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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662404
- ISBN
- 9780745662404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.81
€ 71.81
Hardcover. Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662503
- ISBN
- 9780745662503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.49
€ 71.49
Paperback.
Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of patterns of race and ethnic relations across the globe. Series: Polity Political Sociology Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662619
- ISBN
- 9780745662619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.95
€ 22.95
Hardcover. Shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation. This title examines how the Irish republicans and the Zionist movement secured financial support in US during the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662640
- ISBN
- 9780745662640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Paperback. Shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation. This title examines how the Irish republicans and the Zionist movement secured financial support in US during the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662657
- ISBN
- 9780745662657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
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
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
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
€ 64.97
€ 64.97
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
€ 77.43
€ 77.43
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
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Paperback.
This incisive book provides a critical history and analysis of community organizing, the tradition of bringing groups together to build power and forge grassroots leadership for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice. Begun by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s, there are today nearly 200 institution-based groups active in 40 U.S. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFS; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663203
- ISBN
- 9780745663203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.02
€ 23.02
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
€ 65.05
€ 65.05
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
€ 25.40
€ 25.40
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
€ 78.06
€ 78.06
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
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
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
€ 23.11
€ 23.11
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
€ 71.14
€ 71.14
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
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
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
€ 52.99€ 52.68
€ 52.99
€ 52.68
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
€ 71.15
€ 71.15
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
€ 58.78
€ 58.78