By: Jean-Claude Kaufmann
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745643618, Pub Date RoW 24 September 2009, Pub Date US 24 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 24 November 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643625, Pub Date RoW 24 September 2009, Pub Date US 24 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 24 November 2009

Description: We all know what it's like to be annoyed by little things that our husband, wife or partner does - leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube, leaving t...

By: Sara Davies
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640419, Pub Date RoW 14 September 2009, Pub Date US 14 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 14 November 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640426, Pub Date RoW 14 September 2009, Pub Date US 14 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 14 November 2009

Description: International responses to the outbreak of SARS, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the promotion of health as a human right all demonstrate how global poli...

By: Angharad Valdivia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640075, Pub Date RoW 12 September 2009, Pub Date US 12 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 November 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640082, Pub Date RoW 12 September 2009, Pub Date US 12 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 November 2009

Description: The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lo...

By: Randall Law
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640372, Pub Date RoW 10 September 2009, Pub Date US 10 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 10 November 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640389, Pub Date RoW 10 September 2009, Pub Date US 10 November 2009, Pub Date Aus 10 November 2009

Description: Terrorism is one of the forces defining our age, but it has also been around since some of the earliest civilizations. This one-of-a-kind study of th...

By: DAVID LYON (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641560, Pub Date RoW 28 July 2009, Pub Date US 28 September 2009, Pub Date Aus 28 September 2009

Description: New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and abov...

By: Susan Mendus (University of York UK)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745629674, Pub Date RoW 05 July 2009, Pub Date US 05 September 2009, Pub Date Aus 05 September 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629681, Pub Date RoW 05 July 2009, Pub Date US 05 September 2009, Pub Date Aus 05 September 2009

Description: Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and di...

Hardback, ISBN: 9780745639550, Pub Date RoW 04 July 2009, Pub Date US 04 September 2009, Pub Date Aus 04 September 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639567, Pub Date RoW 04 July 2009, Pub Date US 04 September 2009, Pub Date Aus 04 September 2009

Description: Social Work with Older People provides an authoritative and practical guide to working with older people in a range of settings. It addresses the com...

By: Andrew Hoskins and Ben O’Loughlin
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745638492, Pub Date RoW 18 June 2009, Pub Date US 18 August 2009, Pub Date Aus 18 August 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638508, Pub Date RoW 18 June 2009, Pub Date US 18 August 2009, Pub Date Aus 18 August 2009

Description: The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a 'new media ecology' that ...

By: Karen Wells
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745638362, Pub Date RoW 30 May 2009, Pub Date US 30 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 30 July 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638379, Pub Date RoW 30 May 2009, Pub Date US 30 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 30 July 2009

Description: This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children's lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being r...

By: WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745636351, Pub Date RoW 08 May 2009, Pub Date US 08 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 08 July 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636368, Pub Date RoW 08 May 2009, Pub Date US 08 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 08 July 2009

Description: The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative o...

By: MARC WELLER (Centre for International Studies, Cambridge)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745629179, Pub Date RoW 08 May 2009, Pub Date US 08 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 08 July 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629186, Pub Date RoW 08 May 2009, Pub Date US 08 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 08 July 2009

Description: Developments in international politics since the end of the Cold War point to a new international order in the twenty-first century. At its heart i...

By: Catherine Squires
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640341, Pub Date RoW 06 May 2009, Pub Date US 06 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 06 July 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640365, Pub Date RoW 06 May 2009, Pub Date US 06 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 06 July 2009

Description: From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass medi...

By: Dennis Sandole
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641652, Pub Date RoW 06 May 2009, Pub Date US 06 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 06 July 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641669, Pub Date RoW 06 May 2009, Pub Date US 06 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 06 July 2009

Description: Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world's most turbulent regions has become the new global imp...

By: Leah Lievrouw
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641836, Pub Date RoW 03 May 2009, Pub Date US 03 July 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 July 2009

Description: Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the wor...

By: Katie Normington
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745636030, Pub Date RoW 27 April 2009, Pub Date US 27 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 27 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636047, Pub Date RoW 27 April 2009, Pub Date US 27 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 27 June 2009

Description: Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places partic...

