Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Reducere. A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du ...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): John PerryNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 15Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. Our identity, and the way we project ourselves in the world, feeds a fundamental need for acceptance and recognition. Maintaining our projections e...

This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relations...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: Advances in Experimental PhilosophyPublication date...

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists We've all been tourists at some poin...

The Gospel is more than information about the death and resurrection of our Lord. It is an invitation to enter, by way of personal faith, into a re...

Explores the role, significance and technological development of textile manufacture in 1st millennium BC Sicily.Illustrations: B/w and colour

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

Reducere. Kids today are depressed and anxious. They also feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eise...

Engaging with a range of interconnected and highly topical issues of identity, self-determination and secession, this book examines the import and ...

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden ...

Reducere. Inspired by the historiographical model of "connected histories" (S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski), the volume examines the intellectual trajector...

Reducere. "In a time when women are faced with many outside demands--career, family, community--this book will give them the tools and inspiration needed to ...

Reducere. Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in gro...

Reducere. The Transformative Self explores three of life's perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? How do we create one?...

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Collecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine t...

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating...

In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Th...

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

This book is about vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled and have an inflated opinion of themselves, and vices of inferio...

With theological and psychological insight, Terry D. Cooper demonstrates how the Christian doctrine of a sinful and fallen humanity sheds light on ...

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

On Being One's Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner's Workshop, and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many way...

Reducere. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap Chat, Whats App, Vine. By the time you read this, there will be even more ways to engage with others on social m...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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Publisher: Manning PublicationsAuthor(s): Drummond ReedNumber of pages: 504Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 234 x 188 x 35Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. Are you having trouble with your self-image or struggling to accept who you are and wish you could boost your self-confidence? Do you wake up every...

"Lord knows that we have more than enough books about ourselves and never enough books about the God that created us. It isn't until we see him tha...

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Giovanni AytanNumber of pages: 48Collection: Internet Economics / InternetoekonomiePublication date: 2022Dimensions...