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Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance by Spencer Headworth
Booksplease Price: $36.83Means-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the "truly needy." ... -
McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by W. Terrence Gordon 9781441143808
Booksplease Price: $34.70"McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed" is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhan's... -
Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale by Jonathan Croall 9781474223850
Booksplease Price: $38.55King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America... -
Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance by Spencer Headworth 9780226779225
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $123.90Means-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the "truly needy." ... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621660
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.84The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper... -
The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia by Sheila Hale
Booksplease Price: $22.60The Man who Lost His Language is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left... -
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Melanie Newport
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This... -
Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.46On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621653
Booksplease Price: $91.37The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper... -
London's West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 by Rohan McWilliam 9780198823414
Booksplease Price: $53.37How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914... -
Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow 9781350289611
Booksplease Price: $92.30On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across... -
The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing by Michael Sierra-Arévalo 9780231198479
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.35Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological AssociationPolicing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist... -
Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context Roger Clegg 9780859898782
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $44.49A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of... -
Invisible Light: The Remarkable Story of Radiology by Adrian Thomas
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03The book is a developed history of the radiological sciences - covering the back-story to Roentgen's discovery, the discovery itself and immediate reception the early days of radiology leading to...