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Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture by Camilla Fojas 9780252040924
RRP: £91.00£78.92The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on... -
Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code by Nikki Usher 9780252040511
RRP: £91.00£78.92Interactive journalism has transformed the newsroom. Emerging out of changes in technology, culture, and economics, this new specialty uses a visual presentation of storytelling that allows users to interact with the reporting of information. Today it... -
Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics by Sara L. McKinnon 9780252040450
RRP: £91.00£78.92Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established category for experiencing persecution... -
Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women's Sports by Lindsay Pieper 9780252040221
RRP: £91.00£78.92In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender --a shift that allowed the... -
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris 9780252040207
RRP: £91.00£79.32During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three... -
The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America by Christine Kim 9780252040139
RRP: £91.00£78.92An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It... -
Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland by Stephen Meyer 9780252040054
RRP: £91.00£78.92Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other... -
Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative by Amy L. Brandzel 9780252040030
RRP: £91.00£78.92Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining... -
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil by Christen A. Smith 9780252039935
RRP: £91.00£78.92Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. ... -
Cape Verde, Let's Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal by Derek Pardue 9780252039676
RRP: £91.00£79.32Musicians rapping in kriolu --a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant... -
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings 9780252039591
RRP: £91.00£79.32Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas... -
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture by Raka Shome 9780252038730
RRP: £91.00£79.32The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper class white British woman with "the people" raises questions... -
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire 9780252038501
RRP: £47.00£40.88The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W. E. B. Du Bois, she fought for promotion and equal pay against entrenched sexism and racism. Andrews also played a... -
Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change by AnaLouise Keating 9780252037849
RRP: £91.00£78.92In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social... -
Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator by Jose V. Fuentecilla 9780252037580
RRP: £91.00£78.92During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a... -
New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States by William Boddy 9780198711452
£51.27New Media and Popular Imagination offers a highly original account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication - radio, television, and digital media - have been anticipated, debated, and taken up in the twentieth-century United... -
Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority by Mary Briody Mahowald 9780195108705
£29.72Women and Children in Health Care examines health care issues from an egalitarian perspective, focusing particularly on those that affect the lives of women and children. These are some of the most hotly debated, controversial, yet genuinely humanitarian... -
Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 by Peggy Pascoe 9780195060089
£42.85In the 1870s, a group of Protestant mission women, appalled by the heavily masculine atmosphere of the cities of the American West, came together to construct a dominion of female authority. Creating a network of mission-sponsored homes, the Protestant... -
The Bad Boys Of Bokaro Jail by Chetan Mahajan 9780143421535
£5.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143421535Author Chetan MahajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm... -
Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Tools for Transportation Network Modelling by Giulio Cantarella 9780128143537
RRP: £97.99£88.10Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Solutions for Transportation Network Modeling breaks new ground on the topics, providing consistent and comprehensive coverage of steady state equilibrium and dynamic assignment within a common... -
The Accelerating Transport Innovation Revolution: A Global, Case Study-Based Assessment of Current Experience, Cross-Sectorial Effects, and Socioeconomic Transformations by George Giannopoulos 9780128138045
RRP: £91.95£83.39The Accelerating Transport Innovation Revolution: A Global, Case Study-based Assessment of Current Experience, Cross-sectorial Effects and Socioeconomic Transformations, offers a comprehensive view of current state-of-the-art and practices around the... -
Informed Urban Transport Systems: Classic and Emerging Mobility Methods toward Smart Cities by Joseph Chow 9780128136133
RRP: £97.99£88.10Informed Urban Transport Systems examines how information gathered from new technologies can be used for optimal planning and operation in urban settings. Transportation researchers, and those from related disciplines, such as artificial intelligence,... -
Productivity and Efficiency Measurement of Airlines: Data Envelopment Analysis using R by Boon L. Lee 9780128126967
