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Book SynopsisRobert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.Trade ReviewMore than any other writer, Conquest has been responsible for bringing to the attention of the West the extent of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of Soviet Communism * Sunday Times *Stalin was not only the master criminal; he was the master concealer. It took a master detective, and a poet, like Mr Conquest, to unmask him completely * New York Times *Monumental * Washington Post *A very important book. No one has written about Stalin's terror so deeply -- Milovan Djilas

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Book SynopsisAFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, insights and everything in between. Taking a panoramic look at global Black history and contemporary culture, this book investigates the ways in which Black communities (and individuals) have been represented, oppressed, mimicked, celebrated and othered. Part autobiographical musing, part pop culture vivisection, it''s a comprehensive attempt to make sense of blackness from the vantage point of the hilarious and insightful psyche of Jeffrey Boakye. PRAISE FOR BLACK, LISTED: ''This book gives a voice to those whose experience is persistently defined, refined and denied by others'' David Lammy, Guardian ''A panoramic exploration of blackTrade ReviewIntense and compelling from the very beginning, Jeffrey Boakye bravely explores the ways in which people with darker skin are located in language . . . This book gives a voice to those whose experience is persistently defined, refined and denied by others. Boakye shows how language does not always have to be insulting, offensive or loaded, it can also be incredibly emancipatory, particularly when the black community takes ownership of the terms of prose . . . If blackness is a maze, then we must be the ones who design it. With architects like Jeffrey Boakye, I'm optimistic we can build ourselves an authentic future -- David Lammy * Guardian *A truly radical book, which manages to be unflinching and constantly entertaining -- CAROLINE SANDERSON * THE BOOKSELLER BOOK OF THE MONTH APRIL 2019 *Inventive, refreshing and humorous . . . Boakye's quirky dictionary of black-related terms never fails to surprise and entertain * Bernardine Evaristo *A radical exploration of black British culture that is as entertaining as it is politically weighty * Independent *Wit abounds in Jeffrey Boakye's insightful Black, Listed, a kind of periodic table of 60 words and phrases used down the ages to describe black people -- Colin Grant * New Statesman (Books of the Year) *Light-footed cultural analysis riffs elegantly on subjects including Meghan Markle and Marvel's Black Panther . . . a sharp critic * Metro (Best books for Christmas) *A panoramic exploration of black identity * Elle *Boakye aims to challenge, complicate and undo assumptions about what blackness means, often taking surprising routes . . . Black, Listed covers some terrain similar to that of recent books such as Akala's blistering Natives and Reni Eddo Logdge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, and while Boakye may share those authors' political intent, his humour sets him apart. He is a winningly funny "tour guide". . . The unpredictable range of his references is exciting . . . As he argues against the endlessly problematic ways in which blackness has been categorized and codified, taking on the "biggest and the blackest of the big black stereotypes", the text bobs, weaves and wanders - always one thrilling step ahead -- Michael Donkor * Times Literary Supplement *Boakye is a witty, passionate guide in this thoughtful examination of what black culture and identity mean in Britain * iNews *Urgent, timely reading * AnOther Magazine *Boakye's exploration of language, race and the ways in which we use both to demean and repress people is thought-provoking, occasionally irreverent and always interesting * The i (Books of the year) *Insightful and funny, combining history with personal musings and pop-culture references, it's a comprehensive guide to Black identity in Britain today * Prima *

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Book SynopsisVolume 3 POLITICS and GOVERNMENT' of the American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The articles about municipal government contained in the third volume include discussions of how rapid urbanization in the early nineteenth century produced a chain reaction, creating first the need for new political institutions, then the rise of machine politics, and, finally, reform movements that designed, advocated, and implemented new institutional structures such as the commission and city manager forms of government. Volume 3 also includes articles that consider the nature of intergovernmental relations at the end of the twentieth century and the connections between the governments of cities and the governments of the regions surrounding themlocalities, states, and the nation.Table of ContentsCREATING NEW INSTITUTIONS, THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER, BOSSES AND MACHINES, REFORM AND REFORMERS, CHANGING GOVERNMENT, THE CITY, ITS REGION, AND THE STATE, THE CITY AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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Book SynopsisExplores how and why languages become endangered, including a comprehensive new theoretical framework and a wide range of examples from around the world. The book will be welcomed by students and scholars of anthropology, linguistics and related disciplines, and by communities at risk of losing their heritage.Trade Review'A masterpiece both because of its erudition and its coherent perspective.' David Olson, University of Toronto'The authors address, among other things, endangerment stages and measures; research methods and ethics; linguistic ideology and attitudes that encourage speakers to maintain, or abandon, their language; factors (demographic, political, economic, etc.) that lead to language endangerment; language policy and planning; and strategies and resources for language reclamation.' L. Lindstrom, Choice'The innovative approach of this book, its distinct style and structure as well as the wealth of information and illustration, make it an invaluable resource not only for scholars and students of cognitive and social sciences, but also for those members of the larger public interested in the latest advances in the field.' Radu Voica, Anthropos'Both the formal features and the contents of this volume make it suitable and of potential interest for a diverse target audience, ranging from non-expert readers to researchers that may wish to obtain an up-to-date state of the issue.' Marc Gandarillas, Language in SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Stages of language endangerment; 3. Working in a community; 4. Identity and attitudes; 5. Language knowledge and use; 6. The sociolinguistic setting; 7. Linguistic processes; 8. Policy and planning; 9. Language reclamation; 10. Methodology; 11. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIn this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity. This second edition includes new chapters on: microbiology and the microbiome; global health; and, the self as a socio-technical system. In addition, all chapters have been comprehensively revised to take account of deveTrade Review“The strength of this re-edited volume is that its analysis and criticism of biomedical practice can be transferred to comparable (and contemporary) negotiations over space and time.” - Curare - Journal for Medical Anthropology, VOL 44 (2021) 1-4Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 The Argument 1 Interwoven Themes 2 Improving Global Health: The Challenge 4 Biomedicine as Technology 5 Does Culture Exist? 7 A word About Ethnography 10 Section 1 1 Biomedical Technologies in Practice 15 Technological Mastery of the Natural world and Human Development 16 Technology and Boundary Crossings 17 Biomedicine as Technology: Some Implications 19 Technologies of Bodily Governance 21 Technologies of the Self 24 The Power of Biological Reductionism 25 Techno/Biologicals 26 2 The Normal Body 29 Cholera in the Nineteenth Century 30 Representing the Natural Order 31 Truth to Nature 32 The Natural Body 34 A Numerical Approach 35 Other Natures 36 Interpreting the Body 38 How Normal Became Possible 39 When Normal Does not Exist 42 Problems with Assessing Normal 43 Pathologizing the ‘Normal’ 46 Limitations to Biomedical ‘Objectivity’ 48 Better than Well? 49 3 Anthropologies of Medicine 51 The Body Social 51 Contextualizing Medical Knowledge 53 Medical Pluralism 55 The Modernization of ‘Traditional’ Medicine 56 Medical Hybridization 57 Biodiversity and Indigenous Medical Knowledge 58 Self‐medication 59 A Short History of Medicalization 60 Opposition to Medicalization 62 The Social Construction of Illness and Disease and Beyond 64 The Politics of Medicalization 68 Beyond Medicalization? 71 In Pursuit of Health 71 In Summary 74 Section 2 4 Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability 79 An Anthropological Perspective on Global Biomedicine 79 Biomedicine as a Tool of Empire 81 Acclimatization and Racial Difference 82 Colonial Epidemics: Microbial Theories Prove their Worth 83 Fear of Biomedicine 85 Microbiology as a Global Standard 87 Infertility and Childbirth as Critical Events 89 Birthing in the Belgian Congo 90 A Global Practice of Fertility Control 91 Intimate Colonialism: The Biomedicalization of Domesticity 92 Biomedicine, Evangelism and Consciousness 93 The Biological Standardization of Hunger 94 The Colonial Discovery of Malnutrition 95 Albumin as Surplus 97 The Biologization of Salvation 98 In Summary 100 5 Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments 103 The Laboratory as the Site of Comparison 103 The Colonial Laboratory 104 Experimental Bodies 106 Rise of the Clinical Trial 107 Taming Chance 109 The Alchemy of the Randomized Controlled Trial 110 The Problem of Generalizability 110 Medical Standardization and Contested Evidence 112 Anthropological Perspectives on Clinical Trials: The West African Ebola Epidemic 114 ‘Jiki’: A Clinical trial Amidst the Ebola Epidemic 116 Context of the Clinical Trial 117 Globalizing Clinical Research 118 What Should Count as Evidence? 120 Economies of Blood 121 Experimental Communities: Social Relations 122 In Summary 124 6 The Right Population 127 The Origins of Population as a ‘Problem’ 129 Addressing the ‘Problem’ of Population 130 Improving the Stock of Nations 131 Contraceptive Technologies and Family Planning 133 Indian Family Planning – meeting Quotas 135 Increasing Fertility with Contraceptive use 139 The One‐child Policy 140 Biomedical Technology and sex Selection 145 Contextualizing Sex Selection: India and ‘Family Balancing’ 146 Contextualizing Sex Selection: Disappeared Girls in China 148 Sex Selection in a Global Context 151 Ghost Children, Little Emperors, Burgeoning Elders 153 Reproducing Nationalism 155 In Summary 157 Section 3 7 Who Owns the Body? 161 Commodification of Human Biological Material 162 Objects of Worth and their Alienation 164 The Wealth of Inalienable Goods 164 A Bioeconomy of Human Biological Materials 165 Who Owns the Body? 167 Gifting Life 168 Commodification of Eggs and Sperm 169 Medical Tourism 171 Immortalized Cell Lines 171 The Exotic Other 174 Biological Databases 177 Concluding Comments 182 8 The Social Life of Human Organs 185 Bioavailability – Who Becomes a Donor? 186 The Biopolitics of Organ Transplants 187 A Shortage of Organs 190 Inventing a New Death 192 The Good‐as‐dead 194 Struggling for National Consensus 197 A Rapacious Need for Organs 199 The Social Life of Human Organs 200 When Resources are in short Supply 204 Liminal Lives 206 Does the Body Belong to God? 207 Altruism, Entitlement and Commodification 209 9 Making Kinship: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction 213 Assisted Reproductive Technologies 214 Problematizing Infertility Figures 215 From Underfertility to Overfertility 216 Reproducing Culture 222 Assisted Reproduction in the United States 224 Assisted Reproduction in Egypt 227 Assisted Reproduction in Israel 230 ART and the Reproduction of Normalcy 234 Global Hubs of Conception 237 Section 4 10 The Sociotechnical Self 241 The Biological Boundary Between Self and Other 241 The Sociotechnical Self 242 Technologies of the Self 243 Technologies of the Self in Biomedicine 244 The Unconscious as Technology of the Self 245 The Discovery of an Unconscious Self 246 ­Unlocking the Pathogenic Secret 247 The Pathogenic Secret as a Mode of Subjection 248 The Making of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 248 The Practitioner‐self 251 Producing the Self Through Talking Technologies: Technologies of Health Promotion 252 Technologies of Empowerment 253 Technologies of Self‐help 254 Confessional Technologies 255 The Globalization of the Unconscious 257 Beyond Freud to the Neurosciences 259 The Psychiatric Self 259 Psychopharmaceuticals 260 Addiction and the Lie 263 Conclusion 264 11 Genes as Embodied Risk 265 From Hazard to Embodied Risk 266 From Generation to Rewriting Life 267 Genomic Hype 269 Geneticization 271 Genetic Testing and Human Contingency 272 Genetic Citizenship and Future Promise in America 275 Biosociality and the Affiliation of Genes 276 Community‐based Participatory Research 277 Genetic Information and Hybrid Causality 277 Genetic Testing in the Era of Personalized Medicine 279 Genetic Screening 280 Screening as a Collective Endeavour 282 Race and Genetic Testing 284 Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis 286 Is a Neo‐Eugenics Looming on the Horizon? 287 12 Global Health 291 What is Global Health, and How is it Different from International Health? 292 Metrics and the Global Clinic 296 Botswana’s Cancer Ward 297 Leukaemia in the Indian Ocean 298 Value in Global Health: A Global Market for Diagnostics and Drugs 300 When Markets don’t Work 301 Medical Humanitarianism and ‘Philanthrocapitalism’ 303 Regimes of Anticipation in Global Health: Epidemics Fast and Slow 304 An Anthropology of Preparedness 305 The Politics of Anticipation 307 Conclusion 309 Section 5 13 From Local to Situated Biologies 313 The End of Menstruation 314 Local Biologies 319 Kuru and Endocannibalism 320 Racism and Birth Weight 323 Agent Orange and Foetal Abnormalities in Vietnam 324 An Abundance of Local Biologies 326 Local Biology and the Erosion of Universal Bodies 328 Rethinking Biology in the Midst of Life’s Complexity 329 Is Biology Real? 330 In Summary 332 14 Of Microbes and Humans 335 The Microbial Arms Race 337 Warfare and Iraqibacter 339 Debates About the Origin of HIV 340 From Versus to Commensals: Microbiomes and Metagenomes 345 The Human Ecosystem 346 15 Genomics, Epigenomics and Uncertain Futures 349 Divining the Contemporary 349 Amassing and Systematizing DNA 350 The APOE Gene and Alzheimer’s Disease 351 Genetic Testing for Late‐onset Alzheimer’s Disease 353 Interpretations of Risk Estimates 355 Dethroning the Gene? 356 Eclipse of the Genotype–phenotype Dogma 357 Does a Programme for Life Exist? 358 Learning (Again) to Live with Uncertainty 359 Epigenetics: Overtaking Genetic Determinism 360 From Epigenesis to Epigenetics 361 Molecular Epigenetics and the Reactive Genome 362 Miniaturization of the Environment 364 Embedded Bodies 365 Epigenetics and the Womb 366 Food as Environment 367 Social Deprivation 367 Ageing and Epigenetics 368 From Causality to Contingency 368 16 Molecularizing Racial Difference 371 Molecular Biology and Racial Politics 375 The Molecularization of Race 377 Bioethnic Conscription 377 Racialized Allelic Variation 379 Mexican Genomics 380 Discordant Genomic Knowledge 381 Commodifying ‘Race’ and Ancestry 382 Looping Effects 383 Epilogue 385 Notes 389 Bibliography 467 Index 529

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored.“I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells and visualizes a story of such misery with seriousness, humor, grace and triumph.”—Toni Morrison Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders.  Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.” In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others

