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Be Good, Love Brian - Growing Up with Brian Clough (Paperback): Craig Bromfield Be Good, Love Brian - Growing Up with Brian Clough (Paperback)
Craig Bromfield
R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a depressed area of Sunderland, where they lived with their abusive stepfather, and from where they longed to escape. After initially meeting Clough while out begging for money, Clough later invited the brothers to stay at his house. From there a relationship formed which would see Craig living with the Cloughs for nine years, where he was a first-hand witness to the many aspects of Clough's character - his gruffness, his humour, his big-heartedness. This is a beautiful, inspirational story, which has never before been told, about Clough's gentleness and capacity for generosity. Discover a very different side to this iconic man, one away from the cameras and the football, which shows him for the person he really was.

The Other Side of Desire - Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing (Paperback): Daniel Bergner The Other Side of Desire - Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing (Paperback)
Daniel Bergner
R450 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do we come to be who we are sexually? How do we cope with the forces of desire? How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the anarchy of the erotic? Award-winning writer Daniel Bergner looks for answers in the stories of four people whose unusual desires raise fascinating questions about the erotic differences between men and women and the nature of ecstasy itself.

A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs (Paperback): Herman Jensen A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs (Paperback)
Herman Jensen
R1,321 Discovery Miles 13 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Southeast Asia in the New International Era (Hardcover, 8th edition): Robert Dayley Southeast Asia in the New International Era (Hardcover, 8th edition)
Robert Dayley
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This newly revised eighth edition of Southeast Asia in the New International Era provides readers with contemporary coverage of a vibrant region home to more than 650 million people, vast cultural diversity, and dynamic globalized markets. Sensitive to historical legacies and paying special attention to developments since the end of the Cold War, this book highlights the events, players, and institutions that shape the region. Employing a country-by-country format, the analysis engages in context-specific treatment of the region's eleven countries: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. Fully updated, the book's revised content includes Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in the Philippines, Malaysia's historic 2018 election ending four decades of UMNO rule, Hun Sen's latest power grab in Cambodia, and a consequential monarchical transition in post-coup Thailand. It also analyzes recent developments in the South China Sea dispute, the Rohingya tragedy in Myanmar, China's expanding Belt and Road Initiative, as well as the effects of the Trump Administration's tariffs and trade war. An excellent resource for students, this textbook makes sense of the region's coups, elections, policy debates, protests, and alliances, leaving readers with a solid foundation for further study.

The Pornography Wars - The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession (Hardcover): Kelsy Burke The Pornography Wars - The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession (Hardcover)
Kelsy Burke
R822 R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Save R134 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trade Unions and Migrant Workers - New Contexts and Challenges in Europe (Hardcover): Stefania Marino, Judith Roosblad, Rinus... Trade Unions and Migrant Workers - New Contexts and Challenges in Europe (Hardcover)
Stefania Marino, Judith Roosblad, Rinus Penninx
R4,129 Discovery Miles 41 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis - published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 - that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants. The qualitative analysis of trade union strategies towards immigration and migrant workers is based on a common analytical framework centred on the idea of `dilemmas' that trade unions have to face when dealing with immigration and migrant workers. This approach facilitates comparative analysis and distinguishes patterns of union policies and actions across three groups of countries, identifying some explanations for observed similarities and differences. In addition, the book also includes theoretical chapters by expert scholars from a range of disciplinary fields including industrial relations, migration studies and political economy. This comprehensive comparative analysis is an essential resource for academics across a range of disciplines as well as policy-makers, practitioners and organizations involved in trade unions and migrant inclusion and integration.

Game On - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year & Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year... Game On - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year & Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Paperback)
Sue Anstiss
R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022 Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 In recent years, the landscape for women's sport has finally begun to shift. We've seen significant increases in investment, spectators and media coverage; more women as professional athletes and taking influential roles as board directors, editors, officials and CEOs. Yet female athletes still don't get equal opportunities or funding. In many sports, women receive less prize money, lower sponsorship revenues and a tiny fraction of the media coverage. Drawing on her own experiences, and interviews with high profile Olympic and Paralympic champions, broadcasters, journalists, sports scientists, CEOs, officials and sponsors, Sue Anstiss investigates why women have been excluded from the world of sport for centuries - and why we are now witnessing positive change as never before. Game On is a celebration of the trailblazing women opening doors for others and a manifesto for women's sport - a rallying cry to ensure the progress we are currently seeing goes from strength to strength.

Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood (Hardcover): Anja R. Lahikainen, Tiina Malkia, Katja Repo Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood (Hardcover)
Anja R. Lahikainen, Tiina Malkia, Katja Repo
R2,963 Discovery Miles 29 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. Avoiding criticism of these interactions, the contributors instead offer an impartial view of the natural occurrences in media-related family life. The first section of the book maps contemporary family life by providing methodological, theoretical and time-use reflections on media use and family communication. It goes on to reach into the private zone of family interaction through video-documented episodes, providing the reader with detailed interactional analyses. This exposes how the boundaries between virtual interaction and face-to-face interaction have become blurred. Offering a comprehensive picture of the complexity of digital family life, this book exposes the challenges and opportunities of modern parenting. Discussing largely unexplored phenomena that are applicable internationally, this book will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students in the fields of social sciences. Professionals such as psychologists, therapists and social workers will also benefit from the impartial insight this work gives into the media's impact on modern family interaction. Contributors include: I. Arminen, S. Danby, A. Kallio, A.R. Lahikainen, T. Malkia, E. Mantere, J. Marsh, P. Nikken, S. Raudaskoski, K. Repo, E. Suoninen, S. Tiilikainen, S. Valkonen

Collected Works of Charles Berg - 8 Volume Set (Hardcover): Charles Berg Collected Works of Charles Berg - 8 Volume Set (Hardcover)
Charles Berg
R23,201 Discovery Miles 232 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charles Berg (1892-1957) trained medically at St Thomas's Hospital, but before he could qualify the First World War broke out. He served in several medical positions throughout the war, having been released to obtain his medical qualification. After the war he started his career in general practice, but more interested in the causation of illness, went on to train firstly as a psychiatrist, then as a psychoanalyst, working at the Tavistock Clinic for seventeen years. During his time there under the founder Crichton-Miller he learnt to treat patients from the point of view of psychotherapy and eventually opened his own psychiatric and analytical practice. Out of print for many years, the Collected Works of Charles Berg is a great opportunity to revisit some of his finest works including his 'Sort of Autobiography'. This set will be a useful resource for those interested in the history of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, queer studies and beyond.

Dress and Textiles (Paperback): Rachel Worth Dress and Textiles (Paperback)
Rachel Worth
R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Knowledge And Global Power - Making New Sciences In The South (Paperback): Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, Raewyn Connell, Robert... Knowledge And Global Power - Making New Sciences In The South (Paperback)
Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, Raewyn Connell, Robert Morrell
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R320 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R70 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Knowledge And Global Power is a ground-breaking international study which examines how knowledge is produced, distributed and validated globally.

The former imperial nations – the rich countries of Europe and North America – still have a hegemonic position in the global knowledge economy. Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell, using interviews, databases and fieldwork, show how intellectual workers respond in three Southern tier countries, Brazil, South Africa and Australia. The study focuses on new, socially and politically important research fields: HIV/AIDS, climate change and gender studies.

The research demonstrates emphatically that ‘place matters’, shaping research, scholarship and knowledge itself. But it also shows that knowledge workers in the global South have room to move, setting agendas and forming local knowledge.

Racism and the Tory Party - From Disraeli to Johnson (Paperback, 1): Mike Cole Racism and the Tory Party - From Disraeli to Johnson (Paperback, 1)
Mike Cole
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Racism is an endemic feature of the Tory Party. Tracing the history of that racism, Racism and the Tory Party investigates the changing forms of racism in the party from the days of Empire, including the championing of imperialism at the turn of the 20th century and the ramping up of antisemitism, the imperial and 'racial' politics of Winston Churchill, the rise of Enoch Powell and Powellism, to the Margaret Thatcher years, the birth of 'racecraft' and her polices in Northern Ireland, and the hostile environment and its consolidation and expansion under Theresa May and Boris Johnson's premierships. Throughout the book, all forms of racism are addressed including the various forms of colour-coded and as well as non-colour-coded racism as they are put in their historical and economic contexts. This book should be of relevance to all interested in British politics and British history, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the sociology and politics of racism, as well as for students of the history of the development of British racism and of imperialism and its aftermath.

Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK - Possibilities for Intersectional Richness (Paperback): Stephanie Davis Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK - Possibilities for Intersectional Richness (Paperback)
Stephanie Davis
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

-first book of its kind in the UK developing an intersectional understanding of QTPOC subjectivities and identities -a radical and critical intervention into psychology - melds activism and academia from an #ownvoices perspective

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis - 3 Volume Set (Paperback): Bryan Turner, Hannah Wolf, Gregor Fitzi, Juergen... Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis - 3 Volume Set (Paperback)
Bryan Turner, Hannah Wolf, Gregor Fitzi, Juergen Mackert
R3,510 Discovery Miles 35 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today, classical sociological questions about the city acquire new meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city and new developments of urbanism.

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege - Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies (Paperback): Kalwant... Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege - Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies (Paperback)
Kalwant Bhopal, Martin Myers
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Delivers a unique and original perspective that explores how students navigate elite universities by focussing on their race and class backgrounds. - It provides an original, comparative account of how students are positioned as graduates in elite universities. It will specifically highlight how students' prior experiences have had a significant impact on their experiences at elite universities. - By using Bourdieu and CRT, the book will provide a unique theoretical perspective on how inequalities are reproduced and perpetuated for some groups and not others.

Labour Mobility, Earnings and Unemployment - Selected Papers (Hardcover): John Creedy Labour Mobility, Earnings and Unemployment - Selected Papers (Hardcover)
John Creedy
R3,479 Discovery Miles 34 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This selection of John Creedy's essays on labour economics sheds light on the areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages.Among other issues, Professor Creedy discusses: the effects of migration, population ageing and retirement on the labour market the economic analysis of internal labour markets job mobility, earnings and responsibility in skilled labour markets with a particular emphasis on chemists and professional scientists the relationship between trade unions, tax levels and relative wages Labour Mobility, Earnings and Unemployment will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars of labour economics.

The Last Landlady - An English Memoir (Hardcover): Laura Thompson The Last Landlady - An English Memoir (Hardcover)
Laura Thompson 1
R524 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R132 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican's license in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed to embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in her grandmother's Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by the landlady's gift for creating the mix of the everyday and the theatrical that defined the pub's atmosphere, making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her memories of this time are just as intoxicating- beer and ash on the carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night, the magical brightness of glass behind the bara Through them she traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet, as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face. Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, this book pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomized.

Game On - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year & Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year... Game On - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year & Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Hardcover)
Sue Anstiss
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022 Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 Sport has an extraordinary, unique capacity to challenge and change society - to bring joy and hope; to improve physical and mental health, reduce loneliness and build self-esteem and happiness. It's also a multi-billion-pound commercial industry that can transform lives, businesses, nations and regions. Why has half the population been deprived of access to something so culturally powerful? In recent years, the landscape for women's sport has finally begun to shift. We've seen significant increases in investment, spectators and media coverage. More women as professional athletes and taking influential roles as board directors, editors, officials and CEOs. Yet female athletes still don't get equal opportunities or funding. In many sports, women receive less prize money, lower sponsorship revenues and a tiny fraction of the media coverage. Drawing on her own experiences, and interviews with high profile Olympic and Paralympic champions, broadcasters, journalists, sports scientists, CEOs, officials and sponsors, Sue Anstiss investigates why women have been excluded from the world of sport for centuries - and why we are now witnessing positive change as never before. Game On is a celebration of the trailblazing women opening doors for others and a manifesto for women's sport - a rallying cry to ensure the progress we are currently seeing goes from strength to strength.

