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Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: Cambridge International AS & A Level SociologyFirst teaching: September 2019 First examination: From 2021 The Student's Book provides up-to-date, in-depth and truly...

Quantifying the American mood through opinion polls appear to be an unbiased means for finding out what people want. But in this study the author demonstrates that the way public opinion is measured affects the use that voters, legislators, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262692717Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure...

These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved...

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities-from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and...

'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race,...

Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385489676Author James HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

A Times Business Book of the Year 2021 Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299125745Author J. VansinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594160Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560906Author Kartik HosanagarFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250068118Author Bruce LourieFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639234226Author Manly P HallFormat HardbackPage Count 732Imprint Lushena Books IncPublisher Lushena Books IncWeight(grams) 1139gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this clear and vivid book, Gustave Le Bon throws light on the unconscious irrational workings of group thought and mass emotion as he places crowd ideology in opposition to free-thinking and independent minded individuals. The ideas le Bon explores in...

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward...

Looking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good, Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty.Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955, Moral...

This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316349437Author Tucker MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as...

Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch with human progress. We live in an information age, work in a knowledge economy, yet our...

The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the...

Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Cultural theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavsky's teaching and research for the last decade of his...

Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692488386Author Rocky ElmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Duffin CreativePublisher Duffin CreativeWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

What is it like to be smarter than 95% of the people you meet?Fifty-four-year-old Alison says, "They told me I was smart and Icried. I wanted to be sexy, or glamorous!" Jean, 38, laments, "Ilearned the whole job in six weeks, and now I'm bored." Gifted...

This remarkable book recalls the history of the four police forces: the Northampton Borough Police; the Daventry Borough Police; the Higham Ferrers Borough Police, and the Northamptonshire County Constabulary, which have combined over the years to form...

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves...

Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117636Author Ellen Ruppel ShellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255g

Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957243231Author Howard AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint RFI Technical ServicesPublisher RFI Technical Services

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608996162Author Homayun SidkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

An exploration of Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence. It encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal life, his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment, and his resolute belief in the blending of popular...

At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes...

There has been an Irish presence within the Caribbean since at least the 1620s and yet the historical and cultural dimensions of this encounter remain relatively under-researched and are often conceived of in reductive terms by crude markers such as red...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027306411Author J B BuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Intellectual Empathy provides a step-by-step method for facilitating discussions of socially divisive issues. Maureen Linker, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, developed Intellectual Empathy after more than a decade of...