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  • Sociology of the Next Society

    Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order

    by Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses how global changes affect all subsystems of social membership systems: the scientific, academic, legal and political systems. The ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • A New Beginning?

    Spatial Planning and Research in Europe between 1945 and 1975

    by Detlef Briesen, Wendelin Strubelt, Peter Ache, Guy Baudelle, Kai Böhme, Joaquín Farinós Dasí, Len De Klerk, Andreas Faludi, Grzegorz Gorzelak0, Markus Hesse1, Klaus R. Kunzmann2, Martin Lendi3, Tadeusz Marszal4, Jean Peyrony5, Maria Prezioso6, Frédéric Santamaria7, Gerhard Schimak8, Peter Schön9, Martina Schretzenmayr0, Maria Toptsidou1, Andrieu Ulied2, Ries Van der Wouden3 ...
    Raumplanung versucht, die Zustände in einer Gesellschaft über die Ordnung ihres Raumes zu verbessern. Dieser Band befasst sich mit ihrer Geschichte zwischen 1945 und 1975, vor allem in ausgewählten Ländern Westeuropas. Damals waren die Folgen zweier Weltkriege zu bewältigen; zudem war der Weg in eine bessere Zukunft zu ebnen, hin zu Sozialstaat, Demokratie und europäischer Einigung. Doch die ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Cannabis

    A Handbook for Science and Practice

    Edited by Andreas S. Ziegler ...
    Cannabis - A Comprehensive GuideThe use of cannabis for medicinal purposes can be traced back to antiquity, but it is only recently that it has garnered attention as one of the most exciting medical-pharmaceutical topics. In hardly any other area of pharmacotherapy has knowledge of late developed with comparable dynamism. Experts from different fields are continuously working on new scientific ... Read more

    $186.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recommender Systems

    An Introduction

    by Markus Zanker, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach ...
    In this age of information overload, people use a variety of strategies to make choices about what to buy, how to spend their leisure time, and even whom to date. Recommender systems automate some of these strategies with the goal of providing affordable, personal, and high-quality recommendations. This book offers an overview of approaches to developing state-of-the-art recommender systems. The ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Thirty Years of ProtoSociology - Three Decades Between Disciplines

    by Georg Peter, Reuß-Markus Krauße ...
    Series Book 38 - ProtoSociology - An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
    The contributions to the "Thirty Years Volume" represented in this volume reflect the historical focus of the ProtoSociology project. Colleagues are represented who contributed to the focus. This is also true thematically, as contributions on language theory, the philosophy of the mental, and the sociology of contemporary societies are represented. The contributions to the "Thirty Years Volume" ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizational Crime

    Causes, Explanations and Prevention in a Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Markus Pohlmann, Gerhard Dannecker, Dieter Dölling, Dieter Hermann, Kristina Höly, Maria Eugenia Trombini, Subrata K. Mitra ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the results of an international comparative study on the causes of rule deviation in business and medical organizations. Based on document and interview analyses as well as experiments, the discrepancy between (state) regulations and organizational practice is elaborated and discussed in an interdisciplinary perspective. On the basis of the distinction between organizational and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Beyond Learning

    Democratic Education for a Human Future

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Seductions of Quantification

    Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

    by Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State Theory

    Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place

    by Bob Jessop ...
    This 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 central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as part of a more general social theory; the possibilities of explaining ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

    History of a Postcolonial Defeat

    by Bénédicte Savoy ...
    Translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich ...
    A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Epistemologies of the South

    Justice Against Epistemicide

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

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