This book articulates an original scheme for the conceptualization of action. Beginning with a new approach to the…

Presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist.…

Contains essays that reveal a concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. They discuss the…

• Počet stran 576
• Rok vydání 2023

Produkt Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought - Steinmetz, George zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Princeton…

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment EuropeDriven by a growing…

Argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most…

Provides an account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. This work focuses on the…

Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks…

Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and…

Examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its…

• Počet stran 384
• Rok vydání 2001

Explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and…

In this lively and informative volume Professor Corbett examines the role of law in the relations of nations, focusing on…

Since Socrates, and through Descartes onwards, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's…

• Počet stran 336
• Rok vydání 2014

Allan Christelow examines the Muslim courts of Algeria from 1854, when the French first intervened in Islamic legal matters,…

Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science,…

Offers a poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical,…

Introduces an area of scientific research: materials science. This book describes how scientists are inventing materials,…

Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody,…

• Rok vydání 2017

The search for a good undergraduate social science textbook is eternal, but with Imais book, the search may well be over. It…

Dealing with economic sociology, this title introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for…

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• Rok vydání 2017

First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein’s general theory of…

John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by…

Writing in the June 1965 issue of the "Economic Journal", Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to…

• Rok vydání 2017

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who…

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