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This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to...

Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society - from airports to shopping...

Writer, doctor and militant, Nawal el Saadawi has had a major influence on the lives of women and men globally. Author of many books, both fiction and non-fiction, which challenge our thinking about the politics of sex, Third World development, the Arab...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsFrom 'Please DO touch the Exhibits' to 'The Museum as Smellscape,' a new book hitting museum studies shelves this spring explores how the five sense can be engaged in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270456Author F. Hadland DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies' - Niels Rosendal Jensen 'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal 'An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637966Author Miranda JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Dispersal, or 'bussing', was introduced in England in the early-1960s after white parents expressed concerns that the sudden influx of non-Anglophone South Asian children was holding back their own children's education. It consisted in sending busloads...

In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606089927Author Marshall McLuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Have you heard? Sitting is the new smoking. We're sitting longer than we ever have before: adults average nine hours of sitting a day, while children spend almost as much time sitting in front of a screen and in school. Driven by a combination of a...

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170383537Author Archibald CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 254g

We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People's movements in space, their...

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816613847Author Malek AlloulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behaviour could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favour. Based on...

Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected...

In a perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen introduces his distinctive approach to the study of the world's diasporas. This book investigates the changing meanings of the concept and the contemporary diasporic condition, including case studies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494834876Author Daniel E LoebFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea,...

Why do things change at certain times and not at others? The contributions collected in this volume approach this question from the perspective of threat. Defined as the self-alerting which goes on within societies and social groups, threats open up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328511935Author MS Vanessa GrigoriadisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Considers what monsters tell us about identity in the medieval period.A monster lurks at the heart of medieval identity, and this book seeks him out. Reading a set of medieval texts in which giants and dismemberment figure prominently, Jeffrey Jerome...

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and...

Causal models are formal theories stating the relationships between precisely defined variables, and have become an indispensable tool of the social scientist. This collection of articles is a course book on the causal modeling approach to theory...

The police service in England and Wales is facing major challenges in its financing, political oversight and reorganisation of its structures. Current economic conditions have created a wholly new environment whereby cost saving is permitting hitherto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719830843Author Christopher DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race,...

How to balance the failure of the legal system to protect animals with its professed recognition of animal rightsBook InformationISBN 9781566392846Author Gary L. FrancioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062135568Author Jesse WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 447Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 348g

Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with...

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science. Students with no previous knowledge will find themselves taken on an engaging philosophical journey:...

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since...

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video...

Magna Carta, imposed on King John by his barons in 1215, is widely regarded as the foundation of the British constitution. This is the classic study of the origins of the rebellion which culminated in the events at Runnymede. Professor Holt investigates...

Wary, on the one hand, of the disempowering habit of viewing technology as a satanic mill of domination, and weary, on the other, of postmodernist celebrations of the technologically sublime, Constance Penley and Andrew Ross have compiled a group of...

Once the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everything from how we perceive the value of a professional athlete to the intelligence gathering activities of governments. We...

Turn your fortunes around with a year's worth of money-saving, life-improving tips! You don't have to live like a recluse or deny yourself life's luxuries. By spending less, you really can have more. It's not just about saving the odd penny when you're...

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives,...