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What Even Is Gender? (Paperback): R. A. Briggs, B. R. George What Even Is Gender? (Paperback)
R. A. Briggs, B. R. George
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Presents a new philosophy of gender categories, going beyond binary oppositions Introduces some novel concepts, such as 'gender feels' and applies hermeneutical injustice theory to gender One of the first books to use analytic philosophy to disentangle a lot of the confusing debates around gender, which are still rooted in physiological differences

Dementia - Current Perspectives in Research and Treatment (Paperback): Gary Christopher Dementia - Current Perspectives in Research and Treatment (Paperback)
Gary Christopher
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of theory and practice in the field of dementia and ageing Essential reading for clinical psychologists in training

Religion, Materialism and Ecology (Paperback): Sigurd Bergmann, Kate Rigby, Peter Manley Scott Religion, Materialism and Ecology (Paperback)
Sigurd Bergmann, Kate Rigby, Peter Manley Scott
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there is little agreement on what ‘materialism’ means, it is evident that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more animated and active ways. The volume explores how debates concerning the new materialisms impinge on religious traditions and the extent to which religions, with their material culture and beliefs in the Divine within the material, can make a creative contribution to debates about ecological materialisms. Spanning a broad range of themes, including politics, architecture, hermeneutics, literature and religion, the book brings together a series of discussions on materialism in the context of diverse methodologies and approaches. The volume investigates a range of issues including space and place, hierarchy and relationality, the relationship between nature and society, human and other agencies, and worldviews and cultural values. Drawing on literary and critical theory, and queer, philosophical, theological and social theoretical approaches, this ground-breaking book will make an important contribution to the environmental humanities. It will be a key read for postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, philosophy and environmental studies.

Jewish History and Judaism: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of - A history of the Jewish people, their religion and philosophy,... Jewish History and Judaism: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of - A history of the Jewish people, their religion and philosophy, traditions and practices (Hardcover)
Lawrence Joffe, Dan Cohn-Sherbok
R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an account of the 4,000-year history of the Jews, from the ancient Patriarchs and Kings through to modern times. It also explores the Jewish faith, its traditional beliefs and practices, its festivals and celebrations, and the way of life of Jewish people today. Divided into two volumes, The History of the Jews, details how the Jewish people flourished over time, creating the Hebrew Bible, before enduring centuries of persecution, culminating in the mass migration from Europe to America, and the eventual return to the Promised Land of Israel. The second volume, Judaism, explores the variety of religious forms of Jewish existence. The central tenets of Jewish belief are outlined and all aspects of religious life are described including the Sabbath, festivals, and home ceremonies.

Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges - Approaches to Curricula and Field Education (Paperback): R. Paul Maiden,... Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges - Approaches to Curricula and Field Education (Paperback)
R. Paul Maiden, Eugenia L. Weiss
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) provides an agenda for society, and for the social work profession. The 13 GCSW have been codified by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and are emerging as a significant underpinning in the education of undergraduate and graduate social work students throughout the USA. This volume serves as a guide as to how this can best be achieved in alignment with the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) from the Council of Social Work Education. Divided into four parts: Individual and Family Well-Being Stronger Social Fabric A Just Society The Grand Challenges in the Field Each chapter introduces a Grand Challenge, situates it within the curricula, and provides teaching practices in one of the targeted domains as well as learning objectives, class exercises, and discussions. By showing how to facilitate class discussion, manage difficult conversations, and address diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of teaching the topic, this book will be of interest to all faculty teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It should be noted that there are additional supplementary chapters beyond the 13 GCSW that provide further context for the reader.

African American History: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Jonathan Scott Holloway African American History: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Jonathan Scott Holloway
R270 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal.

Abundance for What? (Hardcover): David Riesman Abundance for What? (Hardcover)
David Riesman
R3,054 Discovery Miles 30 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This classic collection of essays by Riesman discusses the implications of affluence in America. Riesman maintains that the question that should be raised by wealth has shifted over time from how to obtain wealth to how to make use of it. Another key theme concerns issues relevant to higher education, such as academic freedom. This book examines the notion that America is not as open a society as it may appear to be; it shows how social science may be used to explain why this is so. In a brilliant, lengthy reevaluation Riesman both clarifies and revises that earlier assessment with unusual luster and candor.

Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life (Hardcover): William V. D'Antonio, Masamichi Sasaki, Yoshio... Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life (Hardcover)
William V. D'Antonio, Masamichi Sasaki, Yoshio Yonebayashi
R3,031 Discovery Miles 30 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The twelve contributors to this volume, from ten different nations, are world-renowned sociologists who examine problems of ecology and world resources as they affect the quality of social life. Three different perspectives are employed: high technology, industrialization, and the problems of development; restructuring and alternatives of development; and social movements and social policies.

Experiment Perilous - Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown (Hardcover): Ren ee C Fox Experiment Perilous - Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown (Hardcover)
Ren ee C Fox
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago.

Governing the Atom - The Politics of Risk (Hardcover): John Byrne, Steven M. Hoffman Governing the Atom - The Politics of Risk (Hardcover)
John Byrne, Steven M. Hoffman
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Promoted as a form of limitless, low-cost energy without the polluting effects of its fossil fuel counterparts, nuclear power has enjoyed unparalleled support in several countries. Despite the development of an extensive set of policy and institutional mechanisms to foster its use, nuclear technology has been troubled by a wide range of problems and continues to pose risks many believe are far greater than society should accept. The legacy of failure ranges from catastrophic accidents like that at Chernobyl to the declaration of bankruptcy by the Washington Public Power Supply System. 'Governing the Atom' explores why support for the technology remains substantial. The first part of this volume examines the social institutions that have accompanied the development of nuclear power. The second part details the numerous accommodations which have been required of society, beginning with the technology's impact on communities and geographic regions particularly affected by mining and milling. The technology's inherent tendency towards "normal accidents" and the conflict between expert and public opinion on the dangers involved is examined, as are the on-going problems of waste disposal and decommissioning. The volume concludes with an examination of nuclear power developments in France, Germany, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern Europe, Korea, and Japan. The volume provides a needed vehicle for the timely consultation and dissemination of current research on important energy policy issues. 'Governing the Atom' provides insightful commentary regarding the initiation and development of nuclear technology. It will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, sociologists and historians of technology, and all those interested in the problem of democracy in a technological society.

Mass Media in Modern Society (Hardcover): Norman Jacobs Mass Media in Modern Society (Hardcover)
Norman Jacobs
R3,022 Discovery Miles 30 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements. Originally released thirty years ago under the rubric Culture for the Millions, the work discusses whether or not American culture is in a state of rise or decline; whether mass media dilutes the arts or provides more art for more people; whether cultural leaders are in touch with their audiences, and other such issues. This volume brings together outstanding artists, scholars, and media executives who present their wide-ranging and deeply felt positions and disagreements. Mass Media in Modern Society remains a classic, not only for what it represents as a historical document, but also because of the centrality of its discussions about the nature of cultural participation and aesthetics hi modern society. The contributions include: Paul F. Lazarsfeld, "Mass Culture Today," Edward Shils, "Mass Society and Its Culture," Leo Lowenthal, "A Historical Preface to the Popular Culture" Debate," Hannah Arendt, "Society and Culture," Ernest van den Haag, "A Dissent from the Consensual Society," Oscar Handlin, "Comments on Mass and Popular Culture," Leo Rosten, "The Intellectual and the Mass Media," Frank Stanton, "Parallel Paths," James Johnson Sweeney, "The Artist and the Museum hi a Modern Society," Randall Jarrell, "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket," Arthur Asa Berger, "Notes on the Plight of the American Composer," James Baldwin, "Mass Culture and the Creative Artist," Stanley Edgar Hyman, "Ideals, Dangers, and Limitations of Mass Culture," H. Stewart Hughes, "Mass Culture and Social Criticism," Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "Notes on a National Cultural Policy."

