Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity, Paperback - Ulrich Beck

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things cha...

This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational idea...

DescriptionTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory, " Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the E...

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Reducere. An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.About author(s): Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Jud...

Examines the emergence and practice of a Western model of intervention, which combines 'hard'/military and 'soft'/peace approaches, and assesses it...

Reducere. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted...

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Virginia SeaseIllustration(s): halftonesTranslator: Matthew BartonNumber of pages: 112Publication date...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John SeedAuthor: Joanna MacyThinking Like a Mountain provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environm...

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Reducere. This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 20...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

Focussing on 1930-60, this publicationconsiders Pasmore's transition from figurative painter to abstract artist. Reproducing works from both public...

This series of linked essays explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the digital age, a...

This book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it g...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ulrich F. Phd LaniusAuthor: Sandra L. Phd PaulsenAuthor: Frank M. CorriganEncompassing the contributions of expert clinicia...

First publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.

Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers.

It is widely accepted in science that the universe is a closed deterministic system in which everything can, ultimately, be explained by purely phy...

The question 'what is a human being?' remains one of the most vexing intellectual puzzles. This book reconstructs how contemporary sociologists and...

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

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This book maps out the contours of the European 'social investment' strategy, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented...

Reducere. Over the past 60 years high-income countries have invested over 4000 billion euros in development aid. With varying degrees of success, these inves...

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Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seis...

DescriptionThe idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet toda...