wyszukanych pozycji: 41
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The Tourist Gaze 3.0
ISBN: 9781849203760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in the new century.
The tourist gaze remains an agenda setting theory, incorporating new principles and research. Packed full of fascinating insights this new edition is fresh and contemporary, intelligently broadening its theoretical and geographical scope and providing a nuanced account which responds to various critiques. The book has been significantly revised to include up-to-date... The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant ...
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783,44 zł |
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Tourism Mobilities : Places to Play, Places in Play
ISBN: 9780415338783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. Tourism Mobilities analyses tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating, clubbing and why and how some places turn in global centres but not others.
Many places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. Tourism Mobilities analyses tourist performances such as walking...
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686,78 zł |
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Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes
ISBN: 9781138782235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory and of the more empirical work inspired by Max Weber. They show, however, that this distinction is of limited utility in reconstructing a theory of the middle class.
Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this vol...
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559,60 zł |
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The End of Organized Capitalism
ISBN: 9780745600697 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and nationalism; second, the antiquity or modernity of nations and nationalism; and third, the role of nations and nationalism in historical, and especially recent, social change.Anthony Smith provides... In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and national... |
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101,69 zł |
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Bodies of Nature
ISBN: 9780761973355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. This book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring.
Examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. This book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex...
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778,35 zł |
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Mobilities, Networks, Geographies
ISBN: 9781138253872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities...
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconfere...
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233,96 zł |
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After the Car
ISBN: 9780745644219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are shaping the future of how we travel, including:
- Global warming and its many global consequences - Peaking of oil supplies - Increased digitisation of many aspects of economic and... It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argu...
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267,75 zł |
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Mobile Technologies of the City
ISBN: 9780415374347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities... Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and ... |
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483,24 zł |
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Social Theory as Science
ISBN: 9780415608787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. Originally published in 1975.
This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy...
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274,66 zł |
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Contested Natures
ISBN: 9780761953128 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces.
Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural...
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778,35 zł |
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Contested Natures
ISBN: 9780761953135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces.
Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural...
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320,50 zł |
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Economies of Signs and Space
ISBN: 9780803984721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted 'postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity.
Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has i...
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320,50 zł |
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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
ISBN: 9781409411505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but...
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion ...
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788,53 zł |
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Mobile Lives
ISBN: 9780415480208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move," Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of 'globals', and intimate... How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and t... |
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686,78 zł |
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Mobilities, Networks, Geographies
ISBN: 9780754648826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities...
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconfere...
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737,66 zł |
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Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age
ISBN: 9780367868628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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203,44 zł |
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Automobilities
ISBN: 9781412910897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the important of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions demonstrate just how significant have been the economic, technological,...
Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, au...
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742,74 zł |
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Aeromobilities
ISBN: 9780415449564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and... Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hyper... |
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737,66 zł |
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Performing Tourist Places
ISBN: 9781138269415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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254,31 zł |
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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
ISBN: 9781138270237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but...
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion ...
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cena:
300,10 zł |