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Mathematical thinking provides a clear, crisp way of defining problems. Our whole technology is based on it. What is less appreciated is that mathematical thinking can also be applied to problems in the social and behavioral sciences. This book...List Price $120.00Our Price $17.98List Price $120.00Our Price $17.98
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Compiled from Bruce Lee’s notes and essays and originally published in 1975, this iconic volume is one of the seminal martial arts guides of its time. The science and philosophy behind the fighting system Lee pioneered himself—jeet kune do—is explained...List Price $34.99List Price $34.99
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"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social...List Price $32.00Our Price $16.00List Price $32.00Our Price $16.00
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Good clean copy, pages bright and tight.List Price $37.50Our Price $30.00List Price $37.50Our Price $30.00
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For over two hundred years, the notion of modernity has dominated Western social thought. Yet as we approach the end of the millenium, we find the concept under seige: constantly being challenged, rejected or refined. In Critique of Modernity , Alain...List Price $29.95Our Price $18.00List Price $29.95Our Price $18.00
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No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and...List Price $39.95Our Price $20.00List Price $39.95Our Price $20.00
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Translated by Randal Johnson and Hans Haacke.List Price $20.00List Price $20.00
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This volume of interviews, lectures and informal talks provides an introduction to Bourdieu's work and highlights some of the issues which are at the forefront of the sociology of culture today. Bourdieu situates his work in relation to those thinkers...List Price $28.00Our Price $18.00List Price $28.00Our Price $18.00
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A thrilling sports story, Men in White is the tale of the young athletes who defied the doomsayers and rescued Penn State’s football program from the horrors of the Jerry Sandusky scandal―told by the players themselves.On November 5, 2011, the news that...List Price $20.00List Price $20.00
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The word "globalization" is used to convey the hope and determination of order-making on a worldwide scale. It is trumpeted as providing more mobility -of people, capital, and information -and as being equally beneficial for everyone. With recent...List Price $26.00Our Price $16.00List Price $26.00Our Price $16.00
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Appearing for the first time in an English translation, Introduction to Modernity is one of Henri Lefebvre’s greatest works. Published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it...List Price $29.95Our Price $20.00List Price $29.95Our Price $20.00
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The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia―such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and...List Price $36.95Our Price $15.00List Price $36.95Our Price $15.00
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In this book, the world's leading spacial theorists provide new accounts of the central questions and issues in social-spacial theory with critical perspectives on the post-modern condition.List Price $52.95Our Price $25.00List Price $52.95Our Price $25.00
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The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following...List Price $66.50Our Price $30.00List Price $66.50Our Price $30.00
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Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger’s recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present of the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal...List Price $24.95Our Price $14.50List Price $24.95Our Price $14.50
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In The Policing of Families, Jacques Donzelot, a student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century, showing how this intervention effected radical changes...List Price $25.00List Price $25.00
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Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and...List Price $71.50Our Price $35.00List Price $71.50Our Price $35.00
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In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in...List Price $28.00Our Price $14.00List Price $28.00Our Price $14.00
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André Gorz’s earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic...List Price $29.95Our Price $12.00List Price $29.95Our Price $12.00