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• Author(s): Leonor Arfuch • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThis book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical an...

• Author(s): Alexander B. Murphy • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyEver since humans sketched primitive maps in the dirt, the quest to understand our surroundings has been fundamental t...

• Author(s): Doreen Massey • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Human GeographyThis book offers a unique assessment of the current state and future directions of human geography, exploring the developments and them...

• Author(s): Gillian Rose • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Human GeographyGeography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form th...

• Author(s): Scott McQuire • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesGeomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ub...

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, “What does it mean to be a woman?” Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the ...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twen...

• Author(s): Stephen M. Whitehead • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Men's StudiesMen and Masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and acce...

• Author(s): Shane Ewen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryUrban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introdu...

• Author(s): J. Donald Hughes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Human GeographyWhat is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thou...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): J. Donald Hughes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Human GeographyWhat is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thou...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s und...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is underst...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic Development‘Development’ first emerged as a subject area in the second half of the twentieth century. After World War II, scho...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz | Jonas Ferdinand • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Popular CultureTechnology is conventionally viewed as dehumanizing. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise book, technology has becom...

• Author(s): Deborah Lupton • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyAs people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information...

• Author(s): Henrietta L. Moore • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralIn this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and p...

• Author(s): Keith Soothill • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: CriminologyMaking Sense of Criminology is a clear, concise introduction for all students new to the subject. As well as introducing ideas about crime...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz | Jonas Ferdinand • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralTechnology is conventionally viewed as dehumanizing. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise book, technology...

• Author(s): Karen Wells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a ...

• Author(s): Karen Wells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a ...

• Author(s): Suzannah Weiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Social Topics - Dating & SexSubjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturb...

• Author(s): Gernot Bohme • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn this clear and accessible book, Gernot Böhme places philosophical ethics in the context of our individual and social li...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralA key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that the...

• Author(s): Suzannah Weiss • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social Topics - Dating & SexSubjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothi...

• Author(s): Silvio Waisbord • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Media StudiesJournalism remains a vital, irreplaceable institution in the public sphere, even though techn...

• Author(s): Leah Henrickson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWe tell stories to make sense of chaos. We come to understand the world and our places in it through these stories. And we share these ...

• Author(s): Tim Ingold • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHumanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and ...

• Author(s): Jon Nuttall • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThis new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophi...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralWhat is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully upda...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu | Peter Collier • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHas the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most pr...

• Author(s): David Naguib Pellow • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHuman societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships ar...