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Book SynopsisDrawing on research in a range of regions – from Latin America, to Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, North America, post-Soviet regions, and South and South-East Asia – Displacement offers an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to thinking about structures, spaces, and lived experiences of displacement. The contributors engage in a historical, transnational, interdisciplinary dialogue to offer different ways of theorizing about refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people and others that have been forcibly displaced. Representing a collective effort by sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, historians and migration studies scholars, this volume develops new cross-regional conversations and theoretically innovative vocabularies in the work on forced displacement. It also draws forced displacement together with other contemporary issues across different disciplines such as urbanisation, race, and imperialism.Trade Review'Displacement advances our understanding of forced migration by accentuating the transnational, historical and interdisciplinary lenses through which the field could be conceptualised and theoretically enriched. Through profound and thought-provoking chapters, it goes beyond its promise of circumventing disciplinary siloes to arouse readers’ curiosity about other potential areas of inquiry that could be problematised in relation to forced migration. Thus, Displacement will appeal not only to scholars, students and practitioners within the field of forced migration, but also to those working across a number of other disciplines and areas of study.'Husne Akgol, LSE Review of Books'It promotes interdisciplinary dialogue, establishing connections with broader discussions on power, rights, redistribution, recognition, and justice. Such a multidisciplinary approach allows urban anthropology of refugee camps and moral anthropology of asylum seekers. It also highlights the connection between Race relations and Refugee studies.'Moslem Boushehrian, Ethnic and Racial Studies -- .Table of ContentsPreface: the political geography and moral economy of asylum – Didier FassinIntroduction: global conversations on refuge – Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal Part I: Experiments of categorizing and control1 Creating proper subjects: the politics of Hmong refugee resettlement in the United States – Chia Youyee Vang2 ‘Niche openings’ and compassionate exclusions: the UK’s response to children during the refugee crisis – Ala Sirriyeh3 The banality of displacement: re-reading Hannah Arendt to instil critical thought in the Colombian refugee crisis – Ulrich Oslender4 Refugees welcome? The politics of repatriation and return in a global era of security. Case study: the Rohingya in Bangladesh – Tazreena SajjadPart II: Inhabiting displacement and crafting futures5 At sea: maritime Palestine displaced – Diana Allan6 Privatized housing and never ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians – Catherine Brun and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug7 Voice through exit: Syrian refugees at the borders of Europe and the struggle to choose where to live – Chiara Denaro8 The global refugee camp: coinciding locales of refuge among Sahrawi refugees in North Africa – Konstantina IsidorosPart III: Scales of intervention9 Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees – Jonathan Darling10 Visibilising suffering or stealth humanitarianism? The perils of promoting durable protection in cities of the south – Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Loren B Landau11 Onward pushes and negotiated refuge: theorizing the fluid national and urban regimes of forced migration in Southeast Asia – Pei Palmgren

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Book SynopsisThis textbook explains the basic principles of sociology and how a sociological understanding is vital for understanding how ideas about education and schooling have developed over time and how these issues directly affect our own lives today. This fully updated second edition will encourage students to think critically about hotly contested debates in education and what has influenced different perspectives on these issues. New to this edition: · Two new chapters on early approaches to sociological research and social class and social mobility · A new case study feature throughout the book · Enhanced coverage of recent education policy, child poverty, political extremism and the politics of independent and grammar schools. This is essential reading for students on undergraduate Education Studies degrees, and for sociology courses covering educational issues.Trade ReviewThis remains a key textbook in Sociology of Education studies within undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The authors continue to increase understandings of the complexity of educational sociology in domestic and international contexts. Boronski and Hassan should be praised again for this undertaking and the second edition is both necessary and welcome. -- Dr. Richard RaceThis is a superb textbook that is engaging, clearly written and well-structured with the student reader firmly in mind. Wide-ranging in scope, it is steeped in the scholarly literature, situating the study and concerns of education within a rich, dynamic and up-to-date sociological context. This is a must-read for students and lecturers alike. -- Dr Ayo MansarayTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Early Sociology of Education Chapter 3: Early Approaches to Sociological Research Chapter 4: Developments in Sociology of Education Chapter 5: Critical and Radical Pedagogies Chapter 6: Differential Educational Attainment and the Debate about Intelligence Chapter 7: Social Class and Social Mobility Chapter 8: Multiculturalism, race and power Chapter 9: Re-imaniging Gender Roles Chapter 10: Inclusion: Disability and Special Educational Needs Chapter 11: The Social Construction of Childhood Chapter 12: Education Policy Chapter 13: Young People and Pupil Voice Chapter 14: Transformations

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Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen.Trade ReviewA brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide . . . Far from making moral appeals, the authors posit that it is impossible for countries to climb out of poverty if only a fraction of women participate in the labour force . . . The authors reveal local women to be the most effective change agents * Publishers’ *Weekly (starred review) * ‘This wonderful book combines a denunciation of horrible abuses with clear-eyed hope and some compelling practical strategies. The courageous women described here, and millions more like them, deserve nothing less’ *THE NEW YORK TIMES * ‘An inspiring testament to women’s courage, and their struggle for hope and recovery’ *Khaleid Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner * ‘These stories show us the power and resilience of women who would have every reason to give up but never do . . . You will not want to put this book down’ *

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Book Synopsis âœThis book will certainly prove to be a useful resource and reference point â a good addition to anyoneâs bookshelf.â Network"This is a superb collection, expertly presented. The overall conception seems splendid, giving an excellent sense of the issues... The selection and length of the readings is admirably judged, with both the classic texts and the few unpublished pieces making just the right points." William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex "... an indispensable book for all of us in philosophy and the social sciences who teach and care about the shape of social knowledge in the future." Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York Albany "For a comprehensive account of the ways in which world transformations affect claims to social scientific knowledge, one need look no further than Gerard Delanty and Piet Strydom's Philosophies of Social Science. ...this collection captures nicely the inTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONWhat is the philosophy of social science? PART 1Positivism, its dissolution and the emergence of post-empiricismIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts1 EMILE DURKHEIMWhat is a social fact? (1895) 2 OTTO NEURATHThe scientific world conception (1929) 3 CARL G. HEMPELConcept and theory in social science (1952) 4 ERNST NAGELMethodological problems of the social sciences (1961) 5 KARL POPPER The problem of induction (1934) 6 RUDOLF CARNAPConfirmation, testing and meaning (1936) 7 TALCOTT PARSONSTheory and empirical fact (1937) 8 A.J. AYERThe characterization of sense-data (1940) 9 W.V.O. QUINETwo dogmas of empiricism (1951) 10 LUDWIG WITTGENSTEINLanguage games and meaning (1953) 11 STEPHEN TOULMINThe evolution of scientific ideas (1961) 12 THOMAS KUHNA role for history (1962) 13 IMRE LAKATOSFalsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes (1970) 14 PAUL FEYERABENDAgainst method (1975) PART 2The interpretative traditionIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts15 WILHELM DILTHEYThe development of hermeneutics (1900) 16 GEORG SIMMELOn the nature of historical understanding (1918) How is society possible? (1908) 17 MAX WEBER‘Objectivity’ in social science (1904) 18 SIGMUND FREUDThe dream-work (1900) A philosophy of life (1932) 19 ERNST CASSIRERFrom a critique of abstraction to relationalism (1910) 20 KARL MANNHEIMCompetition as a cultural phenomenon (1929) 21 ALFRED SCHUTZConcept and theory formation in the social sciences (1954) 22 MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTYThe philosopher and sociology (1960) 23 MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe age of the world picture (1938) 24 PETER WINCHPhilosophy and science (1958) 25 HANS-GEORG GADAMERHermeneutical understanding (1960) 26 JÜRGEN HABERMASThe hermeneutic claim to universality (1973) 27 PAUL RICOEURTowards a critical hermeneutic: hermeneutics and the critique of ideology (1973) 28 CHARLES TAYLORInterpretation and the sciences of man (1971) 29 CLIFFORD GEERTZThe thick description of culture (1973) 30 AARON CICOURELMethod and measurement (1964) 31 HAROLD GARFINKELRational properties of scientific and common-sense activities (1960) 32 ERVING GOFFMANPrimary frameworks (1974) PART 3The critical traditionIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts33 MAX HORKHEIMERTraditional and critical theory (1937) 34 HERBERT MARCUSEPhilosophy and critical theory (1937) 35 THEODOR W. ADORNOSociology and empirical research (1969) 36 JÜRGEN HABERMASKnowledge and human interests (1965) The tasks of a critical theory (1981) 37 KARL-OTTO APELTypes of social science in light of human cognitive interests (1977) 38 ALBRECHT WELLMERCritical theory of society (1969) 39 ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGERThe critical argument (1975) 40 ALVIN GOULDNERTowards a refiexive sociology (1970) PART 4Pragmatism, semiotics and transcendental pragmaticsIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts41 CHARLES S. PEIRCEA definition of pragmatic and pragmatism (1902) 42 JOHN DEWEYSocial inquiry (1938) 43 CHARLES MORRISFoundations of the theory of signs (1938) Pragmatics and semantics (1946) 44 C. WRIGHT MILLSSituated actions and vocabularies of motive (1940) 45 KARL-OTTO APELTranscendental pragmatics (1979) PART 5The structuralist controversy: language, discouse and practiceIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts46 CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSSStructural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology (1958) Language and the analysis of social laws (1951) 47 LUCIEN GOLDMANNThe human sciences and philosophy (1966) 48 MICHEL FOUCAULTThe order of things (1966) Power/knowledge (1976) 49 JACQUES DERRIDAStructure, sign and play in the discourses of the human sciences (1966) 50 PIERRE BOURDIEUThe logic of practice (1980) PART 6New directions and challengesIntroduction: a general outlineThe selected texts51 RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN‘Anti-foundationalism’ (1991) 52 PIERRE BOURDIEURadical doubt (1992) On science and politics (1999) 53 ANTHONY GIDDENSSocial science as a double hermeneutic (1984) 54 DOROTHY SMITHThe standpoint of women in the everyday world (1987) 55 DONNA HARAWAYSituated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective (1988) 56 PATRICIA HILL COLLINSThe sociological significance of black feminist thought (1986) 57 KARIN KNORR-CETINAStrong constructivism (1993) 58 IAN HACKINGWhat is social construction? The teenage pregnancy example (2002) 59 STEVE FULLERThe project of social epistemology and the elusive problem of knowledge in contemporary society (2002) 60 NIKLAS LUHMANNThe cognitive program of constructivism and a reality that remains unknown (1990) 61 ROY BHASKAR Transcendental realism and the problem of naturalism (1979) 62 JON ELSTERRational choice and the explanation of social action (2001) 63 RANDALL COLLINSSociological realism (1998) 64 JÜRGEN HABERMASRealism after the linguistic-pragmatic turn (1999) Further readingIndex

