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In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive…

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in…

This book is an accessible, original and thought--provoking examination of contemporary French politics. The author clearly…

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Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of…

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, Black Theater: A Cultural Companion 1850 - Today will shine a bright new…

Underworlds is a lively account of organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the seventeenth-- and…

Iron Curtains explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.…

An important new book by one of Francea s leading social historiansExamines a very topical and relatively neglected subject…

Carl Schmitt is widely recognized as one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century and his work has been…

In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their…

Happiness, sadness, compassion, resentment, despair: just some of the feelings and moods that characterize the lives of each…

This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.…

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In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core…

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The works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of…

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Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic, 2nd Edition offers an innovative, friendly, and effective introduction to…

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This substantial volume showcases 35 of the presentations delivered at the 5th International Brachiopod Congress in…

Now presented in two volumes, the second edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development reflects the breadth…

A series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an…

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This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates,…

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This volume comprises contributions from faculty and postdoctoral finalists of the 2011 New York Academy of Sciences…

Psychobiology provides a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the study of psychobiology and the key concepts,…

The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students of…

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This exciting new reader brings together some of the best recent sociological writing on British society. The volume…

This remarkable and engaging book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn--of--the--century Vienna, one of the…

In this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic -…

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