Angeregt durch die Lektüre von Descartes' Meditationen suchte Elisabeth von der Pfalz (1618-1680) 1643 den brieflichen Kontakt zu dem berühmten Philosophen.
Ausgehend von literarischen Texten Nikolaj Gogols, Fedor Dostojevskijs, Lev Tolstojs und Anton Cechovs werden Grundzüge einer Poetik des Sehens in der russischen Kultur rekonstruiert und bis in den Film, die Literatur und Kunst der sowjetischen und postsowjetischen Moderne weiterverfolgt.
This book is an introduction to Max Weber's ambitious comparative study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order.
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it.
El padrino de Jackson Heights hace mucho más que arreglos de viajes desde su diminuta agencia escondida en un rincón del sector de Queens conocido como la Pequeña Colombia de Nueva York.
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murderdelivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
David Kupelian, veteran journalist and bestselling author of The Marketing of Evil, probes the millennia-old questions of evilwhat it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our livesonce again demonstrating his uncanny knack for demystifying complex, elusive, and intimidating subjects with fresh insights into the hidden mechanisms of seduction, corruption, religion, and power politics.
A Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different relationships merit distinct treatment for particular purposes.
Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century.
In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy.
From the bestselling author of The Overworked American, an illuminating and well-researched account on the consequences of turning younger and younger children into consumers.
Bruce Bawer exposes the heated controversy over gay rights and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values, "e;a place at the table"e; for everyone.
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times)now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of fields contribute to a holistic picture of human evolution and provide a context for understanding today's problems.
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentaryeach book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
The most popular outdoor basketball court in New York City is half the regulation size, offers no seating, and has sidelines bounded by a chain-link fencebut the summer league on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village has developed its share of stars and has become known throughout the world for another reason: Here, the only thing that matters is the game.
An introduction for undergraduates to every stage of sociological research, showing how to deal effectively with typical problems they might encounter.
A companion to the original Vulnerable Populations, the second volume focuses on treatment initiatives that address therapy and reeducation for both abusers and the victims of sexual abuse.
For thirty-five years and through thirteen editions, Jim Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world.
In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country.
The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.
Addressing America's cultural conflict about such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and family values, the author presents a plan in which America can achieve a renewed democracy, despite these differences.
Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious.
A look at how support groups have affected American society argues that, although support groups provide a warmth and security that holds society together, they can lead to an unhealthy self-absorption and a trivialized sense of what is sacred.
In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business, which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very communities that have looked to it as a panacea.
A reissue of the classic report of Columbia's Bureau of Applied Social Research, outlining techniques for eliciting specific responses of individuals and groups to particular events and situations.
