The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Comparative Youth Culture
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95Mike Brake suggests that subcultures develop in response to social problems which a group experiences collectively, and shows how individuals draw on collective identities to define themselves. more...
Male Femaling
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95This unique and fascinating book, meticulously and systematically develops a theory of male femaling which has major ramifications for both the field of 'transvestism' and 'transsexualism' and for the analysis of sex and gender more generally. more...
Uncertain Masculinities
Routledge 2000; US$ 53.95This book takes a fascinating tour through the problems and opportunities facing teenage boys and young men, addressing one of the most important questions of our time: what does 'masculinity' mean today? more...
Erosion of Childhood
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 144.00Discusses the status of children in society from the mid-Victorian period to the end of the First World War, showing that children were regarded principally as objects to be used and abused rather than people in their own right. more...
Subculture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 32.95'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable... more...
Life After Ninety
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 200.00In Life After Ninety Micheal Bury and Anthea Holme have surveyed and interviewed 200 individuals, living at home and in institutions, to examine old age stereotypes and present a unique picture of the health, quality of life, and social circumstances of the very old. Longevity and the factors which promote it are also discussed, and throughout the... more...
Resistance Through Rituals
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 37.95This collection looks in detail at the wide range of youth subcultures from teds and skinheads to black rastafarians. more...
Young Europeans, Work and Family
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 188.00Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives. This enlightening book investigates young people from a range of social classes and at various... more...
Research With Children
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 47.95Research with Children is a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research. Leading and new researchers within the social studies of childhood discuss central questions of epistemology and methodology, demonstrating the links between theory and practice. The theoretical and practical questions are set out in a clear and well-argued... more...









