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The End of Organized Capitalism
John Urry
In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political...
Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Christian Joppke
Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name. This authoritative book reviews the different meanings multiculturalism has acquired...
The Persistence of Modernity
Albrecht Wellmer
In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the...
Time Pioneers
Anette Gerhardt
In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.
A Berlin Republic
Steven Rendall
A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, J?rgen Habermas. Among other topics, he addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of...
The Invention of Creativity
Andreas Reckwitz
Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an...
Cities in Global Capitalism
Ugo Rossi
In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of...
New Urban Worlds
AbdouMaliq Simone
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being...
The Social Theory of Practices
Stephen Turner P.
This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession...
The Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman
Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell...
Gender and Peacebuilding
Claire Duncanson
Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN's attempts to...
The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Mary Evans
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and...
The Second Media Age
Mark Poster
This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the...
Smartphones as Locative Media
Jordan Frith
Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as...
The Mediated Construction of Reality
Nick Couldry
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading...
The Informal Media Economy
Julian Thomas
How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation? The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and...
Child and Family Social Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Ravi Kohli
A special edition of Child & Family Social Work focusing on the lives and circumstances of refugee and asylum seeking children and families in several countries – Australia, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. Predominantly focusing on...
Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead
Stanley Brandes
Each October, as the Day of the Dead draws near, Mexican markets overflow with decorated breads, fanciful paper cutouts, and whimsical toy skulls and skeletons. To honor deceased relatives, Mexicans decorate graves and erect home altars. Drawing...
Practicing Anthropology in a Postmodern World
Michael Reed C.
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed...
Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton
M. Katzenberg Anne
This book is virtually required reading for biological anthropologists and will be a useful, up-to-date primer on osteological analyses for a wider audience. —The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009 «… a comprehensive guide to the...
Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour
Gregory Bock R.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the controversial topic of criminal and antisocial behavior. It synthesizes findings from behavioral and population genetics, evolutionary biology and criminology and presents the latest findings in twin...
Developing Evidence-Based Generalist Practice Skills
Karen Sowers M.
An essential overview of the core skills needed by every social work practitioner Developing Evidence-Based Generalist Practice Skills features contributions from top scholars in social work practice, presenting essential information for the...
The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought
William Outhwaite
Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences. Provides an authoritative overview of the main themes of...
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
George Ritzer
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners...
Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt...
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Krishan Kumar
The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society,...
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty
Jens Zinn O.
Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk...
The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory
Bryan Turner S.
A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new...
The Rise of the Network Society, With a New Preface
Manuel Castells
This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking...
Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
Kent Ono A.
Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the...
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Mimi White
Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies. Covers such...
The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology
Marietta Baba L.
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed...
Practicing Anthropology in Corporate America
Ann Jordan T.
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed...
Linguistics in a Colonial World
Joseph Errington
Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world. Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in...
A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics
David Nugent
This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time – from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics...
Perspectives on Las Am?ricas
Patricia Zavella
Perspectives on Las Am?ricas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ and the ‘United States’. This landmark volume presents key...
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
Jennifer Robertson
This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation...
A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians
Thomas Biolsi
This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of...
The Everyday Language of White Racism
Jane Hill H.
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of...
Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant
Ruth Landman H.
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. Peer reviewed...
The Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology
Ruth Triplett Ann
Featuring contributions by distinguished scholars from ten countries, The Wiley Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology provides students, scholars, and criminologists with a truly a global perspective on the theory and practice of...
A Companion to the City
Gary Bridge
A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective....
Mental Health and Social Space
Hester Parr
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems...
Resistance, Space and Political Identities
David Featherstone
Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between...
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies
Susan Schreibman
This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. A complete overview exploring...
The Myth of Popular Culture
Perry Meisel
The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is a fascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leads us to redefine our concept of the division between «high»...
The Child's Journey Through Care
Dorota Iwaniec
This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders. Problems that arise from taking cases through the...
Helping Families with Troubled Children
Carole Sutton
In ‘Helping Families with Troubled Children’ Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years....
Children who Fail to Thrive
Dorota Iwaniec
Three to five per cent of children fail to thrive. Without early intervention this can lead to serious growth failure and delayed psychomotor development. Such children typically present difficulties with feeding and sleeping, as well as other...
Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Karen Sowers M.
Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 2: The Profession of Social Work features contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners and presents the most comprehensive, in-depth source of information...
