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  • Social Theory Re-Wired

    New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Wesley Longhofer, Daniel Winchester ...
    Series series Sociology Re-Wired
    This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that "allow us to go farther into theory and to build student skills than ever before," according to many teachers. Vital political and social updates are reflected both in the text and the online supplements. "System updates" to each section offer ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Super Polluters

    Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions

    by Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, Wesley Longhofer ...
    Series series Society and the Environment
    Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Super Polluters

    Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions

    by Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, Wesley Longhofer ...
    Series series Society and the Environment
    Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    A Humanistic Perspective

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

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  • The Urban Revolution

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • State of Crisis

    by Zygmunt Bauman, Carlo Bordoni ...
    Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the ... Read more

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  • Morality by Design

    Technology's Challenge to Human Values

    by Wade Rowland ...
    The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. Wade Rowland first introduces readers to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam, and then explores the subject through today’s political, economic and environmental conundrums. The collection presents a strong ... Read more

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  • In Search of Politics

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. And everything important in our lives - livelihood, human bonds, partnerships, neighbourhood, goals worth pursuing and dangers to avoid - feels transient, ... Read more

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  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

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  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society.Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Read more

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