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Marx, Methodology and Science

Marx's Science of Politics

By: David M. Walker

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Marx, Methodology and Science

Marx's Science of Politics

By: David M. Walker

This title was first published in 2001. The book aims to give a clear and accessible account of Marx’s method and an assessment of its scientific validity and relevance to contemporary social science; The key methodological themes of Marx’s work and their development are shown with particular attention paid to the elements of dialectics and materialism; Four models of science are outlined-positivism; critical rationalism; scientific conventionalism; scientific realism - and the arguments and evidence both for and against Marx’s method corresponding to any of them examined. The conclusion arrived at is that Marx’s method is a good example of social scientific practice according to the scientific realist model and that it has a positive contribution to make to social science today.realism.

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Routledge

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1351752901

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9781351752909

Auto-Opium

A Social History of American Automobile Design

By: David Gartman

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Auto-Opium

A Social History of American Automobile Design

By: David Gartman

This much needed book is the first to provide a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The author reveals how the appearance of the automobile was shaped by the social conflicts arising from America's mass production system. He connects the social struggles of American society with the organizational struggles of designers to create symbol-laden substitutes for the American dream. Theoretically sophisticated, lucid and compelling, Auto-Opium will appeal to all interested in the American obsession with the car.

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Routledge

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1135094276

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9781135094270

Tinnitus

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: David Baguley,Gerhard Andersson,Don McFerran,Laurence McKenna

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Tinnitus

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: David Baguley,Gerhard Andersson,Don McFerran,Laurence McKenna

Tinnitus: A Multidisciplinary Approach provides a broad account of tinnitus and hyperacusis, detailing the latest research and developments in clinical management, incorporating insights from audiology, otology, psychology, psychiatry and auditory neuroscience. It promotes a collaborative approach to treatment that will benefit patients and clinicians alike. The 2nd edition has been thoroughly updated and revised in line with the very latest developments in the field. The book contains 40% new material including two brand new chapters on neurophysiological models of tinnitus and emerging treatments; and the addition of a glossary as well as appendices detailing treatment protocols for use in an audiology and psychology context respectively.

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John Wiley & Sons

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140519989X

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9781405199896

Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

By: David Anderson

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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

By: David Anderson

A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."--John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 dominated the final bloody decade of imperialism in East Africa. Using extraordinary new evidence, David Anderson puts the colonial government on trial with eyewitness testimony from over 800 court cases and previously unseen archives. His research exonerates the Kikuyu rebels; hardly the terrorists they were thought to be; and reveals the British to be brutal aggressors in a "dirty war" that involved leaders at the highest ranks of the British government. This astonishing piece of scholarship portrays a teetering colonial empire in its final phase; employing whatever military and propaganda methods it could to preserve an order that could no longer hold.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393079740

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9780393079746

Culture and Consumption II

Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management

By: Grant David McCracken

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Culture and Consumption II

Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management

By: Grant David McCracken

* New insights into modern consumer culture by a master critic

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246

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Indiana University Press

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0253345669

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9780253345660

The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America

By: David Dobson

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The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America

By: David Dobson

David Dobson has combed through private papers, as well as extracted data from the contemporary journal, the "Scots Magazine," and the newspaper, the "Aberdeen Journal." Dobson's transcriptions identify many of the Scots who took part in the conflict and portray the Scottish vantage point on the war itself. In all, the index to this book of genealogical and historical importance refers to about 2,000 Scotsmen who either took part in the conflict or provided commentary about it.

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159

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806352094

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Aristotle on Political Community

By: David J. Riesbeck

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Aristotle on Political Community

By: David J. Riesbeck

A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107107024

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American Culture in the 1930s

By: David Eldridge

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American Culture in the 1930s

By: David Eldridge

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748629777

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The Forgotten Network

DuMont and the Birth of American Television

By: David Weinstein

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The Forgotten Network

DuMont and the Birth of American Television

By: David Weinstein

The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.