RRP: £91.95£82.39In today's competitive environment, airlines are doing everything they can to increase efficiencies while improving productivity. Productivity and Efficiency Measurement of Airlines: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach helps achieve these goals through... -
Modeling of Transport Demand: Analyzing, Calculating, and Forecasting Transport Demand by V.A Profillidis 9780128115138
RRP: £97.99£88.10Modeling of Transport Demand explains the mechanisms of transport demand, from analysis to calculation and forecasting. Packed with strategies for forecasting future demand for all transport modes, the book helps readers assess the validity and... -
Are We Safe Enough?: Measuring and Assessing Aviation Security by Mark Stewart 9780128114759
RRP: £78.95£70.94Are We Safe Enough? Measuring and Assessing Aviation Security explains how standard risk analytic and cost-benefit analysis can be applied to aviation security in systematic and easy-to-understand steps. The book evaluates and puts into sensible context... -
Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know by Lawrence J. Fennelly 9780128094860
RRP: £55.95£50.04Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition, explores the essential tips and techniques for security investigations, providing a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career. This practical guide covers the legal... -
Social Media: The Academic Library Perspective by Nina Verishagen 9780081024096
RRP: £60.95£54.41Social Media: The Academic Library Perspective provides a step-by-step guide on social media as written by somebody who has already done the work. Made up of case studies written by authors at various institutions who provide different perspectives on... -
Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries by Jean Shipman 9780081022580
RRP: £60.95£54.41Health sciences librarians need to optimize collaborating with others in their institutions and beyond. An understanding of what leads to successful collaborations is beneficial and empowering. By using case studies of varieties of collaborations,... -
Planning Academic Library Orientations: Case Studies from Around the World by Kylie Bailin 9780081021712
RRP: £66.95£60.04Colleges and universities throughout the world plan library orientations for first years or specific audiences such as transfer or international students. These events can vary greatly in shape and form depending on the size, resources and staff of the... -
Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International by Jeremy Atkinson 9780081020845
RRP: £65.95£58.77Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International explores the considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years. Given this complex and important... -
Managing the Multigenerational Librarian Workforce by Sara Holder 9780081020722
RRP: £62.95£56.16Managing the Multigenerational Librarian Workforce examines how libraries are undergoing a massive shift in their workforce. As baby boomers retire, an influx of Gen Y and millennials has taken their place. This book presents the differences that... -
A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice by Antonio P Derosa 9780081020173
RRP: £63.95£57.02A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice guides new informationists to a successful career, giving them a pathway to this savvier, more technically advanced, domain-focused role in modern day information centers... -
International Librarianship at Home and Abroad by Karen Bordonaro 9780081018965
RRP: £70.95£63.14International Librarianship at Home and Abroad examines both the concept and reality of international librarianship. The intent of this book is not to glorify international librarianship, but to instead explore different ways that international... -
Ethics Management in Libraries and Other Information Services by Margarita Perez Pulido 9780081018941
RRP: £62.95£56.16Ethics Management in Libraries and Other Information Services presents professional ethics from a managerial point-of-view, explaining how to implement ethical management systems in libraries and information services and presenting the necessary tools... -
Social Justice and Library Work: A Guide to Theory and Practice by Stephen Lyn Bales 9780081017555
RRP: £62.95£56.16Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history,... -
XML-based Content Management: Integration, Methodologies and Tools by Ricardo Eito-Brun 9780081002049
RRP: £62.95£56.16XML-based Content Management: Integration, Methodologies and Tools covers the design and deployment of XML-based solutions and how to manage content and metadata, a practice that requires a more methodological approach than those traditionally applied to... -
Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza 9780062414779
RRP: £13.99£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062414779Author Tom PiazzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 180g -
Melamine & Other Problematic Food Carcinogens by Viroj Wiwanitkit 9781606929407
RRP: £52.99£35.32Food contamination and carcinogenesis are of great public interest. The present situation concerning melamine contamination in China has become a wakeup call to nations around the world. It is time to be extremely concerned with food safety. The data on... -
Borders of Europe: Hegemony, Aesthetics & Border Poetics by Helge Vidar Holm 9788779345522
RRP: £29.95£18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779345522Author Helge Vidar HolmFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Group Processes in Ethnically Diverse Organizations: Language & Intercultural Learning by Jakob Lauring 9781616687618
RRP: £61.99£41.11The rise of the internationalised business environment and the intensification of global competition have led to an increasing number of people travelling across cultural and linguistic boundaries. As a result, dealing with the full complexity of ethnic...