Author: Thomas Merton
The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concer ... |
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Lives of Lottery Millionaires
Author: Pasi Falk & Pasi Maenpaa
What happens to a person when she or he wins an enormous amount of money? One widespread belief is that hitting the jackpot kick-starts a downward spiral, and that winners end up isolated from friends and relatives, sad, ... |
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How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenome ... |
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Legal Issues for Social Work Practice and Policy
Author: Donald T. Dickson
Although morbidity among HIV/AIDS victims has decreased, the rate of new infections has remained steady for several years, substantially increasing the likelihood that this epidemic will continue and expand as a concern ... |
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What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Author: Jared Diamond
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with an ... |
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Author: Enrique Fernandez-Macias, John Hurley & Donald Storrie
To what extent did European countries create 'more and better jobs' - as the EU's Lisbon agenda targeted - after 1995? And to what extent did employment growth in Europe between 1995-2007 reflect the pattern of growing g ... |
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Author: Michael A. Peters & Alicia de Alba
Subjects in Process investigates the human subject in the first decade of the twenty-first century in relation to changing social circumstances and belongings. The concept of 'subjectivity' in the Western tradition has f ... |
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Author: Paul Slovic
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. "The Perception of Risk" brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of ri ... |
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Author: Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello
In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary business culture. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking ... |
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Author: Liliana Riga
This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership we ... |
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Author: James P. Spradley
The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook which guides students step by step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also teaches students how to a ... |
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How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
Author: Mary R. Lefkowitz
Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying ... |
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The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Pre-Order Malcolm Gladwell's New Book, David and Goliath, Coming 3 October 2013. From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom ... |
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A Transatlantic Comparison
Author: Christian Joppke & John Torpey
The status of Islam in Western societies remains deeply contentious. Countering strident claims on both the right and left, Legal Integration of Islam offers an empirically informed analysis of how four liberal democraci ... |
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How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Author: Niall Ferguson
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is ami ... |
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Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Author: Martin Japtok & Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections ... |
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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Author: E. Gabriella Coleman
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software - and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project - rev ... |
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A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town's Fight to Survive
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Author: Wayne, Eliot Lankford & M., Walter Carmichael
Foster's Store is about coming of age. It is as much about wild parties and college life as it is about a place in history where a generation had it all, but at the same time, "all" turned out to be so fragile and fleeti ... |
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Author: James Surowiecki
In this fascinating book, "New Yorker "business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are "smarter" than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, f ... |
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