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The Art of Asking Questions: Studies in Public Opinion, 3 by Stanley Le Baron Payne 9780691643069
£109.12While 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
£39.00Kawai 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... -
Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio by Derek W. Vaillant 9780252082931
RRP: £25.99£20.84In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and... -
Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism by Ka-Ming Wu 9780252039881
RRP: £99.00£79.32The 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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Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy by Lynda Walsh 9780199857098
£116.01Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God? Why does NASA climatologist James Hansen plead with us in his recent book not to waste "Our Last Chance to Save Humanity"? Because science advisors are our new prophets, Lynda Walsh argues in... -
Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users by Huatong Sun 9780199744763
RRP: £55.00£48.66The 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: £80.00£55.80Deaf 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,... -
Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach by Mark Bevir 9780198832942
RRP: £67.00£66.69In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because... -
Voluntary Action: Brains, Minds, and Sociality by Sabine Maasen 9780198527541
£80.35We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or goal, then an action designed to fulfil that wish or attain that goal. This standard view of voluntary... -
Don't Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780197691335
RRP: £64.00£57.67Along 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
£67.51In 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
£44.97This 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: £98.00£79.92For 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: £98.00£79.92This 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
RRP: £93.99£84.18Port 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: £9.99£9.66A 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: £16.95£11.46Apologies 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
£13.61The 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: £42.00£40.41Since 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: £19.95£15.81Mexico'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
£46.99Building 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
£89.88Passing 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... -
Landscape for a Good Woman by Steedman 9780813512587
£37.79This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties... -
Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories by Gyanendra Pandey 9780804752633
£99.06Much 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
£99.08Because 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
RRP: £23.99£19.19In 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
£95.17This 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
RRP: £94.00£75.53Japanese 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... -
Social Problems in a Free Society: Myths, Absurdities, and Realities by Myles J. Kelleher 9780761829249
RRP: £55.00£48.03The future of the sociologist's profession is jeopardized by an ongoing trend toward the politicization of sociology and the radicalization of social problems. This book calls for the rethinking of the culture of social, political, and economic liberty... -
Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing by Fedwa Malti-Douglas 9780691657196
£99.23Woman'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
£82.24Through 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
£112.93The 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... -
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chavez 9780252079580
RRP: £24.99£20.01Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "coalitional moments" in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant... -
The Sceptical Optimist: Why technology isn't the answer to everything by Nicholas Agar 9780198717058
RRP: £20.99£15.72The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical... -
After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority by Mike Hill 9780814735428
RRP: £80.00£64.45View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By... -
Global Television: Co-Producing Culture by Barbara J. Selznick 9781592135042
RRP: £26.99£24.11The face of U.S. television broadcasting is changing in ways that are both profound and subtle. Global Television uncovers the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues... -
Hybridity: The Cultural Logic Of Globalization by Marwan Kraidy 9781592131433
RRP: £64.00£55.24Hybridity, the interaction of people and media from different cultures, is a communication-based phenomenon. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the... -
Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement by Mira Sucharov 9781487587451
£26.41How can twenty-first-century scholars and other experts engage with wider audiences beyond their peers? In Public Influence, Mira Sucharov walks readers through the ins and outs of op-ed writing and social media engagement. Enlivened with discussions of... -
Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics by Jane Pitcher 9781473989344
RRP: £129.00£104.24The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas common...