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Prisons of Poverty by Loic Wacquant
£17.54In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law... -
Culture, Class, Distinction by Tony Bennett
RRP: £49.99£43.50Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain,... -
Police Culture: Themes and Concepts by Tom Cockcroft
RRP: £43.99£38.44Police culture has for over half a century attracted interest from academics, students, policy-makers, police institutions and the general public. However, the literature of this area has proven to be diverse, sprawling and prone to contradiction which... -
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory by Lizzie Seal
RRP: £36.99£32.53Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with... -
Essential Statistics For Social Research by Michael A. Malec
RRP: £43.99£38.44We need only scan a newspaper or magazine, turn on a news broadcast, or open a sociology text or journal to see that we live in an age that is heavily dependent on statistical information. The extent this dependency is such that it is rather difficult to... -
Justice and Egalitarian Relations by Christian Schemmel
RRP: £77.00£70.39Why does equality matter, as a social and political value, and what does it require? Relational egalitarians argue that it does not require that people receive equal distributive shares of some good, but that they relate as equals. Christian Schemmel... -
A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences by Gary Goertz
£27.74Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. In A Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney demonstrate that these two paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally... -
Reflexivity: Theory, Method, and Practice by Karen Lumsden
RRP: £39.99£35.06Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects. By being reflexive we acknowledge that we... -
Realism and Complexity in Social Science by Malcolm Williams
RRP: £37.99£33.38Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought, in scientific realism, complexity science, probability... -
Science as Practice and Culture by Andrew Pickering 9780226668017
RRP: £40.00£38.95Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward... -
Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation by Gideon Kunda
£24.96Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In... -
Key Concepts in Youth Studies by Mark Cieslik 9781848609853
£29.51What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context? Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research... -
Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory by Mike Fitzgerald 9780415027557 [USED COPY]
RRP: £37.99£2.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory by Mike Fitzgerald
RRP: £37.99£33.78First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorMike Fitzgerald, Gregor McLennan, Jennie PawsonBook InformationISBN 9780415027557Author Mike FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint... -
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Eva Illouz
£22.54To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie... -
Spooks: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents by Jim Hougan 9781504075299
RRP: £31.99£23.97"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing expose to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." -Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on... -
Religion, Dress and the Body by Linda Arthur 9781859732977
£34.23Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of the community to the outside world and separates them from a society that members believe is threatened by evil forces. Dress... -
Towards a Sociology of Dyslexia by Dr Stephen James MacDonald 9783639131130
£65.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639131130Author Dr Stephen James MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 431g -
When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States by Jocelyne Cesari 9781403971463
RRP: £44.99£44.97Exploring the woefully neglected reality of Islam as a major cultural and relgious facet of American and European politics and societies, Cesari examines how Muslims in the West are challenging the notion of an inevitable clash or confrontation. With... -
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach 9781526655196
£11.68'When a renowned constitutional scholar explains why the law is not enough and is sometimes even the problem, we need to listen' Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn 'Skach leads us to re-examine the virtues of a good citizen, one whom people can respect... -
The New Revelation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781943737987
RRP: £9.99£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737987Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Practical Feelings: Emotions as Resources in a Dynamic Social World by Marci D. Cottingham 9780197613689
£72.17Tracing emotions across work, leisure, social media, and politics, Practical Feelings counters old myths and shows how emotions are practical resources for tackling individual and collective challenges. We do not usually think of our emotions as... -
Extinguishing the Raging Fire that is the Capitalist System by Liziwe Ntshengulana 9781928348351
RRP: £15.95£14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928348351Author Liziwe NtshengulanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Verity PublishersPublisher Verity PublishersWeight(grams) 327g -
Confused by the Odds: How Probability Misleads Us by David Lockwood 9798886450033
RRP: £25.95£17.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran 9781451610949
RRP: £18.99£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451610949Author XinranFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204g -
Maxims of Political Leadership: Thoughts and Reflections on Issues in Management and Contemporary Leadership by Anthony Obi Ogbo 9781727869453
RRP: £20.00£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727869453Author Anthony Obi OgboFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Israel/Palestine and the Politics of a Two-State Future by Thomas G. Mitchell 9780786475971
RRP: £28.99£23.38This is a dispassionate examination of the viability of the two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the politics of Israel, Palestine and the United States, and includes case studies from South Africa in Namibia and the Irish... -
Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age: Interdisciplinary Essays by Om Prakash Dwivedi 9780786475520
RRP: £28.99£23.38The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalised world. Recognising the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the authors of the essays fill gaps that exist at theoretical... -
Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD by Wayne Glausser 9780786447855
RRP: £14.99£13.03Albert Hoffman first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. When he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips in 1943, he began a wave of experimentation that would reach its cultural heights in the academic and political mischief of... -
Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times by Sharon Y. Nickols 9780820348070
RRP: £36.95£36.00An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to... -
Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together by Marta Lopez-Garza 9780816633401
£28.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633401Author Marta Lopez-GarzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press -
Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line by Calvin Thomas 9780252065002
RRP: £35.00£31.73Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at... -
Key Concepts in Ethnography by Karen O'Reilly 9781412928649
£116.66"An accessible and entertaining read, useful to anybody interested in the ethnographic method." - Paul Miller, University of Cumbria "A very good introduction to ethnographic research, particularly useful for first time researchers."... -
Capitalism and the Information Age: Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution by Robert W. McChesney 9780853459897
£16.39This work constitutes an analysis of the political economy of the global communications revolution.Book InformationISBN 9780853459897Author Robert W. McChesneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U... -
Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary by Rob Wilson 9780822317029
£89.54This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we... -
Out At Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance by Patrick McCreery 9780816637416
£19.19Today in thirty-nine states, employers may legally fire workers simply because they are known or thought to be gay. Clearly, the struggle against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation has a long way to go. In Out at Work, a distinguished... -
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 by Kimberley L. Phillips 9780252067938
£20.01Langston Hughes called it "a great dark tide from the South": the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname "Alabama North." Kimberley L. Phillips reveals the breadth of working class black experiences and activities... -
Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats by Roger Rosenblatt 9780062084033
RRP: £16.99£12.50In "Making Toast", Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his 38-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in "Kayak Morning", he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. Everybody grieves he... -
Basic Questions on End of Life by STEWART 9780825430701
RRP: £7.99£5.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825430701Author STEWARTFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 45g -
Small Towns, Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans by Dennis Barone 9780934675611
RRP: £18.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675611Author Dennis BaroneFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 349g