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Pandora's Box
The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television
2023 || Hardcover || Peter Biskind || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes the inside story of television's heady rise and fall
The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of 'play-it-safe' broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex, violence, and corruption shown first on cable, and then by way of streaming. Today, the power of viewers to select wha...
Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice
The Case for Parallelism
2023 || Hardcover || Derek R. Brookes || Eleven international publishing
Criminal justice is primarily designed to serve the public interest in relation to criminal acts. Restorative justice is designed to address the harmrelated needs of individuals in the aftermath of wrongdoing. These distinct aims require such different processes and priorities that any attempt to integrate restorative justice within the criminal justice system will almost invariably undermine the quality and effectiveness of both. In this book, the author argues that the optimal relationship ...
Fieldwork for Social Research
A Student's Guide
2023 || Hardcover || Richard Phillips e.a. || SAGE
As one of the few teaching books that looks at fieldwork in the broadest of contexts, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of fieldwork within social research. It not only teaches theory but puts into practice planning, designing, conducting and sharing social research.Â
Cybercrime and Society
2023 || Hardcover || Majid Yar e.a. || SAGE
Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â
Analysing Intersectionality
A Toolbox of Methods
2023 || Hardcover || Keming Yang || SAGE
Innovative and practical, this is the perfect methods book for anyone looking to apply intersectionality to their research and their multifaceted data.
Decolonising My Body
A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
2023 || Hardcover || Afua Hirsch || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A ground-breaking book that speaks to all women' Bernardine Evaristo
What can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?
Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radic...
Introduction to Policing
2023 || Hardcover || Michael Rowe e.a. || SAGE
Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, this is the introduction to your Police Studies course.
The Sage Handbook of Mixed Methods Research Design
2023 || Hardcover || Cheryl N. Poth || SAGE
The SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods Research Design provides a comprehensive overview of the existing typologies and future potential applications of this fast evolving field. With a unique focus on design, this handbook prepares researchers for the changing conditions in which they will conduct their studies.
Your Brain on Art
How the Arts Transform Us
2023 || Hardcover || Susan Magsamen e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish and build stronger communities
Is It Ever Just Sex?
2023 || Hardcover || Darian Leader || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader
'It was just sex.'
It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible?
The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany the highs of sexual excitement show us tha...