Will McLennan's Books

Politics and Social Theory

The Inescapably Social, the Irreducibly Political

By: Will Leggett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Politics and Social Theory

The Inescapably Social, the Irreducibly Political

By: Will Leggett

Under present social conditions, neither social theorists nor political scientists can afford to ignore one another. This book is a clear, structured account of the relationship between politics and social theory, examining both the political content of social theory, and how social theory has illuminated our understanding of politics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

184

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137609028

ISBN 13

9781137609021

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies

Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

By: Will Atkinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies

Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

By: Will Atkinson

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe, parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia, the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender, religion, geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities, however, the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, politics and demography, and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

150

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429800878

ISBN 13

9780429800870

Ramsey's Luck

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ramsey's Luck

By: Will McLennan

The Civil War was over, but the fighting spirit lived on in Matt Ramsey--and kept him roaming for five restless years. So when an old friend hired him as a ranchero, Matt was glad of the chance to settle down. But trouble never left a Ramsey alone, and Matt soon found himself in a full-blown range war!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

051510129X

ISBN 13

9780515101294

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

By: Will Abberley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

By: Will Abberley

The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108477593

ISBN 13

9781108477598

Matt Ramsey

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Matt Ramsey

By: Will McLennan

Wherever Matt Ramsey goes, trouble is never far behind. Now, he is on the wrong side of a ruthless cattleman fueled by vengeance and greed, a reb-hating cavalry officer, and a murderous one-eyed Kiowa renegade--all of them wanting to sink some lead into Matt Ramsey.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515101753

ISBN 13

9780515101751

Ramsey's Gold

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ramsey's Gold

By: Will McLennan

Color illustration on front cover of a man wearing a western hat and brown jacket shooting a pistol in his proper right hand beside another man wearing a black hat, striped shirt, black vest and blue pants holding a rifle with a brown horse galloping away from them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515102695

ISBN 13

9780515102697

Blood Storm

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood Storm

By: Will McLennan

Matt Ramsey has to tame the ice-cold Tony Jessup in order to save a beautiful woman and the entire town of Templar, Utah" -- Google books.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515106682

ISBN 13

9780515106688

Blood Oath

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood Oath

By: Will McLennan

Color illustration on front cover of rocky landscape with man wearing western clothing firing a pistol with his proper right hand and another man behind him firing a rifle to his proper left.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515107522

ISBN 13

9780515107524

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4

Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure

By: Will Atkinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4

Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure

By: Will Atkinson

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people’s past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure. Previous volumes in the series have examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class structures in capitalist societies as well as their typical intersections with gender, race/ ethnicity, family and more. Now, drawing on in depth interviews with men and women from the US, Sweden and Germany, this instalment endeavours to show how class actually ‘works out’ in people’s biographies and circumstances, and how, thereby, it is given singular form in their lives. Key to understanding how class works and how it is singularised, the book demonstrates, is its interplay with pressures and interests tied up with family, paid employment and leisure. New concepts and tools, it argues, are necessary to accommodate this multiplicity and, as a result, explain people’s lives more fully, advance our understanding of class and even progress the capacities of sociology as a discipline. The volume will be of major interest to scholars of class, family, work, gender and culture, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in social theory and the progress of sociology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040184596

ISBN 13

9781040184592

Blood Money

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood Money

By: Will McLennan

Matt Ramsey knows how much a war as brutal and devastating as the Civil War can change a man. But he finds the drastic change in his old friend Chet Mitchell hard to believe. Bitter, drunk and abusive, Chet is digging himself a grave of self-pity--just waiting for death to drop him into it permanently unless Matt can bring him to his senses.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Jove Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515102148

ISBN 13

9780515102147

Ramsey's Badge

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ramsey's Badge

By: Will McLennan

Kyle Ramsey doesn't see anything worth sticking around for in the town of Plentiful, until he meets a strong-willed, pretty lady by the name of Tucker. Next thing Kyle knows, he's got a badge pinned on him, desperately riding into the heart of the Roberts gang to save Tucker.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Berkley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515103500

ISBN 13

9780515103502

Bourdieu and After

A Guide to Relational Phenomenology

By: Will Atkinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bourdieu and After

