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The Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies, Book III Kenneth Thompson (Both Open University) 9780745609645
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.83This book considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, with reference to North America and Australasia. The main... -
In Praise of Mathematics Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509512034
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible... -
Democracy and New Technology by Iain McLean
Booksplease Price: $78.75In this accessible new book, Iain McLean explores the impact of information technology on democracy. Combining democratic theory, social choice theory and description of new technology at work in... -
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.75This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe... -
Homo Academicus by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.97This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The... -
What is Urban History? Shane Ewen 9780745652696
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of... -
The Complete Correspondence 1928 - 1940 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745618180
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.63The 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... -
The Poverty of Our Freedom: Essays 2012 - 2019 by Axel Honneth
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.76There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken,... -
Consumption by Hudson
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and... -
Fugitive, Where Are You Running? by D Touam Bona
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Hunting stories will always glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of... -
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev 9781509558407
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.29In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656168
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $29.23This 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... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.34This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches... -
Patriotism by Charles Jones 9781509518326
RRP: $60.31Booksplease Price: $54.23From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one... -
Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings Mary Hawkesworth 9781509525829
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and "pre-political." This book critically examines these assumptions and shows... -
Minsky Daniel H. Neilson 9781509528509
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" - that the seeds of... -
Visual Culture by Richard Howells 9781509518777
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $75.27This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our... -
Can the Euro be Saved? by Malcolm Sawyer 9781509515240
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.34The economies of the Eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the Euro. In this engaging new book, leading heterodox economist Malcolm Sawyer... -
In Defense of Universal Human Rights by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann 9781509513536
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures? Should Western-based corporations be held liable if their security guards... -
Democracy and Community by Jean-Luc Nancy 9781509535347
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.34The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with Peter... -
Autonomy: An Essay on the Life Well-Lived by Beate Rossler 9781509537990
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27In everyday life, we generally assume that we can make our own decisions on matters which concern our own lives. We assume that a life followed only according to decisions taken by other people,... -
What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9781509538249
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo movement. He argues that... -
The End of the Second Reconstruction Richard Johnson 9781509538348
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68Democracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administration's attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermining America's claims to be a multi-racial democracy. This... -
Rethinking Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509527236
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and... -
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas 9781509558940
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.18Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts... -
Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction by Anna Bernard 9781509544622
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.83Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader... -
The Spirit of Digital Capitalism by Huberman 9781509553952
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. But how are they changing forms of capital accumulation and domination, and in what terms are these changes being promoted and... -
Gender and Social Movements by Jo Reger 9781509541324
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509541324Author Jo RegerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity Press -
Crisis Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research) 9780745647609
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits... -
Race and Digital Media – An Introduction by LK Lopez 9781509546923
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Since the early days of the internet, there have been questions about how emerging technologies might one day liberate or further harm communities of color that already face structural inequalities... -
Dignity or Death – Ethics and Politics of Race by N Ajari 9781509548651
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $56.71This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily... -
The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne Entwistle 9781509547883
Booksplease Price: $79.14The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into... -
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553761
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $46.50In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism by Saher Selod 9781509540198
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.18Prejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant turn, with rising reports and... -
Seven Essays on Populism – For a Renewed Theoretical Perspective by Biglieri 9781509542208
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79This important intervention interrogates keystone features of the dominant European theoretical landscape in the field of populism studies, advancing existing debates and introducing new avenues of... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram 9781509532810
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.66For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but... -
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? Graham Smith 9781509539246
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.34Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to... -
Environmental Thought – A Short History by Attfield 9781509536658
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Environmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates that have defined the field from ancient times to the... -
World Politics since 1989 by Jonathan Holslag 9781509546732
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.291989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth –...