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Postmodernity Barry Smart 9780415069618
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69At last, a short and authoritative critical introduction to one of the most talked about and most misunderstood concepts of current times. Barry Smart provides a clear and readable discussion for... -
Michel Foucault by Barry Smart
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In investigating the major works of Michel Foucault, Barry Smart focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification through which human beings are made... -
Foucault, Marxism and Critique by Barry Smart
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and... -
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies Barry Smart 9780415069526
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today... -
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies by Barry Smart 9781138154247
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today... -
Consumer Society: Critical Issues & Environmental Consequences by Barry Smart 9781847870506
Booksplease Price: £96.16What factors are contributing to the continuing growth in consumption of goods and services? At what point do the costs associated with consumerism begin to call our way of life into question? How... -
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis: A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society by Barry Smart 9781138982512
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological... -
Landmarks in Aviation History: An Illustrated History of Aviation and an International Guide to Aviation Monuments All in One by Barry Smart 9781846830365
Booksplease Price: £20.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830365Author Barry SmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
What is History For? by Beverley Southgate
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance... -
The Flaneur (RLE Social Theory) Keith Tester 9781138989252
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flanerie. The flaneur is usually identified as... -
The Moralization of the Markets Christoph Henning 9781412810890
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Nothing affects the modern economy (and society) more than decisions made in the market place, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that... -
The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory by Chris Rojek 9780415756440
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O'... -
Postmodernized Simmel by Deena Weinstein
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important... -
Zygmunt Bauman: Dialectic of Modernity by Peter Beilharz 9780761967354
Booksplease Price: £108.29This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman's social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these... -
Teaching Yourself Social Theory by David Harris 9780803976887
Booksplease Price: £116.56`Social theory is a very difficult subject to teach and it is one that students generally find hard to get to grips with. Teaching Yourself Social Theory offers a highly original and comprehensive... -
Daniel Bell by Malcolm Waters
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Daniel Bell is perhaps the most famous sociologist of his generation. He has been hailed as the prophet of the emergence of a new society, the postindustrial society, and as one of the leading... -
Critical Analysis of Organizations: Theory, Practice, Revitalization by Catherine Joan Casey
Booksplease Price: £116.79`Catherine Casey has written an excellent book that provides a lucid and comprehensive critical analysis of organizations....[It] extends in reach and relevance beyond the specific field of... -
Globalization and Sport Richard Giulianotti (University of Durham) 9781405162692
RRP: £20.75Booksplease Price: £19.94Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. Features major critical interventions by some of the world's leading sociologists and... -
Culture and Everyday Life by Andy Bennett 9780761963905
Booksplease Price: £109.01'Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable' - ... -
Phenomenological Sociology: Experience and Insight in Modern Society by Harvie Ferguson 9780761959878
Booksplease Price: £108.57Contemporary society constitutes a different form of modernity and Ferguson's innovative and thoughtful analysis calling for a return to phenomenology demonstrates that a relatively neglected... -
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Karl Marx's "Capital", a Guide to all three Volumes I-III: 2nd Edition by Kenneth Smith 9781839980008
Booksplease Price: £21.03This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of Capital in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes... -
Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts by Stephen P. Turner 9780761954699
Booksplease Price: £83.04`This is a very fine text, a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. The analysis is truly panoramic. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political... -
Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays by Professor Patrick Hayden 9780230203594
Booksplease Price: £46.28Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It... -
Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity Gerard Delanty (University of Liverpool) 9780745619187
Booksplease Price: £19.96This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas,... -
Jean Baudrillard Emmanuelle Fantin 9781836391036
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a 'historian of the future', remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like 'simulation' and the 'hyperreal', linked to postmodernism and... -
The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour by Ralph Fevre 9780761966630
Booksplease Price: £88.98What are the solid achievements of the sociology of economic behaviour? What have been the main failures and omissions? How will the subject develop? In this assured and timely volume, the author... -
Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development by John Clammer 9781780323145
Booksplease Price: £29.16This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to... -
Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History by Stuart Elden 9780826458476
Booksplease Price: £113.11In a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the essential philosopher. Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers,... -
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism: Contemporary Dialogues by Patricia Mooney Nickel 9780230369276
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £90.56In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of what has been called 'the postmodern turn,'... -
Foucault Now by James Faubion 9780745663784
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and... -
Foucault Now James Faubion 9780745663791
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and... -
Michel Foucault by Clare O'Farrell 9780761961642
Booksplease Price: £81.74A truly magnificent book... If there is a more comprehensive book on Foucault's work I have yet to see it. I anticipate those teaching and taking courses on Foucault's work will find Clare... -
Bauman and Contemporary Sociology: A Critical Analysis by Ali Rattansi
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This is the first single-authored critical engagement with the major works of Zygmunt Bauman. Where previous books on Bauman have been exegetical, here an unwavering light is shone on key themes in... -
Bauman and Contemporary Sociology: A Critical Analysis by Ali Rattansi 9781526127945
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This is the first single-authored critical engagement with the major works of Zygmunt Bauman. Where previous books on Bauman have been exegetical, here an unwavering light is shone on key themes in... -
Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer 9781473906563
Booksplease Price: £85.86"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF's central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes...