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  • Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
    Hans A Baer
    As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sus...
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    44,23 €

  • Tribespotting
    Harmon Leon
    Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon has gone undercover again and returned with a new book. Gentleman cartoonist Keith Knight provides popular comics that enhance Leon's enlightening narrative."This book was eye-opening ..." –David Litt, author of NY Times bestseller Thanks, ObamaThe United States is a divided country, where two disparate tribes fight to provoke, ...
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    17,60 €

  • International Origins of Social and Political Theory
    This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice. ...
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    65,10 €

  • Rethinking the Colonial State
    This volume addresses the analytical challenges of the colonial state from a variety of theoretical and thematic angles, and across a range of empirical cases that stretch over a vast span historically and geographically, to provide a new approach to analyzing the colonial state and its governmental practices. ...
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    65,23 €

  • War and Algorithm
    Daniel Steuer / Gregor Noll / Max Liljefors
    New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision. Thus, various kinds of violent acts are proliferating while their precise nature remains unclear. Especially man-machine ensembles, guided by algorithms, are operating in ways that challenge con...
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    163,71 €

  • Socio-educational Factors and the Soft Power of Language
    Anna Odrowąż-Coates
    Anna Odrowąż-Coates shows that English, as a language of European integration and communication, has become an element of social status. In privileged social groups, its position has changed from a foreign language to a second language, which demonstrates a linguistic shift with long-term consequences. Socio-educational Factors and Soft Power of Language critically examines the...
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    122,31 €

  • War and Algorithm
    Daniel Steuer / Gregor Noll / Max Liljefors
    New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision. Thus, various kinds of violent acts are proliferating while their precise nature remains unclear. Especially man-machine ensembles, guided by algorithms, are operating in ways that challenge con...
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    47,41 €

  • Elites and People
    This volume contains an Open Access chapter. The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women’s political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US. ...
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    141,41 €

  • Imagining Afghanistan
    Alla Ivanchikova
    Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistanhas been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion-the era that propelledAfghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis offiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates thatwriting and screening 'Afghanis...
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    64,38 €

  • Manifiesto feminista
    Autores Varios
    antología de textos del pensamiento feminista para el siglo XXIManifiesto CGT - Sin nosotras el mundo no funcionaFeminismo y masculinismo / Lilí AlvarezEl movimiento feminista hoy / Ximena Briceño Olivera¡Las mujeres! / Clara CampoamorEl desafío del feminismo hoy. / Rosa CoboLa mujer y el materialismo histórico / Simone de BeauvoirLo único que pedimos / María de MaeztuPacto fem...
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    9,65 €

  • La Reevolución Biocultural
    Borja De Arquer Berea
    La devastadora actividad criminal de las multinacionales [] debería tipificarse en el código penal, al lado de los genocidios y los crímenes de lesa humanidad. [] A las empresas neoliberales les debemos, por ejemplo, la masiva emigración a las ciudades de la gente del campo y la condena a la miseria suburbial de los migrantes, asegura el escritor budista Borja de Arquer. El lam...
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    16,64 €

  • Feminist Research in Practice
    Barbara Gurr / Maura Kelly
    Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate research methods courses. The book opens with a detailed examination of feminist methodologies and sociological research methods, followed by twelve chapters offering an in-depth analysis of six research projects. Invited scholars have each contributed two paired chapters: the first is data-dri...
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    51,90 €

  • Feminist Research in Practice
    Barbara Gurr / Maura Kelly
    Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate research methods courses. The book opens with a detailed examination of feminist methodologies and sociological research methods, followed by twelve chapters offering an in-depth analysis of six research projects. Invited scholars have each contributed two paired chapters: the first is data-dri...
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    86,51 €

  • Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
    Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
    Looking specifically at the factors impacting on health and health care differentials, this book examines the health and health care issues of both patients and providers of care in the United States and around the globe. Chapters focus on linkages to policy, population concerns and patients and providers of care as ways to meet health care needs. ...
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    189,61 €

  • Tribespotting
    Harmon Leon
    Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon has gone undercover again and returned with a new book. Gentleman cartoonist Keith Knight provides popular comics that enhance Leon's enlightening narrative."This book was eye-opening ..." –David Litt, author of NY Times bestseller Thanks, ObamaThe United States is a divided country, where two disparate tribes fight to provoke, ...
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    26,62 €

  • Critical theory and sociological theory
    Darrow Schecter
    Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. ...
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    145,05 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
    Matteo Bortolini
    ’The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion. ...
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    180,28 €

  • Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity
    Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of 'borders.' The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigrat...
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    128,98 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville
    Daniel Gordon
    ’The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists. ...
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    180,14 €

  • Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists
    This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more...
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    129,07 €

  • Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory
    Jirí Šubrt
    This book examines individualism and holism, the two interpretive perspectives that have divided sociological theory into two camps, examines attempts to overcome this antinomy and sets out a new approach to resolving this dilemma via ’critical reconfigurationism’. ...
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    142,99 €

  • The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality
    Melvin L Kohn / Melvin L. Kohn
    Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality. ...
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    114,89 €

  • Nietzsche and Sociology
    Anas Karzai
    Nietzsche and Sociology: Prophet of Affirmation is about Friedrich Nietzsche’s sociological reading of modern industrial society. Nietzsche is often identified as a philosopher but his uniquely sociological theories and ideas have been disregarded and unacknowledged in the social sciences. This work examines the reasons why Nietzsche has been ignored in sociological literature ...
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    129,11 €

  • Homo Interpretans
    Johann Michel / David Pellauer
    When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author’s perspective which removes the anthropological interdict that has hampered hermeneutics ...
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    184,15 €

  • Homo Interpretans
    Johann Michel / David Pellauer
    When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author’s perspective which removes the anthropological interdict that has hampered hermeneutics ...
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    60,94 €

  • The Culture of Invention in the Americas
    The Culture of Invention in the Americas takes the theoretical contribution of one of anthropology’s most radical thinkers, Roy Wagner, as a basis for conceptual improvisation. It uses Wagner’s most synthetic and complex insights – developed in Melanesia and captured in the title of his most famous book, The Invention of Culture – as a springboard for an exploration of other an...
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    114,93 €

  • Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises
    Carol Nelson
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    183,44 €

  • Hometown Hamburg
    Frank Domurad
    ’Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic. ...
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    172,36 €

  • Regimes of Happiness
    ’Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment. ...
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    165,54 €

  • The Emerald Guide to Max Weber
    John Scott
    This introductory text provides an authoritative guide to the key ideas of Max Weber, charting the development of his ideas and placing them in context of his life and times, offering a primer that will form the basis of further, more detailed, reading. ...
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    37,72 €


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