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Stress and Coping in Families

Katheryn Maguire

• Paperback | Engels | Key Themes in Family Communication
• During difficult times, families can be our greatest resource, or our heaviest burden. This book brings together research from a wide variety of disci... Lees meer

Thomas Pogge and His Critics

Alison Jaggar

• Paperback | Engels
• The massive disparity between the relative wealth of most citizens in affluent countries and the profound poverty of billions of people struggling els... Lees meer

Timber

Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister

• Hardcover | Engels | Resources | nr. 1
• Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, ... Lees meer

Disrespect

Axel Honneth

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the t... Lees meer

The Varieties of Transition

Claus Offe

• Paperback | Engels | East European and East German Experience
• In recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. This process has brought ... Lees meer

Thomas More

Joanne Paul

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Thinkers
• Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia... Lees meer

What Is Globalization?

Ulrich Beck

• Paperback | Engels
• This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. Lees meer

On the Names-Of-The-Father

Jacques Lacan

• Paperback | Engels
• What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being v... Lees meer

Liquid Times

Zygmunt Bauman

• Paperback | Engels
• The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with ... Lees meer

Nature of Money

Geoffrey Ingham

• Paperback | Engels
• In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the 'social relation' of money... Lees meer

Judith Butler

Moya Lloyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Contemporary Thinkers | nr. 21
• This book provides both a clear exposition and an original critique of Butlers work. It examines her core ideas, traces the development of her thought... Lees meer

Saving the Market from Capitalism

Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci

• Hardcover | Engels
• This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the econom... Lees meer

Postmodernity and Its Discontents

Zygmunt Bauman

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of im... Lees meer

Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy

Stephen C Angle

• Paperback | Engels
• Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China and around the globe. This book provides an accessible ... Lees meer

Manuel Castells

Felix Stalder

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Contemporary Thinkers
• First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of ... Lees meer

Climate and Society

Robin Leichenko, Karen O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels
• This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, present... Lees meer

The Scent of Empires

Karl Schlögel

• Hardcover | Engels
• Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twen... Lees meer

Body and Gender

Roberta Sassatelli, Rossella Ghigi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Even though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense... Lees meer

Ecological Thought

Tim Hayward

• Paperback | Engels | Making of Europe
• This book offers a new introduction to the implications of ecology for social and political thought, arguing for green ideas to be taken seriously by ... Lees meer

The Polity Reader in Social Theory

• Paperback | Engels
• This book provides a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the major debates and schools of thought in social theory today. Some thirty differe... Lees meer

Networked

Adrienne Russell

• Paperback | Engels
• Journalism, what happened? In the last decade, the industry and the profession have been rocked to the core. Newspapers as consumer product are as rip... Lees meer

Concepts of the Self

Anthony Elliott

• Hardcover | Key Concepts
• More than ten years on from its original publication, Concepts of the Self still mesmerizes with its insight, comprehensiveness and critique of debate... Lees meer

International Relations

Stephanie Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels
• International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries of... Lees meer

Fortress Russia

Ilya Yablokov

• Paperback | Engels
• Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War... Lees meer