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Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria by Ruth Marshall
RRP: £28.00£27.39After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that 'Jesus is the answer'. But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement's dramatic rise and how can we... -
Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone by Rosalind Shaw 9780226751320
RRP: £30.00£29.25How is the slave trade remembered in West Africa? In a work that challenges recurring claims that Africans felt (and still feel) no sense of moral responsibility concerning the sale of slaves, Rosalind Shaw traces memories of the slave trade in... -
Essential Ethics for Social Work Practice by Professor Allan Edward Barsky 9780197585139
£53.52Essential Ethics for Social Work Practice is designed to empower social work students with the foundational knowledge, skills, critical thinking, affective self-awareness, and responsiveness that they will need to "Demonstrate Ethical and Professional... -
Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life by Alison Liebling
£35.39This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons. ... -
Audrey: The 60s by David Wills 9780062209016
RRP: £50.00£19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062209016Author David WillsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 2002g -
Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Modern Orthodoxy Haym Soloveitchik 9781906764388
£34.04The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as 'the... -
Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by Andre Brock, Jr.
RRP: £24.99£21.67Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet... -
The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies for Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
RRP: £19.99£13.79Apologies 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 -
Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination by Vincent W. Lloyd
RRP: £17.99£15.39Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy "A bold attempt to determine the conditions of-and the means for achieving-racial justice."-Kirkus Reviews This radical work by one of the... -
Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation Emma Bond (University campus Suffolk) 9781447360582
RRP: £24.99£19.39This much-needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult safeguarding - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive overview of policy and practice in supporting vulnerable adults online. Providing an essential analysis illustrated by recent court... -
The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood by Barbara Almond 9780520271203
RRP: £25.00£19.59Mixed 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,... -
Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person: A Support Guide by Jennie Kermode
RRP: £17.99£17.42Drawing on the experiences of older trans people and those transitioning later in life, this is a definitive guide to ageing as a trans and/or non-binary person. It covers the key health concerns and social issues affecting older trans people, including... -
Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham 9780231125734
RRP: £30.00£23.29Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions... -
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930 by Autumn Womack
RRP: £22.00£21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226806914Author Autumn WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
RRP: £36.99£32.53At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby... -
AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC by Antony Bateman
RRP: £34.99£31.25This full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through their WJEC AS in Media Studies. Individual chapters cover the following key areas: Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes Textual Analysis: Narrative and... -
Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul by Keith Gildart
RRP: £85.00£60.17In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s it was attracting thousands of enthusiasts across the country. This book is a social history... -
Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand by Hjorleifur Jonsson 9780801472848
RRP: £27.99£24.14Thailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with... -
Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research by Jackie Carter
RRP: £31.99£26.43Showcasing how you can use a work placement to develop your research and professional skills, this warm and personable book demonstrates how you can transfer and grow skills from your academic training to the workplace and maximise the benefits of... -
Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity by Rob Shields
RRP: £54.99£47.72The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative... -
Journalism in Context: Practice and Theory for the Digital Age by Angela Phillips
RRP: £36.99£32.53Journalism in Context is an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of journalism in a changing world. The book looks at the way in which power flows through media organisations influencing not only what journalists choose to present to their... -
The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier
£30.74With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise and the demise of the nuclear family, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier... -
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship by Aimee Meredith Cox
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves... -
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
RRP: £34.99£32.12- The first sustained scholarly study of black horror films, now updated to include the last decade.- Tells a unique social history of African Americans through changing representation in horror films.- Chronological, decade-by-decade survey of black... -
Toward a Global Idea of Race by Denise Ferreira da Silva
RRP: £22.99£20.41In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social... -
Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati
RRP: £39.99£35.06The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of... -
Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body by Jane Batkin
RRP: £36.99£33.84Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their unique sense of who they are and how they are formed. Jane... -
Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities: Improving Legal, Policy and Practical Responses by Aisha K. Gill
RRP: £34.99£31.79Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together... -
Sex and Social Media Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University, Estonia) 9781839094095
RRP: £17.99£13.22Sex on and with social media is often construed as deviant, risky, or something only teenagers do because they don't know better. Yet, academic scholarship has shown that sex on/with social media can allow people to create and playfully experiment with... -
Violence and Subjectivity by Veena Das
RRP: £29.00£22.94The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume,... -
Queer Social Work: Cases for LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice by Professor Tyler Arguello
RRP: £25.00£22.43This collection of case studies that model LGBTQ+ affirmative social work practice offers real-life scenarios from a range of social work scholars, educators, and practitioners, representing diverse sexualities, genders, and intersectional identities... -
Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution by Joan B. Landes
RRP: £24.99£21.67In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women... -
B/ordering Space Henk van Houtum 9780754637639
RRP: £130.00£112.11In the wake of globalization, numerous social scientists are turning to concepts of mobility, fluidity and hybridity to characterize a presumed de-territorialization and de-bordering of contemporary social and economic relations. This book brings... -
Reclaiming Food Security Michael S. Carolan 9780415816960
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities... -
Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships by Karen Bullock 9780415627955
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award since its inception in 1999, the book... -
Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: £10.99£9.60Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic... -
Archaeology of Identity by Margarita Diaz-Andreu
RRP: £36.99£32.53Bringing together a wealth of scholarship which provides a unique integrated approach to identity, The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: * gender* age*... -
Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines Andrea McDonnell (Andrea McDonnell is Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies in the Department of English, Emmanuel College) 9780745682198
RRP: £15.99£14.41Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture s celebrity mania. After a decade of... -
The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader by Jennifer R. Scanlon 9780814781326
RRP: £24.99£22.07What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? Jennifer Scanlon gathers a collection of readings and archival materials to explore the multiple and contradictory ways in which women and men consume. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in... -
Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora by Neha Vora
RRP: £21.99£19.19Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population...