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Conversations with Ulrich Beck by Ulrich Beck 9780745628233
Booksplease Price: £55.13In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck's thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the... -
Conversations with Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich) 9780745628240
Booksplease Price: £19.96In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck's thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the... -
Ulrich Beck: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society by Ulrich Beck 9783319049892
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed... -
Cosmopolitan Vision by Ulrich Beck 9780745633992
Booksplease Price: £19.71In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications... -
Cosmopolitan Europe by Ulrich Beck 9780745635637
Booksplease Price: £24.63Europe is Europe's last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in... -
Cosmopolitan Vision by Ulrich Beck 9780745633985
Booksplease Price: £56.13In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications... -
What Is Globalization? by Ulrich Beck 9780745621265
Booksplease Price: £19.71This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.Book InformationISBN 9780745621265Author Ulrich BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
World at Risk by Ulrich Beck 9780745642000
Booksplease Price: £56.13Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society , a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During... -
Distant Love by Ulrich Beck 9780745661803
Booksplease Price: £55.32Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone... -
What Is Globalization? by Ulrich Beck 9780745621258
Booksplease Price: £56.13This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.Book InformationISBN 9780745621258Author Ulrich BeckFormat HardbackPage Count... -
World Risk Society Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
Booksplease Price: £19.71This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in... -
Democracy without Enemies by Ulrich Beck 9780745618234
Booksplease Price: £19.71Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial... -
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... -
Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck 9780745613772
Booksplease Price: £19.71Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is... -
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.83This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier... -
Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil by Ulrich Beck 9780745653969
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30Translated by Ciaran Cronin. The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere,... -
German Europe Ulrich Beck ( Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745665405
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing... -
German Europe Ulrich Beck ( Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745665399
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing... -
World at Risk Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745642017
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During... -
Distant Love Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745661810
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone... -
Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy by Ulrich Beck 9780745632308
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society... -
Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences by Ulrich Beck 9780761961123
Booksplease Price: £108.93Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book... -
Ulrich Beck: Theorising World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism by Klaus Rasborg 9783030892036
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire... -
The Normal Chaos of Love Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745613826
Booksplease Price: £19.71This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for... -
Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy by Ulrich Beck 9780745632315
Booksplease Price: £26.60This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society... -
Critical Social Theory by Craig Browne 9781446246931
Booksplease Price: £53.43In this accomplished, sophisticated and up-to-date account of the state of critical social theory today, Craig Browne explores the key concepts in critical theory (like critique, ideology, and... -
Ulrich Beck: An Introduction to the Theory of Second Modernity and the Risk Society by Mads P. Sorensen
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society. In Ulrich Beck, Mads P. Sorensen and Allan Christiansen provide an extensive and thorough... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory... -
Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745653976
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Translated by Ciaran Cronin. The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and... -
Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism by Klaus Rasborg 9783030892005
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire... -
Making Sense of Collectivity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation by Sinisa Malesevic 9780745319360
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.90The collapse of the Cold War, the development of new technologies and the globalisation of the world economy have all had a dramatic impact on societies across the globe. Migration, new types of... -
Making Sense of Collectivity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation by Sinisa Malesevic 9780745319377
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.60The collapse of the Cold War, the development of new technologies and the globalisation of the world economy have all had a dramatic impact on societies across the globe. Migration, new types of... -
A God of One's Own: Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence Ulrich Beck (University of Munich) 9780745646190
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the... -
Risk Revisited Pat Caplan 9780745314631
Booksplease Price: £36.83This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690216
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690223
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism... -
Esperanto in the New York Times (1887 - 1922) by Ulrich Becker 9781595691699
Booksplease Price: £19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595691699Author Ulrich BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint MONDIALPublisher... -
European Welfare State Constitutions after the Financial Crisis by Ulrich Becker 9780198851776
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £99.43Hit by the European financial and economic crisis in 2008, several Member States of the European Monetary Union (EMU) were unable to refinance their public debt through the financial markets. As a... -
Learn German - Easy Animal Stories with Exercises (Levels A2 and B1) by Ulrich Becker 9781595694751
Booksplease Price: £16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595694751Author Ulrich BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint German 101Publisher German... -
Belen Gopegui - The Pursuit of Solidarity in Post-Transition Spain by Hayley Rabanal
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belen Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the...