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Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America: Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality by Ruud Koopmans
RRP: £125.00£112.12Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading... -
Gender at Work by Ann Game
RRP: £19.99£17.69Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and... -
Hahalis and the Labour of Love: A Social Movement on Buka Island by Max Rimoldi
RRP: £110.00£95.11This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first... -
The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman: Challenges and Critique Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9780815362227
RRP: £47.99£41.81Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. For several decades he has provided compelling analyses and diagnoses of a vast variety of aspects of modern and liquid modern living. This... -
Settling Disputes: Conflict Resolution In Business, Families, And The Legal System by Linda Singer
RRP: £49.99£43.50Within the past few years, innovative methods have been developed not only to settle disputes out of court but also to supplement or replace the means by which legislatures, businesses, communities, therapists, and schools handle conflicts that once... -
Words On Fire: One Woman's Journey Into The Sacred by Vanessa L. Ochs
RRP: £49.99£43.50When Vanessa Ochs begins to suspect her various physical ailments are due to her leading an ?unsanctified life,? she decides to travel to Jerusalem with her family to explore the sacred books of Judaism. Armed with a list of institutions and the names of... -
Rural Communities: Legacy + Change Cornelia Butler Flora 9780813349718
RRP: £54.99£48.12Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for... -
Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader David Grusky 9780813350646
RRP: £79.99£70.00This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in... -
Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture oe L. , Shirley R. Steinberg 9780813344058
RRP: £43.99£38.44For more than two thousand years Christian expansion and proselytizing was couched in terms of 'defending the faith'. Until recently in the United States, much of that defense came in the form of reactions against the 'liberal' influences channeled... -
The Geography Of Illegal Drugs by George F. Rengert
RRP: £43.99£38.44The nightly news and other media provide a constant reminder of illegal drug transport over American borders and along routes between various U.S. cities. The general public is well aware that law enforcement efforts to address the foreign supply and... -
That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior Lee Cronk 9780813337050
RRP: £37.99£33.38When evolutionary biology stretched out a tentacle called sociobiology and began to probe human behavior back in the 1970s, there was no room for neutrality. Advocates of the new science hailed the dawn of a new era in our understanding of human... -
Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda by Alan C. Kerckhoff
RRP: £54.99£47.72In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this... -
Race, Gender, And Discrimination At Work Samuel Cohn 9780813332024
RRP: £43.99£38.44In Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Samuel Cohns provides a fascinating, unorthodox account of the causes of discrimination at work. The book is packed with statistics, yet witty; rigorous, yet light. Cohn introduces readers to the fundamental... -
Infant Assessment by M. Virginia Wyly
RRP: £43.99£38.44Infancy is one of the most fascinating periods in the human life cycle. In two short years, infants become thinking, speaking, social beings. As this book explains, over the past three decades, researchers and clinicians have developed an array of... -
An America Challenged: Population Change And The Future Of The United States by Steve H. Murdock
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study looks at the implications of demographic changes in the USA for business, government and the public. Using up-to-date census information, the author provides a brief historical overview of recent demographic change in the USA and explains the... -
Reconceiving Black Adolescent Pregnancy by Elizabeth Merrick
RRP: £37.99£33.38Images of pregnant Black teenagers and single Black mothers are plentiful in the media and popular culture. These representations have fueled debates on the need for welfare reform and have focused public attention on adolescent pregnancy among Black... -
Rethinking The Subject: An Anthology Of Contemporary European Social Thought by James D. Faubion
RRP: £34.99£33.38Since the early seventies, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. Rethinking the Subject brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of... -
Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal by Walter Edwards
RRP: £20.99£18.37Japanese weddings have become thoroughly commercial affairs, with the vast majority now conducted at specialized establishments that offer, at great cost, lavish services for the Shinto ceremony and the ensuring reception. The postwar expansion of the... -
Activity, Incomes and Social Welfare: A Comparison across Four New EU Member States by Manuela Sofia Stanculescu
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s. The period covered was a particularly turbulent one, not only... -
A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices Lisa Taylor 9780754672210
RRP: £135.00£117.28Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in... -
