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Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export...

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export...

How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us...

How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us...

As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of moder...

As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of moder...

Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy...

Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy...

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the pe...

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the pe...

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars i...

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars i...

This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and ...

During difficult times, families can be our greatest resource, or our heaviest burden. This book brings together research from a wide variety of ...

During difficult times, families can be our greatest resource, or our heaviest burden. This book brings together research from a wide variety of ...

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of ...

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of ...

This volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible...

This volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible...

For 500 years Catholicism has been the dominant religious force throughout Latin America. Its hegemony was based on a complex relationship with pop...

Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today – no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field. This book is the ...

Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today – no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field. This book is the ...

This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide ...

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of mat...