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Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoi...

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. ...

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. ...

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is th...

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is th...

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life...

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life...

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up i...

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up i...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the ...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the ...

Bots – automated software applications programmed to perform tasks online – have become a feature of our everyday lives, from helping us navigate o...

Bots – automated software applications programmed to perform tasks online – have become a feature of our everyday lives, from helping us navigate o...

Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong int...

Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong int...

Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturat...

Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturat...

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a ...

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a ...

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical co...

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical co...

Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a compl...

Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated...

Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a compl...