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Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by Martin Frederiksen
RRP: £25.99£20.84An 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: £22.99£18.37In 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: £75.00£58.49This 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... -
Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity by Elora Halim Chowdhury
RRP: £25.99£20.84Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that... -
Understanding Misunderstandings: A Practical Guide to More Successful Human Interaction by Robert L. Young
RRP: £16.99£14.24Have you ever meant one thing, but said another? Reacted angrily when no offense was intended? Wished that the earth would open up and swallow you? Understanding Misunderstandings will help you get out and stay out of these difficulties. Robert L... -
Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82 by Najia Aarim
RRP: £23.99£19.19The "Chinese question" and the "Negro problem" were bound up with one another in nineteenth-century America. Indeed, the negative stereotypes, exclusionary laws, and incendiary rhetoric employed against both populations bore striking similarities. Najia... -
Marriage In A Culture Of Divorce by Karla B. Hackstaff
RRP: £29.99£26.50Today, when fifty percent of couples who marry eventually get divorced, it's clear that we have moved from a culture in which /u0022marriage is forever/u0022 to one in which /u0022marriage is contingent./u0022 Author Karla Hackstaff looks at intact... -
Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education by Ajay Heble
RRP: £24.99£22.81Building 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... -
Rediscovering Values: A Moral Compass For the New Economy by Jim Wallis
RRP: £9.99£6.80When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the result we want. Rather than asking, 'When will this economic crisis be over?' Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is 'How will this crisis change us?'... -
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story by Natalie P. Byfield
RRP: £27.99£21.67In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of "wilding"-episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble. Police intent... -
Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing by Jeff Hearn
RRP: £98.00£79.67Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces. The book... -
Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 by Carol Lynn McKibben
RRP: £19.99£15.90Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages... -
Hopi Tales of Destruction by Ekkehart Malotki
RRP: £23.99£17.32Hopi Tales of Destruction preserves seven powerful tales about ancient Hopi villages that now lie in ruins. These narratives shed considerable light on the Hopis' past, giving insight into cultural values and social motivations beyond the ability of... -
African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City by David R. Colburn
RRP: £27.99£21.67On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors held office, and by 1993 sixty-seven major urban centers,... -
The Social Teaching of the Black Churches by Peter J. Paris
£17.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800618056Author Peter J. ParisFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American by Shehong Chen
RRP: £25.99£23.26Documenting the emergence and character of the distinctly Chinese American identityBook InformationISBN 9780252073892Author Shehong ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press -
Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the Social Sciences by Emma Dominguez-Rue
RRP: £41.99£34.36The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. Technology, however, has... -
Speaking in Queer Tongues: GLOBALIZATION AND GAY LANGUAGE by William L. Leap
RRP: £22.99£18.37Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. Speaking in Queer Tongues investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system... -
Communicating with Asia: Understanding People and Customs by Harry Irwin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863739481Author Harry IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g -
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are by Paul Robbins
£70.61A comprehensive survey of the American lawn and how caring for it impacts people's livesBook InformationISBN 9781592135783Author Paul RobbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America by Colin R. Johnson
RRP: £29.99£24.14Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth centuryBook InformationISBN 9781439909980Author Colin R. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher... -
Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life by Patrick Gamsby
RRP: £89.00£78.35Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre's (1901-1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvre's vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core... -
Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City by Daniel Touro Linger
RRP: £36.00£28.21This book examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation.Book InformationISBN... -
Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
RRP: £21.99£17.54In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become... -
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America by Jennifer Brier
RRP: £25.99£20.84Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race... -
Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile by Magnus Course
RRP: £22.99£18.37Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous... -
The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women by Sara Alpern
RRP: £25.99£20.84This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look at the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women and at the challenges experienced by the women who have written about them. Exploring the frequently complicated dialogue between writer... -
Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan by Doris Chang
RRP: £44.00£34.12This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to... -
Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers by Ruben Zaiotti
RRP: £32.00£31.11In recent years, a number of European countries have abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs... -
A Franz Boas Reader: Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 by Franz Boas
RRP: £37.00£35.77"The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very... -
Exploitation by Kai Nielsen
RRP: £23.95£17.80Exploitation is widespread and takes many forms, sometimes obvious and sometimes deeply disguised. This anthology, utilizing the work of economists, political scientists, philosophers and sociologists, starts with an examination of the general idea of... -
No Sword To Bury: Japanese Americans In Hawaii by Franklin Odo
RRP: £23.99£20.84When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military... -
It's Our Military Too: Women and the U.S Military by Judith Stiehm
RRP: £29.99£27.38In the last twenty-five years the U.S. military has seen the abolition of women's separate corps, the appointment of women generals, and an unprecedented increase in the ratio of women to men. Also, women are now permitted to serve on combat planes and... -
A World without Words: The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind by David Goode
RRP: £34.00£29.89During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words, but not, the author confirms, one... -
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma
RRP: £48.00£39.18A publishing event-the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into EnglishIn Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were... -
In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West by Sue Fawn Chung
RRP: £29.99£24.14Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest... -
Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity by Niklas Luhmann
RRP: £108.00£50.84The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society.The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical... -
Teaching Criminology at the Intersection: A how-to guide for teaching about gender, race, class and sexuality by Rebecca M. Hayes
RRP: £37.99£33.38Teaching about gender, race, social class and sexuality in criminal justice and criminology classrooms can be challenging. Professors may face resistance when they ask students to examine how gender impacts victimization, how race affects interactions... -
Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States by Kimberly D. McKee
RRP: £21.99£18.37Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and... -
Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture by Matthew C. Ehrlich
RRP: £21.99£17.54Whether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago. ...