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  • World at Risk

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A God of One's Own

    Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who acknowledge God's existence. What this means is that alongside the abolition of class and nation within the community of believers, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Brave New World of Work

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long job paths, is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be suddenly devalued, jobs obliterated, welfare cover ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Ulrich Beck

    by Ulrich Beck, Johannes Willms ...
    Translated by Michael Pollack ...
    Series series Conversations
    In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.These conversations shed new light onto the major ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Metamorphosis of the World

    How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Amos Weisz ...
    Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • German Europe

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Berlin Noir

    Translated by Lucy Jones ...
    by Zoë Beck, Ulrich Woelk ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present" in this anthology of original noir fiction set in Berlin ( Kirkus Reviews).From Christopher Isherwood to Philip Kerr, the long and rich tradition of noir fiction set in Berlin can make the genre a daunting challenge for contemporary German authors. But rather than retread the well-worn ground of interwar and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Globalization?

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Ciaran Cronin.The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change. Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Normal Chaos of Love

    by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ...
    This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Power in the Global Age

    A New Global Political Economy

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers.The author puts forward the provocative thesis ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD