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Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System,...

Author: David Palumbo-Liu ,  Nirvana Tanoukhi
ISBN: 9780822348481
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging...  Read More >>

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System,...

Author: David Palumbo-Liu ,  Nirvana Tanoukhi
ISBN: 9780822348344
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging...  Read More >>

Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction

Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction

Author: Thomas Lemke ,  Monica Casper
ISBN: 9780814752425
Format: Paperback
$51.99

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Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction

Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction

Author: Thomas Lemke ,  Monica Casper
ISBN: 9780814752418
Format: Hardback
$163.00

A compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground...  Read More >>

Whose culture has capital?: Class, culture, migration and mothering

Whose culture has capital?: Class, culture, migration...

Author: Bin Wu
ISBN: 9783034306058
Format: Paperback
$152.99

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Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational...

Author: Christa Buschendorf ,  Astrid Franke
ISBN: 9781443827287
Format: Hardback
$179.49

This volume collects new articles that explore the theoretical framework of figurational or relational sociology...  Read More >>

Santería Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice

Santería Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice...

Author: Ysamur Flores-Peña ,  Roberta J. Evanchuk
ISBN: 9781617030673
Format: Paperback
$71.50

As the fastest growing African-based religion in the United States, Santería has stimulated many publications, but...  Read More >>

Re-crafting Rationalization: Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

Re-crafting Rationalization: Enchanted Science and Mundane...

Author: Simon Locke
ISBN: 9780754678304
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education

Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education...

Author: Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur ,  Dr. Hank Johnston
ISBN: 9781409409342
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Based on in-depth case-studies of curricular change processes at six colleges and universities across the United...  Read More >>

The Politics of Cultural Memory

The Politics of Cultural Memory

Author: Jim Aulich ,  Lucy Burke
ISBN: 9781847189349
Format: Hardback
$139.89

This edited collection explores the political dimensions of cultural memory work in its varied forms of representation,...  Read More >>

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era: Text and Readings

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era: Text and...

Author: Scott Appelrouth ,  Laura D. Edles
ISBN: 9781412987615
Format: Paperback
$232.19

A new edition of this popular social theory text-reader, providing both major writings from key theorists, alongside...  Read More >>

Thorstein Veblen and His European Contemporaries, 1880-1940: A Study of Comparative Sociologies

Thorstein Veblen and His European Contemporaries, 1880-1940:...

Author: Rick Tilman
ISBN: 9780773415300
Format: Hardback
$395.87

A systematic analysis of the intellectual and cultural relationship between Thorstein Veblen and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Beyond Friend and Foe: The Politics of Critical Theory

Beyond Friend and Foe: The Politics of Critical Theory...

Author: Volker Heins
ISBN: 9789004188006
Format: Hardback
$385.44

The book provides a thematic account of the changing political thought of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas...  Read More >>

Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development

Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on...

Author: W. Ascher ,  J. Heffron
ISBN: 9780230109148
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and...  Read More >>

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth...

Author: A. Gillette
ISBN: 9780230108455
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in...  Read More >>

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal...

Author: Georg Simmel ,  John A. Y. Andrews
ISBN: 9780226757834
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Published in 1918, this title is the author's final work. Composed in the years before his death, it was, according...  Read More >>

More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion

More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion

Author: Manuel A. Vasquez (Associate Professor of Religion, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Florida)
ISBN: 9780195188530
Format: Hardback
$106.95

This book challenges the traditional idea that religions can be understood primarily as texts to be interpreted,...  Read More >>

The Changing Canadian Population

The Changing Canadian Population

Author: Barry Edmonston ,  Eric Fong
ISBN: 9780773537941
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Informative and helpful essays that study census data regarding developments in Canadian society.  Read More >>

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues...

Author: Ernesto Laclau ,  Judith Butler
ISBN: 9781844676682
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Three renowned contemporary theorists discuss their different perspectives for politics and thought.  Read More >>

Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in...

Author: Edward W Soja
ISBN: 9781844676699
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Classic work of geography analysing the new possibilities for spatial thought  Read More >>

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