TITLES

THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

This timely book explores technological innovation as a concept, dissecting its emergence, development and use.
Benoît Godin offers an exciting new historiography of the subject, arguing that the study of innovation originates not from scholars but from practitioners of innovation.

THE ECONOMICS OF FISHING

This book provides an introduction to the economics of the fishing industry and the role of fisheries in the world economy. It focuses primarily on capture fisheries, although the discussion brings in wider aquaculture for comparative analysis. Trade in fish products and how it has developed is highlighted, as well as the main rules governing the fish trade.

THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY

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DISPATCHES FROM THE COLD

Dispatches from the Cold doesn't foreground race but weaves it into a complex, larger narrative and social fabric. The result is a reality that's recognizable but sorely missing in fiction.”

TOO HOT TO HANDLE?

This book explores a central dilemma of the climate crisis: science demands urgency; politics turns the other cheek. Is it possible to hope for a democratic solution to climate change?

THE SHORT GUIDE TO SOCIOLOGY

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RADICAL HOPE

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm, providing a revolutionary new way to think about how social work can address poverty,

HOW TO USE SOCIAL WORK THEORY IN PRACTICE

In this clear and systematic book covering both general practice concepts and theoretical insights, best-selling author Malcolm Payne shows you how to work with the main theories and practice techniques and pinpoint their strengths and limitations.

SLOW COMPUTING

Drawing on the ideas of the ‘slow movement’, Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

RECONSTRUCTING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

This textbook examines the challenges facing the world economy as a result of climate change and social and economic inequality, and provides future-oriented solutions to them.

CITIES DEMANDING THE EARTH

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IMAGINING SOCIETY

This is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students, teachers and people who want to learn more about sociology today. It is a welcome clarion call for sociology’s importance in public life.

ASSUR

An epic and vibrant novel that narrates, through an unforgettable character, the unprecedented Norman attacks on the Iberian Peninsula in the time of the Reconquest.

TEEN SPIRIT

Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil.
Award-winning author, Paul Howe, argues it’s because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.

WHY ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY

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THE PRICE OF FOOTBALL

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RECONCEPTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY AND OTHER ARTS AND SCIENCES

Brilliant new studies of representation, interpretation, variation, and other topics in the theory of architecture, painting, music, and psychology.

THE LONGEST VOYAGE

"The Longest Voyage" captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, it was a century much like our own.

RVH

Present day.Raistan Van Hoeck tells the story of his life. He was born in Holland in 1677. He is a vampire, created by the Irish vampire Shibeen, who accompanied him as a friend and lover for the first three centuries of ...

LAIN

A revenge story within an evocative description of the Middle Ages: a moving journey to the core of the human soul