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Temple University Press

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1592134998

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From Autos to Architecture

Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

By: David Gartman

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From Autos to Architecture

Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

By: David Gartman

One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. In From Autos to Architecture, sociologist David Gartman offers a critical social history that shows how Fordist mass production and industrial architecture in America influenced European designers to an extent previously not understood. Drawing on Marxist economics, the Frankfurt School, and French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, From Autos to Architecture deftly illustrates the different class structures and struggles of America and Europe. Examining architecture in the context of social conflicts, From Autos to Architecture offers a critical alternative to standard architectural histories focused on aesthetics alone.

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401

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Chronicle Books

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1568989601

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9781568989600

Homelessness

The (In)Appropriate Applicant

By: David Cowan

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Homelessness

The (In)Appropriate Applicant

By: David Cowan

First published in 1997, this volume presents the results of in-depth research into the application of the UK homelessness legislation in relation to community care, the Children Act 1989, violence to women, and racial harassment. This is supplemented with a consideration of policies and practices in 15 local authority homelessness departments. It is argued that government created the nation of a successful, or "appropriate" applicant, but this could not be translated into actual practice as the original legislation did not facilitate it. In fact, in the mid-1990s, government became more concerned with notions of inappropriateness, stereotyping those using the homelessness legislation and creating modern "folk devils". This was the background to the 1996 changes to the homelessness legislation which have created the notion of the "inappropriate" applicant. It is argued that the new legislation is more concerned with denial, deterrence and privatization. The new legislation has also detrimentally affected the application of the homelessness legislation in each of the areas discussed.

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Routledge

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0429678827

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Only Norman Vikings

By: David James Smith

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Only Norman Vikings

By: David James Smith

High King selection over other kings ensured there would always be an adult on the throne, but warfare and murder followed. Overlordship was only submission under duress, ignored unless enforced. Vikings kept coming, to settle, fight for possession, or for hire. Highland Chiefs are re-aligned by sourced history. Sigurd Rollo raided Scotland and became Jarl of Shetland and Orkney. He landed on the northern coast of France where his descendants became Dukes of Normandy. Erik Rollo accompanied his uncle, William the Conqueror, on the invasion of England, and Richard, followed King David I of Scotland when he left the English court to reclaim his Scottish throne. Wallace was betrayed. 'Rollo' first appears in a 1141 charter granted by Robert de Brus, another Norman Viking descendant. Sir Henry de Bohun, an English knight, was killed by Robert the Bruce before his Battle of Bannockburn.

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Lulu.com

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0244955417

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9780244955410

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

By: David Schaps

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The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

By: David Schaps

Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472036408

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9780472036400

Supernova Explosions

By: David Branch,J. Craig Wheeler

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Supernova Explosions

By: David Branch,J. Craig Wheeler

Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J. Craig Wheeler offer a modern account of the nature, causes and consequences of supernovae, as well as of issues that remain to be resolved. Owing especially to (1) the appearance of supernova 1987A in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, (2) the spectacularly successful use of supernovae as distance indicators for cosmology, (3) the association of some supernovae with the enigmatic cosmic gamma-ray bursts, and (4) the discovery of a class of superluminous supernovae, the pace of supernova research has been increasing sharply. This monograph serves as a broad survey of modern supernova research and a guide to the current literature. The book’s emphasis is on the explosive phases of supernovae. Part 1 is devoted to a survey of the kinds of observations that inform us about supernovae, some basic interpretations of such data, and an overview of the evolution of stars that brings them to an explosive endpoint. Part 2 goes into more detail on core-collapse and superluminous events: which kinds of stars produce them, and how do they do it? Part 3 is concerned with the stellar progenitors and explosion mechanisms of thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae. Part 4 is about consequences of supernovae and some applications to astrophysics and cosmology. References are provided in sufficient number to help the reader enter the literature.

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Springer

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3662550547

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Book's by David Meikle

Marx, Methodology and Science

Marx, Methodology and Science

Auto-Opium

Auto-Opium

Tinnitus

Tinnitus

Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

Culture and Consumption II

Culture and Consumption II

The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America

The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America

Aristotle on Political Community

Aristotle on Political Community

American Culture in the 1930s

American Culture in the 1930s

The Forgotten Network

The Forgotten Network

From Autos to Architecture

From Autos to Architecture

Homelessness

Homelessness

Only Norman Vikings

Only Norman Vikings

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

Supernova Explosions

Supernova Explosions

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