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The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology. Across ...

This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the cent...

This textbook, specially commissioned by UNESCO, addresses eighty of the most pressing questions about democracy today. 1. Basic Concepts and Prin...

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories s...

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories s...

Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a ...

Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a ...

Introducing Politics for AS Level is a new textbook specifically developed to cover the latest AS specifications. It is suitable for use with the A...

Introducing Politics for AS Level is a new textbook specifically developed to cover the latest AS specifications. It is suitable for use with the A...

This book offers an accessible and broadly conceived introduction to social psychology. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior kn...

This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments...

This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments...

In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Usin...

In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Usin...

This is the long-awaited third edition of Dearlove and Saunders' highly acclaimed, best-selling, textbook on British politics. The book has been co...

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical move...

Introduction to German Philosophy is the only book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German ph...

This book provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology. Seventeen Lectures. Editors Notes. Edito...

Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a...

Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a...

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas suc...

Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This bo...

Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarshi...

Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarshi...