Calling of social thought

Social Thought of Karl Marx

Part of the SAGE Social Thinkers series, this is a concise introduction to the writings, life and influences of Karl Marx - one of the 'founding fathe

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Social Thought of Emile Durkheim

A concise introduction to the writings, life, and influences of Emile Durkheim - one of the 'founding fathers' of sociology.

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Social History of Western Political Thought

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought

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Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought

This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth ce

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Social Foundations of Thought and Action

Presenting a theory of human motivation from a social-cognitive perspective, this book addresses the roles played by cognitive, vicarious, self-regula

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Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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Geography of Thought

How people actually experience - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educationa

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Calling Sergeant Crockford

Written by her daughter Ruth and rich in social history, this is the story of a real-life woman police sergeant at the top of her game, guiding her WP

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Social Capital

Providing practical recommendations for leveraging social capital for social good, this is a valuable, thought-provoking and timely exploration of the

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Social Representations - Explorations in Social Psychology

Serge Moscovici first introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology nearly forty years ago. Since then the theory has become one of the predominant approaches in social psychology, not only in continental Europe, but increasingly in the Anglo--Saxon world as well. While Moscovicia s work has spread broadly across the discipline, nota...

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Unthinking Social Science

Develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. This title demonstrate

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Emotions and Social Relations

A critical and thought-provoking exploration of the sociology of emotion from a leading name in the field. It will be of interest to students and rese

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Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution

This thought-provoking text presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of social evolution that underlie the major transitions, explaining how the b

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Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution

This thought-provoking text presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of social evolution that underlie the major transitions, explaining how the b

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Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues

This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent, 21st century socio-political issues.

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Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues

This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent, 21st century socio-political issues.

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Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the

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Fear Of A Queer Planet

Reveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political thought.

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Non-Humans and after in Social Science

This book is the third in a series exploring the potential of non-humans to illustrate and inspire an approach in which the pre-established boundaries of scholarly thought and practice blur so that new directions in theory and research can emerge. Humans and non-humans are co-present in the world. For long, they have seemed and been thought of as an ontological binary opp...

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Non-Humans and after in Social Science - Petr Gibas

<p>This book is the third in a series exploring the potential of non-humans to illustrate and inspire an approach in which the pre-established boundaries of scholarly thought and practice blur so that new directions in theory and research can emerge. Humans and non-humans are co-present in the world. For long, they have seemed and been thought of as an ontological b...

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Woke : A Guide to Social Justice - Titania McGrath

<p>'The book everyone's talking about' The Times 'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator 'Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes, fears and failures, so Titania McGrath is her millennial successor, a girl every bit as lost and confused, every bit as accurately ob...

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Coming Community

A contribution to contemporary philosophical and political thought, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philo

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Non-Humans and after in Social Science - Karolína Pauknerová, Marco Stella, Petr Gibas

This book is the third in a series exploring the potential of non-humans to illustrate and inspire an approach in which the pre-established boundaries of scholarly thought and practice blur so that new directions in theory and research can emerge.

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Non-Humans and after in Social Science - Petr Gibas,Karolína Pauknerová,Marco Stella

Anotace: This book is the third in a series exploring the potential of non-humans to illustrate and inspire an approach in which the pre-established boundaries of scholarly thought and practice blur so that new directions in theory and research can emerge. Humans and non-humans are co-present in the world. For long, they have seemed and been thought of as an ontological ...

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Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right

A translation of Hegel's classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right.

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Hayek's Challenge

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell - ed...

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Anatomies of Modern Discontent

This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of forty figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequ

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Disciplines of Modernity

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits the disciplines, archives, a

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The Dawn of Everything

'Fascinating, thought-provoking, groundbreaking. A book that will generate debate for years to come' Rutger Bregman'The Dawn of Everything is also the radical revision of everything, liberating us from the familiar stories about humanity's past that are too often deployed to impose limitations on how we imagine humanity's future' Rebecca Solnit'This is not a book. This is...

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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians - Parry H. G.

Anotace: `A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic.` Alix E. Harrow, Hugo award-winning authorA sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom.It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the ne...

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Beardová Mary

Anotace: Mary Beard`s new book Emperor of Rome is available nowAncient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual stil...

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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession - Lambek Michael

Anotace: On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on ...

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Earth, the Gods and the Soul - a History of Pagan Philosophy

Philosophy was invented by pagans. Yet this fact is almost always ignored by those who write the history of ideas. This book tells the history of the pagan philosophers, and the various places where their ideas appeared, from ancient times to the 21st century. The Pagan philosophers are a surprisingly diverse group: from kings of great empires to exiled lonely wanderers, ...

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Bloodstream: A sizzling motorsport romance for fans of Lauren Asher and Hannah Grace - Carter Emilee

Anotace: For fans of Hannah Grace and Lauren Asher BLOODSTREAM is a sizzling new enemies-to-lovers motorports romance!***He`s a world champion. She`s the new girl on the grid. Will their sizzling chemistry throw him off track? As the new social media manager for Revolution Racing, Faith is ready to get her drivers in front of the world. With their sizzling good looks, c...

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Bloodstream: A sizzling motorsport romance for fans of Lauren Asher and Hannah Grace - Emilee Carter

<p>For fans of Hannah Grace and Lauren Asher BLOODSTREAM is a sizzling new enemies-to-lovers racing romance!</p> <p>He’s a world champion. She’s the new girl on the grid. Will their sizzling chemistry throw him off track? As the new social media manager for Revolution Racing, Faith is ready to get her drivers in front of the world. With their sizzling g...

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The Art of Being A Brilliant Teenager - Cope Andy, Bradley Amy

Anotace: The BESTSELLING book on BEING A TEEN, now updated into an all new edition. In a world where there`s a lot of talk about `living your best life` and being your `best self`, The Art of Being a Brilliant Teenager shows you how. The book has a strong academic underpinning (its DNA is taken from the author`s PhD) but is written in a fun and non-patronising way. The A...

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Tools and Weapons : The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age - Smith Brad

Anotace: "A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword From Microsoft`s President and one of the tech industry`s wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. __________ Microsoft President Br...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Reeklesová Beth

Anotace: Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable. Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely. Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on...

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Primer in Critical Personalism

This insightful book offers contemporary psychologists and other social theorists an understanding of the comprehensive system of thought developed by

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Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

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Employee Participation in Governance

Michael Lower explores the relationship between Catholic social thought and the rights of the employee, encouraging consideration of the place of the

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Will to Change

In a thought-provoking social and cultural analysis, the author of All About Love explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of me

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What is Nature?

* An exploration of one of the thorniest, and most important, questions of contemporary social and political thought* Written in lively and accessbile

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Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

Drawing on and extending the relational thought of Simmel, this book argues that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations are profoundly

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Positive Atheism

Charles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jea

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Somewhere Close to Happy

'A thought-provoking, beautifully observed study of love and real life, social issues and mental health' - Jill Mansell. Perfect for fans of Cecelia A

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Rethinking Work

This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and po

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Hegel and the State

Available in English for the first time, this major contribution to the study of Hegel's political and social thought gives insight on the intellectua

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Bourdieu and Education

This innovative and thought-provoking collection 'uses' Pierre Bourdieu – renowned for his focus on inequalities and his centering of social justice

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Living Justice

Living Justice introduces readers to the past, present, and future of Catholic social thought. The third edition features significant new material on

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Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

Drawing on a variety of discourses, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts,The Ideas Tha

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Hegel and Modern Society

Charles Taylor's study of Hegel's social and political thought has continuing relevance to contemporary society. Presented in a fresh series livery an

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Portable Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century. This title includes selections fro

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Will to Change, Men, Masculinity, and Love Simon & Schuster

In a thought-provoking social and cultural analysis, the author of All About Love explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing that an emotionally rewarding inner life holds the key....

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On Living and Dying Well

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation o...

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Morning Star - Brown Pierce

Anotace: Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The E...

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Who Killed My Father (1784709905)

Kniha - autor Edouard Louis, 96 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. What a beautiful book MAX PORTERIn Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with ...

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