
Habermas and ReligionBy: Craig Calhoun (New York University), Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York, Stony Brook) and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653273,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2013,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653266,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2013,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2013
Description: To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence ...
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid ModernityBy: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) and Leonidas Donskis
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662756,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Mar 2013,
Pub Date Aus Mar 2013
E-book, ISBN: 9780745669625,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the eve...
Émile Durkheim: A BiographyBy: Marcel Fournier (University of Montreal)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646459,
Pub Date US Nov 2012,
Pub Date RoW Dec 2012,
Pub Date Aus Dec 2012
Description: This book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim ...
The Body in Society: An Introduction, 2nd EditionBy: Alexandra Howson
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745654416,
Pub Date US Jan 2013,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2012,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664002,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. T...
Food and Society: Principles and ParadoxesBy: Amy E. Guptill (The College at Brockport, SUNY), Denise A. Copelton (The College at Brockport, SUNY) and Betsy Lucal (Indiana University South Bend)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642826,
Pub Date US Dec 2012,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2012,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642819,
Pub Date US Dec 2012,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2012,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Description: This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers’ c...
Consumption and Its ConsequencesBy: Daniel Miller (University College London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661087,
Pub Date US Aug 2012,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2012,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745661506,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a cons...
EvilBy: Michel Wieviorka (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653938,
Pub Date US Jun 2012,
Pub Date RoW May 2012,
Pub Date Aus May 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653921,
Pub Date US Jun 2012,
Pub Date RoW May 2012,
Pub Date Aus May 2012
Description: In contrast to traditional systems of thought which regarded evil as a supernatural force that explained human misfortune, Michel Wieviorka develop...
The Culture of MarketsBy: Frederick F. Wherry (University of Michigan)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647456,
Pub Date US Jan 2012,
Pub Date RoW Dec 2011,
Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647449,
Pub Date US Jan 2012,
Pub Date RoW Dec 2011,
Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Description: What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outco...
The Curious History of LoveBy: Jean-Claude Kaufmann
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651545,
Pub Date US Dec 2011,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2011,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651538,
Pub Date US Dec 2011,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2011,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2011
Description: The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that ...
Still Life: Hopes, Desires and SatisfactionsBy: Henrietta L. Moore (Cambridge University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636467,
Pub Date US Oct 2011,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636450,
Pub Date US Oct 2011,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Description: How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us t...
Work's IntimacyBy: Melissa Gregg
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650289,
Pub Date US Oct 2011,
Pub Date RoW Aug 2011,
Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650272,
Pub Date US Sep 2011,
Pub Date RoW Aug 2011,
Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
Description: This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between ...
Culture in a Liquid Modern WorldBy: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) and Lydia Bauman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653556,
Pub Date US Jul 2011,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2011,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653549,
Pub Date US Jul 2011,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2011,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Description: In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people...
Immigrant NationsBy: Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649627,
Pub Date US Jun 2011,
Pub Date RoW May 2011,
Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649610,
Pub Date US Jun 2011,
Pub Date RoW May 2011,
Pub Date Aus May 2011
Description: This book is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. The policies of multiculturalism that were implemented in the wake of pos...
Economic AnthropologyBy: Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) and Keith Hart (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644837,
Pub Date US Mar 2011,
Pub Date RoW Feb 2011,
Pub Date Aus Feb 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644820,
Pub Date US Mar 2011,
Pub Date RoW Feb 2011,
Pub Date Aus Feb 2011
Description: This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologi...
Wall Street at War: The Secret Struggle for the Global EconomyBy: Alexandra Ouroussoff (Brunel University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644189,
Pub Date US Oct 2010,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2010,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658698,
Pub Date US May 2013,
Pub Date RoW May 2013,
Description: Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the ...
StuffBy: Daniel Miller (UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644240,
Pub Date US Dec 2009,
Pub Date RoW Oct 2009,
Pub Date Aus Oct 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654966,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of mater...
Cultural HybridityBy: Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646978,
Pub Date US Aug 2009,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2009,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675497,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend...
The Comfort of ThingsBy: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644042,
Pub Date US Jul 2009,
Pub Date RoW May 2009,
Pub Date Aus May 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644035,
Pub Date US Jul 2008,
Pub Date RoW May 2008,
Pub Date Aus May 2008
Description: What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book v...
By: Robert Ross (University of Leiden)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631875,
Pub Date US Jul 2008,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2008,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631868,
Pub Date US Jul 2008,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2008,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Description: In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compell...
On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience TodayBy: Michel Agier
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640525,
Pub Date US Jun 2008,
Pub Date RoW May 2008,
Pub Date Aus May 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640518,
Pub Date RoW May 2008,
Pub Date Aus May 2008
Description: Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced relocation caused by wars and violence. Whole new countries are being created, occupied...
A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a PilgrimageBy: Abdellah Hammoudi (University of Princeton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745637891,
Pub Date RoW Jan 2006,
Pub Date Aus Jan 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745637884,
Pub Date RoW Jan 2006,
Pub Date Aus Jan 2006
Description: In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to obs...
Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of VolkBy: Christopher M. Hutton (University of Hong Kong)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631776,
Pub Date US Dec 2005,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2005,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631769,
Pub Date US Sep 2005,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2005,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2005
Description: Race and the Third Reich aims to set out the key concepts, debates and controversies that marked the academic study of race in Nazi Germany. It looks...
By: Wolfgang Behringer (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745627182,
Pub Date US Sep 2004,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2004,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745627175,
Pub Date US Sep 2004,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2004,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2004
Description: In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropologica...
The Suffering of the ImmigrantBy: Abdelmalek Sayad (Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at CNRS (National Centre for Sociological Research) ), Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) and David Macey
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626437,
Pub Date US Mar 2004,
Pub Date RoW Jan 2004,
Pub Date Aus Jan 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626420,
Pub Date US Mar 2004,
Pub Date RoW Jan 2004,
Pub Date Aus Jan 2004
Description: This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of th...
Confronting Culture: Sociological VistasBy: David Inglis (University of Aberdeen) and John Hughson (University of Wolverhampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625621,
Pub Date US Oct 2003,
Pub Date RoW Aug 2003,
Pub Date Aus Aug 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625614,
Pub Date US Oct 2003,
Pub Date RoW Aug 2003,
Pub Date Aus Aug 2003
Description: Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares with ...
The Global Transformations Reader, 2nd EditionEdited by: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science)
By: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631356,
Pub Date US Aug 2003,
Pub Date RoW May 2003,
Description: The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the ce...
By: Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester) and Rupert Read (University of Manchester)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619293,
Pub Date US Oct 2002,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2002,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619286,
Pub Date US Oct 2002,
Pub Date RoW Sep 2002,
Pub Date Aus Sep 2002
Description: Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern clas...
Incest: A New PerspectiveBy: Mary Hamer (Harvard University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624167,
Pub Date US May 2002,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2002,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624150,
Pub Date US Aug 2002,
Pub Date RoW Jul 2002,
Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Description: In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She pla...
Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New DirectionsBy: Stephen M. Whitehead (University of Keele)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624679,
Pub Date US Apr 2002,
Pub Date RoW Mar 2002,
Pub Date Aus Mar 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624662,
Pub Date US Apr 2002,
Pub Date RoW Mar 2002,
Pub Date Aus Mar 2002
Description: Men and Masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and accessible, it consider...
By: Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin) and Allan Cameron
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623870,
Pub Date US Jun 2001,
Pub Date RoW May 2001,
Pub Date Aus May 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623863,
Pub Date US Jun 2001,
Pub Date RoW May 2001,
Pub Date Aus May 2001
Description: This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccu...
Masculine DominationBy: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622651,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2001,
Pub Date Aus Apr 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622644,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2001,
Pub Date Aus Apr 2001
Description: Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectat...
By: Don Slater (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620275,
Pub Date US Feb 2001,
Pub Date RoW Nov 2000,
Pub Date Aus Nov 2000
Description: Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets ...
Gender ArchaeologyBy: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620152,
Pub Date US Aug 2000,
Pub Date RoW Jun 2000,
Pub Date Aus Jun 2000
E-book, ISBN: 9780745668642,
Pub Date US Apr 2013,
Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,
Description: This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture ...
By: Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Manchester)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614311,
Pub Date US Feb 2000,
Pub Date RoW Dec 1999,
Pub Date Aus Dec 1999
Description: This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe....
By: Johan Pottier (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615349,
Pub Date US Aug 1999,
Pub Date RoW Jun 1999,
Pub Date Aus Jun 1999
Description: In this new book, Pottier provides an incisive account of food production and famine in the world today. Drawing on the work of anthropologists and o...
By: Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621975,
Pub Date US Nov 1998,
Pub Date RoW Sep 1998,
Pub Date Aus Sep 1998
Description: This is a concise and elegant account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the eighteenth century....
By: Ray Abrahams (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616384,
Pub Date RoW Jul 1998,
Pub Date Aus Jul 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616377,
Pub Date RoW Jul 1998,
Pub Date Aus Jul 1998
Description: Vigilantes operate in the shadows rather than the bright lights of mainstream political consensus. They have arisen at many times in different region...
By: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619460,
Pub Date RoW Apr 1998,
Pub Date Aus Apr 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619453,
Pub Date RoW Apr 1998,
Pub Date Aus Apr 1998
Description: A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping i...
By: Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745608884,
Pub Date RoW Dec 1995,
Pub Date Aus Dec 1995
Description: In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.The Land of Hunger is a graphic and engagi...
By: Henrietta L. Moore (Cambridge University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613086,
Pub Date RoW Oct 1994,
Pub Date Aus Oct 1994
Description: In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about s...
By: Henrietta L. Moore (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745601137,
Pub Date RoW Sep 1988,
Pub Date Aus Sep 1988
Description: This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and bala...
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