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On Capitalism by Victor Nee
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Capitalism dominates economies all over the world and is a key force in the process of globalization. What makes it such a uniquely dynamic social and economic force, however, is open to debate. The... -
Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe by Victor Nee 9780804714945
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.40To what extent can contemporary socialist economies be reformed by the introduction of markets? The question is usually debated in either a Chinese or an East European context; this collection of... -
Victorian Needlework Kathryn Ledbetter 9780313386602
Booksplease Price: £48.40Marrying two exceptionally popular topics-needlework and women's history-this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian... -
Victorian Needlework: Techniques and Designs by Flora Klickman 9780486421544
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486421544Author Flora KlickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Crazy Quilt Odyssey: Adventures in Victorian Needlework by Judith Montano 9780914881414
Booksplease Price: £22.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914881414Author Judith MontanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint -
Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian pioneers to broadband Internet by John Bray 9780852962183
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.13This book describes the stage-by-stage creation and development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, of the remarkable global communications technologies that have profoundly... -
The Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era by Lyons
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20The emergence of the South China regional economy, comprised of the southeastern coastal provinces of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is analyzed in this timely and important collection of essays. Chin... -
Letters from Victorian Pioneers: Being a Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines, Etc. Addressed to His Excellency C. J. La Trobe, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria. by Anonymous 9781241691707
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241691707Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackImprint -
Underground to Everywhere: London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital by Stephen Halliday 9780752497723
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the... -
Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics by Eirik G. Furubotn 9780472030255
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.31This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the... -
Intellectuals, Inequalities and Transitions: Prospects for a Critical Sociology by Tamas Demeter
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05This volume is devoted to the central themes in Ivan Szelenyi 's sociological oeuvre, comprising empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement over the last 50 years. The contributors take... -
The New Immigrant in the American Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.94This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential... -
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration Richard Alba 9780674018136
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems... -
The New Institutionalism in Sociology by Mary C. Brinton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Institutions play a pivotal role in structuring economic and social transactions, and understanding the foundations of social norms, networks, and beliefs within institutions is crucial to explaining... -
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective by Richard Alba 9780814707425
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.30One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of... -
The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research by Rafael Wittek 9780804784184
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.90The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark... -
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives by Richard Alba 9780814705056
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a... -
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective by Richard Alba 9780814707432
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of... -
Individuals, Institutions, and Markets by C. Mantzavinos 9780521773584
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.28Individuals, Institutions, and Markets offers a theory of how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work. The book shows that both social institutions,... -
Individuals, Institutions, and Markets by C. Mantzavinos
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Individuals, Institutions, and Markets offers a theory of how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work. The book shows that both social institutions,... -
The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe by Richard Alba 9780814760253
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The Children of Immigrants at School explores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second generation is faring educationally in six countries:... -
The Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195369304
Booksplease Price: £41.38What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life...