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Factorial Survey Experiments by Katrin Auspurg 9781452274188
RRP: £33.99£30.36The factorial survey method is well established in the social sciences as a method of assessing respondents' beliefs about the world, judgment principles, or decision rules. Instead of single-item questions, respondents are confronted with... -
Recording in social work: Not just an administrative task Liz O'Rourke (Independent Training Consultant) 9781847427564
RRP: £23.99£18.66Recording is regarded by most social workers as a necessary evil. The research from which this book arises found that recording is a highly complex and demanding aspect of professional practice. Why has such a critical activity received so little... -
The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic by Faruk Sumer
RRP: £19.99£17.54One of the oldest surviving pieces of Turkish literature, The Book of Dede Korkut can be traced to tenth-century origins. Now considered the national epic of Turkey, it is the heritage of the ancient Oghuz Turks and was composed as they migrated westward... -
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson 9780415067850
RRP: £135.00£117.68Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and... -
Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology by Michael Jackson
RRP: £30.00£29.25Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and... -
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide by Mieke Bal 9780802084101
RRP: £35.00£31.14Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with... -
Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering by Josh Seim 9780520300231
RRP: £25.00£19.59What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field... -
Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya by Sarah Hillewaert
RRP: £31.00£27.36This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya's island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu's inhabitants... -
The Philosophy of Social Evolution by Jonathan Birch
RRP: £26.49£23.82From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. In the early 1960s Bill Hamilton changed the way we think about how such behaviour evolves. He introduced three key innovations - now known as... -
Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values, Debates by Gerry Johnstone
RRP: £53.99£43.87Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents... -
G.H. Mead: A Critical Introduction Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon) 9780745634586
RRP: £16.99£15.22G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of sociology's founding fathers, yet to date there have been surprisingly few books devoted to his life and work. This book fills the gap by introducing Mead's ideas to a younger generation of social scientists... -
Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy by Tobias Hagmann
RRP: £22.00£19.52Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa's Somali-inhabited economic space--which includes areas of Kenya,... -
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West by Aidan Moher
RRP: £14.99£11.53Take a journey through the history of Japanese role-playing games-from the creators who built it, the games that defined it, and the stories that transformed pop culture and continue to capture the imaginations of millions of fans to this day.The... -
Implementation Science 3.0 by Bianca Albers
RRP: £74.99£67.73This textbook presents a much-needed overview of the recent developments in implementation science - a discipline that is young, has gained increasing attention in recent years, and has experienced substantial and rapid growth in knowledgeproduction and... -
How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i by Patrick Vinton Kirch
RRP: £30.00£23.29In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly... -
Ethnicity, Inc. by John L. Comaroff
RRP: £24.00£23.03In "Ethnicity, Inc." anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they... -
Daily Motivations for African-American Success by Dennis Kimbro 9780449223253
RRP: £9.00£6.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449223253Author Dennis KimbroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm *... -
Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England Nicole Toulis 9781859731093
RRP: £35.99£31.69The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot... -
Postmodernism and Popular Culture by Angela McRobbie
RRP: £36.99£32.53Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a space for... -
Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community by Kathryn Linn Geurts
RRP: £30.00£23.29Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered... -
The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality by Benjamin Kahan
RRP: £26.00£24.85Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities-what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts"-has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the... -
Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research by Charlotte Brookfield
RRP: £35.99£29.60Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel. About the AuthorCharlotte Brookfield is a senior lecturer of social sciences... -
Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Budin
RRP: £33.99£30.00Gender in the Ancient Near East is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Levant, and incorporates current trends in gender theory... -
Cancer Factory,The: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers Jim Morris 9780807059142
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059142Author Jim MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern
£53.93Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book... -
Life-Writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical Perspectives by Clare Lewis 9781800084513
RRP: £35.00£31.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084513Author Clare LewisFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 810gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
RRP: £29.95£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307267146Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred... -
European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000 by Goran Therborn 9780803989351
RRP: £63.00£51.19In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Goeran Therborn... -
Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse: Victims and/or Perpetrators? by Catherine Donovan
£55.13This book is the first to focus on violent and/or 'abusive' behaviours in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, non-binary gender or genderqueer people's intimate relationships. It provides fresh empirical data from a comprehensive mixed-methods... -
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya; The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text by Allen J Christenson
RRP: £23.95£23.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806138398Author Allen J. ChristensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)... -
There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen
RRP: £24.99£22.07In There's a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls "Black gay habits of mind." In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from... -
A Practical Guide to Using Panel Data by Simonetta Longhi
RRP: £42.99£35.42This timely, thoughtful book provides a clear introduction to using panel data in research. It describes the different types of panel datasets commonly used for empirical analysis, and how to use them for cross sectional, panel, and event history... -
Virtual Identities and Digital Culture by Victoria Kannen
RRP: £32.99£29.16Virtual Identities and Digital Culture investigates how our online identities and cultures are embedded within the digital practices of our lives, exploring how we form community, how we play, and how we re-imagine traditional media in a digital world... -
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal by Hanna Garth
RRP: £20.99£18.49Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. Based on extensive... -
The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives by Mansour Nasasra
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider... -
Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project by Kristen Hopewell
RRP: £27.99£24.14The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have... -
Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions by Kate Rossiter
RRP: £39.99£35.06"This was several times with that damn cribbage board. I hate cribbage boards to this very day. They never beat us on the arms or legs or stuff, it was always on the bottom of the feet, I couldn't figure it out." Brian L., Huronia Regional Centre... -
Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art by Janine Randerson 9780262038270
RRP: £38.00£32.59An exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis. In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic... -
The Clinical Experience, Second edition (1997): The Construction and Reconstrucion of Medical Reality Paul Atkinson 9780815384717
RRP: £32.99£29.16This second edition, published in 1997 follows the original edition from 1981 which was the only published ethnography of medical education in the UK. The theoretical, methodological and substantive issues continue to be of importance to the sociology... -
Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference by Professor David Nelken
RRP: £31.99£26.36David Nelken is the 2013 laureate of the Association for Law and Society International Prize The increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by David Nelken, one of the top...