Folk Devils and Moral Panics

First published 30 years ago, this classic book on moral outrages has been updated to include an analysis of the disproportionate panic in the face...

An examination of the disturbing rise of 'scrounger-phobia' in the media and society at large, and how this has fuelled popular hostility towards b...

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral pa...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Terry KestelIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 290Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 38C...

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Since its first publication in 1978, this book has charted the volatile world of financial market. Now in its 7th edition, it has been revised and ...

Volumul de proza Johnny Panic si Biblia Viselor (aparut intr-o prima editie in 1977, apoi reeditat si extins) include un corpus amplu de texte in p...

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Quillette magazine has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity. Panics an...

When Manias, Panics, and Crashes was published (1978), the world was entering a new period of global economic turbulence. Economists based their an...

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In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine - founded in 2015 by Australian-based...

Reducere. In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans, and London. Although ...

Offers an examination of the role of fear in national panics. Simultaneously, the book addresses why many Americans believe the country is in horri...

Now in paperback, this looks at the pact between Hitler and Stalin which lasted from 1939 to 1941. 'Meticulous and vividly readable...' }Sunday Tel...

Denis Edwards' memoir of his wartime experience from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic between 1944-45.

Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissa...

Reducere. This is Volume II. of an early work first published in 1904 by R. Campbell Thompson and is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It...

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The world is on the brink of war. Fisk and Shoe - mercenaries, very much not wanting to get caught in the middle of a political whirlwind - must de...

Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria. In April of 1944, t...

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Reducere. A deadly case. An international operative. When a mission turns personal, who will make it out alive? Trowbridge 'Bridger' Hall was raised to be a ...

From 1819 to COVID-19, 200 Years of American Financial Panics offers a comprehensive historical account of financial panics in America. Through a m...

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An inventive, page-turning crime thriller with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) in which the Red Scare never ended.Publisher...

Reducere. From the author Jeffery Deaver calls "smart, speedy, and stylish, " this Boston-based thriller was the basis for the film The Town and features an ...

The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp joined the two that were written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third d...

The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound stu...

Reducere. Early 1990s China: Newly returned from the US, lawyer Hong Jun has just set up practice in a fledgling legal system when his first case walks throu...

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Reducere. A William C. Morris Award Finalist Killing isn't supposed to be easy. But it is. It's the after that's hard to deal with. Nate was eight the first ...

Adopting a historical approach to moral philosophy, this text introduces the thoughts of some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. It tre...

Reducere. IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absen...