Polity press london (27 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in VG dust jacket. First edition. Thick hardcover, bump to front board lower corner, else, minor wear and well bound, light foxing to text block; contents clean and unmarked with bright paper. Small creasing to rear panel of dust jacket, else light wear, no price-clipped. 864 pages, illustrated.…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. viii, 336pp. Laminated light card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers and text block edges, one corner a little rubbed. Neat, clean, bright and tight inside other than an previous price label inside rear cover.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. Reprint. xii, 288pp. Laminated, illustrated light card covers. 8vo. Very gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Lower leading front corner is scuffed and light scoring to covers. Previous owner's name penned to inside front cover. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. AD. Used.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xii/297 pages. "In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d'Etat, specialized in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords in Great Britain). Even though the French legal system is vastly different from the Anglo-American tradition and was created by Napoleon Bonaparte at the same time as the Code-based system, this branch of French law is the result of a home-grown tradition constructed on precedents. Thus, even though highly technical, the cases that form the matter of this book, are not so exotic for an English-speaking audience. What makes this study an important contribution to the social studies of law is that, because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, Latour has been able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reasoning: it is clearly not the social that explains the law, but the legal ties that alter what it is to be associated together. It is thus a major contribution to Latour's social theory since it is now possible to compare the ways legal ties build up associations with the other types of connection that he has studied in other fields of activity. His project of an alternative interpretation of the very notion of society has never been made clearer than in this work. To reuse the title of his first book, this book is in effect the 'Laboratory Life of Law'.".…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Card covers in tidy condition, college library stamps to the front and rear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. viii 267pp hardback, black boards silver-lettered in wrapper with bw plates, author's presentation copy with the inscription to title page, very good in a good wrapper.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fiine. First Pb Edition. 250pp.

Softcover. Condizione: New. New book. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0745623190. ISBN/EAN: 9780745623191. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: ABE362737540.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback with minor edgewear to covers, score to page block foot and faint marks to page block. Minor foxing to a couple of internal pages. Very good condition, text clean throughout. AD. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First. All in fine order throughout, clean crisp and bright in smart black boards with bright silver titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 230pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. From an academic library with the usual stamps and labels. Lightly worn copy. A00001819.

8vo. 228pp. Original wrappers, a very good copy. . From the collection of Australian academic and art historian Leigh Astbury with his signature. Sometimes with a little unobtrusive marginalia.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has a little wear and the top corner has some minor creasing. 166 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed, as are the first and last few pages. 264 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 276pp. Laminated light card covers. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers. Some pencil annotations on pp 7-21 else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Condizione: OTTIMO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Inglese, brossura editoriale in cartoncino flessibile, lucida, con alette, leggero segno di piccola etichetta prezzo e segno di piega all'angolo sup.post., pagine in buonissimo stato di conservazione, appena ingialliti i margini. Numero pagine 166.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has minor wear, including some minor scratch marks. 149 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 128 pages. Published in 2003. Collection of essays on subject. One of the most important philosophical texts of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jurgen Habermas' "The Future of Human Nature" in a felicitous English translation. His thoughtful and necessary reflections on religion, science, and technology. As such, it is one of the earliest - and most insightful - reflections of its kind on high technology ('hi-tech") and what it means for the whole notion of "humanity" from a secular and non-theistic/spiritual perspective. "Recent developments in bio-technology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its biological evolution in its own hands. His analysis is guided by the view that genetic manipulation is bound up with the identity and self-understanding of the species. We cannot rule out the possibility that knowledge of one's own hereditary factors may prove to be restrictive for the choice of an individual's way of life and may undermine the symmetrical relations between free and equal human beings" (Publisher's blurb). "When a philosopher of the stature of Jurgen Habermas makes an intervention into contemporary genetics it pays to sit up and listen" (Disability And Society). The final essay, "Faith And Knowledge", is the slightly revised (and final) version of the lecture Habermas gave upon winning the Peace Prize of The German Book Trade in 2001. More than any other essay written thus far, it examines the tension between science and religion in the modern world, a "tension which exploded with such tragic violence on September 11" (Jurgen Habermas). An absolute "must-have" title for Jurgen Habermas collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JURGEN HABERMAS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0745629865. no.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hirst, Paul. Representative democracy and its limits. First edition. London: Polity Press, 1990. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear to edges. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Binding strong. Black endpapers. Verso of contents page with ownership signature. 171pp. Occasional underlinings in biro, otherwise ontents clean and bright. Paul Quentin Hirst (19462003) was a British sociologist and political theorist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hirst developed a theory of associationalism which attempted to revive social democracy by providing an alternative to state socialism and free-market liberalism. He also made important contributions to critical legal theory. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo 184pp., notes, index, Translated by Roger Griffin.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A paperback book in very good condition, dated 1989.

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. 212pp previous owner's name at front.

reprint stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xiv + 384pp., bibliog., index.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo ix + 233pp..

Cloth Boards. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards a little rubbed, else a mint copy. Size: 8vo.