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Radical Interactionism and Critiques of Contemporary Culture by Norman K Denzin 9781839820298
RRP: £83.99£69.85This volume includes contributions from experts such as Gil Musolf, Michael Katovich, Joseph Kotarba, Norbert Wiley, Alina Pop, Marco Marzano, John Pruit, Amanda Pruit, Carol Rambo, Norman Conti, Laura Rosenberg, Krzysztof Konecki, Erick Laming,... -
Does The Black Middle Class Exist And Are We Members?: Reflections From A Research Team by Grace Khunou 9781838673567
RRP: £45.99£38.42Does the Black Middle Class Exist And Are We Members makes two contributions into the research of the Black Middle Class. First, it explores how Black South Africans conceptualize middle classness. Second, it demonstrates how this conceptualization... -
The Politics of Inequality by David Pettinicchio 9781839093630
RRP: £83.99£47.18In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic... -
Conflict, Civil Society, and Women's Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by Ibrahim Natil 9781800710610
RRP: £47.99£40.02Women in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political... -
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite 9781787694941
RRP: £72.99£60.18Transregional Europe continues a line of argument developed in European Society (2008), Europe Since 1989 (2016) and Contemporary Europe (2017). It integrates work in human geography and planning with related scholarship in history and the other social... -
Alaska's Rural Development by Peter G. Cornwall 9780367019082
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book examines the social, economic, political, and cultural concerns surrounding the development of rural Alaska. The authors explore the controversy over rural development from a variety of perspectives-some supporting economic development and its... -
Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter by Rhoda M. Wilkie 9781592136483
£74.61How humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsHow humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsAbout the AuthorRhoda Wilkie is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen, where she earned her doctorate in 2002... -
Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World by Abdul Rasheed Na'allah 9781592217212
RRP: £21.95£14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217212Author Abdul Rasheed Na'allahFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)... -
Perspectives On African Environment, Science And Technology by Toyin Falola 9781592218844
RRP: £39.95£26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218844Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 653g -
Women To Women: Young Americans in South Africa by Dan Connell 9781592214518
RRP: £15.95£10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214518Author Dan ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective by Stephen Zunes 9781577180760
RRP: £47.95£41.78Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.About the AuthorStephen Zunes is an assistant professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice... -
The Social Construction of Diversity: Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations by Christiane Harzig 9781571813763
RRP: £27.95£15.93Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of... -
Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women's Mental Health by Tonda L. Hughes 9781560233107
£106.61Get a full understanding of lesbian mental health concerns! Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women's Mental Health presents much-needed research on sexual orientation and sexual minority populations missing from most mental... -
The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections by Christina Bratt Paulston 9781556712531
RRP: £33.95£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556712531Author Christina Bratt PaulstonFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global... -
Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism by Ruth Holliday 9781526134257
RRP: £85.00£47.73Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access treatment abroad, including surgeons and facilitators... -
In the Shadow of Enoch Powell: Race, Locality and Resistance by Shirin Hirsch 9781526127372
RRP: £85.00£31.26Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet... -
A Savage Song: Racist Violence and Armed Resistance in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Margarita Aragon 9781526121677
RRP: £85.00£47.73This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence was used to invigorate racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing the often-ignored... -
Theory of the Hashtag by Andreas Bernard 9781509538935
RRP: £35.00£30.87This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together... -
The Communication Manifesto by Silvio Waisbord 9781509532193
RRP: £35.00£30.87Contemporary societies demand clear-minded, evidence-based ideas to address complex social issues. Communication scholarship has a rich trove of knowledge and experiences to help address such problems. In this passionately argued manifesto, Silvio... -
(Dis)agree: Exploring Agreement Mechanisms by Pritha Chandra 9781443831468
RRP: £39.99£22.38Agreement plays a pivotal role in the generative theory of natural language. More recently, the minimalist paradigm suggests positing a separate operation: Agree - for agreement, alongside Merge - the recursive structure building operation, and Move -... -
Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action by Penny A. Weiss 9781439918685
RRP: £91.00£78.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439918685Author Penny A. WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g -
Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management by Terri M. Adams 9781439918371
RRP: £23.99£20.84When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the short- and long-term effects of these events on first responders-the very people society relies upon in the midst of a catastrophe-are often overlooked. Policing in Natural Disasters provides a... -
Civic Intimacies: Black Queer Improvisations on Citizenship by Niels van Doorn 9781439918432
RRP: £31.00£27.36Black queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines how-and to what extent-these different forms of intimacy catalyze the... -
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Andrew Israel Ross 9781439914885
RRP: £91.00£78.92In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafes, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the... -
Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work by Katie Hail-Jares 9781439914533
RRP: £82.00£71.26Are sex workers victims, criminals, or just trying to make a living? Over the last five years, public policy and academic discourse have moved from criminalization of sex workers to victim-based understanding, shaped by human trafficking. While most... -
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz 9781439916384
RRP: £86.00£74.67George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness... -
Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America by Jean Elson 9781439913918
RRP: £27.99£24.14The bitter and public court battle waged between Nina and James Walker of Newport, Rhode Island from 1909 to 1916 created a sensation throughout the nation with lurid accounts of-and gossip about-their marital troubles. The ordeal of this high-society... -
Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania by Jamie G. Longazel 9781439912676
RRP: £74.00£64.45The Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRA), passed in the small Rustbelt city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 2006, was a local ordinance that laid out penalties for renting to or hiring undocumented immigrants and declared English the city's official... -
Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture by Vanita Reddy 9781439911549
RRP: £71.00£61.16In her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the... -
Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics by Jason Dittmer 9781439909768
RRP: £67.00£60.50Highlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsAbout the AuthorJason Dittmer is Reader in Human Geography at University College... -
The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society by Daniel Marschall 9781439907559
RRP: £59.00£51.01At the birth of the Internet Age, computer technologists in small, aggressive software development companies became part of a unique networked occupational community. They were creative, team-oriented, and enthusiastic workers who built... -
New Perspectives on (Im)politeness and Interpersonal Communication by Lucis Fernandez Amaya 9781443841719
RRP: £44.99£25.77New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (im)politeness in human communication. The study of linguistic (im)politeness is undoubtedly one of the... -
The Borders of Justice by Etienne Balibar 9781439906859
RRP: £76.00£66.15Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justiceExploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justiceAbout the AuthorEtienne Balibar is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is... -
Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home: Women, Cultural Identity, and Community by Carol E. Kelley 9781439909454
RRP: £72.00£62.00Reveals how four very different women seek a sense of belonging, identity and home through the lifelong process of immigrationBook InformationISBN 9781439909454Author Carol E. KelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Temple University Press,U.S... -
How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying by Karla A. Erickson 9781439908242
RRP: £21.99£19.19As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 2, Beyond Positivism and Historicism by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412814539
RRP: £43.99£38.44This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are critical pivots in the... -
Defying Dystopia: Going on with the Human Journey After Technology Fails Us by Ed Ayres 9781412862707
RRP: £135.00£117.28To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse places our world in grave danger of ruin. The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity places our civilization on a... -
Knowledge and Networking: On Communication in the Social Sciences by Anton Oleinik 9781412853019
RRP: £135.00£117.28Success and career growth in academic life depend upon reaching and influencing the widest audience possible. To do so, scientists strive to develop personalized trust. They do so by establishing a large number of connections through networking and also... -
Crime and Custom in Savage Society by Bronislaw Malinowski 9781412849784
RRP: £45.99£40.13Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412846219
RRP: £43.99£38.44Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed...