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In And Out Of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David McMurray
RRP: £19.99£17.54A revealing inquiry into how global culture is lived locally.Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany descend on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador,... -
The Dark Side of Podemos?: Carl Schmitt and Contemporary Progressive Populism by Josh Booth
RRP: £53.99£46.87In 2014 a new progressive party, Podemos, emerged on the Spanish political scene. Within just over two years it had become the country's third-biggest party, winning a slew of seats in parliament and regularly making headline news. While some see Podemos... -
Birth and Death: Experience, Ethics, Politics Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) 9780815380689
RRP: £37.99£33.38Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living.Written by... -
Lives of Muslims in India: Politics, Exclusion and Violence by Abdul Shaban
RRP: £45.99£40.53The 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,... -
Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience: Adults Understanding Young People by Liam Grealy
RRP: £135.00£117.28How do adults understand youth? How do their conceptions inform interventions into young lives or involve young people's experiences? This volume tackles these questions by exploring adults' ideas about youth. Specifically, Youth, Technology,... -
Ethnomorality of Care: Migrants and their Aging Parents Agnieszka Radziwinowiczowna 9780815354031
RRP: £135.00£117.68What happens when the parents of migrants age and need care in mobile and aging societies? Ethnomorality of Care acts as a window in sharing how physical distance challenges family-centered elderly care by juxtaposing transnational families with... -
Breaking Away From Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods And The Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, And Decline by Ralph Taylor
RRP: £49.99£47.72In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis- that is, the currently fashionable notion that by reducing or eliminating superficial signs of disorder... -
The Elusive Messiah: A Philosophical Overview Of The Quest For The Historical Jesus Raymond Martin 9780813391489
RRP: £37.99£33.38What might the findings of researchers engaged in the quest for the historical Jesus mean to Christians? In posing this question and others, The Elusive Messiah opens a window for looking anew at the age old problem of faith vs. reason.To fully... -
If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy Of Television News by Matthew Robert Kerbel
£22.63You've been watching television news forever. You're intimately familiar with the friendly faces and soothing voices that nightly tell you what's wrong with the world. You think you know everything there is to know about them. You're wrong.If It Bleeds,... -
Christianity After Communism: Social, Political, And Cultural Struggle In Russia by Niels C. Nielsen
RRP: £37.99£33.38Religious leaders and experts engage in an open and concise discussion of the of the slow progress of Christian growth in Russia. Editor Niels C. Nielsen Jr. has colleted an enlightening discussion of current and past challanges of the Russian Chrisitan... -
The Post-war Generation And The Establishment Of Religion by Jackson W. Carroll
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of the post-war ?Baby Boom? generation on Christianity around the world. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the contributors examine ten advanced countries, including England, France,... -
Cosmopolitan Justice by Darrel Moellendorf
RRP: £44.99£43.50Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of human rights have forced questions of global justice into political discussions. Is the unequal distribution of wealth across the globe just? What's wrong with... -
Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society Dustin Kidd 9780813350875
RRP: £39.99£35.46Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Pop Culture Freaks highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise... -
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Robert D. Bullard 9780813344249
RRP: £43.99£38.44On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws,... -
Hate Crimes and Ethnoviolence: The History, Current Affairs, and Future of Discrimination in America by Howard J. Ehrlich
RRP: £37.99£33.38Over the past twenty years, Howard J. Ehrlich conducted the first national surveys of ethnoviolence, helped design the protocol for identifying hate crimes, and has served as the director of The Prejudice Institute. This collection of essays is the... -
Understanding Words That Wound Richard Delgado 9780813341392
RRP: £49.99£43.50Successor and companion volume to Words that Wound, the first book to argue for recognition of hate speech as a serious social problem. The current volume greatly expands the coverage of hate speech, including chapters on children, the internet, recent... -
Visions Of Virtue In Popular Film by Joseph H. Kupfer
RRP: £49.99£43.50Visions of Virtue in Popular Film grows out of the interplay between film criticism and a philosophical view of virtue. Joseph H. Kupfer argues that film fictions can be integral to moral reflection, and thus by examining the narrative and cinematic... -
Disarmed And Dangerous: The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan, Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience by Murray Polner
RRP: £54.99£47.72What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their traditionally pious, second-generation immigrant... -
Race And Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views On Prejudice, Discrimination, And Ethnoviolence by Fred L. Pincus
RRP: £51.99£45.19In the revised and updated second edition of this comprehensive book, the first anthology to integrate social-psychological literature on prejudice with sociological and historical investigations, contributors introduce readers to the key debates and... -
