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  • The Winding Passage

    Sociological Essays and Journeys

    by Daniel Bell ...
    This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author's continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Liberation Theology after the End of History

    The refusal to cease suffering

    by Daniel Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
    Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough account of the rise, failure and future prospects of Latin American liberation theology. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Reforming of General Education

    The Columbia Experience in Its National Setting

    by Daniel Bell ...
    This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College, Harvard, and The College of the University of Chicago. These three basic models of general education in the country are set against a background of social change which includes a detailed analysis of structural changes in American society, the universities and the secondary schools ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Just War as Christian Discipleship

    Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State

    This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to know the just war tradition but to live it even in the face of the tremendous difficulties associated with war. He shows how just war practice, if it is to be understood as a faithful form of Christian ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Economy of Desire

    Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World

    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy.Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Essential Civil Society Reader

    The Classic Essays

    There is a growing anxiety about the basic health of society. Everywhere we see the fraying of the social fabric, the decline of families, the absence of consensus on unifying moral principles, and the disappearance of community and voluntary associations. Around the world, politicians and intellectuals of all political persuasions seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Mass Communication and American Social Thought

    Key Texts, 1919-1968

    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters

    Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future

    An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers—and what they can teach us about today’s most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina’s most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country’s leaders is ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Dean of Shandong

    Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China’s history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his experiences ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Lonely Planet Brazil

    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Brazil.Discover Brazil's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from taking your pick of raucous, remote, classy and laid-back beaches on Ilhabela; to immersing yourself in the Amazon's flooded forest at Mamiraua, a refuge for rare birds, reptiles and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Hierarchy

    Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

    A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Dean of Shandong

    Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

    Narrated by Wynt Woody ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    This audiobook narrated by Wyntner Woody provides an inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus