Social Science - General

Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense is just that - a simple passionate presentation of the case against monarchy, and for American Independence. But it was also much more: An inflammatory immediate best seller. It was reprinted numerous times in its first year and remains the...

The spectacular advances in science and technology that have occurred over the last century have led some to believe that only Western Capitalism can produce material progress.Does religion hinder man's progress in life? Is there a contradiction between Islam and science? Why are the...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. In the book's introduction he explains that much...

This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). With apolitical animal studies and exploitative animal research dominating higher education, this book offers a timely counter-narrative that demands the liberation of all oppressed beings and the...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders's political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. Read how the Occupy movement helped reshape American politics, culture and the groundbreaking movements to follow. "Fluidly written . . ....

Romola is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the...

The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in...

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.The late Peter Marris shows how understanding...

The Spirits in Prison - and other studies on the life after death is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

In this powerful book, Paramahansa Yogananda - renowned author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi - provides positive affirmations for achieving success, outlines definite methods of creating lasting happiness, and tells us how to overcome negativity and inertia by harnessing the dynamic...

When taking care of Asta proved too much for Elsa to handle, Asta, a few months shy of her 89th birthday, moved to live out her days in Southern California with Suey and her husband, Tony.Taking Care of Asta is a collection of Suey's...

Do you ever feel lost in social situations? Look no further than 'Etiquette' by Madeleine Vinton Washington. This comprehensive guide covers everything from dinner party protocol to correspondence etiquette and is a must-read for anyone looking to navigate the social scene with ease.This work...

Discovering Truth is an insight-filled exploration of the role of media in communications and how today's social media affects trust in institutions and divides an increasingly polarized society. From the rise of fake news to destabilizing foreign and domestic extremist content, more information does...

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931-1945. Challenging the status...

Originally published in 1962.This book discusses and interprets the main themes of Buddhist thought in India and is divided into three parts: Archaic Buddhism: Tacit assumptions, the problem of "original Buddhism", the three marks and the perverted views, the five cardinal virtues, the cultivation...

Why do the reports and representations of suffering and misery move us? What are we likely to do about it and why? Why do people take part in telethon appeals? Most of us have watched television or read newspapers and been moved to compassion...

What does it mean to assert or deny the existence of a legal system? How can one determine whether a given law belongs to a certain legal system? What kind of structure do these systems have, that is--what necessary relations obtain between their laws?...

This is the first multidisciplinary volume whose focus is on the barely accessible highlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and their invaluable artistic heritage. Numerous ancient and mediaeval monuments of Artsakh/Karabagh and Nakhichevan find themselves in the crucible of a strife involving mutually exclusive national...

This book is a collection of research publications on aging adults. It starts with negative late life experiences including loneliness, inactivity, frailty, sleep problems, depression, suicidality, COVID isolation and early markers of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Research on more positive experiences of...

In spring 2020, the COVID-19 virus and subsequent lockdown demanded that university institutions across the globe undertake an emergency migration to online teaching. To secure the continuation of university teaching, Emergency Remote Teaching (Bozkurt and Ramesh, 2020)-prompt rethinking and adjustment among university teachers-had to...

In 2020, Steven Greer, an internationally-renowned human rights scholar, was falsely and publicly accused of Islamophobia by the University of Bristol Islamic Society (BRISOC). In July 2021, he was officially exonerated without equivocation or reservation from all BRISOC's allegations. Nevertheless, the University of Bristol,...

Author: Micah AlpaughISBN-10: 100901255XISBN-13: 9781009012553Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2023Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03d

How can the richness of individual lives be captured by the objective methods and statistical analyses of developmental research? Some of the leaders in developmental research pursue the answers to this question in this book. Each chapter is followed by a commentary and discussion...

This volume is a collection of subject-oriented studies on paid work. Each chapter refers to the social structures that form conditions for peoples' working contexts and interprets workers' and employees' narrations on work. Work appropriation-a process of formation of subjectivity, in which workers and...

Henry Maurice Goldman grew up in a blue collar section of Boston, but he rose through Ivy League institutions to become one of the world's greatestdental educators. In this biography, Robert Allyn Goldman pays tribute to his contributions in this eye-opening biography that will...

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration, ' and rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines....

Are You a Parent & Confused about Homeschooling? Overwhelmed by the Number of Options? We were, too Here's what we found. Let us help simplify things for you.In this book, we will discuss topics such as: -What does it look like to homeschool and...

Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. In the first half of this period, a series of massive...

Political History of Chicago - Covering the Period from 1837 to 1887 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Essays on the science of religion is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher...

Despite having operated under the pretense of democracy for the entirety of its 71-years of single party rule, Mexico was not a democratic state. From 1929 to 2000 Mexico was ruled by a single authoritarian regime, the PRI. Part of the PRI's long-lasting success...

Many African American churches have men who are present but not active, thus depriving the church of its male role models. This may be caused by several factors. Nonetheless, adolescent males do not have an adequate cross-section of men in various leadership positions to...

This book is a compendium of thirty-six articles by participants in the development of the field of sociolinguistics. Edited by Christina Bratt Paulston and G. Richard Tucker, themselves important contributors to the discipline, the volume provides an insider's perspective on the issues, both practical...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... currency, postal arrangements, etc. So constantly have currency and...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Author: Thomas PaineISBN-10: 1604442662ISBN-13: 9781604442663Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2011Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

In the last century, the treatment of victims of involuntary sterilisation and castration in Nordic countries has varied drastically from state-to-state, across time and victim groups. Considering why this is the case, Daniela Alaattinoğlu investigates how laws and practices of involuntary, surgical sterilisation and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: Scott NearingISBN-10: 1258167530ISBN-13: 9781258167530Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. This fully revised and updated new edition combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing environmental problems....

A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The comprehensive portrait exposes endemic flaws...

This study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more.Author: Richard SeltzerISBN-10: 1793653526ISBN-13: 9781793653529Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2023Pages:...

In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Metaphysical Meditations offer more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations and includes introductory...

In this classic spiritual guide, Paramahansa Yogananda dispels the myth that God is beyond our reach. He points out that it is not only possible to talk with God but to receive definite responses to our prayers.Defining the Lord as both the transcendent, universal...