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  • Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust

    The Jimmy Savile Scandal

    by F. Furedi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority. ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • Project Nought: A Graphic Novel

    by Chelsey Furedi ...
    For fans of Kiss Number 8 and On a Sunbeam, this debut graphic novel is a fast-paced time travel adventure with a hint of romance that has garnered 1.5 million views as a Tapas webcomic.Ren Mittal's last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus to visit his mystery pen pal Georgia. When he wakes up in 2122, he thinks he might be hallucinating…he’s not!Tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu

    by Frank Furedi ...
    First published in 2004. Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood. Increasingly, vulnerability is ... Read more

    Was $90.68 CAD Now $81.06 CAD

  • In Defence of Populism

    by Frank Furedi ...
    'Populist' is now most commonly used as a term of abuse. Populists, we are repeatedly told, are xenophobic ignoramuses offering irrational, emotive solutions to complex problems. But is this true?Frank Furedi argues that this is a self-serving narrative that owes more to the desire of elites to protect their own power and interests than it does to the truth. The widespread disdain expressed ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Solid Waste Management and Recycling

    Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya

    Edited by Isa Baud, Johan Post, Christine Furedy ...
    Series Book 76 - GeoJournal Library
    This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it:-utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis;-provides embedded case study ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Why Borders Matter

    Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life.Numerous commentators claim that ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • First World War

    Still No End in Sight

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • How Fear Works

    Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally commanding status in society today and how has the way we fear today changed from the way ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Authority

    A Sociological History

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?

    Confronting 21st Century Philistinism

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again. ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Democracy Under Siege

    Don't Let Them Lock It Down!

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Democracy Under Siege outlines the long history of anti-democratic thought, explains why hostility to democracy has gained momentum in the current era, and offers a positive affirmation of the principle and the value of democracy.Frank Furedi examines the frequent claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself. The prevalence of this sentiment in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... Read more

    $24.09 CAD