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White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World by Akilah Cadet 9780306831034
RRP: $32.25$22.11This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to be valued, seen, heard and perhaps some advice on how to navigate life amongst white supremacy... -
So Close Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745644363
RRP: $19.34$17.52In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at... -
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin by Damani J. Partridge
RRP: $38.70$30.04In this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions... -
The Edge of Organization: Chaos and Complexity Theories of Formal Social Systems by Russ Marion 9780761912668
RRP: $132.87$116.11What Newton's Principia was to his natural science colleagues, Russ Marion's The Edge of Organization is to today's social scientists. This book clearly elucidates the arrival of the social sciences at the end of the alley of modernism but then presents... -
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
RRP: $18.05$13.36How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means... -
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
RRP: $18.05$12.23"A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age... -
The Monochrome Society by Amitai Etzioni 9780691114576
RRP: $45.15$35.78Amitai Etzioni is one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our day, a man synonymous with the ideas of communitarianism. In this book, Etzioni challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the... -
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires by Juan Manuel del Nido
RRP: $28.37$24.76Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina's president himself. Economist and anthropologist Juan M... -
Play and the Human Condition by Thomas S. Henricks
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and... -
Positive Psychology for Healthcare Professionals: A Toolkit for Improving Wellbeing Jan Macfarlane (University of Bolton, UK) 9781804559574
RRP: $58.05$48.54There has been an abundance of research carried out relating to the use of positive psychology, but a focus on staff working in care settings has been lacking. Positive Psychology for Healthcare Professionals presents applied positive psychology... -
Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World by T. E. McNeill
RRP: $174.15$151.81The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the story of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. A lord's power and prestige was displayed in the majesty and uniqueness of his castle. The remains of several... -
Mixed Race in Asia: Past, Present and Future by Zarine L. Rocha
RRP: $54.17$47.41Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its particular salience for Asian societies. Mixed Race in Asia seeks to reorient the field to focus on... -
Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work: Reframing Philosophy for Professional Practice by Tom Grimwood 9780367642358
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and practice in a complex and challenging world. Today, the social world is marked by deep-rooted complexities,... -
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy by Lin Zhang
RRP: $32.25$25.27From start-up founders in the Chinese equivalent of Silicon Valley to rural villages experiencing an e-commerce boom to middle-class women reselling luxury goods, the rise of internet-based entrepreneurship has affected every part of China. For many,... -
Corporate Social Responsibility?: Human Rights in the New Global Economy by Charlotte Walker
RRP: $33.54$32.06With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and... -
Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany by Ruth Mandel
RRP: $32.24$28.47In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany's relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany's... -
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary Leupp
RRP: $37.41$29.08Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or... -
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa 9780198861546
RRP: $125.13$113.30Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a... -
Anthropological Controversies: The 'Crimes' and Misdemeanours that Shaped a Discipline by Gavin Weston
RRP: $46.43$40.88This 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... -
Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships Pitirim Sorokin 9780878557875
RRP: $61.91$55.22This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before... -
A Brief Guide to Islam: History, Faith and Politics: The Complete Introduction Paul Grieve 9781845292744
RRP: $14.18$9.55Exploring the beliefs, history and politics of the ordinary people of Muslim countries, Grieve cuts through the complexities as he examines all aspects of Islam. He also addresses the big issues: can Islam support true democracy? Is true democracy what... -
Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment Yvonne Jewkes 9781843922919
RRP: $59.33$52.28Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it... -
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch
RRP: $32.24$27.95When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and... -
Configurations of Culture Growth by A. L. Kroeber
RRP: $90.30$71.34"This handsome volume, one of a group commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of California, caps the prolific and extraordinarily varied publications of the most distinguished of living American anthropologists...In this book... -
The Economic Case for Lgbt Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All by M V Lee Badgett
RRP: $21.92$15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002926Author M.V. Lee BadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran by Issa J. Boullata
RRP: $69.65$60.46This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one historical period... -
Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres
RRP: $21.92$16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350934Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Data Visualization Sketchbook by Stephanie Evergreen
RRP: $43.85$39.16Bestselling author Stephanie D.H. Evergreen shows how sketching helps realize mistakes and find solutions quickly and provides space to think through, not just an individual graphic, but how several graphics could fit together in a composition, creating... -
Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing by Jeff Hearn 9781526427731
RRP: $46.43$38.18Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which 'age' is at 'work' across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces. The book... -
Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services Rich Moth (Royal Holloway University of London) 9781447349891
RRP: $36.11$27.83In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change. Based on extended fieldwork in community mental health services, he explores the many impacts of policy reform, marketisation and austerity on NHS mental... -
Argonauts of the Western Pacific Bronislaw Malinowski 9781138132719
RRP: $129.00$113.02Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never... -
Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain: Private Lives, Community Crimes and Public Policy Perspectives by Christina Julios
RRP: $50.30$44.14This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'-based violence within the country's South Asian and Muslim Diasporas, the book traces the development of... -
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity Alison Stone 9781138788183
RRP: $59.33$51.77In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal... -
Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai Katheryn M. Linduff 9781138315365
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th-3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China,... -
Society Under Siege by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745629858
$24.56Society is under siege - under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts,... -
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers by David Scott FitzGerald
$41.38Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or ambivalent about granting asylum. They fear that asylum-seekers... -
Digital Ethics: Media, Communication and Society Volume Five Christian Fuchs 9781032246161
RRP: $45.14$39.80This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society series presents foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of digital technology.Based on the... -
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins
RRP: $63.20$57.53The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the... -
Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler
$12.78New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact...and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best,... -
Freemasons at Gettysburg by Sheldon a Munn 9781620064023
RRP: $16.71$11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620064023Author Sheldon a MunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Sunbury Press, Inc.Publisher Sunbury Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...