Гуманитарные и общественные науки

В книге "Показатели роста: Как измерить здоровье экономики" читателей ждет увлекательное путешествие в мир экономического анализа, который определяет …

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

Книга воспоминаний, героями которой предстают девианты, а именно алкоголики, уголовники, самоубийцы, сумасшедшие, психопаты, либо, наоборот, чрезмерно…

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 …

Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, inter…

Перевод осуществлен с издания: «The Dabistán, or School of manners, translated from the original Persian, with notes and illus». V.I, Paris, 1843, 388…

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

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 …

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…

Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to…

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

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

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

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

G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of sociology's founding fathers, yet to date there have been surprisingly few books devoted to his life and…

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

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…

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

This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought – violence …

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

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…

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

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

Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of `youth' and `adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and…

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

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

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

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…

НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНО…

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

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…

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…

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analy…

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…

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

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…

After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore th…

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…

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

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…

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis…