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Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy by D.Michael Shafer 9780691609249
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.60Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at... -
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff 9780814345108
Booksplease Price: €35.52From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field... -
American Cultural Critics by David Murray 9780859894043
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €23.81This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.59Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
Theories of the Information Society by Frank Webster
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €80.68Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding... -
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe by Russell Jacoby 9780465036257
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.66This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel... -
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €49.60Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal... -
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €50.22Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and... -
Investigating Information Society Hugh Mackay 9780415268325
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: * theorists... -
Investigating Information Society by Hugh Mackay
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €99.70This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: *... -
Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected Essays Joseph J. Schwab 9780226741871
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.36What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's... -
Appreciative Leadership (Pb) by Diana Whitney 9781265619527
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €31.15Advance Praise for Appreciative Leadership:"A must-read for leaders at all levels who believe that both common sense and business sense require engaging and encouraging rather than mandating or... -
Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism: Seeking Radical Change in America by Lin Xiang 9781032173412
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public... -
Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire by Robert Vanderlan
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.55Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy publications. Republican Luce aimed squarely for... -
The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares by Robert Hassan 9780745641799
Booksplease Price: €66.79What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the... -
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives by Oana Șerban
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it... -
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000 by Professor or Dr. Laurie Rodrigues
Booksplease Price: €114.66Claims of ideology’s end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology’s inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that ‘ending’ is simply what... -
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 by Professor or Dr. Laurie Rodrigues 9781501371417
Booksplease Price: €40.27Claims of ideology's end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology's inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that 'ending' is simply what... -
Just War as Christian Discipleship - Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State Daniel M. Jr. Bell 9781587432255
Booksplease Price: €23.92This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to... -
Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists by Richard Swedberg
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €73.54The boundary between economics and sociology is presently being redefined--but how, why, and by whom? Richard Swedberg answers these questions in this thought-provoking book of conversations with... -
Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s by Howard Brick 9780801487002
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.43In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and... -
Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement by Stephen Macedo 9780195131994
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €36.34This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". With this theory, moral issues like abortion or affirmative... -
The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics: Volume II: Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological 'Overturning' of Economic Theory and Policy by Franco Archibugi 9783319780597
Booksplease Price: €109.10This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on... -
The Rise of Business Ethics by Bernard Mees 9781032082738
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and... -
No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives by Steven Belletto 9780199354351
RRP: €36.28Booksplease Price: €35.97No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers-politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists,... -
Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought by Frank Hearn 9781138984660
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world, been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually... -
Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Sylvia Bell White 9780299294342
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.46Raised in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412846219
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare"... -
American Culture in the 1970s by Will Kaufman
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.08The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual... -
Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.23A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of... -
The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond by Daniel A. Bell 9780739108000
Booksplease Price: €55.62In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated,... -
The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond by Daniel A. Bell 9780739107997
Booksplease Price: €134.96In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated,... -
Mammals of Wisconsin by Hartley H.T. Jackson 9780299021504
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €55.39Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a... -
Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay by Patrick Brantlinger 9780801493386
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and... -
Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China by Zhenglai Deng 9780739165225
Booksplease Price: €132.51The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.03In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on... -
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America by Nicolaus Mills 9780929587714
Booksplease Price: €19.29As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House-at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As the Reagans made wealth seem glamorous, what... -
Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times by Avner De-Shalit 9780739111260
Booksplease Price: €53.26Power to the People examines the teaching of political philosophy in what is taken to be skeptical times. Author Avner de-Shalit encourages political philosophers to remain committed to the... -
Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times by Avner De-Shalit 9780739111253
Booksplease Price: €134.60Power to the People examines the teaching of political philosophy in what is taken to be skeptical times. Author Avner de-Shalit encourages political philosophers to remain committed to the... -
Meaning and Authenticity: Further Works in the Sociology of Art by Cesar Grana
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €127.37This outstanding collection of hitherto unpublished work, written over the last fifteen years of the author's life, reveals the development and maturation of his ideas about sociology and art, and...