Sociology

Love is eternal-but our concepts of relationships and marriage evolve to fit the times. In an age when we live longer, communicate differently, and value gender equality, is it any wonder so many people are looking for new ways to support lasting, loving...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015...

TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERY ACTION, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY TRANSACTIONAND IT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE...In this ground-breaking book world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest...

Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is...

The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro...

Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of...

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the...

This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community...

Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle. In Workers of the Earth, Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political...

Twentieth-Century British Social Trends is a centennial record of the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. Primarily statistical, the book sets out a broad description of how the life of the United Kingdom has developed from 1900 to 2000...

On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes...

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's...

'Laura Vanderkam is one of the world's leading experts in time management and productivity . . . her insights in Off the Clock can change your life' - Dorie Clark, author of Stand Out'Laura Vanderkam delivers a compelling and evidence-based argument that...

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary Western Europe, yet why the region, instead of the nation-state, is appealed to in certain areas as a compelling formulation of selfhood remains largely unexplored. Drawing on ethnographic...

In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface,...

This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420960822Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976704294Author David, A. PostlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890056Author Sheila LimingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884271666Author Eliyahu M. GoldrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North River PressPublisher North River Press

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing crises and deepening inequality. How can we...

In this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach to methodology itself. Fundamental changes are taking place in how we produce knowledge, how we communicate...

Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381549Author Gabriele KubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico Press

Think of the thriving evangelical churches in your area. Chances are they will be in the 'nice' areas of town and their leaders will be middle class. Tim Chester once attended a lecture where the speaker showed a map of Sheffield. The council wards...

A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhen Carolyn Hays's child made...

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130574Author Michel CallonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 159mm * 38mm

This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.About the AuthorLawrence Stone (1919-1999) was a...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415110303Author Chris JenksFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935713050Author David SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Orion MagazinePublisher Orion MagazineDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm * 10mm

Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich...

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing. While it has been a mature asset in the United States for over a decade, it is relatively new to the UK and Ireland...

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901905444Author M.Perceval- MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical FoundationWeight(grams)...

In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an...

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