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The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education by Linda Lawrence-Wilkes 9781137399588
Booksplease Price: £56.12How important is it to be a reflective practitioner in education today? This book examines the reflective practitioner role and the scope of reflective activities in professional practice, revealing... -
The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man by Christos Lynteris 9781137293824
Booksplease Price: £46.28Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris... -
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters by S. Tate 9781349698202
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be... -
The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators by Piero Formica 9781137489623
Booksplease Price: £46.74Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The Role of Creative Ignorance... -
Sociology in Sweden: A History by Anna Larsson 9781137482297
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the... -
Age and Foreign Language Learning in School by Raphael Berthele 9781137525895
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book discusses the empirical studies on how biological age influences foreign language learning in school. It provides a succinct overview of a complex field for both experts and researchers... -
Rogue Banking: A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain by Matthew Hollow 9781137360533
Booksplease Price: £46.74Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how... -
Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement by Thomas Abrams 9781137528551
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical... -
SMEs in an Era of Globalization: International Business and Market Strategies by Ilan Bijaoui 9781137575708
Booksplease Price: £51.83This book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them. More than ever, sustainable competitive advantage... -
Religious Liberty in a Lockean Society by Elissa B. Alzate 9781137584779
Booksplease Price: £51.79This book assesses the concept of religious liberty in the United States according to the political theory of John Locke. Protecting the individual freedom of religion without infringing on the... -
Curriculum Studies in the United States: Present Circumstances, Intellectual Histories by William F. Pinar 9781137303417
Booksplease Price: £46.28Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by present political circumstances. He explains why... -
Congress's Own Think Tank: Learning from the Legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment (1972-1995) by Peter Blair 9781137360892
Booksplease Price: £46.74Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience?it's creation, operation, and circumstances of its closure? and that of organizations attempting to fill the gap since OTA's closure as well as a... -
Policing New Risks in Modern European History by Xavier Rousseaux 9781137544018
Booksplease Price: £46.28Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the... -
Happiness and Place: Why Life Is Better Outside of the City by Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn 9781137436320
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and... -
Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations: Lessons from the Field by Guri Tyldum 9781137363602
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of... -
The Moscow Pythagoreans: Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism by Ilona Svetlikova 9781137338273
Booksplease Price: £46.74In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement. Through analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects... -
Decentralization and Party Politics in the Dominican Republic by C. Mitchell 9781137353115
Booksplease Price: £46.74Recently in the Dominican Republic, a pro-municipal social alliance pressed for decentralization and politicians yielded, seeking power in three-party competition. This study examines how electoral,... -
The Open Incubator Model: Entrepreneurship, Open Innovation, and Economic Development in the Periphery by Ilan Bijaoui 9781137492395
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Open Incubator Model analyzes the different support policies needed in big cities, rural areas and country borders for entrepreneurs in developed and developing countries to generate cooperation... -
Debating Modern Masculinities: Change, Continuity, Crisis? by S. Roberts 9781137394835
Booksplease Price: £46.74Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk,... -
Sociology in France after 1945 by Cherry Schrecker 9781137450531
Booksplease Price: £46.28Tracing the evolution of French sociology from the early twentieth century to the present day, this insightful book brings to the fore the renowned origins but relatively slow development of the... -
The Language of Cosmetics Advertising by Helen Ringrow 9781137557971
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and... -
Rising Powers and Economic Crisis in the Euro Area by Ferdi De Ville 9781137514394
Booksplease Price: £46.74In this book, Ferdi De Ville and Mattias Vermeiren examine the linkages between the economic crisis in the euro area and the rise of Brazil, India and China (BICs) in the global monetary and trading... -
The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure by C. Westall 9781137351333
Booksplease Price: £46.74In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The... -
Devolution and Governance: Wales Between Capacity and Constraint by Alistair Cole 9781137436733
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh... -
Statesmanship and Progressive Reform: An Assessment of Herbert Croly's Abraham Lincoln by Jason R. Jividen 9781137366597
Booksplease Price: £46.28A critical assessment of Herbert Croly's influential account of Abraham Lincoln in his 1909 book, The Promise of American Life, which argued that Progressivism was a continuation of the spirit of... -
The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupygezi by Umut Ozkirimli 9781137413772
Booksplease Price: £46.74The aim of this collection of essays, the first academic book on the topic in English, is to offer a preliminary analysis of Gezi protests and address the following questions: 'How can we account for... -
T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth by G. Atkins 9781137301314
Booksplease Price: £46.28By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This... -
Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction by Marina Lambrou 9781137507778
Booksplease Price: £46.74In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as 'the disnarrated' - events that do not happen but which are referred to - across three genres of texts:... -
The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781137328106
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous... -
The Millennial Generation and National Defense: Attitudes of Future Military and Civilian Leaders by Morten G. Ender 9781137392312
Booksplease Price: £46.74This study captures the attitudes and values of the youth generation of college students in the USA toward the military, war, national defence, and foreign policy matters. Providing a unique insight... -
Development Cooperation: Challenges of the New Aid Architecture by Stephan Klingebiel 9781137397874
Booksplease Price: £46.74The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other... -
The Price of Public Intellectuals by Raphael Sassower 9781137385017
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals. Sassower suggests how the... -
The Fall of Global Socialism: A Counter-Narrative From the South by Dayan Jayatilleka 9781137395467
Booksplease Price: £46.74This radical new perspective from the Global South casts a fresh light on a major aspect of contemporary history and in doing so suggests an alternative interpretation of twentieth century... -
School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries by S. Lund 9781137480064
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £35.22This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on... -
Understanding and Managing IT Outsourcing: A Partnership Approach by Surja Datta 9781137497307
Booksplease Price: £46.28Understanding and Managing IT Outsourcing explains and illustrates how uncertainty and trust interact with each other, and how an understanding of this interaction is critical to success in IT... -
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: A Theoretical Perspective by Mark Lauchs 9781137456281
Booksplease Price: £46.74Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world. They are a visible threat as a recognizable symbol of deviance and violence. This book uses gang and... -
Sport Mega-Events in Emerging Economies: The South American Games of Santiago 2014 by Gonzalo A. Bravo 9781137568878
Booksplease Price: £46.74Chile and the South American Games of Santiago 2014 offers an interesting case to examine an event of sizeable magnitude in a country with little history of hosting sport mega-events (SMEs). This... -
Military Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War by B. Kelly 9781137446015
Booksplease Price: £46.28Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government,... -
Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima by Jane L. Chapman 9781137407238
Booksplease Price: £46.28Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role... -
Double-voicing at Work: Power, Gender and Linguistic Expertise by J. Baxter 9781137348524
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts. Baxter's research shows that women use double-voicing more than men as a...