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Behavior in Public Places
ISBN: 9780029119402 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
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84,01 zł |
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The Nature of Social Science
ISBN: 9780156654258 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A discussion of the social sciences and of their relation to the physical and biological sciences. Homans believes that these all form a single science, sharing the same subject and explanatory principles.
A discussion of the social sciences and of their relation to the physical and biological sciences. Homans believes that these all form a single scienc...
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58,51 zł |
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American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
ISBN: 9780393328493 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system offering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism American Mania presents a clear and novel vantage point from which to understand the most pressing social issues of our time, while offering an informed approach to refocusing our pursuit of happiness. Drawing upon rich scientific case studies and colorful...
Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American...
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95,91 zł |
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The Widening Gap
ISBN: 9780465013098 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor families cope with work-family demands? Jody Heymann's research points to a widening gap between working families and the health and development of children. Outdated labor policy and practice must be brought into the twenty-first century, argues Heymann. To do less is to abandon the precepts of equal opportunity on which...
This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of al...
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79,36 zł |
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Thought Contagion : How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science Of Memes
ISBN: 9780465084678 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch's groundbreaking examination of memetics-the new study of how ideas and beliefs spread. What characterizes a meme is its capacity for displacing rival ideas and beliefs in an evolutionary drama that determines and changes the way people think. Exactly how do ideas spread, and what are the factors that make them genuine thought contagions? Why, for instance, do some beliefs spread throughout society, while others dwindle to extinction? What drives...
Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch's gr...
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71,00 zł |
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Social Theory and Sociology : The Classics and Beyond
ISBN: 9780631191933 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This Timely volume represents an attempt by leading practitioners in the field to think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its historical analogues, and to consider new directions opposed to the "classical" social theorists, as well as new uses of the classics. Social Theory and Sociology begins to address a problem that is salient for students as well as academics, namely, why and how does the legacy of social theory matter? What is the value of what we are learning?
No attempt is made to dodge these tough questions and some very different answers are... This Timely volume represents an attempt by leading practitioners in the field to think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its h...
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219,37 zł |
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Social Theory and Postcommunism
ISBN: 9780631211129 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory. Written by two leading social theorists, the book discusses the thesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternative conceptions of social organizations other than capitalism.
Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory. Written by two leadi...
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160,36 zł |
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Classical Social Theory : A Contemporary Approach
ISBN: 9780631211648 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This accessible, original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim through the lens of new theoretical issues, such as the role of Empire, the problem of cultural differences, and the possibilities of democracy that are implicit in each theorist's perspective.
This accessible, original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx, ...
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903,04 zł |
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Classical Social Theory : A Contemporary Approach
ISBN: 9780631211655 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This accessible, original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim through the lens of new theoretical issues, such as the role of Empire, the problem of cultural differences, and the possibilities of democracy that are implicit in each theorist's perspective.
This accessible, original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx, ...
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224,50 zł |
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Classical and Modern Social Theory
ISBN: 9780631212881 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social theory and a guide to the major debates. Designed for students with little or no background in social theory, this single volume covering both classic and contemporary theory introduces the basic concepts at the center of social theory in accessible language and provides readers with a useful reference source to the field.
Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical...
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160,36 zł |
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The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory
ISBN: 9780631213666 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Second Edition) builds on the success of the first edition by adding four completely new chapters. Retained material from the first edition has been revised, extended, and updated and coverage of feminism expanded into two chapters. The book provides insights to the traditions of classical social thought as well as the major debates and developments in contemporary social theory with 18 original essays by the world's leading social theorists.
The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Second Edition) builds on the success of the first edition by adding four completely new chapters. Re...
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207,82 zł |
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Regulating Poor
ISBN: 9780679745167 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.
"Uncompromising and provocative. . . . By mixing history,... Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during ...
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75,22 zł |
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Seven Story Tower : A Mythic Journey Through Space And Time
ISBN: 9780738205953 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, Greek, Sumerian, Indonesian, Amazonian, and Inuit cultures, as well as the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien-this book is the perfect intro-duction to the common themes found in world mythology. Curtiss Hoffman, a noted archaeologist and anthropologist, takes us beyond the entertaining stories and uses insights from cultural anthropology and analytical psychology to analyze the many common themes...
From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized ar...
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75,18 zł |
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Social Theory and Modernity
ISBN: 9780745613130 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
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307,88 zł |
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Social Theory and Modernity
ISBN: 9780745613147 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
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164,55 zł |
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Social Theory in a Changing World : Conceptions of Modernity
ISBN: 9780745619187 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas, Foucault, Bauman, Touraine, Giddens and Beck, and provides a clear account of the strengths and limitations of their work.
This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number ...
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92,32 zł |
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Social Theory : A Historical Introduction
ISBN: 9780745638393 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and further enhances, the book's striking qualities - its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness and scholarship. The theorists treated include Montesquieu, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Maistre, Gobineau, Darwin, Spencer, Kautsky, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Lukacs, Gramsci, Heidegger, Keynes, Hayek, Parsons, the Frankfurt School, Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Beck, and...
The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and fur...
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282,23 zł |
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Solomon's Sword : Two Families And The Children The State Took Away
ISBN: 9780813339535 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The author illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child's best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policymakers, and the courts. In an era when headlines often seem dominated by horrific stories about abused children, Solomon's Sword examines collisions between children, parents, and the law.
The author illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child's best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policym...
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79,36 zł |
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Searching for Safety
ISBN: 9780912051185 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being. Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer. It also exposes the high risk in backwardness, whether it is a result...
Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances h...
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200,35 zł |
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought
ISBN: 9781405134569 / Angielski / Miękka / 856 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences.
Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the in...
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187,30 zł |
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