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Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life by Jason Blakely 9781788216630
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.99Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and... -
Contentious Performances by Charles Tilly 9780521731522
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably... -
The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations by Peggy Levitt
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.64In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on... -
The Mediated Construction of Reality by Nick Couldry 9780745681306
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.30Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The... -
Distant Love Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745661810
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone... -
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis by James Davison Hunter 9780300274370
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.16From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis Liberal democracy in America has always... -
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch
Booksplease Price: £56.68The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,... -
The American Civilizing Process Stephen Mennell 9780745632094
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.04Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of 'civilization'. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such... -
22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World's Foremost Thinkers by Piotr Dutkiewicz 9781479860982
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the... -
The Spiritual Virtuoso: Personal Faith and Social Transformation by Marion Goldman 9781474292405
Booksplease Price: £95.49Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi strive to... -
The Spiritual Virtuoso: Personal Faith and Social Transformation by Marion Goldman 9781474292399
Booksplease Price: £29.55Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi strive to... -
Capitalism and Critique: Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics by Edward J. Martin 9781138365612
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses, relatively few protective measures are in place in the United States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of... -
On Public Imagination: A Political and Ethical Imperative by Victor Faessel
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era... -
GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding by Erik Schneiderhan 9781503609044
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.85In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth... -
Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics by Dorothy Holland 9780814736784
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.822007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus... -
Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years... -
Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib 9780521127226
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.73This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious... -
Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib 9780521763707
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious... -
The American Civilizing Process by Stephen Mennell 9780745632087
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of 'civilization'. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such... -
Picturing Algeria by Pierre Bourdieu 9780231148429
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of... -
British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950 by John Scott
Booksplease Price: £80.03A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book counters the argument that no social theory was ever produced in Britain before the late twentieth century. Reviewing a period of 300... -
Picturing Algeria by Pierre Bourdieu 9780231148436
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of... -
Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics by Dorothy Holland 9780814736777
Booksplease Price: £90.572007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus... -
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage 9780674988071
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity Charles Taylor 9780674303584
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.14"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." -John Cottingham, The TabletIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles... -
Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals by Stanley Aronowitz 9780231135405
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow... -
Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis by Manuel Castells 9780199658411
Booksplease Price: £68.61The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show... -
Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis by Manuel Castells 9780199677382
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.44The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show... -
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance by Mary Kaldor 9780231185394
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven... -
Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals by Stanley Aronowitz 9780231135412
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow... -
Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation by Michael D. Kennedy 9780804792363
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and... -
The Size of Others' Burdens: Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others by Erik Schneiderhan 9780804789172
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.91Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors... -
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance by Mary Kaldor
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven... -
Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals by Sebastian Veg
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead... -
Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation by Michael D. Kennedy
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and... -
Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals by Sebastian Veg 9780231191401
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead... -
Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political... -
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang 9780231149655
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution... -
Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky 9780231172448
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political...