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Danny Dorling

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Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, ...

Diana Coole

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By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental ...

Michel Agier

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For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to ...

Heinz Bude

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In many western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many ...

David Inglis

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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But ...

Roberto Esposito

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Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside - the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism - have radically changed the profile and significance ...

Stuart Henry

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The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by which we create deviance: how we single out ...

Richard Gruneau

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This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original ...

Navid Kermani

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What happens when one of Germany s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion ...

Gerome Truc

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What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the ...

Kathryn Strother Ratcliff

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This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. ...