Northern Ireland - Society Under Siege (Hardcover): Rona M. Fields Northern Ireland - Society Under Siege (Hardcover)
Rona M. Fields
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The troubles in Ireland are not new. They have taken a heavy toll in lives and, perhaps more importantly, in psychological health. From testing and interviews with the children, women, and men of Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, Fields has developed a case study of the long-term effects of stress on a population. She identifies certain social control mechanisms which produce a mixture of chaos and docility in the troubled North and argues that England has established these in order to destroy the identity of the people--a process of "psychological genocide." This volume applies social-psychological theory to a concrete and ongoing situation in a way that is illuminating for the general reader and for the specialist. Fields has done what might appear obvious: to find out the effects of stress on a population by going to that population and observing what their lives are like. The remarkable fact is that until now, no one has done so.

How to Fight Racism Study Guide - Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice (Paperback): Jemar Tisby How to Fight Racism Study Guide - Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice (Paperback)
Jemar Tisby
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life. This 10-session, video-based study guide (DVD/video streaming sold separately) provides groups and individuals with practical tools and suggestions, actionable items, and real-world examples of change, to enable you to become proactive and effective in the fight for racial justice. In his bestselling book, How to Fight Racism, Jemar Tisby urged readers to move beyond talking about racism and start equipping ourselves to fight against it. This study guide is the next step on that journey for small groups, churches, classes, and individuals. Tisby unpacks his "A.R.C." model for racial justice, developing each of its stages in practical and empowering ways: Awareness (sessions 2—4) focuses on racial history, identity, and the image of God. Relationships (sessions 5—7) presents effective ways to do reconciliation, make friends, and build diverse communities. Commitment (sessions 8—10) concentrates on how to work for racial justice in your life, community, and country.   You'll be encouraged to reject passivity and become active participants in the struggle for human dignity across racial and ethnic lines. The study guide—along with the video study—offers participants the opportunity to be part of the solution to racial problems and suggests that the application of these principles can offer us hope that will transform our nation and the world. Designed for use with How to Fight Racism Video Study (9780310113249), sold separately.

How to Build Your Antiracist Classroom (Paperback): Orlene Badu How to Build Your Antiracist Classroom (Paperback)
Orlene Badu
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking on the pervasive issue of racism within education Badu offers a practical, no-nonsense guide on building an antiracist classroom. This book takes the reader on a journey from examining their own bias and racial literacy, to developing a diverse curriculum and improving the culture, to effecting wider changes across the school. Whether as an ally or recipient of bias in our society; this book will offer educators a guide to all the things we can do in the classroom to effect profound social change. If you seek to disrupt the cycles of systemic inequality that have existed in society and education for decades, this is the book for you. Orlene Badu is a Leadership & Education Consultant.      

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2 - 25 More Formative Assessment Probes (Paperback, New): Page Keeley, Francis... Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2 - 25 More Formative Assessment Probes (Paperback, New)
Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, Joyce Tugel
R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The field-tested probes are short, easy to administer, and ready to reproduce. Volume 2 suggests ways to embed the probes throughout your instruction, not just when starting a unit or topic.

Sink - A Memoir (Hardcover): Joseph E Thomas Sink - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Joseph E Thomas
R661 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R108 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.

The GOPI DIARIES - GROWING UP (Hardcover): Sudha Murty The GOPI DIARIES - GROWING UP (Hardcover)
Sudha Murty; Illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dark Folklore (Paperback, New Ed): Tracey Norman Dark Folklore (Paperback, New Ed)
Tracey Norman
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Am I Normal? - The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) (Paperback, Main): Sarah Chaney Am I Normal? - The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) (Paperback, Main)
Sarah Chaney
R295 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R15 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail on Sunday ***** 'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day 'Compelling' Observer Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and surprising journey into the history of science, revisiting the studies, landmark experiments and tests that proliferated from the early 19th century to find answers to the question: what's normal? These include a census of hallucinations - and even a UK beauty map (which claimed the women in Aberdeen were "the most repellent"). On the way she exposes many of the hangovers that are still with us from these dubious endeavours, from IQ tests to the BMI. Interrogating how the notion and science of standardisation has shaped us all, as individuals and as a society, this book challenges why we ever thought that normal might be a desirable thing to be.

