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  • Audiobook

    The Study of Sociology

    Narrated by Daniel Natal ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    Hebert Spencer coined the famous expression “survival of the fittest”. "The Study of Sociology, written in 1873," was the first major work in the English language on the subject of Sociology.This is a must-have book for listeners who are interested in studying a seminal work in Sociology and discovering Spencer’s groundbreaking work in the field. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Videoland

    Movie Culture at the American Video Store

    Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Media Industry Studies

    Series series Short Introductions
    The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the roadmap to this vibrant area of study. Blending a comprehensive overview of foundational literature with an examination of the varied ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Circle

    "Written as a Memoir of adolescence an adulthood, as it's written Herbert's work tell the story of a group of young men who bond together in an "us against the "world" friendship. Laughing together, fighting together, getting into trouble together, they come to moments of decision about the Vietnam war- and go." The plot moves at a rapid pace, and the characters are swiftly drawn. "Using the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Point of Sale

    Analyzing Media Retail

    Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame

    Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics

    Shame is one of the most stigmatized and stigmatizing of emotions. Often characterized as an emotion in which the subject holds a global, negative self-assessment, shame is typically understood to mark the subject as being inadequate in some way, and a sizable amount of work on shame focuses on its problematic or unhealthy aspects, effects, or consequences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Making of Competition Policy

    Legal and Economic Sources

    This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism, the Chicago School, and post-Chicago theories. Although the focus is largely on Anglo-American ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Pragmatic Reason

    Christopher Hookway and the American Philosophical Tradition

    Series series Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
    Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway’s work on the American philosophical tradition and its significance for contemporary discussions of the understanding of mind, meaning, knowledge, and value.Hookway’s original and extensive studies of Charles ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation

    Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade

    This collection was inspired by the observation that film remakes offer us the opportunity to revisit important issues, stories, themes, and topics in a manner that is especially relevant and meaningful to contemporary audiences. Like mythic stories that are told again and again in differing ways, film remakes present us with updated perspectives on timeless ideas. While some remakes succeed and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo

    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    One of iconic Africa's Big Five, the African buffalo is the largest African bovine or antelope that occurs throughout most of sub-Sahara and in a wide range of ecosystems from savanna to rainforest. The African buffalo is also one of the most successful large African mammals in terms of abundance and biomass. This species thus represents a powerful model to enhance our understanding of African ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism

    Case Studies from Universities around the World

    This book discusses the issue of academic misconduct and publication ethics in general and plagiarism in particular, with a focus on case studies in various universities around the world (notably in Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA, and Canada). We are especially interested in students’ and teachers’ perception of academic misconduct and their definition and understanding of plagiarism. Most ... Read more

    $113.99 USD