Social Science - General

A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic expansion of spatial and epistemological horizons, and the growth of global trade networks. These texts opposed the...

The Morning of my Life in China - Comprising an Outline of the History of Foreign Intercourse from the last Year of the Regime of Honorable East India Company is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of...

The Little Sunbeam is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. 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...

Up the Mississippi River from New Orleans, north of Baton Rouge live three billy goats named Gruff. They want to cross Thompson's Creek to reach the lush pastures on the other side, but there's a very scary troll under the bridge who wants to...

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...

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 Manifesto of the Communist Party" is still regarded as the most important document to communist philosophy and political theory, having inspired millions of people to rise up against the ruling classes, and revolutionized such world powers as the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and...

Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This...

The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers' bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in...

This book will be of interest to roboticists and HRI researchers, as well as those studying or working in areas of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies more generally.Author: Raya JonesISBN-10: 0815359098ISBN-13: 9780815359098Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2017Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners. Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency Examines a broad...

The "Neverland Valley-Welcome" sign depicts a little boy, bending over to talk to a troll. Peter Pan was playing at the packed eighty-seat, 7,000 square-foot theatre. Popcorn and drinks were dished up gratis to the mobs at the concession stand. On-screen, Captain Hook had...

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in...

Exploring dance from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center, Judith Lynne Hanna shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, or to fight. Dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the...

For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations;...

Author: Paarth MathurISBN-13: 9798330401321Publisher: IngramsparkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2024Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Education's Not the Point: Why Schools Fail to Train Children's Minds and Nurture Their CharactersThese essays are a "must read" for parents concerned about their children's education. John Taylor Gatto gives some insights into the "dumbed-down" nature of modern schools, the men behind modern...

Boston's South End is one of the largest intact Victorian row house districts in the United States. It also has stylish twenty-first century condo buildings, Modernist housing projects, and award-winning gardens and parks. For centuries, people have come to this densely populated one square...

The Book of Affinitive Life: Part 1 in Conjunction: The Book of Life is mainly about life on Earth concerning the invited signals of love that create addictions and eventually transcend into affinitive life. It is commonly characterized in the world as a passion,...

A concise illustrated history of Deaf people in America, starting with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's life-changing encounter with a young deaf girl named Alice. Gallaudet passionate about education and saddened by the lack of schools in American traveled to Europe where he met a French...

La N?gritude: An African Social Humanism seeks to tackle accounts of African society-particularly sub-Saharan Africa-from its roots through modern times. La N?gritude-meaning Blackness in French-was coined as a term in the 1930s, initially as a strategy for political resistance against French colonialism. As the...

Embark on a captivating journey through the evolution of dress and clothing, exploring the rich tapestry of styles and influences that have shaped human attire through the ages. From the iconic garments of ancient Egypt to the intricate costumes of the Byzantine period, and...

This collection ranges from encounters, clashes, and unexpected synergies between North and South in the works of Vincenzo Consolo, Fabrizio Ramondino, Joseph Tusiani, and Elio Vittorini. And in the world of visuality one finds analyses of aesthetic articulations as films such as The Godfather,...

This book chronicles the journeys of 8 inspiring individuals, men and women, who, like many of us, have faced their own share of challenges. Their stories, filled with resilience and determination, will resonate with readers, helping them realize the untapped power of their own...

Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship...

Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations 'from below'.Author: Theodor TudoroiuISBN-10: 1032323752ISBN-13: 9781032323756Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2024Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d

In Openings, award-winning author Michael Hyde provides a fascinating meditation on the ethical dimensions of human communication. With the breadth and depth of learning for which Hyde has become renowned, Openings engages philosophy, science, the arts, theology, and popular culture, all to demonstrate the...

In the millennial transition the prefix 'post' had come to signify more and more not just the realisation of a 'coming after' but also of the impossibility of not seeing the present as still very much working through the wounds of the past. Yet...

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,...

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: Peter M. HaasISBN-10: 0262581191ISBN-13: 9780262581196Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/1993Pages: 460Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.91d

In the past three decades, a stream of criminological inquiry has emerged which explores, measures, and theorizes crimes and harms to the environment at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. This "green criminology", as it has come to be known, has widened the criminological gaze...

Generals in politics. Soldiers as terrorists. War in Europe and Asia. Populism and authoritarianism or even fascim as the wave of the future? This volume of essays, derived from the authors' study of civil-military relations in defense institution building, will help the reader to...

Learn how everything you believe is wrong and get the real stories behind modern myths when Adam Ruins Everything. We're all wrong--and we didn't even know it. Do you know the real stories behind what you--without question--believe? Well, Adam Conover does--because "Adam ruins everything."...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its...

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands. German soldiers regarded their African enemies with a mixture of curiosity and malice, sometimes posing for...

Author: Arthur SchopenhauerISBN-10: 1438515456ISBN-13: 9781438515458Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2009Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.25d

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...

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...

Title: Plain truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, remarks on a late pamphlet, entitled Common sense, wherein are shewn, that the scheme of independence is ruinous, delusive, and impractical ...Author: James ChalmersPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,...

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 authors have brought together a collection of works from specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known...

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire. Greek identity cannot be properly understood without appreciating the brilliant sophistication of the writers of the...

Author: Stephen TryonISBN-13: 9798989814510Publisher: Accountabilitycitizenship.OrgLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2024Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d