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After the Crisis

By Alain Touraine

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Hardcover:

9780745653846 | Polity Pr, July 8, 2014, cover price $64.95

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9780745653853 | Polity Pr, July 8, 2014, cover price $19.95

The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing of the Middle East

Product Description: The widespread revolt that began with the Tunisian revolution of December 2010 and inspired uprisings in several Arab countries is arguably one of the most important events to take place in the Middle East this century. But despite the popularity of the uprisings; the overthrow of dictatorships; and revolt's huge costs in human life and economic hardship, the Arab world remains a tense region, the so-called Arab Spring an unfinished cause...read more

By Alain Toulaine (foreword by)

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9781566569439 | Olive Branch Pr, April 30, 2016, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The widespread revolt that began with the Tunisian revolution of December 2010 and inspired uprisings in several Arab countries is arguably one of the most important events to take place in the Middle East this century.

Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age

By Geoffrey Pleyers and Alain Touraine (foreword by)

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9780745646756 | Polity Pr, February 2, 2011, cover price $69.95

Bricks Without Straw

By Alain Touraine

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9781438789323 | Intl Business Pubns USA, September 9, 2009, cover price $59.95

Thinking Differently

Product Description: In his previous books Alain Touraine analysed the great changes that have transformed our personal and collective lives; in this new book he shows that we need to transform our ways of thinking about these changes. The very idea of society is in crisis: globalization and the liberation of desires from taboos have led to the collapse of the old social order...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9780745645735 | Polity Pr, June 29, 2009, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In his previous books Alain Touraine analysed the great changes that have transformed our personal and collective lives; in this new book he shows that we need to transform our ways of thinking about these changes.

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9780745645742 | Polity Pr, June 29, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In his previous books Alain Touraine analysed the great changes that have transformed our personal and collective lives; in this new book he shows that we need to transform our ways of thinking about these changes.

A New Paradigm for Understanding TodayÂs World

Product Description: Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English.In this book Touraine presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary world. It is a broad theoretical work which seeks to make sense of everyday experience at the beginning of the 21st century...read more

By Gregory Elliott (trans) and Alain Touraine

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9780745636719, titled "A New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World" | Polity Pr, November 9, 2007, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English.

A New Paradigm for Understanding TodayÂs World

By Gregory Elliott (trans) and Alain Touraine

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9780745636726, titled "A New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World" | Polity Pr, November 9, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English.

El mundo de las mujeres/ The Women's World

Product Description: El prestigioso sociologo frances Alain Touraine analiza la construccion del sujeto individual y sociologico en las mujeres. A la pregunta Â«Quien eres?Â», las mujeres de hoy responden sucesivamente Â«soy una mujerÂ», Â«me construyo como mujerÂ» y Â«mi construccion personal tiene lugar a traves de mi sexualidadÂ»...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9788449320347 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, September 1, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: El prestigioso sociologo frances Alain Touraine analiza la construccion del sujeto individual y sociologico en las mujeres.

Critica De LA Modernidad

Product Description: TÃtulo original: Critique de la modernitÃ©. TraducciÃ³n : Alberto Luis Bixio.

By Alain Touraine

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9789505572045 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: TÃtulo original: Critique de la modernitÃ©.

Podremos vivir juntos?: Iguales Y Diferentes

Product Description: Ante un modelo uniforme de la globalizaciÃ³n mundial, que ignora la diversidad de las culturas y el aislamiento de las comunidades que afirman su identidad en la exclusiÃ³n del otro, Touraine propone reconstruir una concepciÃ³n de la vida social centrada en el valor de las instituciones, a partir de la reflexiÃ³n sobre el sujeto como "afirmaciÃ³n de libertad contra el poder de los estrategas y los aparatos"...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9789681662226 | 2 edition (Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2006), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Ante un modelo uniforme de la globalizaciÃ³n mundial, que ignora la diversidad de las culturas y el aislamiento de las comunidades que afirman su identidad en la exclusiÃ³n del otro, Touraine propone reconstruir una concepciÃ³n de la vida social centrada en el valor de las instituciones, a partir de la reflexiÃ³n sobre el sujeto como "afirmaciÃ³n de libertad contra el poder de los estrategas y los aparatos".

Que Es LA Democracia

Product Description: Alain Touraine expone una respuesta a la siguiente interrogante: Â¿QuÃ© contenido positivo podemos dar a una idea democrÃ¡tica que no puede reducirse a un conjunto de garantÃas contra el poder autoritario? Esta cuestiÃ³n se impone a la filosofÃa polÃtica, pero tambiÃ©n a acciÃ³nes concreta, como procurar combinar la ley de la mayorÃa con el respeto a las minorÃas o lograr la inserciÃ³n de los inmigrantes en una poblaciÃ³n...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9789681662196, titled "Que es la democracia?" | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Alain Touraine expone una respuesta a la siguiente interrogante: Â¿QuÃ© contenido positivo podemos dar a una idea democrÃ¡tica que no puede reducirse a un conjunto de garantÃas contra el poder autoritario?

9789505572137 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1995, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Alain Touraine expone una respuesta a la siguiente interrogante: Â¿QuÃ© contenido positivo podemos dar a una idea democrÃ¡tica que no puede reducirse a un conjunto de garantÃas contra el poder autoritario?

Critica de la modernidad/ Modernity Critics

Product Description: DespuÃ©s de pasar revista al triunfo y la caÃda de la concepciÃ³n clÃ¡sica de la modernidad, Touraine la desliga de la tradiciÃ³n histÃ³rica que la reduce a la razÃ³n; introduce el tema del sujeto y la subjetividad, y se pregunta cÃ³mo crear mediaciones entre economÃa, cultura, libertad, sujeto y razÃ³n en el intento de que estas figuras hablen la una con la otra...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9789681662202 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: DespuÃ©s de pasar revista al triunfo y la caÃda de la concepciÃ³n clÃ¡sica de la modernidad, Touraine la desliga de la tradiciÃ³n histÃ³rica que la reduce a la razÃ³n; introduce el tema del sujeto y la subjetividad, y se pregunta cÃ³mo crear mediaciones entre economÃa, cultura, libertad, sujeto y razÃ³n en el intento de que estas figuras hablen la una con la otra.

Un nuevo paradigma / A New Paradigm: Para comprender el mundo de hoy / To Understand todays World

Product Description: En los primeros siglos de su modernizaciÃ³n, Occidente describiÃ³ y pensÃ³ la realidad social en tÃ©rminos polÃticos: el desorden y el orden, el rey y la naciÃ³n, el pueblo y la revoluciÃ³n. Luego, con la RevoluciÃ³n industrial, el capitalismo se emancipÃ³ del poder polÃtico...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9788449318191 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 30, 2005), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: En los primeros siglos de su modernizaciÃ³n, Occidente describiÃ³ y pensÃ³ la realidad social en tÃ©rminos polÃticos: el desorden y el orden, el rey y la naciÃ³n, el pueblo y la revoluciÃ³n.

Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies

Product Description: The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation. After well-received editions in Russian, French and Italian, Anton Oleinik's study of Russian prisons, in which he explores the social roots of organized crime in post-Soviet societies, is now published in English...read more

By Sheryl Curtis (trans), Anton N. Oleinik and Alain Touraine (foreword by)

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9780754632511 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, December 1, 2003, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation.

A La Busqueda De Si Mismo

Product Description: Las cuestiones polÃticas o morales no exigen necesariamente escribir tratados sistemÃ¡ticos. De hecho, Alain Touraine y Farhad Khosrokhavar optan en este texto por el camino contrario, el del diÃ¡logo, lo cual permite al primero de ellos avanzar en su reflexiÃ³n sobre el sujeto ya iniciada en CrÃtica de la modernidad y Â¿Podremos vivir juntos?...read more

By Farhard Khosrokhavar and Alain Touraine

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9788449311963, titled "A la busqueda de si mismo / A Search of Itself" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 15, 2002, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Las cuestiones polÃticas o morales no exigen necesariamente escribir tratados sistemÃ¡ticos.

