Social Science

'Offender management' for probation means continuing commitment to constructive work with individuals who break the law but in a changing multi-agency context. Providing a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice work, this book negotiates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782817260Author Pat MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of James Beard Cookbook Award - Writings on Food.Book InformationISBN 9780143038580Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270456Author F. Hadland DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

All social work students study theory and undertake practice placements. Integrating the two - so that each informs the other - is both essential and notoriously tricky. This accessible book demystifies the process and offers helpful evidence-based...

This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the...

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355590Author Professor Christopher TilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 860g

'Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies' - Niels Rosendal Jensen 'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal 'An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform.....

Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance as well as...

Research and Writing in International Relations, Third Edition, offers the step-by-step guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679749776Author Mary Beth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society.*How much power do the media have?*Who really controls the media?*What is the relationship between media and power in society?In this major new book, James...

For nearly thirty years the Berlin Wall symbolised a divided Europe. In the euphoric aftermath of the Cold War, the advent of a new 'borderless' world was hailed, one in which such barriers would become obsolete. Today these utopian predictions have yet...

This textbook offers a practical guide to creating narratives in audio media. It is one of the most beautiful and complex tasks in radio and podcasting: how do you tell a compelling story and keep your listeners tuned in? In Storytelling in Radio and...

Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire...

From two leading, agenda-setting feminist editors, Believe Me brings readers into the current landscape of the anti-sexual violence movement--and outlines how believing women is the critical foundation for future progress. Essays include Jessica Valenti...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A Slate Best Book of 2011 A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't...

Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality-the first volume of which was published in 1976-exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he...

As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues. This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework...

This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.About the AuthorGraeme Gilloch is Senior...

"The Graves of Tarim" narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges - in kinship and writing -...

In this study the social construction of dementia is examined closely for the first time. Nancy Harding and Colin Palfrey show how Western society sees dementia as a disease, rather than a natural part of the ageing process. They take issue with the...

How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different...

As many in the north country can attest, one of life's great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwing cool water on oven-hot stones to create a blast of steam (called loeyly), followed by a jump in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062862891Author Julie HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Have new communications technologies revitalised the public sphere, or become the commercial tool for an increasingly un-public, undemocratic news media? Are changing journalistic practices damaging the nature of news, or are new media allowing...

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women who have been in immigration detention centres, Dignity, Women, and Immigration...

Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects. By being reflexive we acknowledge that we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816613847Author Malek AlloulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie critically explore the notion of sexual citizenship as a way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276834Author Dax-Devlon RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 185mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853183884Author Lewis MasonicFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic

In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy...

Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen...

Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century includes twenty-seven chapters organized into five sections: Gender, Sexuality and Social Control; Pornography; Sex and Social Media; Dating, Desire, and the Politics of...

A practical manual for anyone who wants to turn scientific facts into gripping science stories, this book provides an overview of story elements and structure, guidance on where to locate them in scientific papers and a step-by-step guide to applying...

This book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.About the AuthorTracey...

Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about ""American-style"" or ""horror"" comics. The British press cried out in alarm: ""Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children,"" ""Drive Out the Horror Comics."" As one frenzied...