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Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy by Miho Ushiyama 9781032090054
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients' knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists. Where previously such knowledge may have been written off as... -
Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control: A Comparative Analysis by Lea Sitkin 9781032088532
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a systematic exploration of the changing politics around immigration and the impact of resultant policy regimes on immigrant communities. It does so across a uniquely wide range of policy areas: immigration admissions, citizenship,... -
Life Trajectories Into and Out of Contemporary Neo-Nazism: Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other by Thomas Johansson 9781032088075
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides the first comprehensive sociological study of the contemporary National Socialist movement in Sweden, including how it has developed since the 1990s until the present. It covers the ideas and political aspects of the movement, as well... -
Social Stratification and Social Movements: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship by Sabrina Zajak 9781032084756
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization. Second, the... -
Complexities of Researching with Young People by Paulina Billett 9781032084619
RRP: £39.99£35.06Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on 'how to' conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research... -
Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity: Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond by Ariella Van Luyn 9781032083537
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the 'qualities of place'. This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding 'native' foods, coastal... -
The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest by Brian O'Neill 9781032082875
RRP: £39.99£35.06Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water... -
Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness by Lisa A. Guerrero 9781032073439
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of... -
Up The British by Richard Osborne 9780955485039
RRP: £8.99£6.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955485039Author Richard OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 257g -
Heritage Values in Site Management - Four Case Studies by Marta De La Torre 9780892367979
RRP: £35.00£29.97The analysis of the four historic sites featured in this publication - Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Canada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park in the United States, Port Arthur Historic Site in Australia, and Hadrian's... -
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa by Walter Jacob 9780929699103
RRP: £27.95£22.58THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform... -
Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art of Woman from Niger, Mali and Senegal by Aissata Sidikou 9780865438521
RRP: £24.95£16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438521Author Aissata SidikouFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 322g -
Bittersweet Europe: Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 by Adrian Brisku 9780857459848
RRP: £99.00£79.83From the late nineteenth century to the post-communist period, Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have attributed hopes to "Europe," yet have also exhibited ambivalent attitudes that do not appear likely to vanish any time... -
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy by Lars Tragardh 9780857457561
RRP: £107.00£86.57Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends,... -
Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 by Martin Klimke 9780857451064
RRP: £107.00£86.57"Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year - 1968 - or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the... -
Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department by John Christian 9780833034687
RRP: £21.99£17.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833034687Author John ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 444g -
Retirement: Reasons, Processes, and Results by Gary Adams 9780826120540
RRP: £81.99£66.74This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process - pre-retirement,... -
Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment by Felix G. Rivera 9780789016577
RRP: £43.99£38.84Add to your knowledge of Latino/Hispanic diversity, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences to provide more effective services!Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment dispels pervasive historical and contemporary... -
Latino Poverty in the New Century: Inequalities, Challenges, and Barriers by Maria Vidal de Haymes 9780789011619
RRP: £43.99£38.44Understand the social factors that challenge this fast-growing community!The Latino community will soon be the largest minority population in the United States. Although Hispanics have been part of the American scene since before independence, their... -
Latino Poverty in the New Century: Inequalities, Challenges, and Barriers by Maria Vidal de Haymes 9780789011602
RRP: £125.00£119.74Understand the social factors that challenge this fast-growing community!The Latino community will soon be the largest minority population in the United States. Although Hispanics have been part of the American scene since before independence, their... -
Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food by Samantha King 9780823283644
RRP: £87.00£75.53Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human-animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars... -
Welfare and Families in Europe by Peter Abrahamson 9780815398967
RRP: £120.00£104.01Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the study draws comparisons between societies which... -
The Second World War by Nick Smart 9780815398226
RRP: £135.00£117.28The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest... -
Spatial Aspects of Environmental Policy by Wayne Gray 9780815397175
RRP: £135.00£117.28There has been a recent explosion of research incorporating a spatial dimension in environmental and natural resource economics, where the spatial aspects of human behaviour or the natural environment make a crucial difference in the analysis and policy... -
Crime in the Professions by Russell G Smith 9781138741799
RRP: £130.00£112.51This title was first published in 2002: This text critically examines the nature and extent of crime and deviance in the professions and how it should be dealt with. Looking in particular at the crimes committed by professionals such as doctors,... -
Civilized Rebels: An Inside Story of the West's Retreat from Global Power by Dennis Smith 9780815393160
RRP: £135.00£117.28Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Amery, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores... -
Lives of Muslims in India: Politics, Exclusion and Violence by Abdul Shaban 9780815392972
RRP: £135.00£117.68The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably 'minoritised' Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims,... -
Horizontal Europeanisation: The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe by Martin Heidenreich 9780815392774
RRP: £135.00£117.28Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws... -
Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time by Christine L. Krueger 9780821414613
RRP: £19.99£17.54We are a century removed from Queen Victoria's death, yet the culture that bears her name is alive and well across the globe. Not only is Victorian culture the subject of lively critical debate, but it draws widespread interest from popular audiences and... -
Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation by Kazuyo Tsuchiya 9780816681129
RRP: £21.99£19.19In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of... -
Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry, 1928-1952 by W. Lloyd Warner 9780816660155
RRP: £50.00£43.41Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry, 1928-1952 was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original... -
Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader by Diane C. Fujino 9780816656851
RRP: £19.99£17.94For more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses Asian and African traditions. The influence of the Black Power and Black Arts movements... -
The Racial Order Of Things: Cultural Imaginaries Of The Post-Soul Era by Roopali Mukherjee 9780816647057
RRP: £50.00£43.41Why did affirmative action programs implemented during the sixties and seventies suffer vicious assaults in the nineties? How were culturally resonant appeals to individualism and colorblindness turned around during the nineties to epitomize a... -
Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, And The Moral Panic Over The City by Steve Macek 9780816643615
RRP: £21.99£19.19For the past twenty-five years, American culture has been marked by an almost palpable sense of anxiety about the nation's inner cities. Urban America has been consistently depicted as a site of moral decay and uncontrollable violence, held in stark... -
Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada by Erin Manning 9780816639250
RRP: £20.99£18.37What does it mean to be at home? In a critical engagement with notions of territory, identity, racial difference, separatism, multiculturalism, and homelessness, this book delves into the question of what it means to belong--in particular, what it means... -
People Of The Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex by Hugh Gusterson 9780816638604
RRP: £21.99£19.19How the American military-industrial complex has invaded our consciousness to create consent for its programs"We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945. It was first our weaponry and then our diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose... -
Ghosts Of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives by Jenny Sharpe 9780816637232
RRP: £19.99£17.54Questions traditional assumptions about power and agency in slave women's everyday lives.Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the countless other... -
Lying On The Postcolonial Couch: The Idea Of Indifference by Rukmini Bhaya Nair 9780816633661
RRP: £21.99£19.19Exposes the complicity of language and its uses in the colonial projectA revealing look into the long afterlife of colonial conquest, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch offers an original, overarching concept that informs-and helps to explain-the workings... -
Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World by Lena Dominelli 9780815391524
RRP: £135.00£117.68Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World explores the opportunities and constraints that the dynamics of globalisation present for human development in a range of different countries and situations. Arguing that globalisation is currently a system... -
A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography: Challenging Normative Gender Coercion by Julie Elizabeth Peters 9780815380757
RRP: £135.00£117.28Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures. But across these cultures we also see a degree of nonconforming behaviour which very often carries significant...