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The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish

The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the...
Author: William (Bill) Thomas Lyons ISBN: 9780472109531 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Community policing, the author argues, does not necessarily empower the community but often increases the power... Read More >>

Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth

Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility...
Author: Peter Z. Loizos , Patrick Heady ISBN: 9780826463654 Format: Paperback	$84.35
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Performing Hybridity

Performing Hybridity
Author: May Joseph , Jennifer Natalya Fink ISBN: 9780816630110 Format: Paperback	$46.95
A kaleidoscopic consideration of transnational culture and performance Amid the modern-day complexities of migration... Read More >>

Broken Dreams: Reflections on Reason, Knowledge, and Power

Broken Dreams: Reflections on Reason, Knowledge, and...
Author: T. Carlos Jacques ISBN: 9780820440309 Format: Hardback	$166.19
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Die Verfassung der Allmende: Jenseits von Staat und Markt

Die Verfassung der Allmende: Jenseits von Staat und...
Author: Elinor Ostrom , E. Schöller ISBN: 9783161471360 Format: Hardback	$198.00
""In ihrem [...] Buch packt Elinor Ostrom eines der zähesten und umstrittensten Probleme der empirischen politischen... Read More >>

Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law

Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law
Author: Austin Sarat , Thomas R. Kearns ISBN: 9780472109111 Format: Hardback	$211.20
How do moves to recognize ethnic and cultural identity affect the idea of equality before the law? Read More >>

Die Verfassung der Allmende: Jenseits von Staat und Markt

Die Verfassung der Allmende: Jenseits von Staat und...
Author: Elinor Ostrom , E. Schöller ISBN: 9783161469169 Format: Paperback	$132.00
""In ihrem [...] Buch packt Elinor Ostrom eines der zähesten und umstrittensten Probleme der empirischen politischen... Read More >>

Why's the beer always stronger up North?: Studies of lifelong learning in Europe

Why's the beer always stronger up North?: Studies of...
Author: Frank Coffield ISBN: 9781861341310 Format: Paperback	$39.95
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Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology

Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology...
Author: Jo Campling , Patrick O'Mahony ISBN: 9780333665886 Format: Paperback	$113.85
Explores the ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging... Read More >>

Spectral Analysis of Time-Series Data

Spectral Analysis of Time-Series Data
Author: Rebecca M. Warner (University of New Hampshire, United States) ISBN: 9781572303386 Format: Hardback	$141.00
This text provides a thorough introduction to methods for detecting and describing cyclic patterns by clarifying... Read More >>

The Green Book

The Green Book
Author: Muammar Al Gathafi ISBN: 9780863723025 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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The Talcott Parsons Reader

The Talcott Parsons Reader
Author: Bryan S. Turner (University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9781557865441 Format: Paperback	$90.95
Places emphasis on medical sociology, his contribution to the study of politics and international relations, his... Read More >>

Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration

Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion...
Author: I. Gough , G. Olofsson ISBN: 9781349404711 Format: Paperback	$232.85
This book brings together essays on modernity, social integration, social differentiation and social exclusion by... Read More >>

Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionalist Perspectives

Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionalist...
Author: Donileen R. Loseke ISBN: 9780202306193 Format: Hardback	$94.91
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Performing Hybridity

Performing Hybridity
Author: May Joseph , Jennifer Natalya Fink ISBN: 9780816630103 Format: Hardback	$158.27
Amid the modern-day complexities of migration and exile, immigration and repatriation, notions of stable national... Read More >>

Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory

Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Environment & Identity...
Author: Martin O'Brien (University of Central Lancashire, UK) , Sue Penna ISBN: 9780582307438 Format: Paperback	$189.00
This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing... Read More >>

The Future of Money

The Future of Money
Author: Bernard Lietaer ISBN: 9781847941015 Format: Paperback	$28.44
Based on the four mega-trends of monetary instability, global greying (an ageing global population), the information... Read More >>

Community and Communitarianism

Community and Communitarianism
Author: Haig Khatchadourian ISBN: 9780820439341 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Empire of Meaning: The Humanization of the Social Sciences

Empire of Meaning: The Humanization of the Social Sciences...
Author: Francois Dosse , Hassan Mecehs ISBN: 9780816629640 Format: Hardback	$118.80
This is a study of the divide in the poststructuralist French intellectual scene. It examines the philosopher media... Read More >>

Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science Of Memes

Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society:...
Author: Aaron Lynch ISBN: 9780465084678 Format: Paperback	$29.99
""Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired... Read More >>

The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences

The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique...
Author: Roy Bhaskar ISBN: 9780415198738 Format: Hardback	$396.00
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Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences

Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the...
Author: Mary Douglas , Steven Ney ISBN: 9780520207523 Format: Hardback	$79.95
An analysis of the Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism, which has led... Read More >>

A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction and the Emergence of Co-dependency

A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction and...
Author: John Steadman Rice ISBN: 9780765804549 Format: Paperback	$119.00
Examines the phenomenon from a sociological perspective, viewing it not as something a person has, but as something... Read More >>

Early Modern Social Theory: Selected Interpretative Readings

Early Modern Social Theory: Selected Interpretative...
Author: Murray E. G. Smith ISBN: 9781551301174 Format: Paperback	$115.50
Illuminates the course of development of modern social thought, from the Enlightenment to the 1920s. The essays... Read More >>

Sociological Thought: Beyond Eurocentric Theory

Sociological Thought: Beyond Eurocentric Theory
Author: Nahla Abdo-Zubi ISBN: 9781551300634 Format: Paperback	$92.99
Provides students of sociology with an alternative vision of social theory. In an exciting and original introduction... Read More >>

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