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The Quality of Qualitative Research Clive Seale 9780761955986
RRP: $79.98$79.43This textbook is designed to help students and practicing researchers to improve the quality of their research. Practical examples and exercises demonstrate how to evaluate qualitative research, how to plan and collect good quality data, how to do... -
The Robert Bellah Reader by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: $36.11$31.66Perhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four decades, he has examined the role of religion in modern and... -
Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide by Philip Jenkins
RRP: $59.33$51.77In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular culture. There is no doubt, however, that popular fears and stereotypes... -
Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China by Diana Fu 9781108430418
RRP: $29.66$25.23When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and... -
Population-Based Survey Experiments by Diana C. Mutz
RRP: $36.12$28.12Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent... -
Fortress Britain?: Ethical Approaches to Immigration Policy for a Post-Brexit Britain by Ben Ryan
RRP: $32.24$24.12Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked. Produced by Theos, a leading Christian think tank, this collection of short essays explores the ethical issues surrounding immigration... -
Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture by Derek Sandhaus 9781640120976
RRP: $36.11$26.512020 Gourmand Award in Spirits China is one of the world's leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China's most famous... -
Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society and Politics by Virginia Held
RRP: $36.12$35.33How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of... -
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies by Brendan Hokowhitu 9780367642891
RRP: $58.04$51.96The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular... -
Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith
RRP: $42.56$39.41How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in... -
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibiting the Field by Francisco Martinez 9781800081093
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081093Author Francisco MartinezFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 310g -
Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory: Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects by Ian Gilligan 9781108455190
RRP: $38.69$33.98Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory, Ian Gilligan offers the first complete account of the development of clothing... -
Introduction to Game Analysis Clara Fernandez-Vara (New York University, USA) 9780815351849
RRP: $55.46$48.49This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game studies grows, videogame writing is evolving from the mere evaluation of gameplay, graphics, sound, and... -
Ancient Egypt: A Social History by B. G. Trigger
RRP: $45.14$39.33The rich and extensive floodplain of the River Nile can claim to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity. Ancient Egypt: A Social History, first published in 1983, presents an innovative perspective on the... -
Rural Crime and Community Safety Vania Ceccato (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) 9781138065918
RRP: $64.49$56.63Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of... -
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by Michael Dylan Foster
RRP: $38.70$30.04Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias,... -
The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory Jean Guilaine (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France) 9781405112604
RRP: $48.96$43.03Stretching across continents and centuries, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory provides a fascinating examination of executions, torture, ritual sacrifices, and other acts of violence committed in the prehistoric world. Written as an accessible... -
Sport and Violence Lynn M Jamieson 9780750684057
RRP: $69.65$60.46Sport and Violence takes a critical look at the culture of 'sports rage' and aggression in the sporting industry, covering ethical, historical and sociological causes and impacts. It examines international examples of sport violence, including: the... -
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line by Jose Itzigsohn
RRP: $30.95$26.88The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American... -
Effective SEO and Content Marketing: The Ultimate Guide for Maximizing Free Web Traffic Nicholas Papagiannis 9781119628859
RRP: $45.14$29.45Get beyond the basics and see how modern-day users are reimaging the SEO process SEO is often underutilized and overlooked across the marketing realm today. SEO is not merely trying to improve your website ranking on Google, but it can spark and optimize... -
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity by Faisal Devji
RRP: $20.63$18.67The militant Islam represented by Al-Qaeda is often described as a global movement. Apart from the geographical range of its operations and support, little else is held to define it as 'global'.Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al-Qaeda... -
The Taxi-dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life by Paul Goalby Cressey
RRP: $42.57$41.34First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey's fascinating study of Chicago's urban nightlife-as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city's notoriously seedy "taxi-dance" halls... -
Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies by Michael Silk 9780367871246
RRP: $59.33$51.77Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the... -
Why Travel?: Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives Terry Hill 9781529216370
RRP: $33.53$25.94Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in... -
Stratification and Differentiation by Mark Kirby
RRP: $50.30$28.19This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both classical and new... -
How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants by Kirsten Forkert
RRP: $19.34$14.34The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "European refugee crisis", and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries... -
The New Social Work Practice: Exercises and Activities for Training and Developing Social Workers by Mark Doel
RRP: $47.72$41.96First published in 1998, this book is a fully revised and updated edition of Social Work Practice, first published in 1993 as a training manual.The New Social Work Practice presents a comprehensive view of contemporary social work. Whether it be general... -
The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination Carlo Severi 9780990505051
RRP: $34.19$32.65Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi's The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. Setting himself against a... -
Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care: A Model for Integrated Therapeutic Care by Jeanette Caw
RRP: $39.98$38.73How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements? Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care describes a unique model of supporting children in care which involves foster carers and professionals... -
Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife by Tonia Sutherland 9780520383876
RRP: $30.96$24.29The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age-and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the... -
Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media by Andrew McStay 9781473971110
RRP: $49.01$40.09What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy... -
Understanding Poverty by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee 9780195305203
RRP: $61.26$42.16Understanding 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... -
The Great Questions of Tomorrow by David J. Rothkopf 9781471156137
RRP: $11.60$7.51Government, war, the economy, human identity, philosophy and the way we work. All of these, among others, are soon to be transformed. As technological advancements usher in a time where each and every human being on the planet will be connected by more... -
For Ethnography by Paul Anthony Atkinson
RRP: $55.46$45.34"This text is something of a masterclass in its own right. Few are as well placed to comment on the debates surrounding ethnography - debates which the author had been instrumental in shaping - and to offer a clear and authoritative call-to-arms to... -
Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health by Christine Lynn Norton
RRP: $56.75$49.59Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a unique composite of the literature on various innovative interventions for children and adolescents, and provides a developmental and neurobiological rationale for utilizing innovative... -
The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies by Eve Darian-Smith 9780520293038
RRP: $38.70$30.04The ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one's work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for... -
The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland by Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt
$107.06The 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... -
Kardashian Kulture: How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century Ellis Cashmore (Aston University, UK) 9781787437074
RRP: $20.63$15.34Kardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we... -
Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Update Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic for a New Era by Eliza M. Smith
RRP: $14.18$9.35One 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... -
The Sustainability Handbook for Design & Technology Teachers by Ian Capewell 9781853396700
RRP: $16.71$15.17Apologies 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)...