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Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem: An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop by Cormac MC Namara
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers. Drawing on research undertaken in Ireland, it demonstrates that customers tend to shift... -
Making Sense of Men's Magazines by Peter Jackson 9780745621760 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Making Sense of Men's Magazines by Peter Jackson 9780745621760
RRP: £17.99£16.04The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising important questions of a more general kind. What is the significance of the rise of men's lifestyle magazines for gender politics? Are we witnessing a backlash... -
Late Modernity in Crisis by Andreas Reckwitz
RRP: £17.99£16.04In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point... -
Democracy and Participation: Popular Protest and New Social Movements by Gary Taylor 9780850365382
RRP: £18.95£16.95An ideal introduction for undergraduate students of social movements in courses on sociology, social policy and political theory with a focus on collective action and social protest. The book provides accessible theoretical readings and case studies of... -
Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
RRP: £43.99£38.44Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of... -
Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques: A Pocket Guide by Philip L.R. Bonner
RRP: £30.95£27.45A portable and pocket-sized guide to foundational bioscience and biomedical science laboratory skills The newly revised Second Edition of Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques: A Pocket Guide delivers a foundational and intuitive pocket reference text... -
Happiness by Tim Lomas
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544207Author Tim LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Precarious Rhapsody by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: £16.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272073Author Franco 'Bifo' BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 244g -
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age by Frank Furedi
RRP: £39.99£35.06Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn... -
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions by Christine Caldwell
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172015Author Christine CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Simply Institutional Ethnography: Creating a Sociology for People by Dorothy E. Smith
RRP: £19.99£18.18Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional... -
Making Sense of Everyday Life by Susie Scott 9780745642680
RRP: £17.99£16.04This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how... -
How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisations by Andrew Lawler
RRP: £9.99£6.75Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and handy... -
Power: A Reader by Mark Haugaard 9780719057298
RRP: £19.99£18.22An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power... -
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy by James Gustave Speth
RRP: £35.99£32.09The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual-it requires "changing the system." But what does this mean? And what would it entail? The New Systems... -
Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose by Ayala Malach-Pines
£37.05Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers... -
Society and Economy: Framework and Principles by Mark Granovetter
RRP: £37.95£30.51Society and Economy-a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology-is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate... -
A Short History of Sociology by Heinz Maus
RRP: £53.99£46.87Originally published in English in 1962, this book presents in clear language an account of the growth of sociology from its earliest roots in the Enlightenment, through the 19th century philosophers in Germany, positivists in France, social workers in... -
The Well-Connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development by Alison Gilchrist
RRP: £23.99£18.66There is a growing recognition of the importance of networking for the vitality and cohesion of community life. The Well-Connected Community provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for people working with and for communities. This new... -
The Trickster and the System: Identity and agency in contemporary society by Helena Bassil-Morozow
RRP: £46.99£40.97For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary... -
Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader by Margaret Wetherell 9780761971566
RRP: £48.99£40.14`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a... -
Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis by Brent E. Turvey
RRP: £77.00£72.56Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Fifth Edition, maintains the same core foundation that made previous editions best sellers in the professional and academic community worldwide. Written for practicing behavioral... -
Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us by David Whyte
RRP: £9.99£7.23We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor... -
The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life by Patricia Ewick
RRP: £27.00£26.47This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a... -
The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
RRP: £19.95£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523094738Author Laura Van Dernoot LipskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy by Paul E. Gottfried 9780826215208
£32.86Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book... -
Bourdieu: The Next Generation: The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology by Jenny Thatcher
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each... -
Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative by Gill Jagger 9780415219754
RRP: £43.99£38.44Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. This key book provides a... -
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber by Wolfgang J. Mommsen 9781800731264
RRP: £23.95£19.49The historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of his work. Mommsen's classic book, first published in 1974 under the title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely... -
Gentrification by Loretta Lees 9780415950374
RRP: £47.99£41.81This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it... -
Frank Sinatra by Chris Rojek 9780745630915
RRP: £15.99£14.41Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high rolling, fast living 'Rat Pack' era, to the protracted... -
Explaining Explanation by David-Hillel Ruben 9781612050683
RRP: £36.99£32.53This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received... -
Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human by Scott Atran
RRP: £17.99£12.95Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. Here he argues persuasively that to understand religious violence we need to consider terrorists' close relationships, with family and friends, as... -
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761044373Author Richard FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives by Klarissa Lueg
RRP: £43.99£38.84Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and structured guide to the major topics and trends of research on counter-narratives. The concept of... -
Practical Audio Electronics by Kevin Robinson 9780367359850
RRP: £33.99£30.40Practical Audio Electronics is a comprehensive introduction to basic audio electronics and the fundamentals of sound circuit building, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake projects from scratch.Imparting a thorough... -
Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from 'New Left Review' by Benjamin Kunkel
£14.68In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key disputes between Green New Deal supporters and proponents... -
Trust and Power by Niklas Luhmann 9781509519453
RRP: £18.99£16.87In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts... -
Social theory for beginners by Paul Ransome
RRP: £25.99£20.51Treating social theory as an exciting intellectual journey in its own right, this new introductory-level textbook presents the key ideas and concepts in social theory together with an account of the intellectual background from which they emerged. Aimed...