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Book SynopsisThe less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships are illuminated through the writing that has been left behind. We see Elizabeth I attempting to win over her new stepmother, Alan Bennett working out the character of Mr Toad, Henry Moore advising soap and water for cleaning sculpture and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin balancing childcare with discovering the structure of penicillin. Here you will find letters, first drafts, autograph albums and hastily scribbled notes, fair copies, marked-up proofs and doodles. Divided into themed categories, the entries feature novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler; scientists Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein; reformers Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Mohandas Gandhi; and explorers Walter Ralegh, T.E. Lawrence and Patrick Leigh Fermor among many others. Each of these extraordinary people has passed on a manuscript or document with a fascinating story to tell.Trade ReviewThere's something special about owning an original handwritten manuscript, but if a John Steinbeck fragment or Charlotte Brontë's 'Little Book' are out of reach then Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page is the next best thing. * Fine Books Magazine *

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Book Synopsis''A truly gripping narrative . . . The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities'' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times''Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance'' Will Hutton, GuardianIn the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpose - to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concepts of credit derivatives.The group at the heart of this revolution was an intense team, made up of individuals with a supreme sense of loyalty to each other and to the bank - for years, nothing could break them apart. But when, finally, the team dispersedTrade Review** 'A truly gripping narrative . . . The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities * Dominic Lawson, SUNDAY TIMES *** 'Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance * Will Hutton, GUARDIAN *** 'An absorbing 15-year gallop across the Wild West of the world's financial markets . . . Tett sketches a system in the grip of a great error, emanating outwards from a cadre of elite traders who were able to repel any attempt to monitor, question or restrain them * Stephen Foley, INDEPENDENT *** 'A very readable, well-informed account of the way investment bankers invented, promoted and profited from the . . . financial products that were at the heart of the financial collapse * Vince Cable, Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Conceptually sophisticated yet clear and accessible, this book is a must-have text for students exploring feminist and gendered approaches to the urgent issues of our time."Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds"Lennon and Alsop have put paid to the idea that gender theory is remote from the social and political concerns of global feminisms. With measured analyses but no fence-sitting, the authors are reliable guides to the gender-race-trans-queer controversies that animate our everyday lives."Stella Sandford, Kingston University"This is a rare book of theory that speaks as effectively to a new student of gender as to the well-read feminist scholar. By weaving their critique of essentialism throughout their eloquent and fair-minded summaries of major thinkers, Lennon & Alsop have created a masterpiece rich in concrete, contemporary examples. This is intersectional theorizing at its interdisciplinary best."Myra Marx Feree, University of Wisconsin-Madison"A vibrant and vital contribution to the field of gender theory and to feminist scholarship, articulating complex theories with sophistication and clarity."Feminist Studies Association"A fantastic resource for introducing students, especially graduate students and advanced undergraduates, to classic debates in gender theory."Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One. The Data of Biology Chapter Two. Gendered Psyches: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference Chapter Three. Historical Materialism Chapter Four. Simone de Beauvoir: Becoming Woman Chapter Five. Intersectionality Chapter Six. Judith Butler: Performativity, Precariousness and Queering Chapter Seven. Making Sense of our (Gendered) Selves Conclusion. The ‘Truth about Gender’ Questions for Further Reflection Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.Trade Review"Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."Satyajit Das, Willmot.comTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1 1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5 2 Humanity on the Move 27 3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55 4 Out of Touch Together 71 5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94 Notes 111

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Book SynopsisIn this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science – that of a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet. This new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, on politics, and on religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation that it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew, to the largest possible audience, the tradition of Christianity as it has never been appreciated before, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.Table of ContentsForeword by Frédéric Louzeau1. The Great Clamor: Conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ2. Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology3. On a Decisive Overturning of the Schema of the End Times4. If You Lose the Earth, What Good Will It Do You to Have Saved Your Soul?Notes

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Book SynopsisTheSixth Editionof William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt's groundbreaking text discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspectiveproviding in-depth coverage of social theories of childhood, the peer cultures and social issues of children and youth, and children and childhood within the frameworks of culture and history. This revised editionhas been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest research and the most pertinent information so readers can engage in powerful discussions on a wide array of topics.

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Book SynopsisFind out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away? Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighborhoods. He and John McKnight, the cooriginator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with his or her neighbors to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures. You will learn to take action on what you already deeply know—that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal. 

