Peter Weber's Books

Musical Visitors to Britain

By: Peter Gordon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

This book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain over the last three centuries, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of music festivals, the rapid influx of composers, and new musical forms.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135783608

ISBN 13

9781135783600

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

By: Peter C. Caldwell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

By: Peter C. Caldwell

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration of democracy, and National Socialist dictatorship after 1930. Three central issues emerged. First, the development of a nearly all-embracing set of social services and payments recast the problem of how social groups and interests related to the state, as state agencies and affected groups generated their own clientele, their own advocacy groups, and their own expert information. Second, the welfare state blurred the line between state and society that is constitutive of basic rights and the classic world of liberal freedom; rights became claims on the state, and social groups became integral parts of state administration. Third, the welfare state potentially reshaped the individual citizen, who became wrapped up with mandatory social insurance systems, provisioning of money and services related to social needs, and the regulation of everyday life. Peter C. Caldwell describes how West German experts sought to make sense of this vast array of state programs, expenditures, and bureaucracies aimed at solving social problems. Coming from backgrounds in politics, economics, law, social policy, sociology, and philosophy, they sought to conceptualize their state, which was now social (one German word for the welfare state is indeed Sozialstaat), and their society, which was permeated by state policies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

234

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192570528

ISBN 13

9780192570529

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856

The Call of Thakur

By: Peter B. Andersen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856

The Call of Thakur

By: Peter B. Andersen

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion, the Hul 1855–1856, drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion. The author analyses the Hul and its participants—the Santals and their opponents, both the colonial administration and the Bengalis. He also looks at the attempts of the Hul’s leaders, Sido and Kạnhu to reform the Santal religion. Offering a new, respectful reading of the Hul’s religious legitimation, the book argues that changes in Santal religion and ethics were responses to the colonial regime’s new and aggressive economic order. The Hul’s leaders, Sido and Kạnhu, demanded the introduction of just laws based on the universal principle of equality. This historical approach leads to a call for the inclusion of the voice of tribal and Adivasi minorities when formulating politics for their development in the 21st century. The book is relevant for researchers and students of social history, social reform, tribal and indigenous studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

280

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000780872

ISBN 13

9781000780871

A Historian Reads Max Weber

Essays on the Protestant Ethic

By: Peter Ghosh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Historian Reads Max Weber

Essays on the Protestant Ethic

By: Peter Ghosh

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic is undoubtedly the most widely-read text in Western social theory of the last century. But is it really known? The proposition of this book is that it is not. Innumerable readers will "know" it for their own pedagogic and theoretical purposes, but properly historical grasp of the work's full range of meanings, of its place within the fertile culture of the German states before 1914, and within Max Weber's intellectual biography remains slight. The essays in this volume derive from the author's work in translating and commenting on the Protestant Ethic. They seek (first) to cast light on the range and extent of Weber's intellectual concerns when he was writing in 1904-05: not just English Puritanism, German theology, and capitalism, but also Herrschaft, Judaism, and the shape of Occidental history. This then serves to recapture the continuity and unity of Weber's intellectual development, so that once more we may see the Protestant Ethic at the centre of his oeuvre, the indispensable prelude to all his later work, rather than setting it apart in splendid but curiously lifeless isolation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3447057777

ISBN 13

9783447057776

Founders, Classics, Canons

Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage

By: Peter Baehr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Founders, Classics, Canons

Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage

By: Peter Baehr

Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

365

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351519301

ISBN 13

9781351519304

Formal Organizations

A Comparative Approach

By: Peter Michael Blau,W. Richard Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Formal Organizations

A Comparative Approach

By: Peter Michael Blau,W. Richard Scott

Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. This reissue, which includes a new introduction by Scott, makes this seminal work accessible to a new generation of scholars and practitioners.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080474890X

ISBN 13

9780804748902

Hitler

A Biography

By: Peter Longerich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitler

A Biography

By: Peter Longerich

From the authoritative biographer of Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, a culminating work on the commanding figure of the Third Reich