Dalits - Past, present and future (Paperback): Anand Teltumbde Dalits - Past, present and future (Paperback)
Anand Teltumbde
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a comprehensive introduction to dalits in India (who comprise over one-sixth of the country's population) from the origins of caste system to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, dalits are largely excluded from the mainstream except for a minuscule section. The book trace

Valuing Recreation and the Environment - Revealed Preference Methods in Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Joseph A. Herriges,... Valuing Recreation and the Environment - Revealed Preference Methods in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling
R3,484 Discovery Miles 34 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This impressive volume analyzes revealed preference approaches to modelling the demand for recreational resources. It presents one of the most thorough treatments of methods that rely on observed behavior to estimate the value of environmental amenities. The authors have brought together a collection of papers by top applied environmental economists, providing professional economists and policy analysts with a comprehensive reference on the current state-of-the-art in recreation demand analysis. The papers encompass both the theory of welfare measurement and practical applications. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in 'tooling up' on revealed preference approaches. For long-term practitioners, the papers provide an invaluable reference on recent developments in their field.

The Complete Language of Trees, Volume 12 - A Definitive and Illustrated History (Hardcover): S. Theresa Dietz The Complete Language of Trees, Volume 12 - A Definitive and Illustrated History (Hardcover)
S. Theresa Dietz
R488 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees. Along with a stunning visual depiction, each entry provides the tree's scientific and common name, characteristics, historic and hidden properties from mythology, legends, and folklore. Some of the lore of trees will include: Hackberry Tree - encourages someone to continuously do their best Manchineel Tree - it is so toxic that the smoke from a burning tree can cause blindness, and it is not even advised to inhale the air around the tree Bark from the Bird Cherry Tree was placed on doors during medieval times to ward off plague Washi paper is created from the inner bark of the Paper Mulberry Tree. Pando is a Quaking Aspen colony that is 108 acres wide (about the size of 83 football fields!). It is technically one tree. Imagine developing a spiritual connection with a tree in a way that exceeds visual perception? Where learning its meaning and value simultaneously improves your own mental and physical wellness? Throughout history, floriographies-flower dictionaries-have gained notoriety for regulating human emotions; giving depth, symbolism, and meaning to extremely delicate aspects of nature. Following the success of The Complete Language of Herbs and its predecessor The Complete Language of Flowers, author S. Theresa Dietz continues this custom with The Complete Language of Trees. Coupled with two indexes, one for searching by common tree name and the other organized by meaning, Dietz cleverly connects quality time in nature with the overall improvement of mental health by developing a stunningly depicted dictionary for gardeners, environmentalists, and nature lovers alike. Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, the Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia series offers comprehensive, display-worthy references on a range of intriguing topics, including birthday astrology, dream interpretation, astrological self-care practices, techniques for harnessing the power of dreams, and the stories behind signs and symbols.

Dirty Work - Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality (Paperback): Eyal Press Dirty Work - Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality (Paperback)
Eyal Press; Narrated by Neil Shah
R338 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Book of the Year 'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' Michael J. Sandel 'A scathing and thoughtful book about labor and principles' Rebecca Solnit 'A writer in the tradition of George Orwell and Martha Gellhorn' Corey Robin 'Confronts a series of deep and vexing moral questions... penetrating, astutely observed, beautifully written' Patrick Radden Keefe Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons; undocumented immigrants who man the 'kill floors' of industrial slaughterhouses; drone operators who kill people from thousands of miles away. These are the essential workers we prefer not to think about. Their morally dubious, often physically violent and dangerous activity sustains modern society yet is concealed from our gaze. It is work that falls disproportionately in deprived areas, on immigrants and people of colour, and entails a less familiar set of occupational hazards - stigma, shame and moral injury. A striking, sophisticated and nuanced investigation, Dirty Work will change the way you think about society.

Legends (Paperback): Jeremy Harte Legends (Paperback)
Jeremy Harte
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hagitude - Reimagining the Second Half of Life (Paperback): Sharon Blackie Hagitude - Reimagining the Second Half of Life (Paperback)
Sharon Blackie
R507 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R96 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legend of Tristan and Iseulet - The Tale and the Trail in Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany (Paperback): Forrester Roberts Legend of Tristan and Iseulet - The Tale and the Trail in Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany (Paperback)
Forrester Roberts
R65 Discovery Miles 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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