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Interpreting Qualitative Data
2024 || Hardcover || David Silverman || SAGE
Approachable, clear, and friendly, this book equips students with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in their own research.
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Human Growth and Development
2024 || Hardcover || Chris Beckett e.a. || SAGE
A bestselling introduction to emotional, psychological, intellectual and social development throughout the lifespan now with online case study resource.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Vintage Quarterbound Classics
2024 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's iconic dystopian novel.
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and ...
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May Contain Lies
How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
2024 || Hardcover || Alex Edmans || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases effect the way we receive and interpret information
Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It's only when we do, that we can actively resist...
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The Trading Game
A Confession
2024 || Hardcover || Gary Stevenson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Compelling, intensely readable, unsettling. An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart
'An incredibly important and timely book, very much of its era. The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh
'Astonishing, enraging, extremely funny and exquisitely sad - a magnificent exposé of the 'masters of the universe' whose greed imperils us all. I cannot recommend this book highly enough' The Secret Barrister
*An outrageous, white-knuckle journey...
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Making Surveillance Public
Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms
2024 || Hardcover || Marc Schuilenburg || Eleven international publishing
What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation?
Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data colle...
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Researching Digital Media and Society
2024 || Hardcover || Simon Lindgren e.a. || SAGE
An introduction to both the scope and potential of researching digital media and society and to the use and application of a range of popular methods for doing research.Â
Who's Afraid of Gender?
2024 || Hardcover || Judith Butler || Veltman Distributie Import Books
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIME
Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...
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Doing Digital Methods
2024 || Hardcover || Richard Rogers || SAGE
Cutting edge guide to applying the latest advancements in digital methods to social research.Â
The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology
2024 || Hardcover || Gurminder Bhambra e.a. || SAGE
The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology provides essential insights on pressing global issues, from postcolonial governmentalities to climate change. With contributions from leading scholars, it′s a must-have resource for students, researchers, and scholars interested in sociology, global issues, and social justice.