Social Sciences

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

John Friedmann / The Good Society: A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice (Large Paperback)

"Friedmann presents his readers with separate sentences and paragraphs to ponder. These are liberally punctuated with a very personalized anthology of quotations ranging from Martin Buber to Heraclitus, T. S. Eliot to Mao Tse-Tong, and many other no...

Richard Buchanan / Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (Large Paperback)

Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor...

Malcolm McCullough / Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand (Large Paperback)

In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional...

Paul Connerton / How Modernity Forgets (Large Paperback)

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates' classic work, The...

James Howard Kunstler / Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Large Paperback)

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes...

Davide Nicolini / Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

What is practice theory? Where do practice theories come from? What do they say? Do they really offer something new to the study of work and organization?In setting out to answer these questions, this book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction...

Donald A. Norman / Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles (Large Paperback)

From water faucets and airplane cockpits to the concept of ”real time” and the future of memory, this wide-ranging tour through technology provides a new understanding of how the gadgets that surround us affect our lives. Donald Norman...

Rachel Charlotte Smith / Design Anthropological Futures (Large Paperback)

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal...

Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is...

Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback)

International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly...

Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback)

This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific...

Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback)

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has...

Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback)

This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to...

Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback)

This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be...

Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback)

The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that...

John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback)

Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist...

Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback)

The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the...