Social Sciences

Lance Workman / Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction (Coffee Table Book)

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly important and fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, which attempts to understand the mind and behavior in terms of the evolutionary pressures that shaped them. The text...

Robert Ornstein / Psychology: The Study of Human Experience (Coffee Table Book)

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James Suzman / Work : A History of How we Spend our Time (Large Paperback)

A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James SuzmanWork defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and...

Paul E. Willis / Learning to Labor - How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (Large Paperback)

Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.   This book is second hand,...

Beate Rössler / The Value of Privacy (Large Paperback)

This new book by Beate Rössler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue -  privacy and the relations between the private and the public.Rössler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought...

Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the...

Allan Megill ( Editor) / Rethinking Objectivity (Large Paperback)

Although "objectivity" is a term used widely in many areas of public discourse, from discussions concerning the media and politics to debates over political correctness and cultural literacy, the question "What is objectivity?" is often ignored, as if...

Ziauddin Sardar , Borin Van Loon / Introducing Cultural Studies, 2nd Edition (Large Paperback)

Examines the ideas of its leading exponents and provides a flavour of its use around the world.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and...

Erik Jonsson / Inner Navigation (Large Paperback)

A lively text, intriguing facts, and real-world examples combine to present a fascinating exploration into our "cognitive maps, " which are inherited from our animal ancestors, allowing us to navigate the physical world. This book is second hand, and...

Vijayendra Rao / Culture and Public Action (Large Paperback)

How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to...

Anthony Giddens - The Consequences of Modernity - PB

Published by Polity Press, 1990. Inked number to front endpage corner is teh only mark, spine uncreased, a very good PB copy.  In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional...

E. Valentine Daniel / Charred Lullabies (Large Paperback)

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his...

Pertti J Pelto, Gretel H Pelto / Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry (Large Paperback)

This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations about human...

Clive Seale / Media and Health (Large Paperback)

`This book appears to fill a substantial gap in the literature at present. There are, quite simply, no books available which engage seriously and competently with the presentation of health issues in the media, and certainly none which focuses on...

Rachel Pain et al. / Introducing Social Geographies (Large Paperback)

Written by Rachel Pain, Michael Barke, Duncan Fuller, Jamie Gough, Graham Mowl, Robert MacFarlene `Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of...

Marian Liebmann / Community and Neighbour Meditation (Large Paperback)

This practical book looks at mediation as it can be applied to resolving community and neighbour disputes. It covers the history and theory of mediation practices before looking at how these can work in practice by analysing the mediation process and...

Avril Tabuns / Confused about Care for Your Mum and Dad? (Large Paperback)

Packed with real life stories and practical resources, this guidebook provides step by step solutions for most of the issues you may encounter as you or your parents reach a certain age.This guide will ease your stress and give you the peace of mind that...

Becky Francis / Reassesing Gender and Achievement (Large Paperback)

Questioning Contemporary Key Debates Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are...

Amiria Henare / Thinking Through Things - Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically (Large Paperback)

Amiria Henare (Editor), Martin Holbraad (Editor), Sari Wastell (Editor) Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in...

Carol Dyhouse / Girl Trouble : Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (Large Paperback)

Horror, scandal and moral panic! The popular fascination with the moral decline of young women has permeated society for over a hundred years. Be it flappers, beat girls, dolly birds or ladettes, public outrage at girls' perceived permissiveness has been...

Lorraine Nencel / Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (Large Paperback)

In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. This is a richly detailed ethnographic account...

T.M.S. Evens / The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Large Paperback)

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of...

Ruben Andersson / Illegality, Inc - Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. (Large Paperback)

Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe (California Series in Public Anthropology) In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration...

Ilana Feldman / In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Large Paperback)

Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of “humanity.” The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category’s universal purchase. Yet...

Alejandro Portes / Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Large Paperback)

Alejandro Portes (Editor), J. DeWind (Editor) With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in...

Sigmund Freud - Two Short Accounts of Psychoanalysis ( Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis | The Question of Lay Analysis ) - PB -1970

Pelican PB reprint edition. These two accounts form the best possible introduction to psycho-analysis for the general reader, for whom they were originally prepared. When Sigmund Freud was invited to lecture in America in 1909 he expounded, for the first...

Susan M. Pearce / Museums, Objects and Collections (Large Paperback)

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as...

W.J. Thomas Mitchell / Landscape and Power (Large Paperback)

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of...

James Watson, Anne Hill / Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies (Large Paperback)

The Watson and Hill dictionary in its 8th edition presents a fresh and comprehensive overview serving all aspect of the study of media and communication. It provides a detailed compendium of the different facets of personal, group, mass media and...

Daniel Miller ( Editor) / Materiality (Large Paperback)

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here...

Jon Bird, George Roberts, Barry Curtis, / The Block Reader in Visual Culture (Large Paperback)

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the woek of contemporary artists, and bring the...

Donna L. Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson / Death, Dying and Bereavement (Large Paperback)Donna L. Dickenson (Editor) ,

"The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read and therefore accessible to a wide audience. In all it...

David Graddol / Describing Language (Large Paperback)

A student introduction to descriptive linguistics, Describing Language is essentially practical in its orientation. It is useful for anyone who wishes to refer to technical literature involving linguistic description, who requires a basic conceptual...

H. Falk John , Lynn D. Dierking / The Museum Experience (Large Paperback)

The Museum Experience is the first book to take the "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit. It integrates the authors' original research with that from a wide variety of disciplines as well as museum and visitor studies ranging from science centers and...

Bruce L. Berg / Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community. It also stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think...

Harold Garfinkel / Studies in Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics. It is one of the...

John Heritage / Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired.It is the only...

Jean McNiff / You and Your Action Research Project (Large Paperback)

This book gives practical guidance on doing an action research project. Written for practitioners across professions who are studying on award-bearing courses, this book is packed full of useful advice and takes the reader through the various stages...

James P. Spradley /The Ethnographic Interview (Large Paperback)

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Nigel Thrift / Spatial Formations (Large Paperback)

This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and demonstrates why they must be examined in relation to each other rather...

M.N. Srinivas / The Fieldworker and the Field: Problems and Challenges in Sociological Investigation (Large Paperback)

This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences...

Armand Mattelart / Invention Of Communication (Large Paperback)

1996 A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together...

Armand Mattelart / Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (Large Paperback)

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing / Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Large Paperback)

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action,...

Immanuel Wallerstein / The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century (Large Paperback)

his book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered by a scholar uniquely suited to the task. Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most prominent social scientists of our time, documents the profound transformations our world is undergoing...

Colin Lankshear / New Literacies (Large Paperback)

"Lankshear and Knobel's New Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning is a savvy and principled analysis of emerging socio-cultural conditions of digitization, the best take to date on education, Post-Lyotard." - Suzanne de Castell, Professor, Literacy...

Alastair Fuad-Luke / Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (Large Paperback)

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and...

Michael A. Jackson / Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (Large Paperback)

Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for...

Judy Attfield / Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Large Paperback)

Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become so important...

Tony Fry / Becoming Human by Design (Large Paperback)

The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design 's provocative argument presents a revised reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design.Examining the relation of design...

Peter Checkland / Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective (Large Paperback)

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, highly successful in technical problems, could be used by managers coping with the unfolding complexities of organizational life. The straightforward transfer...

Frank Webster / Theories of the Information Society (Large Paperback)

Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank...