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  • Offshoring

    by John Urry ...
    The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance, pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive offshore worlds ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Mobile Lives

    by Anthony Elliott, John Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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    St Georges Day - A Holiday in Verse

    by Robert Browning, John Keats, William Wordsworth ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 31 min

    The United States has July 4th, Ireland St Patrick’s Day and France Bastille Day.Most Nations celebrate a particular day as ‘theirs’. That day is when they turn to themselves; to reflect on the past, to revel in the present and to look forward to the future.For England 23rd April is St George’s Day.St George, a hero from bygone days, who slays Dragons and pursues other mythic deeds, is part of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is the Future?

    by John Urry ...
    Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery, especially because futures are unpredictable and often unknowable, the outcome of many factors, known and unknown. The future is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sociology Beyond Societies

    Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century

    by John Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the post societal era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of both physical and virtual ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Societies beyond Oil

    Oil Dregs and Social Futures

    by John Urry ...
    What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world?As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak oil, these questions remain unanswered. For the last hundred years oil made the world go round, and as we move into the century of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Consuming Places

    by JOHN Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concept of the 'rural', are ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    by John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Read more

    $123.19 CAD

  • Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society

    by John Urry ...
    Series series Transport and Society
    Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Tywi Estuary Killings

    A gripping, gritty crime mystery from John Nicholl

    by John Nicholl ...
    Narrated by Jake Urry ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Carmarthen Crime

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    A completely gripping, gritty crime thriller from UK Top 50 bestselling author John NichollIs it revenge or is it justice?DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he’s shocked when the case leads him to the victim from an old caseSeventeen years ago, the system failed Rebecca. They let the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Urry ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition.Part 2 sets out a theory of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes

    by John Urry, Nicholas Abercrombie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory and of the more empirical work inspired by Max Weber. They show, however, that this distinction is of ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD