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How Gay Men Prepare for Death: The Dying Business Peter Robinson (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781839095870
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. How do we prepare for the penultimate stage of life? This is a crucial... -
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean: Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making Meta Cramer 9781529249613
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making. This book reveals how... -
Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney, Australia) 9780367764050
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores the experiences of migrant mothers through the lens of the online communities they have created and participate in. Examining the ways in which migrant mothers build relationships... -
This is Sociology: A Short Introduction by Dan Woodman
Booksplease Price: £36.98This is Sociology is an engaging, concise introduction to the key concepts used for studying social life. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how... -
Masculinities by R. W. Connell 9780745634272
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.65This is an exciting new edition of R. W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one... -
Plural Masculinities: The Remaking of the Self in Private Life Sofia Aboim 9781138267763
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, pathways through which men are remaking their... -
Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces: An Arts-Based Approach Rohini Balram 9789819665068
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book explores the gendered and racial lived everyday and sporting experiences of Brown migrant young women and girls in Fiji. The author empirically employs a novel visual and arts-based... -
Concise Reader in Sociological Theory – Theorists, Concepts, and Current Applications by M Dillon
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.87Essential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students This Concise Reader in Sociological Theory contains excerpts from the... -
Globalizing the Research Imagination Jane Kenway (Monash University, Victoria, Australia) 9780415412223
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global... -
Anti-Colonial Scholarship and Global Social Theory Sujata Patel 9781529245523
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform... -
For a New Classic Sociology: A Proposition, followed by a Debate by Alain Caillé
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the future of the social sciences and the reconstruction of society in contemporary times. Drawing on the lead piece For a New Classic Sociology, it calls for a new theoretical... -
Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins by Korey Tillman 9781793643186
Booksplease Price: £86.43Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins provides a novel contribution to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory. In particular, the... -
Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values by Assoc Prof. Baden Offord 9781783082315
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74"Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values" offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform... -
Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles Ali Durham Greey 9781802629880
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.35The last decade has seen significant changes in global attitudes, policies and practices that impact the lives of trans people, but the world of sport has been slow to follow these initiatives. ... -
Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand by Georgina Murray
Booksplease Price: £46.49It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast this book looks at the real elite in... -
A Kaleidoscope of Identities: Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality by James W. Messerschmidt 9781538167861
Booksplease Price: £76.51In this book, James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges apply a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity formation. Sociologists tend to study social practice as exclusively or... -
From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis by Cynthia Cockburn 9781842778210
Booksplease Price: £37.81This original study examines women's activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia... -
Trans Athletes’ Resistance: The Struggle for Justice in Sport by Ali Durham Greey 9781803823645
Booksplease Price: £85.81With sport representing one of the last bastions of binary thinking, trans and nonbinary athletes face formidable hurdles in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom. Trans Athletes'... -
A Kaleidoscope of Identities: Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality by James W. Messerschmidt 9781538167878
Booksplease Price: £33.84In this book, James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges apply a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity formation. Sociologists tend to study social practice as exclusively or... -
This is Sociology: A Short Introduction Dan Woodman 9781529692334
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £63.87Studying social life? This book provides an engaging, concise introduction. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how thinking sociologically can help us... -
Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality Paola Bacchetta 9781138391642
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race,... -
Vulnerability and Valour: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities by Jessica M. Keady 9780567683885
Booksplease Price: £37.42Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her analysis Keady shows that it was not only women who... -
Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men by Magdalena Wong 9789888528424
RRP: £40.20Booksplease Price: £31.68Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men argues that a moral dimension in Chinese masculinity is of growing significance in fast-changing China... -
This is Sociology: A Short Introduction Dan Woodman 9781529692341
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.39Studying social life? This book provides an engaging, concise introduction. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how thinking sociologically can help us... -
The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities: A Critical Perspective by Hans Baer 9781032568102
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities - corporatisation and environmental sustainability - this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible.Hans A Baer argues... -
Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems Yoland Wadsworth 9781032440521
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently. Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired... -
Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps by D. W. Livingstone 9781442600508
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job? Written as a sequel... -
Persian Literature as World Literature by Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard 9781501354229
Booksplease Price: £102.21Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world... -
Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World Kam Louie (University of Hong Kong) 9781138577930
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book explores how the traditional ideal of Chinese manhood - the "wen" (cultural attainment) and "wu" (martial prowess) dyad - has been transformed by the increasing integration of China in the... -
Transgender Marxism Jules Joanne Gleeson 9780745341668
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.57The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve... -
Transgender Marxism by Jules Joanne Gleeson 9780745341651
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve... -
Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins by Korey Tillman 9781793643209
Booksplease Price: £33.49Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins provides a novel contribution to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory. In particular, the... -
The Idea of the Public University: Discovering and Teaching Knowledge in a Confused World by Allan Patience 9781032160375
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book sheds light on the risk of losing the authoritative knowledge discovered and taught by public universities. It argues that public universities are as indispensable now, as never before, for... -
The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice by Ian Hardy
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers' continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts... -
Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities Tim Edensor 9780415589765
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.94Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference... -
Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition by Jack Linchuan Qiu 9780252082122
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls. Gathered into mammoth... -
Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men's Practices by E. Ruspini 9780230107151
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection, with contributions on seventeen countries from social scientists from Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, analyzes the characteristics and potential of diverse... -
Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History by Francesco Boldizzoni
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring... -
Global Masculinities: Interrogations and Reconstructions Mangesh Kulkarni 9780367001919
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69What does it mean to be male in today's world?This volume interrogates the myriad practices and myth-making that underlie dominant and subordinate constructions of masculinities around the world... -
Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 9780367659646
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means...