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The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime by Letizia Paoli 9780190947323
RRP: $86.76$81.08While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime... -
Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective Luke Billingham (The Open University) 9781529214062
RRP: $56.53$43.47For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm. Aimed at academics, youth workers... -
Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World by Margaret Gilbert 9780190251956
RRP: $107.25$67.06In this wide-ranging collection of essays, distinguished philosopher Margaret Gilbert investigates the structure of our social world. People often speak of what we do, think, and feel, and of our values, conventions, and laws. Asking what we mean by such... -
The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining by Christel Lane 9780198758358
$57.68After many decades, if not centuries, of neglect of fine food and high-level restaurants in Britain, we are seeing a massive explosion of interest in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane's book charts the process of this transformation and... -
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster
RRP: $29.15$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672181Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: $29.23$21.35This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
A. B. C. - Alphabetization of the Popular Mind by Ivan Illich 9780714528915
RRP: $29.15$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528915Author Ivan IllichFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them by Sheena Iyengar
RRP: $21.43$14.43Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or... -
Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control by Michelle L. Inderbitzin 9781544308081
RRP: $200.85$187.63Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society. Derived from the same author team's successful text/reader version, this concise and student-friendly resource uses sociological... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $39.00$30.99Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research by Bas Raijmakers
RRP: $39.00$32.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526204080Author Bas RaijmakersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd -
Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics Michael Richmond 9780745346564
RRP: $33.13$22.50Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly... -
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
RRP: $62.40$42.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262631594Author Marshall McLuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture Pekka Sulkunen 9780761959410
RRP: $296.40$217.37How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles? This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of... -
A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico by Elinor G.K. Melville 9780521574488
RRP: $44.83$35.67This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World... -
Raymond Williams's Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction by Paul M. Jones 9780230006706
RRP: $87.73$87.69This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist'... -
Decolonizing Sociology – An Introduction by A Meghji
RRP: $31.18$28.10Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It... -
Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780850363821
RRP: $21.35$18.95"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual... -
Memoirs of a Wonky-Eyed Man: The Dad-Knows-Best Years by Jason Byrne 9780717194483
RRP: $42.88$30.44Jason Byrne is 17. With his leaving cert under his belt but no idea what to do next, who better to ask for advice than his dad, Paddy? There's a (very) short stint studying accountancy (he was asked to leave); a FAS course with juvenile offenders to... -
Person-Centred Therapy in Focus by Paul Wilkins
RRP: $81.88$67.00Person-Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled against one of the most widespread forms of therapeutic practice. Characterized by its critics as theoretically `light', culturally biased and limited in... -
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 9781616897062
RRP: $42.88$30.42"As visually arresting as it is informative."-The Boston Globe "Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America."-Fast Company's Co.Design W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: $46.78$40.64This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
RRP: $15.58$11.29'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so... -
Developing Research Questions by Patrick White
RRP: $54.58$53.43This no fuss, compact guide steers social science students of all levels through the complex process of conducting a research project. It explains how to break down initial ideas and broad topics into manageable questions and gives detailed guidance on... -
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Prof Manfred B. Steger 9780192886194
RRP: $17.53$12.58Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence... -
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 9780140447507
RRP: $19.48$18.02Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His "Thoughts... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 1: Education with Methods by Hollie Wyllie
$16.28Exam 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... -
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures: Second edition by Colin Murray Parkes
RRP: $77.98$68.37All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die, it has taught us little about the way to die or to... -
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution by Emmett MacFarlane
RRP: $68.25$60.72Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves... -
Cultural Emergence: A Toolkit for Transforming Ourselves & the World by Looby Macnamara
RRP: $42.90$28.18The challenging times we live in show us that there is no going back to 'normal' life, but how do we step forward? Looby Macnamara, international thought leader and teacher, introduces 'Cultural Emergence', a framework and toolkit that enables us to... -
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable by Ian Crofton
RRP: $68.25$47.64INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From 'Aald Rock' to 'Zeenty-teenty', A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends, folklore,... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: $52.63$44.46Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg 9780262521055
$140.50In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Loewith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from... -
What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Brian Fagan
RRP: $43.88$36.95Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed "If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse you-in fact, it's so entertaining, it will keep you... -
Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption by Sean Nixon 9780312163334
RRP: $87.73$87.69Hard Looks is a fascinating examination of the new masculine imagery that has developed in relation to popular consumption over the last decade. The author skillfully investigates the development of this "new man" imagery and its relationship... -
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method by Mike Savage 9780199587667
RRP: $103.35$82.35Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: $37.03$29.48In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research by Derek Layder 9780761954309
RRP: $109.20$88.28In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two. He develops clear usable strategies to encourage theory development in the practical... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: $46.80$30.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241431Author Karen CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc