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Linda M. Lobao - The Sociology of Spatial Inequality (2007).jpg
Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and their populations within the United States, addressing spatial ...
Jean-Charles Rochet - Why Are There So Many Banking Crises.jpg
Almost every country in the world has sophisticated systems to prevent banking crises. Yet such crises--and the massive financial and social damage they can cause--remain common throughout the world. Does deposit insurance encourage depositors and bankers to take ...
Daniel Markovits - A Modern Legal Ethics.jpg
A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. Unlike ordinary loyalty, fidelity ...
Daniel Ziblatt - Structuring the State.jpg
Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. ...
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With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten ...
Veit Bader - Secularism or Democracy (2008).jpg
Policies dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states—as well as the established institutions that enforce those policies—are increasingly under pressure. Politics and political theory are caught in a trap between the fully secularized state ...
Ian Butler - Scandal.jpg
Scandals do not just happen. They are made. They are constructed out of such everyday tragedies as the small carelessnesses and institutional brutality of the long-stay hospital, the abuse of children or the violent deaths of innocent bystanders. This book, by examining ...
Bruno Gulli - Earthly Plenitudes.jpg
A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of labor and everyday life, Bruno Gulli's "Earthly Plenitudes" asks, Can labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a rethinking ...
Catherine Waters - Dickens and the Politics of the Family (1997).jpg
The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality; yet any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured ...
Christian Smith - What Is a Person.jpg
What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist’s quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a ...
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These proceedings constitute an exploration of the social and cultural changes between East and West. Scholars addressed questions of social, cultural, artistic and linguistic change, focusing largely on developments in the East, while changes in the West were ...
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How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, ...
H. Arnold Barton - Sweden and Visions of Norway (2002).jpg
H. Arnold Barton investigates Norwegian political and cultural influences in Sweden during the period of the Swedish-Norwegian dynastic union from 1814 to 1905.Although closely related in origins, indigenous culture, language, and religion, Sweden and Norway had ...
Michael Bollig - Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment.jpg
A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and ...
Jacob Rowbottom - Democracy Distorted.jpg
High-profile controversies surrounding the funding of political parties have shown how inequalities in wealth can enter the political process. The growth of the professional lobbying of MPs and the executive raises similar questions about money in politics. More ...
Robert I. Rotberg - Mass Atrocity Crimes.jpg
What can be done to combat genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity? Why aren't current measures more effective? Is there hope for the future? These and other pressing questions surrounding human security are addressed head-on in this provocative ...