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31st May 2012 · Hardback
Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe...
25th May 2012 · Paperback
Deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global...
5th July 2011 · Paperback
Why do some people become more religiously conservative over time, whilst others moderate their views or abandon faith altogether? Drawing...
1st December 2010 · Hardback
Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth...
1st May 2010 · Hardback
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...
1st April 2010 · Hardback
Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...
1st February 2010 · Paperback
A memoir that presents an account of the author's imprisonment in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising and subsequent internment...
12th November 2009 · Hardback
The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
12th November 2009 · Paperback
The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
1st September 2009 · Hardback
Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...
24th August 2009 · Paperback
Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a window into the lives and culture...
25th April 2009 · Hardback
Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book...
24th November 2008 · Hardback
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...
20th September 2008 · Hardback
Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities...
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call...
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Presents an exposition of the author's sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of...
19th February 2007 · Hardback
The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on...
2nd December 2005 · Hardback
A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....
