Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J.
An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm.
The noted cultural anthropologist and author of 'The Interpretation of Cultures' deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of 'local knowledge.
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home.
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today.
This book explores why, in these post-feminist days, otherwise confident and assertive women spend hours waiting for the phone to ring when they meet a man they like.
The story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud's couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen.
'A very important book about one of the last social taboos - with fascinating implications for us all' Helena Kennedy, QCA groundbreaking book in which Dorothy Rowe brings her insight and wisdom to the fascinating subject of money and its place in our lives.
In this fascinating and well researched work of the history of the heyday of Victorian British society, Harrison seamlessly weaves together the overlapping developments in politics, economy, social and culture.
Originally published in 1914, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a timeless story of socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour.
Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men.
En las primeras décadas del siglo XXI se han producido tal cantidad de crisis, cambios y convulsiones en nuestra vida social y política que apenas queda en pie alguna de las certezas y de los pronósticos que, sobre el porvenir de la democracia, el Estado o la globalización, sosteníamos hasta entonces.
Como prolongación de los estudios binacionales que integran la serie Araucanía Norpatagonia, este volumen emerge a partir de la interpelación de la coyuntura provocada por las movilizaciones de octubre de 2019 en Chile, con el objetivo de ampliar las miradas sobre las construcciones sociales y simbólicas en una temporalidad más extensa.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'.
A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty?
La segunda Subasta que realizó el Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural-IDPC con la Asociación Mercado de las Pulgas de San Alejo, se enmarcó en las celebraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia y se centró en la presentación de objetos de la vida cotidiana en Bogotá a lo largo de los últimos 200 años desde que el país se conformó como nación.
In Why Information Grows, rising star C sar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economicsWhile economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income, C sar Hidalgo turns to information theory to explain the success or failure of a country's economic performance.
Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities.
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy?
An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm.
One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos.
Regression Analysis for Social Sciences presents methods of regression analysis in an accessible way, with each method having illustrations and examples.
Wahrheit, Lüge & Vernunft - Über die Macht der ManipulationWir alle sind Fakten und Emotionen ausgesetzt und nicht immer sind die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und Täuschung klartrennbar.
Para el desarrollo del proyecto se hizo una delimitación espacial respecto a la ubicación de la población de Unión Berrecuy Medio Baudó Chocó y se consideraron los hechos ocurridos a partir de 2008 relacionados con la posible transculturización que el grupo social ha sufrido con el impacto violento derivado de las acciones de los grupos al margen de la ley que se suponen han trastocado el "habitus individual que posiblemente constituye un habitus colectivo de la comunidad" (Moreno Durán y Ramírez 2018) que históricamente se ha constituido a partir de los principios religiosos menonitas con los cuales se ha fortalecido una cohesión social y una especie de plataforma de memoria colectiva.
One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos.
Dieser praktische Ratgeber vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für Menschen, die sich auf verschiedene Krisensituationen vorbereiten möchten - vom Überleben in der Wildnis bis zur nachhaltigen Selbstversorgung im Alltag.
El 70 % de los viajeros asegura que una escapada proporciona mas felicidad que cualquier bien material: el turismo se ha impuesto como un nuevo paradigma economico, la recompensa capitalista perfecta para una clase trabajadora explotada.