By: Bruno Latour
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745639840, Pub Date RoW 24 April 2009, Pub Date US 24 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 24 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639857, Pub Date RoW 24 April 2009, Pub Date US 24 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 24 June 2009

Description: In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religi...

By: Susie Scott
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745642673, Pub Date RoW 23 April 2009, Pub Date US 23 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642680, Pub Date RoW 23 April 2009, Pub Date US 23 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 June 2009

Description: This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topic...

By: Jon Agar
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745634692, Pub Date RoW 22 April 2009, Pub Date US 22 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 22 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634708, Pub Date RoW 22 April 2009, Pub Date US 22 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 22 June 2009

Description: A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unp...

By: Simon Dalby
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745642918, Pub Date RoW 21 April 2009, Pub Date US 21 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 21 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642925, Pub Date RoW 21 April 2009, Pub Date US 21 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 21 June 2009

Description: In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Eur...

By: Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745644134, Pub Date RoW 20 April 2009, Pub Date US 20 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 20 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644141, Pub Date RoW 20 April 2009, Pub Date US 20 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 20 June 2009

Description: With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. In 2007, the world had over 3 billio...

By: MARK ERICKSON, Carol Stephenson, Harriet Bradley, Steve WILLIAMS (Portsmouth University) and Steve WILLIAMS (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745642321, Pub Date RoW 20 April 2009, Pub Date US 20 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 20 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642338, Pub Date RoW 20 April 2009, Pub Date US 20 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 20 June 2009

Description: What's the point of studying business from a social perspective? How can sociology aid my understanding of the big issues facing businesses today?...

Hardback, ISBN: 9780745643052, Pub Date RoW 15 April 2009, Pub Date US 15 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 15 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643069, Pub Date RoW 15 April 2009, Pub Date US 15 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 15 June 2009

Description: Working interprofessionally is an essential part of successful health and social care provision in the twenty-first century. This engaging and easy-t...

By: Shlomo Venezia
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745643830, Pub Date RoW 03 April 2009, Pub Date US 03 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 June 2009

Description: This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish...

By: ANTHONY GIDDENS (Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745643571, Pub Date RoW 03 April 2009, Pub Date US 03 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643588, Pub Date RoW 03 April 2009, Pub Date US 03 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 June 2009

Description: The sixth edition of Anthony Giddens' Sociology is the best yet. Revised and updated throughout, it provides an authoritative overview of recent glob...

By: Gillian Bendelow
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745636436, Pub Date RoW 03 April 2009, Pub Date US 03 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 June 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636443, Pub Date RoW 03 April 2009, Pub Date US 03 June 2009, Pub Date Aus 03 June 2009

Description: In this compelling new book, Gillian Bendelow provides an accessible account of the complex interplay between mind, body and society. Contemporary cr...

By: Jonathan Blundell, Pamela Law, Margaret Whalley and Ken Browne
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641898, Pub Date RoW 31 March 2009, Pub Date US 31 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 May 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641904, Pub Date RoW 31 March 2009, Pub Date US 31 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 May 2009

Description: This new textbook has been designed to accompany Ken Browne's widely-used Sociology for AS AQA. Ken Browne has teamed up with co-authors Jonathan Blu...

By: Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745644196, Pub Date RoW 31 March 2009, Pub Date US 31 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 May 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644202, Pub Date RoW 31 March 2009, Pub Date US 31 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 May 2009

Description: This book seeks to articulate a modern conception of social justice in an era of globalisation, and the radical reforms needed to address poverty and...

By: RICHARD SHAPCOTT (Deakin University)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745631424, Pub Date RoW 16 March 2009, Pub Date US 16 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 May 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631431, Pub Date RoW 16 March 2009, Pub Date US 16 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 May 2009

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By: Kendra King (University of Georgia at Athens)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745632803, Pub Date RoW 12 March 2009, Pub Date US 12 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 May 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632810, Pub Date RoW 12 March 2009, Pub Date US 12 May 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 May 2009

Description: African-American Politics is a cutting-edge introduction to the political successes, failures, and persistent challenges of African-American politica...

By: Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745636856, Pub Date RoW 17 February 2009, Pub Date US 17 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 17 April 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636863, Pub Date RoW 17 February 2009, Pub Date US 17 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 17 April 2009

Description: For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsk...

By: Antonio Forcellino
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640051, Pub Date RoW 16 February 2009, Pub Date US 16 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 April 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640068, Pub Date RoW 16 February 2009, Pub Date US 16 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 April 2009

Description: This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple thread...

By: Niamh Reilly (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745636993, Pub Date RoW 16 February 2009, Pub Date US 16 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 April 2009

Description: Womens Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens h...

By: Niamh Reilly (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745637006, Pub Date RoW 16 February 2009, Pub Date US 16 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 16 April 2009

Description: Womens Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens h...

By: Charles Ess (Drury University)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641638, Pub Date RoW 02 February 2009, Pub Date US 02 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 02 April 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641645, Pub Date RoW 02 February 2009, Pub Date US 02 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 02 April 2009

Description: This is the first textbook on the central ethical issues of digital media, ranging from computers and the Internet to mobile phones. It is also the f...

By: Antony Adolf
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641256, Pub Date RoW 02 February 2009, Pub Date US 02 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 02 April 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641263, Pub Date RoW 02 February 2009, Pub Date US 02 April 2009, Pub Date Aus 02 April 2009

Description: How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A ...

By: Joachim Radkau
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641478, Pub Date RoW 31 January 2009, Pub Date US 31 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 March 2009

Description: Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - there is simply no one in the...

By: Jean-Francois Bayart (Institut dEtudes Politiques, Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644370, Pub Date RoW 31 January 2009, Pub Date US 31 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 31 March 2009

Description: The State in Africa is one of the important and compelling texts of comparative politics and historical sociology of the last twenty years. Bayart re...

By: GILL JONES (Keele University)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640945, Pub Date RoW 23 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640952, Pub Date RoW 23 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 March 2009

Description: This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of 'youth' within a more...

By: Scott Sochay
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640655, Pub Date RoW 23 January 2009, Pub Date US 23 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640662, Pub Date RoW 23 January 2009, Pub Date US 23 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 23 March 2009

Description: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of how the media portray Native Americans and how Native Americans view and use the media. Wherea...

By: Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745633848, Pub Date RoW 15 January 2009, Pub Date US 15 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 15 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633855, Pub Date RoW 15 January 2009, Pub Date US 15 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 15 March 2009

Description: Focusing on five Latino groups - Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans - this book provides students with a comprehensive int...

By: Christopher Coker
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745642871, Pub Date RoW 13 January 2009, Pub Date US 13 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 13 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642888, Pub Date RoW 13 January 2009, Pub Date US 13 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 13 March 2009

Description: Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war - when it is justified, h...

By: Christian Joppke
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745643519, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643526, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009

Description: The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, lo...

By: Kevin Doogan
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745633244, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633251, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009

Description: In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market. Major t...

By: GRAHAME THOMPSON (Open University) and SIMON BROMLEY (University of Leeds)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745641515, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641522, Pub Date RoW 12 January 2009, Pub Date US 12 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 12 March 2009

Description: 'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the interna...

By: Lena Dominelli
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745640860, Pub Date RoW 09 January 2009, Pub Date US 09 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 09 March 2009
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640877, Pub Date RoW 09 January 2009, Pub Date US 09 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 09 March 2009

Description: In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Usin...

By: Angus Bancroft (University of Edinburgh)
Hardback, ISBN: 9780745635330, Pub Date RoW 09 January 2009, Pub Date US 09 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 09 March 2009

Description: Why do people use drugs?What happens when people are intoxicated?Are we being medicated into normality?Drugs and intoxication have been facts of huma...

By: Angus Bancroft (University of Edinburgh)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745635460, Pub Date RoW 09 January 2009, Pub Date US 09 March 2009, Pub Date Aus 09 March 2009

Description: Why do people use drugs?What happens when people are intoxicated?Are we being medicated into normality?Drugs and intoxication have been facts of huma...