19th February 2014 · Hardback
For almost 800 years, from their arrival with the first wave of Anglo-Normans in 1169, the FitzGeralds - Earls of Kildare and,...
18th November 2013 · Hardback
Vol. 17 of the Collected Works can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. In the last decade of his life,...
30th September 2013 · Hardback
Intends to chart Irish musical life across recorded history. This book also documents Ireland's musical relations with the world at large, notably...
15th September 2013 · Paperback / softback
Terence O'Neill came to power as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1963 with a bold plan to 'literally transform the face...
20th June 2013 · Hardback
Features essays focusing on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe. Exploring...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as...
28th May 2012 · Paperback / softback
Deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global malnutrition, consumer...
9th March 2012 · Hardback
After the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, the journal Studies hosted the mainstream social, economic, constitutional and political debates that...
5th July 2011 · Paperback / softback
Why do some people become more religiously conservative over time, whilst others moderate their views or abandon faith altogether? Drawing on 95...
8th December 2010 · Hardback
Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth of the...
29th July 2010 · Hardback
Tells the story of Father Robert O'Keeffe of Callan, County Kilkenny, and his conflict with ecclesiastical authority. This book traces the Callan...
11th June 2010 · Hardback
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a...
1st April 2010 · Hardback
Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying over the...
1st February 2010 · Paperback / softback
A memoir that presents an account of the author's imprisonment in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising and subsequent internment in Ireland...
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 for over...
12th November 2009 · Paperback / softback
The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals for over...
5th October 2009 · Hardback
Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range...