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Adaptation and Innovation
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 26.95This book, the second in a series on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences, contains the collection of papers presented at the second Belgirate conference plus four additional papers reflecting on and making sense of several participants conference experiences. Taken together, these papers offer an exciting picture of the Group Relations enterprise... more...
Group Relations Conferences
Karnac Books 2010; US$ 26.95This book will interest members of the group relations community and others whether or not they are familiar with and utilize Tavistock group relations thinking in their research, consultancy, management or teaching roles. It may serve as an inspiration to people who believe that issues that influence our lives at work and in society are complex and... more...
Bausparen 2012
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2012; US$ 4.39Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Haufe Kompass ist das perfekte Nachschlagewerk für alle Ihre Fragen rund um das Thema Bausparen. Er enthält alles Wissenswerte rund um den Immobilienerwerb und zum Immobilienrecht. Ein Bausparvertrag ist der erste Schritt, den Wunsch vom eigenen Heim Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Nahezu 80% aller Eigenheime werden unter... more...
The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition
SAGE Publications 2012; US$ 150.00A state of the art handbook in social cognition by two of the world's leading authorities in this field. Truly international in focus, it is the most wide-ranging and cutting edge volume available on this topic. Nothing like it currently exists. more...
Group Relations Conferences
Karnac Books 2012; US$ 26.95This book is a compilation of chapters based on presentations at the third Group Relations (GR) international meeting in Belgirate, Italy in November 2009, plus a number of pieces from participants reflecting on their experience of the meeting. The book takes yet another step in continuing the discourse, which began in 2003, articulating the relevance... more...
Social Policy and the Body
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 61.00The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and the relationship between... more...
Risk
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 43.95Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the original edition and have since become widely used... more...
Risk and Technological Culture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the extent to which risk... more...
Ephemeral Civilization
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 159.95The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also looks ahead to the twenty-first century. The Ephemeral... more...
The Body in Everyday Life
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:- * physical and emotional bodies * illness and disability * gender * ageing. A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides... more...









