Социология

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we g…

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a com…

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique …

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the pas…

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embe…

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misun…

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of…

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing…

Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic witho…

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in som…

This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonst…

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people’s relationships …

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the w…

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition h…

The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and German…

Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two dec…

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacki…

Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers …

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the publi…