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Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty 9781442612044
RRP: $39.99$38.02On 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... -
The Risk Society Revisited: Social Theory and Risk Governance by Eugene A. Rosa 9781439902592
$30.08Risk 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: $27.09$16.90Apologies 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... -
The Shadow of the Mills: Working-class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 by S.J. Kleinberg 9780822954453
$72.61The 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... -
Masculine Domination by Pierre Bourdieu 9780804738187
RRP: $129.00$118.58Masculine 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: $154.80$142.44This 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: $47.73$43.69Media, 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... -
Karl Popper and the Social Sciences by William A. Gorton 9780791466629
RRP: $31.97$27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791466629Author William A. GortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap by Maureen Baker 9780774823975
RRP: $36.11$32.19Academic Careers and the Gender Gap will appeal to aspiring and established academics in a variety of fields, particularly sociology and gender studies, and will also be of interest to education policy makers.Book InformationISBN 9780774823975Author... -
Five Frames for the Decameron: Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE by Joy Hambuechen Potter 9780691641911
$121.60Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its relationship to the stories. Originally published in... -
The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986 by Nita Kumar 9780691629636
$146.20Nita Kumar offers an evocative and sensitive portrayal of rarely explored aspects of Hindu culture through her analysis of the way leisure time is used by Hindu and Muslim artisans of Banaras--the weavers, metalworkers, and woodworkers. Music, festivals,... -
The Political Context of Sociology by Leon Bramson 9780691649962
RRP: $117.39$106.55The author traces 19th-century origins of sociology in post-Revolutionary Europe, and contrasts European and American approaches to sociological data. Using the concepts of mass behavior and mass society as case studies, he suggests the continuing... -
The Art of Asking Questions: Studies in Public Opinion, 3 by Stanley Le Baron Payne 9780691643069
RRP: $154.80$143.63While the statisticians are trying to knock a few tenths off the statistical error, says Mr. Payne, errors of tens of percents occur because of bad question wording. Mr. Payne's shrewd critique of the problems of asking questions reveals much about the... -
Individualism and Socialism: Life and Thought of Kawai Eijiro, 1891-1944 by Atsuko Hirai 9780674451254
$50.31Kawai Eijiro was a controversial figure in Japan during the interwar years. Dedicated to the idea that the socialist aspiration for economic equality could be combined with a classical liberal commitment to individual political and civil rights, he... -
Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism by Ka-Ming Wu 9780252039881
$130.30The final destination of the Long March and center of the Chinese Communist Party's red bases, Yan'an acquired mythical status during the Maoist era. Though the city's significance as an emblem of revolutionary heroism has faded, today's Chinese still... -
Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai 9780252035258
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Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users by Huatong Sun 9780199744763
$62.77The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local,... -
Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language by Gaurav Mathur 9780199732548
RRP: $103.20$71.98Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson,... -
Don't Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780197691335
RRP: $82.56$74.39Along with the concepts of social role, social group, social network, social class, and social structure, the notion of impersonality is one of the pillars of the sociological imagination: the ability to think beyond individuals and see them as members... -
Policing the Risk Society by Richard V. Ericson 9780198265535
$95.05In this provocative new book, Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty contend that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organizations that operate based on a knowledge of risk. In turn,... -
Propaganda and the Role of the State in Inter-War Britain by Mariel Grant 9780198204442
$58.01This is a study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux and information services in Whitehall. She shows how during the inter-war period publicity came to be... -
Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America by Rachel Kahn Best 9780190918408
RRP: $126.42$103.10For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health... -
Contentious Minds: How Talk and Ties Sustain Activism by Florence Passy 9780190078010
RRP: $126.42$103.10This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why does the mind matter... -
Port Cybersecurity: Securing Critical Information Infrastructures and Supply Chains by Nineta Polemi 9780128118184
$108.59Port Cybersecurity: Securing Critical Information Infrastructures and Supply Chains examines a paradigm shift in the way ports assess cyber risks and vulnerabilities, as well as relevant risk management methodologies, by focusing on initiatives and... -
Winning the Money Game: Lessons Learned from the Financial Fouls of Athletes by Adonal Foyle 9780062342607
RRP: $12.89$12.46A successful NBA veteran offers essential financial management advice for athletes, their families, and the fans to help them protect and keep their wealth.Over his sixteen-year career, former NBA center Adonal Foyle has watched other pros burn through... -
When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care by Robert F. Bornstein 9781557048165
RRP: $21.87$15.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557048165Author Robert F. BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 445g -
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World by David Soinit 9780872864207
RRP: $23.16$18.10The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles can provide vision and hope, and in this collection of 33 articles... -
Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States by Tsypylma Darieva 9783593382418
RRP: $54.18$52.13Since the Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. How do citizens in the Baltic and South Caucasian states cope with EU expansion and the feeling of existing... -
The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the U.S. by Jorge Castaneda 9781565843110
RRP: $29.67$21.01Mexico's fate is encreasingly entwined with that of the United States. In this book, Castaneda examines the key issues in Mexican life: the impact of emigration, the relationship between politics and economics and the cultural changes taking place as... -
Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education by Ajay Heble 9781487500795
$60.62Building on the concept of a "teaching community," Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and... -
Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion by Maria C. Sanchez 9780814781227
$115.95Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the... -
Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories by Gyanendra Pandey 9780804752633
RRP: $141.90$130.42Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices-the drawing up of political... -
China after Jiang by Gang Lin 9780804749183
RRP: $141.90$130.28Because power in China is so concentrated at the top, changes in leadership usually mean changes in many other domains as well. In this study, based on documents released around the time Jiang Zemin left office in November 2002 and interviews with... -
Who Supports the Family?: Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages by Jean L. Potuchek 9780804728362
$26.88In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife' s paid employment much less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for... -
Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value by Evan Watkins 9780804716918
$122.77This book shares with a number of recent studies an interest in the historical development of English in the United States, in how it became a central discipline in the humanities, and in what the ideological affiliations of literature and literary study... -
Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal by Walter Edwards 9780804715126
$105.11Japanese 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... -
Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing by Fedwa Malti-Douglas 9780691657196
RRP: $141.90$130.63Woman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-Islamic tradition, argues Fedwa Malti-Douglas in this pioneering book. Spanning the ninth through twentieth centuries and covering a wide range of texts-from courtly anectdote to mystical and... -
Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem by Aharon Ben-Ami 9780691648811
RRP: $117.39$108.32Through a comprehensive case study of the twelfth-century Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, the author shows how a changing international system encourages or retards the development of social structures, thereby relating the Crusaders' experience to... -
The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China by Cynthia Joanne Brokaw 9780691637181
$145.68The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or... -
Avicenna and the Visionary Recital: (Mythos Series) by Henry Corbin 9780691600703
RRP: $64.50$58.24In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine,...