Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Paperback - Erving Goffman

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Erving GoffmanNumber of pages: 352Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x...

Reducere. Erving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Erving GoffmanNumber of pages: 160Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erving GoffmanOther: Bennett BergerErving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Fr...

The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examine...

Reducere. Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this,...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Erving GoffmanNumber of pages: 272Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x...

Reducere. From the award-winning author of Sexism Ed and Grace Period comes a "haunting, mesmerizing" memoir-in-essays about survival, hope, and the strength...

G A Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, h...

Reducere. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronologica...

The history of London's county asylums and mental hospitals.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Ed BrandonIllustration(s): 60 black and whit...

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

This volume, containing Mill's "On Liberty, " "Utilitarianism, " "Considerations of Representative Government, " and "The Subjection of Women, " dr...

Reducere. Academia isn't an easy place to be if your brain isn't quite right.Colleagues carelessly call each other ``schizo`` and ``bipolar.`` Another collea...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evol...

A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time

This second collection of essays for the Societas series by Tom Rubens continues the author's discussion of contemporary issues contained in "Progr...

Reducere. Can man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most decidedly he can Man has always decreed that which has appeared in his world and is today dec...

Reducere. Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his chi...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you...

Reducere. "The world is at a loss for a way out. Parliamentarism and democracy are on the decline. Salvation is being sought in Fascism and other forms of "s...

Software engineering is a social activity; forget that and your career is lost... Starting with the premise that a good software engineer is necess...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPresents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928 on the purposes and practi...

Reducere. This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'T...

Reducere. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as "one of the best scientist/writers of our time, " a collectio...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

DescriptionA ghostly message from 1835 and dreams of the Sloane sisters of Buffalo, New York in 1880 send modern day novelist Maude Travers across ...

Reducere. Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived bo...

Contributor(s): Author: Rosemary PardoeIntroduction by: David SuttonTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is...

Publisher: St Augustine's PressAuthor(s): Roger ScrutonNumber of pages: 246Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 401 x 268 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Louis DumontNumber of pages: 294Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 18Cover type: Pa...

Exploring his unique and interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, this book emphasises...

Reducere. Eleanor Duckworth's ideas contained in these timeless essays are more important than ever to the public discourse on education. While touching on m...

Reducere. True Ghost Stories Of Haunted Asylums, Spooky Buildings And Creepy Tales Of The Worlds Most Haunted Places The sterile and cold environment of most...

Reducere. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Be...

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection o...

This popular text/reader for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the author's engaging framing essays that o...

Introduces the major theories, concepts, and perspectives of contemporary social psychology in a uniquely engaging manner.Publisher: SAGE Publicati...

POW Sometimes, don't you just want to let someone have it? Give them a tongue-lashing they'll never forget? Alexa's a Spy and Other Things to Worry...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sigmund FreudAuthor: James StracheyThree Essays on the Theory of SexualitySexual AbberationsInfantile SexualityTransformati...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Law is an 1850 book by Fr d ric Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution and a few months befor...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Tim (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) IngoldIllustration(s): 64 Halftones, black and white; 64 Illus...

Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to e...

This is a reissue of a classic work in the field of International Relations with a new introduction by two leading scholars. Written and edited mor...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Ann Laura (Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies,...

Some of the most exciting writers in and from Wales consider the future of Wales and the UK and their place in it.Publisher: Watkins MediaNumber of...