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1339

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190056738

ISBN 13

9780190056735

Triangular Norms

By: Erich Peter Klement,R. Mesiar,E. Pap

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Triangular Norms

By: Erich Peter Klement,R. Mesiar,E. Pap

This book discusses the theory of triangular norms and surveys several applied fields in which triangular norms play a significant part: probabilistic metric spaces, aggregation operators, many-valued logics, fuzzy logics, sets and control, and non-additive measures together with their corresponding integrals. It includes many graphical illustrations and gives a well-balanced picture of theory and applications. It is for mathematicians, computer scientists, applied computer scientists and engineers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

391

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

9401595402

ISBN 13

9789401595407

Knowledge and Social Structure (RLE Social Theory)

An Introduction to the Classical Argument in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: Peter Hamilton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Knowledge and Social Structure (RLE Social Theory)

An Introduction to the Classical Argument in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: Peter Hamilton

The primary concern of this study is to present, elucidate and analyse the developments which have characterized the sociology of knowledge, and which have set for it the outlines of its major problematics. Peter Hamilton examines the most distinctive approaches to the determinate relationship between knowledge and social structure. He considers the three main ‘pre-paradigms’ of the sociology of knowledge based on the work of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, and looks at the contribution of Scheler, Mannheim and phenomenological studies to this complex field. He explores the intellectual context, particularly that of Enlightenment philosophy, in which the problems involved in producing a sociology of knowledge first came to light. In conclusion, the author suggests an inclusive perspective for approaching the difficulties posed in any attempt to describe and explain relations between knowledge and social structure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317634985

ISBN 13

9781317634980

Key Ideas in Sociology

By: Peter Kivisto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Key Ideas in Sociology

By: Peter Kivisto

The only compact and portable book for undergraduate readers that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th century. Students too often learn about social theorists as unconnected with one another. Key Ideas in Sociology shows how ideas developed by one theorist evolve and are further shaped by subsequent theorists, reflecting on different historical circumstances. Peter Kivisto offers a genuinely integrated view of the history of social thought, linking classical sociological ideas to today's thinking about contemporary life. He shows how theorizing is not a dry, abstract exercise, but a practical human necessity in the ongoing quest to understand and cope with our complex and ever-changing social conditions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

Pine Forge Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1412978114

ISBN 13

9781412978118

Magic and Modernity

Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

By: Birgit Meyer,Peter Pels

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Magic and Modernity

Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

By: Birgit Meyer,Peter Pels

This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804744645

ISBN 13

9780804744645

The Subversive Evangelical

The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch

By: Peter J. Schuurman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Subversive Evangelical

The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch

By: Peter J. Schuurman

Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as “religious Walmarts.” In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman shows how a growing group of “reflexive evangelicals” use irony to critique their own tradition and distinguish themselves from the stereotype of right-wing evangelicalism. Entering the Meeting House – an Ontario-based Anabaptist megachurch – as a participant observer, Schuurman discovers that the marketing is clever and the venue (a rented movie theatre) is attractive to the more than five thousand weekly attendees. But the heart of the church is its charismatic leader, Bruxy Cavey, whose anti-religious teaching and ironic tattoos offer a fresh image for evangelicals. This charisma, Schuurman argues, is not just the power of one individual; it is a dramatic production in which Cavey, his staff, and attendees cooperate, cultivating an identity as an “irreligious” megachurch and providing followers with a more culturally acceptable way to practise their faith in a secular age. Going behind the scenes to small group meetings, church dance parties, and the homes of attendees to investigate what motivates these reflexive evangelicals, Schuurman reveals a playful and provocative counterculture that distances itself from prevailing stereotypes while still embracing a conservative Christian faith.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773558357

ISBN 13

9780773558359

Pluralism

By: Peter Lassman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pluralism

By: Peter Lassman

The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under investigation. Political thinkers such as Max Weber, Isaiah Berlin and Stuart Hampshire derive pessimistic, sometimes tragic, conclusions from their reflections upon pluralism. On the other hand, there is a more optimistic view represented by John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas that sees value pluralism as a problem that is easier to live with. This book presents the first accessible overview for both post- and undergraduate students of the way in which this problem has been understood and responded to by modern political thinkers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0745637248

ISBN 13

9780745637242

The Ability to Mourn

Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis

By: Peter Homans

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ability to Mourn

Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis

By: Peter Homans

Index. Bibliography: p. 369-377.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226351114

ISBN 13

9780226351117

Zygmunt Bauman

Dialectic of Modernity

By: Peter Beilharz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Zygmunt Bauman

Dialectic of Modernity

By: Peter Beilharz

This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman′s social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman′s later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman′s work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

193

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

085702650X

ISBN 13

9780857026507

Industiarlization before Industiarlization

By: Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Industiarlization before Industiarlization

By: Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm

Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', and considers the question whether it constituted a distinct mode of production, different from the preceding feudal economy and from subsequent industrial capitalism, or was part of a process of continuous evolution characterized by the spread of wage labour and the penetration of capitalism into the process of production. It is a full-scale attempt to take a look at the place of proto-industrialization in the genesis of capitalism, and will interest economic and social historians, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, and others concerned with the development of capitalism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521238099

ISBN 13

9780521238090

Psychology

By: Peter O. Gray

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Psychology

By: Peter O. Gray

More than ever, the new edition of Gray’s Psychology helps students understand the basic interactions between behavioral and biological science. Experience teacher and author…Cutting-edge researcher on the topic of evolutionary play…Psychology Today blogger…This combination makes Peter Gray the ideal author for a challenging yet accessible introduction to the fundamental questions explored by psychology researchers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

811

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429219475

ISBN 13

9781429219471

Hypermobility in Medical Practice

By: Neuseli Lamari,Peter Beighton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hypermobility in Medical Practice

By: Neuseli Lamari,Peter Beighton

This book provides a clear and concise guide to hypermobility in medicine and physiotherapy. Each chapter is written with a uniform style, including illustrations highlighting the clinical characteristics of manifestations related to hypermobility. Key topics are comprehensively covered throughout the book in the context of both medicine and physiotherapy. This book offers supportive information for practitioners who are seeking as single resource on the topic. Medical professionals, physiotherapists, physical educators, psychologists, nutritionists, occupational therapists, psychomotor therapists, and postgraduate students will find this book to be an essential guide in their daily clinical practice and research in the field.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3031349148

ISBN 13

9783031349140

Newtonian Electrodynamics

By: Peter Graneau,Neal Graneau

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Newtonian Electrodynamics

By: Peter Graneau,Neal Graneau

The book deals with the resurgence of nineteenth century electromagnetism in physics and electrical engineering. It describes a series of important experiments, and new technologies based on these experiments, which cannot be explained by and analyzed with the modern relativistic electrodynamics of the twentieth century. The Newtonian electrodynamics of Coulomb, Ampere, Neumann, and Kirchhoff, which was current from 1750 to 1900, is fully reviewed and greatly extended to deal with contemporary research on exploding wires, railguns and other electromagnetic accelerators, jet propulsion in liquid metals, arc plasma explosions, capillary fusion, and lightning phenomena. Much of the book is based on the atomic definition of the Amperian current element. Finite element techniques for solving many electrodynamic problems are described.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

302

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

9813103124

ISBN 13

9789813103122

Toward the Millennium

Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco

By: Peter Schäfer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Toward the Millennium

Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco

By: Peter Schäfer

This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

456

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004378995

ISBN 13

9789004378995

The German Genius

Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century

By: Peter Watson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The German Genius

Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century

By: Peter Watson

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives, and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. As he convincingly demonstarates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

846

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

085720324X

ISBN 13

9780857203243

Social Theory and the Urban Question

By: Peter Saunders

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Theory and the Urban Question

