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Selections from 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions' and 'The Madness of Crowds'

Selections from 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions' and...

Author: Charles Mackay
ISBN: 9781032301358
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral...  Read More >>

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays...

Author: Anthony J. Nocella II ,  Nathan Poirier
ISBN: 9781636672236
Format: Paperback
$108.11

This book pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that...  Read More >>

Crowds

Crowds

Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
ISBN: 9781032303185
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book, first published in 1913, examines early twentieth century thinking on crowds and human nature. The imagination...  Read More >>

Shradha: Journeys of Empowerment & Recipes of Love

Shradha: Journeys of Empowerment & Recipes of Love

Author: Joyasree Mahanti ,  Smeeta Mahanti
ISBN: 9798869066749
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Women from the villages of Odisha, India, share their recipes, stories, and most of all their Shradha (love). These...  Read More >>

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays...

Author: Anthony J. Nocella II ,  Nathan Poirier
ISBN: 9781636672229
Format: Hardback
$303.47

This book pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that...  Read More >>

Democracy and Conflict: Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and John Dewey's Pragmatism

Democracy and Conflict: Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility...

Author: Frederic R. Kellogg
ISBN: 9781793654281
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This book develops John Dewey's broad conception of social conflict as a natural process of discovery and preference...  Read More >>

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation

Author: Paolo Heywood ,  Matei Candea
ISBN: 9781501771569
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""A survey of forms of explanation in social anthropology and ethnographic accounts of explanation to be found...  Read More >>

Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age

Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age...

Author: Sean Creaven (University of the West of England, UK)
ISBN: 9781032567990
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant...  Read More >>

De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War

De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the...

Author: Bogdan Popa
ISBN: 9781526174659
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist...  Read More >>

Market and Violence: Technology and Socio-economic Progress: Traps and Opportunities for the Future

Market and Violence: Technology and Socio-economic Progress:...

Author: Heide Gerstenberger
ISBN: 9781642599909
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives...  Read More >>

The Sociology of Sovereignty: Politics, Social Transformations and Conceptual Change

The Sociology of Sovereignty: Politics, Social Transformations...

Author: Terje Rasmussen
ISBN: 9781526170811
Format: Hardback
$195.00

The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies...  Read More >>

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany: The Transnational Opportunity Structure

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany: The Transnational...

Author: Michał Nowosielski (Mazovian State University, Płock, Poland)
ISBN: 9781032360430
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Based on in-depth, mixed-method research, Polish Immigrant Organisations in Germany examines the situation of Polish...  Read More >>

Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects for Order

Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects...

Author: Peter Haldén (Swedish Defence University, Stockholm)
ISBN: 9781009392686
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Analyses how world views of uncertainty and certainty have alternated and conflicted from the Renaissance to the...  Read More >>

Within and Beyond Capitalism: A Twofold Transformation

Within and Beyond Capitalism: A Twofold Transformation...

Author: Dieter Klein (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032591506
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty...  Read More >>

Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism

Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational...

Author: Edward T.G. Anderson
ISBN: 9781805260547
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the remarkable rise and influence of Hindu nationalism in Britain and beyond.  Read More >>

Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects for Order

Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects...

Author: Peter Haldén (Swedish Defence University, Stockholm)
ISBN: 9781009392693
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Analyses how world views of uncertainty and certainty have alternated and conflicted from the Renaissance to the...  Read More >>

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology...

Author: Marshall Sahlins
ISBN: 9780691215938
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits and ancestors...  Read More >>

Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process

Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic...

Author: André Oliveira Costa (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781032458434
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias’ theory of the civilizing process,...  Read More >>

Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life

Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion...

Author: Jacqueline Kennelly
ISBN: 9781487548476
Format: Hardback
$152.66

Drawing on interviews with young activists and young people who have experienced homelessness, Burnt by Democracy...  Read More >>

Sociology Insights: A Comprehensive MCQ Guide

Sociology Insights: A Comprehensive MCQ Guide

Author: Aparaj Rudra Paul
ISBN: 9798223980025
Format: Paperback
$92.37

"Welcome to ""Sociology Insights: A Comprehensive MCQ Guide."" This ebook is designed to provide a thorough understanding...  Read More >>

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