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Paperback. We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 309 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509515325
- ISBN
- 9781509515325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.19
€ 21.19
Hardback. Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFD; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509512164
- ISBN
- 9781509512164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.79
€ 53.79
Paperback. * The latest book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * Offers an original analysis of the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid--modern' times -- the man or woman with no fixed or durable bonds. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745624891
- ISBN
- 9780745624891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.91
€ 22.91
Paperback.
Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public places. Series: Polity Conversations Series. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662831
- ISBN
- 9780745662831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.15
€ 23.15
Paperback. Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680958
- ISBN
- 9780745680958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.93
€ 22.93
Paperback. a Globalizationa is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term. Series: Themes for the 21st Century Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 189 x 12. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620138
- ISBN
- 9780745620138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.19
€ 21.19
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671093
- ISBN
- 9780745671093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.80
€ 21.80
Hardcover. Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680941
- ISBN
- 9780745680941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.05
€ 65.05
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636801
- ISBN
- 9780745636801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.54
€ 23.99
€ 23.54
Paperback. Intends to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad. This work shows us we can give up belief in a hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. It challenges members of the 'knowledge class' to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033511
- ISBN
- 9780674033511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.27
€ 35.99
€ 30.27
Paperback. This book stands as a testimony to Bauman's belief in the enduring relevance of sociology. But it is also a call to us all to start questioning the world in which we live and to transform ourselves from being the victims of circumstance into the makers of our own history. For that, at the end of the day, is the use of sociology. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671253
- ISBN
- 9780745671253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.71
€ 21.71
Paperback. The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745639871
- ISBN
- 9780745639871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.14
€ 15.14
Hardcover. * This is an engaging new book from one of the most influential and widely read sociologists in the world today. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745655697
- ISBN
- 9780745655697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.05
€ 65.05
Paperback. A brilliant new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today. Bauman examines how, in our liquid modern society, individuals are required to choose their own lives and give meaning and purpose to them. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745643267
- ISBN
- 9780745643267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.95
€ 22.95
Paperback. Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFD; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 125 x 189 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509512171
- ISBN
- 9781509512171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.16
€ 15.16
Paperback. The production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. Num Pages: 152 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745631653
- ISBN
- 9780745631653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.02
€ 23.02
Hardback. When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freuda s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617909
- ISBN
- 9780745617909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Paperback. * A new book by one of the most original and brilliant social thinkers of our time. * Extends and develops some of the key themes in other Bauman titles, namely what it is like to live in a time of 'liquid modernity', identity, culture and consumerism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635156
- ISBN
- 9780745635156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.28
€ 22.28
Paperback. aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745624105
- ISBN
- 9780745624105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.39
€ 22.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509507603
- ISBN
- 9781509507603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.71
€ 21.71