By: Peter Saunders

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134875118

ISBN 13

9781134875115

Jurisprudence Lecture Notes

By: Peter Curzon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jurisprudence Lecture Notes

By: Peter Curzon

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

360

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113535233X

ISBN 13

9781135352332

Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering

By: Regine Eibl,Dieter Eibl,Ralf Pörtner,Gerardo Catapano,Peter Czermak

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering

By: Regine Eibl,Dieter Eibl,Ralf Pörtner,Gerardo Catapano,Peter Czermak

The completion of the Human Genome Project and the rapid progress in cell bi- ogy and biochemical engineering, are major forces driving the steady increase of approved biotech products, especially biopharmaceuticals, in the market. Today mammalian cell products (“products from cells”), primarily monoclonals, cytokines, recombinant glycoproteins, and, increasingly, vaccines, dominate the biopharmaceutical industry. Moreover, a small number of products consisting of in vitro cultivated cells (“cells as product”) for regenerative medicine have also been introduced in the market. Their efficient production requires comprehensive knowledge of biological as well as biochemical mammalian cell culture fundamentals (e.g., cell characteristics and metabolism, cell line establishment, culture medium optimization) and related engineering principles (e.g., bioreactor design, process scale-up and optimization). In addition, new developments focusing on cell line development, animal-free c- ture media, disposables and the implications of changing processes (multi-purpo- facilities) have to be taken into account. While a number of excellent books treating the basic methods and applications of mammalian cell culture technology have been published, only little attention has been afforded to their engineering aspects. The aim of this book is to make a contribution to closing this gap; it particularly focuses on the interactions between biological and biochemical and engineering principles in processes derived from cell cultures. It is not intended to give a c- prehensive overview of the literature. This has been done extensively elsewhere.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3540681825

ISBN 13

9783540681823

Modern/Postmodern

Society, Philosophy, Literature

By: Peter V. Zima

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Modern/Postmodern

Society, Philosophy, Literature

By: Peter V. Zima

Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism and postmodernism - ambiguity, ambivalence and indifference. Zima defines modernism and postmodernism as problematics, as opposed to aesthetics, stylistics or ideologies. Unlike modernism, which is grounded in an increasing ambivalence towards social norms and values, postmodernity is presented as an era of indifference, i.e. of interchangeable norms, values and perspectives. Taking an historical, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach that engages with Anglo-American and European debates, the book describes the transition from late modernist ambivalence to postmodern indifference in the contexts of philosophy, literature and sociology. This is the ideal guide to the relationship between modernism and postmodernism for students and scholars throughout the humanities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441112898

ISBN 13

9781441112897

Key Concepts in Sociology

By: Peter Braham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Key Concepts in Sociology

By: Peter Braham

A glossary of key concepts was just the sort of thing I needed when I was a sociology student. Peter Braham has written a lively, comprehensive guide to the most important concepts in our discipline. It will become an essential student resource." - David Silverman, Goldsmith′s and King′s College, University of London "A triumphant tour de force... will be a useful, even essential tool for students and faculty. It is actually fascinating reading even for non-sociologists since these ideas impact all of us all the time." - Anthony Synnott, Concordia University in Montreal "A crisp and comprehensive guide to the discipline. The thirty-eight entries, covering history, substance and evaluation, thereby describe both conventional and new topics that define the syllabus of modern sociology. A valuable guide to both teachers and students." - Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology, CUNY USA Sociology consists of a myriad of frequently confusing concepts. Key Concepts in Sociology provides a comprehensive, lively and clearly-written guide to the most important concepts in the subject. It includes both what might be regarded as ′classic′ sociological concepts, such as ′class′, ′bureaucracy′ and ′community′, as well as subjects that have become increasingly prominent in recent times, such as ′celebrity′, ′risk′ and ′the body′. Each of the thirty-eight substantive entries: defines the concept provides a clear and compelling narrative clarifies the main debates, perspectives and disagreements gives advice on further reading Key Concepts in Sociology should be the first choice for sociology students at all levels of learning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1446290808

