Social Sciences

Michael Young and Peter Willmott / Family and Kinship in East London (Vintage Paperback)

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W.G. Runciman / Social Science and Political Theory: Second Edition (Vintage Paperback)

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David J. Smith / Racial Disadvantage in Britain (Vintage Paperback)

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Perry Novotny / The Immigration Bible (Coffee Table Book)

This guide is a blueprint for those who wish to enhance their knowledge on how to immigrate legally to the United States. While it does not replace the expertise of immigration lawyers, it does provide the individual with the tools to know exactly what...

Trevor Smith / Migrants and Refugees - Understanding Global Issues

Examines the history of immigration, explains the reasons for migration, discusses the patterns and problems of immigration, and looks at how the experiences of refugees differ from those of other immigrants.     All of our books are second...

Clive Seale / Social Research Methods : A Reader (Coffee Table Book)

Bringing together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, this book gives students direct access to methodological debates and examples of practical research across the qualitative/quantitative divide. The...

Micheal MacGreil , Eamon O. Cuiv / Pluralism and Diversity in Ireland: Prejudice and Related Issues in Early 21st Century Ireland (Coffee Table Book)

Pluralism and Diversity in Ireland' is based on a National Survey of attitudes and opinions in the Republic of Ireland in 2007-08 and marks the third book in a trilogy on the subject of prejudice and tolerance in Irish society. The current survey traces...

Aileen Moreton-Robinson / Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

Revealing the invisible position of power and privilege in feminist practice, this accessible and provocative analysis elucidates the whiteness of Australian feminism. A pioneering work, it will overturn complacent notions of a mutual sisterhood and...

Fiona Devine, S. Heath / Sociological Research Methods in Context (Large Paperback)

This book seeks to introduce students to the challenges of 'real life' social research through a detailed consideration of eight recent empirical studies. Designed to complement existing introductory methods texts, it emphasises the importance of...

John A. Hughes / Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim (Large Paperback)

A lucid examination of the pivotal theories of Marx, Weber and Durkheim, this accessible text demonstrates the continuing relevance of these three figures to contemporary sociology. The authors show how the classical apparatus is still in use, even...

Stephen M. Kosslyn / The Case for Mental Imagery (Large Paperback)

"This volume is the most important if not the final word on the great imagery debate. It examines issues critical to all cognition. For example, whether the brain is a general purpose computer and if the brain's structure imposes limits on what can be...

Malcolm MacLachlan / Happy Nation?: Prospects for Psychological Prosperity in Ireland (Large Paperback)

The National Happiness Experiment was a pioneering text-based survey in Ireland, run over six weeks in May 2012. Designed by the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, the NHE surveyed a total of 3,309 people producing some surprising findings...

Desmond Dinan / EVER CLOSER UNION? - AN INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (Large Paperback) 2nd Edition

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David Riesman / The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the “new middle class” in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new...

Robert D. Friedberg / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals: Rubrics and Rudiments (Hardback)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals is an essential resource for clinical child psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and mental health professionals. Since 2001, psychiatry...

Barbara Rogoff / The Cultural Nature of Human Development (Hardback)

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with...

Barbara Rogoff / Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town (Hardback)

Winner of the 2014 Maccoby Award from the American Psychological AssociationBorn with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85...

Susan T. Fiske / Social Cognition (Large Paperback)

This is a revision of a market leader in social cognition written by two well-known and respected authors. The text is designed to provide a critical overview of the theories and methods in the newly emerging field of social cognition. The major theme of...

John Brookshire Thompson / Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media (Large Paperback)

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Anthony P. Cohen / Self Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity (Large Paperback)

Cohen establishes the importance of the self and argues that in order to appreciate the complexity of social formations, one must first take note of individuals awareness of themselves and as authors of social contexts and formations.     All...

Catherine Kohler Riessman / Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences (Large Paperback)

The research literature on narrative has grown exponentially over the last 20 years. No longer the province only of literary study, the "narrative turn" has penetrated almost every human anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and others. However,...

Jennifer Rowley / Organizing Knowlege (Large Paperback)

The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users...

Henrietta L. Moore / Feminism and Anthropology (Large Paperback)

This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist...

Dale O'Leary / The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality (Large Paperback)

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Susan Birrell / Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation (Large Paperback)

Reading Sport begins with an insightful introduction by the editors that provides theoretical frameworks and analytical tools for reading sport. The selections that follow critically examine how the complexities and intersections of power are reflected...

Mary P. Corcoran / Uncertain Ireland: A Sociological Chronicle, 2003-2004 (Large Paperback)

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen / Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Large Paperback)

Ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation states, this concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology reveals the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text also provides a...