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Missing Persons: A handbook of research Karen Shalev Greene 9781138494442
RRP: £46.99£40.97A missing person is an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and where there is some concern for his or her wellbeing. In the UK, around 250,000 people are reported missing every year, with the majority being children under the age of 18. Despite the... -
Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the 25 years after 50 by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 9780374532215
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532215Author Sara Lawrence-LightfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales 9780520272910
RRP: £28.00£21.80Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in... -
Cosmopolitan Vision by Ulrich Beck 9780745633992
£18.09In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical... -
Understanding Social Theory by Derek Layder 9780761944508
RRP: £51.00£41.74"This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he... -
The Serpent and the Rainbow by Davis
£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839295Author DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 274g -
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Professor Rane Willerslev 9780520252172
RRP: £30.00£23.29This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir... -
Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America by Jackson Lears 9780465090754
£27.80Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and... -
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive Bruce Schneier (Counterpane Internet Security) 9781118143308
RRP: £21.00£14.36In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining... -
Growing Up Absurd Paul Goodman 9781590175811
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175811Author Paul GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India by Michael Levien 9780190859169
RRP: £31.49£23.44Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against "land grabs." Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound transformation in the political economy of land dispossession. While... -
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality by Sarah Ahmed
RRP: £47.99£41.81Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we... -
What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity Oyeronke Oyewumi 9781349580514
RRP: £32.99£30.04In this book, Oyewumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of... -
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth by Ben Shapiro
RRP: £12.99£9.09Brainwashed is the explosive expose of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro-syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices-who's been on the front lines... -
Professionalism: The Third Logic by Eliot Freidson 9780745603315
RRP: £18.99£16.87Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy... -
World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer by Georg Krucken 9780199234042
£58.70John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the same time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant,... -
The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio 9781844670598
RRP: £13.99£13.75"Civilization or the militarization of science?"With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives ... and deaths... -
Texts, Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling by Dorothy E. Smith
RRP: £47.99£41.81'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip... -
The Making of Pro-life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization Works Ziad W. Munson 9780226551203
RRP: £27.00£26.47How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. By delving into the lives and... -
Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists by Anselm L. Strauss 9780521338066
RRP: £38.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Sociology of Health and Medicine: A Critical Introduction by Ellen Annandale
RRP: £22.99£20.16Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social CareThe fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the... -
Costa Rica - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jane Koutnik 9781857336658
RRP: £9.99£7.54Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Ageing and Popular Culture by Andrew Blaikie 9780521645478
RRP: £34.99£30.33As the 'grey market' perpetuates the quest for eternal youth, the biological realities of deep old age are increasingly denied. Ageing and Popular Culture traces the historical emergence of stereotypes of retirement and documents their recent demise,... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: £17.99£16.04The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has... -
Building Dignified Worlds: Geographies of Collective Action by Gerda Roelvink 9780816683178
RRP: £21.99£19.19Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers... -
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation by Jason E. Smith
RRP: £15.95£11.59In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries... -
Realism and Social Science by Andrew Sayer 9780761961246
RRP: £52.00£42.12Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident... -
The Age of Fitness – How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement by J Martschukat
RRP: £20.00£13.35We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any... -
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes
RRP: £25.00£19.18A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and... -
Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies Luc Boltanski ( Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris) 9780745664057
RRP: £24.99£21.81The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was... -
Power, Crime and Mystification by Steven Box
RRP: £47.99£41.81Power, Crime, and Mystification is one of the classics of radical criminology -a compelling account of how power and powerlessness operate within the criminal justice system. Questioning the orthodox view that it is powerlessness that leads to serious... -
Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 9780195326802
RRP: £32.99£22.37From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its... -
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations by Robert K. Merton
RRP: £50.00£48.25"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. ... -
The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in US Politics by Caitríona Perry 9780717184828
RRP: £23.99£16.94In The Tribe, Caitriona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections, but generations of assimilation and rising... -
The Lyotard Reader Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) 9780631163398
RRP: £40.95£36.29Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have... -
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason
RRP: £19.00£18.50Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable... -
Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change by Paul Michael Brannagan
RRP: £44.99£40.09This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adopting an international relations perspective, the authors critically interrogate the politics and controversy that has surrounded arguably the most controversial... -
Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships by Amy Banks 9781101983218
RRP: £24.00£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983218Author Amy BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *... -
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin by Akbar Ahmed 9780415149662
RRP: £47.99£42.21Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before...