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Hardcover. What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism - forms our contemporary political horizon. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745688732
- ISBN
- 9780745688732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Series: PCPC - Polity Contemporary Political Communication Series. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745689616
- ISBN
- 9780745689616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.14
€ 73.14
Hardcover. We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745689715
- ISBN
- 9780745689715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.36
€ 47.36
Hardcover. Series: New Human Frontiers - Polity. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745689968
- ISBN
- 9780745689968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.43
€ 60.43
Hardcover. Who exactly are the intellectuals ? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690353
- ISBN
- 9780745690353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.37
€ 73.37
Paperback. The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745691008
- ISBN
- 9780745691008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.08
€ 22.08
Hardcover. This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745691701
- ISBN
- 9780745691701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Translator(s): Bartoszynska, Katarzyna. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745695686
- ISBN
- 9780745695686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Translator(s): Bartoszynska, Katarzyna. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745695693
- ISBN
- 9780745695693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.23
€ 22.23
Hardcover. Social semiotics reveals language's social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; GTE; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745696201
- ISBN
- 9780745696201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.14
€ 73.14
Hardcover. Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. Series: Digital Futures. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 123. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745696461
- ISBN
- 9780745696461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41
€ 60.41
Hardcover. Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining important insights from sociology and psychology, the book presents the concept's theoretical underpinnings in an accessible style, supported by real-life examples. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745697925
- ISBN
- 9780745697925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.50
€ 79.50
Hardcover. The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745698687
- ISBN
- 9780745698687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41
€ 60.41
Hardcover. After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JKSB; JPQB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745698731
- ISBN
- 9780745698731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.23
€ 54.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745952826
- ISBN
- 9780745952826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.45
€ 16.99
€ 13.45
Hardback. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Editor(s): Freese, Lee. Series: Advances in Human Ecology S. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFS; RNC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608. Series: Advances in Human Ecology S. 300 pages. Editor(s): Freese, Lee. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFS; RNC; RNT. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 23. Weight: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762305674
- ISBN
- 9780762305674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.54
€ 171.54
Hardback. This text discusses research on learning potential assessment and cognitive training. Moreover, several contributions discuss the relationship between individual learning and social interaction during learning potential assessment. Editor(s): Aalsvoort, G.M.van der; Resing, W.; Ruijssenaars, A.J.J.M. Series: Advances in Cognition & Educational Practice. Num Pages: 420 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMH; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762308071
- ISBN
- 9780762308071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.01
€ 224.01
Hardback. Points to the multiple perspectives that teachers, researchers, parents, and children bring to our understanding of play. Editor(s): Reifel, Stuart; Brown, Mac H. Series: Advances in Early Education & Day Care. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590. Series: Advances in Early Education & Day Care. 308 pages. Editor(s): Reifel, Stuart; Brown, Mac H. Points to the multiple perspectives that teachers, researchers, parents, and children bring to our understanding of play. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JMC; JNLA. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 29. Weight: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762311460
- ISBN
- 9780762311460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.84
€ 182.84
Hardback. Explores the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of "flow time." This book examines the issue of excessive change in organizations, which are defined as the simultaneous pursuit of multiple unrelated changes. Editor(s): Pasmore, William A.; Woodman, Richard W. Series: Research in Organizational Change & Development. Num Pages: 229 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMH; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 32. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762311675
- ISBN
- 9780762311675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.21
€ 180.21
Hardback. Examines central tenets of neoliberalism: interference with market mechanisms is the cause of poor economic performance, and returning to market fundamentalism will restore prosperity. Editor(s): Prechel, Harland. Series: Research in Political Sociology. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512. Structure, Process and Outcome. Series: Research in Political Sociology. 268 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Prechel, Harland. Examines central tenets of neoliberalism: interference with market mechanisms is the cause of poor economic performance, and returning to market fundamentalism will restore prosperity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762314355
- ISBN
- 9780762314355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.36
€ 184.36