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In the Shadow of Violence
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 28.00This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. more...
Environment and Social Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Written in an accessible and jargon-free way, Environment and Social Theory examines: * the historical relationship between social theory and the environment *pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment social theory and the environment * twentieth century social theory and the environment * economic theory and the environment * the relationship between ecology,... more...
The Great Influenza
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 17.00At the height of WWI, history?s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the... more...
Environment and Social Theory
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 55.95Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory , completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another. This popular text outlines the complex interlinking of the environment,... more...
Rethinking Green Politics
SAGE Publications 1998; US$ 57.00Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics. John Barry challenges the ecocentric and anarchistic traits of much green political ideology; proposes that we rethink green politics by refocusing attention away... more...
Special Edition
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 114.95This is a challenging time to be an academic with an interest in either the economy or the environment: we are being deluged with an over-supply of bad news. From the evidence of accelerating climate change to the increasingly desperate policies of fiscal stimulus and quantitative easing it is difficult enough to keep up with... more...
The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 98.99Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and politics, The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability offers an analysis of the causes of unsustainability and diminished human flourishing. It makes a case for seeing that it is profound and... more...
Rising Tide
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 18.00An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made... more...
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America. For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates... more...
Perzeption und Produktion im sub-phonemischen Bereich
De Gruyter 1974; US$ 126.00Perzeption und Produktion im sub-phonemischen Bereich eine kontrastive Untersuchung an intersprachlichen Minimalpaaren des Deutschen und Englischen more...









