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Wolfgang Streeck - Re-Forming Capitalism; Institutional Change in the German Political Economy (2009).jpg
Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of ...
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Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world, and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and political ...
Parag Khanna - The Second World; Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008).jpg
Khanna, a widely recognized expert on global politics, offers an study of the 21st century's emerging geopolitical marketplace dominated by three first world superpowers, the U.S., Europe and China. Each competes to lead the new century, pursuing that goal in the third ...
Tommy Ferrarini - Families.jpg
Tommy Ferrarini uses a macro-comparative, longitudinal and institutional approach to study the origins and the consequences of those institutions affecting family policy in eighteen post-world war welfare democracies.This book argues that the wide variety of ...
001b04a7Sean Oliver-Dee - The Caliphate Question; The British Government and Islamic Governance (2009).jpg
The Caliphate Question examines British governmental files from the early to mid-twentieth century to examine the past approach of British policy-makers to questions of Islamic governance, particularly in relation to the office of the Caliph. In so doing it draws out ...
Eric Louw - The Media and Political Process (2005).jpg
Has the mediaization of politics played any role in encouraging a growing cynicism and disillusionment with political processes in Western democracies?This book examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses:- The nature of the ...
Gargi Bhattacharyya - Dangerous Brown Men; Exploiting Sex.jpg
In this book, Gargi Bhattacharyya examines the way in which western imperial violence associates itself with the rhetoric of rights and democracy--a project of bombing for freedom that calls into question the validity of western conceptions of democracy, rights and ...
Victoria Pitts-Taylor - Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (2 Volumes) (2008).jpg
Pop culture and the media today are saturated with the focus on the aesthetics of the human body. Magazines and infotainment shows speculate whether this or that actress had breast implants or a nose job. Americans are not just focusing on celebrities but on themselves too ...
Aurelia George Mulgan - Power and Pork; A Japanese Political Life (2007).jpg
Power and Pork: a Japanese political life aims to tell the ‘inside story’ of a Japanese politician—Matsuoka Toshikatsu—one of the more controversial members of Japan’s national Diet. Matsuoka belongs to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as a ...
Benjamin MacQueen - Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab Middle East; Lebanon and Algeria (2009).jpg
Benjamin MacQueen presents an innovative and in-depth look at contemporary conflict resolution in the Arab Middle East, developing a unique theory of political culture through his analysis of peace processes in Lebanon and Algeria. Moving beyond conventional ...
Roland Paris - Postwar State-Building; The Long Road to Peace (2009).jpg
This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies. Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that ...
Sten Rynning - NATO Renewed; The Power and Purpose of Transatlantic Cooperation (2005).jpg
Recent controversies in NATO have caused observers to question the Alliance raisontre. They generally contend that NATO crisis has gone from bad to worse and that the Alliance is ill-adapted to the era of international terrorism, but this assessment is inaccurate. NATO ...
Sebastian Edwards - Left Behind; Latin America and the False Promise of Populism (2010).jpg
The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed ...
Moha Enaji - Multilingualism.jpg
This book shows how colonial and postcolonial forces have worked to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, and North Africa in general, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and ethno linguistic ...
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Millions of young people attend raves and clubs every weekend, yet until now this has been a relatively unexplored area. In this volume the contributors offer critical insights into this very popular activity by exploring and analyzing behaviours common at raves and ...
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The university subject librarians' role is at the centre of new models of teaching and learning, yet further debate and published contributions are still needed to shape its future direction. Subject Librarians: Engaging with the Learning and Teaching Environment ...
Richard Greeman - Beware of Vegetarian Sharks (2009).jpg
This illustrated collection of Greeman's Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays is a frontal attack on capitalism by a veteran socialist, scholar and activist. Greeman's satirical studies, which range from the Rebellious Sixties to our Decadent Decade, deal with ...
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This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, ...
Thomas Johansson - The transformation of sexuality; Gender and identity in contemporary youth culture (2007).jpg
How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities? This book combines the work of key authors such as Elias and Foucault with original and revealing empirical material drawn from 1300 young people, and qualitative in-depth interviews with different ...
Diane Davis - Inessential Solidarity; Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations (2010).jpg
In Inessential Solidarity, Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theory’s basic presumptions. Rather than focus on the arguments and symbolic exchanges through which social relations are ...
Philip Wexler - Mystical Society; An Emerging Social Vision (2000).jpg
In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting itself in society and in education. Describing what he calls ...
Rudi Visker - The Inhuman Condition; Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heidegger (2004).jpg
At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference?To clarify the meaning of the difference at stake ...
Jerry S. Piven - The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History (2004).jpg
This volume investigates the impact of death consideration on such phenomena as Buddhist cosmology, the poetry of Rilke, cults and apocalyptic dreams, Japanese mythology, creativity, and even psychotherapy. Death is seen as a critical motivation for the genesis of ...
Frank Vibert - The Rise of the Unelected; Democracy and the New Separation of Powers (2007).jpg
Unelected bodies, such as independent central banks, economic regulators, risk managers and auditors have become a worldwide phenomenon. Democracies are increasingly turning to them to demarcate boundaries between the market and the state, to resolve conflicts of ...
Arjun Appadurai - Modernity at Large; Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996).jpg
Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, ...