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The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
RRP: €35.70€27.72Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most... -
Sex In The Western World Jean-Louis Flandrin 9783718652013
RRP: €160.65€140.04First Published in 1991. In this book the author looks at the history of sexuality, discussing topics of love from the 15th century onwards, sexual morality and marriage, ancient and modern adages conernong procreation as a part of society and the sex... -
The Olympic Games and the Environment by John Karamichas 9780230228610
RRP: €53.54€53.51This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out... -
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women by Lisa Sugiura 9781839822575
RRP: €24.98€21.12The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement,... -
Philosophy & Nations: Essays from the Radical Philosophy Archive, Volume 2 by Austin Gross 9781916229228
RRP: €17.84€17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916229228Author Austin GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive Ltd -
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America by Jo Barraclough Paoletti
RRP: €15.46€14.01Jo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, she looks at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs... -
Pain and Suffering Ronald Schleifer, Ph.D 9780415843270
RRP: €44.02€38.71Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex... -
Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: €10.70€7.68We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly... -
Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah 9780520254190
RRP: €29.75€23.31First published in 1985, "Habits of the Heart" continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions. In a new preface the authors... -
After Method: Mess in Social Science Research by John Law
RRP: €64.25€55.78John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case, methods are always political, and it raises the question of what... -
Critique & Betrayal: Essays from the Radical Philosophy Archive, Volume 1 by Austin Gross 9781916229204
RRP: €17.84€17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916229204Author Austin GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive Ltd -
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity by Róisín Ryan-Flood 9781032499048
RRP: €44.02€38.71Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach,... -
A Global Idea: Youth,City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World by Mayssoun Sukarieh 9781501771101
RRP: €24.98€21.86A Global Idea outlines how youth-as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses-became a prominent social and political category during the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the Middle East. Drawing on ethnographic... -
Key Sociological Thinkers by Rob Stones
RRP: €46.40€44.20The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: €21.41€19.09The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has... -
Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement by John Vail 9781032248684
RRP: €47.59€42.20This book offers a critical reconstruction of the double movement, the central thesis of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, one of the most influential books of the 20th century. The double movement is the establishment of a free market economy and... -
Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 by J. Matthew Gallman 9780807848456
RRP: €55.87€52.07Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban... -
The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment by Klaus Eder 9780803978492
RRP: €73.78€64.27In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly... -
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding
RRP: €30.93€26.76Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.Following a... -
The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice Aaron M. Kuntz (University of Alabama, USA) 9781611323696
RRP: €35.69€31.70Winner of The University of Alabama 2017 President's Faculty Research AwardWhat does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures that the tools used in a thesis or dissertation are of... -
The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts Salvatore Babones 9781509533091
RRP: €11.89€10.65The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backlash represents a dangerous new authoritarianism. But what if the really dangerous authoritarianism is in... -
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle
RRP: €10.70€8.41Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins... -
Blood Lust, Trust & Blame by Dr. Samantha Crompvoets 9781922464613
RRP: €16.65€14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464613Author Dr Samantha CrompvoetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox by Jean-Frederic Morin 9783319610023
RRP: €53.54€39.21This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological... -
Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated Randall Collins 9781594516016
RRP: €70.20€60.79This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the... -
The Politics of Waking Up: Power and possibility in the fractal age by Indra Adnan
RRP: €16.66€14.03Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking... -
The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet by Nadina Galle 9780063322615
RRP: €29.75€21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063322615Author Nadina GalleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g -
Emergence: The 30 Best New Voices With Powerful Must-Read Stories by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition 9781743799963
RRP: €23.80€16.24Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty emerging writers, each speaking to the theme of... -
The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life David Lyon (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) 9780745671734
RRP: €19.03€17.15From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to... -
Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses Dennis Wrong 9781560008224
RRP: €52.35€45.74In one grand effort, this is an anatomy of power, a history of the ways in which it has been defined, and a study of its forms (force, manipulation, authority, and persuasion), its bases (individual and collective resources, political mobilization), and... -
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection Marissa King 9781473689527
RRP: €23.80€15.89'full of wisdom and entertaining anecdotes' The Economist'fascinating' Financial Times Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about 'networking.' Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About AI? by Ewa Luger
RRP: €14.27€11.54The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. From fears over killer robots in sci-fi dystopias, to driverless cars in real life, we are both inspired and horrified by the prospect of an advanced intelligence that is not our own... -
Public Sociology Michael Burawoy 9781509519156
RRP: €17.84€16.16Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century... -
Constitutional History of the UK Ann Lyon 9781138910676
RRP: €59.49€52.24An appreciation of the development and evolution of the United Kingdom constitution is vital in order to understand the existing nature of the constitution, proposals for reform and the many complex challenges it faces. Ann Lyon presents a vivid overview... -
The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order Andrew Linklater (Aberystwyth University) 9781529213911
RRP: €29.74€23.07The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which... -
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War by Robert L. Jervis 9780801478062
RRP: €20.22€15.84The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why... -
Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria by Michael J. Watts 9780820344454
€56.54Why do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Michael J. Watts examines the... -
The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion by Jennifer Craik 9780415052627
RRP: €65.44€56.79First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion... -
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism by Edward T.G. Anderson 9781805260547
RRP: €35.70€32.07Hindu nationalism is transforming India, as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India's vast diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians overseas... -
Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory by Contributor Marianne Hirsch
RRP: €19.04€16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470007485Author Contributor Marianne HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...