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Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology & Theology of the Feminine by Ann Belford Ulanov 9783856306069
RRP: £30.99£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856306069Author Ann Belford UlanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 264g -
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma by Judith L Richell 9789971693015
£36.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789971693015Author Judith L RichellFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint NUS PressPublisher NUS PressWeight(grams) 508g -
Ideas, Society and Politics in Northeast Asia and Northern Europe: Worlds Apart, Learning from Each Other by Ras Tind Nielsen 9788776941000
£30.09This intriguing volume explains why, after centuries of Western scholars studying Asia, Asian scholars are beginning to study Western societies in return. Responding to the rise of Nordic studies in China, Japan and Korea, the authors explore how... -
Tumbas Sin Sosiego: Revolucion, Disidencia y Exilio del Intelectual Cubano by Rafael Rojas 9788433962409
£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433962409Author Rafael RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 505Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 143mm * 27mm -
Participatory Social Work - Research, Practice, Education by Mariusz Granosik 9788323345992
£55.13As contemporary social work is challenged on the one hand by increasing and multidimensional social diversity and, on the other hand, an increasing emphasis on building a civil society based on activity, equality, and participation, the demand for... -
The Meaning of Kindness by Joanna Szafran 9783847116806
RRP: £42.99£35.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116806Author Joanna SzafranFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 218g -
Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD by Wayne Glausser 9781476693408
£30.36Albert Hofman 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... -
Somalis Abroad: Clan and Everyday Life in Finland by Stephanie R. Bjork 9780252082412
RRP: £23.99£21.57Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is... -
American Studies in Dialogue: Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique by Matthias Oppermann 9783593393179
RRP: £90.00£87.58American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessary to... -
Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe, Vol. 2: The View From Below: Nineteen Localities by Patrick Heady 9783593389622
£57.30Over the past few years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. "Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe" examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties... -
Key Concepts in Youth Studies by Mark Cieslik 9781848609846
RRP: £114.00£91.94What 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... -
Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville by Jeremy Hill 9781625341723
RRP: £27.95£27.27Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music... -
Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century by Christine Bose 9781566398381
RRP: £33.95£28.25An exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyBook InformationISBN 9781566398381Author Christine BoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
U.S. Marshals by Abby Colich 9781543501407
RRP: £29.32£17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543501407Author Abby ColichFormat HardbackImprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 249g -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy? by Paul Bernal 9781529707687
£38.96Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to... -
The Academic Caesar: University Leadership is Hard by Steve Fuller 9781473961784
£42.91Aimed directly at those who aspire to be university leaders in these turbulent times, and written as an academic counterpart to Machiavelli's The Prince, The Academic Caesar explores four themes that are central to the contemporary university: its... -
Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty 9781442612044
RRP: £31.00£29.47On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to... -
Gone Goose: The Remaking of an American Town in the Age of Climate Change by Braden T. Leap 9781439917336
RRP: £99.50£78.20Sumner, MO, pop. 102, near the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, proclaims itself "The Wild Goose Capital of the World." It even displays Maxie, the World's largest goose: a 40-foot tall fiberglass statue with a wingspan stretching more than... -
Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability by Carisa R. Showden 9781439916209
RRP: £92.50£72.95When cases of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) by predatory men are reported in the media, it is often presented that a young, innocent girl has been abused by bad men with their demand for sex and profit. This narrative has shaped popular... -
Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements by Rosalyn Benajmin Darling 9781439914748
RRP: £99.50£78.20For most sociologists, their life's work does not end with retirement. Many professors and practitioners continue to teach, publish, or explore related activities after leaving academia. They also connect with others in the field to lessen the isolation... -
Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family by Donald S. Pitkin 9781439913420
RRP: £85.00£73.18In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century.Each chapter of... -
Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City by Michael T. Maly 9781439911181
RRP: £75.50£60.46For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites' understanding of community and race? In Vanishing Eden, Michael Maly and Heather Dalmage provide an intriguing... -
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by Martin Frederiksen 9781439909188
RRP: £75.50£59.31An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinked An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are... -
The Risk Society Revisited: Social Theory and Risk Governance by Eugene A. Rosa 9781439902592
£23.32Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood 9781250254870
RRP: £21.00£13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254870Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture by Jules David Prown 9780870135248
RRP: £32.95£21.22When defining culture, even the smallest details must be taken into account. The contributors here consider the historical and pragmatical use for many items, and also look into the cultural correlatives and implications.Book InformationISBN... -
The Shadow of the Mills: Working-class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 by S.J. Kleinberg 9780822954453
RRP: £60.00£57.44The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and the work week was seven days - with every other Sunday for... -
Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East by Paul Amar 9780816690121
£23.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816690121Author Paul AmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press -
Trouble in the Forest: California's Redwood Timber Wars by Richard Widick 9780816653256
£29.27Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological... -
Identity Work in Social Movements by Jo Reger 9780816651405
£29.23Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores... -
Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American Modernity by Dana Seitler 9780816651245
£25.63A provocative exploration of the impact of the human sciences on literature, politics, and cultureThe post-Darwinian theory of atavism forecasted obstacles to human progress in the reappearance of throwback physical or cultural traits after several... -
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control by Raiford Guins 9780816648153
£26.67Not long ago it would have been an absurd idea to purchase a television, CD or MP3 or DVD player, computer software, or game console with the intention of limiting its capabilities. However, as Raiford Guins demonstrates in Edited Clean Version, today's... -
Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility by Donald Martin Carter 9780816647781
£31.50Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he... -
Model-Minority Imperialism by Victor Bascara 9780816645121
£25.85At the beginning of the twentieth century, soon after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, the United States was an imperialistic nation, maintaining (often with the assistance of military force) a far-flung and growing empire. After a long period... -
Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism by Michael A. Elliott 9780816639724
£27.10"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage was first articulated, tracing the concept of culture to the writings -- folktales, dialect... -
Lusosex: Gender And Sexuality In The Portuguese-Speaking World by Susan Canty Quinlan 9780816639212
£27.58Some of the most compelling theoretical debates in the humanities today center on representations of sexuality. This volume is the first to focus on the topic -- in particular, the connections between nationhood, sex, and gender -- in the Lusophone, or... -
Crisis Of Desire: Aids And The Fate Of Gay Brotherhood by Robin Hardy 9780816639113
£28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816639113Author Robin HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press -
Masculine Domination by Pierre Bourdieu 9780804738187
RRP: £100.00£91.92Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of Kabyle society provides... -
Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto by Makiko Nakano 9780804724401
RRP: £120.00£110.42This is the intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto. Makiko's husband was the had of his family's pharmaceutical business, and because the store and the family's living quarters were... -
Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert E. Babe Collection by Edward A. Comor 9780802095763
RRP: £37.00£33.87Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and...