sociology
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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- £15.00
- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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Changing Shape: The Faith Lives Of Millennials
- £15.00
- The generation known as ÔmillennialsÕ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the Ômissing generationÕ. Ruth PerrinÕs landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently Òlost…
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging
- £16.00
- A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' Ð TLS. Fans takes you on a journey into the world of superfans Ð in all of its strange, sometimes dark, and complicated forms. Fascinating and thought-provoking, Fans is a…
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From Modernism to Postmodernism An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
- £15.00
- Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Chronologically and thematically arranged. Indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents
- £25.00
- A groundbreaking, Òlavishly informativeÓ (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherÑfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events,…
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High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out
- £25.00
- When we are baffled by the insanity of the Òother sideÓÑin our politics, at work, or at homeÑitÕs because we arenÕt seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. ThatÕs what Òhigh conflictÓ does. ItÕs the invisible hand of our time. And itÕs different from the useful friction of healthy…
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Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
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Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
- £15.00
- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
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Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
- £16.00
- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
- £15.00
- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
- £14.00
- When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning. For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed…
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The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
- £35.00
- Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular…
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
- £10.00
- In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US' leading expert on violent behaviour, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger - before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood…
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The New Copernicans: Millennials And The Survival Of The Church
- £8.00
- "Our millennial children, as well as nonchurchgoing millennials, are both the church's greatest challenge and its most exciting new opportunity."-John Seel, PhD Warning: There is a fundamental frame of reference shift in American society happening right now among young adults. You may think of this group as millennials-those born between…
- Add to basket
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The Origin of the Family, Private Propety and the State
- £20.00
- In this 1884 work, Engels argues that the family is an ever-changing institution that has been shaped by capitalism. It contains a historical view of the family in relation to issues of class, female subjugation and private property.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- £300.00
- George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing,…
- Add to basket
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The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
- Add to basket
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
- £20.00
- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
- Add to basket
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You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious
- £15.00
- Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearMany bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly…
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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
- Add to basket
-
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- £15.00
- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
- Add to basket
-
An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
- Add to basket
-
Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
- Add to basket
-
Changing Shape: The Faith Lives Of Millennials
- £15.00
- The generation known as ÔmillennialsÕ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the Ômissing generationÕ. Ruth PerrinÕs landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently Òlost…
- Add to basket
-
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
- Add to basket
-
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
-
Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging
- £16.00
- A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' Ð TLS. Fans takes you on a journey into the world of superfans Ð in all of its strange, sometimes dark, and complicated forms. Fascinating and thought-provoking, Fans is a…
- Add to basket
-
From Modernism to Postmodernism An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
- £15.00
- Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Chronologically and thematically arranged. Indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies
- Add to basket
-
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents
- £25.00
- A groundbreaking, Òlavishly informativeÓ (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherÑfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events,…
- Add to basket
-
High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out
- £25.00
- When we are baffled by the insanity of the Òother sideÓÑin our politics, at work, or at homeÑitÕs because we arenÕt seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. ThatÕs what Òhigh conflictÓ does. ItÕs the invisible hand of our time. And itÕs different from the useful friction of healthy…
- Add to basket
-
Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
- Add to basket
-
Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
- £15.00
- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
- Add to basket
-
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
- Add to basket
-
Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
- £16.00
- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
- Add to basket
-
Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
- £15.00
- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
- Add to basket
-
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
- Add to basket
-
Superior: The Return of Race Science
- £14.00
- When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning. For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed…
- Add to basket
-
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
- £35.00
- Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular…
- Add to basket
-
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
- £10.00
- In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US' leading expert on violent behaviour, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger - before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood…
- Add to basket
-
The New Copernicans: Millennials And The Survival Of The Church
- £8.00
- "Our millennial children, as well as nonchurchgoing millennials, are both the church's greatest challenge and its most exciting new opportunity."-John Seel, PhD Warning: There is a fundamental frame of reference shift in American society happening right now among young adults. You may think of this group as millennials-those born between…
- Add to basket
-
The Origin of the Family, Private Propety and the State
- £20.00
- In this 1884 work, Engels argues that the family is an ever-changing institution that has been shaped by capitalism. It contains a historical view of the family in relation to issues of class, female subjugation and private property.
- Add to basket
-
The Road to Wigan Pier
- £300.00
- George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing,…
- Add to basket
-
The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
- Add to basket
-
Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
- £20.00
- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
- Add to basket
-
Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
- Add to basket
-
You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious
- £15.00
- Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearMany bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly…
- Add to basket