Beyond Neoliberalism

Product Description: Today neoliberals argue that we should let ourselves be guided by market forces and that there is little we can do to stem the flow of economic globalization. On the other hand, thinkers on the left continue to denounce domination and claim to speak in the name of victims who are powerless to change the circumstances of their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alain Touraine

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9780745624334 | Polity Pr, August 29, 2001, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Today neoliberals argue that we should let ourselves be guided by market forces and that there is little we can do to stem the flow of economic globalization.

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9780745624341 | Polity Pr, August 29, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Today neoliberals argue that we should let ourselves be guided by market forces and that there is little we can do to stem the flow of economic globalization.

Can We Live Together: Equality and Difference

Product Description: In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alain Touraine

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9780804740425, titled "Can We Live Together?: Equality and Difference" | Stanford Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups.

9780745622118 | Polity Pr, April 14, 2000, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups.

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9780804740432, titled "Can We Live Together?: Equality and Difference" | Stanford Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups.

9780745622125 | Polity Pr, April 14, 2000, cover price $34.95

Como Salir Del Liberalismo

Product Description: Â«Â¿Dispone todavÃa nuestra sociedad de la capacidad de cambiar, de generar nuevas ideas, nuevas polÃticas econÃ³micas y sociales, o acaso estÃ¡ destinada a sufrir una crisis sin fin? Por una parte, los liberales nos aconsejan que renunciemos a la construcciÃ³n de un futuro a nuestra medida y nos dejemos dirigir por el mercado...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9788449307515, titled "Como salir del liberalismo / Beyond Neo-Liberalism" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, July 29, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Â«Â¿Dispone todavÃa nuestra sociedad de la capacidad de cambiar, de generar nuevas ideas, nuevas polÃticas econÃ³micas y sociales, o acaso estÃ¡ destinada a sufrir una crisis sin fin?

Igualdad Y Diversidad

Product Description: El autor afirma que los criterios de igualdad se han modificado, que en la modernidad, Ã©sta, se funda en la bÃºsqueda por construir una individuaciÃ³n. El sociÃ³logo francÃ©s llama Sujeto a ese esfuerzo del individuo por ser actor en un mundo globalizado y de comunidades cerradas...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9789505572687 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1998, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: El autor afirma que los criterios de igualdad se han modificado, que en la modernidad, Ã©sta, se funda en la bÃºsqueda por construir una individuaciÃ³n.

What Is Democracy?

By David Macey (trans) and Alain Touraine

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Hardcover:

9780813327068 | Westview Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $69.00

Paperback:

9780813327075 | Westview Pr, April 3, 1997, cover price $45.00

Podremos Vivir Juntos? LA Discusion Pendiente: El Destino Del Hombre En LA Aldea Global

Product Description: Ante un modelo uniforme de la globalización mundial, que ignora la diversidad de las culturas y el aislamiento de las comunidades que afirman su identidad en la exclusión del otro, Touraine propone reconstruir una concepción de la vida social centrada en el valor de las instituciones, a partir de la reflexión sobre el sujeto como "afirmación de libertad contra el poder de los estrategas y los aparatos"...read more

By Alain Touraine

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9789505572366 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Ante un modelo uniforme de la globalización mundial, que ignora la diversidad de las culturas y el aislamiento de las comunidades que afirman su identidad en la exclusión del otro, Touraine propone reconstruir una concepción de la vida social centrada en el valor de las instituciones, a partir de la reflexión sobre el sujeto como "afirmación de libertad contra el poder de los estrategas y los aparatos".

Alain Touraine