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Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Communication, Power and Social Change

Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Communication, Power and...

Author: T. Askanius ,  L. Østergaard
ISBN: 9781349485567
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international...  Read More >>

Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and Radical Alternatives

Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and...

Author: Christos Memos
ISBN: 9781349441846
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq

Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community...

Author: Diane E. King
ISBN: 9780813563527
Format: Paperback
$110.75

Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much...  Read More >>

Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society

Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society

Author: Michael Kimmel ,  The Stony Brook Sexualities Research Group
ISBN: 9780199944231
Format: Paperback
$388.08

Using multiple disciplines, international populations, and theories to explore sexualities, this anthology opens...  Read More >>

Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq

Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community...

Author: Diane E. King
ISBN: 9780813563534
Format: Hardback
$302.50

Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much...  Read More >>

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic...

Author: Deborah Harris-Moore ,  Professor C. Richard King
ISBN: 9781409469445
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from...  Read More >>

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces...

Author: Davina Cooper
ISBN: 9780822355694
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The Meanings of Europe: Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept

The Meanings of Europe: Changes and Exchanges of a Contested...

Author: Claudia Wiesner (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) ,  Meike Schmidt-Gleim (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
ISBN: 9780415857062
Format: Hardback
$315.00

What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only...  Read More >>

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces...

Author: Davina Cooper
ISBN: 9780822355557
Format: Hardback
$146.95

Everyday Utopias explores how everyday utopias-sites enacting commonplace activities in egalitarian, democratic,...  Read More >>

Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence

Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle...

Author: Richard Münch (University of Bamberg, Germany) ,  Richard Meunch
ISBN: 9780415840149
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book examines the political economy of academic capitalism, investigating why and how the economic logic of...  Read More >>

Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-Caste-in-Class

Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities:...

Author: Paul Camy Mocombe (West Virginia State University, USA) ,  Carol Tomlin (Wolverhampton University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415714372
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general...  Read More >>

Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory...

Author: Xiaoying Qi
ISBN: 9780415714402
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization,...  Read More >>

Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples Are Changing American Judaism

Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples...

Author: Jennifer A. Thompson
ISBN: 9780813562810
Format: Paperback
$83.60

Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will...  Read More >>

The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8

The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future...

Author: Peter Thompson ,  Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9780822355892
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian...  Read More >>

Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, and Society

Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks,...

Author: C. Powell ,  C. Powell
ISBN: 9781349479047
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology:...  Read More >>

The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8

The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future...

Author: Peter Thompson ,  Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9780822355755
Format: Hardback
$152.95

The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian...  Read More >>

Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples Are Changing American Judaism

Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples...

Author: Jennifer A. Thompson
ISBN: 9780813562827
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will...  Read More >>

Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World: The Theoretical Lenses of István Mészáros and Immanuel Wallerstein

Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World: The Theoretical...

Author: T. Griffiths ,  R. Imre
ISBN: 9781137014818
Format: Hardback
$116.41

By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by...  Read More >>

Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, and Society

Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks,...

Author: C. Powell ,  C. Powell
ISBN: 9781137379917
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology:...  Read More >>

Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas

Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique...

Author: Austin Harrington
ISBN: 9780415862868
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Museums at the Crossroads?: Essays on Cultural Institutions in a Time of Change

Museums at the Crossroads?: Essays on Cultural Institutions...

Author: Jack Lohman
ISBN: 9780772667267
Format: Paperback
$60.59

In this collection of illuminating essays, Jack Lohman shares his views on the role of museums in the various cultures...  Read More >>

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