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• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in rec...

• Author(s): Susanne Kappeler • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in a lucid and highly orig...

• Author(s): Henrietta L. Moore • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexu...

• Author(s): Gilles Kepel • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe Revenge of God is a compelling account of the resurgence of religious belief in the modern world. Kepel compares Islam, Christianity and Judaism revealing the similaritie...

• Author(s): J. M. Bernstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis original and wide-ranging book, now available in paperback, is a major contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernstein focuses on the work of four key thinkers - K...

• Author(s): Arlette Farge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe lives of ordinary Parisians in the eighteenth-century are the topic of this vivid and important study. Through the experiences of men, women and children, Arlette Farge...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityModern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In...

• Author(s): Editor: Deirdre Boden | Editor: Don H. Zimmerman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityTalk and Social Structure is an up-to-date and provocative survey of current developments combining the complementary fields of ethnometho...

• Author(s): Editor: Edward Page | Editor: Jack Hayward • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political map of Europe as it emerges from the Cold War, providing a broad and com...

• Author(s): Craig N. Murphy • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is a wide-ranging historical account of world organization and industrial change, providing the background to current debates about reform of the U. N. system.

• Author(s): Editor: Polity • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe field of cultural and media studies is one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in the social sciences and humanities today. This new text provides an ove...

• Author(s): Nicholas Thomas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book explores the perceptions of colonized populations that have developed over the course of European expansion and critically assesses different approaches to colon...

• Author(s): Lois McNay • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the ...

• Author(s): Renee C. Hoogland • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book forms an introduction to the rapidly growing field of lesbian studies. Steering a middle course between 'high theory' and detailed textual analysis, it provide...

• Author(s): Alex Callinicos • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this book Callinicos explores the relationship between social theory and historical writing drawing on a wide range of theories and theorists in an attempt to establish...

• Author(s): Seyla Benhabib • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityFocusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a ph...

• Author(s): Danilo Zolo • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental chall...

• Author(s): Leonore Davidoff • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.

• Author(s): Anne Phillips • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityA new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion is disrupting earlier preo...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityAfter the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore the connection between...

• Author(s): Catherine Hall • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityWhat are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial ide...

• Author(s): Editor: Peter Collier | Editor: Helga Geyer-Ryan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover est...

• Author(s): Gianni Vattimo • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityNow available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche an...

• Author(s): Editor: Rosemary Pringle • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityDefining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which socia...

• Author(s): Editor: Peter Braham | Editor: John Allen | Editor: Paul Lewis (Open University), Editor: Stuart Hall (Open University) • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis major introductory textbook examines the political and economi...

• Author(s): Graham McCann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It e...

• Author(s): Barbara L. Marshall • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglect the role of women and significance of gender in the formation of ...

• Author(s): Richard J. Bernstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate. Bernstein argues that modernity / post-modern...

• Author(s): Gianfranco Poggi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy. Poggi presents...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas | Translated by: Shierry Weber Nicholsen | Translated by: Jerry A. Stark • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature o...

• Author(s): Ron Eyerman | Andrew Jamison • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolitySocial movements are now a popular subject of sociological investigation. This timely book offers a new approach to the study of such movements, integrating A...

• Author(s): Timothy R. Hinkin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: WileyCases in Hospitality Management: A Critical Incident Approach, Second Edition is one of the few casebooks on the market that focuses specifically on hospitality managemen...

• Author(s): Alain Lipietz • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityTowards a New Economic Order is a concise and critical introduction to what has become known as "regulation theory" in political economics. It makes a major contribution to ...

• Author(s): Thomas P. Hogan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: WileyProvides a practical, student-friendly introduction to the major concepts and everyday issues in this field. Superbly organized, pedagogically sound, and thoroughly up-to-d...

• Author(s): Editor: David Held • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis volume provides a comprehensive overview of the central questions and debates in contemporary political thought and offers guidelines for the reformulation of poli...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this important volume Habermas outlines the views which form the basis of his critical theory of modern societies. The volume comprises five interlocking essays, which ...

• Author(s): Janet Wolff • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in an original discussion of w...

• Author(s): Philip Manning • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve. This new...

• Author(s): Judy Wajcman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityFeminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food processors, and genetic eng...

• Author(s): Andrew Gamble • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityHayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines - economics, philosophy and po...

• Author(s): David Held • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s ...

• Author(s): Megan Vaughan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityCuring their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination ...

• Author(s): Editor: Mary Lyndon Shanley | Editor: Carole Pateman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Rawl...

• Author(s): Klaus Theweleit • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis is the second volume of Theweleit's extraordinary study of the fantasies of some of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism. The author develops his account ...

• Author(s): Ian Taylor • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a 'free market society' in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties pr...

• Author(s): David Held • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, co...

• Author(s): John Hargreaves • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity"... raises serious and urgent questions about the relationship between sport and the configurations of power in contemporary British society, and represents an overdue an...

• Author(s): Janet Todd • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityIn this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. S...

• Author(s): Moira Gatens • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis extremely accessible textbook provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relations between philosophy and feminist thought. Examining not only feminist critiques of philoso...

• Author(s): Phillip Hansen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThe new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's work, Phillip Hansen als...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityHabermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between k...

• Author(s): Michael Moriarty • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all...

• Author(s): Jürgen Habermas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityTheory and Practice is one of Habermas's major works and is widely recognized as a classic in contemporary and social and political theory. Through a series of highly ori...

• Author(s): Editor: Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityRaymond Williams is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war era. He wrote extensively across a wide range of sub...

• Author(s): Nickolas James | Rachael Field | Jackson Walkden-Brown • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: WileyThe New Lawyer: Foundations of Law has been written for first year law students, to make the transition to law school not feel so ove...

• Author(s): Robert Hodge | Gunther Kress • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolitySocial Semiotics is a major new textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive and original approach to the study of the ways in wh...

• Author(s): Bob Jessop • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityThis volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research. Four ...

• Author(s): Ben S. Bradley • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: PolityAn introductory text on child psychology discussing different theoretical perspectives by analyzing major figures' work on the mental life of babies. It looks at Darwin, Fr...

• Author(s): Editor: Nathan Link | Editor: Michael Tanner • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: BMJ BooksThe Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine represents a collaboration among primary care and specialist physicians in the Department of Medi...