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Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intellige...

Making Sense of Criminology is a clear, concise introduction for all students new to the subject. As well as introducing ideas about crime and crim...

Making Sense of Criminology is a clear, concise introduction for all students new to the subject. As well as introducing ideas about crime and crim...

This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied top...

This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied top...

The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising important questions of a more general kind. What is the s...

The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising important questions of a more general kind. What is the s...

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality. ...

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality. ...

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations eme...

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations eme...

The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on th...

The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on th...

This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonstrating, through contemporary sociological theor...

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of h...

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of h...

Official figures classify some fifty million of the world's people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims,...

Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims,...

What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to unde...

First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories...

First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories...

The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness t...

The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness t...

Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century....