Terwijl de houten palen onder Amsterdam beginnen te rotten, stijgt in Venetië de waterspiegel en overstromen in Pakistan de 4500 jaar oude ruïnes van Mohenjo Daro. Door inklinking van de Engelse veengrond bezwijkt de Muur van Hadrianus. Door de toename van zout ontploffen de bakstenen van het opgegraven Babylon. Smeltende permafrost in Siberië ondermijnt de eeuwenoude grafheuvels van de Scythische beschaving. In de VS hebben orkanen een deel van het erfgoed van New Orleans en Puerto Rico w...

Paul Bernal addresses the issue of privacy on the internet and how it is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition and the internet of things, to the desire of governments to monitor our every activity online.

A seven-step toolkit to help you produce winning essay and assignments, build your confidence and improve your grades.

A well written, easy to navigate and comprehensive guide to how to develop core skills and to make the most of one's abilities in written work.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics. It goes beyond simply buying or boycotting to critically explore how individuals, collectives, corporations and governments do politics with and through consumption.

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Joining the SAGE Social Thinkers series, this book provides readers with a clear and concise introduction and includes coverage of Weber's insights on the promise and peril of Western industrial society, and of his The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Economy and Society.

This book frames speculation on what postcapitalist societies could be, with regimes of private accumulation replaced by a politics and ethics of a democratic and ecologically-grounded Commons.