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Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities by Mimi Sheller
RRP: £27.99£24.27EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to... -
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People's History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £12.99£8.63American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the... -
Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century by Anne-Marie Kilday
RRP: £98.00£88.71Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in... -
Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common by Harmony Bench 9781517900533
RRP: £20.99£18.37A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user whim, and can integrate crowds in unprecedented ways... -
What Matters in Policing?: Change, Values and Leadership in Turbulent Times Auke van Dijk 9781447326922
RRP: £26.99£20.84Policing is at a turbulent turning point: the pace of change is accelerating with renewed emphasis on crime reduction yet with austerity. This topical book examines what matters in policing, rather than just what works. It compares the implications of... -
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Robert Zimmer 9780691017761
RRP: £42.00£39.43Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this... -
Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America by Mara Buchbinder
RRP: £23.00£18.10How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing... -
Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis Esmorie Miller 9781138488793
RRP: £130.00£112.11Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England. The book links... -
Private Security and Domestic Violence: The Risks and Benefits of Private Security Companies Working With Victims of Domestic Violence by Diarmaid Harkin 9780367784713
RRP: £39.99£35.06Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims. This has manifested in a number of ways, including private security companies working in partnership with domestic violence services, the proliferation of... -
Fandom Acts of Kindness: A Heroic Guide to Activism, Advocacy, and Doing Chaotic Good by Tanya Cook
RRP: £14.99£11.49This first of its kind, actionable and inspirational resource provides the tools and motivation necessary for pop culture fans to make a difference - while having fun! Fandoms are united as a community because of the power of story. And it's exactly... -
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain
RRP: £17.99£11.05Explore real women's tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this "masterfully written" (Sophia A. Nelson, bestselling author of The Woman Code and Black Woman Redefined), meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women's health... -
The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory by Vlad P Glaveanu 9780197520499
RRP: £65.00£51.56This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity,... -
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power by Tamara Winfrey Harris
RRP: £15.99£11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523092291Author Tamara Winfrey HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition by Juan Gonzalez
RRP: £22.00£13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137436Author Juan GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 141mm... -
Understanding Stuart Hall by Helen Davis
RRP: £44.99£39.48'This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall's work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall's intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could... -
Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures by Jonathan Last
£41.55Much archaeological work is concerned with identifying gaps in our knowledge and developing strategies for addressing them; we perhaps spend less time thinking about how research should proceed when we already know, relatively speaking, quite a lot. The... -
Breathe - Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life by Sandra Noeth 9783837666502
RRP: £32.99£27.22Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment, but also structural, racist discrimination make clear. In the physical act of breathing, we are... -
The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 by Neil Archer 9780367753115
RRP: £18.99£16.87This in-depth study of one of the twenty-first century's most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's film to the understanding of 'youth' in a contemporary, digital age. The book... -
The Fashion Reader by Linda Welters
RRP: £37.99£35.50In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international industry. Many of the essays are drawn from books,... -
Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity by Sarah B. Horton
RRP: £21.99£19.19Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are... -
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction by Rosemarie Tong
RRP: £47.99£47.89A classic resource on feminist theory, Feminist Thought offers a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused... -
Disaster Management: International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery by Alejandro Lopez-Carresi
RRP: £47.99£41.81There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue... -
The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context Elizabeth Pye 9781598743043
RRP: £37.99£33.38Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in... -
Dangerous Instincts by Mary Ellen O'Toole
RRP: £11.99£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298521Author Mary Ellen O'TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218g -
Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture by Paul Gilroy 9780674060234
RRP: £26.95£26.30Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois's intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing... -
Gay Icons: The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love by Georges-Claude Guilbert 9781476674339
RRP: £21.99£17.97Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop? What influence do they have on gay individuals and communities? This book focuses on the superstars, femmes fatales and divas of the gay celebrity pantheon--Mae West, Julie Andrews,... -
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling Sarah Depaoli 9781462547746
£69.00This book offers researchers a systematic and accessible introduction to using a Bayesian framework in structural equation modeling (SEM). Stand-alone chapters on each SEM model clearly explain the Bayesian form of the model and walk the reader through... -
Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer by Lorraine Code
RRP: £46.95£41.90Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays included in this volume show that it is possible to read past... -
Archaeology of Medieval Europe: Volume 1: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD by James Graham-Campbell 9788779342903
£44.57Apologies 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 -
Why Punish? How Much?: A Reader on Punishment by Michael Tonry 9780195328868
RRP: £61.00£37.07Punishment is a complex human institution. It has normative, political, social, psychological, and legal dimensions, and ways of thinking about each of them change over time. For this reader on punishment, Michael Tonry, a leading authority in the field,... -
Impossible: Inspired by the Claytons Resilience Curriculum by Ella Jenkins 9781398437401
RRP: £7.99£6.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398437401Author Ella JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture by Avtar Brah
RRP: £36.99£32.53Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace... -
Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing: Stories and Approaches to Recover from Shunning, Aggression, and Family Violence by Stephanie A. Sellers, Phd
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178437Author Stephanie A. Sellers, PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof
RRP: £13.99£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525564171Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field by Janet Halley
RRP: £27.99£24.54An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global SouthGovernance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically... -
Nana I Ke Kumu Look to the Source: Volume I by Mary Kawena Pukui 9780961673802
£21.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961673802Author Mary Kawena PukuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hui HanaiPublisher Hui HanaiWeight(grams) 400g -
Introduction to Crowd Science G Keith Still 9781466579644
RRP: £130.00£112.51Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event Sites Introduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents around the world. Using tools, methods, and worked examples gleaned from over 20 years of experience, this... -
Africa Counts*** by Claudia Zaslavsky 9781556523502
RRP: £17.95£13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556523502Author Zaslavsky CFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella Books -
Czechs, Germans, Jews?: National Identity of the Jews of Bohemia by Katerina Capkova 9780857454744
RRP: £99.00£80.47"In her well-researched volume, Capkovauses a broad range of archival and published sources and shows a mastery of the secondary literature, including theoretical materials...Subtly argued and effectively based in the real-life experience of... -
Stories from Ireland by Ita Daly
RRP: £7.99£5.46Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone. This wonderful collection is drawn...