Social Science - General

This book provides students and scholars with a collection of thought provoking contributions focusing on the nexus of globalization and responsibility. With a concise introduction to the globalization debate and an overview of business corporations' role in globalization's multifaceted processes, the essays in the...

Let's Get Civil enables We the People to conduct productive arguments that lead to good laws and public policies. To do that we must improve both how we think and what we think. That requires full intellectual development. Full intellectual development consists of both...

Bundling was the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by another, usually as a part of courting behavior--essentially, dating in bed. The tradition is thought to have originated either in the Netherlands or in the British IslesAuthor: Henry Reed Stiles,...

This text provides an integrated view of post-9/11 security concerns over the United States's shared border with Mexico and Canada in regards to terrorism, unauthorized migration, drug and arms smuggling, and other illegal trade. The challenges facing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol are daunting....

A detailed study of the structure and functioning of the Javanese kinship system.Author: Hildred GeertzISBN-10: 1597409588ISBN-13: 9781597409582Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2014Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

It seems humanity is in the process of being prepared, through the media and movies, for the day when we experience contact with alien beings. We have not been told of their existence because society could not handle such a drastic shift right now....

Personal impurity caused by childbirth, menstrual blood or death is an issue of concern prevalent in many cultures. In Japan, the generic term for these kinds of impurities is kegare and death impurity, a sub-type of kegare, is known as shi-e. The major topic...

Though much has been written about the Green Party in Germany, less is known about the changes in individuals' attitudes towards the environment that led to the rise of environmental movement, or of its cultural roots. This volume draws attention to the breadth of...

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious...

What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier...

Describes the ever-increasing penetration of the majority culture among the Guahibo (eastern Colombia). Describes their economic system and shows how this penetration has affected their views of the value of the person versus the value of money and possessions. Recounts three historical periods of...

The rise in the numbers of women in the field of religion does not mean that it is always easy for women starting out nor that women no longer face isolation. This manual offers practical help in negotiating the mine-field of an academic career....

Ten Days in a Mad-House is an upfront view of Nellie Bly's experience in an insane asylum. As a reporter, Bly experienced what life was like in a woman's boarding house. Pretending to be insane, she enters her undercover assignment and learns what life...

Forty years have passed, many people leaving Vietnam in 1975 have left this world forever; the generation of children and grandchildren of the refugees are in need of a document that records the traces of the past, informing them of the reasons of the...

These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Yet, long as...

Resistance to Civil Government (On the Duty of Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was rst published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they...

But Hey takes a journey into history and shares the mentality of our black ancestors as it pertained to every area of their lives as well as look at the behavior of our current generation. It will present some of the great success stories...

Certification in any profession is a mark of excellence and a distinguishing accomplishment. The most important thing any professional can do is to let clients/customers know at a glance that he/she is one of the best that the profession has to offer. The beneficiaries...

This is a trend compilation book and a tutorial for understanding the Information Society. The reinvention of many perspectives is the key for decoding new opportunities, and no one can be left behind.The book's purpose is to assist different age groups to face and...

Eliza Roxcy Snow (1804-1887) was one of the most important and influential first-generation members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as the second President of the Relief Society from the time of its reestablishment in 1866 to her death....

Vast accumulations saturate our world: phone calls and emails stored by security agencies; every preference of every individual collected by advertisers; ID numbers, and maybe an iris scan, for every Indian; hundreds of thousands of whole genome sequences; seed banks of all existing plants,...

If we consider the amount of time, energy and money spent on any entertainment activity then the greatest show on earth is human behavior, both the behavior of others and that of oneself. Humans are invariably curious and often fascinated about what they and...

Flatland"A Romance of Many Dimensions"byEdwin A. AbbottFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott.Writing pseudonymously as "A Square," the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian...

In the early 1900s, Overhills emerged as an exclusive hunt club hidden among the longleaf pine and wiregrass forest, sandy roads, and rural solitude of the North Carolina Sandhills. Soon becoming the Overhills Country Club, this rustic retreat featured a clubhouse, horse stables, dog...

The Torrance Police Department dates to May 23, 1921, when city trustees appointed Ben Olsen as city marshal and, shortly thereafter, hired Byron Anderson as night watchman. The efforts of these men were devoted to dealing with thieves, keeping the peace, and "declaring war...

This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own culture during a period of...

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town. What a great analogy for addiction. Get that monkey off my back is a book written firstly from first-hand experience of addiction and recovery, a battle waged by Karl Newton...

This 300-page site report presents extensive surface-collected artifacts, site testing, and limited excavations on the Arkfeld site in Virginia which offers an insight to the Pleistocene occupation in Virginia and the U.S. The report illustrates and discusses main site areas all of which is...

Defenders of the modern state often claim that it's needed to protect us-from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of "countervailing power" that kept other social institutions in check.But what...

This is a collection of my best essays on living an educated BDSM life. I have re-written this work to correct for the grammar errors. Give it a try.Author: Frank Corso, Paul CorsoISBN-10: 1521559317ISBN-13: 9781521559314Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2017Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man...

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." --- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It...

Thomas Paine wrote the American Crisis in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the moral of the Continental Army. THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from...

The English in academic writing is highly conventionalized, which is quite beneficial to the non-native English speakers who wish to write up the results of their research. However, how to be able to acquire these conventions? An ESP (English for Specific Purposes) approach was...

Until recently the history of civilization has been entirely written, edited and printed by Europeans. This obviously would create a bias in their favor. They tend to paint quite an extraordinary picture of themselves, despite all of the incredibly brutal, barbaric actions that have...

So many people asked the author: 'But what does a policewoman do?' Six years policing London's West End in the 1950s provided plenty of answers. In this book, Joan Lock gives them with honesty and humour. She takes us behind the scenes, into the...

In a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today,...

Author: Wayne L. DavisISBN-10: 1503533913ISBN-13: 9781503533912Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2015Pages: 654Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d

Dangerous Relations examines how the homosexual agenda is changing everything. Since writing my first volume on this issue, the attacks on faith, freedom and family have especially taken off, with new examples appearing almost on a daily basis all around the Western world. And...

This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global North and the Global South by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of global supply chains increases the persistence of...

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MENTOR? DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A MENTOR? ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT MENTORING IS? Walter Wright is a firm believer in relational leadership. In this book, he shares his experiences both as a mentor and a mentoree....

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.Author: Alfred KorzybskiISBN-10: 1498010520ISBN-13: 9781498010528Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d

When Steve Sieberson and his wife unexpectedly found themselves in Britain with an entire summer on their hands, they readily agreed to avoid the usual tourist attractions, opting instead for a road trip to the UK's far-flung national parks. As they set out, however,...

Quite soon, the world's information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists and engineers to approach it in an entirely new way. The familiar notions of command and control are being thwarted by realities of a...

The book began to be put into written form only after the author had been cajoled into doing it by a few of his colleagues who were constantly hearing the many stories of the crazy things that happened during his journey from New Zealand...

This book identifies and explains the politico-historical forces that underlie agrarian policies in Nigeria. It also examines the impacts of these policies on different social classes and groups, especially the peasantry. The book focuses specifically on the Agricultural Marketing and Commodity Boards in Nigeria...

No one wants to relegate our wisdom-rich elders to the demeaning borders of our society. Still, the idea of caring for our elders in their own homes can sometimes become overwhelming, especially without proper guidance from those who have been there. In a thoughtful...

Sindhis are among the few people who retained their national identity for five thousand years. Their journey from ancient times to present era is tortuous with episodes of glory and power, alternating with periods of occupation and subjugation. Sindh was the last Indian states...

This book is about power, success, strategy, seduction, thinking BIG, the Law of Attraction, winning and kicking ass in real-life politics, period. It obliterates the lies and misconceptions surrounding the 2016, billionaire Republican presidential nominee and proves, with certitude, that, rather than just being...