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Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe by Giovanni Picker
RRP: £37.99£33.38Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted after World War II. Building on nearly a decade of... -
Group Performance And Interaction by Craig D Parks
RRP: £135.00£117.28Unlike clinical psychologists, social psychologists examine the group as a vehicle for interaction and performance. They are interested in such topics as how groups make decisions, how working with others influences individual performance, and how... -
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment by Mari J Matsuda
RRP: £125.00£107.86Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first... -
The Theming Of America: Dreams, Visions, And Commercial Spaces by Mark Gottdiener
RRP: £39.99£35.06Mark Gottdiener explores the nature of social change as it has developed since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America, from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disney World, from the Mall of America to your local mall. Nowhere... -
The Cooperative Extension Service: A National Assessment by Paul Warner
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Cooperative Extension Service, a publicly supported educational agency, is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be... -
National Law and International Human Rights Law: Cases of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe by Onkemetse Tshosa
RRP: £37.99£33.38This title was first published in 2001. This text critically examines the role and relevance of international human rights law in the process of protection, especially in the cases of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. It argues that international human... -
Culture Matters: Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky by Richard J Ellis
RRP: £135.00£117.28Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Culture theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavsky's teaching and research for the last decade of his... -
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement: Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary by Jay Marlowe
RRP: £43.99£38.44The image we have of refugees is one of displacement - from their homes, families and countries - and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and... -
Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism: Towards a General Theory by John Love
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber's work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter's thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the... -
Taiwan Studies Revisited by Dafydd Fell
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work. Often autobiographical in detail, each chapter asks the author to discuss... -
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights (Open Access) by Rosemarie Buikema
RRP: £135.00£117.28In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive... -
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism by Arne Johan Vetlesen
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since... -
Mapping Place Names of India by Anu Kapur
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is the first of its kind to chart the terrain of contemporary India's many place names. It explores different 'place connections', investigates how places are named and renamed, and looks at the forces that are remaking the future place name... -
Atlas del Estado de La Mujer En El Mundo by Joni Seager
£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446009665Author Joni SeagerFormat PaperbackImprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones -
Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film by Shilpa S. Dave
RRP: £20.99£19.32Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular culture ranging from Peter Sellers' portrayal of Hrundi... -
Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement by Amalia Pallares
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Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai
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Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People by Dawne Y. Curry
RRP: £24.99£21.67This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical... -
A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives by Betsy Hearne
RRP: £21.99£19.19Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research,... -
Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest by R. David Edmunds
RRP: £21.99£19.19Enduring Nations documents how tribal peoples have adapted to cultural change while shaping midwestern history. Examining the transformation of Native American communities, which often occurred in response to shifting government policy, the contributors... -
Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador by Norman E. Whitten
RRP: £22.99£20.01The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from the major Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and its ongoing aftermath in which indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian action transformed the nation-state and established new dimensions of human... -
Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World by Robin P. Harris
RRP: £91.00£78.92Olonkho, the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia's Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO's Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role... -
Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art by Phoebe Wolfskill
RRP: £35.00£31.14An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both... -
Big Top Boss: JOHN RINGLING NORTH AND THE CIRCUS by David Lewis Hammarstrom
RRP: £35.00£30.74This first balanced picture of circus king John Ringling North explored the remarkable career of the man who ran Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily for thirty years. David Lewis Hammarstrom details how North guided the circus through adversities... -
On Gender, Labor, and Inequality by Ruth Milkman
RRP: £103.00£89.54Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the... -
Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual by Jermaine Singleton
RRP: £39.00£34.12A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance,... -
Fieldwork by Bruce Jackson
RRP: £18.99£16.72Fieldwork deals with the practical, mechanical, ethical, and theoretical aspects of collecting data. Jackson discusses how fieldworkers define their role, how they relate to others in the field, and how they go about recording for later use what occurred... -
Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory by Gale Miller
RRP: £43.99£38.44"Constructionist Controversies" reviews the substantial contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists and examines debates about the future of this perspective. Intended for the student, the volume... -
Competition in Regulated Industries by Dieter Helm
£17.19The UK has pioneered the introduction of competition into previously monopolistic utility industries. Competition has been introduced progressively, starting with BT, and continuing with the gas and electricity industries, where it is to be completed... -
Benchmarking National Tourism Organisations and Agencies by John Lennon
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines comparative performance and best practice in National Tourism Organisations/ Administrations from extensive research carried out in 2003 and 2004. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance. ... -
Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation: Case Studies, Current Trends, and Future Steps by Hyung Min Kim
RRP: £97.99£87.70Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation establishes a key theoretical framework to understand the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, in terms of lasting impacts on productivity, livability and... -
Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland: Corporatism and Community by Robert Perrucci
RRP: £43.99£38.44Japanese Auto Transplants in the HeartlandBook InformationISBN 9780202305295Author Robert PerrucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint AldineTransactionPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 272g -
Neural Networks in Transport Applications by Veli Himanen
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1998, this volume enters the debate on human behaviour in the form of neural networks in a spatial context. As most transportation research techniques had been developed in the 1960s and 1970s, these authors sought to bring that... -
Power, Politics And Crime by William J. Chambliss
RRP: £43.99£38.44In the United States today, we are on the verge of fulfilling a nightmare scenario. Parents are fearful of letting their children play in their own yards and elderly people are afraid to leave their homes. The bogeyman in this rampant panic about crime... -
Life After MH370 by KS Narendran
RRP: £12.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386432155Author KS NarendranFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 191g -
Squiggle takes a walk: Learning about Punctuation by Natasha Sharma
£7.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383074013Author Natasha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ZubaanPublisher Zubaan -
New Technologies at Work by Christina Garsten
RRP: £135.00£117.28Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short period... -
The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India by Geert De Neve
RRP: £100.00£86.61By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is... -
The Hybrid Island: Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka by Neluka Silva
£38.75This collection of essays constitutes a tribute to the hybrid and multicultural nature of Sri Lanka's society and cultures, composed of Sinhala, Tamil, Muslims and Burghers and including the major faiths - Buddhism, Hindu, Islam and Christianity. The... -
Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
RRP: £26.99£20.84An absorbing autobiography of a transsexualBook InformationISBN 9781566398404Author Aleshia BrevardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.