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In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about...

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically chan...

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically chan...

A Political Life is the compelling autobiography of Norberto Bobbio, one of the foremost political thinkers in postwar Italy. In dramatic and livel...

A Political Life is the compelling autobiography of Norberto Bobbio, one of the foremost political thinkers in postwar Italy. In dramatic and livel...

In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting ...

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but i...

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but i...

In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to o...

Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of hum...

Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of hum...

We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who’ve become too ...

Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produ...

Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produ...

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of th...

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of th...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book,...

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book,...

“I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.” Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German autho...

“I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.” Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German autho...

China’s growing power and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have thrust geopolitics back to the centre of the global stage, but the old frameworks of in...

China’s growing power and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have thrust geopolitics back to the centre of the global stage, but the old frameworks of in...