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  • Hormonal Theory

    A Rebellious Glossary

    Edited by Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Lisa Raeder, Celia Roberts ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to medical and other body-shaping ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis

    Making Bushfire Babies

    by Celia Roberts, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Louisa Allen, Rebecca Williamson ...
    What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis?This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory

    Edited by Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias, Celia Roberts ...
    This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities.The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ageing, Technology and Home Care

    New Actors, New Responsibilities

    Edited by Maggie Mort, Christine Milligan, Celia Roberts, Ingunn Moser ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    This book focuses on home as a site of care, with new technologies and for elderly population. It pulls together findings from research in the social sciences and common knowledge of the actors themselves, especially stakeholders involved in the design, delivery and receipt of ‘care in place’. It offers a wide-ranging discussion of key issues raised in both the academic and grey literature in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Living Data

    Making Sense of Health Biosensing

    by Celia Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Joann Wilkinson, Theresa Atkinson ...
    As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that ‘more information’ equates to ‘better health’. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Puberty in Crisis

    The Sociology of Early Sexual Development

    by Celia Roberts ...
    Puberty has long been recognised as a difficult and upsetting process for individuals and families, but it is now also being widely described as in crisis. Reportedly occurring earlier and earlier as each decade of the twenty-first century passes, sexual development now heralds new forms of temporal trouble in which sexuality, sex/gender and reproduction are all at stake. Many believe that ... Read more

    $103.39 USD

  • Language and Discrimination

    by Celia Roberts, Evelyn Davies, Tom Jupp ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how language functions as a means of indirect racial discrimination must be founded on an expanded view ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Achieving Understanding

    Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

    by Peter Broeder, Katharina Bremer, Celia Roberts, Marie-Therese Vasseur, Margaret Simnot ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Language, Migration and Social Inequalities

    A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work

    Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Dr. Celia Roberts, Melissa Moyer Greer ...
    Series Book 2 - Language, Mobility and Institutions
    Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal economic practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges traditional ways the nation ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    by Special Learning, Inc. ...
    Series series Social Stories
    Teach your child how to understand his changing body with this downloadable social story, designed for children with special needs.Social stories are short, illustrated books that help teach children, affected by Autism and other developmental disabilities, the specific social "rules" or "norms" that are generally accepted in society. By offering repetitive examples through easy-to-read text and ... Read more

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  • Material Girls

    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

    by Kathleen Stock ...
    PREORDER KATHLEEN STOCK'S NEW BOOK DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH (APRIL, 2026)'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday TimesMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant criti... ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Research Practice

    A Guide for Social Science Students and Researchers

    Edited by Jane Ritchie, Jane Lewis, Carol McNaughton Nicholls, Rachel Ormston ...
    Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualitative research in the real world?Written by a team of leading researchers associated with NatCen Social Research (the National Centre for Social Research) this textbook leads students and researchers through the entire process of qualitative research ... Read more

    $80.99 USD