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Globalization: The Basics
Series: The Basics
Globalization: The Basics is a concise introduction to a mysterious social force – a force which means that the world is more connected than ever before and yet is also held by some to be responsible for environmental degradations, global poverty and epidemic malnutrition. This book will help...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Globalization
A Reader
Expected to become a classic in the field and the classroom standard for teachers and their students, this book offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary readings on globalization currently available. Here, for the first time in print, is the full historical...
Published March 28th 2010 by Routledge
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The New Individualism
The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION, 2nd Edition
This is a new and revised edition of a book which has had a major impact upon the social sciences and public political debate. Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert's THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM inspired readers with the dramatic suggestion that 'the reinvention craze' - from self-help and therapy culture...
Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge
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The New Individualism
The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION
Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic surgery, therapeutic tribulations, instant identity makeovers and reality TV: welcome to life in our increasingly individualized world. In this dazzling book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the ‘new individualism’...
Published October 19th 2005 by Routledge
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Dark Thoughts
Race and the Eclipse of Society
In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person.Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert...
Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge