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This is a small collection of poems expressing memories and fantasies, but more importantly serve as a backdrop to the discipline shown in the life of my father. Friends, real or fancied, here appear on a different kind of facebook. These faces have not aged in the decades since I first knew them and here they live from my heart, hidden no longer. Some fo the fantasies were inspired by the ficticous characters, "Dino," "Beach Boy," "Hamlet" and the "Saturday Night Fibber." Other poets grateful to have been quoted are: brother John Lash, Robert Pinsky, the former Poet Lauriate, Myra Burt and...

In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.

In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and nationalism; second, the antiquity or modernity of nations and nationalism; and third, the role of nations and nationalism in historical, and especially recent, social change.

Anthony Smith provides...

Im harten Leben des Wilden Westens prallen Welten aufeinander, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Es ist eine Zeit, in der alles möglich scheint: eine ruhmreiche Zukunft und unermesslicher Reichtum. Es ist aber auch eine Zeit, die Männer hervorbringt, die das Gesetz nicht achten und mit den Stiefeln treten, die alles zunichtemachen, was andere sich in harter Arbeit erschaffen haben und dafür sogar Menschen töten.Wenn es keine Männer geben würde, Marshals und Sherifs, die den Pionieren folgen, die unter Einsatz ihres Lebens für ein Gleichgewicht zwischen beiden Seiten sorgen,...

Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted 'postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity.