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Zygmunt Bauman Textbook

Zygmunt Bauman Textbook

Tony Blackshaw

This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman.
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

Zygmunt Bauman

With characteristic brilliance, this new book by Zygmunt Bauman unravels the impact of this transformation on our contemporary culture and politics and shows that the problem of coping with ‘human waste’ provides a key for understanding ...
Culture as Praxis

Culture as Praxis

Zygmunt Bauman

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture.
Postmodern Ethics

Postmodern Ethics

Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome.
Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's ...

Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's ...

Mark Davis

The book contributes to sociological debates about modern society by offering an interpretation of Bauman's work b
Liquid Life

Liquid Life

Zygmunt Bauman

Extends and develops some of the key themes in other Bauman titles, namely what it is to live in a time of 'liquid modernity', identity, culture and consumerism.
Liquid Modernity

Liquid Modernity

Zygmunt Bauman

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity.
Modernity and the Holocaust

Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable to this work available in the sociological literature.
Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies

Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies

Zygmunt Bauman

The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture.
Thinking Sociologically

Thinking Sociologically

Zygmunt Bauman

This volume is a completely revised and expanded edition that includes new materials on health and fitness, intimacy, time, space and disorder, risk, globalization, identity, organizations, and new technologies.
Thinking Sociologically

Thinking Sociologically

Zygmunt Bauman

This volume is a completely revised and expanded edition that includes new materials on health and fitness, intimacy, time, space and disorder, risk, globalization, identity, organizations, and new technologies.
Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

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Anthony Elliott ... Considerable thanks are also owed to the following persons who have influenced my research on identity and thus the ultimate shape ofthis book: Zygmunt Bauman, Tony Giddens,Jeffrey Prager, Charles Spezzano, ...
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Kwiek, Marek (1996) Rotry's elective affinities. The new pragmatism and postmodern thought. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Kwiek, Marek ( 1997) "Zygmunt Bauman and the question of the intellectual in postmodernity". Working ...
The New Bauman Reader: Thinking Sociologically in Liquid ...

The New Bauman Reader: Thinking Sociologically in Liquid ...

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Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Setting up the encounter Introduction – Tony Blackshaw Part I: Thinking sociologically Introduction – Tony Blackshaw 1 The motive for metaphor – Michael Hviid Jacobsen 2 Talking sociology – Zygmunt ...
So You Want to Drive a Big Rig

So You Want to Drive a Big Rig

Robert Bauman

IT HAS HELPFUL HINTS FOR DRIVERS OF ALL ABILITIES HOPEFULLY READING THIS BOOK CAN SAVE YOU SOME TIME AND MONEY AND HELP MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER. ALL THE STORIES IN THIS BOOK ARE TRUE AND REFLECT THE EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF MR BAUMAN.
Lawyer-Proof Your Life 2015: A Do-It Yourself Guide to ...

Lawyer-Proof Your Life 2015: A Do-It Yourself Guide to ...

Robert E. Bauman

Robert E. Bauman JD, former member of the U.S. Congress, graduate of the Law Center of Georgetown University, and attorney with over 40 years of experience, teaches you how to solve your own legal problems in a no-nonsense, jargon-free ...
The gentleman from Maryland: the conscience of a gay ...

The gentleman from Maryland: the conscience of a gay ...

Robert Bauman

The former Maryland congressman Robert Bauman reveals this controversial account of how his career in politics was ruined by the scandalous headlines that made public his homosexuality, and how he came to terms with the following events to ...
Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943

Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943

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Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 John F. Bauman, Edward K. Muller. URBAN STUDIES/HISTORY “Bauman and Muller secure Pittsburgh's place as a leading edge in the formation of professional planning. By detailing how planners ...
The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution: A Proven New Program for ...

The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution: A Proven New Program for ...

Richard S. Surwit

... control/Richard S. Surwit, with Alisa Bauman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Diabetes—Treatment—Popular works. 2. Diabetes— Psychological aspects—Popular works. 3. Behavior therapy. I. Bauman, Alisa. II. Title.

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