Sociologies of Interaction
Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the so...
Erving Goffman
Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended wel...
Conflict and Compromise
First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The ...
Sociologies of Interaction
Sociologies of Interaction
Researching Racism
"A welcome and overdue contribution to the field. Identifying a need for an empirical guide to complement the abundant theoretical literature, this book combines a variety of practical avenues of advice with analytical sophistication...
Report from Ground Zero
In a moving tribute to the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001, a former firefighter and best-selling author of Report from Engine Co. 82 provides an eyewitness record of events on the front lines of Ground Zero and the extraordinary efforts of police, fire, and emergency medical teams to rescue victims in the face of unspeakable disaster. Reprint.
Zygmunt Bauman
In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.
Global Supply Chain Performance and Risk Optimization
This doctoral dissertation deals with a very timely and important topic in the fields of international operations, finance and risk management, namely the evaluation of the Real Option value of operational and managerial flexibility within a globa...
Grow to Eat
Grow to Eat
Business Management for the IB Diploma Exam Preparation Guide
This exam preparation guide provides extra support for students studying for their Business Management for the IB Diploma examination, for first teaching in 2014. Case studies and structured questions provide opportunities to practise and assess p...
Cellular Biophysics and Modeling
What every neuroscientist should know about the mathematical modeling of excitable cells. Combining empirical physiology and nonlinear dynamics, this text provides an introduction to the simulation and modeling of dynamic phenomena in cell biology...
Film Structure and the Emotion System
Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film studies have neglected to focus attention on the emoti...
Film Structure and the Emotion System
Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film studies have neglected to focus attention on the emoti...
Beautiful TV
During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what...
Kolyma
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Agent 6
Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its p...
Gården
Ända tills Daniel får ett uppjagat telefonsamtal från sin far tror han att hans föräldrar njuter av en fridfull, välförtjänt pensionering på en idyllisk lantgård i Sverige. Tilde och Chris har sålt sitt hus och sin firma i London och sagt adjö til...
Gården
Ända tills Daniel får ett uppjagat telefonsamtal från sin far tror han att hans föräldrar njuter av en fridfull, välförtjänt pensionering på en idyllisk lantgård i Sverige. Tilde och Chris har sålt sitt hus och sin firma i London och sagt adjö til...
Cold People
'An ambitious, cinematic thriller'¿Observer 'A talented storyteller'¿The Times 'A cinematic epic'¿Daily Mail What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of¿Child 44¿comes a suspenseful and...
Cold People
'An ambitious, cinematic thriller'¿Observer 'A talented storyteller'¿The Times 'A cinematic epic'¿Daily Mail What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of¿Child 44¿comes a suspenseful and...
Child 44
DON'T MISS THE NEW TOM ROB SMITH NOVEL, COLD PEOPLE, OUT NOW! OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree?...
Farm
From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful ret...
Child 44
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Secret Speech
The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is f...
Child 44
DON'T MISS THE NEW TOM ROB SMITH NOVEL, COLD PEOPLE, OUT NOW! THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. INCLUDING A FOREWORD FROM JOSEPH KANON. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powe...