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Book SynopsisArgues that state policies that created conditions conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series of economic, social, and political dilemmas that confronted policymakers as postwar prosperity stalled beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. This book also focuses on deregulation of financial markets during the 1970s and 1980s.Trade ReviewWith Capitalizing on Crisis, we finally have a persuasive account of the roots of the 2007-2008 financial disaster. While most studies focus on the proximate causes, Krippner makes sense of the dramatic expansion over decades of the financial sector of the U.S. economy. She explains brilliantly how and why government officials encouraged financialization as a way to solve the most vexing problems of our political economy. -- Fred Block, University of California at DavisIn this wonderfully researched and tightly argued book, Greta Krippner shows how the expansion of the financial sector in the United States not only helped delay the 'day of reckoning' for spendthrift American households, corporations and government, but also conveniently depoliticized the distributional conflicts that had plagued the nation since the 1960s. Nobody expected these providential outcomes, not even the policymakers who had opened up this space for finance in a rather ad hoc fashion, through repeated efforts to fend off crisis. By the end of the process however, the markets were in charge, and government officials were only too happy --and relieved-- to follow their lead. Capitalizing on Crisis is an absolute must read for anyone who cares to understand the origins of our current financial quagmire and the distributional dilemmas that policymakers inevitably and uncomfortably face. -- Marion Fourcade, University of California, BerkeleyAmidst the tsunami of books coming out in the wake of the recent financial crisis, Krippner's work stands out for its unusual approach. Rather than addressing the venality and incompetence of those with responsibility for regulating the economy, Krippner tells the history of the growth of financialization from the perspective of the regulators...In her account, the regulators were searching for ad hoc responses to what were deeper, perhaps even intractable problems. The high point of the book is her magnificent analysis of the erosion of Regulation Q, in which regulators cracked open the door to financial deregulation, unleashing the massive deregulation that came later. -- M. Perelman * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThis series helps students and teachers following the Cambridge AS & A Level Thinking Skills syllabus (9694) for examination from 2020. Universities and employers have high expectations for 21st century learners. They want students who can think critically, collaborate efficiently and produce creative solutions to problems. With more practice questions than the previous edition, this coursebook provides opportunities for students to improve both their critical thinking and problem solving skills. It walks students through different scenarios such as drawing conclusions from arguments explaining the thinking process involved and helping to increase confidence when thinking independently. Suggested answers to the coursebook questions are in the teacher''s resource.Table of ContentsIntroduction; How to Use This Book; Section 1: Problem Solving; 1. What do we mean by a 'problem'?; 2. Selecting and using information; 3. Processing data; 4. Working with models; 5. Solving problems by searching; 6. Finding methods of solution; 7. Trends in data; 8. Transforming data; 9. Summarised Data; 10. Identifying features of a model; 11. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; 12. Changing the scenario of a problem; Section 2: Critical Thinking; 13. An introduction to critical thinking; 14. Claims, statements, and assertions; 15. Assessing claims; 16. Grounds, reasons, and evidence; 17. Evaluating evidence: a case study; 18. Statistical evidence; 19. Uses of evidence: inference and explanation; 20. Identifying argument; 21. Analysing argument; 22. Interpretation; 23. Assumptions; 24. Evaluating argument; 25. Applying logic; 26. Longer texts; 27. Multiple sources; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisAn engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people's lives, as well as their own. Written by noted experts in the field, the book explores the core concepts of social psychology and examines a collection of captivating empirical studies. The book also highlights everyday lifeputting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers' social context. The Social Self and Everyday Life bridges classical theories and contemporary ideas, joins abstract concepts with concrete examples, and integrates theory with empirical evidence. It covers a range of topics including the body, emotions, health and illness, the family, teTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 An Invitation to Learn about Self, Situation, and Society 1 # ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike 2 Sociology, Psychology, and Social Psychology 3 Symbolic Interactionism and Other Perspectives 4 Overview of the Book 8 Chapter Previews 9 Note 13 References 13 2 Looking at Life from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 16 Symbolic Interactionism as a Theoretical Perspective 19 Assumptions about Human Nature and Social Life 21 Premises of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 24 The Development of Self 28 Society, Self, and Mind: The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead 28 Charles Horton Cooley’s “Looking Glass Self” 32 Self, Self‐Concept, and Identity 34 Defining the Situation, Naming, and Knowing 35 W.I. Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas’s Theorem 35 Anselm Strauss and Naming and Knowing 36 Erving Goffman’s Metaphor of the Theater: Dramaturgical Analysis 38 Conclusion 42 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 43 Notes 44 References 45 3 Socialization: Becoming Ourselves 48 What Is Socialization? 50 Sociological Perspectives on Socialization 50 Conceptualizing Socialization 52 Theoretical Perspectives of Socialization 52 Types of Socializing Experiences 56 Socialization in Childhood 57 Infants and Agency 57 Parents and Children 59 Peers and Socialization 62 Adult Socialization 66 Involvements and Evolvements 66 Total Institutions and Remaking the Self 68 Conclusion 70 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 71 Notes 72 References 73 4 The Social Body: Appearances and Experiences 76 Bodily Appearances 77 Coping with Bodily Stigma 81 Defining Stigma 81 Responding to Being Stigmatized 85 Interpreting Bodily Experiences 87 Conclusion 92 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 92 Notes 94 References 94 5 Health, Illness, and Disability 96 Meanings of Health, Illness, and Disability 97 Maintaining Health 99 Individual vs. Social Responsibility for Health 101 Individual Responsibility for Health 102 Gender and Individual Responsibility for Health 102 Extending Individual Responsibility through Online Participation 103 Social Responsibility for Health 105 Individual Responsibility and Neoliberalism 105 How Individual Responsibility for Health Complements Neoliberalism 105 Moral Failure and Victim‐Blaming 107 Experiencing Serious Illness 108 The Diagnostic Quest 109 Biographical Disruption and Loss of Self 111 Living with Illness and Disability 114 Medicalization, Biomedicalization, and Risk 118 Conclusion 119 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 120 Notes 121 References 121 6 Emotion Norms, Emotion Management, and Emotional Labor 125 Emotion Norms 126 Emotion Management 131 Interpersonal Emotion Management 135 Emotional Labor 137 Controlling Employees’ Emotions 138 The Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor 141 Conclusion 144 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 145 Notes 146 References 146 7 All Our Families: Diverse Forms, Diverse Meanings 150 The Cultural Relativity of Family 152 Three Ways of Answering the Question “What Is Family?” 154 Family Discourse as Meaning‐Making 156 The Social Shaping of Family Descriptions 160 Who Knows Best about Families? 162 Conclusion 164 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 165 Notes 167 References 167 8 “Always On/Always On Us”: Technology, Interaction, and the Self 170 The Cyberbased Generalized Other and the Mediated Looking Glass 173 Music as a Technology of the Self 176 The Quantified Self 179 Conclusion 183 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 183 Notes 184 References 185 9 Amplifying Social Problems: Claimsmakers and Their Contexts 190 Objectivist and Interactionist Approaches to Social Problems 192 Amplifying Social Problems 196 The Contexts of Claimsmaking 201 Conclusion 205 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 206 Notes 207 References 207 10 Individuals and Institutions 209 How Institutions Shape Individuals 214 Creating “Good Ford Men” 217 Responses to Constraint 219 The Loss of Institutional Anchors 221 “Who am I Now?” 222 The Role of Place 223 Conclusion 225 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 226 Note 227 References 227 11 Inequality in Interaction 232 Studying Inequality 233 Reproducing Inequality through Interaction 238 Boundary Maintenance 239 Othering 240 Microaggressions 242 Subordinate Adaptation 243 Emotion Management 245 Resisting and Challenging Inequality 247 Conclusion 248 Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 248 Notes 249 References 250 12 Conclusion: The Benefits of Studying Symbolic Interaction 254 The Value of Studying Symbolic Interactionism 254 Social Interaction Is a Ubiquitous (and Enjoyable) Topic 254 SI Provides a Useful Vocabulary for Understanding Social Life, Via Its Focus on Generic Social Processes 255 SI Can Assist in Self‐Improvement 257 Altruism 258 Final Thoughts 259 References 259 Index 261

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Book Synopsis* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * 'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM ---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multi-ethnic societies. At the end of the Second World War, fewer than one in twenty-five people living in the UK were born abroad; now it is one in seven. The history of humankind is a story of us versus them, and the project of diverse democracies is a relatively new one – it is, in other words, a great experiment. How do identity groups with different ideologies and beliefs live together? Is it possible to embark on a democracy with shared values if our values are at odds? Yascha Mounk argues that group identity is both deeply rooted and malleable. No community is beyond conciliation: groups are moving towards cooperation across the world. The Great Experiment offers a profound understanding of the problem behind all our other problems, and genuine hope for our capacity to solve it.Trade ReviewDon’t ridicule or vilify: engage and persuade – is one of the many mantras of Yascha Mounk’s extremely wide-ranging, highly readable, and fascinating study of how slowly, and often falteringly, we can slowly learn better to live alongside and with each other in our ever more diverse societies. An optimistic realistic vision of the future -- Danny DorlingCan diverse democracies flourish? The Great Experiment is a bold and necessary counter-argument to nativists, populists and pessimists -- Helen Lewis, author of DIFFICULT WOMENThe Great Experiment confronts the intense challenges faced today by diverse societies in creating norms and institutions that allow their citizens to live peacefully with one another. It moves from insightful analysis of our current crisis to practical suggestions on how to mitigate conflicts over race and identity—a blueprint for a more optimistic future. -- Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy and author of THE END OF HISTORY and THE LAST MANA convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers -- George Packer, author of THE UNWINDING and LAST BEST HOPEIn The Great Experiment, Yascha Mounk shows us our history, our psychology, our self-inflicted wounds, and our best hope for creating stable democracies that benefit from diversity. This magnificent book increases our odds of success -- Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND and professor at NYU-Stern School of BusinessIn this brave and necessary book, Yascha Mounk honestly confronts the challenges to democracy posed by diverse, multiethnic societies, while at the same time refusing to give in to fashionable pessimism. He argues that we can and should find ways to build common ground, using good-faith patriotism to build consensus. Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book. -- Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic and Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

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Book Synopsis"In 1919, just months before he died unexpectedly of pneumonia, the sociologist Max Weber published two lectures that he had recently delivered at the invitation of a group of students. The question the students asked Weber to address in these lectures was simple and haunting. In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, constant economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was vocation, in intellectual work or politics, still possible? Responding to the students'' sense of urgency, Weber offered his clearest account of "the disenchantment of the world," as well as a seminal discussion of the place of values in the university classroom and academic research. Similarly, in his politics lecture he gave students what is undoubtedly his pithiest version of his account of the nature of political authority. Weber''s attempts to rethink vocation remain as relevant and as stirring as ever"--

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Book SynopsisAttaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental human rights and United Nations values. Women around the world nevertheless regularly suffer violations of their human rights throughout their life, and realizing women's human rights has not always been prioritized. Achieving equality between women and men requires a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which women experience discrimination and are denied equality so as to develop appropriate strategies to eliminate such discrimination. This publication provides an introduction to women's human rights, beginning with the main provisions in international human rights law and going on to explain particularly relevant concepts for fully understanding women's human rights.

