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Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century Dr. Matthew Benjamin Cole 9780472057740
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian... -
From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Ellery Schalk 9780691610948
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular... -
Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father by Isaac D. Balbus
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during... -
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence by Jody Miller 9780814756973
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £36.752010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section 2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C... -
Max Weber in America by Lawrence A. Scaff 9780691147796
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.67Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it... -
Class: The Anthology Stanley Aronowitz (City University of New York) 9780631224990
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.61Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political... -
No Social Science without Critical Theory by Harry F. Dahms 9780762314836
Booksplease Price: £95.03Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete... -
Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling by Jeanne Cameron 9781617359996
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The... -
American Evasion of Philosophy by West 9780299119645
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey... -
The Discourse About Kurdishness and Indigeneity: Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey Aynur Unal 9781666945232
Booksplease Price: £86.43The Discourse About Kurdishness and Indigeneity: Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey presents a comprehensive analysis of the self-identified Kurdish identity within the Kurdish political movement... -
The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons: Methodology and American Ethos by Uta Gerhardt 9780367602116
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology and the central... -
Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities by Susan Applegate Krouse 9780803220508
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.95The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since... -
Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling by Jeanne Cameron 9781617359989
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.87In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The... -
Culture of Fear by Frank Furedi 9780826493958
Booksplease Price: £27.67Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are... -
Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White by Prudence L. Carter 9780195325232
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £19.22How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is... -
Paradigms of Political Power by John R. Champlin
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Generations of men have used the notion of "power" to make sense of their political experience. Despite the fact that the term has recently fallen into comparative disfavor, the scholarly debate over... -
Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro by Janice E. Perlman 9780199836833
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £21.98Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries... -
Stalking Sociologists: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology Renee C. Fox 9780765805638
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Until recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation enjoyed an exalted reputation as America's premier crime-fighting organization. However, it is now common knowledge that the FBI and its... -
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment by Jill A. McCorkel 9780814761489
Booksplease Price: £90.87Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology Finalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society... -
James Carey: A Critical Reader by Eve Stryker Munson 9780816627035
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46An essential guide to the thought of a central figure in media studies .James Carey-scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists-almost single-handedly established the importance of defining a... -
American Melodies: Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community Robert McParland 9781666973792
Booksplease Price: £90.57Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.American Melodies is a study of America's varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with... -
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter by Gary Alan Fine 9780199736317
Booksplease Price: £37.98Soon after 9/11, wild rumors began to spread: that Arab-Americans were celebrating publicly, that some people had been warned, that politicians knew all along. The Global Grapevine reveals... -
No Social Science without Critical Theory by Harry F. Dahms 9781781901540
Booksplease Price: £45.92Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete... -
Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik by Ira Katznelson
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.35This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. It speaks to the intellectual and political weaknesses within the liberal... -
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity by Carl Boggs
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has... -
The Power of Identity Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781405196871
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.36In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural... -
To Fathom More: African American Scientists and Inventors by Edward Sidney Jenkins 9780761802150
Booksplease Price: £91.39Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface, Benjamin Banneker; 18th Century Astronomer, Elijah McCoy; 'The Real McCoy', Lewis Howard Latimer; Inventor and Renaissance Man, Daniel Hale Williams; Trail... -
Social Theory and Nursing Martin Lipscomb (University of Worcester, UK) 9780367224066
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursing's literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice. Likewise,... -
Individualisation at Work: The Self between Freedom and Social Pathologies by Norbert Ebert
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Individualisation has become an ambiguous, but defining feature of late modern societies and while it is in part characterised by an increase in individual autonomy and a sense of liberation,... -
Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism by Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253219145
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Kenneth W. Harrow offers a new critical approach to African cinema-one that requires that we revisit the beginnings of African filmmaking and the critical responses to which they gave rise, and that... -
Pathways to Data: Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations by Robert W. Habenstein
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37"It is much better," observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship, "to have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen 'codifications of... -
Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life by Monica J. Casper 9780415933551
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.25This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into the environment, bodies and communities. Turning our attention... -
Searchers, Seers, and Shakers: Masters of Social Science by James A. Schellenberg 9781138514416
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This volume offers intellectual portraits of eleven giants of the modern social sciences. It is bound by two central themes. The first is that there is a fundamental unity behind the various forms of... -
Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics by Marc Stears 9780691157900
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.00This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism... -
Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence by Elizabeth A. Cook 9780367651619
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of... -
Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small 9780195384352
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £36.06Social capital theorists have shown that inequality arises in part because some people enjoy larger, more supportive or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks... -
Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small 9780199764099
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better... -
Political Science and Ideology by William Connolly
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Professor David Kettler commented at the time of initial release, that this book is "writing with great poise and clarity, the author says important things in a deceptively simple way about a problem... -
Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion by Patricia C. Pongracz 9781907804021
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.14'Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion' is the first volume to explore the vast assortment of church decorations and memorials produced by Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) and the Tiffany Studios. For... -
The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly 9780691162843
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's...