Welfare Policy from Below: Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe by Arno Pilgram
RRP: £31.99£28.33Available in paperback for the first time, Welfare Policy from Below is the most comprehensive study available of social exclusion in contemporary Europe. Invigorating and informative, the book puts forward a new form of 'social exclusion knowledge',... -
Social Constructionism in Housing Research by Mr. Jim Kemeny
RRP: £135.00£117.28By stressing the importance of subjectivity and interpretation, social constructionism offers a different conception of reality from the traditional approach to housing policy analysis. This book provides an up-to-date review of the social... -
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts by David Martin-Jones
RRP: £31.00£28.69New in Paperback Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity challenges the traditional use of Deleuze's philosophy to examine European art cinema. It explores how Deleuze can be used to analyse national identity across a range of different cinemas. Focusing... -
Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity by Fiona M. Douglas
RRP: £90.00£81.97The first decade of the new Scottish Parliament has seen the emergence of a new-found national confidence. 'Scottishness' is clearly alive and flourishing. This book offers new and detailed insights into Scottish language and its usage by the Scottish... -
Identity Troubles: An introduction Anthony Elliott (University of South Australia, Australia) 9780415837118
RRP: £37.99£33.38In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations - the new... -
The Professional Thief by Edwin H. Sutherland
RRP: £28.00£27.39This monograph by a professional thief-with the aid of Edwin H. Sutherland's expert comments and analyses-is a revealing sociological document that goes far to explain the genesis, development, and patterns of criminal behavior. "Chic Conwell," as the... -
Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa by Paul Wenzel Geissler
RRP: £23.95£21.92This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the... -
Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon by Jane Rhodes
RRP: £17.99£16.90A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the... -
Eating Together: Food, Friendship and Inequality by Alice P. Julier
RRP: £20.99£18.37An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Delving into a wide range of research,... -
Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic by Laura Helen Marks
RRP: £19.99£17.54The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian... -
Wilhelm Reich In Hell by Robert Anton Wilson 9781952746161
RRP: £17.99£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952746161Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams)... -
What Young India Wants: Selected Non - Fiction by Chetan Bhagat 9788129135544
RRP: £8.99£2.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129135544Author Chetan BhagatFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography by Kamala Visweswaran 9780816623372
RRP: £19.99£17.54Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts that fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. Writing about her work with women... -
The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History by Dian H. Murray 9780804723244
RRP: £62.00£53.96The Tiandihui, also known as the Heaven and Earth Association or the Triads, was one of the earliest, largest, and most enduring of the Chinese secret societies that have played crucial roles at decisive junctures in modern Chinese history. These... -
The Rights of Minority Cultures by Will Kymlicka 9780198781011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £56.99£2.54This text collects together the most important contemporary articles on the rights of minority cultures. While drawing on particular case studies, the articles focus on the more general theoretical and normative issues raised by the accommodation of... -
The Rights of Minority Cultures by Will Kymlicka 9780198781011
RRP: £56.99£43.17This text collects together the most important contemporary articles on the rights of minority cultures. While drawing on particular case studies, the articles focus on the more general theoretical and normative issues raised by the accommodation of... -
Community Development in South Wales by Steve Clarke 9780708317341 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.26This volume provides a comprehensive overview setting community development work in south Wales in its historical context, as well as offering definitions of community development, the role of the practitioner, and values and issues in community... -
Orthodox Revivalism in Russia: Driving Forces and Moral Quests Milena Benovska 9780367563851
RRP: £39.99£35.06Orthodoxy has achieved a large scale revival in Russia following the collapse of Communism. However, paradoxically, although there is a high level of identification with Orthodoxy, there is in fact a low level of church attendance. This book, based on in... -
On Guilt: The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture by John Carroll 9780367207687
RRP: £37.99£33.38Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression - a force to be kept in check. Yet guilt is equally our richest and most hidden resource, the essence of our humanness, and it drives us... -
Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions by Sandra Annett 9781137480651
£101.32How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through...