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Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction...

Author: John Christman
ISBN: 9780415217989
Format: Paperback
$94.91

This text should be useful to any student coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides...  Read More >>

Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism

Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern...

Author: Carlo Trigilia (University of Florence)
ISBN: 9780631225355
Format: Hardback
$343.07

This text systematically reconstructs the origins and advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical...  Read More >>

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction...

Author: John Christman
ISBN: 9780415217972
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This text should be useful to any student coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides...  Read More >>

Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies

Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies

Author: Thomas Salumets ,  Thomas Salumets
ISBN: 9780773522664
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A penetrating look at the ideas and achievements of Norbert Elias.  Read More >>

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives...

Author: John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton) ,  Christopher Mele
ISBN: 9780631224075
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take...  Read More >>

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives...

Author: John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton) ,  Christopher Mele
ISBN: 9780631224068
Format: Hardback
$135.95

This text aims to provide a contemporary, multi-disciplinary analysis of how the study of urban society is likely...  Read More >>

Introduction to Sociology

Introduction to Sociology

Author: Theodor W. Adorno ,  Christoph Gvdde
ISBN: 9780804746830
Format: Paperback
$55.31

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Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War

Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War

Author: Harriet Martineau ,  Deborah Logan
ISBN: 9780875802923
Format: Hardback
$114.50

This publication is a compilation of the writings of British journalist Harriet Martineau and her influence as one...  Read More >>

Framing Democracy: Civil Society and Civic Movements in Eastern Europe

Framing Democracy: Civil Society and Civic Movements...

Author: John K. Glenn
ISBN: 9780804738613
Format: Hardback
$95.99

This book offers a critique and reformulation of existing theories of democratization and fall of communism. By...  Read More >>

Public Benefits of Archaeology

Public Benefits of Archaeology

Author: Barbara J. Little ,  Roger G. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780813024554
Format: Hardback
$81.40

With contributions by authors from all aspects of the profession, as well as non-archaeologists, this book confronts...  Read More >>

Private Vices, Public Benefits: Bernard Mandeville's Social and Political Thought

Private Vices, Public Benefits: Bernard Mandeville's...

Author: M.M. Goldsmith
ISBN: 9781877275463
Format: Paperback
$47.39

This book examines the social and political thought of Bernard Mandeville, who proposed self-love as a mechanism...  Read More >>

Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences

Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences

Author: Stein Ugelvik Larsen
ISBN: 9780880339902
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This book introduces the central theses and theories which comprise the most fundamental thinking in the social...  Read More >>

Knowledge and the Production of Non-Knowledge: An Exploration of Alien Mythology in Post-War America

Knowledge and the Production of Non-Knowledge: An Exploration...

Author: Mark Featherstone
ISBN: 9781572733794
Format: Hardback
$91.30

This volume shows how alien stories represent and articulate issues of otherness in America's post-war technocratic...  Read More >>

The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky

The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky

Author: Alison Edgley
ISBN: 9780415285674
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This title questions Chomsky's claim not to have a theory about the relationship between human beings and their...  Read More >>

The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt

The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing...

Author: Eugene Gogol
ISBN: 9780739103302
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This work explores the relation of liberatory philosophical thought to social and class movements in 2001. It considers...  Read More >>

Inclusion and Democracy

Inclusion and Democracy

Author: Iris Marion Young (, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780198297550
Format: Paperback
$99.95

This book considers the ideals of political inclusion and exclusion and recommends ways of engaging in democratic...  Read More >>

Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice

Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice...

Author: Alan Wolfe (Boston College)
ISBN: 9780393323023
Format: Paperback
$35.95

""No sociologist now writing is able to capture and describe American manners and morals better than Alan Wolfe.""—David...  Read More >>

Self, Symbols and Society: Classic Readings in Social Psychology

Self, Symbols and Society: Classic Readings in Social...

Author: Nathan Rousseau
ISBN: 9780742516311
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A collection of writings from the founders of sociology in the 19th century to works by sociologists at the start...  Read More >>

Self, Symbols, and Society: Classic Readings in Social Psychology

Self, Symbols, and Society: Classic Readings in Social...

Author: Nathan Rousseau
ISBN: 9780742516304
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A collection of writings from the founders of sociology in the 19th century to works by sociologists at the start...  Read More >>

The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy

The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy

Author: Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham) ,  Angus Erskine (University of Stirling)
ISBN: 9780631218470
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Written by a carefully selected team of experts, this comprehensive dictionary introduces the major terms, issues...  Read More >>

Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization versus Re-enchantment

Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization versus...

Author: N. Gane
ISBN: 9781403941169
Format: Paperback
$100.32

This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization...  Read More >>

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