Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future
ISBN: 9780060934996 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Duane Elgin's classic bestseller, Voluntary Simplicity, was published in 1981, it transformed the lives of thousands and was hailed as the "bible" of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal. Now, for anyone seeking to navigate today's profoundly changing world, Promise Ahead is the powerful sequel to a road map for securing a promising future.
When Duane Elgin's classic bestseller, Voluntary Simplicity, was published in 1981, it transformed the lives of thousands and was hailed as t...
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Learning to Love Again
ISBN: 9780060971007 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'An excellent book: candid, accessible, constructive, full of energy and advice on the whole range of experience implied by the title. Everything is organized into Steps, Stages, Transitions, Patterns, Pitfalls, and the interconnecting dynamics-and there's hardly a page in which some little truth doesn't hit home.
'An excellent book: candid, accessible, constructive, full of energy and advice on the whole range of experience implied by the title. Everything is o...
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72,96 zł |
On Relationship
ISBN: 9780062506085 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1950, Krishnamurti said: "If we are concerned with our own lives, if we understand our relationship with others, we will have created a new society; otherwise, we will but perpetuate the present chaotic mess and confusion." Providing a far-reaching basis for solving many of the world's crises, On Relationship brings together Krishnamurti's most essential teachings on the individual's relationship to other people and institutions. The renowned teacher makes clear that the way we handle personal crises and relationships links us to the problems of all people and has a... In 1950, Krishnamurti said: "If we are concerned with our own lives, if we understand our relationship with others, we will have created a new soci... |
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Battlefield Tourism
ISBN: 9780080453620 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case...
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites...
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658,75 zł |
Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation
ISBN: 9780080466187 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation" examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity. To imagine a nation, nationalists must construct a national story about their history and culture that defines them as a people, and counters the negative story circulated by their enemies. One of the objectives of this book is to identify the necessary historical and cultural components of a compelling national story. Yet, a story is of no use unless it is heard, so nationalists need media through which the national narrative can be told.The principal objective of this...
"Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation" examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity. To imagine a nation, natio...
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528,01 zł |
Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach
ISBN: 9780120885534 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links between web sites can be used in information science and social science research as a valuable source of evidence about online phenomena, and about online components of offline phenomena. Given a set of websites, the links between them many reveal interesting patterns of connectedness that could reflect issues of underlying human communication or information value. Link analysis is therefore a valuable tool for information science and social science...
The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links between web si...
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389,33 zł |
The Social Structure of Right and Wrong
ISBN: 9780121028039 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citations. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic "Behavior of Law" (Academic Press, 1976) to a dramatically larger universe: the handling of conflict across societies and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's "pure sociology," a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind. It provides current sociological theory on largely unexplored topics such as vengeance, discipline, avoidance, pacification, negotiation and toleration. It contains new concepts and typologies...
This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citations. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic "Behavior o...
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393,46 zł |
Resource Theory: Explorations and Applications
ISBN: 9780122613104 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume serves as an update on current developments in resource theory and presents a representative sample of contemporary research conducted within this theoretical perspective. "Resource Theory" presents empirical evidence supporting the cross-cultural validity of this framework. Attention is focused on a broad range of social-psychological phenomena that have been fruitfully explored using this theoretical approach. Key features include social exchange theory, cross-cultural theory and social relationships.
This volume serves as an update on current developments in resource theory and presents a representative sample of contemporary research conducted wit...
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672,03 zł |
Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes in Group Perception
ISBN: 9780124644106 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a collection of chapters exploring the interface of cognitive and affective processes in stereotyping. Stereotypes and prejudice have long been topics of interest in social psychology, but early literature and research in this area focused on affect alone, while later studies focused primarily on cognitive factors associated with information processing strategies. This volume integrates the roles of both affect and cognition with regard to the formation, representation, and modification of stereotypes and the implications of these processes for the escalation or...
This volume presents a collection of chapters exploring the interface of cognitive and affective processes in stereotyping. Stereotypes and prejudice ...
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444,90 zł |
Methods for Macrosociological Research
ISBN: 9780125133456 / Angielski / Twarda / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary measures. This practical book provides the means to handle distributions and compositional data without forfeiting the information from which they derive. Real-world data and illustrations are featured throughout the text, and for easy reference, each chapter contains a summary and bibliography. For further ease, this handy reference is divided into three sections. Part I discusses comparative analysis of distributions, compositions, sequences of...
Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary me...
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Social Discourse and Moral Judgement
ISBN: 9780125901550 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited work presents a unique and authoritative look at morality - its development within the individual, its evolution within society, and its place within the law. The contributors represent some of the foremost authorities in these fields, and the book represents a collection of essays presented at a symposium on social constructivism and morality.
This edited work presents a unique and authoritative look at morality - its development within the individual, its evolution within society, and its p...
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444,90 zł |
Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods and Applications
ISBN: 9780126243505 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as well as techniques for collecting data and assessing MDS results. It covers the design, execution, and analysis of multidimensional scaling experiments and includes detailed descriptions and examples of six major MDS computer programs: MINISSA, POLYCON, KYST, INDSCAL/SINDSCAL, ALSCAL and MULTISCALE. These six approaches are sufficiently fundamental that continuing developments in the field will build on the principles presented in this volume.
This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as ...
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Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender
ISBN: 9780131849686 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this text provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender-explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-unders... |
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440,80 zł |
Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion
ISBN: 9780131884076 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion and helps students understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone's claims about the truth or falsity of religious systems.
For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8...
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760,10 zł |
Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives
ISBN: 9780131958937 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can be found in the departments of sociology, business and public administration departments.
For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can b... |
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760,10 zł |
To Change China: Western Advisers in China
ISBN: 9780140055283 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted "to change China"
"To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will... From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collect...
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103,07 zł |
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
ISBN: 9780141013756 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ultimate sociological resource
Written by three eminent professors, this reference has been updated to reflect the shifts of sociological thought in the last five years, making it the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary of sociology available. The ultimate sociological resource
Written by three eminent professors, this reference has been updated to reflect the shifts of sociological tho... |
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My Tears Spoiled My Aim: And Other Reflections on Southern Culture
ISBN: 9780156000062 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is the South today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? Instructional maps include Where Kudzu Grows and States Mentioned in Country Music Lyrics.
" With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is the South today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? ...
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72,96 zł |
Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions
ISBN: 9780156167598 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A synthesis of biology and psychology that examines man's institutional structures, and the interaction of the individual and society.
A synthesis of biology and psychology that examines man's institutional structures, and the interaction of the individual and society.
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111,66 zł |
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
ISBN: 9780156232005 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.
A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges t...
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81,55 zł |