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Hardcover. In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valery wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. Translator(s): Ross, Daniel. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFCD; JMH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662701
- ISBN
- 9780745662701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one s ethical gaze. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662749
- ISBN
- 9780745662749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Hardcover. The third edition of Jill Steans popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 250 x 23. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662787
- ISBN
- 9780745662787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardcover. At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662862
- ISBN
- 9780745662862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. Authored by a scholar-blogger, this engaging book is packed with examples that show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication. It gives definitions and explains how blogs work, shows how blogs relate to the historical development of publishing and communication and looks at the ways blogs structure social networks. Series: Digital Media and Society. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663647
- ISBN
- 9780745663647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice. Editor(s): Jaggar, Alison M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663777
- ISBN
- 9780745663777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.82
€ 25.82
Hardcover. Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSG; JHMC; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745664798
- ISBN
- 9780745664798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17
€ 79.17
Hardcover.
In this important new book, the leading philosopherFrancois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in oursocieties today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. Heargues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstractphilosophical notions like justice, truth and violence,intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745668406
- ISBN
- 9780745668406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669717
- ISBN
- 9780745669717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.41
€ 23.41
Hardcover. Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. Series: Polity Social Work in Theory and Practise. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670195
- ISBN
- 9780745670195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Hardcover. How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 51. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670997
- ISBN
- 9780745670997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. * Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of out time. * Renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, reflects upon the startling and worrying facts of social inequality of which we have become so conscious in the last decade. Num Pages: 110 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 211 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671086
- ISBN
- 9780745671086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37
€ 53.37
Hardcover. * This engaging book examines how the ease with which modern social and media networks create a sense of intimacy which can be exploited by media, politicians and authority * An intriguing thesis on how media creates relations where we are constant watchers of the lives of others. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671109
- ISBN
- 9780745671109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.40
€ 72.40
Hardcover. We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight. Virality: individuals create it, governments fear it, companies would die for it. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671284
- ISBN
- 9780745671284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.10
€ 60.10
Hardcover. The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means. Series: Key Concepts in Journalism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671604
- ISBN
- 9780745671604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBT; JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671772
- ISBN
- 9780745671772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.63
€ 35.63
Hardcover. Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFD; TDJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672533
- ISBN
- 9780745672533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.81€ 53.01
€ 65.81
€ 53.01
Hardcover. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745679174
- ISBN
- 9780745679174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. * Jacques Ranciere is a leading French philosopher, particularly well known for his work in aesthetics and political philosophy * In this concise and brilliant text, Ranciere presents a thoughtful analysis of the way in which artworks and films represent historical events and those who were involved. Translator(s): Rose, Julie. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 125 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745679563
- ISBN
- 9780745679563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.11
€ 47.11
Paperback. The second edition of Presidential Campaign Communication is designed to help readers understand and appreciate how the people of the United States use human communication to select their presidents. Series: Contemporary Political Communication. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680231
- ISBN
- 9780745680231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.26
€ 28.26
Paperback. Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture s celebrity mania. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745682198
- ISBN
- 9780745682198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.23
€ 23.23
Hardcover. This is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745682914
- ISBN
- 9780745682914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. 'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; JFFK; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745683225
- ISBN
- 9780745683225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.65
€ 19.65
Hardcover. White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745685441
- ISBN
- 9780745685441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10