Social Science

The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the...

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplines is hard to assess and core scientific goals such as discovery, transparency, reproducibility, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003565Author Robin DiangeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

THE APPROACH "J. Scott Long's approach is one that I highly commend. There is a decided emphasis on the application and interpretation of the specific statistical techniques. Long works from the premise that the major difficulty with the analysis of...

Through a critical, transdisciplinary approach, Journalism and Crime offers a chronological interrogation of crime journalism from its first origins in 16th century print, to a transatlantic phenomenon in the 19th century and through to the complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226620626Author Deborah CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148949Author Kristiina KoskentolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007273Author Benjamin Van RooijFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A 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...

Whether the art form is theater, dance, music, festival, or the visual arts and galleries, the arts manager is the liaison between the artists and their audience. Bringing together the insights of educators and practitioners, this groundbreaker links the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345422958Author Carolyn G. HeilbrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by...

Social 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...

WINNER OF THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY PRIZE This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Based on a wide variety...

This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It...

Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three...

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities...

A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare-and why we must resist.War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting...

'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the...

Art Therapy and Social Action is an exciting exploration of how professionals can incorporate the techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address social problems. Examining the expanding role of art practitioner as social activist,...

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race,...

Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), Wayward...

On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this...

Within health and social care settings, high levels of sustained performance from individuals, teams, organisations and multi-agency collaborations are required. In order to achieve this, both management and leadership have to take a clear and defined...

Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people's identities and experiences in the UK. From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when 'not feeling trans...

The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665420Author Peter McGrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski's diaries, and the Human...

Wiltshire Fire Brigade was one of the 141 brigades formed on 1 April 1948 as a result of the Fire Services Act 1947. The various individual brigades were absorbed, with some villages losing their units and having fire cover provided by a nearby station...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085190Author Michael Hennessy PicardFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 12mm

Mixed feelings about motherhood - uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children - are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book,...

India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world's second-largest economy after China. While a democracy and an open society compared to...

Researching 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1978 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1976.Book InformationISBN 9780679721888Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage...

Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into...

One of Bustle's Best Books of MayA feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396700Author Ian CapewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present. Book...