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Essential Concepts in Sociology by Anthony Giddens 9781509516667
Booksplease Price: £50.81Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745639864
Booksplease Price: £41.05The 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... -
Crime, Culture and the Media by Eamonn Carrabine 9780745634654
Booksplease Price: £55.69Why 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,... -
Optical Media by Friedrich A. Kittler 9780745640907
Booksplease Price: £55.92This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since... -
Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre by Kelvin Knight 9780745619767
Booksplease Price: £60.88Aristotle 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... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction by Beverley Clack 9780745638676
Booksplease Price: £55.69The first publication of Beverley Clack and Brian R. Clack's exciting and innovative introduction to the philosophy of religion has been of enormous value to students, as well as providing a bold and... -
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509560936
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.66Across the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination,... -
Class by Will Atkinson 9781509557196
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.29Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what... -
Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1: The Project of a Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thinking by Jürgen Habermas 9781509543892
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.78This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy. In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the... -
In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745606590
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.76Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of... -
Philosophy and Sociology: 1960 by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745679419
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745679419Author Theodor W. AdornoFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
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... -
The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction by Philip Harling 9780745621937
Booksplease Price: £21.68This book is an unprecedented synthesis of the literature on state development that explains how and why the contours of the British state have changed over the last three centuries. Ranging in scope... -
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: £16.54This 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... -
The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary Judith Lorber 9781509544363
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509544363Author Judith LorberFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
The Crisis of the European Union: A Response Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745662435
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jurgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive... -
The Globalization Backlash Colin Crouch (London School of Economics) 9781509533770
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist' plot to undermine traditional communities, and by... -
Socialism Peter Lamb 9781509531615
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Socialism has made a dramatic comeback in the 21st century. In the wake of financial crisis, mounting inequality and social decay, it seems more relevant than ever. Nobody who seeks to understand... -
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton 9781509519743
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.48Humans 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... -
Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 by Mark Garnett 9781509560967
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.57Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied. Sadly for the... -
The Brave New World of Work by Ulrich Beck 9780745623986
Booksplease Price: £19.71In this important book, Ulrich Beck -- one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today -- examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck... -
Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science by Isabelle Stengers 9781509521807
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £46.96Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues, like global warming, have been stymied by conflict... -
Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soaps by Christine Geraghty
Booksplease Price: £19.71This is the first major study of the roles of women in prime time soap operas. In a comparative analysis of British and North American television soaps, Christine Geraghty examines the relationship... -
Modernity Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute) 9780745652917
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.71We 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... -
What is Historical Sociology? Richard Lachmann (University at Albany, SUNY) 9780745660097
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.87Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines... -
A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age by Zizi A. Papacharissi 9780745645247
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £51.71Online 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... -
Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good by Maurice Glasman 9781509528875
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.63Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the... -
Why Global Justice Matters: Moral Progress in a Divided World Chris Armstrong 9781509531882
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.78While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major... -
WhatsApp: From a one-to-one Messaging App to a Global Communication Platform by Amelia Johns 9781509550531
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.35In the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the world, WhatsApp quickly outpaced rival messaging apps and developed into a platform. In this book, the... -
China and Africa: The New Era by Daniel Large 9781509536320
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92China's engagement in Africa was once associated primarily with economic interests - from oil and mining to infrastructure construction and business - but following the end of a long economic boom,... -
Should We Ban Killer Robots? by Deane Baker 9781509548507
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509548507Author Deane BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation Michael S. Kimmel 9780745603131
Booksplease Price: £21.25The 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... -
Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News by Libby Lester 9780745644011
Booksplease Price: £57.55Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debate. This book offers a new understanding of the... -
Travel in Early Modern Europe by Antoni Maczak
Booksplease Price: £62.89Most of us today know little about the conditions under which people travelled in early modern Europe. Travellers' accounts from the period generally omit detailed descriptions of the state of roads,... -
A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age by Zizi A. Papacharissi 9780745645254
Booksplease Price: £18.69Online 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... -
Families Communicating With Children by Thomas J. Socha 9780745646138
Booksplease Price: £17.68This book offers a fresh and insightful introduction to children's communication development that emphasizes how families help children learn to communicate optimally. Writing for communication... -
Along the Trenches: A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani 9781509535576
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster - the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that... -
Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses by Karl Cordell 9780745639307
Booksplease Price: £57.85Why 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... -
Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim 9780745622149
Booksplease Price: £17.68The 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... -
Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies Lynn Jamieson (University of Edinburgh) 9780745615745
Booksplease Price: £18.56Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a...