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Mindful Inquiry in Social Research
This innovative introduction to research in the social and human sciences guides students and novice res earchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures o f inquiry and epistemological frameworks....
Video as Method
Perhaps the greatest strength of choosing video as a method for social research is its flexible and almost limitless potential for gathering, analyzing, writing up, and disseminating the research findings....
Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application
For courses in Contemporary Social Theory. This text begins with an examination of the major schools of thought of social theory and provides an in-depth analysis of its relevance to...
Community Profiling: A Practical Guide
The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The...
DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
If you are a beginner researcher, the problems facing you are much the same whether you are producing a small project, an MEd dissertation or a PhD thesis. You will...
Practical Social Investigation: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Practical Social Investigation provides, within a single text, an introduction to a wide range of both long-standing and newer social research methods. Its balanced and integrated coverage of qualitative and...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of...
The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory
Risk society and beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck''s ideas as expressed in Risk Society (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.'
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
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Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
A Second Chicago School?: The Development of a Postwar American
From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second...
Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde-Primal Happenings,
Comparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avantgarde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,...
Non-fiction Classics Bargain Book Box
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This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...
The New Sociology: Essays In Social Science And Social Theory In Honor Of C. Wright Mills
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of intellectual rebellion and academic rigor, The New Sociology stands as a landmark...
Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research
Drawing on her expertise as an academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project. Moving far beyond...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
A Woman of the World: An American Woman's Counsel to the Other People's Sons and Daughters
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Theraplay (R) - Innovations and Integration
Officially endorsed by The Theraplay (R) Institute, this handbook builds on the core concepts of Theraplay (R) and explores innovative ways to integrate the approach with other therapeutic models for...
The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of...
Queen Bees And Wannabes for the Facebook Generation: Helping your teenage daughter survive cliques, gossip, bullying and boyfriends
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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop the false equivalencies Interrogate whiteness Interrogate capitalism Denounce the white Saviour...
Interpersonal Relations And Education: Revised Student Edition
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the hidden social world of the classroom, where the unspoken dynamics between teachers and students...
Making a Difference in Families: Research that creates change
'This 'must read' volume will challenge every researcher to re-examine their assumptions and approach to research with families. Munford and Sanders emphasise the positive contribution research can make through the...
The New Hate: a History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
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Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Regulation and Repression
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Second Chances: Men, Women and Children a Decade after Divorce
Examines the results of a ten-year study of the long term effects of divorce on American families, parents, children, courtship, marriage, and society.
Social Creature: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' (Guardian)
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Agent Zo: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: 'A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful' 'Gripping, moving and important' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading'...
Layla's Story
The extraordinary account of a woman's loss of her baby girl on the day of her birth and the devastating grief that followed. A love story about a passionate and...
Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload
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Hopes and Prospects
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Harvard Design School Guide To Shopping. Project on the City 2.
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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences
The book titled Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences by the author Katharine Betts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Childhood In Contemporary Cultures
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
First Impressions: The Psychology Of Encountering Others
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the first few seconds of meeting someone — and why does it matter so profoundly?...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with...
The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York
In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly...
Social Psychology: An Experimental Approach
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when science turns its rigorous eye on the invisible forces that govern human behaviour?...