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Poverty, Inequality and Social Work: The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision by Ian Cummins 9781447334828
RRP: €33.31€25.67This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk... -
The Student's Companion to Social Policy by Pete Alcock
RRP: €43.97€38.69The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics by Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: €44.02€38.71This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
Research Methods: The Basics by Nicholas Walliman
RRP: €22.60€20.08Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This third edition provides an expanded and fully updated resource suitable for students and practitioners in a... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Zakia Salime 9780816651344
RRP: €26.17€22.36There are two major women's movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari'a as the platform for building a culture of women's rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations' framework to amend shari'a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how... -
Older, Wiser, Sexier (Men) by Bev Williams
RRP: €8.32€6.79'At your age, people expect you to be calm, dignified and sober... Disappoint them.'Older, Wiser, Sexier brings together the best of Bev Williams' cheeky but charming cartoons to create the perfect gift for that person in your life who may be getting on... -
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg
RRP: €32.12€27.13Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and... -
Grade Booster for CfE SQA Exam Revision - Higher Modern Studies Grade Booster for SQA Exam Revision: Maximise Marks and Minimise Mistakes to Achieve Your Best Possible Mark by Pamela Farr
RRP: €14.27€13.88Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015 This book is the essential guide to exam skills. It includes detailed advice on how to approach and answer the different types of question you will find... -
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment by Aeron Davis 9781526127280
RRP: €11.89€8.60Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades. The great transformations of the 1980s onwards have not... -
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking by Simon Weaver
RRP: €52.35€45.74In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and... -
Critical Chain: A Business Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
RRP: €39.26€34.70This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like... -
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class – a Memo by B Latour
RRP: €11.89€8.09Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
€60.70Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places by Chris Philo 9780415198479
RRP: €59.49€51.77Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: €28.56€18.77Apologies 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 -
Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam
RRP: €44.02€40.04Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global... -
Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda
RRP: €23.80€20.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475315Author Julien BendaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: €41.65€32.86Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
The NHS at 70: A Living History by Ellen Welch
RRP: €15.46€10.82At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a person's ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principals... -
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds by Shane O'Mara 9781847926487
RRP: €26.18€17.03'Enjoyable' New Scientist'Delightfully well-written, accessible, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times'Thoughtful' Irish IndependentFrom neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and... -
A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: €15.46€12.01In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
Researching Business and Management by Harvey Maylor
€84.00This core textbook combines a highly engaging approach with academic rigour to guide students through understanding and using research methods. Now in its second edition, this text has been fully updated and revised throughout. With a focus that is fresh... -
Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001): The Church from Carlyle to Derrida by John Schad
RRP: €39.26€34.70This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark,... -
Tastes of Paradise # by W Schivelbusch
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744382Author Wolfgang SchivelbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
Understanding theories and concepts in social policy by Ruth Lister 9781861347930
RRP: €29.74€23.55A central theme of this lively and accessible text is that theory helps us to understand policy, politics and practice. The book combines an in-depth exploration of selected theoretical perspectives and concepts with the student-friendly format of the... -
Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer
RRP: €28.56€27.41In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically... -
Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Pe rsonal Relationships by Elliott 9781509549818
RRP: €19.03€17.15Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us... -
Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction by John G. Clement 9780124730519
RRP: €105.91€97.14This unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal remains--using computer-graphic and computational means. Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction is designed as a... -
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance by Brandon Labelle
RRP: €34.51€29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685950Author Brandon LabelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility by Jeffrey K. Olick
RRP: €54.73€47.75In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the... -
Another Mother: Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation by Shanta Everington
RRP: €44.02€38.71Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them.Exploring... -
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy
€3.47 - €10.19Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory by Harrison White
€9.94Exam 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... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: €24.98€17.36In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: €10.70€8.54Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated translation of the original filmscript by Su Xiaokang... -
Human Agents and Social Structures by Peter J. Martin 9780719078613
RRP: €101.15€71.60The 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... -
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour
RRP: €36.83€28.48Science 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,... -
On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs
RRP: €33.32€32.59How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This... -
Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures by James Martell 9783030865658
RRP: €130.89€117.49The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history,...