{"title":"Christopher R Matthews","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"global-perspectives-on-women-in-combat-sports-book-christopher-r-matthews-9781137439352","title":"Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports","description":"This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510588154129,"sku":"GOR013493400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52341300527377,"sku":"NLS9781137439352","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1137439351.jpg?v=1751400347"},{"product_id":"doing-good-social-science-book-christopher-r-matthews-9781032820859","title":"Doing Good Social Science","description":"Doing Good Social Science takes readers on a personal and thought-provoking journey and empowers readers to become unshakeable, free-thinking scholars. This book is a compelling read for advanced students, early career researchers, and any academic seeking to develop a more liberated, inventive approach to methods.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51599950348561,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51599950446865,"sku":"NGR9781032820859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52653538181393,"sku":"NLS9781032820859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53335386980625,"sku":"NIN9781032820859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032820853.jpg?v=1750887305"},{"product_id":"doing-good-social-science-book-christopher-r-matthews-9781032822242","title":"Doing Good Social Science","description":"Doing Good Social Science takes readers on a personal and thought-provoking journey and empowers readers to become unshakeable, free-thinking scholars.  Drawing from nearly two decades of experience in research and mentorship, this book shares insights gained from creating ‘immersive moments’ to challenge conventional methodology and social theory. In doing so, it integrates ideas from classical and contemporary scholarship across various disciplines, bringing them to life through engaging field notes, interviews, and often humorous examples. The book outlines how to cultivate disciplined and systematic scholarship on complex topics while critiquing the ‘wonky’ practices that often pervade modern academia. Part One advocates for a more scientific approach to social science, offering guiding principles for scholars striving to understand social life. Part Two deepens and complicates these arguments by examining the philosophical foundations of social science, focusing specifically on the ‘in-between’ aspects of the human condition and our social nature. The writing and thinking in the book are distinctive, passionate and brave.  This book is a compelling read for advanced students, early career researchers, and any academic seeking to develop a more liberated, inventive approach to methods.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51599956574481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51599956705553,"sku":"NGR9781032822242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52656572530961,"sku":"NLS9781032822242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032822244.jpg?v=1751174005"},{"product_id":"teaching-with-sociological-imagination-in-higher-and-further-education-book-christopher-r-matthews-9789811067242","title":"Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education","description":"This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students’ minds can be ‘switched on’ in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters written by internationally respected experts in the broad field of the social sciences.   Each author illustrates how – through their unique teaching philosophies and practices – they seek to enhance students’ experiences and promote their critical thinking, learning and development. The respective chapters provide conceptual arguments, personal insights and practical examples from a broad range of classrooms, demonstrating various ways in which students’ sociological imagination can be brought to life.    As such, the book is both practical and theoretical, and is primarily aimed at educators working in both higher and further education institutions who wish to develop their understanding of classroom pedagogy as well as gain practical ideas for teaching and learning in the social sciences.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141156335889,"sku":"NLS9789811067242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811067242.jpg?v=1757576575"},{"product_id":"teaching-with-sociological-imagination-in-higher-and-further-education-book-christopher-r-matthews-9789811349393","title":"Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education","description":"This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students' minds can be 'switched on' in order to unlock their extraordinary potential.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52619635130641,"sku":"NLS9789811349393","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811349393.jpg?v=1761536423"},{"product_id":"philip-apostle-and-evangelist-book-christopher-r-matthews-9789004120549","title":"Philip: Apostle and Evangelist","description":"This study investigates the history of the traditions that coalesced around the name Philip in the New Testament and other early Christian literature. It proposes that all of this material ultimately owes its genesis to one historical and literary figure, Philip the apostle. This proposition is explored through a wide-ranging examination of the evidence: Luke's redactional employment of traditional materials about Philip the apostle in Acts 8:4-25 and 8:26-40, the evidence of the canonical Gospels, the second-century perspective on Philip as an apostolic authority figure invoked to legitimate various Christian practices, Philip's apostolic authority in gnostic documents for the transmission of the revelatory teaching of Jesus, and the Acts of Philip as a witness to the formation of Christian culture in the earliest centuries. While historical issues are considered where possible, the focus is on the life of the traditions and their reception.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53561224200465,"sku":"NLS9789004120549","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004120549.jpg?v=1778801453"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-christopher-r-matthews.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}