ISBN 13

9781446290804

Domination and Power

By: Peter Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Domination and Power

By: Peter Miller

First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through comparing the writings of the principal exponents of Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault. Peter Miller suggests that these two traditions embody fundamentally distinct philosophical and sociological principles. He grounds his analysis in the concepts of domination (Critical Theory) and power (Foucault). Miller identifies the notion of subjectivity as central to a differentiation of the respective approaches of Critical Theory and Foucault. For Critical Theory it is the repression of subjectivity which provides the evidence of domination and the rationale for its critique, while for Foucault subjectivity in western societies is fabricated through power and linked to the deployment of specific knowledges. Miller shows that despite the achievements of Critical Theory in bringing to light the repressive nature of advanced industrial societies, its thinking is inadequate as a basis for future analysis and critique. He argues that Foucault’s genealogy of the modern subject, which highlights the role of the human sciences in its fabrication, is a more fruitful basis for charting and investigating the mode of operation of contemporary forms of power. The book includes a survey of all published works by Foucault, up to the time of his death in 1984, and commentaries on the writings of Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000704866

ISBN 13

9781000704860

Sociology of Religion

Contemporary Developments

By: Kevin J. Christiano,William H. Swatos,Peter Kivisto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sociology of Religion

Contemporary Developments

By: Kevin J. Christiano,William H. Swatos,Peter Kivisto

Sociology of Religion charts changes in the sociology of religion without ignoring the continuing relevance of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx. Veteran sociologists Christiano, Swatos, and Kivisto address both the foundations and the profound changes in the field, placing new conceptions against their historical background. Charts, pictures, down-to-earth examples, and a readable style keep the history and new developments within the reach of undergraduates. Instructors who want to give their students a current and comprehensive overview of the field should take a look at Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

392

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742561119

ISBN 13

9780742561113

Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications

By: Peter A. Kwaku Kyem

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications

By: Peter A. Kwaku Kyem

This book integrates spatial analysis into the study and management of conflicts, and offers a model in conflict studies that incorporates theoretical explanations of conflict, its causes, and impacts, with a geospatial strategy for intervening in disputes over allocation and use of natural resources (connects theory and practice). Alongside a theoretical analysis of resource conflicts and an account of Participatory Mapping and PGIS development, this book provides a case study of GIS applications in conflict mediation. The book also lays out a practical and straightforward demonstration of PGIS applications in conflict management using a real-world case study, and traces the Participatory Mapping and PGIS movements’ evolution, compares PPGIS and PGIS practices, and makes distinctions between traditional GIS applications and PGIS practice. The approach embodies the enhanced use of spatial information and media, sets of tools for analyzing, mapping, and displaying spatial data and a platform for participatory discussions that enhances consensus-building. The book, therefore, contributes to the search for novel approaches for managing current and emerging conflicts. With this book, resource managers, development practitioners, students, and scholars of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications and conflict studies will be equipped with the principles, skills, and the tools they need to manage non-violent resource conflicts and keep the disputes from slipping into violence. The book will also be a valuable text for basic and advanced studies in Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

234

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030741664

ISBN 13

9783030741662

Implementing Public Policy

An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance

By: Michael Hill,Peter Hupe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Implementing Public Policy

An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance

By: Michael Hill,Peter Hupe

Building on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management. In doing so, this new edition makes use of more illustrative examples, delves further into researching implementation and explores issues about the relationship between policy formulation and implementation in greater depth. Written for an international audience, this is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying or conducting research in public policy, social policy, public management, public administration and governance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473905370

ISBN 13

9781473905375

The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics

A Structuralist Approach

By: Peter Galbács

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics

A Structuralist Approach

By: Peter Galbács

The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regarded as approximately true descriptions of a cycle's causal structure or whether they can be no more than useful predictive instruments. This book will be of interest to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and professionals concerned with practical, theoretical and historical aspects of macroeconomics and business-cycle modeling.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0128165650

