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Governing Child Abuse Voices and Victimisation: The Use of Public Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Christian Institutions by Jodi Death 9781138677456
RRP: £135.00£117.68Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades. The analysis here specifically focuses on the establishment, conduct, and outcomes of the extensive public... -
Games and Sporting Events in History: Organisations, Performances and Impact by Annette R. Hofmann 9781138682238
RRP: £135.00£117.28Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and... -
Social Work Practice with LGBTQIA Populations: An Interactional Perspective by Claire Dente 9781138672437
RRP: £71.99£62.45Social Work Practice with LGBTQIA Populations provides an overview of key issues for social workers working with LGBTQIA clients. Each chapter considers clients' experiences in different social and interpersonal contexts. This text encourages students to... -
Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement by Judith Stepan-Norris 9780197539859
RRP: £25.99£21.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
My Street Cats: Their Personality & Social Behavior by Raphaella Bilski 9781888820720
RRP: £9.95£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888820720Author Dr Raphaella BilskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Publisher Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Introduction to Human-Animal Interaction: Insights from Social and Life Sciences by Laëtitia Maréchal 9781032118376
RRP: £135.00£117.28Introduction to Human–Animal Interaction focuses on the human dimension of interacting with other animals. This book introduces recent developments, theories and debates in the relatively new research area of human–animal interaction (HAI) and focuses on... -
Population and Labour Market Policies in China’s Reform Process by Sun Wenkai 9781032263915
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population... -
Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950 by Amit Kumar 9781032001371
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of the himalyan state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It focuses on the three processes – production, circulation, and consumption – of the textile industry of the region to... -
Another Invisible Hand: The Transformation of Social Structure by Li Peilin 9781032257457
RRP: £37.99£33.38There have been two “hands” exerting influence on China’s resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation). This book focuses on a third factor, “another invisible... -
The Ethos of the Enlightenment and the Discontents of Modernity by Matan Oram 9781032248462
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity. The Enlightenment is widely understood to be the foundational moment of modernity. Yet despite its... -
Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City: Protesting as Public Pedagogy by S. Nombuso Dlamini 9781032186528
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions... -
Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia by Fiona Jenkins 9781032221014
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research... -
Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales: Voicing Valerie by Viola Thimm 9780367545963
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist–feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can be used as a... -
The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing by Maria Pia Di Bella 9781789209365
RRP: £23.95£19.49Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This... -
The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing by Maria Pia Di Bella 9781789209358
RRP: £99.00£79.83Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This... -
Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner by Diana F. Johns 9781138665897
RRP: £135.00£117.28Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking... -
Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies by Greta Olson 9781138665880
RRP: £135.00£117.68Scholars and activists often narrate the history of gender and feminism as a progression of "waves," said to mark high points of innovation in theory and moments of political breakthrough. Arguing for the notion of multiple futurities over that of... -
Vulnerable Daughters in India: Culture, Development and Changing Contexts by Mattias Larsen 9781138664968
RRP: £47.99£41.81In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and... -
Health Providers in India: On the Frontlines of Change by Kabir Sheikh 9781138664883
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet-physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health... -
Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change by Somnath Batabyal 9781138662858
RRP: £47.99£41.81India has been the focus of international attention in the past few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told:... -
Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India by Saraswati Raju 9781138662810
RRP: £47.99£41.81Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by... -
Resettling Displaced People: Policy and Practice in India by Hari Mohan Mathur 9781138662704
RRP: £47.99£41.81Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly... -
Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat by Guy Standing 9781138662674
RRP: £53.99£46.87Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions. This book sets out a... -
Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives by Sarah Cook 9781138662667
RRP: £47.99£42.21The Asian crisis of the late 1990s severely affected some of the most successful economies in the region, placing the issue of social protection high on the regional and international agenda. Subsequently, growth rates revived, but the fruits of growth... -
Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the Asian Region by Sucha Singh Gill 9781138662643
RRP: £53.99£47.27Asian economic development and environmental consequences are not only crucial for the wellbeing of the people, but are of great relevance for the global economy. The ongoing intense debate on carbon emission mitigating strategies for reducing the impact... -
A Theory of Group Structures: Volume II: Empirical Tests by Kenneth D. Mackenzie 9781138659414
RRP: £84.99£74.25First published in 1976, this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups, which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the... -
A Theory of Group Structures: Volume I: Basic Theory by Kenneth D. Mackenzie 9781138657250
RRP: £36.99£32.93First published in 1976, this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups, which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume one attempts to formulate a more rigorous theory of group structures by... -
Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Mezzo and Macro Contexts by Anissa Taun Rogers 9781138638518
RRP: £36.99£32.53This addition to Anissa Rogers' bestselling Human Behavior in the Social Environment expands the original text with new chapters on spirituality, families and groups, organizations, and communities. Written in the compact, concise manner of the original... -
Designing for Play: Designing for Play by Barbara E. Hendrickson 9781138634770
RRP: £120.00£103.61This title was first published in 2001. Architects, landscape designers, builders, gardeners and teachers have all at some time been called upon to design a play area. However, this diversity of profession has not resulted in a diversity of design... -
130 Years of Catching Up with the West: A Comparative Perspective on Hungarian Science and Technology Policy-making Since Industrialization by Peter S. Biegelbauer 9781138634527
RRP: £105.00£91.26This title was first published in 2000: Issues such as globalization and the fight against joblessness as well as the growth dynamics of economies in general have been linked with science and technology. Accordingly, the growing public interest in the... -
Speaking for the Dead: Cadavers in Biology and Medicine: Cadavers in Biology and Medicine by D. Gareth Jones 9781138634459
RRP: £110.00£95.11This was first published in 2000: This text explores issues surrounding the use of human cadavers and human tissues in science and medicine. This is an area of increasing significance in contemporary society, as more and more techniques become available... -
The Careers of Councillors: Gender, Party and Politics: Gender, Party and Politics by Catherine Bochel 9781138634411
RRP: £105.00£90.86This was first published in 2000: Drawing on a variety of research, including two surveys of councillors undertaken in Scotland, England and Wales, qualitative interviews and the re-analysis of existing data, this book aims to contribute towards... -
Nationalism, National Identity and Democratization in China by Baogang He 9781138634312
RRP: £120.00£103.61This title was first published in 2000: This text aims to provide a clear understanding of the complex relationship that exists between nationalism, national identity, the state, the direction and trend of China's transition and the subsequent prospects... -
A Perfect Union?: Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage by Cory Albertson 9781138633353
RRP: £135.00£117.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Impossible Refuge: The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures by Georgina Ramsay 9781138633346
RRP: £135.00£117.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification by Thomas Allmer 9781138636828
RRP: £49.99£43.50Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and... -
White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol' Aussie Bloke by Andrea Waling 9781138633285
RRP: £135.00£117.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Writing the Body Politic: A John O'Neill Reader by Mark Featherstone 9781138633179
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O'Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal,... -
Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems by Fiorenza Belussi 9781138625556
RRP: £22.99£20.16Pulished in 2000, a selection of contributions presented in 1998 at the conference of Udine entitled, "The Development of Industrial Districts in Italy". The theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of... -
Explanation, Quantity and Law by John Forge 9781138625501
RRP: £68.99£59.52Published in 1999, this work sets out to give an account of explanation which is adequate to the problems that arise when looking at physical science. It offers a theory of explanation with supporting analysis, and also an application to the task of...