By: Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662589, Pub Date RoW Dec 2013, Pub Date Aus Jan 2014
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662596, Pub Date RoW Dec 2013, Pub Date Aus Jan 2014

Description: Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as hum...

By: Paddy Scannell (University of Michigan)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662541, Pub Date RoW Dec 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662558, Pub Date RoW Dec 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed ...

By: Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650401, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650418, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of...

By: Nazli Kibria , Cara Bowman and Megan O'Leary
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647913, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647920, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the U...

By: Don Slater (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745638324, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638331, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initia...

By: Kate MacDonald (University of Melbourne)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661704, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661711, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on ov...

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and Denis Diderot
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652191, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652207, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse...

By: Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648255, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648262, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social a...

By: Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648552, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648569, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are incr...

By: Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745680965, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: A ‘United States of Europe’, Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could ‘as if by a miracle transform’ that ‘turbulent a...

By: Paul J. Smith (University of Cambridge)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745680781, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745680798, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también. Mexican films now d...

By: Andrew Dubber (Birmingham City University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661964, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661971, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Radio’s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the c...

By: Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nurnberg),)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661803, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661810, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen ...

By: Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648972, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648989, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process a...

By: Tom Kane (University of Hull)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643533, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643540, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in ...

By: Aage Borchgrevink
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745672205, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orches...

By: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL) and Jolynna Sinanan (University College Londond)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745671468, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745671475, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no atte...

By: Maja Suderland (University of Giessen)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745663357, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745663364, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their di...

By: Cedric de Leon (Providence College)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653686, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653693, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

Description: Political parties are central to democratic life, yet there is no standard definition to describe them or the role they occupy. "Voter-centered" theo...

By: John Kingdom (Sheffield Hallam University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638898, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Dec 2013

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By: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745663760, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745663777, Pub Date RoW Nov 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are of...

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard (formerly Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Paris VIII and Professor, University of California at Irvine)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745670720, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745670737, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. Th...

By: Fred Inglis (University of Sheffield)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651712, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. ...

By: Kidane Mengisteab (Pennsylvania State University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651217, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651224, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of deva...

By: Anthony Elliott (Flinders University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661889, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661896, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: More than ten years on from its original publication, Concepts of the Self still mesmerizes with its insight, comprehensiveness and critique of debat...

By: Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641492, Pub Date US Nov 2013, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: This book is the first publication of the complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna. The correspondence ranges over personal an...

By: Janet Hargreaves (University of Huddersfield)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745654232, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745654249, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Reflective practice is an essential skill for those working in health and social care, but why is it so vital and how can it be learned? As inter-dis...

By: Hélène Cixous (Paris VIII University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745663272, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745663289, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volume...

By: Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662169, Pub Date RoW Oct 2013, Pub Date Aus Nov 2013

Description: This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century ...

By: Rainer Forst
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652283, Pub Date US Nov 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652290, Pub Date US Nov 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for...

By: Adam Swift (Balliol College, Oxford)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652368, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652375, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians acr...

Edited by: Christopher Pierson (University of Nottingham), Francis G. Castles (University of Edinburgh) and Ingela K. Naumann (University of Edinburgh)
By: Christopher Pierson (University of Nottingham), Francis G. Castles (University of Edinburgh) and Ingela K. Naumann (University of Edinburgh)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745663685, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745663692, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the thir...

By: Karine Nahon (University of Washington) and Jeff Hemsley (University of Washington)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745671284, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745671291, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can ...

By: George Crowder (Flinders University, Adelaide)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636252, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636269, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics. In this new book George Crowder examines some of the leading respon...

By: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science) and Charles Roger
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745665245, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745665252, Pub Date US Sep 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation ...

By: Pitman Potter
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662688, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662695, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: China’s struggle for the rule of law is at a critical juncture. As a key element of governance in the PRC today, China’s legal system aff...

By: Mike Bradshaw (Warwick Business School)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650647, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650654, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transfo...

By: James McGilvray (McGill University, Canada)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649894, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649900, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and h...

By: David West (Australian National University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649597, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649603, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements. ...

By: Alex Dennis (Sheffield University), Rob Philburn (University of Salford) and Greg Smith (University of Salford)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646060, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646077, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in th...

By: Pramod K. Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662404, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662411, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning,...

By: Roger Chartier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745656014, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745656021, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator&rs...

By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646947, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646954, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy...

By: Charles Ess (Drury University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745656052, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745656069, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global pe...

By: Sinisa Malesevic (University College Dublin)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653389, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653396, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade aw...

By: Hazel Kemshall (De Montfort University, UK), Bernadette Wilkinson (Independent Trainer and Consultant) and Kerry Baker (London South Bank University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651972, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651989, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skill ...

By: Slavoj Zizek
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745672281, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745672298, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book ca...

By: Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745671581, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745671598, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Theodor Adorno’s reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In A...

By: Colin Crouch (University of Warwick)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745672229, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745672236, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the ...

By: Peter Sloterdijk
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647685, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647692, Pub Date RoW Aug 2013, Pub Date Aus Sep 2013

Description: Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically...