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Genetic Testing: Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame by Michael Arribas-Ayllon 9781138019966
RRP: €59.49€51.77Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises... -
The Sociology of Early Childhood: Critical Perspectives by Norman Gabriel 9781446272992
RRP: €44.02€36.05The Sociology of Early Childhood is a theoretically and historically grounded examination of young children's experiences in contemporary society. Arguing that a sociology of early childhood must bring together and integrate different disciplines, this... -
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745609874
RRP: €21.41€19.09The 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... -
Classical Sociological Theory by Dr George Ritzer 9781544354828
RRP: €143.99€135.08The 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... -
After the Internet: Digital Networks between the Capital and the Common by Tiziana Terranova
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies 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) -
Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for the 21st Century by Ken Plummer
RRP: €21.41€19.09We 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... -
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: €23.80€20.97A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology by Bryan Turner 9780141013756 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology by Bryan Turner
RRP: €13.08€9.25Written by three eminent professors, it has been updated to reflect the shifts of sociological thought in the last five years, making it the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date dictionary available. It is essential reading for all students... -
Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O. Jackson 9780691148205
RRP: €53.55€42.51Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact... -
On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations by Robin James Smith
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual... -
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
RRP: €13.08€8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547228Author Sujatha GidlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective by Hilary Burrage
RRP: €44.02€39.19This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other Western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinises current pathways to eradicating this dangerous, sometimes... -
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: €20.22€16.78Systems 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... -
In In Defence of Separatism by Susan Hawthorne
RRP: €15.41€9.71In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of conversation among many feminists it was not welcomed by academics or publishers. When a political group wants to strategise so that... -
G.H. Mead: A Reader by G. H. Mead 9780415821070
RRP: €52.35€46.22This 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,... -
Confidence Culture by Shani Orgad 9781478017608
RRP: €27.36€23.81In 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: €44.02€38.26Editors 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... -
Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War by Lene Hansen
RRP: €54.73€47.75This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology... -
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer
RRP: €15.46€10.23In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that... -
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs by Mr. Paul Willis
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: €15.46€12.30In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a... -
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: €23.80€21.23Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
RRP: €15.46€10.82Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: €45.21€39.72Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
50 Years of Community Development Vol II: A History of its Evolution and Application in North America by Norman Walzer 9780367563493
RRP: €47.59€42.20This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the... -
The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco
RRP: €23.80€18.91A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Inequality? by Mike Brewer 9781526460417
RRP: €15.46€13.15"A brilliantly clear and concise guide. Highly recommended." - Ben Chu Economic inequality in the UK is currently at historically high levels and the rise in income inequality over the last 30 years is one of the largest across developed nations. But... -
Futsal: The Story of An Indoor Football Revolution by Jamie Fahey 9781911545590
RRP: €11.89€8.46Futsal is one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet: over 60 million people play this lightning-fast and tactically intricate variation of indoor football. Despite its growing status, however, futsal's history remains largely unknown and untold... -
Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life by Andrew Sayer 9780521171649
RRP: €29.74€24.78Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
RRP: €17.84€16.16"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever... -
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin 9780805039399
€13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805039399Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing by So Mayer
RRP: €7.14€5.28In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011 by Michael Mann
RRP: €41.64€31.92Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of... -
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton 9780872866690
RRP: €11.89€8.03"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth... -
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights by Leena El-Ali
RRP: €27.36€24.59In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: €26.17€25.43Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: €38.08€34.66Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized -... -
The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide by John Docker 9780745325439
RRP: €29.74€19.49Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behaviour, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature... -
Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters by Philip Oltermann
RRP: €15.46€10.19In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.Inspired by his own experience of both...