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  • Human Geography

    A History for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Georges Benko, Ulf Strohmayer ...
    Series series Human Geography in the Making
    'Human Geography' examines the major trends, debates, research and conceptual evolution of human geography during the twentieth century. Considering each of the subject's primary subfields in turn, it addresses developments in both continental European and Anglo-American geography, providing a cutting-edge evaluation of each.Written clearly and accessibly by leading researchers, the book combines ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Geography, History and Social Sciences

    Edited by Georges B. Benko, Ulf Strohmayer ...
    Series Book 27 - GeoJournal Library
    Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences? And why should there be so much misunderstanding? Most probably because the encounter of several disciplines is in fact the encounter of several different ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Legendary

    The 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers Defense, the Zone Blitz, and My Six Decades in the NFL

    by Dick LeBeau, Scott Brown, George Von Benko ...
    Narrated by Dick LeBeau, Troy Polamalu, James Harrison, Todd Menesses ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    This audiobook edition features narration from Pittsburgh Steelers greats: Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu, 5-time Pro Bowler James Harrison, and coach Dick LeBeau himself.To most NFL fans, Dick LeBeau is known as a football lifer, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and mastermind behind the revolutionary zone blitz defense. But to Pittsburgh Steelers fans, LeBeau is the beloved defensive coaching ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    $17.99 CAD

  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • State Theory

    Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place

    by Bob Jessop ...
    This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research.Four central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as part of a more general social theory; the possibilities of explaining ... Read more

    $53.75 CAD

  • Foucault and Neoliberalism

    Edited by Daniel Zamora, Michael C. Behrent ...
    Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism ... Read more

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  • State Power

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his own strategic-relational approach. It introduces its main sources, outlines its development, applies this approach to four case studies, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

    The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

    by David L. Swartz ...
    Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps ... Read more

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  • In Defence of Sociology

    Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Institutional Economics

    by Bernard Chavance ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early 20th century until the present day. It concentrates on influential authors in the main schools of institutional economics.Institutional economics is defined as economic thought that considers institutions to be relevant for economic theory, and consequently criticizes the neoclassical mainstream for ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD