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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking by Ernst Cassirer 9781032474304
Booksplease Price: €40.85"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745624099
Booksplease Price: €66.79In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has... -
The Politics of Conflict Economies: Miners, merchants and warriors in the African borderland by Morten Boas 9781138238206
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Conflict economies cannot be approached in isolation but must instead be contextualised socially and historically. These economies did not emerge in vacuum, but are part and parcel of the history of... -
Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights by Riley E. Dunlap 9780742501867
Booksplease Price: €66.78Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their "natural" biophysical environment. This book... -
Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture by Alexander Riley 9780739129326
Booksplease Price: €60.93Impure Play is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. Alexander Riley harnesses a range of cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and tragedy in... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking by Ernst Cassirer
Booksplease Price: €114.85"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society by Agnes Riedmann 9781337109666
Booksplease Price: €101.89This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines an authoritative, yet applied approach with a theme that is especially relevant today: making choices in a diverse society. A... -
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action John Levi Martin 9780231213127
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €48.11We have many histories of social theory-what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms-what... -
Marriages, Families, and Relationships : Making Choices in a Diverse Society 9780357948552
Booksplease Price: €101.89Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 15th Edition, emphasizes making choices in an increasingly diverse society... -
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745624105
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.08In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has... -
High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America by James Wellman 9780199827718
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.44"God is like a drug, a high, [I] can't wait for the next hit." This direct quote from a megachurch member speaking about his experience of God might be dismissed as some sort of spiritually-induced... -
Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe: The Invisible Politics of Religion by Xabier Itçaina
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants,... -
Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry by Sébastien Tutenges 9781978831216
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €60.83For two decades, Sebastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why... -
The Mark of the Sacred by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis... -
Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society by Mary Ann Lamanna 9780357368749
Booksplease Price: €101.89Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 14th edition, emphasizes a theme that is especially relevant in our modern and... -
Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on The Spirit of Laws by David W. Carrithers 9780742511811
Booksplease Price: €61.29Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation. The product of immense erudition, Montesquieu's treatise has... -
The Mark of the Sacred by Jean-Pierre Dupuy 9780804776899
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €77.22Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis... -
Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination by Professor Jan Blommaert
Booksplease Price: €26.97This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social... -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
Booksplease Price: €27.62"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was... -
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions by Edward J. Ahearn 9781138266049
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they... -
Developments in French Politics 6 by Helen Drake 9781352007756
Booksplease Price: €49.22This new version of a leading textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and... -
Intimate Communities of Hate: Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism by Anton Törnberg 9780367622039
Booksplease Price: €71.50Social media has fundamentally transformed political life, driving a surge in far-right extremism. In recent years, radical anti-democratic ideologies have entered into the political mainstream,... -
Advanced Introduction to Social Capital by Karen S. Cook
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €22.86Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Sociocide: Reflections on Today's Wars by Keith Doubt 9781793623867
Booksplease Price: €44.99Wars have a destructive impact on society. The violence in the first case is domicide, in the second urbicide, in the third genocide, and in the fourth, the book introduces a neologism, sociocide,... -
Developments in French Politics 6 by Helen Drake 9781352011296
Booksplease Price: €133.43This new version of a leading textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and... -
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations by Patrick L Schmidt 9781538168295
Booksplease Price: €44.99Harvard's Department of Social Relations and its audacious goal of creating a new science was a unique experiment in American academia, and its rise and fall is a little-known story. Among its... -
Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry by Sebastien Tutenges 9781978831209
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €22.06For two decades, Sebastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why... -
The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights by Hans Joas 9781589019690
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €30.00What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand-and realize-these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person,... -
How to Do Things with Myths: A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There Ivan Strenski 9781800504769
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €75.96How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of the author's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel... -
The Sacred Project of American Sociology by Christian Smith 9780199377138
Booksplease Price: €50.68Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart, Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred... -
How to Do Things with Myths: A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There Ivan Strenski 9781800504776
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €26.86How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of the author's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel... -
Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality Jon Mills (Adelphi University) 9781138195752
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32In this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a... -
Regionalism in Africa: Genealogies, institutions and trans-state networks Daniel Bach 9781138091054
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations. This book surveys... -
Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond by Daniel C. Bach 9780415640107
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of... -
Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel 9781421405544
Booksplease Price: €39.20Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science", a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher... -
Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Steven Gimbel (Gettysburg College) 9781421411828
Booksplease Price: €27.57Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher... -
Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Kenneth Smith 9781032404783
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism, showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by... -
Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change by Melissa J. Wilde 9780691161723
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.46On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly in... -
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity by Galen Watts 9780192859839
Booksplease Price: €133.70Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the... -
Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change by Melissa J. Wilde
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.20On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly in...