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A History of Political Thought: 1789 to the Present. Bruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, sett...

A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A S...

A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations. New kinds of intimate relationships such as post-divorce families, co-habit...

An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of so...

Anthropological Theory Today. This important book makes a bold statement about the nature and value of anthropological theory at the beginning of t...

Blogging. Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being ...

Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field. Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impa...

Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any Should There Be How About These. ARE THERE ANY? Many of us have our own canonic texts - the kind tha...

Class and Stratification. Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular b...

Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Current Debates. The second edition of this successful book has been extensively revised and updated. ...

Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present. Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students ...

Consumer Culture and Modernity. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have trie...

Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformati…. Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, ...

Democracy and Human Rights. What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy, ...

Democracy in the Developing World: Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Over the past decade, an increasing number of developing countr...

Economic Anthropology. This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. Th...

Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective. The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and po...

India Today: Economy, Politics and Society. Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the ...

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers. This text assembles 80 of the most pressing questions about democracy, systematically arranged in ...

Justice. Justice is a concise and accessible introduction to the central theories of justice in contemporary political theory. The book aims to pro...

Market society: markets and modern social theory. Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market i...

Media Education: Literacy, Learning, and Contemporary Culture. This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people's lives, an...

Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly fi...

Models of Democracy. The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a suc...

Nationalism : theory, ideology, history. For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies...

New Capitalism?: The Transformation of Work. In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation...

Politics and Religion. Steve Bruce draws on material from all over the world and from all religious traditions to explore the complex links between...

Reflections on a Life. This book provides a valuable insight into the work and life of Norber Elias - one of the most important social thinkers of ...

Social Control: An Introduction. What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice s...

Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century...

Sociology: 8th Edition. Now in its eighth edition, this continues to be the indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we...

Sociology: Seventh Edition. The seventh edition of this indispensable resource continues from strength to strength to provide a vibrant, engaging a...

The Cosmopolitan Vision. In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociol...

The Myth of Media Globalization. The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major ...

The New Labour Reader. The New Labour Reader draws together in one accessible volume a set of authoritative interpretations and accounts of New Lab...

The News and Public Opinion: Media Effects on Civic Life. The daily news plays a major role in the continuously changing mix of thoughts, feelings ...