Social theory books

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The Little Data Book on Gender in Africa 2012/2013

The Little Data Book on Gender in Africa 2012/2013

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9780821397855
Format: Paperback
$23.95

This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in gender statistics. It presents gender-disaggregated...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

Author: Zlatko Skrbis ,  Ian Woodward
ISBN: 9781849200646
Format: Paperback
$117.00

A short, authoritative and critical guide to a much-debated concept in social science. From the history of cosmopolitanism...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

Author: Zlatko Skrbis ,  Ian Woodward
ISBN: 9781849200639
Format: Hardback
$352.00

A short, authoritative and critical guide to a much-debated concept in social science. From the history of cosmopolitanism...  Read More >>

A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition

A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition...

Author: Paul A. Erickson ,  Liam Murphy
ISBN: 9781442606593
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable,...  Read More >>

Social Theory and the Environment

Social Theory and the Environment

Author: David Goldblatt (Open University)
ISBN: 9780745677231
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Individualism: Perspectives on Public Policy

Reclaiming Individualism: Perspectives on Public Policy...

Author: Paul Spicker
ISBN: 9781447309086
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Reclaiming individualism reviews the scope of individualist approaches, and considers how they apply to issues of...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

Author: Tony Blackshaw (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415697170
Format: Hardback
$483.00

This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore...  Read More >>

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest...

Author: Andy Merrifield
ISBN: 9780820345307
Format: Paperback
$68.51

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and...  Read More >>

'Manufactured' Masculinity: Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

'Manufactured' Masculinity: Making Imperial Manliness,...

Author: J. A. Mangan (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9780415849418
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book offers a penetrating analysis of cultural conditioning into Late Victorian and Edwardian middle class...  Read More >>

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest...

Author: Andy Merrifield
ISBN: 9780820345291
Format: Hardback
$335.15

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and...  Read More >>

The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations: A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment

The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations:...

Author: Carlos Ramirez-Faria
ISBN: 9780415853798
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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The Coming Fin De Siècle: An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernism

The Coming Fin De Siècle: An Application of Durkheim's...

Author: Stjepan Mestrovic
ISBN: 9780415853613
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. This title...  Read More >>

On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Author: Luc Ferry
ISBN: 9780745670171
Format: Hardback
$20.95

* Luc Ferry is a well-known philosopher, essayist and public intellectual, with a large and established readership....  Read More >>

Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin

Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories...

Author: David Frisby
ISBN: 9780415859141
Format: Hardback
$315.00

First published in 1986, this book provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German...  Read More >>

Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory

Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory

Author: Dr Clare Saunders (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781849660525
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Are environmentalists in Britain part of a transnational movement or are they tactically and ideologically distinct?...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development:...

Author: Peter Westoby ,  Gerard Dowling
ISBN: 9780415537889
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Maternity

The Politics of Maternity

Author: Rosemary Mander (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Jo Murphy-Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9780415697415
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two...  Read More >>

Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory

Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory

Author: Carole Pateman (UCLA, USA) ,  Elizabeth Grosz
ISBN: 9780415636759
Format: Hardback
$326.00

In Feminist Challenges, first published in 1987, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism...  Read More >>

The Politics of Maternity

The Politics of Maternity

Author: Rosemary Mander (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Jo Murphy-Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9780415697408
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two...  Read More >>

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