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Organising Modernity: Social Ordering and Social Theory John Law (Lancaster University) 9780631185130
RRP: £38.95£34.20In this important theoretical and empirical statement John Law argues against the purity of post-enlightenment political and social theory, and offers an alternative post-modern sociology. Arguing in favor of a sociology of verbs, he suggests that power,... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: £27.95£22.55"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising by Raluca Soreanu
RRP: £59.99£35.81Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols. It challenges ideas of the irrational and destructive crowd, and examines how complicated scenes of working-through traumas take place in the streets and squares of... -
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the... -
Marx: The Alternative to Capitalism by Kieran Allen 9780745337425
RRP: £16.99£13.58If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx. ... -
Terrible Magnificent Sociology by Lisa Wade
£61.70Using 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... -
Social Change in a Material World by Theodore R. Schatzki
RRP: £37.99£33.38Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book... -
Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies S.N. Nyeck (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9781032082660
£44.98This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 by Michael Mann
RRP: £34.99£27.50Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century... -
Filters against Folly by Garrett Hardin 9780140077292
RRP: £24.00£14.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Boys in White Howard S. Becker 9780878556229
RRP: £36.99£32.93The transition from young layman aspiring to be a physician to the young physician skilled in technique and confident in his dealings with patients is slow and halting. To study medicine is generally rated one of the major educational ordeals of American... -
Social Constructivism as Paradigm?: The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality by Michaela Pfadenhauer
RRP: £41.99£37.15Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann's classic foundational text, The Social Construction of... -
Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory by Nick Hubble 9780230247888
RRP: £44.99£44.97The social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across... -
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Fr Gregory Boyle
RRP: £18.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476726168Author Fr Gregory BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities by Darren O'Byrne 9781783482306
RRP: £44.00£38.64Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very... -
Race and Racism in Britain, Third Edition by John Solomos
£46.26The new edition of Race and Racism in Britain builds on the strengths of previous editions of this widely-used text in providing a detailed and critical analysis of race relations and forms of racism in British society today. The book begins by mapping... -
Green Parties, Green Future: From Local Groups to the International Stage Per Gahrton 9780745333397
RRP: £16.99£11.54Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world. A common set of environmental priorities have been promoted by green internationalisation and these parties... -
Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire by Renisa Mawani
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into... -
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss 9780691203836
RRP: £25.00£19.59A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities... -
Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 by Katie Barclay 9780719095559
RRP: £19.99£17.61Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth... -
The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide John Docker 9780745325439
RRP: £24.99£16.38Genocide 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... -
A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse by Steve Garner
RRP: £41.99£36.75A Moral Economy of Whiteness presents a working model for understanding the main ways in which white UK people make 'race' through talking about immigration in the twenty-first century. Based on extensive empirical interviews, Steve Garner establishes... -
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James Meek
RRP: £16.99£12.28Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence... -
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China by Travis S. K. Kong 9781478019862
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong's... -
Doing Research in Fashion and Dress: An Introduction to Qualitative Methods by Yuniya Kawamura
RRP: £24.99£21.78Whether you're investigating fashion as a material object, an abstract idea, a social phenomenon, or a commercial system, qualitative techniques can further your understanding of almost any research topic. Doing Research in Fashion and Dress begins... -
The Assynt Crofter: Allan MacRae, A Life by Judith Ross Napier
RRP: £15.00£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070040Author Judith Ross NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint AcairPublisher Acair -
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard 9781473982383
RRP: £44.99£36.59Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes... -
High Sobriety: my year without booze by Jill Stark 9781922247032
RRP: £12.99£8.56'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady 9780190947361
RRP: £44.49£42.18Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for... -
Psychology Culture Shock by Colleen Ward
£39.44Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social... -
Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim 9780197521106
RRP: £25.99£19.04Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research... -
Catalysts: Thoughts on Design Research for Meaningful Change by Nina Stegeman
RRP: £20.00£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399917728Author Nina StegemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd -
Human Charlotte Sleigh 9781789142143
RRP: £13.95£9.73What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they are of... -
Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader by Ian McIntosh
RRP: £31.00£28.69This Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to... -
Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth by Terry Woronov
RRP: £21.99£19.19Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What... -
Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities by Sylvia Walby 9780803985186
RRP: £55.00£48.43How has globalization changed social inequality? Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others? In... -
Government Paternalism: Nanny State or Helpful Friend? by Julian Le Grand
£24.29Should governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana-or does this create a nanny state, leading... -
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
RRP: £16.99£9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544104402Author Paul ToughFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Education and Race from Empire to Brexit Sally Tomlinson (Department of Education, University of Oxford) 9781447345848
RRP: £24.99£19.39Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether... -
Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins 9780230537699
RRP: £44.99£40.09Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to create participatory and...