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Zygmunt Bauman,
Theory and Society

The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman's engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and nev…

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Sj Beard
Existential Hope

We are living in a time of growing existential risk, posing multiple threats to the survival of our species. We are also facing an epidemic of existential anxiety, with people struggling to find meaning a…

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Hélé Beji,
We, the Decolonized

We, the Decolonized is a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly coloniz…

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Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black C…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black C…

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Truman F Bewley
Price Setting

The prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned economist Truman F. Bewley investigates and elucidates this puz…

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Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse
Cities Rethought

"In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been mo…

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Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse
Cities Rethought

"In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been mo…

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Chetan Bhatt
The Revolutionary Road to Me

How can the left be credible when it can't decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western l…

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Timothy Biggs
Mining

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more …

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Philipp Blom
Subjugate the Earth

Originally published in German as Die Unterwerfung: Anfang und ende der menschlichen Herrschaft uber die Natur (München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2022).

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Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre
The Making of Public Space

This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provis…

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Forms of Capital: General Sociology, Volume 3

"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Imperialisms

While Bourdieu's work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have rece…

lieferbar ab 2.9.2025.

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Return to Reflexivity

"This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work. For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in introspection…

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Pierre Bourdieu,
The Interest in Disinterestedness

"A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, …

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Alfie Bown
Post-Comedy

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal cu…

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Ian Boyd
Science and Politics

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply "stick to the fact…

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Pascal Bruckner,
The Triumph of the Slippers

"Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In re…

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