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The Stranger by Shaun Best
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's... -
Introduction to Politics and Society by Shaun Best
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $53.57Introduction to Politics and Society comprehensively demonstrates how key theoretical and concepts in political science have foretold, rationalized and shaped politics in the contemporary world. ... -
Understanding Social Divisions by Shaun Best 9780761942979
Booksplease Price: $166.32The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years... -
Talcott Parsons: Despair and Modernity by Shaun Best 9780367597597
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons' published work by exploring the reasoning Parsons shares with his readers in... -
The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman by Dr Shaun Best 9781839097416
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.66The influential sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman was a prolific commentator on contemporary social life. The extent and range of his published work is so vast that it is easy for the... -
Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity Shaun Best 9781032091693
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman's writings, and... -
Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy Shaun Best 9781447374978
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.42Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners' aspirations, an 'aspiration industry' has emerged. However, the desire to leave school early should not... -
Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy Shaun Best 9781447374961
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $128.78Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners' aspirations, an 'aspiration industry' has emerged. However, the desire to leave school early should not... -
Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences Shaun Best 9781408229224
Booksplease Price: $78.18Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or... -
Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions by Jack Palmer 9780367637552
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of... -
Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.08From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV's news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself - an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to...