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The New Urban Question Andy Merrifield (Visiting Research Associate) 9780745334837
RRP: $32.24$25.01The 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... -
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 9780143038580
RRP: $23.22$14.55Apologies 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... -
Myths and Legends of Japan by F.Hadland Davis 9780486270456
RRP: $27.08$18.24Apologies 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)... -
Integrating Social Work Theory and Practice: A Practical Skills Guide by Pam Green Lister
RRP: $46.43$40.88All 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... -
Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction Stephen C. Levinson 9781845203948
RRP: $49.01$43.58This 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... -
Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa Jean Comaroff 9781594517655
RRP: $47.72$41.96As 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... -
London's Urban Landscape: Another Way of Telling by Christopher Tilley 9781787355590
RRP: $38.70$34.93Apologies 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 -
Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy by Paul Garrett 9781473968974
RRP: $47.72$39.07'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 by Barbara Merrill
RRP: $63.20$51.26Using 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 by Laura Roselle
RRP: $46.43$40.88Research 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... -
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton
RRP: $27.09$18.73Apologies 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 by James Curran
RRP: $47.72$41.96Media 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... -
Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration by Matthew Carr
RRP: $16.76$15.42For 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... -
Storytelling in Radio and Podcasts: A Practical Guide by Sven Preger
RRP: $42.56$39.13This 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... -
Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt
RRP: $46.38$37.87Social 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... -
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World Jaclyn Friedman 9781580058797
RRP: $28.38$16.38From 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... -
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
RRP: $16.76$11.73Finalist 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... -
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures by Michel Foucault 9780231195072
RRP: $28.38$22.39Michel 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... -
Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles by Michael Quinn Patton 9781462541942
$50.36As 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... -
Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City by Graeme Gilloch 9780745620107
$23.34This 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: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean by Engseng Ho 9780520244542
RRP: $38.70$30.56"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 -... -
The Social Construction of Dementia: Confused Professionals? by Colin Palfrey
RRP: $51.60$49.54In 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... -
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 2 - The Dimensions of Disadvantage Glen Bramley 9781447334279
RRP: $46.43$36.27How 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... -
The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition by Michael Nordskog 9780816656820
RRP: $36.11$32.43As 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... -
Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics by Julie Holland
RRP: $23.21$13.34Apologies 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 *... -
New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age by Natalie Fenton 9781847875747
RRP: $58.04$47.20Have 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... -
Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention Alice Gerlach 9781032410814
RRP: $46.43$40.88This 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: Theory, Method, and Practice by Karen Lumsden
RRP: $51.59$45.23Reflexivity 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... -
Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula
RRP: $28.37$24.76Apologies 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 Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond by Mr David Bell 9780745616544
$20.87The 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... -
Letters to My White Male Friends by Dax-Devlon Ross
RRP: $24.50$14.37Apologies 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 *... -
The Senior Deacon's Work Today by Lewis Masonic 9780853183884
$11.52Apologies 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 -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393247879
RRP: $29.66$25.45In 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... -
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn by Karen McCarthy Brown 9780520268104
$34.25Vodou 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 Shira Tarrant, Ph.D. 9780415737845
RRP: $61.91$53.93Gender, 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... -
Telling Science Stories: Reporting, Crafting and Editing for Journalists and Scientists Martin W. Angler 9781138490598
RRP: $47.72$41.96A 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... -
Parenting the Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Parent-Blame Tracey Jensen 9781447325062
RRP: $36.11$27.83This 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... -
A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign by Martin Barker 9780878055944
RRP: $45.09$36.69Between 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... -
James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever by James South 9780812696073
RRP: $16.76$11.13"Bond. James Bond." Since Sean Connery first uttered that iconic phrase in Dr. No, more than one quarter of the world's population has seen a 007 film. Witty and urbane, Bond seduces and kills with equal ease often, it seems, with equal... -
Reconceptualising Work with 'Carers': New Directions for Policy and Practice by Kirsten Stalker
RRP: $32.24$30.68In the wake of the profound changes in policy and practice around caring over the past ten years, this volume takes a fresh look at the social and legal status of carers. Demonstrating the scope and diversity of 'caring', the contributors highlight the...