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  • TASTE
    Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the cert...
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    26,66 €

  • The Disobedient Indian
    Ramin Jahanbegloo
    ‘[This] book succeeds in making us see the poetics of disobedience in the utterly illiberal prosaic ethos of our times, in the light of giving Gandhi a new radical and transformative significance.’ —Ashok Vajpeyi, from the ForewordIn this original and timely book, Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of the world’s leading political philosophers, engages with the most pressing question facin...
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    11,11 €

  • The radicalism of ethnomethodology
    Martyn Hammersley
    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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    157,58 €

  • Transnational Management
    Steffen Kromer
    A case study of a particular population, transnational businesspeople working in German multinational corporations in Seoul, and examines nunchi (emotional intelligence), an important non–Western organizational phenomenon, and the role of symbols of identity in the recontextualisation process of adopting nunchi into strategic self-presentations.Consequently, this book will be a...
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    62,52 €

  • Transnational Management
    Steffen Kromer
    A case study of a particular population, transnational businesspeople working in German multinational corporations in Seoul, and examines nunchi (emotional intelligence), an important non–Western organizational phenomenon, and the role of symbols of identity in the recontextualisation process of adopting nunchi into strategic self-presentations.Consequently, this book will be a...
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    37,76 €

  • Why Social Movements Matter
    Laurence Cox
    Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Acce...
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    115,66 €

  • Why Social Movements Matter
    Laurence Cox
    Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Acce...
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    36,71 €

  • Post-Truth
    Steve Fuller
    ’Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ’post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself. ...
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    57,50 €

  • Post-Truth
    Steve Fuller
    ’Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ’post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself. ...
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    173,05 €

  • The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel
    Linda M. Stargel / Linda MStargel
    Collective identity creates a sense of ''us-ness'' in people. It may be fleeting and situational or long-lasting and deeply ingrained. Competition, shared belief, tragedy, or a myriad of other factors may contribute to the formation of such group identity. Even people detached from one another by space, anonymity, or time, may find themselves in a context in which individual se...
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    42,31 €

  • The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel
    Linda M. Stargel / Linda MStargel
    Collective identity creates a sense of ''us-ness'' in people. It may be fleeting and situational or long-lasting and deeply ingrained. Competition, shared belief, tragedy, or a myriad of other factors may contribute to the formation of such group identity. Even people detached from one another by space, anonymity, or time, may find themselves in a context in which individual se...
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    26,14 €

  • Mentalk Health
    Emmanuel Owusu
    Mentalk Health is a book full of stories. Remarkably inspiring stories from men from all walks of life and professions who speak openly and honestly about mental health issues. Within the book, amongst many, Doctors, Footballer, Business systems and Production Manager, a Territorial Army Reserve, Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Personal Trainer, a Sustainability Consultant, Profess...
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    15,82 €

  • Mentalk Health
    Emmanuel Owusu
    Mentalk Health is a book full of stories. Remarkably inspiring stories from men from all walks of life and professions who speak openly and honestly about mental health issues. Within the book, amongst many, Doctors, Footballer, Business systems and Production Manager, a Territorial Army Reserve, Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Personal Trainer, a Sustainability Consultant, Profess...
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    25,97 €

  • Primeros principios
    Herbert Spencer
    Obra fundamental de Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), la primera de su sistema evolucionista publicada en 1860.En ella hay que distinguir dos partes, una de carácter negativo y otra positiva: la primera demuestra la limitación del sa­ber humano y la imposibilidad de conocer nada de un modo absoluto. 10 ...
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    24,86 €

  • The Neganthropocene
    Bernard Stiegler / Daniel Ross
    Opening a major new front in discussions of the Anthropocene, The Neganthropocene is a collection of recent lectures by the leading French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler. In this volume, Stiegler engages substantially with Alfred North Whitehead, Jacques Derrida, Gilbert Simondon, Peter Sloterdijk, Karl Marx, Benjamin Bratton, and others in his renewed thought of the concepts of...
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    24,77 €

  • How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices
    Chris Brown
    New studies tell how human action is causing planetary degradation and how changes to our diets and financial behaviours could lead to significant benefits. But how many of us adjust our behaviour in response to such information? This book explores people’s reactions to Optimal Rational Positions: propositions that set out requirements for change. ...
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    99,00 €

  • Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity
    Philip Hodgkiss
    ’Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity’ deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order. ...
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    165,79 €

  • Energy Babble
    This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about cu...
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    29,37 €

  • Manifiesto neolibertario
    Samuel Edward Konkin III
    La presente obra supone el desembarco de Samuel Edward Konkin III en el mercado editorial castellano que saturado de Manifiestos, mayoritariamente unidireccionales, hasta el momento inexplicablemente había ninguneado in toto al 'movimiento agorista' (del griego ágora, que significa mercado). Sin embargo, y una vez más, la función empresarial innata en todo ser humano, en este c...
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    19,76 €

  • La Estructura Escolar Y El Trabajo Docente
    Dr. Brenda Guadalupe Monterrubi Lejarza / Prof. Vicente Espitia Sierra
    La escuela representa un tipo de organizacin que intenta alcanzar objetivos, los centros pblicos se caracteriza por ser participativa, en la que en tanto el poder como la toma de decisiones tiene que ser tareas compartidas, ya sea por todos o por algunos de los miembros de la organizacin. El libro es de utilidad para personas que desempee una funcin en el rea escolar en nivel p...
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    16,50 €

  • La Estructura Escolar Y El Trabajo Docente
    Dr. Brenda Guadalupe Monterrubi Lejarza / Prof. Vicente Espitia Sierra
    La escuela representa un tipo de organizacin que intenta alcanzar objetivos, los centros pblicos se caracteriza por ser participativa, en la que en tanto el poder como la toma de decisiones tiene que ser tareas compartidas, ya sea por todos o por algunos de los miembros de la organizacin. El libro es de utilidad para personas que desempee una funcin en el rea escolar en nivel p...
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    23,61 €

  • The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose
    Andrew Brower Latz
    Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a systematic whole. Based on new archive research and examining the full range of Rose’s sources, it explains her theory of modern society, her unique version of ideology critique, and her views on law and mutual recognition. Brower...
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    27,65 €

  • SEE
    Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity conveyed by vision, allows it to be explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, to imagery and emblems. The law and its normative gaze can be understood as that which decrees what is p...
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    26,29 €

  • World Leadership
    Neil V Hamblin
    The United States is the dominant world power today, but that has not always been the case.  Great Britain, Rome, and ancient Sumer were also once leaders in their time, but their empires dissolved into history. Societies have risen and fallen since prehistoric times; but what drives this leadership change? Innovation drives leadership change. It turns out that just fourteen tr...
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    31,82 €

  • Cosmopolitanism and Tourism
    Within tourism studies, the cosmopolitan potentials of tourism have often been situated within a broader conversation about globalization, an approach that implies that cosmopolitanism is a predictable by-product of globalization and becoming more cosmopolitan should be the goal of travel. And yet a fundamental value of a cosmopolitan outlook-namely, to not only to be 'at home ...
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    128,99 €

  • Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions
    This volume focuses on the relationship between different modes in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and/or challenge of social meanings and institutions. The contributions demonstrate the potential of multimodal approaches to advance the design of rigorous methods of analysis for the study of multimodal communicative practices. ...
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    193,91 €

  • Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions
    This volume focuses on the relationship between different modes in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and challenge of social meanings and institutions. The contributions demonstrate the potential of multimodal approaches to advance the design of rigorous methods of analysis for the study of multimodal communicative practices. ...
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    193,82 €

  • How Will We Live Tomorrow?
    Paul E Fallon
    Paul E. Fallon turns his love of cycling into a national conversation as he pedals over 20,000 miles through the forty-eight contiguous states and asks everyone he meets, ‘How will we live tomorrow?’ Hundreds of strangers offer him food and shelter; thousands more share their thoughts about our future. His adventure includes six passes over the Continental Divide, four lonely s...
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    49,16 €

  • artWORK
    artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change. What can we learn about contemporary art and politics by looking at the intersections between art, labour and activism? What theoretical tools c...
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    170,48 €

  • The Perspective of Historical Sociology
    Jirí Šubrt
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or the individual? ...
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    168,77 €


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