2nd July 2009 · Paperback / softback
After WWII the Irish state maintained the high industrial tariffs of the 1930s, despite the inefficiency of its protected industries. Such inefficiency...
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 shows how...
5th January 2009 · Hardback
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title includes topics...
9th October 2008 · Hardback
Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are...
9th October 2008 · Hardback
Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community studied in...
20th August 2007 · Paperback / softback
Provides analysis of the transformations that have taken place in Ireland during the heyday of the Celtic Tiger. This book maps changes...
3rd July 2007 · Paperback / softback
Offers research and analysis of the Irish media by Ireland's leading experts in the field. This book is intended as a textbook...
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is...
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 overall human...
19th February 2007 · Hardback
The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on land. Originally...
12th October 2006 · Paperback / softback
Provides an exploration of the psychology of Irish proverbs. This book examines Irish wisdom about food, drink, weather, money, markets, land, health,...
11th September 2006 · Paperback / softback
Presenting the history of Travellers in twentieth-century Ireland, this work describes the people who travelled Irish roads, showing how and why they...
1st September 2006 · Paperback / softback
Focuses on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and...
18th January 2006 · Paperback / softback
Traces the development of Irish health care services and practices, and the role that different conceptions of disease and different institutional actors...
2nd December 2005 · Hardback
A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....
28th November 2005 · Hardback
Includes essay 'On Seeing in Nature', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories...
1st December 2004 · Paperback / softback
Focusing on the extent to which sport plays a part in the construction of Irishness, this book also makes a contribution to...
16th September 2004 · Paperback / softback
Lee Komito explores the implications of information and communications technologies for social and cultural change, placing contemporary technologies in an historical context...