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Mobilities by Professor John Urry 9780745634197
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.70Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the... -
Offshoring by Professor John Urry 9780745664859
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more... -
Mobilities by Professor John Urry 9780745634180
Booksplease Price: £61.35Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the... -
Global Complexity by Professor John Urry 9780745628172
Booksplease Price: £56.13Global Complexity is a path--breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advantages in thinking about... -
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes by Professor John Urry
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review... -
Climate Change and Society by Professor John Urry 9780745650364
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.37This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline... -
Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution by Professor John Urry 9780415668750
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group,... -
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes by Professor John Urry 9781138782235
Booksplease Price: £129.30Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review... -
Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century by Professor John Urry 9780415190893
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology... -
Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures by Professor John Urry 9781780321691
Booksplease Price: £90.57What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized... -
Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures by Professor John Urry 9781780321684
Booksplease Price: £21.94What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized... -
Indovation: Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India by Thomas Birtchnell 9781137027405
Booksplease Price: £90.56How should we understand the many reports that poverty is the mother of innovation in India? What has the role of austerity been in the development of India's knowledge economy? In this critical... -
The Principles and Practice of Crisis Management: The Case of Brent Spar by Meena Ahmed 9780230006867
Booksplease Price: £95.49This book examines the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and professionals' attempts to re-design how social reality appears. It looks at... -
What is the Future? John Urry (University of Lancaster) 9780745696539
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what... -
Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning by Prof.,Dr Wolf-Dietrich Sahr
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private... -
Identity Troubles: An introduction Anthony Elliott (University of South Australia, Australia) 9780415837118
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony...