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The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière…

Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it c…

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists fro…

This comprehensive volume deciphers investigative process and practice, providing an authoritative insight into key debates and contemporary issues in…

This book is well written and inclusive with a realistic approach to problems encountered in schools today. Practical and useable interventions are in…

In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health service…

Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a…

This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balan…

How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America? How did they come to occupy centre-stage i…

The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of polit…

This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the central…

With a lively and engaging style, Myths for the Masses provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and historically informed statement about communication…

This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault’s contr…

This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of mor…

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and …

This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the d…

Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television i…

This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining the evolving relations between human communities and n…

At a time when references to things ‘global' have gained more currency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and space behind the politics …

In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and …

Prostitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in emp…

Containing close to 3,000 words and definitions, Dictionary of Artifacts is an indispensable reference for anyone working within the field of archaeol…

With the ever-increasing functionalities of information and communication technologies, as well as the spatial and temporal transformations brought ab…

Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 194…

The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The them…

In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to th…

Drawing on social theory and offering numerous case studies, Archaeologies of Materiality is one of the first books to explore materiality across time…

Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the …

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from …

In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, e…

This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.

Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring t…

This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands. The first text to provide…

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates …

The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneeri…

Gender is one of the most important topics in the field of sociology, and as a system of social practices it inspires a multitude of theoretical appro…

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language p…

This introduction to the archaeology of Asia focuses on case studies from the region’s last 10,000 years of history. Comprises fifteen chapters by som…

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transiti…

Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be impro…

Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it c…

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer be…

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that …

The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what…

This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to…