Social theory books

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How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices: Optimal Rationality in Action

How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices:...

Author: Chris Brown (University of Portsmouth, UK)
ISBN: 9781787543560
Format: Paperback
$114.95

New studies tell how human action is causing planetary degradation and how changes to our diets and financial behaviours...  Read More >>

Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World

Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World

Author: Anju Beniwal ,  Rashmi Jain
ISBN: 9783319709741
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.  Read More >>

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics...

Author: Mark Lilla
ISBN: 9781849049955
Format: Paperback
$28.95

An impassioned and biting critique of the failure of American liberalism.  Read More >>

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Author: Albert Amao Soria ,  Ramón de Ocampo
ISBN: 9781665230438
Format: Audio
$52.77

Sociologist Albert Amao analyzes the accuracy of self-help and positive-thinking claims in this groundbreaking-and...  Read More >>

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Author: Albert Amao Soria ,  Ramón de Ocampo
ISBN: 9781665230445
Format: Audio
$52.77

Sociologist Albert Amao analyzes the accuracy of self-help and positive-thinking claims in this groundbreaking-and...  Read More >>

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Awaken the Power Within: In Defense of Self-Help

Author: Albert Amao Soria ,  Ramón de Ocampo
ISBN: 9781665230421
Format: Audio
$52.77

Sociologist Albert Amao analyzes the accuracy of self-help and positive-thinking claims in this groundbreaking-and...  Read More >>

Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis

Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis

Author: Kailash C. Baral ,  R. Radhakrishnan
ISBN: 9781138599086
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Systemic Humiliation in America: Finding Dignity within Systems of Degradation

Systemic Humiliation in America: Finding Dignity within...

Author: Daniel Rothbart
ISBN: 9783319706788
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage...  Read More >>

Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations

Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary...

Author: Ananta Kumar Giri
ISBN: 9789811070945
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational...  Read More >>

Memories of Gustav Ichheiser: Life and Work of an Exiled Social Scientist

Memories of Gustav Ichheiser: Life and Work of an Exiled...

Author: Amrei C. Joerchel ,  Gerhard Benetka
ISBN: 9783319725079
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book presents an overview of the life and work of Gustav Ichheiser, a social scientist in Vienna during the...  Read More >>

Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honour of Hermínio Martins

Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason:...

Author: José Esteban Castro ,  Bridget Fowler
ISBN: 9783319715186
Format: Hardback
$232.85

It introduces Martins’ wide-ranging contributions to the social sciences, encompassing seminal works in the fields...  Read More >>

Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America: 40 Years of the Latin American Council of Peace Research (CLAIP)

Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America:...

Author: Úrsula Oswald Spring ,  Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
ISBN: 9783319738079
Format: Paperback
$113.82

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin...  Read More >>

The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880 - 1930

The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880 - 1930...

Author: Cesare Silla (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138225466
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between...  Read More >>

Die Poesie hängt die weiße Flagge aus

Die Poesie hängt die weiße Flagge aus

Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9783161560842
Format: Hardback
$81.84

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Soziologisch denken: Grundlagen und Theorien

Soziologisch denken: Grundlagen und Theorien

Author: Frank Hillebrandt
ISBN: 9783658210472
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Das Buch führt präzise und gut lesbar in die Besonderheiten des soziologischen Denkens ein. Es beginnt mit den Merkmalen...  Read More >>

Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment

Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment...

Author: Christopher Bollas
ISBN: 9781138497429
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative...  Read More >>

A Relational Theory of World Politics

A Relational Theory of World Politics

Author: Yaqing Qin
ISBN: 9781316634257
Format: Paperback
$82.80

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Austerity: Vintage Minis

Austerity: Vintage Minis

Author: Yanis Varoufakis
ISBN: 9781784874100
Format: Paperback
$14.99

In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with...  Read More >>

Money: Vintage Minis

Money: Vintage Minis

Author: Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9781784874025
Format: Paperback
$14.99

LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also...  Read More >>

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