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  • What is the Future?

    de John Urry ...
    Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery, especially because futures are unpredictable and often unknowable, the outcome of many factors, known and unknown. The future is ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Offshoring

    de John Urry ...
    The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance, pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive offshore worlds ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • O olhar do turista 3.0

    Considerado um clássico para a formação de estudantes e profissionais de turismo, além da sociologia do lazer, o livro dialoga com um vasto repertório no campo das humanidades em diálogo atento ao impacto das novas tecnologias sobre viagens e viajantes. O que constitui uma experiência real e como se dá a encenação da experiência turística? Quem são seus protagonistas? Quais agentes compõem os ... Leer más

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  • Place, Policy and Politics

    Do Localities Matter?

    The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies.The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

    This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Mobile Lives

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The End of Organized Capitalism

    In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Societies beyond Oil

    Oil Dregs and Social Futures

    de John Urry ...
    What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world?As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak oil, these questions remain unanswered. For the last hundred years oil made the world go round, and as we move into the century of ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

    de John Urry ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition.Part 2 sets out a theory of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • A New Industrial Future?

    3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

    Series series Antinomies
    A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and Urry examine such a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The locating of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. The book drawing upon expert ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Contested Natures

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Demonstrating that all notions of nature are inextricably entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the many ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces, including the local, the national and the global.The authors ... Leer más

    $119.99 USD