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Researching with Zines

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:13:02 +0000

Introducing readers to the fundamentals of zines in research, this book combines a range of case studies with the author’s own experience to demonstrate how zine making cannot be removed from their political and cultural context.

Price: $25.95

Creative Participatory Research (Experiments with Theory and Practice)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:12:48 +0000

Collaborative inquiry has grown in use and importance across academic disciplines. Researchers now regularly craft processes that bring together multiple stakeholders with varying perspectives to produce original actionable insights.

Creative Participatory Research: Experiments with The..

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Lived Experience in Action (Criminal Justice Contexts)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:11:45 +0000

As interest grows in more collaborative and inclusive approaches in criminal justice, the insights of those with lived experience are gaining increasing attention. This collection examines what it means to bring those voices into research, policy making and service delivery—not only highlightin..

Price: $44.95

Women in Their Thirties in Japan (Life Course and Happiness)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:20:27 +0000

This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their 30s, revealing the dynamic of human agency responding to the social changes of Japan’s lost decades.

Price: $64.99

Independent Music in Russia (Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008-2022))

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:53:28 +0000

This book explores Russian independent music – nezavisimaia muzyka – in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created.

Price: $64.99

The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland (The Life of Władysław Bieńkowski, Communist Leader and Socialist Thinker)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:41:53 +0000

Charting the life and writings of Władysław Bieńkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rul..

Price: $64.99

The Politics of Vulnerability and Trust (Methodological Tools for Rethinking Educational Practices)

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:19:34 +0000

This book is about thinking the world politically and putting such thinking to work in educational spaces. This implies reclaiming an educational mother-tongue and enacting methodologies that enable practices which always ask what a word/s might hold in the now. Trust and vulnerability being co..

Price: $60.99

The Messy Reality of Fieldwork Across the Social Sciences and Humanities Volume Two (Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Internal Pressures)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:18:04 +0000

This book explores how researchers face a wide range of issues when undertaking fieldwork that are personal to them and specific to the research being undertaken.

Price: $60.99

The Messy Reality of Fieldwork Across the Social Sciences and Humanities Volume One (Surviving and Thriving in the Face of External Pressures)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:17:57 +0000

This book will be of interest to all those undertaking fieldwork. It should also be of interest to research student supervisors and anyone who has ever wondered about the lives and welfare of researchers during their fieldwork.

Price: $60.99

Historical Research on Social Mobility (Western Europe and the USA in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:35:20 +0000

First published in English in 1981, Historical Research on Social Mobility treats a central area of social history: the history of social mobility. It provides a unique guide to the wide range of research in this area that is carried out by many specialists of varying disciplines within ..

Price: $42.99