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Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . intellectually stimulating and compelling' SUNDAY TIMESA reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multi-generational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated South and a 'white' mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of 'black blood' makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he'd never rigorously reflected on its foundations - but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions.It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his daughter is white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them - or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.Trade ReviewThis book brings a blast of fresh air that will change your thinking about race * George Packer, author of The Unwinding *There have been a slew of books this year about racism and white privilege, pretty much saying the same thing at different volumes of indignation. This slim book is different. A mixed-race American, Thomas Chatterton Williams had to rethink what being black meant when he held his baby daughter for the first time: she was blonde, blue-eyed and pale-skinned. This humane essay is an attempt to move beyond our obsession with race and skin colour * The Times (Saturday Review), Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year 2020 *[Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him. At a time of increasing division, his philosophizing evinces an underlying generosity. He reaches both ways across the aisle of racism, arguing above all for reciprocity, and in doing so begins to theorize the temperate peace of which all humanity is sorely in need * New York Times Book Review *An elegantly rendered and trenchantly critical reflection on 'race' and identity: one that is perfectly suited to our time. This is a subtle, unsettling, and brave book * Glenn Loury, professor of economics and faculty fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University *An energizing book by one of the greatest writers of our time * Yascha Mounk, author of The People vs. Democracy *A standout memoir that digs into vital contemporary questions of race and self-image . . . succeeds spectacularly for three main reasons: the author's relentlessly investigative thought process, consistent candor, and superb writing style. Almost every page contains at least one sentence so resonant that it bears rereading for its impact . . . An insightful, indispensable memoir * Kirkus (starred review) *A provocative philosophical argument about the role of race in human identity . . . intellectually rigorous, written in fluid prose, and frequently exhilarating * Publishers Weekly (starred) *An elegant and sharp-eyed writer . . . In a publishing environment where analyses of race tend to call out white fragilities and catalogue historical injustices, Self-Portrait in Black and White is a counterintuitive, courageous addition * Washington Post *A fluent, captivating, if often disquieting story . . . We witness Williams on a journey of both self-discovery and self-creation, and his memoir is most valuable as a way deeper into, as opposed to a way out of, race talk * Harper's *An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . This book certainly takes the reader on an intellectually stimulating journey and makes a compelling case for a postracial future * Sunday Times *This humane essay is an attempt to move beyond our obsession with race and skin colour * The Times *

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Book SynopsisLevi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure. - Commentary

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Book SynopsisKeith Tribe’s new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world’s leading experts on Weber’s thought, Tribe has produced a clear and faithful translation that will become the definitive English edition of one of the few indisputably great intellectual works of the past 150 years.Trade ReviewMax Weber is out of style…It is about time for a reappraisal, and an excellent opportunity has been provided in the form of Keith Tribe’s new translation of Weber’s masterpiece. -- Nick Burns * New Criterion *A boon to first-time readers of Weber as well as specialist scholars. -- Joshua Derman * Journal of Modern History *Keith Tribe is one of the best Weberians around, and has been for decades. This excellent translation will make Max Weber’s work more readily available to a new generation of scholars. Weber’s major ideas never go stale, and Tribe’s translation will assure reliable access to them. -- Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State UniversityHarvard University Press could not have found a better translator than Keith Tribe for this project, and no Anglophone writer knows Weber better. Tribe has produced a fine translation that will help the non-specialist appreciate the greatness of Weber’s work. -- Peter Baehr, Lingnan University, Hong KongThe great Anglo-American tradition of Max Weber translation has never been more necessary than today, when English is the near-universal language of the academy and the German-language understanding of Weber has recently undergone a revolution. Keith Tribe brings us up to date with a new and appropriately revolutionary re-presentation of Max Weber’s final text of Economy and Society. In the 1960s Economy and Society was said to be the ABC of sociological theory; now we can see it is the Everest. -- Peter Ghosh, University of OxfordGenerations of sociologists have thought they really understood what Max Weber was really doing in writing Economy and Society. Historians have long known this is more mythology than reality. And Keith Tribe has been one of the leading figures in putting back into proper context the emergence of those bits of text we can be certain that Weber was most on top of before he died. Tribe’s introduction to this volume is exemplary, letting us see quite how original and still surprising the first several chapters of Weber’s approach to action, interpretation, meaning and the conceptual construction of the economy are. Furthermore, his new translation, with its greater fidelity to the original texts and clarity in its presentation of Weber’s emphatic and didactic intent, effectively gives English-language readers a completely new text, and thus a new Weber, to grapple with. -- Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.Trade Review"[Normal Accidents is] a penetrating study of catastrophes and near catastrophes in several high-risk industries. Mr. Perrow ... writes lucidly and makes it clear that 'normal' accidents are the inevitable consequences of the way we launch industrial ventures... An outstanding analysis of organizational complexity."--John Pfeiffer, The New York Times "[Perrow's] research undermines promises that 'better management' and 'more operator training' can eliminate catastrophic accidents. In doing so, he challenges us to ponder what could happen to justice, community, liberty, and hope in a society where such events are normal."--Deborah A. Stone, Technology Review "Normal Accidents is a testament to the value of rigorous thinking when applied to a critical problem."--Nick Pidgeon, NatureTable of ContentsAbnormal Blessings vii Introduction 3 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island 15 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs--But Will Soon 32 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe 62 4. Petrochemical Plants 101 5. Aircraft and Airways 123 6. Marine Accidents 170 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes 232 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA 256 9. Living with High-Risk Systems 304 Afterword 353 Postscript: The Y2K Problem 388 List of Acronyms 413 Notes 415 Bibliography 426 Index 441

