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To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human...

Author: Christian Smith
ISBN: 9780226231952
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain...  Read More >>

Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method

Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic...

Author: Mark Harris ,  Nigel Rapport
ISBN: 9781472417299
Format: Electronic book text
$329.87

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of...  Read More >>

Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci

Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism: Insights...

Author: Peter Mayo
ISBN: 9780415812276
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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Values in Criminology and Community Justice

Values in Criminology and Community Justice

Author: Malcolm Cowburn ,  Marian Duggan
ISBN: 9781447300366
Format: Paperback
$66.95

This timely and thought-provoking collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal justice and...  Read More >>

Social Constructionist Theories of Crime

Social Constructionist Theories of Crime

Author: Ross L. Matsueda ,  Stuart Henry
ISBN: 9781409419617
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A volume that examines: the classical roots of constructionist theory in the work of Alfred Schutz and popularized...  Read More >>

Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm

Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm

Author: Simon A. Pemberton (School for Social Policy, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781847427946
Format: Hardback
$176.95

This book is the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology and seeks to address these...  Read More >>

Marx's Construction of Social Theory

Marx's Construction of Social Theory

Author: J. M. Barbalet
ISBN: 9781317499558
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Twenty-First-Century...

Author: R. Duschinsky ,  S. Walker
ISBN: 9781349479580
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell. Essays from...  Read More >>

The Cameroon Federation: Political Integration in a Fragmentary Society

The Cameroon Federation: Political Integration in a...

Author: Willard R. Johnson
ISBN: 9780691621098
Format: Paperback
$115.00

The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented,...  Read More >>

Social Science Literature: A Bibliography for International Law

Social Science Literature: A Bibliography for International...

Author: Wesley L. Gould ,  Michael Barkun
ISBN: 9780691619514
Format: Paperback
$170.00

This bibliography is a companion volume to International Law and the Social Sciences. One of the aims of the earlier...  Read More >>

Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland: Applying the Sociology of Knowledge and Religion

Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland: Applying...

Author: J. Dingley
ISBN: 9781137442581
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies,...  Read More >>

The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality

The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist...

Author: Lena Gunnarsson
ISBN: 9781138904620
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton And Beyond: Contested Perspectives: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 61

Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton...

Author: John E. O'Brien
ISBN: 9781608464210
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This volume aims to answer why so much 'critical' intellectual activity can be done with so little impact.  Read More >>

In The Hotel Abyss: An Hegelian-marxist Critique Of Adorno: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 60

In The Hotel Abyss: An Hegelian-marxist Critique Of...

Author: Robert Lanning
ISBN: 9781608464203
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Adorno is often celebrated as among the most important cultural-theorists. This volume argues that his theoretical...  Read More >>

The Dark Side of Prosperity: Late Capitalism’s Culture of Indebtedness

The Dark Side of Prosperity: Late Capitalism’s Culture...

Author: Mark Horsley
ISBN: 9781472436573
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Examines questions of social identity, subjectivity and consumer motivation in close connection with the socio-cultural...  Read More >>

Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters

Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature,...

Author: Carl Friedrich ,  Charles Horton Cooley
ISBN: 9781412854788
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B  Read More >>

Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships

Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing...

Author: Marvine Paula Hamner ,  S. Shane Stovall
ISBN: 9781466681590
Format: Hardback
$385.95

Bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical components of crisis management and response. By discussing...  Read More >>

The Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection

The Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study...

Author: Clint Jones ,  Cameron Ellis
ISBN: 9781472428943
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms

Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms

Author: Alexander Koensler ,  Dr. Hank Johnston
ISBN: 9781472439451
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Digital Fusion: A Society Beyond Blind Inclusion

Digital Fusion: A Society Beyond Blind Inclusion

Author: Joy Pierce
ISBN: 9781433127588
Format: Hardback
$317.46

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Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory

Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory

Author: Professor Rob Stones (School of Social Sciences and Psychology, South Penrith, Australia)
ISBN: 9781780931821
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book will demonstrate the ability of academic social theory to provide sets of tools with which to read and...  Read More >>

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