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Consumption and Its Consequences Daniel Miller (University College London, UK) 9780745661087
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the... -
The Twilight of the American Culture by M Berman 9780393321692
RRP: £20.00£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393321692Author M BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 19mm -
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... -
Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life by Annebella Pollen 9780367716554
RRP: £37.99£33.38With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future... -
Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo 9780804708517
RRP: £24.99£21.67Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the past have been ignored or taken for granted, and consulting the anthropological record for data and... -
The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies by Sandra Harding 9780415945011
RRP: £49.99£43.50Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most... -
How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton 9780521270939
RRP: £19.99£15.40In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of... -
Good Without God by Greg Epstein 9780061670121
RRP: £15.99£10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670121Author Greg EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & Company -
The Amish: A Concise Introduction by Steven M. Nolt 9781421419565
RRP: £16.00£14.48There seems to be no end to our fascination with the Amish, a religious minority that has both placed itself outside the mainstream of American culture and flourished within it. Yet most people know very little about the nuanced relationship the Amish... -
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art David Byrne 9781032100869
RRP: £35.99£31.69This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the... -
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society by Xiaotong Fei
RRP: £23.00£18.10This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a... -
History and Social Theory Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745634074
RRP: £17.99£16.04What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now... -
The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History by E. Estyn Evans 9780521020145
RRP: £30.99£25.45The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the... -
Is God Still An Englishman?: How We Lost Our Faith (But Found New Soul) by Cole Moreton 9780349122243
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Is God Still An Englishman?: How We Lost Our Faith (But Found New Soul) by Cole Moreton 9780349122243 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29There has been a revolution. The God who ruled over us for five hundred years has been overthrown. The soul of England has been transformed, almost without anybody noticing. Gone are the shared values and confidence of a nation that seemed so sure of... -
The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship by Paula Caplan
RRP: £43.99£38.44In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don'tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers. Fully revised, updated with a new introduction, this... -
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists by John Scott 9780415352598
RRP: £29.99£26.64Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as... -
Embracing Envy: Finding the Spiritual Treasure in Our Most Shameful Emotion by Josh Gressel 9780761864448
RRP: £30.00£26.68Envy is a universal emotion, yet people are very reluctant to confess their envy of another. In Embracing Envy, Josh Gressel suggests it is our shame at admitting we feel inferior to another person that keeps envy so hidden. Through interviews with... -
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference by Davina Cooper 9780521539548
RRP: £38.99£32.28What challenges are presented by the claim that diversity should be celebrated? How should equality politics respond to controversial constituencies, such as smokers and sports hunters, when they position themselves as disadvantaged? Challenging... -
A Theory Of Everything: A Self-Development Book For Everyone - Things I Wish I'd Known at Your Age (Revised Edition) by Dr Jonathan R. Tuck
RRP: £12.99£12.86At the age of 8, the author experienced a life-changing accident that saw him lie in a coma for two weeks, after which he was left paralysed and unable to speak. The doctors gave him a 30% chance of survival, and said that even if he did live, it... -
Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment Anthony D. King 9780710202345
RRP: £43.99£38.84Buildings are essentially social and cultural products. They result from social needs and accommodate a variety of functions - economic. social. political. religious. Their size. appearance. location and form result not simply from physical factors such... -
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by Maja Göpel
RRP: £12.99£8.56A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. Costs are rising, the gap between the rich and poor... -
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking by Ryszard Piotrowicz
RRP: £45.99£40.13Trafficking in human beings (THB) has been described as modern slavery. It is a serious criminal activity that has significant ramifications for the human rights of the victims. It poses major challenges to the state, society and individual victims. THB... -
Introduction to Professional Policing: Examining the Evidence Base Ian Pepper 9780815353812
RRP: £36.99£32.53Policing is a dynamic profession with increasing demands and complexities placed upon the police officers and staff who provide a 24-hour service across a diverse range of communities. Written by experts in police higher education from across both... -
Strategic Interaction by Erving Goffman
RRP: £19.99£17.54The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term "strategic interaction" to describe gamelike events in... -
Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu by Michael Burawoy 9781478006473
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism-a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. While Bourdieu's expansive body of work stands as a critique of Marx's inadequate account of cultural domination,... -
A Land of Dreams: A Study of Jewish and Caribbean Migrant Communities in England Simon Taylor 9781032317205
RRP: £28.99£25.09A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of London, and the growth of an African-Caribbean community in Birmingham. It is an ethnographic study of two... -
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning 9781897408056
RRP: £17.99£15.64When it came out in 1994, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization quickly became a classic of the ecopsychology movement. It is a book about roots which reach back millennia to a time when humans lived in and honored the natural... -
The Politics of Racism in France by Peter Fysh 9780333638934
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book traces the rise of the French National Front and presents an analysis of the organisation's origins, structure and doctrine which concludes that the Le Pen phenomenon represents a modern and sophisticated form of fascism. The authors offer a... -
Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War by Lene Hansen
RRP: £45.99£40.13This 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... -
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women by Sherry Ruth Anderson
RRP: £16.99£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553352665Author Sherry Ruth AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House... -
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,... -
Spiritual Tattoo by John A. Rush 9781583941171
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583941171Author John RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Memory in Culture by Astrid Erll
RRP: £24.99£21.78This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting... -
Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim by John A. Hughes
RRP: £51.00£41.34Praise for the First Edition: `Totally reliable... the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics... quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement This is a fully updated... -
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by John R. Weeks 9780226878126
RRP: £26.00£24.85When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations... -
Introducing Sociolinguistics Miriam Meyerhoff 9781138185593
RRP: £39.99£35.46This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic... -
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
RRP: £19.00£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758693Author Dorothy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Basic Groupwork Tom Douglas 9780415224802
RRP: £42.99£37.59Basic Groupwork is a simple, practical guide to the processes of groupwork. This new edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the changes which have taken place in society and social behaviour since it was first published in 1978, but... -
Walking Methods: Research on the Move Maggie O'Neill 9781138182486
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities...