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"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone…

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion…

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A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender,…

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Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing…

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and…

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A timely and robust discussion of responsible bank stewardship and practice. The Second Edition of The Principles of Banking…

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There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking : this statement, made by Jurgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its…

There are insights of interest and value to all in these pages. This book develops a fresh and insightful approach to the…

In this analysis, Shanks and Tilley argue against the functionalism and positvism which result from an inadequate…

Digital Sociology is definitive for anyone interested in social research with digital data. Lucidly and generatively, it…

World poverty and development are more salient than ever on the global political agenda and the contributors to this volume,…