BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility
Edited by David Crowther, professor of corporate social responsibility, De Montfort University, and Nicholas Capaldi, Legendre-Soule distinguished chair in business ethics, Loyola University New Orleans. Ashgate, ?75.00. ISBN 9780754647775
This companion offers scholars and graduate students a valuable guide to current thinking in corporate social responsibility as well as a reference to this increasingly important field.
HISTORY
- Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
By Stephanie J. Snow, Wellcome research associate in the faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester. Oxford University Press, ?16.99. ISBN 9780192805867
Snow's vivid history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists and clergymen were plunged into turmoil and debate by the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic medicine.
- Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru's South Sea Metropolis
By Alejandra B. Osorio, assistant professor of history, Wellesley College. Palgrave Macmillan, ?40.00. ISBN 9781403976048
Through analysis of 17th-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest.
LAW
- Unlocking EU Law
By Tony Storey, senior lecturer in law, University of Northumbria, and Chris Turner, senior lecturer in law, University of Wolverhampton. Hodder Education, ?21.99. ISBN 9780340971185
Designed specifically to make the subject matter accessible, this textbook includes features, activities, key-facts charts, diagrams, and clear headings and subheadings aimed at aiding students in understanding the different elements of their study.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain
By Paul Bagguley, senior lecturer in sociology, University of Leeds, and Yasmin Hussain, lecturer in sociology, University of Leeds. Ashgate, ?55.00. ISBN 97807546463
Linking original empirical research with a sophisticated conceptual analysis, this book explores the reasons for the 2001 riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford and explains why they mark a point of departure in Britain's racial politics.
- Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
By Martin Hand, assistant professor of sociology, Queen's University. Ashgate, ?55.00. ISBN 9780754648406
Hand brings together recent theorising on the "digital age" with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older-established technological objects, processes and practices.
- Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work
By Christina Garsten, professor and chair, department of social anthropology, Stockholm University. Palgrave Macmillan, ?50.00. ISBN 9781403917584
Garsten seeks to engage with issues around the increasing flexibility of work contracts, and changing notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency in the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
Edited by Anindita Ghosh, lecturer in extra-European modern history, University of Manchester. Palgrave Macmillan, ?45.00. ISBN 9780230553446
This book aims to re-examine "everyday resistance" through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia, attempting to unearth a narrative of deeper and more enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.