A Nation Of Meddlers by Dennis Brissett
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book examines the emergent meddling phenomenon with insightful and provocative descriptions about why meddling is so appealing and how meddling is packaged and marketed. It is a testimony to a life filled with accomplishment, loyalty, friendship,... -
Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy Of Intellectual Property Ronald V. Bettig 9780813333045
RRP: £49.99£43.50Launching into a complete analysis of copyright law in our capitalistic and hegemonistic political system, Ronald Bettig uncovers the power of the wealthy few to expand their fortunes through the ownership and manipulation of intellectual property... -
Measuring Up: The Performance Ethic In American Culture by James M. Mannon
RRP: £34.99£33.38Measuring Up explores the relentless pressure many Americans feel to measure up successfully with respect to grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified ?aptitudes.? This unique text focuses both on the macro and micro aspects of social... -
Love Analyzed Roger Lamb 9780813332239
RRP: £43.99£38.44Philosophers have turned their attention in recent years to many previously unmined topics, among them love and friendship. In this collection of new essays in philosophical and moral psychology, philosophers turn their analytic tools to a topic perhaps... -
After Political Correctness: The Humanities And Society In The 1990s by Christopher Newfield
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines, causing university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight, the... -
The AIDS Epidemic: Social Dimensions Of An Infectious Disease by William A. Rushing
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book, a comprehensive introduction to the problem of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the infectious disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the... -
Inequality, Crime, And Social Control by George S. Bridges
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal behavior, exploring the ways in which social class, race, gender, and age shape societal and... -
Criminological Controversies: A Methodological Primer by John L. Hagan
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book is about how to study crime. It addresses the controversies in crime as a means of developing answers and of contributing to the resolution of disputes and as a means of introducing and explaining basic methods of a social science of crime.Book... -
Family: The Making Of An Idea, An Institution, And A Controversy In American Culture by Betty Farrell
RRP: £49.99£43.50The research conducted by family historians over the past three decades challenges, modifies, and ultimately enriches sociological understandings about American family life today. By looking closely at the historical record, the author is able to debunk... -
The Culture Of Religious Pluralism by Richard E. Wentz
RRP: £37.99£33.38Providing a historical context, this book examines the challenges that pluralism presents to denominationalism and civil religion and considers the contributions secularism and the New Age movement have made to the culture of religious pluralism.Book... -
After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority by Mike Hill
RRP: £23.99£20.84As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little... -
Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad by Karen Isaksen Leonard
RRP: £70.00£60.71This book is a comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. Based on ten years of fieldwork and... -
The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult by Brigitte Baptandier
RRP: £66.00£57.33This anthropological study examines the cult of the Chinese goddess Chen Jinggu, divine protector of women and children. The cult of the "Lady of Linshui" began in the province of Fujian on the southeastern coast of China during the eleventh... -
Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
RRP: £24.99£21.67This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the... -
Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies by Edward L. Schieffelin
RRP: £32.00£28.21A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718998Author Edward L. SchieffelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 490g -
Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume I, 1750-1880 by Susan Groag Bell
RRP: £35.00£31.14This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the... -
Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives by Alice K. Johnson Butterfield
RRP: £64.99£56.14Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives is a unique look at the innovations in interdisciplinary community development around the world. International leaders in geography, public policy, administration, social work,... -
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values by Terry S. Trepper
RRP: £41.99£36.75Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book relates personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and the... -
Community Economic Development and Social Work by Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
RRP: £86.99£75.54In Community Economic Development and Social Work, you'll find innovative theoretical approaches to the newly emerging field of community economic development (CED). You'll see how community leaders, residents, community organizations, social workers,... -
Sex Work and Sex Workers Roberto Refinetti, PhD 9780765804914
RRP: £43.99£38.44Sexuality & Culture serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical, cultural, psychological, social, and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include, but are not limited to: sexual consent and... -
American Cold War Culture by Douglas Field
RRP: £31.00£28.69Although it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of Communism in the 1950s and...