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Probation: Working for Justice by David Ward 9781841741901
£83.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741901Author David WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 670g -
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory
RRP: £23.99£21.24Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term "fetishism" chiefly to assert the irrationality of... -
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain by Gillian Evans 9780230553033
RRP: £64.99£59.61Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values... -
How to Do Things with Videogames by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £14.99£14.16In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported... -
Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone by Ralph Richard Banks
RRP: £17.00£9.92A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That... -
Social Media Homicide Confessions: Stories of Killers and their Victims Elizabeth Yardley (Birmingham City University) 9781447328018
RRP: £27.99£21.57The relationship between crime and social media has become an increasingly important topic in a networked world. However, the use of social media in relation to violent crime is little understood. This unique book, by an expert in the field, addresses... -
Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative by Gill Jagger 9780415219754
RRP: £43.99£38.44Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. This key book provides a... -
Groupwork Practice for Social Workers by Karin Crawford
RRP: £34.99£28.71Working with families, carers, groups and communities is something all social work students must prepare for. Written to guide you through these varied and complex groupwork situations, this book explores the knowledge, skills and values required for... -
Psychologically Informed Environment Principles in Adult Residential Care by Iain Boag
RRP: £49.99£43.50As pressure grows on care managers and staff to work with ever more complex needs, this book is a timely account of how introducing the Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) principles into a care home will improve work practice and outcomes for... -
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI by Jessica R. Pliley 9780674368118
RRP: £35.95£35.76America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But,... -
Theorizing Documentary by Michael Renov 9780415903820
RRP: £42.99£37.59A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'Book InformationISBN 9780415903820Author Michael RenovFormat PaperbackPage... -
Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender by Lisa A. Keister
RRP: £36.99£33.65Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender offers a comprehensive introduction to the topics animating current sociological research focused on inequality. Contemporary, engaging, and research-oriented, it is the ideal text to help... -
Tortoise and the Hare, the by Janet Stevens
RRP: £8.99£5.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823405640Author Janet StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Holiday House IncPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture by Joan Gordon
RRP: £23.99£20.84The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to... -
Key Concepts in Family Studies by Jane Ribbens McCarthy 9781412920063
RRP: £35.99£29.51"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to... -
Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain by Falu Bakrania
RRP: £21.99£19.19Asian Underground music-a fusion of South Asian genres with western breakbeats created for the dance club scene by DJs and musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent-went mainstream in the U.K. in the late 1990s. Its success was... -
Land Reform: A World Survey by Russell King
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book lays down some general themes and principles in the study of land reform and traces the historical evolution of the concept of land reform. It constitutes a continent-based country-by-country survey of the significant recent reforms in the less... -
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim Tallbear
RRP: £23.99£20.84Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound... -
Let's Have Coffee: The Tao of Ian Holloway by Alex Murphy 9780954417796
RRP: £4.50£4.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954417796Author Alex MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 105mm * 148mm * 6mm -
Protest: A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements James M. Jasper ( City University of New York, USA) 9780745655178
RRP: £16.99£15.22Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do... -
Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology by Richard I. MacPhail
RRP: £40.99£36.06Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology provides the most up-to-date information on soil science and its applications in archaeology. Based on more than three decades of investigations and experiments, the volume demonstrates how description... -
Sightlines: Beyond the Beyond in Ireland by Eileen Kane 9781487544997
RRP: £19.99£17.54It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and save the Irish language by supporting small factories in the Gaeltacht, traditional Irish-speaking villages... -
Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman by Unni Wikan 9780226896830
RRP: £27.00£26.47Through photographs and detailed case histories, Unni Wikan explores the strict segregation of women, the wearing of the burqa mask, the elaborate nuptial rituals, and the graceful quality of Oman's social relations."Wikan does provide insights into the... -
Circles in Stone: A British Prehistoric Mystery by Stan Beckensall 9780752440156
RRP: £18.99£14.72Takes a view of what rock art entails, covering the history of rock art research and the discovery of many sites. This work illustrates the different symbols and motifs that are found throughout the British Isles, and shows where they occur in landscapes... -
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543962
RRP: £22.99£14.64Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more... -
Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle by Floya Anthias 9780415103886
RRP: £43.99£38.44This wide-ranging and accessible book examines race in relation to social divisions such as ethnicity, gender and class. It provides a major new approach to studying the boundaries of race, and will be of interest to students of sociology, ethnic studies... -
Here We Stand: Women Changing the World by Helena Earnshaw 9781909983021
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983021Author Helena EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 351g -
The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach by Gordon Lynch 9780198705215
£27.25It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms--whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise--continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group... -
The Culture of Queers by Richard Dyer 9780415223768
RRP: £36.99£32.53For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it... -
Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Gr by Jack David Zipes 9780553382167
RRP: £21.00£18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382167Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 754gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Qualitative Research and Theory Development: Mystery as Method by Mats Alvesson 9780857023247
RRP: £48.99£39.74Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that 'fits the data'. This revealing account of the... -
Power without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy by Jeffrey Friedman 9780190877170
RRP: £44.49£38.37Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people... -
Safeguarding Adults: Scamming and Mental Capacity by Lee-Ann Fenge 9781526424785
RRP: £39.99£32.66Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financial abuse. Drawing on evidence and contemporary examples from practice this book will help readers... -
Star Crossed Serpent Vol II: The Clan of Tubal Cain Today: The Legacy Continues: Shani Oates (1998 - by Shani Oates 9781906958381
RRP: £30.00£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958381Author Shani Shani OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 482g -
Nature, Culture and Gender by Carol MacCormack
RRP: £42.99£36.72Categories of analysis in the social sciences include the binary pair 'nature' and 'culture', as defined by western societies. Anthropologists have often imputed these categories to the world-views of non-western people and the construct has acquired the... -
A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence: Making Social and Environmental Injustice Visible Shannon O'Lear 9781035309009
RRP: £32.95£29.96Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely... -
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital by Alice Street
RRP: £22.99£20.01Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the... -
Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives (International Student Edition) W Richard Scott 9781138091542
RRP: £42.99£41.72This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one... -
Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language by Michael Silverstein
RRP: £28.99£26.22Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime... -
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith A. Carney
RRP: £26.95£21.41Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to...