Social theory books

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Transforming Probation: Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System

Transforming Probation: Social Theories and the Criminal...

Author: Philip Whitehead (Retired from Teesside University.)
ISBN: 9781447327653
Format: Hardback
$176.95

This book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system....  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Technology

The Metaphysics of Technology

Author: David Skrbina (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
ISBN: 9781138240025
Format: Paperback
$118.00

What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord,...  Read More >>

Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism

Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the...

Author: Benjamin Y Fong
ISBN: 9780231176682
Format: Hardback
$107.95

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Zellen, Wellen, Systeme: Eine Genealogie systemischen Denkens, 1880-1980

Zellen, Wellen, Systeme: Eine Genealogie systemischen...

Author: Julian Bauer
ISBN: 9783161546792
Format: Paperback
$159.91

Die Systemtheorie hat eine Geschichte. Diese Geschichte beginnt jedoch nicht erst in der Nachkriegszeit des 20....  Read More >>

Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Rob Sullivan
ISBN: 9781138274594
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning,...

Author: Maxwell T. Boykoff ,  Michael K. Goodman
ISBN: 9781138275591
Format: Paperback
$110.00

The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together...  Read More >>

Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change

Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric...

Author: Matthew R. Meier (Notre Dame College, USA) ,  Casey R. Schmitt (Lakeland College, USA)
ISBN: 9781138100282
Format: Hardback
$326.00

In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have...  Read More >>

The Endangered West: Myopic Elites and Fragile Social Orders in a Threatening World

The Endangered West: Myopic Elites and Fragile Social...

Author: John Higley
ISBN: 9781412864152
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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The Emotions and Cultural Analysis

The Emotions and Cultural Analysis

Author: Ana Marta González
ISBN: 9781138273115
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the...  Read More >>

Tradition, Culture and Development in Africa: Historical Lessons for Modern Development Planning

Tradition, Culture and Development in Africa: Historical...

Author: Ambe J. Njoh
ISBN: 9781138262690
Format: Paperback
$110.00

The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly...  Read More >>

Complicity: New Perspectives on Collectivity

Complicity: New Perspectives on Collectivity

Author: Gesa Ziemer
ISBN: 9783837635171
Format: Hardback
$149.95

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Marx and Weber on Oriental Societies: In the Shadow of Western Modernity

Marx and Weber on Oriental Societies: In the Shadow...

Author: Lutfi Sunar
ISBN: 9781138273948
Format: Paperback
$110.00

The Orient was central to the work of Marx and Weber, both figures building their theories around the question of...  Read More >>

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization...

Author: Kieran Keohane ,  Anders Petersen
ISBN: 9781138273436
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being,...  Read More >>

Kritische Theorie: Schlüsselbegriffe, Kontroversen, Grenzen

Kritische Theorie: Schlüsselbegriffe, Kontroversen,...

Author: Stefan Breuer
ISBN: 9783161546105
Format: Paperback
$229.68

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Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Author: McKenzie Wark
ISBN: 9781784784089
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century: how to think about the Anthropocene  Read More >>

Bourdieusian Prospects

Bourdieusian Prospects

Author: Lisa Adkins ,  Caragh Brosnan
ISBN: 9781138845084
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Bourdieusian Prospects contributes to scholarship on Bourdieusian sociology, bringing it face to face with other...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

Author: Julian Go (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780190625146
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory maps the convergences and differences between these two seemingly opposed...  Read More >>

Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

Author: Eve Stoddard (St. Lawrence University, USA) ,  John Collins (St. Lawrence University, USA)
ISBN: 9780765641250
Format: Hardback
$347.00

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

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