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Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden by Michele Micheletti
RRP: $174.15$151.29Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in society are demanding equal treatment, and others whose struggles for recognition are older and unwon, are... -
Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen by Wendy Jones
RRP: $25.80$16.59It is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories-the human brain is a social brain. Jane Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings but friends. Brilliantly original and... -
The Politics of Exclusion: The Failure of Race-Neutral Policies in Urban America by Leland T. Saito
$128.30Contrasting views of race and society make for heated debate in the United States. From the perspective of assimilation, society operates in a fair, open, and meritocratic fashion. Racial discrimination, while not completely eliminated, arguably has... -
Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman by H. L. Malchow
$143.05A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718073Author H. L. MalchowFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 953g -
Police Cars by Keli Sipperley
RRP: $10.31$6.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977133304Author Keli SipperleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 203g -
Caribbean Primary Social Studies Book 2 by Marcellus Albertin
$16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510478114Author Marcellus AlbertinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education -
Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management by Terri M. Adams
RRP: $109.65$87.54When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the short- and long-term effects of these events on first responders-the very people society relies upon in the midst of a catastrophe-are often overlooked. Policing in Natural Disasters provides a... -
Metodolgia y Practica de La Animacion Sociocultural by Ezequiel Ander-Egg
$28.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483163658Author Ezequiel Ander-EggFormat PaperbackImprint CCS PublishingPublisher CCS Publishing -
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi
RRP: $33.53$26.88Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In Sao Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as merchants, shopkeepers, and industrialists that made them a dominant force in the... -
Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology by Ellen Lewin
RRP: $25.79$21.03A companion volume to Out in the Field, a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theory presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging... -
Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century by Diane Davis
RRP: $49.02$44.80Why, Diane Davis asks, has Mexico City, once known as the city of palaces, turned into a sea of people, poverty, and pollution? Through historical analysis of Mexico City, Davis identifies political actors responsible for the uncontrolled... -
Caribbean Primary Social Studies Book 1 by Marjorie Brathwaite
$16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510478107Author Marjorie BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education -
The Social Construction of Ancient Cities by Monica L. Smith
RRP: $38.64$31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588342911Author Monica L. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives by Peter F. Conrad
RRP: $156.09$145.91The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives brings together a collection of readings from the scholarly literature on health, medicine, and health care. Edited by two leading experts in the field, the Eleventh Edition of this anthology for... -
Mediacion Familiar by Lisa Parkinson
$39.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497840750Author Lisa ParkinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial -
Bite Back: People Taking On Corporate Food and Winning by Saru Jayaraman
RRP: $27.09$21.45The 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... -
George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law by Edward D. Ives
RRP: $33.53$26.88George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as... -
Politics and Scholarship: Feminist Academic Journals and the Production of Knowledge by Patrice McDermott
RRP: $36.11$27.95"Well argued and documented, Politics and Scholarship is a fascinating reading of a broader historical perspective of feminist concerns than just the three journals of focus: Feminist Studies, Frontiers, and Signs. The author's historical framework... -
The Little Community by Robert Redfield
RRP: $36.12$35.33This volume combines two classic works of anthropology. The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains,... -
Class, Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand by Alexander Horstmann
RRP: $46.43$38.18In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study... -
Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants by Hans-Christian Petersen
RRP: $43.85$36.13What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at... -
The Neo-Assyrian Shield: Evolution, Heraldry, and Associated Tactics by Fabrice De Backer
RRP: $27.09$25.41This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the... -
The Making of the Populist Movement: State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier by Adam Slez
RRP: $63.84$52.35When it comes to explaining the origins of electoral populism in the United States, we often look to the characteristics and conditions of voters, overlooking the reasons why populist candidates emerge in the first place. In The Making of the... -
Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada by Sharon Hepburn
RRP: $50.31$40.17A story of freedom and flourishing in a community of former slavesIn 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen of his former slaves founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on a 9,000-acre block of land in Ontario set aside for sale to blacks... -
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador by Michael Uzendoski
RRP: $30.95$24.76Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's years of fieldwork in indigenous communities, Michael Uzendoski's theoretically informed work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. ... -
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales by Vance Randolph
RRP: $19.34$16.24Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at... -
Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics by Damion L. Thomas
RRP: $28.37$22.63Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate... -
Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapter in Organizational Ethnography by Michael Rosen
RRP: $46.43$40.88This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and advertising to the subworld of drug dealing.Book... -
Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter by Rhoda M. Wilkie
RRP: $37.40$32.20How humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsHow humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsAbout the AuthorRhoda Wilkie is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen, where she earned her doctorate in 2002... -
Social Statistics for a Diverse Society by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias
RRP: $121.26$108.14This new edition of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society continues to emphasize intuition and common sense, while demonstrating the link between the practice of statistics and important social issues. Recognizing that today's students live in a... -
Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography by Tamara Mose Brown
RRP: $36.11$27.95Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography exposes the intimate relationship between ethnographers as both family members and researchers. The contributors to this exciting volume question and problematize the "artificial divide" between work and family... -
Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary by Ummni Khan
RRP: $45.15$40.93Who decides where "normal" stops and "perverse" begins? In Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis... -
For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption by Richard Butsch
RRP: $38.69$31.14Essays explore the transformation in leisure activity and its effects on class relations in American societyEssays explore the transformation in leisure activity and its effects on class relations in American societyAbout the AuthorRichard Butsch is... -
In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State by Matthew Sparke
RRP: $28.37$24.21How is the meaning of the hyphen in "nation-state" changing in the context of globalization and proliferating political struggles? How can we investigate the transformation of the nation-state by marking the normally unmarked hyphen in "geo-graphy"?... -
Left Behind In Rosedale: Race Relations And The Collapse Of Community Institutions by Scott Cummings
RRP: $174.15$151.81Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings' unique book breathes human life into one of the... -
Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement's Response to Social Progress by Kristin J Anderson
RRP: $36.11$30.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197578438Author Kristin J AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America by Rachel Kahn Best
RRP: $49.01$27.48For 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... -
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by Martin Frederiksen
RRP: $33.53$26.88An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinked About the AuthorMartin Demant Frederiksen is External Lecturer in Anthropology at the Institute of Culture and Society,... -
Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule by Vicente L. Rafael
RRP: $29.66$23.70In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580-1705) of... -
The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics by Ronald Inglehart
RRP: $96.75$75.45This book contends that beneath the frenzied activism of the sixties and the seeming quiescence of the seventies, a "silent revolution" has been occurring that is gradually but fundamentally changing political life throughout the Western world. Ronald...