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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $82.99 USD

  • Global Inequalities

    by Robert J. Holton ...
    What causes global inequality? Why should we be concerned about it? Is inequality getting worse or are there signs of improvement and progress?This critical analysis of the current state of global inequality pushes beyond ideological prejudice and simplistic explanations, to address these important questions. Offering a distinctive response to the many challenges in the area, the text presents a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Economy and Society

    by Robert J. Holton ...
    Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of social scientific thinking on the inter-relationship between economy and society arguing for the importance of politics and culture to the functioning of the economy and drawing on the strengths but avoiding the weaknesses of economic liberalism and political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society (RLE Social Theory)

    by Bryan S. Turner, Robert J. Holton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective on Parsons as the only classical theorist who avoided crippling nostalgia. Holton and Turner not ... Read more

    $65.99 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

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    The Adventuress (Unabridged)

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    by Arthur B. REEVE ...
    Narrated by Debra Holton, Glenda Roberts, Haley Silvernail, Theresa Young ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Another adventure in the series starring scientist/detective Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock Holmes type of character. This one features family feuds, murder and fantastic new inventions, narrated by the Watson-figure of reporter Walter Jameson. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $70.99 USD

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  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD