This fully updated new edition introduces the core concepts, central thinkers, and major works of the burgeoning field of political ecology. Explores the key arguments and contemporary explanatory challenges facing the sub-discipline Provides the first full history of the development of political ecology over the last century and its theoretical underpinnings Considers the ma...(展开全部)

This text presents a critical survey of the burgeoning field of political ecology, an interdisciplinary area of research which connects politics and economy to problems of environmental control and ecological change. Provides the first full history of the development of political ecology over the last century. Considers the major challenges facing the field now and for the fut...(展开全部)

An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings of current literature. While the study of political ecology is sometimes difficult to fathom, owing to its breadth and diversity, this resource simplifies the discussion by reducing the field down in...(展开全部)

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state. In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose alongside secularism, and relates to the problem of legiti...(展开全部)

This popular textbook serves as a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates in art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to postcolonialism and decolonialism, it provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline, from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to the present day. By explaining the underlying philosophical a...(展开全部)

In the revised edition of this comprehensive overview of political/economic thought, political theory, sociology and philosophy are integrated with political theory. Clark offers an introduction to the method and history of political eocnomy, along with comparative studies of classical liberalism, radicalism, conservatism and modern liberalism. Various issues such as the role o...(展开全部)

In the revised edition of this comprehensive overview of political/economic thought, political theory, sociology and philosophy are integrated with political theory. Clark offers an introduction to the method and history of political eocnomy, along with comparative studies of classical liberalism, radicalism, conservatism and modern liberalism. Various issues such as the role o...(展开全部)

Valerie Tiberius is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegger's most importa...(展开全部)