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This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has...

In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative...

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high'...

"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and...

This book offers an exciting new approach to introductory sociology. It is the first text to encourage students to examine themselves as individuals before embarking on the study of community,...

For courses in Contemporary Social Theory. This text begins with an examination of the major schools of thought of social theory and provides an in-depth analysis of its relevance to...

This volume presents views of American sociology from minority groups and important intellectual movements that did not merge into the mainstream. Coinciding with the centenary of the American Sociological Association,...

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity highlights the resurgence in historical inquiry underway right now, assesses the field's past accomplishments, and peers into the future, delineating changes to...

This book presents a comprehensive, extended, and systematic analysis of social theory as it developed between the two World Wars, a period during which major transformation occurred. Centering on the...

This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for critical reflection. It...

This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross...

All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events...

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical...

`The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens, but will also provoke...

"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of...

Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality...

From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second...

From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of...

While pleasure mobilizes the world in endless ways, it is also one of the most controversial of the central elements of human life. It is so idiosyncratic, so private, that...

One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book...

Michael Argyle believes that one of the most important components - our capacity to cooperate - has been overlooked and that the whole notion of cooperation has not been properly...

In this collection of interviews, Chomsky addresses a variety of topical issues such as: the effect of "family values" crusades on family life; the relationship between free markets and competition;...

In the mega-selling tradition of Megatrends, this groundbreaking book analyses the major seismic shifts in our culture to offer compelling insights about how the coming of the new millennium will...

The book titled The Nuclear Mentality: Psychosocial Analysis of the Arms Race by the author Lyn Barnett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...

The prospect of spending long years in reasonable health and scarcely impaired activity, far beyond the convenient landmark of retirement, has already become the norm-without anybody really noticing it, let...

Monumental changes in the Australian way of life are making the present into one of the most challenging periods in our history. Such issues as the "new woman", a record...

An examination of the needs of human beings from a philosophical viewpoint. The book examines the long-term failure of religions and political thought to give a sense of community which...

The book titled The Missionary & the Libertine by the author Ian Buruma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this book, you will find the latest information about how what you eat affects your health, the environment, and the existence of the animals who share this planet, along...

Representing social and political research, the theoretical foundations of "Continental Divide" are drawn from diverse sources - historical accounts, interpretations of literature and other creative arts, quantitative analyses by social...

The book titled Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences by the author Katharine Betts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical...

Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated for some time by approaches which emphasise how meanings are produced in films, and how this process both hinges on sexual difference and...

In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice...

A science-based, practical blueprint for cultivating a life - at work and at home - full of a sense of belonging, joy and vitality, from the New York Times bestselling...

Socialist Champion is a portrait of a man who prided himself on being both a gentlemen and a socialist. His tutbulant political career in England ended in 1894 when he...

Undead Science examines the story of cold fusion, one of the most publicized scientific controversies of the late twentieth century. In 1989 two Utah-based "discoverers" claimed to have developed an...

From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding-author of "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder"-here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two...

This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the...

Womansword is an insightful look at Japanese words concerning women and what they reveal about the status of women in modern Japan. In a collection of short, lively essays, author...

The internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities, but this technology also drives relentless competition. When consumers can change allegiance with the click of a mouse, sellers must make constant improvements -...

From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON ' Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare ......

Secret societies, orders and cults are not modern phenomena. Throughout history people have formed clandestine societies, often because of dissenting religious views. This book looks at some of the more...

The book titled The New Gilded Age: The "New Yorker" Looks at the Culture of Affluence by the author David Remnick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Each summer, hundreds of seemingly average teens from around the world gather for the International Mathematical Olympiad, a chance to race the clock and one another in the quest for...

Essays on the relationship between voice, space and performance, alternate with the minimalist poetry of scripts like Cooee Song, and end with a staccato sequence of sayings and sarcasms. This...