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  • Audiobook

    The Winter's Tale

    BBC Radio Shakespeare

    Unabridged

    2 hours 30 min

    Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction "exit pursued by a bear". One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, often considered a 'problem play' as it ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman

    by Dr Shaun Best ...
    Series series Emerald Guides to Social Thought
    The influential sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman was a prolific commentator on contemporary social life. The extent and range of his published work is so vast that it is easy for the uninitiated reader to feel daunted by the sheer scale of works and where to begin.That is, until now. The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity

    by Shaun Best ...
    Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman’s writings, and examines how researchers have applied his key ideas to explore current theoretical issues.The book focuses on Bauman’s ideas in relation to the management and consumption of education, including topics ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • The Stranger

    by Shaun Best ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’, questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as ‘strange’, and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger.Organised both chronologically ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Talcott Parsons

    Despair and Modernity

    by Shaun Best ...
    This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons’ published work by exploring the reasoning Parsons shares with his readers in the pages of his many published works and the possible links between Parsons’ academic outputs and the social, economic and political situations in which Parsons found himself during the course of his ... Read more

    $486.99 CAD

  • Zygmunt Bauman

    Why Good People do Bad Things

    by Shaun Best ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is admired by so many people. Bauman has an interesting 'contested' biography and underwent a number of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Understanding and Doing Successful Research

    Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences

    by Shaun Best ...
    Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject. The emphasis is on how to do various different methods, how to decide which is the most appropriate, and how to analyse the data. The book also includes examples of good ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Leisure Studies

    Themes and Perspectives

    by Shaun Best ...
    What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of ′over-work′? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity?This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today.The book:• situates the student in the field• provides a comprehensive account of the leading ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Understanding Social Divisions

    by Shaun Best ...
    The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years been joined by issues such as sexuality and disability. Understanding Social Divisions addresses the full range of social divisions in one volume while also considering the nature of social division in ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • A Beginner′s Guide to Social Theory

    by Shaun Best ...
    `This book is accessible, as a beginner′s guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come′ - John Hughes, Lancaster UniversityAt last, a book that makes social theory for undergraduates a pleasure to teach and study. The book offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Politics and Society

    by Shaun Best ...
    Introduction to Politics and Society comprehensively demonstrates how key theoretical and concepts in political science have foretold, rationalized and shaped politics in the contemporary world.Students will discover the meaning of `power′, `authority′, `coercion′, `surveillance′ and `legitimacy′. The ideas of Weber, Marx, Foucault, Bauman, Sennett, Habermas, Baudrillard and Giddens are explained ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD