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  • The Dark Side of Prosperity

    Late Capitalism’s Culture of Indebtedness

    by Mark Horsley ...
    This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the life trajectories of self-identified debtors struggling with the pressures of owing money. A rich and original qualitative study of the close relationship between financial capitalism, consumer ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Crime, Harm and Consumerism

    Edited by Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, Mark Horsley ...
    This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring together an impressive list of authors with original ideas and a fresh perspective to this field. The collection first introduces the reader to ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About Crime and Punishment in Britain

    The truth behind the myths

    by Adam Lynes, Pravanjot Kapil Singh Uppal, Elizabeth Yardley, Keith Spiller, Craig Jackson, Morag Claire Kennedy, Dionne Taylor, Daniel McCulloch, Saabirah Osman, Anthony Ellis0, John Bahadur Lamb1, Dr Victoria Silverwood2, Kate Williams3, Mohammed Rahman4, David J Wilson5, Charlene Crossley6, Joanna Large7, Loukas Ntanos8, Craig Kelly9, Kevin Hoffin0, Charlotte Stevens1, Sarah Page2, Mark Horsley3, Cristiana Viana Cardoso4, Katie Brooker5, Shona Robinson-Edwards6, Susie Atherton7, Nicola Harding8, Sophie Rowe9, Emma Murray0, Kate Gooch1, David Sheldon2, Claire Davis3, Kelly J Stockdale4, Jonathan Jackson5, Melindy Brown6, Aidan O'Sullivan7, Laura Riley8, Emma Kelly9, Dan Rusu0, Haydn Davies1, Tammy Ayres2, Matt Hopkins3, Liam Brolan4, Jo Turner5, Em Temple Malt6, Duncan John Frankis7, Simon Winlow8, Stevie-Jade Hardy0 ...
    Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of justice and the law? But how much do you really know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK?This exciting, dynamic and accessible book, written by leading experts, presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    by Stefan Collini ...
    WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ACADEMIA? A leading commentator offers a devastating analysis of the future of higher education amid globalization, new technology, and widespread marketization.In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new ... Read more

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  • The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism

    by Ernesto Screpanti ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professio ... Read more

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  • Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural

    The Mesmerising Misnomers

    by Jacek Tittenbrun ...
    The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual status as 'given'. With particular attention to human and social capital - including cultural capital - this book traces the roots of this theoretical and conceptual trend to economics, revealing the ... Read more

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  • I Spend Therefore I Am

    How We All Became Economic

    by Philip Roscoe ...
    A powerful exploration of how economic thinking has infiltrated every aspect of modern life, even our understanding of who we are and what it means to be a person.Economics is the academic success story of the 20th century, a potent force not just in markets and government, but in our everyday lives. It affects our decisions as consumers, of course, but also our education, our health, our social ... Read more

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  • Concepts of Capital

    The Commodification of Social Life

    Edited by Jacek Tittenbrun ...
    Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline‘specifically the concept of "capital" has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new concepts often ... Read more

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  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

    by David Harvey ...
    "What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction To modern Western society, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Dark Academia

    How Universities Die

    by Peter Fleming ...
    'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - GuardianThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Econocracy

    On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts

    by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins ...
    A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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