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What is Digital History? by Salmi 9781509537013
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel... -
Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West by Kim Humphery 9780745645407
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and... -
Democracy and its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies by Richard Rose 9780745619262
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.81The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives -- dictatorship or totalitarian rule -- are more in... -
Fragile States by Lothar Brock 9780745649412
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24This authoritative introduction defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states in the global system and offers an absorbing account of why fragile states are crucial to our understanding of... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.50The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory... -
Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari 9781509554997
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity... -
The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism by Nikos Papastergiadis 9781509559312
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53Cosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political... -
Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers by Caitlin Killian 9781509557721
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting,... -
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745653549
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.39In its original formulation, culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them... -
The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism by Dany-Robert Dufour 9780745636900
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.40After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is neoliberalism that wants to create its own 'new man'. For... -
Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective by Silvio Waisbord 9780745651910
Booksplease Price: £57.55Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord takes this pressing issue as his theme and argues that... -
Visual Culture by Richard Howells 9780745650708
Booksplease Price: £62.89This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of the highly successful Visual Culture. Like its predecessor, this new version is about visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and... -
Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou 9780745640969
Booksplease Price: £42.43Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou,... -
Michael Walzer J. Toby Reiner 9781509526307
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.63Michael Walzer is one of the world's most important political thinkers, whose major works, such as Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars, have transformed many central debates in contemporary... -
Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari 9781509555000
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity... -
Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order Paul Drew (University of York) 9780745603933
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.38Erving Goffman was one of the most pre-eminent authors of the post-war period in social science. His ideas have had an extraordinary influence and have become well known to a wide audience. This is... -
Apps: From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives Gerard Goggin 9781509538492
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509538492Author Gerard GogginFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture Chris Rojek (Nottingham Trent University) 9780745671116
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.50Presumed intimacy refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of presumed... -
The Dark Side of Family Communication by Loreen N. Olson 9780745647982
Booksplease Price: £18.69This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle... -
Peace Agreements: Finding Solutions to Intra-state Conflicts Nina Caspersen (University of York) 9780745680279
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.63Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. How have these... -
The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault Michele Barrett 9780745605036
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.50The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michele Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing... -
What is Epistemology? Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781509529513
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509529513Author Stephen HetheringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Polity PressPublisher... -
Economic Networks by David H. Knoke 9780745649979
Booksplease Price: £57.55Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and commodities combine into... -
Visual Theory by Norman Bryson 9780745606606
Booksplease Price: £20.24In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of theory and method in the field of art history. Semiology, phenomenology, feminism, analytical philosophy and Marxism have all... -
Is Islam an Enemy of the West? by Tamara Sonn 9781509504411
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.87New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris D the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in... -
The Climate Coup by M Alizart 9781509546138
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.80Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative... -
Women of the Twelfth Century: Eve and the Church by Georges Duby 9780745619002
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.21In Women of the Twelfth Century: Eve and the Church, Georges Duby concerns himself with the relationship between women and the church, examining the ways in which women were viewed from a Christian... -
Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy by Peter Trawny 9780745695228
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.87Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in... -
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance by David Lyon 9780745641553
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.57New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of... -
The Dark Side of Modernity by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780745648217
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27In this book, one of the world s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about... -
WhatsApp: From a one-to-one Messaging App to a Global Communication Platform by Amelia Johns 9781509550524
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92In the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the world, WhatsApp quickly outpaced rival messaging apps and developed into a platform. In this book, the... -
Should We Colonize Other Planets? by Adam Morton 9781509525119
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.87As humans continue to degrade and destroy our planet's resources, leading to predictions of total ecological collapse, some (such as the entrepreneur Elon Musk) now suggest that a human colony... -
Justice is Steady Work: A Conversation on Political Theory by Walzer
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual. His conception of social justice and his work on just and unjust wars have... -
The Dark Side of Family Communication by Loreen N. Olson 9780745647975
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle... -
Population and Development: A Critical Introduction Frank Furedi (University of Kent) 9780745615387
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.63Many experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book... -
The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy by Jennifer Patrice Sims 9781509553471
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly... -
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris by Helen Morrison
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.38What does it mean to be gayfriendly? Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one’s son or daughter comes out? Going to gay bars or questioning one’s own sexual... -
Popular Music and Society by Brian Longhurst 9780745653648
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £59.27The third edition of Popular Music and Society is fully revised and updated, deftly exploring the study of popular music in the context of wider debates in sociology and media and cultural studies... -
Labor Movements: Global Perspectives by Stephanie Luce 9780745670591
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or... -
After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance by Ash Amin 9781509557318
Booksplease Price: £16.07Increasingly, many people in the democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and Britain to...