Social Science

Sometimes called ""The Chivington Massacre"" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and ""The Battle of Sand Creek"" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation's most controversial...

"Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales...

Max Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinctive set of attitudes - including the pursuit of profit for its own sake - which he called 'the spirit of capitalism'. Today, when...

This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. Its main aim is to...

In turn creative thinker and street flaneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816634378Author Marc AugeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512348Author Anthony EsolenFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become...

The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably France's greatest living public intellectual. The essays span six decades of his career, addressing topics such as...

Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice systems around the world Stories are much more than a means of communication-stories help us shape our identities, make sense of the world, and mobilize others to action. In Narrative...

Covering the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most significant thinkers in sociology, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists concentrates on figures in the field writing principally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow...

The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the...

Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the UK's best-loved and largest charities. It is most widely known for its Macmillan nurses, who give care and support to people living with cancer and their families. But it does so much more, providing a wide range of...

In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first...

Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of these intersections in the future...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779342903Author James Graham-CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 479Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and...

Since 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...

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as...

In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567927368Author Kate CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint David R. Godine PublisherPublisher David R. Godine PublisherWeight(grams)...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval...

The Kyrenia Ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC, which sank off the north coast of Cyprus was excavated between 1968 and 1972 under the direction of Michael L. Katzev of the University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College. The importance of this...

Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North ...

Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines complex and global crime issues in light of the many alternative scientific, artistic, empathetic,...

We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our...

Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645037057Author Levi VonkFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm *...

First published in 1989. Mas'udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu'tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi'a dynasty of Iranian origin, had occupied Baghdad and taken...

A "deeply empathetic" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "must-read" (Marion Nestle) that "weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative" (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and...

Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes and is a unique country but it is known as "The Whitest Nation in South America". Why is this? What is the truth of the popular phrase of "There Are No Black People Here"? What is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739029Author Daniel P. GittermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Social work theory and practice is evolving, and, this edited collection explains both what the latest developments are and how to use them in practice.Exploring the challenges currently being faced within social work, it shows new ways social workers...

Over 50,000 copies sold of earlier editions! Powerful strategies and practical tools for white people committed to racial justice In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and...

Callinicos's new book is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism. In an attempt to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition, Callinicos argues that socialism in this tradition...

This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that...

Sex 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...