On Critique. A Sociology of Emancipation, Paperback - Luc Boltanski

* This is a major new work of social theory by one of the leading sociologists in France today. Formerly a close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu, L...

DescriptionA vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawi...

Reducere. True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history -- the crucial decades between Emancipation and the...

By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely collection provides illuminating insights into the emerge...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context?A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociol...

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Reducere. The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In ...

DescriptionThe pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If ...

DescriptionThis book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociologica...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncIllustration(s): fig. and tablesNumber of pages: 397Collection: History of Schools and SchoolingPublication dat...

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Reducere. No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the mo...

"First published in French as Enrichissement, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2017"--Verso.

Theorizing Globalization offers a reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, providing essential insights into an enormously popular...

Reducere. Samir Amin has undertaken an ambitious task: nothing less than an analysis of the process of capital accumulation on a global level. Drawing on a w...

Reducere. Luca Pacioli stood beside the great Leonardo da Vinci and gazed at The Last Supper. He saw immediately that something was terribly wrong.An orphan ...

This systematic overview of the main arguments made against human rights is the first of its kind. It proposes a strong democratic defence of human...

Description'The most gratifying thing for me is] that this book] was listed as a millennium book by The Pioneer] along with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's An...

This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in High...

Reducere. Collected in this 3-in-one omnibus edition are Kant's ground breaking critiques. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, and...

In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such think...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the foun...

Reducere. DescriptionTo this day, Abraham Kuyper stands as a shining example of responsible and effective Christian action in all areas of life. A leading jo...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 244 x 283 x 18Cover type: Pape...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luc AnselinAuthor: Sergio J. ReyThis book is the definitive user's guide to the spatial regression functionality in the sof...

"Ne era teama. De tot, de nimic, de ceilalti, de noi. De mancarea stricata. De ouale alterate. De multimi si de prejudecatile lor, de urile lor, de...

A 3-volume set that includes: "Critique of Pure Reason"; "Critique of Practical Reason"; and, "Critique of Judgment".

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well--known in the Marxist--fem...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

DescriptionA great deal of media and scholarly attention has focused on the role of women during the Tunisian Revolution. By contrast, this book fo...

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their lo...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Gil AnidjarNumber of pages: 464Collection: Religion, Culture, and Public LifePublication date: 2016D...