This handbook, that can be used as a reference tool, is designed to introduce the
researcher/writer to the customs of a community of writers who value scrupulous scholarship …

How is a sense of belonging to a political community created? Rogers Smith suggests that
Stories of Peoplehood, narratives which include racial, religious, ethnic and cultural …

The opponents of enhancement do not all set out to defend a common and clearly specified
thesis. However, several would either assent or be attracted to the following claim …

Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by
security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade …

Simon Susen examines the impact of the'postmodern turn'on the contemporary social
sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a …

Our growing ability to alter brain function can be used to enhance the mental processes of
normal individuals as well as to treat mental dysfunction in people who are ill. The prospect …

According to what we call the Principle of Procreative Beneficence (PB), couples who decide
to have a child have a significant moral reason to select the child who, given his or her …

Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time when
philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity. Those subjects who …

Nikolas Rose ow did we become neurochemical selves? How did we come to think about
our sadness as a condition called" depression" caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain …

Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and
comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This …