The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Capitalism and modernity

the great debate

This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of ...

Afghanistan

the labyrinth of violence

Disease and the modern world

1500 to the present day

TechnoFeminism

Culture

Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal ...

Islam and politics in the contemporary world

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the ...

Ancient greek literature

An introduction to ethnic conflict

René Girard

violence and mimesis

Witches and witch-hunts

a global history

The antiquity of nations

Isaiah Berlin

liberty and pluralism

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George Crowder provides both an accessible introduction to Berlin's ideas and an original contribution to ...

Globalization in question

the international economy and the possibilities of governance

The Past as Future

Jürgen Habermas is one of the best-known and most influential philosophers in Europe today. Heir to the Frankfurt school, his reputation rests on more than thirty years of groundbreaking works on society knowledge, history, technology; ethics, and many other subjects. He is also a familiar ...

The new diplomacy

The world of international relations has changed radically in thelast few years. Technological, social and political change havecombined to undermine the traditional assumptions of diplomacy - inparticular, the events of 11 September set in stark relief therisks and dangers. Shaun Riordan, a former British diplomat, draws ...

Hegel and the feminist philosophy

Contemporary Spanish culture

TV, fashion, art and film

War and modernity

Written by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the ongoing proliferation of war. How can contemporary social and political thought come to terms with this apparent failure of modernity ...

Democracy

This new textbook invites readers to explore their own responses to debates about democracy's meaning. It provides tools for thinking actively about democracy as a practice, an ideal, and a site of contestation. Open-minded and written with genuine clarity for an undergraduate audience, Saward ...