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The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine

The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology...

Author: Paul O'Connor (United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi) ,  Marius Ion Benţa (George Barițiu History Institute, Romania)
ISBN: 9780367511685
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the technologization of the social and the attendant penetration of permanent liminality into...  Read More >>

Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology: Connecting India and Nepal

Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology: Connecting...

Author: Swatahsiddha Sarkar (University of North Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9781032000220
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices...  Read More >>

The Early Austrian School of Economics: Money, Value, Capital

The Early Austrian School of Economics: Money, Value,...

Author: Christopher Adair-Toteff (University of South Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781032045511
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book explores the thought of the three ‘founding’ members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger,...  Read More >>

Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement

Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement...

Author: John Vail
ISBN: 9781032248684
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers a critical reconstruction of the double movement, the central thesis of Karl Polanyi’s The Great...  Read More >>

Another Invisible Hand: The Transformation of Social Structure

Another Invisible Hand: The Transformation of Social...

Author: Li Peilin
ISBN: 9781032257457
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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“Weltbeziehung”: The Study of our Relationship to the World

“Weltbeziehung”: The Study of our Relationship to the...

Author: Bettina Hollstein ,  Harmut Rosa
ISBN: 9783593518206
Format: Paperback
$74.95

"An interdisciplinary explication of the theory of ""Weltbeziehung"" or ""relationship to the world."" Human beings...  Read More >>

Methodological Individualism: Introduction and Founding Texts

Methodological Individualism: Introduction and Founding...

Author: Nathalie Bulle (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France)
ISBN: 9781032582801
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book highlights the theoretical bases of methodological individualism, as defined and developed in the writings...  Read More >>

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters...

Author: Dr Brian Klaas
ISBN: 9781399804523
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Utopia Thomas More

Utopia Thomas More

Author: Thomas More ,  Henry Morley
ISBN: 9788793494985
Format: Paperback
$18.45

"In this timeless classic, ""Utopia,"" Thomas More presents a fascinating exploration of an ideal society. Translated...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice...

Author: Brandon C. Welsh (Professor, Professor, Northeastern University) ,  Steven N. Zane (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780197618110
Format: Hardback
$338.00

The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven...  Read More >>

Reluctant Hosts: Europe and Its Refugees

Reluctant Hosts: Europe and Its Refugees

Author: Danièle Joly ,  Robin Cohen
ISBN: 9781032664576
Format: Hardback
$147.00

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The Meaning of the Twentieth Century: The Great Transition

The Meaning of the Twentieth Century: The Great Transition...

Author: Kenneth Boulding
ISBN: 9781032189130
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Originally published in 1965 this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century ‘post-civilisation’...  Read More >>

Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial Theories

Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial...

Author: Dr Friederike Landau-Donnelly (Radboud University) ,  Dr Hanna Carlsson (Radboud University)
ISBN: 9781788215749
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This collection of original essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. It...  Read More >>

The Existential Threat to Our Evolutionary Future: Another Permian-Triassic Extinction

The Existential Threat to Our Evolutionary Future: Another...

Author: David Anderson
ISBN: 9798369413234
Format: Paperback
$65.97

CALL FOR A PHASE TRANSITION Only an Economic Social Political Philosophical Religious Mind-Change Can Save Us How...  Read More >>

Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South

Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective...

Author: Andries Bezuidenhout (University of Fort Hare) ,  Sonwabile Mnwana (Rhodes University)
ISBN: 9781529221152
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Involving four generations of Global South researchers, this book provides a theoretical and empirical critique...  Read More >>

Citizen Engagement in Cuba: Neighbors and the State in Pogolotti

Citizen Engagement in Cuba: Neighbors and the State...

Author: James A. Baer
ISBN: 9781666907568
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This book examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated by the community since...  Read More >>

Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media

Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish...

Author: Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
ISBN: 9781978805217
Format: Paperback
$113.39

Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian...  Read More >>

How to Talk to Anyone: Step-by-Step Strategies to Charm, Engage and Win Over Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

How to Talk to Anyone: Step-by-Step Strategies to Charm,...

Author: Derek Shelton
ISBN: 9798224308590
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media

Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish...

Author: Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
ISBN: 9781978805224
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian...  Read More >>

Sociology in Post-Normal Times

Sociology in Post-Normal Times

Author: Charles Thorpe
ISBN: 9781793625991
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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Brutalism

Brutalism

Author: Achille Mbembe
ISBN: 9781478025580
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos...  Read More >>

Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance...

Author: Julia F. Irwin
ISBN: 9781469676234
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US...  Read More >>

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