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Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time offers an innovative philosophical account of the most fundamental kinds of time representation. Drawing on biological clocks, it explains how representations of duration and simultaneity relate to the consciously ...
€95.00$123.00
Religion is a driving force of the twenty-first century. Here is a book that discusses every aspect of this fascinating subject, proposing an agenda for future study. The authors are leading scholars from all over the world.
€136.00$176.00
The volume contributes to the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. Focusing on social and cultural aspects, it discusses the broader implications of the wars for African and Asian societies which resulted in significant social and political transformations.
€110.00$142.00
This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. Contributors bring a diversity of critical sociological perspectives and subject matters to this important edited book.
€105.00$136.00
Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the 'empires' of clock time and 'network time', Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network society is hurtling fast through a volatile present into an increasingly precarious future.
€132.00$171.00
Drawing on case studies mostly from Asia and Africa, this book reconsiders the increasing interconnectedness between world regions from a perspective of ‘translocality’. It suggests a more comprehensive reading of processes often simplified as ‘global’, very recent, unidirectional, and ...
€68.00$88.00
This volume examines people's opinions concerning government intervention in social protection and their beliefs about social justice across a wide variety of welfare states. Its major contribution is the systematic assessment of the impact of institutional arrangements on individual attitudes.
€63.00$82.00
Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we ...
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Understanding Sarkar takes us on a journey deep into the mind of one of India's greatest philosophers and macrohistorians. Sarkar offers a new discourse from which to understand social change and the nature of what it means to be human.
This publication has also been published in paperback, ...