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The Political Theory of Recognition: A Critical Introduction by Simon Thompson 9780745627618
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In recent years the political landscape has changed: established ideas about class, economy, nation and equality have been challenged by a new politics of identity, culture, ethnicity and difference... -
Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim 9780745622149
Booksplease Price: £17.19The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private... -
Communication Theory Today by David Mitchell 9780745612898
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Communication Theory Today is an important new textbook offering a wide-ranging overview of current theoretical work in media and communication studies. It shows how the key questions in... -
International Relations in a Global Age: A Conceptual Challenge by Gillian Youngs 9780745613703
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The book investigates the ways in which state--centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide... -
Consumer Culture by Celia Lury 9780745643298
Booksplease Price: £56.13The second edition of Consumer Culture brings this successful introductory textbook right up-to-date for students who are interested in the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. It... -
Diary of an Escape by Antonio Negri 9780745644257
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller. Much less well... -
A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age by Zizi A. Papacharissi 9780745645247
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £51.21Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are... -
Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries by Noha Mellor 9780745645346
Booksplease Price: £56.13This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting,... -
Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism: Understanding and Bridging the Divide by Amy J Fitzgerald 9780745679334
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for... -
The Aesthetic Unconscious by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646435
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role... -
The Philosophy of Cognitive Science by Mark J. Cain 9780745646565
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely... -
Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters by John Hannigan 9780745650685
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely... -
Dissent in Organizations by Jeffrey Kassing 9780745651392
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Employees often disagree with workplace policies and practices, leaving few workplaces unaffected by organizational dissent. While disagreement persists in most contemporary organizations, how... -
Landscapes of Capital by Robert Goldman 9780745652078
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined... -
On Television by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745652160
Booksplease Price: £16.21A surprising bestseller when it was first published in France, this little book by Pierre Bourdieu offers a brilliant critique of television and its consequences for social and political life. Rather... -
Modernity Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute) 9780745652917
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19We live in a modern age, but what does modern mean and how can a reflection on modernity help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this... -
An Introduction to the English School of International Relations: The Societal Approach Barry Buzan (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745653150
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the... -
Zizek Now: Current Perspectives in Zizek Studies by Jamil Khader 9780745653709
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the... -
The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745630953
Booksplease Price: £16.99Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Bearn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This... -
History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965 by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745630120
Booksplease Price: £61.35Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors... -
A History of Reading in the West Guglielmo Cavallo (The University of Rome La Sapienza and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, respectively) 9780745630540
Booksplease Price: £26.90This path-breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural history, and to all those who want a fresh perspective... -
Northern Ireland by Jonathan Tonge 9780745631400
Booksplease Price: £56.13For almost three decades the troubles in Northern Ireland raged, claiming over 3,600 lives, with civilians accounting for almost half the fatalities. In this book, Jonathan Tonge examines the reasons... -
The Complete Correspondence 1928 - 1940 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745632148
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.04The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. Provides... -
Empire by Alejandro Colas 9780745632513
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The notion of empire has in recent years taken on a renewed importance in world politics. US foreign policy has in particular been associated with this concept by both critics and supporters of... -
Asian American Politics by Andrew L. Aoki 9780745634470
Booksplease Price: £26.80This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of Asian American participation in US politics. Written to be easily accessible to students, the book covers historical and cultural... -
Crime, Culture and the Media by Eamonn Carrabine 9780745634654
Booksplease Price: £56.13Why are newspapers and television programmes filled with stories about crime and criminals? Is their portrayal of crime accurate? How do the media transform our attitudes to crime? Is fear of crime,... -
Debating Globalization Anthony Barnett (openDemocracy) 9780745635255
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34"Debating Globalization" is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with... -
New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South by Don Slater 9780745638324
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse. Yet... -
Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses by Karl Cordell 9780745639307
Booksplease Price: £56.43Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible, after almost four decades, to achieve a lasting... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745639864
Booksplease Price: £41.37The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered... -
Progressive Foreign Policy by David Held 9780745641140
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have 'an ethical dimension', and that the Labour Government would 'put human rights at the heart of... -
Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation Michael S. Kimmel 9780745603131
Booksplease Price: £20.70The concept and reality of revolution has gripped the imagination of many writers over the centuries. This is a comprehensive historical examination of these key ideas and theories. Kimmel looks at... -
Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2 by Bernard Stiegler 9780745648118
Booksplease Price: £41.37Max Weber argued that the development of capitalism would lead to the progressive rationalization and disenchantment of society: today this process is reaching its endpoint and capitalism is... -
Hayden White by Herman Paul 9780745650135
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of... -
Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life by Roberto Esposito 9780745649139
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even... -
International Security and Gender by Nicole Detraz 9780745651163
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts around the world, about the challenges of... -
War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice by Michael J. Shapiro 9780745671543
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text,... -
Migrant Labor in China by Pun Ngai 9780745671741
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan by Jacques Ranciere 9780745680620
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The point is to get away from questions of origin, to forget about where a theory or a form of knowledge or politics come from originally, and to define instead scenes where we can see things play... -
Smartphones as Locative Media Jordan Frith 9780745685014
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.64Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these...