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Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488687Author Mark HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 950gDimensions(mm) 270mm * 210mm * 25mm

This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. ...

Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170151Author Richard FairfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process MediaWeight(grams) 471g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450129Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to the Nigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how power is performed, negotiated and...

There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centres, and in union...

Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their...

While 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...

For 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...

This 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...

In 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...

After 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...

Apologies 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.

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and...

This 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...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and...

Perspectives 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...

Apologies 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

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook...

How 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...

What if we told you...that dishonesty in children is a positive traitthat arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role modeland that if you praise your children you risk making them fail...and it was all true?Using a cutting-edge combination of...

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many...

This 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...

Very 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...

This 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'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751311Author Helen PrejeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real social science undergraduates from a range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671017064Author John DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254g

Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept...

Sociology, 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812993257Author David BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

Person-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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374518202Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation,...

"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...

'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...

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award...

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have...