Social Acceleration – A New Theory of Modernity

In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and sha...

Brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for i...

Faith Physics is a new Theory of Everything (ToE) combining ancient spiritual wisdom and modern quantum physics findings to deliver a belief system...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Simon Baron-CohenNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

Reducere. Rudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a...

A radical reappraisal of mental illness Madness, melancholy, insanity, lunacy, craziness, loco: a dizzying litany of words are used to describe a c...

Reducere. Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really ent...

Reducere. Dramatica: A New Theory of Story is the definitive guide to the most profoundly original and complete paradigm of story since Aristotle wrote Poeti...

Aimed at scholars and laypersons interested in the Bible and the foundational concepts of Judaism and Christianity, this book offers a new paradigm...

In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impac...

Reducere. What role have communication media played in the formation of modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new forms of communic...

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 ...

Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key his...

Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key his...

The author presents fresh insights into the subject of narcissism, drawing on his vast clinical experience of treating people suffering from this d...

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

This book critically discusses traditional federal theories and builds on theories that focus on the dynamics of federalism. It will be an essentia...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm (University of Loughborough, UK) BarnardIllustration(s): 3 Line drawings, black and white; 41 Hal...

DescriptionOnly since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and s...

Reducere. Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight--until one day he ...

Offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant tod...

Reducere. Over the years, many textbooks have been written about the troika of sociological geniuses, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Too often, however, these wo...

Critical Aesthetic PedagogyPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Yolanda MedinaNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 227 x...

Publisher: Kirwin Maclean AssociatesAuthor(s): Rob HarrisonIllustration(s): 44 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 277Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jenny WadeChanges of Mind unites literature from the new physics, brain research, developmental psychology, and mysticism t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Sue ThornhamFor the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, repres...

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these no...

This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to analyse and respond to some of the most pressing problems emerging at the interface of self and society, i...

Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability ...

Reducere. Gnostic Return in Modernity demonstrates the possibility that Gnosticism haunts certain modern discourses. Studying Gnosticism of the first centuri...

Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note ...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

Reducere. In this introduction to natural-base music theory, Ernst Levy presents the essentials of a comprehensive, consistent theory of harmony developed fr...

This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoi...

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DescriptionAre you ready for computers that can See, Hear, Talk & Think? Our relationship with computers is changing. Advances in technologies know...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Antonio (Kingston University London, UK) CerellaIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 288C...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with mo...

Reducere. The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its...