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Social Identity by Richard Jenkins
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this... -
Being Danish by Richard Jenkins
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £31.39This book is a major contribution to the sociology and anthropology of identity and to debates about identity in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. Using extensive archival material alongside... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins 9780415057981
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This short critical introduction to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's original writings are often densely argued and ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is... -
Pierre Bourdieu Richard Jenkins 9781032910109
Booksplease Price: £26.09This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous,... -
Cannabis and Young People: Reviewing the Evidence by Richard Jenkins
Booksplease Price: £21.98Cannabis is at the centre of ongoing controversial and often confused debate. Opinions on its potential impact on health are sharply divided: some argue that it poses serious risks to mental health... -
Racism and Equal Opportunity Policies in the 1980s by Richard Jenkins 9780521389686
Booksplease Price: £35.47This edition, first published in 1989, looks at the problems of racism and equal opportunity in employment and government policies towards them in Britain. It brings together a group of specialist... -
Tyrrell: The Story of the Tyrrell Racing Organisation by Richard Jenkins 9781910505670
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £66.40Ken Tyrrell's famous Formula 1 racing team will forever be associated with Jackie Stewart and the three World Championship titles they won together. But the Tyrrell story is far bigger than that,... -
Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability by Richard Jenkins 9780521623032
Booksplease Price: £62.04Intellectual disability - ranging from what is more commonly described as 'mental retardation' to 'learning difficulties' - is a socially constructed phenomenon that varies in important respects... -
Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability by Richard Jenkins 9780521626620
Booksplease Price: £45.31Intellectual disability - ranging from what is more commonly described as 'mental retardation' to 'learning difficulties' - is a socially constructed phenomenon that varies in important respects... -
Foundations of Sociology: Towards a Better Understanding of the Human World by Richard Jenkins 9780333960509
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book argues that the foundations of sociology - key concepts which are necessary to all sociology, from whatever perspective - have become taken-for-granted and require re-assessment. Focusing... -
Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market by Richard Jenkins 9780521125765
Booksplease Price: £38.41This book, first published in 1986, focuses upon the processes whereby black workers were systematically disadvantaged in the recruitment and selection process. Based on research into forty... -
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary... -
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography by J. Barry 9781403911759
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £112.12This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on... -
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography by J. Barry 9781403911766
RRP: £131.50Booksplease Price: £112.12This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on... -
Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo, Norway) 9780415458542
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This... -
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water: Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times by Guillermo del Toro 9781785657368
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.84From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes The Shape of Water, an otherworldly love story set in 1963 against the backdrop of Cold War-era America. Starring Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon,... -
Social Selves: Theories of Self and Society by Ian Burkitt
Booksplease Price: £98.33"The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted... -
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the... -
Urban Bonds Talja Blokland 9780745628028
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks to answer this question in this careful ethnographic... -
Social Theory: A Textbook by Carsten Bagge Laustsen
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed... -
Exotic No More, Second Edition: Anthropology for the Contemporary World by Jeremy Macclancy
Booksplease Price: £29.79In this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological theory and ethnographic... -
The Art and Making of Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle by Gina McIntyre 9781789098815
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.31Comprehensive and insightful, , is the ultimate companion to the master director's latest work. Inspired by William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1947 novel, Nightmare Alley stars Bradley Cooper as... -
Postnational Self: Belonging And Identity by Ulf Hedetoft 9780816639373
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46A timely look at how our globalized era has reconfigured experiences of belonging.What happens to a sense of belonging when national and regional governments, religious organizations, community... -
Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families by Eva Gullov 9780745336091
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54This original ethnographic study looks at how children are 'civilised' within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the welfare state. As part... -
Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families by Laura Gilliam 9780745336046
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.79This original ethnographic study looks at how children are 'civilised' within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the welfare state. As part... -
We Are Hunted Tomi Oyemakinde 9781035003358
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.16We Are Hunted by Tomi Oyemakinde is a compulsive speculative thriller about the lengths we go to for power - and to survive.When seventeen-year-old Femi and his brother accompany their father on a... -
State, Culture and Life-Modes: The Foundations of Life-Mode Analysis by Thomas Højrup 9781138718470
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This title was first published in 2003.This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas Hojrup invites us to look at cultural analysis... -
Theorizing Power by Jonathan S. Hearn 9780230246577
Booksplease Price: £40.38If we're interested in why society changes and develops, and if we want to identify the forces that influence our personal beliefs and choices, then we must have an understanding of the nature and... -
Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle by Gina McIntyre 9781647225049
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.46Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro for an intimate exploration of his darkly electrifying psychological thriller Nightmare Alley.Comprehensive and insightful, Guillermo del Toro's... -
Power and Welfare: Understanding Citizens' Encounters with State Welfare by Nanna Mik-Meyer
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In the welfare provision of today, power takes both the shape of juridical sanctions and of attractive offers for self-development. When state institutions punish criminals, remove children at risk,... -
Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton Angela V. John 9781914595738
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Philip Burton (1904-95) is best remembered as the schoolmaster responsible for training and transforming his pupil Richard Jenkins into Richard Burton, world- famous star of stage and screen... -
A Companion to Border Studies Thomas M. Wilson (Binghamton University, USA) 9781119111672
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.71A Companion to Border Studies "Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies."Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European... -
Theorizing Identities and Social Action by Margaret Wetherell 9780230580886
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the 'doing' and 'making' of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take... -
Behind the Scenes Angela V. John 9781917140959
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Philip Burton (1904-95) is best remembered as the schoolmaster responsible for training and transforming his pupil Richard Jenkins into Richard Burton, world- famous star of stage and screen...