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Veteran journalist Helena Cobban examines the different ways of dealing with the aftermath of genocide and violence.

Demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a case for class as the material logic of culture, this book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices - from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion.

Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism.

A counterintuitive examination of the American public's attitude toward war

Challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self.

One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies. It explores cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures.

A work of the author who is famous as a sociologist of everyday life. It focuses on the concerns of large-scale organization and decision making.

Offers an explanation of the foreign policy choices made by neoconservatives. This work looks at the cultural attitudes - fear of change, simplistic notions of 'good' and 'evil' - that are at the root of 'the war on terror'. It shows how the US demonises its opponents - and how this leads to failure at home and abroad.

Although some regard popular culture as shallow, this book reveals that it is often complex, deep and subject to the style changes we associate with high art.

Focuses on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical social theory. This book examines such phenomena and processes as the rise and impact of capitalism; the centralization and enlargement of authority; inequality; and the historical intensification of production and populations.

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement.

Explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts.

The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed. This book explores how forms of media challenge the very nature of politics and how they provide alternative public spheres, pluralize political struggles, and expand rather than close down democratic relations.

Essays that engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change.

Helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.

What will be the long-term impact of AIDS in Africa or concentration of global oil production in the Middle East?

One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. Giving an introduction to Giroux, this book offers a selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings.

Renowned sociologist Talcott Parsons's last major project, a masterly work that lives up to its billing as 'a general book on American society'.

Assembles a powerful range of evidence to show how "Easternization" has been building throughout the last century.

The first book to integrate the cultural and performative turns in social theory into new approaches to the sociology of arts.

"This unique volume could become a standard reference not only for scholars and students who study poverty, but also for policymakers and citizens seeking realistic solutions."William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

Not long after co-authoring "The Port Huron Statement," the charter document of 1960s activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time, along with newly written essays by Hayden and by prominent social theorists who are experts on Mills and his ongoing influence today.

Fascinating study of one of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century.