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The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences by Michael E. Brown 9781439910153
RRP: £59.00£47.19In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology... -
Revolution Televised: Prime Time And The Struggle For Black Power by Christine Acham 9780816644322
RRP: £21.99£17.54After a decadelong hiatus, African Americans once again began appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. Bill Cosby costarred on I Spy, Sammy Davis Jr. briefly hosted a variety show, and in 1968 Diahann Carroll debuted in the title role of Julia,... -
Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy by Paul Garrett 9781473968967
RRP: £114.00£91.94'An impassioned and thorough dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform...get reading, get angry, get ready'. - Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London 'Rigorous, meticulously researched and edgy, Garrett's new... -
After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12 Era by Steven Brill 9780743237109
RRP: £16.00£12.63The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As "the pages flutter" -- marvels one critic... -
The Company of Others: Stories of Belonging by Sandra Shields 9781551521862
RRP: £19.95£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521862Author Sandra ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Travel Ruminations by Robert Hauptman 9781680537307
RRP: £107.00£89.77Travel Ruminations is a personal account of the author's walking, hiking, and mountain climbing over a 75-year career in all 50 U.S. states and 38 countries, but it is more than a mere memoir. Interspersed are remarks on the ecological aspects of his... -
Policing and the Powers of Persuasion: The Changing Role of the Association of Chief and Police Officers by Stephen Savage 9781841742472
£51.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841742472Author Stephen SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 372g -
Logic on the Track of Social Change by David Braybrooke 9780198235309
RRP: £44.49£41.68The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a... -
How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict by James K. Beggan 9781666907834
RRP: £85.00£74.51For the last twenty-thousand years, dogs and people have shared a unique bond in the animal kingdom. In How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict, James K. Beggan uses symbolic interaction to examine the meaning that dogs have for people as friends... -
Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois by Jonathon S. Kahn 9780195307894
RRP: £29.99£26.85W. E. B. Du Bois is an improbable candidate for a project in religion. His skepticism of and, even, hostility toward religion is readily established and canonically accepted. Indeed, he spent his career rejecting normative religious commitments to... -
Resettling Displaced Communities: Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement by William L Partridge 9781793624048
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793624048Author William L PartridgeFormat PaperbackImprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill-Driven World by Adrian Wood 9780198290155
£54.70Drawing on three fields of economics (international, labour, and development), this study shows that expansion of North-South trade in manufactures has had a far greater impact on labour markets than earlier work suggested. In the South, unskilled... -
The War That Changed Us: Ukrainian Novellas, Poems, and Essays from 2022 by Kateryna Pylypchuk 9783838218595
RRP: £25.00£20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838218595Author Kateryna PylypchukFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag,... -
Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i by Joanna Poblete 9780252082610
RRP: £21.99£17.54In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans... -
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora by Sherwin K. Bryant 9780252080012
RRP: £25.99£20.84Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Rachele Dini 9781912303731
RRP: £19.99£17.69Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized... -
New Technologies at Work by Christina Garsten 9781859736494
RRP: £35.99£31.69Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short period... -
Gypsies in Madrid by Paloma Gay y Blasco 9781859732533
RRP: £135.00£117.28Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have... -
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People by Ardis Cameron 9781405114660
RRP: £40.95£36.29"Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People" is a groundbreaking collection that explores the 'visual' in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. The book covers... -
Societal Problems as Public Bads by Nan Dirk de Graaf 9781138480209
RRP: £135.00£117.28Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality, large-scale migration... This book tackles many of the most pressing problems facing societies today. The... -
Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times by Nicole Shukin 9780816653416
RRP: £60.00£48.48The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the... -
Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals by Augusto Fauni Espiritu 9780804751209
RRP: £108.00£85.74Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More... -
Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir by Rhona Richman Kenneally 9780802096494
RRP: £32.00£28.21Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by... -
Agitation to Legislation: Negotiating Equity and Justice in India by Zoya Hasan 9780199482177
RRP: £32.99£30.24The book examines (1) the relationship between political mobilization and the making of policy/ to grant socio-economic rights (2) the creation of institutions and (3) representation in public institutions i.e. legislatures. It investigates the... -
Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives by Shakuntala Rao 9780199490820
RRP: £36.99£33.78In the ever changing information environment of the early 21st century, citizens and journalists alike are eagerly adapting to new technologies. India is no different. The country's communication revolution, in the post-liberalization era, had led to one... -
Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi by Amy Austin Holmes 9780190071455
RRP: £85.00£54.15In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin Holmes argues that the ousting of Mubarak in 2011 did not represent the culmination of a revolution or the beginning of a transition... -
Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement by Michael A. Messner 9780197573631
RRP: £83.00£75.34In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In... -
Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities' by Toni Erskine 9780197264379
£60.02In this innovative book, Toni Erskine offers a challenging and original normative approach to some of the most pressing practical concerns in world politics - including the contested nature of the prohibitions against torture and the targeting of... -
The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting by Lindsay Palmer 9780190680824
RRP: £29.99£27.59News "fixers" are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Operating in the shadows, fixers' contributions to journalism are largely hidden from us, yet they underpin... -
Opening the Mind Or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in Nordic Schools by Thorsteinn Helgason 9783899714821
RRP: £47.99£39.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899714821Author Thorsteinn HelgasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 504g -
Transforming Globalization: Challenges And Oppotunities In The Post 9/11 Era: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 3 by Bruce Podobnik 9781608460441
RRP: £30.00£19.88This volume examines the emergence of the movement of resistance that has arisen to challenge neoliberal forms of globalization. The authors describe how workers, environmentalists, human rights activists and a wide variety of other groups have joined... -
Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice by Joseph Zornado 9781138342842
RRP: £135.00£117.28Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that... -
Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: The Protests Against Anti-Contagion Measures and Vaccination During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Prof Donatella della Porta 9780198884309
RRP: £70.00£63.74Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture by James Marten 9780190920753
£107.50Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities... -
The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation by Jason Demers 9781487504489
£45.99Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements, and American countercultures. From the... -
Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico by Miles V. Rodriguez 9780197558102
RRP: £44.49£40.42The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of... -
Invisible Weapons: Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements by Marcus Board 9780197605226
RRP: £93.00£84.26Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include empowering people to advocate for themselves and their communities, the idea that power must embrace accountability, and a... -
Class and Everyday Life: Critiques and Practices by Kirsteen Paton 9781138927353
RRP: £135.00£117.28Why is social class still important in the twenty-first century, and in what ways? This text challenges claims that class is `dead' by exploring how it comes to manifest itself in our everyday lives, whether in the bedroom or the gym, on social media... -
Climate Change and the Health Sector: Healing the World by Alexander Thomas 9781032039992
RRP: £135.00£109.25The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against... -
Crime and Inequality by John Hagan 9780804724777
RRP: £29.99£24.14These essays examine how and why inequality affects the patterning of crime and criminal justice. They evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies regarding crime and inequality; document the dynamics of inequality in...