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  • Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education
    The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur’s work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of justice...
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    163,28 €

  • Non-Work Obligations
    Robert A. Stebbins
    Non-work obligations can undermine our well-being and lifestyles, but scholars of work and leisure alike have largely ignored this element of our lives. This book, written by an established authority in the field, shines a light on the significance of this ’third space’ in our lives and offers a guide to finding contentment in discontentment. ...
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    88,20 €

  • The Souls of Black Folk (Deluxe Library Edition)
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American...
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    41,75 €

  • The Critical Phenomenology of Intergroup Life
    Evandro Camara
    This book is dedicated to a critical analysis of race relations and inequality through the prism of Schutzian social phenomenology, which focuses on the world of intersubjectivity and the complex of meanings that orient the conduct of individuals and groups. The phenomenological approach provides a more intimate look at how the societal imposition of negative racial meanings on...
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    142,88 €

  • Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe
    Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe discusses the impact of neoliberalism on public health and the social construction of health and illness in Europe, analysing case studies at a European and national level. ...
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    152,57 €

  • Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Social Innovation, 1 volume
    Adela McMurray / Chamindika Weerakoon
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    215,98 €

  • Redefining Theory and Practice to Guide Social Transformation
    Beth Fisher-Yoshida / Joan Camilo Lopez
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    215,79 €

  • Critical theory and demagogic populism
    Paul Jones / Paul K. Jones
    This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ’modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ’populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institute’s analysis to assess ’counter-demagogic’ forces. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Refiguring childhood
    Kevin Ryan
    Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood and shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The book will appeal to researchers and students interested in taking a multi-disciplinary approach to ...
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    157,59 €

  • Instead of modernity
    Andrew Ginger
    At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with 'modernity' that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies. ...
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    172,05 €

  • Indigeneity on the Move
    "Indigeneity" has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept&...
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    44,09 €

  • The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman
    Dr Shaun Best
    This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas. ...
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    43,17 €

  • Intimacy in postmodern times
    Peter Beilharz
    This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author’s thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmodern and the present crisis. ...
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    43,16 €

  • Thoughts for Young Men
    J. C. Ryle / JCRyle
    'Thoughts for Young Men,' by J. C. Ryle, is a short yet passionate appeal that, a hundred years after it was written, remains relevant for today. Replete with warnings, exhortations, and instruction about this life’s many trials, temptations, and common pitfalls, Ryle’s classic is biblical, practical, timeless, and wise.The first chapter of the book covers five reasons, divided...
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    4,84 €

  • White Folks Be Trippin’
    J Mase III
    In the spirit of Langston Hughes’s the Ways of White Folks, Black Trans poet & educator, J Mase III takes us on a journey through the absurdities of whiteness. From MLK quotes out of context, to strange dance moves and circular conversations about justice that go nowhere, he guides us into accepting what we already know: White Folks Be Trippin’. More importantly, in an Instagra...
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    29,71 €

  • La méthode infaillible - Marre d’être pauvre / Devenir riche
    Charles Sannat
    Oui, il existe des techniques, des méthodes et des moyens pour devenir riche et vivre dans l’abondance. Il n’y a rien de mal à vouloir cela et à rechercher cela. Au contraire, plus il y a de riches dans une nation, plus cette nation sera collectivement riche et forte, et cela n’a rien à voir avec la théorie fumeuse du « ruissellement ». C’est tout le programme du président amér...
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    22,44 €

  • Foucault’s Orient
    Marnia Lazreg
    Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the "Orient" constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as ...
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    37,80 €

  • Rigged
    Anna Killick
    Most people find it hard to define ’the economy’ beyond saying it is ’to do with money’. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what ’the economy’ means to people’s lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it. ...
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    157,77 €

  • Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy
    Steven Rytina
    'Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy' shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel...
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    281,91 €

  • The Systemic Approach in Sociology and Niklas Luhmann
    Jirí Šubrt
    The systemic approach to sociology is widely considered to be one of the most important conceptions in sociology at the end of the 20th century. In this book Šubrt provides a comprehensive overview, and critical appraisal of the theory of social systems. ...
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    143,26 €

  • The radicalism of ethnomethodology
    Martyn Hammersley / TBD
    This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science. ...
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    37,14 €

  • Anticipations
    Herbert George Wells
    Anticipations: Of The Reaction Of Mechanical And Scientific Progress Upon Human Life And ThoughtThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has...
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    15,61 €

  • Dastardly Discourse
    Meg Gorzycki
    Screaming at the television, compulsively firing off tart little tweets, and blogging until we are blue; these signal that we are feeling the effects of dastardly discourse. We live in a world where people feel entitled to use words to hurt, exploit, and publicly degrade humanity. We daily consume rhetoric that makes a mockery of decency and civility. Leaders of key social inst...
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    36,29 €

  • Dastardly Discourse
    Meg Gorzycki
    Screaming at the television, compulsively firing off tart little tweets, and blogging until we are blue; these signal that we are feeling the effects of dastardly discourse. We live in a world where people feel entitled to use words to hurt, exploit, and publicly degrade humanity. We daily consume rhetoric that makes a mockery of decency and civility. Leaders of key social inst...
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    23,80 €

  • Progressivism
    Bradley C. S. Watson / Bradley CSWatson
    At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic disci...
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    49,28 €

  • Art, Law, Power
    Art, Law, Power is a timely collection of essays curated to bring together scholarship from critical schools across the humanities and the social sciences. It offers a contemporary snapshot of intellectual and practical engagements with legal and artistic practices in countering power. This edition brings together voices and practitioners from across the globe to tell stories o...
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    24,65 €

  • Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice
    Fu-Lai Tony Yu
    'Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice' uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena. ...
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    180,16 €

  • Liberating Sociology
    Mohammad H. Tamdgidi / Mohammad HTamdgidi
    In this major new study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, social theorist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports having unriddled the so-called ’quantum enigma.’This book opens the lid of the Schrödinger’s Cat box of the ’quantum enigma’ after decades and finds something both odd and familiar: Not only the cat is both alive and dead, it has morphed into an elephant in the room in...
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    128,76 €

  • Liberating Sociology
    Mohammad H. Tamdgidi / Mohammad HTamdgidi
    In this major new study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, social theorist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports having unriddled the so-called ’quantum enigma.’This book opens the lid of the Schrödinger’s Cat box of the ’quantum enigma’ after decades and finds something both odd and familiar: Not only the cat is both alive and dead, it has morphed into an elephant in the room in...
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    109,45 €

  • A Culture of Second Chances
    David M. Newman / David MNewman
    This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept-as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience-has become part and parcel of o...
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    156,25 €


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