A Guide to Relational Phenomenology

By: Will Atkinson

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes intense debates long after his death. Novel concepts, innovative applications and countless elaborations spring up every day, bulking out and shaping a distinct, if not always entirely consistent, body of work that might be characterised as a recognisable tradition. For those coming to Bourdieu for the first time, therefore, and interested in using his ideas in their own research, it no longer makes sense to confine oneself to the ideas of the man himself. An overview of the varied ways his concepts and arguments have been deepened and updated to make sense of new times or to fill certain gaps, and how insights on seemingly disconnected topics weave together into a bigger picture, is not just desirable but essential. Bourdieu and After aims to provide exactly this overview. Working closely with Bourdieu’s own writings, but also covering a wide range of research and literature inspired by him, it aims to guide the reader through the key principles, the major and minor concepts and the concrete findings of Bourdieusian sociology as clearly and comprehensively as possible. It explains the difficult and often overlooked philosophical foundations, walks through the logic of famous terms like ‘field’, ‘habitus’ and ‘capital’ and demonstrates how they have been or can be used to provide powerful accounts of colonialism, the emergence of nation states and the rise of global social relations. It covers topics that Bourdieu was famous for analysing, like class and educational inequality, yet also traverses subjects on which he said little but that others influenced by him have tackled in depth, such as ethnicity, sexuality and family. Along the way Atkinson seeks to undermine some of the common criticisms levelled at Bourdieu while identifying remaining gaps and limitations. Rather than simply recognising the problems, however, Atkinson proposes possible solutions too – solutions that are facilitated, he argues, by characterising Bourdieusian sociology as what he calls ‘relational phenomenology’.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

255

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000651967

ISBN 13

9781000651966

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

By: Will Mari

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

By: Will Mari

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in “news factories” by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place—it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism’s power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920–1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826274595

ISBN 13

9780826274595

English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914

By: Will Abberley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914

By: Will Abberley

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107101166

ISBN 13

9781107101166

The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales

By: Jamie Furlong,Will Jennings

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales

By: Jamie Furlong,Will Jennings

The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in major cities and university towns, where Labour's support has been increasing. What has driven these changes in electoral geography? Why do they matter? This book offers a definitive account of the changing electoral geography of England and Wales over the past half century. Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings argue that long-term trends in social and economic structure have significantly altered the spatial distribution of voters and, combined with changes in the parties' appeal to those voters, have led to a gradual, though recently accelerating, realignment of the geographical basis of electoral competition. Constituency-level analysis of voting at general elections between 1979 and 2019 reveals a swing from Labour to the Conservatives in demographically 'left behind' areas (areas with largely white, working-class populations and lower levels of educational attainment), while Labour's support has remained stable in areas characterized by high levels of economic deprivation and insecure employment. Areas that have experienced improvements in their socioeconomic condition - typically cities where Labour have inefficiently stacked up votes - have swung towards Labour, whereas areas characterized by economic and population decline have swung towards the Conservatives. Spatial analysis reveals clusters of seats where each party has more support than expected based on sociodemographic composition - places where, in short, place matters. In Merseyside, Labour's vote is much higher than would be predicted by demographics, while this is similarly the case for the Conservatives in Lincolnshire and parts of the West Midlands. But what makes these areas distinctive? We present qualitative case studies for Merseyside and Lincolnshire to identify the place-based, contextual factors that help explain their unusual political characteristics. The book argues for the need to recognize the importance of people, places, and parties in shaping the geography of electoral outcomes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192663909

ISBN 13

9780192663900

How to Get a Job in the San Francisco Bay Area

By: Robert Sanborn,Will Flowers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

How to Get a Job in the San Francisco Bay Area

By: Robert Sanborn,Will Flowers

This book can help those seeking a rewarding career in San Francisco, the Bay Area, San Jose and the Silicon Valley, or Sacramento find and land the job they want. Employment opportunities are rampant in this vibrant region of the country. This book shows how to get the contacts through networking and offers guidance on resume writing, interviewing, and much more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

Agate Surrey

Published Date

ISBN 10

157284017X

ISBN 13

9781572840171

Blood Money

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood Money

By: Will McLennan

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Jove Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515102148

ISBN 13

9780515102147

Death Trail

By: Will McLennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Death Trail

By: Will McLennan

Responding to a friend's urgent telegram, Matt Ramsey discovers that the man to whom he owes his life has been beheaded by a vengeful maniac who has a list of three other victims

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

Jove Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0515103071

ISBN 13

9780515103076

Book's by Will McLennan

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email