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Research across Borders
An Introduction to Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Methodology
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487524371
Pub Date: February 2023
This book introduces students to methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations of research.
The Joy of Stats
A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781487527297
Pub Date: November 2022
The Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and accessible guide for students and professionals.
Pathways to Ruin
High-Risk Offending over the Life Course
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487527129
Pub Date: June 2022
Pathways to Ruin presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.
Cool Anthropology
How to Engage the Public with Academic Research
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487524418
Pub Date: May 2022
Cool Anthropology is a practical "how to" guide for anthropologists looking to make their work relevant and accessible to a wide audience.
Simply Institutional Ethnography
Creating a Sociology for People
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487528065
Pub Date: April 2022
Written by the two preeminent voices in the field, this book is a guide to the fundamentals of institutional ethnography.
Decolonizing Data
Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487523336
Pub Date: February 2022
Decolonizing Data yields valuable insights into the decolonization of research methods by addressing and examining health inequalities from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive standpoint.
A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781487524982
Pub Date: April 2021
The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twenty-first century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.
A Hermeneutics of Violence
A Four-Dimensional Conception
Price: $76.00
ISBN: 9781487505868
Pub Date: October 2019
The book follows violence into the complex and hidden dimensions in and through which it eludes the collective comprehension and understanding of all who attempt to make sense of it.
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781487588182
Pub Date: May 2019
In this book, two experts on classical social theory explain why we must find context in the works of classical thinkers to better understand the complexities of today’s issues.
Violence and Nonviolence
Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781487523183
Pub Date: January 2019
Through a close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, the book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive.
States and Nations, Power and Civility
Hallsian Perspectives
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487502379
Pub Date: January 2019
In this volume, twelve leading sociologists and historians leverage the conceptual work of John A. Hall to explore the complex and profoundly consequential relationship between states, nations, power, and civility.
The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding
Power, Pleasure, Poetics
Price: $72.00
ISBN: 9781487503710
Pub Date: October 2018
Robyn Lee’s The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an "art of living" that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.
Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health
Price: $58.00
ISBN: 9781442626621
Pub Date: June 2017
An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition
Price: $48.95
ISBN: 9781487520151
Pub Date: March 2017
This second edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-three case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. Six are new to this edition, and examine research with First Nations, organizing qualitative data, and statistics.
Experience Research Social Change
Critical Methods, Third Edition
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781442636040
Pub Date: January 2017
Experience Research Social Change has long been a comprehensive and accessible resource for learning social research oriented toward social change. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and reorganized.
Governing Practices
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and the Ethnographic Imaginary
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487520618
Pub Date: September 2016
In Governing Practices, Michelle Brady and Randy Lippert bring together prominent scholars in sociology, criminology, anthropology, geography, and policy studies to extend and refine the current conversation about neoliberalism.

Research across Borders
An Introduction to Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Methodology
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487524371
Pub Date: February 2023
This book introduces students to methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations of research.
The Joy of Stats
A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781487527297
Pub Date: November 2022
The Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and accessible guide for students and professionals.
Pathways to Ruin
High-Risk Offending over the Life Course
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487527129
Pub Date: June 2022
Pathways to Ruin presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.
Cool Anthropology
How to Engage the Public with Academic Research
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487524418
Pub Date: May 2022
Cool Anthropology is a practical "how to" guide for anthropologists looking to make their work relevant and accessible to a wide audience.
Simply Institutional Ethnography
Creating a Sociology for People
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487528065
Pub Date: April 2022
Written by the two preeminent voices in the field, this book is a guide to the fundamentals of institutional ethnography.
Decolonizing Data
Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487523336
Pub Date: February 2022
Decolonizing Data yields valuable insights into the decolonization of research methods by addressing and examining health inequalities from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive standpoint.
A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781487524982
Pub Date: April 2021
The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twenty-first century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.
A Hermeneutics of Violence
A Four-Dimensional Conception
Price: $76.00
ISBN: 9781487505868
Pub Date: October 2019
The book follows violence into the complex and hidden dimensions in and through which it eludes the collective comprehension and understanding of all who attempt to make sense of it.
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781487588182
Pub Date: May 2019
In this book, two experts on classical social theory explain why we must find context in the works of classical thinkers to better understand the complexities of today’s issues.
Violence and Nonviolence
Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781487523183
Pub Date: January 2019
Through a close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, the book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive.
States and Nations, Power and Civility
Hallsian Perspectives
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487502379
Pub Date: January 2019
In this volume, twelve leading sociologists and historians leverage the conceptual work of John A. Hall to explore the complex and profoundly consequential relationship between states, nations, power, and civility.
The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding
Power, Pleasure, Poetics
Price: $72.00
ISBN: 9781487503710
Pub Date: October 2018
Robyn Lee’s The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an "art of living" that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.
Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health
Price: $58.00
ISBN: 9781442626621
Pub Date: June 2017
An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition
Price: $48.95
ISBN: 9781487520151
Pub Date: March 2017
This second edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-three case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. Six are new to this edition, and examine research with First Nations, organizing qualitative data, and statistics.
Experience Research Social Change
Critical Methods, Third Edition
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781442636040
Pub Date: January 2017
Governing Practices
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and the Ethnographic Imaginary
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487520618
Pub Date: September 2016
In Governing Practices, Michelle Brady and Randy Lippert bring together prominent scholars in sociology, criminology, anthropology, geography, and policy studies to extend and refine the current conversation about neoliberalism.