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Twitter: @UCDPress15th May 2016 · Paperback
In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney traces the evolution of our modern diet and...
28th May 2014 · Hardback
A complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English....
1st November 2013 · Hardback
In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting...
24th June 2013 · Hardback
First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation,...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the...
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...
9th March 2012 · Hardback
After the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, the journal Studies hosted the mainstream social, economic, constitutional and political...
5th September 2011 · Hardback
Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked...
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...
8th June 2010 · Paperback
Presents the study of the everyday civic and social relations that are observed in suburban localities, in this case in...
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 September 2009 · Paperback
Intends to document a selected yet systematic set of views on Ireland as 'Other' during the nineteenth century. This title...
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...
1st July 2009 · Paperback
After WWII the Irish state maintained the high industrial tariffs of the 1930s, despite the inefficiency of its protected industries....
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...
