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There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break...

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world. From London to Seoul, Melbourne to Shanghai and many cities in between, people are flocking to cafes. A recent phenomenon, cafe culture has made its reappearance only since the end of the 20th...

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of...

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856341076Author Satish KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Frederick Muller LtdPublisher Century Hutchinson (A Division of Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830716371Author H. Norman WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Gospel LightPublisher David C Cook Publishing Company

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883823078Author David HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Pegasus CommunicationsPublisher Pegasus CommunicationsWeight(grams) 658g

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men...

Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as...

Though rich, diverse, unique and engaging, Japan′s sociological outputs have been internationally underrepresented. In its thoughtful translation and curation of key Japanese sociological texts, this book redresses this imbalance and treads exciting new...

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have...

This book collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and in fields including computer science, astronomy, mining, biology, and...

Through six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, the book provides an account of the author’s developing political awareness during the period in the context of political events and changes. In this way the book...

This textbook and workbook provides all the important and necessary knowledge to professionally and efficiently design written or oral papers in STEM and engineering subjects. With sample outlines and tips in the form of right-wrong comparisons,...

Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what...

This book examines Aquinas's aesthetic thought and view of art within the broader context of medieval aesthetics and the history of aesthetic development, emphasizing its profound influence on later aesthetics. The book not only elaborates on Aquinas's...

This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitalization. The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume deal with fundamental questions confronting performed poetry in the digital age:...

Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.

As we face technologies, mostly autonomous, machine-learned algorithms (AI) that elude a seamless explanation on how they work (“black boxes”), several issues both from an epistemological as well as ethical perspectives emerge.

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Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia. From offshore financial centres to...

This book explores the significant changes in Chinese journalism education in response to the rapid development of digital and new media technologies.It emphasises the need for journalism education reform to keep pace with changing times and cultivate...

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This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry...

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden, interdisziplinären Blick auf mediale Erscheinungsformen im Kontext der Corona-Krise und fokussiert in diesem Zusammenhang insbesondere medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche, linguistische, philosophische und...

Democratic institution-building experiences, innovative forms of social organization, and the development of multiple state-society interfaces represent a significant political phenomenon in Latin America in the last half-century. By comparing the two...

The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the...

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First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century. The author questions assumptions of sociological fashion and goes beyond the descriptions of changes in the...

First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months for fraud. It is a linear narrative honestly recording the various facets of prison culture, along with candid character...

First published in 1991, The Stalker Affair and the Press documents the media treatment of police constable John Stalker’s removal from his job.

This book examines the strategies Chinese news media have implemented to address the challenges posed by the mobile Internet to Chinese journalistic practices and businesses.Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, the book...

'When a renowned constitutional scholar explains why the law is not enough and is sometimes even the problem, we need to listen' PETER GRAY, AUTHOR OF FREE TO LEARN 'Skach convincingly tells us that laws and rules are not sufficient for living together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035054862Author Colm TóibínFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

An investigation of the labels we give ourselves and how they affect our lives and our sense of selfIn a culture of personal branding and the elevation of wellness jargon as a substitute for meaning, we seek out individuality in tribes. We want to be...

Communication, advocacy and outreach are germane to the success of any organization working in the social sector. This book provides a robust conceptual framework that is required for understanding the demands of the sector, suggests strategies, and...

Modern Britain has seen an insidious rise in Islamophobia on both the right and the left. From misleading media stories like the Trojan Horse Affair in Birmingham's schools to the hatred directed at Muslim politicians and public figures during the Gaza...

The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture provides a comprehensive discussion of how social robots take form, function, and meaning for individuals, relationships, cultures, and societies. Through a path-breaking integration of...

As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. As Rachel Adams shows in this...