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From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features:a completely rewritten...

A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225479Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 77g

To be poor, working-class, or a person of colour in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, ...

Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age of discovery - paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446020936Author Professor Angela DavisFormat PaperbackImprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal EdicionesWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 172mm * 16mm

The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In...

"Assembled in Japan" investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita,...

After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China,...

This book examines how Hip Hop, far beyond its musical aspects, represents a powerful force for social, economic, and cultural transformation in America. Through detailed analysis and real-world examples, it demonstrates how Hip Hop's innovative spirit...

Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists: A Former Serf Village in the Republic of Guinea by William Derman offers a detailed ethnographic and historical study of social transformation in the Fouta-Djallon highlands. Focusing on the Fulbe people and the...

Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists: A Former Serf Village in the Republic of Guinea by William Derman offers a detailed ethnographic and historical study of social transformation in the Fouta-Djallon highlands. Focusing on the Fulbe people and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356290440Author Chetan BhagatFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IndiaDimensions(mm)...

Joy Ann Williamson charts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

Collectively, the papers of this volume reveal the cultural dynamism of Tibet in the period between 900 and 1400CE, when the fundamental contours of Tibetan Buddhism were still fluid and highly contested.The papers address a spectrum of issues in Tibetan...

This collection introduces Activity Theory to the current generation of theorists and researchers. Originating in early Soviet psychology, suppressed by Stalin, and later rediscovered, this rich theoretical tradition and intellectual movement...

In Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West, Arthur E. R. Boak, applying to population trends in antiquity the methods worked out by modern demographers, shows that there was a real and general decline in both rural and town...

Winner of the Ralph Bunche Award, American Political Science Association No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression. Mark Naison describes how the party won the...

Remembering Revolutionary Women considers the afterlives of individual revolutionary women and proposes that to understand how they are remembered requires a focus on the active role of remembering subjects and the groups they form; not only asking how...

Transforming Science: Theory and Practice is an accessible handbook aimed at scientists, researchers, and students interested in research for transformative social change. Readers learn to design and implement a research project that forwards scientific...

How do we build real solidarity in times of crisis? Written by grassroots organisers from besea.n, Britain's East and South East Asian Network, this book centres the voices of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities in the UK and explores what...

Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces decisively demonstrates the extent to which utopianism has shaped political thought, cultural imaginaries, and social engagement after it was introduced into the Chinese...

Competing Memories focuses on the politics of remembering enslavement, emancipation and indentureship in Caribbean contexts. The contributions explore constructions and representations of plural and divergent memories across academic disciplines. As...

Grounded in ethnographic research over five years in Palestinian villages near Bethlehem, Olive Growing in Palestine follows the lives of four families and fifty other individuals involved with olive growing as a form of resistance. Providing a...

Originally published in 2002, this engaging ethnographic study uncovers the problems that arise when principles underlying policy are difficult to interpret and are at odds with the culture of the locality within which policy is implemented. Examining...

The De Gruyter European Handbook on Hate Crime offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and the latest research on hate crime across Europe. Against a backdrop of growing political and legal tensions surrounding identity and rights, it provides a...

An ideal companion for PhD students and graduates ready to embrace their options outside the Academy. Options for Success is a transformative, step-by-step guide designed for early to mid-career academics exploring career paths beyond faculty roles...

Folklore, defined as the informal customs, beliefs, verbal art, and vernacular crafts of any particular folk group, is an indelible part of human culture. The study of it emerged out of the romantic nationalist movement of nineteenth-century Europe and...

In The Unknowable Body, Lisa Jean Moore explores the profound disconnect between how we experience our bodies and how the medical world interprets them. Drawing on her own journey through DCIS diagnosis, mastectomy, and reconstruction - alongside her...

This open access book explores two previously separate strands of research: socio-technical imaginaries, and the production and contestation of space. It addresses the controversial role of emerging and speculative technologies in debates on...

In Brainmaker Sukanto Bhattacharya examines the co-evolution of human and synthetic intelligence from a socio-anthropological perspective. He begins by presenting a history of technology discovery and adoption by human society, underpinning the...

In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the...

Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass mediaas well as...

This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread among the contributions is an...

Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622013544Author John MinfordFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint The Chinese University PressPublisher The Chinese University PressWeight(grams) 641g

While the study of antiquity and its reception has been an important subject of study for centuries, theoretical approaches to the ways in which reception operates in practice have proven difficult to establish. Classical works, images, and narratives...

This book focuses on the conflicts between Chinese medicine and western medicine in modern Chinese society. It is trying to represent how Chinese medicine used its knowledge of exogenous febrile diseases while practicing western medicine, gradually...

A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374619329Author Cory DoctorowFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 25mm