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Timescapes of Modernity
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 75.95Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic... more...
Theorizing Culture
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 39.95This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues... more...
Future Matters
BRILL 2007; US$ 82.00In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. This book addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. more...
On Kindness
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 13.99Kindness is the foundation of the world?s great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it a pleasure we often deny ourselves? And why?despite our longing?are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end of it? In this brilliant book, the eminent... more...
On Kindness
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableThe pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of altruism, as a species we... more...
Seismology and Structure of the Earth
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 96.95Seismology and Structure of the Earth focuses on theory and applications of seismology strictly as related to our understanding of the Earth?s interior structure. This volume provides an overview of the status of geophysics and is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to various aspects of seismic wave propagation theory, data analysis and inversion... more...
Environmental Risks and the Media
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences... more...
Timescapes in Management
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00Time has been referred to as the hidden dimension (Hall, 1983), an implicit challenge that for many years went largely unanswered in the field of management studies. A few pioneers explored aspects of temporality in organizational studies (for an excellent review see Bluedorn, 2002; Das, 1986), but for the most part the discipline seemed content to... more...
The Risk Society and Beyond
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 67.00Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought. more...
Making Time
Oxford University Press, UK 2002; US$ 66.00Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to look at the way time is constructed, made, managed, and used in organizations. The book both provides an overview of some of the key concepts in time and it explores how particular features of the modern... more...









