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Northern Ireland by Jonathan Tonge 9780745631400
Booksplease Price: $109.45For 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: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.13The 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65The 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: $52.26This 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: $109.45Why 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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91"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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65New 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: $110.04Why 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: $80.67The 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65In 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: $40.37The 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: $80.67Max 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65This 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65This 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: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36What 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65What 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: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Long 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: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65The 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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.50Smartphone 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... -
Family Life in China by William R. Jankowiak 9780745685540
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China. It is no surprise, therefore, that the dramatic changes experienced by Chinese society over... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
Booksplease Price: $48.91This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French... -
China and Taiwan by Steven M. Goldstein 9780745659992
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from the Communist mainland over six decades... -
Preventing Deadly Conflict by I. William Zartman 9780745686912
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.95Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and... -
Jews: The Making of a Diaspora People by Irving M. Zeitlin 9780745660165
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.23This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered... -
Grains by Bill Winders 9780745688039
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international... -
Are We All Postracial Yet? by David Theo Goldberg 9780745689715
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.50We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The... -
Philosophical Anthropology by Paul Ricoeur 9780745688534
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.23How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to... -
Objectivity by Guy Axtell 9780745662206
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.07What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions... -
Race and Work by Karyn Loscocco 9780745696409
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36This book provides a reasoned, unflinching analysis of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual and empirical foundation needed to understand key... -
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745619415
Booksplease Price: $109.45This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which... -
Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought April Carter (University of Queensland) 9780745619200
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21Liberal Democracy and its Critics examines the contribution of eleven contemporary political social theorists to understanding democracy today. The theorists are prominent in political and... -
Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre by Kelvin Knight 9780745619767
Booksplease Price: $119.05Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what... -
Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues by Matthew Festenstein 9780745621654
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $103.94Richard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophya s traditional concerns are redundant, and that the goal of... -
Work and Society: A Reader by Keith Grint 9780745622224
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $104.52This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in... -
Ethical Violence by Carlo Bordoni 9781509561018
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $95.67Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the... -
Foucault: The Birth of Power by Professor Stuart Elden 9781509507252
Booksplease Price: $109.45Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a... -
Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture by Meg-John Barker 9781509509119
RRP: $111.64Booksplease Price: $99.37Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By... -
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton 9781509519743
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $66.92Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch the Anthropocene one in which the serene and clement... -
The Future of Intelligence by Mark M. Lowenthal 9781509520282
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.07Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about... -
Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line by Enobong Hannah Branch 9781509531394
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.54At the start of the twentieth century, the pre-eminent black sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, identified the color line as America's great problem. While the color line is increasingly variegated beyond...