Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away

Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public

The Art of Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today - is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life

Liquid Fear (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

In this brilliant new account of the fears and anxieties that weigh on us today, Zygmunt Bauman - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - alerts us to the scale of the task confronting us in the current century if we wish our fellow humans to emerge at its end feeling more secure and

Thinking Sociologically (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. The

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback / softback)

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social

Strangers at Our Door (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

A new afterword to this edition, The Duty to Remember--But What? tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the

Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology were always infused

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity

Liquid Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute and stubborn

Retrotopia (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state--a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have

Globalization - The Human Consequences (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback / softback)

a Globalizationa is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the

Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of

Poems on the Underground(Paperback / softback)

Includes poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar that explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D H Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred

Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze

Flying Lessons (Runton Andy)(Paperback)

Facing fears can be scary...Owly and Wormy love making new friends, and when they spot an unfamiliar animal flying through the trees, they can't wait to meet her Unfortunately, Shadow the flying squirrel doesn't want to be friends with Owly because she's afraid of him. Wormy tries to convince

Living as a Christian: Teachings from First Peter (Tozer A. W.)(Paperback)

Many modern Christians are familiar with the name, and perhaps even some of the writings of, A.W. Tozer, but few living today were blessed to sit under his weekly teaching from the pulpit. In this never-before-published collection of teachings on 1 Peter, adapted from sermons given to his

Start with a Dot (Guided Journal): A Journal for Making Your Mark (Reynolds Peter H.)(Paperback)

Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic (Fosl Peter S.)(Paperback)

Making a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume's scepticism Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He does this by first situating Hume's thought historically in

Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (Saito Yuriko)(Paperback)

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our

The Ballad of Big Feeling (Braverman Ari)(Paperback)

'Braverman spins images that pull that perfect trick of making the familiar feel fresh... It's a thrill to see that language can still be made to help us feel the rush of life anew.' ---Lynn Steger Strong, New York Times Book Review The woman lives on a cul-de-sac with her lover and her dog. She is

Introduction to the Geometry of Complex Numbers (Deaux Roland)(Paperback)

Geared toward readers unfamiliar with complex numbers, this text explains how to solve the kinds of problems that frequently arise in the applied sciences, especially electrical studies. To assure an easy and complete understanding, it develops topics from the beginning, with emphasis on