Social Sciences

Marilyn Strathern - The Gender of the Gift - PB

Published by University of California Press, 1990, originally 1988.  Angled creases to back cover corner, back corner is also dogeared, otherwise internally unmarked.  In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian...

Colin McGinn / The Making of a Philosopher

McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir, part introduction to philosophy; the self-portrait of an inquiring mind engaged by the...

Edward T. Hall / The Silent Language (Large Paperback)

Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the...

Nicholas Clifford / Key Methods in Geography (Coffee Table Book)

Key Methods in Geography is an introduction for undergraduates to the principal methodological issues involved in the collection, analysis and presentation of geographical information. It provides an accessible primer, which will be used by students as a...

Gill Branston / The Media Student's Book (Coffee Table Book)

Available in colour for the first time, thoroughly revised, re-ordered and completely updated with recent examples and expanded coverage of current issues, this fourth edition is a must-have introduction to media studies. The chapters are all supported...

John Fiske / Introduction to Communication Studies

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell...

Mikhail Bakhtin ( Edited by Michael E. Gardiner) / SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series - Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection)

Mikhail Bakhtin Edited by Michael E. Gardiner Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection) Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists. This four volume edition of his work deals in detail with his ideas on authorship and...

Alan Bryman ( Editor) Sage Publishing / Ethnography Volumes 1-4 ( Sage Benchmarks in Research Methods) (4 Book Collection)

Ethnography (4 Book Collection)

Social Psychology (4 Book Collection)

Social Psychology (4 Book Collection)   Social interaction and Personal Relationships Issues for Social Psychology  Identities - Groups and Social Issues Understanding the Self

Open University / DSE 202: Methodology Handbook (2 Book Collection)

DSE 202: Methodology Handbook (2 Book Collection)   Experimental research designs Correlational research designs

Open University / Social Psychology D317 (2 Book Collection)

Social Psychology D317 (2 Book Collection)   trigger unit media notes

Open Guides / Psychology (4 Book Collection)

Open Guides to Psychology (4 Book Collection)   Perception and Representation Memory  Language Understanding Problem Solving

Lilly M. Berry / Psychology at Work: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Coffee Table Book)

With an analysis of human work behavior, this text addresses the issues of using psychology at work. A focus on the development of employees and organizational structure helps students understand how psychology is applied in the workplace. Organizational...

Tibor Palfai / Drugs and Human Behavior (Coffee Table Book)

Drugs and Human Behavior provides unique historical background and introduces students to psychoactive drugs' pharmacology and the mental illnesses they are used to treat. This text is ideal for upper-level courses that take a psychopharmacological...

Mark T. Keane / Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook (Coffee Table Book)

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Ross Vasta / Child Psychology: The Modern Science (Coffee Table Book)

This updated topically organized text examines child psychology from the perspectives of three principal traditions which characterize the discipline today—the cognitive-developmental, environmental-learning and ethological orientations. It...

B.R. Hergenhahn / An Introduction to the History of Psychology [6th ed]

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Vincent Mosco / The Political Economy of Communication (Large Paperback)

This definitive, critical overview of the discipline explains in detail the analytical tools that political economy can apply to today′s increasingly global and technological information society. Vincent Mosco defines political economy by its focus...

Everett M. Rogers / Diffusion of Innovations (Large Paperback)

Since the first edition of this landmark book was published in 1962, Everett Rogers's name has become "virtually synonymous with the study of diffusion of innovations," according to Choice. The second and third editions of Diffusion of Innovations...

Mary Ingham / Men (Hardback)

. Apart from the chapter on Feminism, which now seems somewhat dated, the treatment of men's feelings and behaviour patterns is insightful and beautifully constructed, and remains current today. At the time it was written inm 1985 the men interviewed...

A.Barrett / How Unequal? - Men and Women in the Irish Labour Market(Large Paperback)

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John Van Maanen / Representation in Ethnography (Large Paperback)

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Dang Nghiem Van / Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam (Large Paperback)

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Tony Fahy & Helen Russell ( Editors) / Best of Times? The Social Impact of the Celtic Tiger (Large Paperback)

2007 ( published just before things went belly up)  The Celtic Tiger  caused the Irish economy to roar ahead, but what has it done to Irish society? Some saw the rising tide as having lifted all boats, while others argue that the benefits...

Clifford Geertz / Works and Lives the Anthropolgist as Author (Large Paperback)

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Henrietta L. Moore / A Passion for Difference (Large Paperback)

n this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the...

Marushka Svasek & Kay Milton (Editors) / Mixed Emotions (Large Paperback)

Emotions are of increasing interest in all the human sciences. In the past two decades, a growing number of anthropologists have explored emotional dynamics in a variety of geographic and cultural settings, and have developed various, at times...

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

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Patricia Kennedy / Motherhood in Ireland (Large Paperback)

Motherhood has been used as a political, social and cultural symbol in Ireland. In fact, the role of mother was institutionalized in the 1937 Irish Constitution. We are all born of women and we have all had mothers even though we may have had very...

Eric Miller / From Dependency To Autonomy (Large Paperback)

In this absorbing collection Eric Miller draws on the experience of three decades as organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory and the group relations movement. He has...

Gillian Cohen , George Kiss & Martin Le Voi / Memory : Current Issues ( 2nd Edition - Open Guides to Psychology) (Large Paperback)

Open Guides to Psychology An up-to-date, in-depth treatment of the major current issues, theories and findings. It introduces a representative selection of different research methods, and the reader is encouraged, by means of activities and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...