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Whatever Happened to Betsy Blake?: A haunting psychological thriller by David B Lyons 9781916051812
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916051812Author David LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint -
Rights: Concepts and Contexts Horacio Spector 9781138115552
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and... -
The Visibility Trap: Sexism, Surveillance & Social Media by Mary McGill
Booksplease Price: £19.95Social media is a new type of public space that has revolutionised the way women express themselves, placing the power of representation in female hands like no technology before. But this increased... -
Releasing Resources to Achieve Health Gain by Christopher Riley
Booksplease Price: £46.28In every developed country, health care managers, clinicians, purchasers and providers are having to extract greater output from cash-limited resources. This book reviews a wide range of areas of... -
Boston's Historic Hub: A Tour of the Metro Region's Top National Landmarks by Patricia W. Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92What do the oldest black church in the country, an Arts-and-Crafts-style artists' studio building, a concrete football stadium, and an acoustically perfect performance space have in common? They are... -
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745662831
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York... -
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745662824
Booksplease Price: £46.29'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York... -
The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz Sarah Davis 9783897906655
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz presents the entrancing and challenging work of American jewellery artist and sculptor Daniel Jocz. There is a spontaneous quality to the work, yet it is always rich... -
Historic New England: A Tour of the Region's Top 100 National Landmarks Patricia Harris 9781493024568
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18National Historic Landmarks are touchstones of our collective past that still resonate with our present. The six New England states have nearly 400 such places. However, important doesn't always... -
Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies Kirstie Ball 9781138026025
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security,... -
Politics at the Airport by Mark B. Salter 9780816650156
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance stateFew sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the... -
Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays by Gerald Dworkin 9780847684892
Booksplease Price: £40.38John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1860) continues to shape modern Western conceptions of individual freedom. In this volume, eight leading Mill scholars comment on this landmark work. Their essays,... -
An Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics by Henry R. West 9780521535410
Booksplease Price: £30.55John Stuart Mill was the leading British philosopher of the nineteenth century and his famous essay Utilitarianism is the most influential statement of the philosophy of utilitarianism: that actions,... -
Manuel Castells Felix Stalder (University of Applied Arts Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland) 9780745632773
Booksplease Price: £20.70First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering workTraces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformationsDistills the central... -
Manuel Castells by Felix Stalder 9780745632766
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering workTraces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformationsDistills the central... -
Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives by Kate Orton-Johnson 9780230222830
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive... -
Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and the USA by David A. Lyon 9780802082138
Booksplease Price: £32.50Ambitious in scope, Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity considers some central concepts in the sociology and history of religion and, simultaneously, how Canada's religious experience is... -
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective Colin J Bennett 9780415465649
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips... -
Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives by Kate Orton-Johnson 9780230222823
Booksplease Price: £92.14Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive... -
Food Lovers' Guide to (R) Rhode Island: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings by Patricia Harris 9780762783618
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.07Food Lovers' Guides Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best... -
The Globalization of Surveillance by Armand Mattelart
Booksplease Price: £19.71Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically... -
Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice' by Norman Daniels
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04First published in 1975, this collection includes many of the best critical responses to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, and the editor has elected to reissue the book without making any... -
Artificial Democracy: The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity Cecilia Biancalana 9780774871013
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed, for better or worse, as relations between... -
Artificial Democracy: The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity Cecilia Biancalana 9780774871020
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed, for better or worse, as relations between... -
Contemporary Sociological Thought: Themes and Theories by Sean P. Hier 9781551302881
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.02This innovative new reader on contemporary sociological theory has a Canadian emphasis. This volume unites 21 influential European and American social theorists with 13 Canadian thinkers and writers... -
The Globalization of Surveillance by Armand Mattelart 9780745645100
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically... -
Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices by Ilsen About 9780230354388
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.46This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists,... -
Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies by Solange Lefebvre 9781442648623
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange... -
Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices by Edward Higgs 9781349346431
Booksplease Price: £100.08This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists,... -
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power Elia Zureik 9780415738033
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in... -
Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage Oscar H. Gandy 9781138260474
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people... -
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research by Andrea Mubi Brighenti 9780230241022
Booksplease Price: £46.28What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an... -
Frommer's Spain by Peter Barron 9781628875850
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Frommer's books aren't written by committee, by A.I., or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned, locally-based journalists like... -
Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society by Arne Hintz 9781509527151
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and... -
Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society Arne Hintz 9781509527168
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and... -
Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control Towards the Palestinian Minority by Ahmad H. Sa'di
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.78Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time. Despite tremendous challenges, it has... -
Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past by Paul Stoller
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £45.43There comes a time for most of us when we knowingly face a decision of such consequence that it will drastically affect the shape of our lives. Some people are prepared to carry the weight of that... -
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research by A. Mubi Brighenti 9781349316755
Booksplease Price: £46.28What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an... -
The Maximum Surveillance Society by Clive Norris 9781859732267
Booksplease Price: £50.71The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased... -
Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives Deborah Lupton 9781509536429
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed...