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The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research by Amy S. Wharton
RRP: £30.95£27.45Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to... -
The Complete Correspondence 1928 - 1940 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745632148
RRP: £19.99£18.09The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two... -
A Different Kind of War Story by Carolyn Nordstrom
RRP: £23.99£20.84A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives-mostly civilian-and completely destroyed homes, crops,... -
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present Laurajane Smith 9781138579293
RRP: £37.99£33.78Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements... -
Long-Term Care Reforms in OECD Countries Cristiano Gori 9781447305057
RRP: £79.99£61.26Since the early 1990s, long-term care policies have undergone significant transformations across OECD countries. In some countries these changes have responded to the introduction of major policy reforms while in others, significant transformations have... -
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia by Pascal Menoret
RRP: £20.99£18.37The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression. Graveyard of Clerics takes up two global phenomena intimately linked in Saudi Arabia: urban sprawl and religious... -
Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory by Lois McNay 9780745613499
RRP: £16.99£16.53This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative... -
Justice and Egalitarian Relations by Christian Schemmel
RRP: £77.00£70.39Why does equality matter, as a social and political value, and what does it require? Relational egalitarians argue that it does not require that people receive equal distributive shares of some good, but that they relate as equals. Christian Schemmel... -
Managing Turbulent Hearts: Balinese Formula for Living by Unni Wikan 9780226896809
RRP: £33.00£32.45How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what... -
Cinema Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9780745655680
RRP: £18.99£17.27For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that... -
An Anatomy of a Priory Church: The Archaeology, History and Conservation of St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny by George Nash 9781784911089
£55.67Based on documentary evidence, the Priory Church of St Marys in Abergavenny has been a place of worship since the late 11th century; archaeological evidence though suggests that the site has a much earlier period of use. Over the past 1000 years the... -
Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings... -
The Wolves are Coming Back: The Politics of Fear in Eastern Germany by Rebecca Pates
RRP: £25.00£17.62Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life. Styled by populist right-wing actors as an 'invasive species', the wolf evokes and resonates... -
Children and Families Paul Michael Garrett (Department of Political Science) 9781447316190
RRP: £11.99£9.42Recent years have witnessed a number of 'child protection' scandals where children, often from the poorest and most marginalised communities, have been on the receiving end of violence, abuse and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical... -
Connectedness: an incomplete encyclopedia of anthropocene (2nd edition): views, thoughts, considerations, insights, images, notes & remarks Marianne Krogh 9788794102308
RRP: £40.00£26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794102308Author Marianne KroghFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg PublishingWeight(grams) 920g -
Facial Recognition Mark Andrejevic 9781509547333
RRP: £14.99£13.58Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society - from airports to shopping... -
Transforming a Rape Culture by Emilie Buchwald 9781571312693
RRP: £13.99£9.26First published in 1993, Transforming a Rape Culture has provided a new understanding of sexual violence and its origins in this culture. This groundbreaking work seeks nothing less than fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes... -
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples by Song Yang 9781483325217
RRP: £76.00£67.24Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) by covering basic methodological tools along with illustrative examples from various fields. This innovative book takes a... -
Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era Luca Anceschi 9781032400280
RRP: £39.99£32.77This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan's foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. This book delves into the specific Eurasia-centric narratives through which the regime,... -
Social work and people with dementia: Partnerships, practice and persistence Mary Marshall (Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling) 9781861347022
RRP: £23.99£18.66Current community care policies and increasing numbers of older people needing assistance mean that all social workers must be up-to-date in their knowledge, skills and attitudes towards people with dementia and their carers. This book, written by... -
Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia Nigel Barley 9789814423465
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814423465Author Nigel BarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint monsoonPublisher Monsoon Books -
A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration by Jane Calvert 9780262546942
RRP: £38.00£26.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546942Author Jane CalvertFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Foundations of Sociology: Towards a Better Understanding of the Human World by Richard Jenkins
£43.04This book argues that the foundations of sociology - key concepts which are necessary to all sociology, from whatever perspective - have become taken-for-granted and require re-assessment. Focusing on society, culture, the individual, and collectivity,... -
Metaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the Cake? by Jonathan Charteris-Black 9783030287672
RRP: £24.99£20.11How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and... -
26 Years Behind Bars: The Recollections of a Prison Governor by Paul Laxton 9781788788472
RRP: £9.99£7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788788472Author Paul LaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi by Richard Lee 9781111828776
£112.46This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage... -
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace by Serene Jones
RRP: £21.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626945Author Serene JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Examining Japan's Lost Decades Yoichi Funabashi 9780415788854
RRP: £53.99£47.27This book examines five features of Japan's 'Lost Decades': the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan's earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting... -
The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics and Policy-Making Kristian Ulrichsen (Rice Univerity, USA) 9781138813656
RRP: £58.99£51.08Led by Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE has become deeply embedded in the contemporary system of international power, politics, and policy-making. Only an independent state since 1971, the seven emirates that constitute the UAE represent not only the most... -
Representing the Nation: Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States by Pamela Erskine-Loftus 9780367193089
RRP: £43.99£38.44The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of 'national museums', institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the... -
Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice Stephen D. Ashe (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138219342
RRP: £37.99£33.38Researching the Far Right brings together researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to provide much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise... -
The Sociology of Work by Keith Grint 9780745650456
RRP: £38.99£29.95This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work. The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations of classic theories... -
The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings by Andrew Carnegie 9780143039891
£10.62In the essay, Carnegie argues that the accumulation of wealth is beneficial to society and the government should take no action to impede it. He wrote, 'The man who dies rich dies disgraced', and practiced what he preached and spent his last years giving... -
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
RRP: £12.99£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226745Author Ruby HamadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World by Anne Fausto-Sterling
RRP: £37.99£33.38Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural... -
Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown
RRP: £38.99£34.36Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a... -
Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is... -
After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics by Kath Browne
RRP: £18.99£16.78The referendum to overturn Ireland's near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times. The campaign to repeal the 8th amendment succeeded not only in challenging centuries of religious and patriarchal... -
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship by Sarah Franklin
RRP: £23.99£20.84Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin... -
Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides Terri Givens (McGill University and Center for Higher Education) 9781447357254
RRP: £9.99£7.99Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country's founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, political developments in the 21st century have shown that...