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A Criminology of War? Ross McGarry (University of Liverpool, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) 9781529202663
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.04In recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline... -
It's the Government, Stupid: How Governments Blame Citizens for Their Own Policies by Keith Dowding
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, placing too much emphasis on personal responsibility and pursuing policies to 'nudge' their citizens to... -
Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy Ian Hall 9781529204629
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.04Narendra Modi's energetic personal diplomacy and promise to make India a 'leading power' surprised many analysts. Most had predicted that his government would concentrate on domestic issues, on the... -
Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang by Creighton Connolly
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics of place. Reviewing the role of residents,... -
Workaway: The Human Costs of Europe’s Common Labour Market by Jonathon W. Moses
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23This agenda-setting book shows how freedom of movement has made the integration of Europe’s labour markets a contentious issue, for example in the aftermath of the eurocrisis, where workers had to... -
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism by Seamus Taylor 9781529217872
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06Outlining the key developments of the Disability Hate Crime policy agenda, Seamus Taylor brings together a unique consideration of the theoretical and practical questions at its heart. This book... -
Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US: How We Failed Children of Color by Paul R. Ketchum 9781529202403
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Drawing on original data, this book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. It calls... -
Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey by Paul Gordon Kramer 9781529214840
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer... -
Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan by Scott Gartner 9781529209884
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a... -
The City in China: New Perspectives On Contemporary Urbanism by Ray Forrest 9781529205473
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment". This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School... -
Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain by Fran Amery 9781529204995
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as... -
The Public Sociology of Waste by Myra J. Hird 9781529206555
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80This provocative book critically analyses the widespread narrative around waste as a 'household' issue. Expert scholar Myra J. Hird uncovers neoliberal capitalism's fallacy of infinite growth as the... -
The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times by Jo Shaw 9781529208894
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80At a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship. This incisive... -
Environmental Anarchy?: Security in the 21st Century by Mark Beeson 9781529209389
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79What does it mean to be secure in the 21st century? Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about global security, including the troubling re-emergence of 'spheres of influence',... -
Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives by Erin F Johnston 9781529211610
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £74.29This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts and meanings of religion. Experts from the US, UK,... -
Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological Research: 'Nothing About Us Without Us' by Orla Lynch 9781529215526
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices, are seldom included in the decision-making processes that impact their lives. Building on the 'nothing about us without us' social... -
Networked Crime: Does the Digital Make the Difference? by Matthew David 9781529218114
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Do digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book... -
What Is History For? by Robert Gildea 9781529230512
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.63“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over... -
Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space by Seyma Karamese 9781529221015
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives. ... -
Reimagining Parliament by David Judge 9781529226997
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23With trust in Parliament and politicians at a seriously low level, there is an increasing need to rebuild our public institutions. This innovative book questions what Parliament should be in the 21st... -
Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America Viviana García Pinzón 9781529236286
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.05Trajectories of Governance studies the complex dynamics of order-making, violence and governance in peripheral cities in Latin America from a comparative, historical, and multi-scalar approach. This... -
Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics: Important Perspectives Elizabeth Chloe Romanis 9781529236538
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.29Diverse and broad perspectives on health law & its impact on marginalized groups Provides a wide range of perspectives rather than just one specifically (i.e. feminism or disability) Designed to be... -
At the End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization Veit Braun 9781529233667
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.05Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth... -
The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism: Techno-Human Evolution and Advanced Capitalism Alexander Thomas 9781529239645
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enhance human capacities. This book interrogates the... -
Navigating the Local: Politics of Peacebuilding in Lebanese Municipalities by Hanna Leonardsson 9781529224276
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54How is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in which local service... -
Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap by Thomas Waldman 9781529207002
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.67America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the... -
Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities by Jutta Bakonyi 9781529215236
Booksplease Price: £27.83This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or... -
Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China by Chih-yu Shih 9781529238907
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.05In October 2022, the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded, extending Xi Jinping's leadership indefinitely, which many view as a one-party dictatorship. Exploring... -
The Harms of Beauty Sam Barnes 9781529235333
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04The beauty industry thrives on creating a sense of dissatisfaction with appearance, with social media adding pressure to conform to idealised images of beauty. This has led to a growing use of... -
Couples at Work: Negotiating Paid Employment, Housework and Childcare Emily Christopher 9781529224962
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £71.28This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies and practices intersect with individual... -
1000 Platforms: An Ecology of Ensembles Adrian Mackenzie 9781529237399
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529237399Author Adrian MackenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bristol University... -
Neoliberalism and Urban Regeneration: London's Communities Finding a Voice and Fighting Back Roger Green 9781529243956
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529243956Author Roger GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bristol University PressPublisher... -
Neoliberalism and Urban Regeneration: London's Communities Finding a Voice and Fighting Back Roger Green 9781529243949
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529243949Author Roger GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bristol University PressPublisher... -
Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America Cordelia Freeman 9781529236873
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can a stomach ulcer drug transform abortion access? This book tells the story of misoprostol, a medication that was ‘discovered’ as a... -
Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe Janet Clare 9781529233469
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.88Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide. This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged... -
Philosophy Behind Bars: Growth and Development in Prison by Kirstine Szifris
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529205558Author Kirstine SzifrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bristol University... -
Between Realism and Revolt: Governing Cities in the Crisis of Neoliberal Globalism Jonathan Davies (De Montfort University) 9781529210927
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Leading governance theorist Jonathan S. Davies develops a rich comparative analysis of austerity governance and resistance in eight cities, to establish a conjunctural perspective on the rolling... -
Volume I: Community and Society by Brian Doucet
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £38.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529218879Author Brian DoucetFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bristol University PressPublisher... -
Island Criminology by John Scott
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £58.55Ten percent of the world's population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond... -
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis by Vicki Dabrowski
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, Dabrowski makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic...