Filter By
Books (522)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical Perspective by Werner J. Cahnman 9781412857086
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This collection of selected essays by Werner J. Cahnman brings together out of scattered dispersion his writings about Max Weber, Ferdinand Toennies, and historical sociology. The great theoretical... -
The Dead Cannot Reply: Suicide in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature Dr. or Prof. Aaron Botwick 9798765128817
Booksplease Price: £75.81An intellectual and literary history of the professionalization of suicidology at the turn of the 20th century which shows that fiction played a significant role in the transformation of the debates... -
The Politics of Economic Activity by Andy Smith 9780198788157
Booksplease Price: £99.93The Politics of Economic Activity confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics. The book proposes a robust, incisive alternative definition of politics: the... -
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alan Goldberg
Booksplease Price: £31.37In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross 9780231167512
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
Why the Church?: Self-Optimization or Community of Faith Hans Joas 9781503640795
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with... -
Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder by Alexander Murray 9780199553181
Booksplease Price: £71.06A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be... -
The Virtue of Solidarity by Andrea Sangiovanni 9780197612743
Booksplease Price: £85.63Many today are worried about the global spread of divisive politics, rampant inequality, social alienation, and political apathy. They are hungry for meaningful action that will bring about change,... -
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alan Goldberg 9780226460413
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.05In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they... -
Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy by Mark S. Cladis
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Mark S. Cladis pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His thesis cuts across many fields and... -
The Virtue of Solidarity by Andrea Sangiovanni 9780197612750
Booksplease Price: £23.40Many today are worried about the global spread of divisive politics, rampant inequality, social alienation, and political apathy. They are hungry for meaningful action that will bring about change,... -
Introducing Religion: Readings from the Classic Theorists by Daniel L. Pals 9780195181494
Booksplease Price: £78.98What is religion? How is it to be explained? Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically describe as religious so deeply affect the human personality and... -
From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics by Marcela Cristi
Booksplease Price: £40.76Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a ""new"" religion (civil religion) to be used by... -
Globalization: Prospects and Problems by JoAnn Chirico 9781412987974
Booksplease Price: £110.46This groundbreaking text on globalization provides a comprehensive and enlightening overview of globalization issues and topics. Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to... -
The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment by Hans Joas
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £39.16Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional... -
Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity by Christian Baudelot 9780745640563
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the world today. The suicide rate is soaring in the former... -
Do Elections (Still) Matter?: Mandates, Institutions, and Policies in Western Europe by Emiliano Grossman 9780192847218
Booksplease Price: £95.90Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy? This book sheds new light on this central democratic concern based on an ambitious study of democratic mandates... -
The Perspective of Historical Sociology: The Individual as Homo-Sociologicus Through Society and History by Jiří Šubrt 9781787433649
Booksplease Price: £91.67This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiri Subrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development,... -
Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity by Christian Baudelot 9780745640570
Booksplease Price: £18.18In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the world today. The suicide rate is soaring in the former... -
Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 by Judith Surkis 9780801477225
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.38How did marriage come to be seen as the foundation and guarantee of social stability in Third Republic France? In Sexing the Citizen, Judith Surkis shows how masculine sexuality became central to the... -
T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible Assistant Professor Emanuel Pfoh 9780567709530
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £37.33This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes... -
Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780521396479
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09The classic works of Emile Durkheim are characterized by a structural approach to the understanding of collective behaviour, and it is this element of his writings that has been most taken up by... -
Religion and the Political Imagination Ira Katznelson (Columbia University, New York) 9780521766548
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.22The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global... -
The Case for Religion by Keith Ward
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Long before the release of The God Delusion, Keith Ward was defending religious belief on all sides from its detractors. In the new paperback edition of this influential bestseller, Keith Ward... -
Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory by Gianfranco Poggi
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Modern social thought is largely the intellectual product of a number of "great minds." Revisiting the central theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Parsons, Goffman, Garfinkel, and... -
Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community by Aksel Tjora 9780367438920
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms... -
Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece by George E. McCarthy 9780791455647
Booksplease Price: £26.072003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThis work relocates the origins of nineteenth-century social theory in classical Greece and focuses on three figures: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim,... -
Religion and the Political Imagination by Ira Katznelson 9780521147347
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global... -
Handbook of Social Status Correlates by Ellis 9780128053713
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £57.41The Handbook of Social Status Correlates summarizes findings from nearly 4000 studies on traits associated with variations in socioeconomic status. Much of the information is presented in roughly 300... -
A Systems Theory of Religion by Niklas Luhmann
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of Andre Kieserling. One of Luhmann's... -
Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide by Marzio Barbagli 9780745662442
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.85What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills... -
Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology by Philippe Steiner
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology is the first book to... -
The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes 9780691157191
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How to make sense of the divergence between philosophers' quest for a single morality and social scientists' assumption that there are multiple moralitiesWhen we speak of morals, what are we speaking... -
Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach Antoon A. Leenaars 9780470863428
RRP: £78.95Booksplease Price: £73.11Almost a million people die by suicide every year (WHO estimate) The sheer numbers have made suicide prevention a major health target, but effective prevention is not straightforward. Suicide is a... -
The Native American Contest Powwow: Cultural Tethering Theory by Steven Aicinena 9781666900934
Booksplease Price: £33.84The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to convey the importance of the contest powwow in the celebration and preservation of Native American culture. The book... -
The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly? by Dipankar Gupta 9780804771894
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.86Dipankar Gupta, one of India's foremost thinkers on social and economic issues, takes a critical-and controversial-look at the limits of the Indian success story in The Caged Phoenix. Through a fine... -
Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide by Marzio Barbagli 9780745662459
Booksplease Price: £26.90What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills... -
Wittgenstein and Natural Religion by Gordon Graham 9780198713975
Booksplease Price: £77.80Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an... -
A Systems Theory of Religion by Niklas Luhmann 9780804743280
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of Andre Kieserling. One of Luhmann's...