship between the response and an... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Supervision Kieran O'Donoghue 9781032009254
RRP: £39.99£35.06This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of social work supervision internationally and presents an analytical review of social work supervision theory, practice, and research. Presented in seven parts:International perspectivesSupervision... -
Going Public: A Survivor’s Journey from Grief to Action by Julie Macfarlane
RRP: £15.95£13.32If you say nothing, the system is working. It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud-the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence... -
This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite 9781250311481
RRP: £26.99£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250311481Author Ashton ApplewhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Celadon BooksPublisher Celadon BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm... -
Ecocinema Theory and Practice Stephen Rust 9780415899437
RRP: £46.99£42.47Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with... -
Aged by Culture by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
RRP: £24.00£23.03Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products, the wars between generations? What men and women of all ages have in... -
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
RRP: £18.99£16.72A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic... -
Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi 9780300164060
£23.45A bold analysis of the sources of the crisis in today's Islamic world, from a public intellectual and statesman at its heart Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has... -
Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship Wynne Walker Moskop 9781138303355
RRP: £35.99£31.69In this book, Wynne Walker Moskop addresses the practical and theoretical problem of how unequal political friendships evolve toward arrangements the parties consider reciprocal and just, a problem neglected by scholars of democracy who associate... -
Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada Patricia Hamilton (University College London) 9781529207941
RRP: £24.99£19.39Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises 'natural' activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills... -
The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Social Workers in Adult and Mental Health Services: Hitting the Ground Running by Joanne Parker
RRP: £22.99£21.96Formal education has finally ended, you've passed your exams and you're getting started as a newly qualified social worker (NQSW). As you make the transition from student to fully fledged practitioner, you'll soon discover a whole host of challenges as... -
Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was by Greg Glasgow 9781538173671
RRP: £25.00£21.79A fascinating look at Walt Disney's last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it.It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mountain. A vacation destination where guests could go skiing, ice skating, or unwind in one of several... -
The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry by David Harrison 9780853185413
£28.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853185413Author David HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 15Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Ian Allan Publishing -
Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Robert E. Kraut
RRP: £33.00£31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528917Author Robert E. KrautFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm -
The New Power Elite by Heather Gautney
RRP: £20.99£17.94Revisiting C. Wright Mills' classic, an analysis of power structures in the neoliberal era and America's drift toward authoritarianism. In 1956, radical icon C. Wright Mills wrote The Power Elite, a scathing critique of elite power in the United...