Product Description: Over the last 250 years, the global capitalist system has been responsible for rapid economic growth and technological change. The consequent increase in production of an ever-changing and expanding range of products and services has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and deprivation...read more

Product Description: A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes...read more

Covers the liberal democratic state and other, non-democratic state formations and offers chapters on each of the core theories of the modern state. Each chapter of this work is structured in the same way to allow for ease of cross-referencing and for comparisons to be drawn between theories.

Product Description: At the start of the twenty-first century, it can be argued that human societies have a greater impact on the environment than ever before. We have always been dependent upon, and interacted with, the 'natural' environment. However, the dramatic social changes of the past three centuries, have altered the form of our relationship with non-human nature to the extent that some would see people/planet relations as in a situation of crisis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)