Ulrich von Alemann 
Grundlagen der Politikwissenschaft [PDF ebook] 
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A collection of essays, framed with original introductions, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings helps students to think critically about reproduction as a social phenomenon. Divided …

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world domin …

Nursing has been described as the most ‘natural’ female occupation of all, embodying the so-called feminine ideals of tenderness and caring. Yet these ideals are juxtaposed with images of nurses as s …

Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics – from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family, romance, business, church and school. Politics …

Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal me …

The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. In examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation o …

An Introduction to Political Communication explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the UK, the USA and other contemporary societies. Brian Mc Nair examines how politici …

A key characteristic of the twenty-first century economy is ”the image”. Brand development is based on image, products are advertised via images, and corporate image is critical for economic succes …

Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as ”the end station of capitalism”, it presents the d …

This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia”s Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their grow …