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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

    Second edition

    Edited by Bryan Turner, Robert Holton ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Scenes of Bohemian Life

    by Henry Murger ...
    Translated by Robert Holton ...
    This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. The book recounts the lives of a bohemian group of creative young people as they fall in and out of love, endure cold and hunger, enjoy drunken parties, see their friends suffer and die of poverty, and finally emerge as mature artists. The book's publication soon inspired many ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Global Finance

    by Robert Holton ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose – and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by:setting markets and financial market failure in a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, Bo G. Ekelund, John Guillory, Robert Holton, Marty Hipsky, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Paul D. Lopes, Caterina Pizanias, Daniel Simeoni, Carol A. Stabile ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Social Divisions

    Inequality and Diversity in Britain

    by Catherine Maclean, Graham Crow, Michael Rosie, David Mccrone, Steph Lawler, Clare Bambra, David Saltiel, Ruth Garbutt, Liz Frost, Stephen Hunt, Stevi Jackson, Sue Scott, Robert Holton, Daniel Smith, Lucinda Platt, Tim Strangleman, Diane Reay, John Solomos, Pamela Abbott, John Scott ...
    Revised, restructured and updated to reflect the latest data and debates, this new edition of the widely used, classic textbook offers students an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Written by internationally known sociologists and experts, the book:• addresses a wide range of social divisions and inequalities in novel ways, with added chapters on ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

    by Robert Holton, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
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    $10.99 USD

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  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

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    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadA popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Retirement In Canada

    by Thomas R. Klassen ...
    Series series In Canada
    A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live 20 years longer than that. And recent generations have witnessed other major social shifts in Canada, from women entering the workforce to alterations in traditional career patterns, from evolutions in the once-inviolable nuclear family to the decline of employer pension schemes. As the arc of our lives continues to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
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  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

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