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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities by David Sobel 9781935713050
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies 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 -
Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé 9780367600778
RRP: £39.99£34.22Cultural 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... -
The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster Robert Colvile 9781408840214
RRP: £14.99£10.95Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new book,... -
Go Home?: The Politics of Immigration Controversies by Hannah Jones
RRP: £19.99£13.45In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an... -
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
£19.35Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: £15.99£12.91How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for... -
Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I by M.Perceval- Maxwell 9780901905444
RRP: £19.99£14.92Apologies 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)... -
Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization by Paul Almeida 9780520290914
RRP: £30.00£23.29Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them,... -
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
RRP: £24.99£21.58In 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... -
Making Sense of Prostitution by Joanna Phoenix 9780333945995
RRP: £89.99£89.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Terrible Magnificent Sociology by Lisa Wade
£61.35Using engaging stories and a diverse cast of characters, Lisa Wade memorably delivers what C. Wright Mills described as both the terrible and the magnificent lessons of sociology. With chapters that build upon one another, Terrible Magnificent Sociology... -
Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research by Barney G. Glaser
RRP: £43.99£38.44Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important... -
Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods by Naomi Creutzfeldt 9780367783792
RRP: £43.99£38.44Drawing on a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this handbook explores theoretical and empirical perspectives that address the articulation of law in society, and the social character of the rule of law.The vast field of... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
RRP: £34.95£28.59Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the... -
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance by Brandon Labelle
RRP: £29.00£19.94Apologies 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 -
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence by Jane Holgate
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience,... -
Eyewitness Account of the Dea by Dead Man Walking
RRP: £17.00£9.68Apologies 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 *... -
The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad 9780684838649
RRP: £18.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838649Author Jim GoadFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 244g -
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
RRP: £29.99£27.64When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967... -
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack 9780674248243
RRP: £15.95£13.10An NPR Favorite Book of the Year"Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import."-Washington Post"An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students... -
Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond: From Research Design to Analysis and Publication by Anne Galletta 9780814732946
RRP: £23.99£20.84Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project-an exploration of a school... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Classical Sociological Theory George Ritzer 9781544354828
RRP: £128.00£119.97The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award-enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth... -
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
RRP: £13.99£11.44When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His... -
After the Internet: Digital Networks between the Capital and the Common Tiziana Terranova 9781635901689
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901689Author Tiziana TerranovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour
RRP: £30.95£24.42Science 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,... -
Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for the 21st Century Ken Plummer 9781509527953
RRP: £17.99£16.04We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new... -
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland by Penny McCall Howard 9781526143693
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by... -
Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842-1997) by Michael Ng
RRP: £29.99£25.94Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial... -
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson 9780226901350
RRP: £16.00£13.84Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, while thinking of society as an organism, one in which morality and... -
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £46.99£40.97Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by... -
Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person by Andy Field
RRP: £18.99£12.75Encounterism is a joyous immersion into the everyday pleasure and shared humanity we stand to lose in an increasingly digital world. Andy Field explores both different kinds of and different venues for human encounters, from the hairdressers to the... -
Social Theory and Archaeology Michael Shanks 9780745601847
RRP: £17.99£16.04Archaeological theory and method have recently become the subject of vigorous debate centred on the growing realization that archaeological theory is social theory and as such can be looked at by means of a wide variety of sociological frameworks, such... -
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: £16.99£14.10Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on code drives dangerously? What does massmarket graphics... -
Blowback by Professor Chalmers Johnson 9780751530803
£11.42This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be a payback... -
The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Search for True Love by Ty Tashiro
RRP: £16.99£9.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335284792Author Ty TashiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
G.H. Mead: A Reader G. H. Mead 9780415821070
RRP: £43.99£38.84This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology.Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now,... -
London's South Bank: The History by Mireille Galinou
RRP: £35.00£26.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361029Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing -
Confidence Culture by Shani Orgad 9781478017608
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to "love your body" and "believe in yourself" imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the... -
Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Guide for Professional Editors by Renée Otmar 9781009154659
RRP: £36.99£32.15Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivities and inaccurate information are avoided. Knowing how to do so - and what to replace them with - can be tricky. Editing for...