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Cultural studies
Cultural studies
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History of ideas, intellectual history
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Availability: In Print
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ISBN-13: 9780691140551 (ISBN-10: 0691140553)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010
Emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, this book provides a look at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers.
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ISBN-13: 9781594512254 (ISBN-10: 1594512256)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 20 Dec 2010
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ISBN-13: 9780691145747 (ISBN-10: 0691145741)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 25 Nov 2010
Gathers essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life.
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ISBN-13: 9780691147963 (ISBN-10: 0691147965)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 22 Nov 2010
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day. This book tells the entwined histories of an illusive life and a famous icon. It raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live among different cultures.
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ISBN-13: 9780691137162 (ISBN-10: 0691137161)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Nov 2010
One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This book argues that mainstream economics and its conservative popularizers have misrepresented Smith's insight.
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ISBN-13: 9780691147239 (ISBN-10: 069114723X)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 14 Nov 2010
Traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Presenting the history of Judaism from the Bible onwards, this book shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity.
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ISBN-13: 9780691147062 (ISBN-10: 069114706X)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 11 Nov 2010
What does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? This book offers an investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we struggle to win, our collective beliefs about winners and losers, and more. It argues that victory and loss are not endpoints or final destinations.
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ISBN-13: 9780691143132 (ISBN-10: 0691143137)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 04 Nov 2010
By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, the author shows how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.
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ISBN-13: 9780691147468 (ISBN-10: 0691147469)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Oct 2010
Traces the origins of Barack Obama's ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. This title demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obama's distinctive worldview, including the theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms.
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ISBN-13: 9780813034805 (ISBN-10: 0813034809)
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication Date: 05 Sep 2010
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