Sociology
Results 1 - 20 of 4038
Sociology
Paperback. The Snowden Affair, Wikiieaks, the lone wolf terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the question of the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: what is a secret? Series: Incitements. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425001
- ISBN
- 9781474425001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.22
€ 28.22
Looks at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. This title provides the historical events and philosophical reflection. It also investigates the psychology of manhunting. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151656
- ISBN
- 9780691151656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.91
€ 50.99
€ 36.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Young, Michael; Muller, Johan. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 black & white tables, 14 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHB; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415713917
- ISBN
- 9780415713917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.05
€ 61.05
Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 12 figures, 4 graphs. BIC Classification: JHB; KJM; KJU; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176781
- ISBN
- 9780231176781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.58
€ 38.99
€ 28.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Pike, Elizabeth C. J.; Beames, Simon. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS; WSE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415532679
- ISBN
- 9780415532679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.84
€ 60.84
Paperback. Offers a glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. This book explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFR; JHBA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847941343
- ISBN
- 9781847941343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.36
€ 15.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. A collection exploring practices and experiences of deportation, and the threat of deportation, in regional and national settings from the U.S.-Mexico border to Israel, and from Somalia to Switzerland. Editor(s): De Genova, Nicholas; Peutz, Nathalie Mae. Num Pages: 507 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 746. Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. 496 pages. Editor(s): De Genova, Nicholas; Peutz, Nathalie Mae. Examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. This title explores practices and experiences of deportation in regional and national settings from the US-Mexico border to Israel, and from Somalia to Switzerland. It also addresses broader questions, including the ontological significance of freedom of movement. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPV. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight: 750.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 520
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822345763
- ISBN
- 9780822345763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.41
€ 37.99
€ 34.41
Paperback. Presents an argument that the research university developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. This book investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalog, the library catalog, and the grading system. Num Pages: 668 pages, 51 halftones, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; JHBC; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 36. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 668
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226109220
- ISBN
- 9780226109220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.03
€ 31.99
€ 29.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Random House Australia Australia
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857984289
- ISBN
- 9780857984289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.64
€ 19.99
€ 14.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487804
- ISBN
- 9780801487804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Paperback.
In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745684840
- ISBN
- 9780745684840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 40 color and 125 b&w illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRCR; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st University of Texas Press Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292776586
- ISBN
- 9780292776586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36
Paperback. Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 halftones. 6 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHBA; JPA; JPHV; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142906
- ISBN
- 9780691142906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.13
€ 59.13
The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules - without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements. Translator(s): Randall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149141
- ISBN
- 9780691149141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.03
€ 51.03
Paperback. Barry Reay is one of the foremost historians of sex and sexuality In this new book, Reay, Attwood and Gooder recount the recent history of the sex addiction: how it was first conceptualised and diagnosed in the mid-twentieth century. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670362
- ISBN
- 9780745670362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.86
€ 22.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Virago UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087297
- ISBN
- 9781844087297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.06
€ 11.99
€ 10.06
Paperback.
This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APFA; BG; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629629
- ISBN
- 9780745629629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.09
€ 24.09
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107678910
- ISBN
- 9781107678910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.61
€ 32.61
Paperback. This is a Jewish story, told the way Jewish stories are told: with Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150. .
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652298713
- ISBN
- 9789652298713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.17
€ 21.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRC; JHBT; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483868
- ISBN
- 9780801483868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36