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mediums and Magical Things makes a valuable contribution to the study of material religion, anthropology of religion, and religion in modernity. It is a timely volume that will no doubt fulfill Kendall’s hope that it ‘propel others down similar paths’." * Nova Religio *"Mediums and Magic Things contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Conventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things 2. Ensoulments 3. Materiality, Making, and Magic 4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred 6. Afterlives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on two of his most important and influential concepts: habitus and field. For the social scientist, the object of study is neither the individual nor the group but the relation between these two manifestations of the social in bodies and in things: that is, the obscure, dual relation between the habitus – as a system of schemas of perception, appreciation and action – and the field as a system of objective relations and a space of possible actions and struggles aimed at preserving or transforming the field. The relation between the habitus and the field is a two-way process: it is a relation of conditioning, where the field structures the habitus, and it is also a relation of knowledge, with the habitus helping to constitute the field as a world that is endowed with meaning and value. The specificity of social science lies in the fact that it takes as its object of knowledge a reality that encompasses agents who take this same reality as the object of their own knowledge. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most important concepts and ideas, this volume will be of great interest to the many students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the 20th century.Table of ContentsContents Lecture of 5 October 1982The retrospective illusion and the unreality of theory in research -- A work of axiomatisation -- Scientific concepts -- The fundamental questions -- Realist definition and interactionist definition -- Metaphysical requirements for sociology -- Iron Filings Lecture of 12 October 1982The double life of the social -- The process of objectification and incorporation of the social -- Moving beyond the opposition between subjectivism and objectivism. -- Scholarly understanding and practical understanding -- The examples of reading and the work of art -- Programme of future lectures and questions from the audience Lecture of 19 October 1982Sense without consciousness -- The mechanistic error and the intellectualist error -- The temptation of the sociologist as king -- Intellectual obstacles to the knowledge of the gnoseologia inferior -- The habitus as orthe doxa Lecture of 2 November 1982Positions and dispositions -- The two states of history -- A feel for the game -- Practical knowledge -- Investment in the game and illusio -- Affective transference of the domestic libido, and conformism -- Critique of the economic discourse -- The economic conditions of economic practices Lecture of 9 November 1982Habituality in Husserl -- Decision theory in economics -- Avoiding mechanism and purposiveness -- The theory of the machine -- The ontological power of language -- Popular culture and popular language -- Marxist teleology -- The reification and personification of the collective. -- The solution of the habitus Lecture of 16 November 1982The adaptation of expectation to opportunity -- Avoiding purposiveness-- Interiorising the social -- Incorporating necessity -- Rites of institution -- The call to order: the example of the relation of the family to the school -- Social relations in the enquiry relationship -- Surreptitious persuasion, symbolic violence -- The paradox of continuity -- Critique of the scholarly relation Lecture of 23 November 1982A double--voiced discourse -- Looking scholarly -- Where is the sociologist coming from? -- Sociology in the space of disciplines -- The unconscious structures of the hierarchy of disciplines -- Philosophy / sociology / history -- Epistemological struggles, social struggles -- Finding out what sociology does Lecture of 30 November 1982Sociology as taking liberty/ies -- Positions, dispositions and stances -- Sociological bodies and academic styles -- Positions attained and positions to attain -- Mental structures and objective structures -- Transformations of the field: the case of the university system -- The refraction of external constraints -- Strategies of struggle -- The boundaries of the field -- The intellectual field Lecture of 7 December 1982The structural mode of thinking -- From symbolic systems to social relations -- Parenthesis on the genesis of a corpus of knowledge -- The field of forces and the field of struggles -- Thinking a social position -- How to construct a relational space? -- The distribution of capital and the different structures -- The inter--fields -- Return to the structure of the distribution of capital -- The interdependence of field and capital -- The major kinds of capital -- Conversion of the kinds of capital Lecture of 14 December 1982A manner of thinking -- The field and the statistical aggregate -- The concept of the field (1): theoretical itinerary -- The concept of the field (2): practical itinerary Field and milieu -- Field and interaction -- Field and network -- Field and positions -- Field and representation of the situation -- The space of objective relations and the space of interactions -- Field, group, population, individual -- Representations and practical sense -- Homologies between fields Lecture of 11 January 1983Physicalism and semiologism -- Structure as crystallised history -- Roulette and poker -- The alternatives of income or trade -- Amor fati. -- The fertile terrain of the literary field -- Art versus method: charismatic ideology and ‘sociology of literature’ -- The field as mediation -- Literary field and intertextuality -- A chiasmatic structure -- Automation, hierarchisation, institutionalisation -- The intellectual in the field of cultural production Lecture of 18 January 1983The world upside--down -- Field of power and field of cultural production -- Conservative intellectual -- The law of symbolic legitimation -- Return to the struggles within the field of cultural production -- The genesis of the invariants -- The adaptation of offer to demand through homology of structure -- The conquest of autonomy -- The hierarchy of productions and the hierarchy of publics Lecture of 25 January 1983The economic logic of cultural enterprises -- The truth of practice -- The deferred profits of disinterestedness -- The ambivalent profits of the market -- The subversion of the rules of the field -- Time--scales and ‘personalities’ -- Clients and rivals: the mediation of the education system -- Generations and revolutions -- Modes of ageing and eternalisation -- Overthrowing for the sake of overthrowing -- Orientating the self in the space of possibilities -- Trajectory / career and habitus -- The impious dismantling of the fiction Appendix Summary of lectures, published in the Annuaire du Collège de France Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real social science undergraduates from a range of institutions, the book includes their advice to help you through with what can be a daunting, but rewarding stage of your degree. From the look and feel of the book, to the development of the chapter content and the advice it provides, students have been involved at every stage of the book''s development to ensure it is focused on what''s important to you.Expert advice from real supervisors across the subject disciplines in the ''Working with your supervisor'' feature also helps you to make the most of research supervision, and learn from the experience of real researchers in your chosen field. By providing anecdotes, words of wisdom, scenarios, or simply reminders, hints, and tips on how best to prepare for meetings, and communicate effectivelTrade ReviewSomething I wish I had when I started my dissertation! I liked that the first chapter emphasized why social research is so important and why it is necessary - I found this quite motivating as it highlights something that is quite easy to forget when in the middle of the project. Furthermore, I like that each chapter has a specific topic and objective. Although some of the information is already in my module handbook, it is really useful to have a book like this that has everything in one place and makes it easy to find answers to any questions students might be having. Overall I think it will be a very helpful book to future students. * Vilde Bye Dale, Student of Modern History and Politics, University of Essex *The tone is very positive and encouraging, which makes the project seem as a less daunting task - which is great! * Megan Robinson, Student of Criminological and Forensic Psychology, University of Bolton *I wish I had this book ready at the start of my dissertation. I usually just rely on the module handbook, but I have realized from reading the first few chapters of this book that it has so much more useful and relevant advice to offer which would have been very useful during the writing of my bachelors dissertation. The style of writing is appropriate as it is relaxed, engaging, informative, and easy to understand for students who would like as little stress as possible during this time. * Ashley Neat, Student of International Relations, University of Groningen *I think the book would make an excellent resource for any student in their final year project. The chapters that I have read are very helpful, and would certainly purchase and recommend to fellow students. I think the 'Finding your Way' pointers and 'What do I need to do?' lists are very helpful. From what I have read the book would be easy to dip in and out of. * Julie Keaveney, Student of Counselling with Mentoring, Huddersfield University *This is very insightful and would aid me greatly in my research. If I would have had it from the beginning, then I think I would feel more organized, and ready to approach my dissertation more willingly; with much more of a positive and 'can-do' attitude, rather than that of dread and anxiety. * Ellie Fitzpatrick, Student of Sociology and Criminology, University of Salford *This is a very promising book, and I only wish it were out now. The segments sent for review have already actually helped with my dissertation! * James Rivett, Student of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent *This is extremely comprehensive and I should imagine is a fantastic resource for students embarking on social research. Complex ideas are expressed in straightforward and accessible ways and students are well guided through each stage of the research process. * Dr Anna Tarrant, Reader in Sociology, University of Lincoln *This book is an excellent resource for undergraduate students in the social sciences who are about to start their first research project. The book introduces all the significant tips and potential pitfalls students are likely to encounter, and answers most questions I tend to be asked as supervisor. As such, it is also a very useful resource for supervisors - to direct students to, but also to give a good idea of what kind of advice might be useful to give at different stages of the process. * Dr Ingrid A. Medby, Senior Lecturer in Political Geography, Oxford Brookes University *A down-to-earth, straightforward, reliable, accessible how-to guide which treats students as peers and demystifies the research process. * Dr Siobhan McAndrew, Lecturer in Sociology with Quantitative Research Methods, University of Bristol *The layout, pace and language all contribute to demystifying the fear associated with such a large and daunting piece of work and the pedagogic features interspersed throughout the book act as encouraging and thought-provoking reminders that it is all going to be okay! * Dr Mark Holton, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Plymouth *I think the authors do a great job of conveying useful advice respectfully not condescendingly. * Dr Michael Pugh, Lecturer in Politics, University of the West of Scotland *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The research process 3: Getting started 4: Developing a research idea 5: Conducting a literature search 6: Reviewing the literature 7: Building your project 8: Ethics 9: Writing a research proposal 10: Sampling: which and how many people do I need? 11: Collecting quantitative data 12: Collecting qualitative data 13: Analyzing quantitative data 14: Analyzing qualitative data 15: Working with documents 16: Evaluating your project 17: Writing up your research

