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Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so ...

Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so ...

Social class differences and inequalities are alive and flourishing in contemporary Britain. In reviewing a wide range of sources, this book provid...

Social class differences and inequalities are alive and flourishing in contemporary Britain. In reviewing a wide range of sources, this book provid...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People�s Republic...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People�s Republic...

For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, p...

For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, p...

This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the tit...

Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a s...

Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a s...

This is the first full-scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best-known anthropologists in the world today. In a lively and...

This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, pres...

This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, pres...

Climate change is an ethical failure. Floods, fires, droughts, and extreme weather caused by climate change are already killing people and ruining ...

Climate change is an ethical failure. Floods, fires, droughts, and extreme weather caused by climate change are already killing people and ruining ...

This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of...

This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of...

The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little abou...

The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little abou...

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to m...

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to m...

Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refu...

Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refu...