This volume examines race, gender, and identity in African American culture…

Contrary to the American public image of international communism as monolithic, the history of communism has been one of…

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences…

This book uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen Square as the foundation for rethinking the cultural dimensions of…

Analysis and debate about economic and political justice rarely involves research on the views of the common person…

This work comprises the major papers of this extraordinary Nobel Laureate in economics…

This book focuses mainly on trust in the Congress and examines patterns of trust in societal institutions and the…

"The authorsahave analyzed the television problem brilliantly…

Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara…

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in…

Highlights innovative programs and interventions targeted toward underserved, vulnerable and marginalized populations.…

By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider…

How We Think They Think focuses on issues of cognition, memory, and literacy as they relate to anthropology. It deals in…

Ioffe and Nefedova provide a geographical perspective of Russia in modern times.…

The subject of Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship has been with us since the breakdown of the Cold War and the termination…

The social constructionist perspective has revolutionized the way that social scientists investigate social problems…

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The elder Keynes argues that almost every problem connected with the scope and method of political economy has given rise to…

This book focuses on an alternative perspective on the relevance of today's conservatism in American thought and politics.…

Greater involvement of grandmothers in caring for children has seemed to offer a solution to many social problems, such as…

This book, discussing the role that qualities of the beloved play in love, shows the style of thinking that a subclass of…

This book explores historical and contemporary issues relating to libel suits against media organizations, emphasizing the…

• Čeština

This series of the Israeli Sociological Society, whose object is to identify and clarify the major themes that occupy social…

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of…

In this volume leading Latin American scholars evaluate Juan Linz's contribution to the study of Latin American politics, in…

This book introduces students to the major traditional and contemporary accounts of knowing. It also integrates several new…

\nIn this volume the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects on his self-professed, lifelong intention to create…

"Written by Jewish and Christian educators for use by college and adult learners, this volume explores eight basic questions…

This volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical…

Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse…

This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the ?Indian captivity narrative? in the context of the…

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of…

This volume introduces readers to the complexities of writing for the screen, and demonstrates how to structure drama,…

This book aims to move philosophers, bioethicists, and readers in general to reflect on the extent to which genes determine…

This collection provides a critical overview of university-level distance education, examining how to assess and assure…

Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that…

This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest…

The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and well…

"Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists…

Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and…

Examines the issue of animal consciousness by drawing comparisons with humans: how we think; how we remember; how we learn.…

In this engaging examination of the media's influence on US history and politics, Streitmatter visits sixteen landmark…

"A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will,…

This book focuses on formative three-and-one-half decades (1898-1932) of U.S. colonial rule and provides a comprehensive…

Provides an overview of the history, philosophy, theory and practice of social group work and action in the promotion of…

• Rok vydání 1749

In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had…

Certain readers and critics have faulted Henry James for two contradictory reasons…

Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to…