I Heard What You Said - A Black Teacher, A White System (Paperback): Jeffrey Boakye I Heard What You Said - A Black Teacher, A White System (Paperback)
Jeffrey Boakye
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students. An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of 2022 ‘Essential reading‘ – The Guardian ‘Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour‘ – The i ‘Revealing and beautifully written‘ – David Harewood _____ Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration – from the outside looking in. In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms. Told through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him – from ‘Can you rap?‘ and ‘Have you been in prison?‘ to ‘Stephen who?‘ – Boakye reflects with passion and wit on what he has found out about the presumptions, silences and distortions that underpin the experience of black students and teachers. _____ ‘Hugely important‘ – Baroness Lawrence ‘Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential‘ – Nels Abbey ‘Makes a powerful case‘ – Rt Hon Lady Hale

Queering Gestalt Therapy - An Anthology on Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity in Psychotherapy (Paperback): Ayhan Alman, John... Queering Gestalt Therapy - An Anthology on Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity in Psychotherapy (Paperback)
Ayhan Alman, John Gillespie, Vikram Kolmannskog
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- addresses market need for books about diversity in gender and sexuality in therapy – impressive assemblage of diverse contributors

Dance On! - Dancing through Life (Paperback): Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen Dance On! - Dancing through Life (Paperback)
Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A growing new area of study; Top quality editors and authors; Wide range of international coverage.

Crafting Autoethnography - Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture (Paperback): Jackie Goode, Karen Lumsden, Jan... Crafting Autoethnography - Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture (Paperback)
Jackie Goode, Karen Lumsden, Jan Bradford
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This collection explores how autoethnography is made. Contributors from sociology, education, counselling, the visual arts, textiles, drama, music, and museum curation uncover and reflect on the processes and practices they engage in as they craft their autoethnographic artefacts. Each chapter explores a different material or media, together creating a rich and stimulating set of demonstrations, with the focus firmly on the practical accomplishment of texts/artefacts. Theoretically, this book seeks to rectify the hierarchical separation of art and craft and of intellectual and practical cultural production, by collapsing distinctions between knowing and making. In relation to connections between personal experience and wider social and cultural phenomena, contributors address a variety of topics such as social class, family relationships and intergenerational transmission, loss, longing and grief, the neoliberal university, gender, sexuality, colonialism, race/ism, national identity, digital identities, indigenous ways of knowing/making and how these are ‘storied’, curated and presented to the public, and our relationship with the natural world. Contributors also offer insights into how the ‘crafting space’ is itself one of intellectual inquiry, debate, and reflection. This is a core text for readers from both traditional and practice-based disciplines undertaking qualitative research methods/autoethnographic inquiry courses, as well as community-based practitioners and students. Readers interested in creative practice, practitioner-research and arts-based research in the social sciences and humanities will also benefit from this book.

Youth Justice - Local and Global (Paperback): Nicola Carr, Roger Smith Youth Justice - Local and Global (Paperback)
Nicola Carr, Roger Smith
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice. The authors draw on examples from Belgium, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and US – as well as the UK, and include both well founded research and their own personal practical experiences. Comprehensive learning features include: chapter objectives, case studies with questions for reflection, a glossary of key terms

The Little Guides To Style - A Historical Review of Four Fashion Icons (Hardcover, Box set): Emma Baxter Wright, Karen Homer,... The Little Guides To Style - A Historical Review of Four Fashion Icons (Hardcover, Box set)
Emma Baxter Wright, Karen Homer, Laia Farran Graves
R1,265 R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Save R286 (23%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Four stunning pocket-sized fashion books in one box set.

Includes Little Book of Chanel, Little Book of Dior, Little Book of Gucci and Little Book of Prada – telling the stories of four iconic fashion houses. With images of the four houses' most timeless and celebrated designs, plus captivating text on the personalities and lives of the creative geniuses behind the brands, The Little Guides to Style is the quintessential collection that will delight any fashion lover.

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