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44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible'... more...
Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
Routledge 2004; US$ 42.95Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Adorno against Habermas' influential criticisms of his account of Western society. more...
Against Eurocentrism
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 80.00This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost--indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable.... more...
The Americanization of Social Science
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 27.95In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States. Arguing that sociologists attempted to develop both a science and an instrument for the spread... more...
Arming Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 120.00This book argues that the arming of conflict is complexly structured and highly dynamic. It uncovers and describes the construction and interaction of structures and dynamics at global and regional levels, which shape the arming patterns of both state and non-state actors. more...
Balans en toekomst van de sociologie
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 54.90De belangstelling voor sociologie groeit weer. Ondanks de vele vooroordelen heeft de sociologie heeft zich in de afgelopen decennia ontwikkeld tot een volwaardige wetenschap. Sociologen richten zich vaak op maatschappelijke onderwerpen waar veel mensen mee te maken hebben en die veel besproken worden. Hun onderzoek levert kennis op die onder de oppervlakte... more...
The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists
Wiley 2008; US$ 59.95The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. Containing original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists. Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social... more...
British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and future potential. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00An authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays redefining the relevance of Durkheim to the human sciences in the twenty-first century. more...
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 74.95Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted that `for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.'... more...