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare another one-sitting wonder' STEPHEN FRYDavid Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for we will, considers Baddiel, make real. The admission of his own divine yearnings makes for a book that is more vulnerable and more understanding of the value and power of religion than most atheist polemics. A philosophical essay that utilises Baddiel's trademarks of comedy, storytelling and personal asides, The God Desire offers a highly readable new perspective on the most ancient of debates.Trade Review‘This is such a fabulous book. Honest, powerful, moving. Can’t remember ever liking a book “in praise of atheism” as much as this. Many atheists don’t really get religion. David Baddiel absolutely does.’ Giles Fraser Praise for Jews Don’t Count: ‘Jews Don’t Count is a supreme piece of reasoning and passionate, yet controlled, argument. From his first sentence, the energy, force and conviction of Baddiel’s writing and thinking will transfix you…as readable as an airport thriller…a masterpiece.’STEPHEN FRY ‘I don’t think I have ever been so grateful to anyone for writing a book. Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count is incisive, urgent, surprisingly funny and short. It’s also a beautiful piece of publishing. It needs to be read’JAY RAYNER ‘Brilliant, furious, uncomfortable, funny. Essential reading.’SIMON MAYO ‘I'm about a quarter of the way into this thus far and it's very well argued and written. It's a book you know the author HAD to write, and those are the best books’JON RONSON ‘I only big up work I really believe is good and this is extra-ordinarily good. And important’JONATHAN ROSS ‘This is brilliant – funny and furious, mostly at the same time’MARINA HYDE ‘A convincing and devastating charge sheet’ Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times ‘It is so gripping – I read it in a single sitting’ Stephen Bush, The Times ‘A fascinating book, I urge you to read it’ Piers Morgan ‘I really think it’s a great book … the real triumph is its tone, its straightforwardness, and its spectacular tact and wit’ Adam Phillips, author of Monogamy ‘Funny, complex and intellectually satisfying – a really good piece of work’ Frankie Boyle ‘Just so brilliantly argued and written, I was completely swept along’ Hadley Freeman ‘David Baddiel is a brilliant thinker and writer. Even when I disagree with him – especially when I disagree with him – I feel profound gratitude for his intellectual and moral clarity. This is a brave and necessary book.’ Jonathan Safran Foer

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Book SynopsisBased on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change. The book also explains why a substantial body of social science research has found that although law may be effective for some types of economic problems, its impact on social problems is generally small and of brief duration. At least in the United States, legal doctrine seems to operate primarily to provide symbols that enhance commitment to the social system and increase the cohesiveness of the system.Barnett''s approach to legal thought derives from the practices and assumptions of the social sciences, particularly sociology, and not from those of critical legal studies. His main concern is with social issues issues that substantively differ from economic issues. In addressing Table of ContentsPrefaceA Note on Citation Style1 Introduction2 The Thesis3 Gender4 Age5 Contraception and Abortion6 Euthanasia7 Issues for Research and TheoryIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game to be played; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An essential contribution for reflecting on what is at stake in academic exchange based on empirical research." * Brésil(s) *"What Merkel proposes is a subversion of what are seen as the traditional logics of intellectual history, an approach whose importance derives from the names involved. Even the most firmly established figures in Brazilian intellectual history, unanimously recognized in their country of origin as seminal in their respective areas of specialization, ultimately could not manage to escape erasure. That is the state of things that Terms of Exchange proposes to reverse." * Revista de História (São Paulo) *“A rich examination of the intriguing crossings between Brazilian and French social sciences from the 1930s to the 1950s, Terms of Exchange offers the first history of the interactions among such characters as Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Arthur Ramos, Caio Prado Jr., Florestan Fernandes, Paul Rivet, Gilberto Freyre, and Fernand Braudel.” * Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago *“This book reconsiders the intellectual itineraries of the French professors who came to São Paulo to found USP. Challenging traditional geographies of knowledge, Merkel situates the Brazilian experience of social scientists such as Braudel and Lévi-Strauss at the center of important epistemological inflections of the mid-twentieth century.” * Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, University of São Paulo *“Merkel explores with brio a little-known episode of transatlantic intellectual history: the prewar dialectics of exchange between a small group of not-yet-famous French visiting professors at the University of São Paulo and their Brazilian hosts. The great merit of the book is to highlight the weight of their Brazilian experience on those who later deeply transformed the French social sciences.” * Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture *"Merkel's work is a welcome addition to both Brazilian history and to the charting of the twentieth-century social sciences." * The Latin Americanist *"Attempts to show the close relationship of Northern social sciences to Southern thinkers have been reduced in scope and impact so far. This is why the book Terms of Exchange by Ian Merkel is more than welcome." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Terms of Exchange is a relevant contribution to the history of the intellectuals and an important global history exercise that shows, through at least two superposed ‘mana circulation systems’, how entangled the relations among intellectuals from different parts of the world could be if well analyzed." * Storia della Storiografia *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: São Paulo, the New Metropolis with a French University Chapter 2: Atlantic Crossings and Disciplinary Reformulation Chapter 3: Getting to Know Brazil: The New Country behind the Methodology Chapter 4: Four Approaches to Global and Social-Scientific Crisis Chapter 5: Brazil and the Reconstruction of the French Social Sciences Chapter 6: Racial Democracy, Métissage, and Decolonization between Brazil and France En Guise de Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Archives Notes Index

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Book SynopsisReviewersâ comments on the first editionâœZygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis... an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.âBritish Journal of Sociology âœIt will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policyâ [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements.âWork, Employment and Society âœThis is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the âsociety of producersâ to that of the âsociety of consumersâ.âPolitical Studies It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employmentTable of ContentsSeries editor’s forewordIntroductionPart one1 The meaning of work: producing the work ethic2 From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumptionPart two3 The rise and fall of the welfare state4 The work ethic and the new poor5 Work and redundancy in the globalized worldPart three6 Prospects for the new poorNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisâœIn this era of bountiful visual, qualitative and informationalised knowledge of the social world a conscientious guide to social research is ever more valuableâthis is a knowledgeably written, highly engaging and genuinely interesting book."Dr Pamela Odih BSoc.Sc. PhD. Senior Lecturer Goldsmiths University of London, UKâœA timely focus on intersectionality, decoloniality, as well as digital, participatory, collaborative methods and the relationship between knowledge, power and action, are all compelling new additionsâAnastasia Christou, Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlesex University, UKâœThis is the best kind of companion for social researchers: a clear, concise, and practical overview of the foundations of the fieldâgrounded in critical reflection about ethics and power, and skilfully assembled to both support and inspire.âDr Oliver Escobar, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK<Table of ContentsPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionPreface to the fourth editionPreface to the fifth editionIntroductionPART 1: Issues in social research1. Knowing the social world2. Social theory and social research3. Values and ethics in the research process4. Working across boundariesPART 2: Methods and processes of social research5. Official statistics: resource and topic6. Social surveys: design to analysis with Carole Sutton 7. Documents: texts and images8. Interviewing: methods and process9. Participant observation: perspectives and practice10. Digital research11. Case study research12. Comparative research: potential and problemsPART 3: Research in practice13. Research in practice: a reflexive orientationBibliography Author Index Subject Index

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Book Synopsis* A book that will change the course of modern history, and specifically our attitudes to China.* Three of the top four China scholars in America have said this is the most important book on China published in decades.Trade ReviewThanks to these documents, we can read the words of the Party bosses, angry and baffled... Today many Chinese officials blandly deny that there was a massacre at all. These documents, however, prove it all. * John Simpson, BBC's World Affairs Editor *Fascinating. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *The significance and rarity of the book and its potential value to researchers can hardly be overstated. * OBSERVER *The most valuable political book I read was THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which gives an extraordinary insight into the old regime's ruthless stand against the freedom campaigners in Beijing in 1989. * GUARDIAN *

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