ISBN 13

9780128165652

From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic

By: Peter Caldwell,William Scheuerman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic

By: Peter Caldwell,William Scheuerman

The Weimar Republic – from 1919 until 1933, when Hitler came into power – witnessed crucial debates on law and politics. These debates are reexamined in this book. Were, for example, democratic rules and procedures an adequate basis for democracy, as Hugo Preuss and Hans Kelsen suggested? Or should constitutional law elaborate the deeper, basic principles embedded in the democratic constitution itself, as Hermann Heller argued? Was the president the immediate “guardian of the constitution”, as Carl Schmitt’s concept of “representation” suggested? Or was Schmitt’s concept itself subject to Walter Benjamin’s critique of the aura of authenticity? These, and other typical Weimar-era debates helped shape West German constitutionalism. The former labor lawyer on the left Ernst Fraenkel, for example, began to develop a general theory of dictatorship mass democracy while in exile, which influenced the new discipline of political science after the war. Similarly, Gerhard Leibholz, an anti-positivist lawyer in Weimar, served on the first Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany, helping to consolidate its new constitutional culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004473890

ISBN 13

9789004473898

Max Weber & Democratic Politics

By: Peter Breiner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Max Weber & Democratic Politics

By: Peter Breiner

Breiner demonstrates the tension between the subjective and objective dimensions of Weber's logic of rationality, and describes how Weber exploits this tension in judging the feasibility of social and political forms such as socialism, radical democracy, capitalism, and the nation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801431476

ISBN 13

9780801431470

Retina E-Book

3 Volume Set

By: Charles P. Wilkinson,David R. Hinton,SriniVas R. Sadda,Peter Wiedemann,Stephen J. Ryan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Retina E-Book

3 Volume Set

By: Charles P. Wilkinson,David R. Hinton,SriniVas R. Sadda,Peter Wiedemann,Stephen J. Ryan

Unequalled in scope, depth, and clinical precision, Retina, 5th Edition keeps you at the forefront of today’s new technologies, surgical approaches, and diagnostic and therapeutic options for retinal diseases and disorders. Comprehensively updated to reflect everything you need to know regarding retinal diagnosis, treatment, development, structure, function, and pathophysiology, this monumental ophthalmology reference work equips you with expert answers to virtually any question you may face in practice. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader with intuitive search tools and adjustable font sizes. Elsevier eBooks provide instant portable access to your entire library, no matter what device you're using or where you're located. Examine and evaluate the newest diagnostic technologies and approaches that are changing the management of retinal disease, including future technologies which will soon become the standard. Put the very latest scientific and genetic discoveries, diagnostic imaging methods, drug therapies, treatment recommendations, and surgical techniques to work in your practice. Benefit from the extensive knowledge and experience of esteemed editor Dr. Stephen Ryan, five expert co-editors, and a truly global perspective from 358 other world authorities across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas. Make the best use of new technologies with expanded and updated coverage of optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus imaging, and autofluorescence imaging. Apply the latest knowledge on anti-VEGF therapy for age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and vein disease. Learn about artificial vision, drug delivery to the posterior segment, advances in macular surgery, vitrectomy, and complex retinal detachment, with updates on tumors, retinal genetics, cell biology, important basic science topics, and much more. Get the most out of new pharmacologic approaches in the management of age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. In your practice, diagnostic evaluations, and now even treatments, will be influenced by recent scientific discoveries such as in the areas of nanotechnology, neuro protection, stem cells and gene therapy, among other scientific contributions. View videos of surgical procedures and access the complete contents of Retina, 5th Edition online at www.expertconsult.com, fully searchable, with regular updates and a downloadable image gallery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2498

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

1455737801

ISBN 13

9781455737802

The Theory of New Classical Macroeconomics

A Positive Critique

By: Peter Galbács

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Theory of New Classical Macroeconomics

A Positive Critique

By: Peter Galbács

This book examines new classical macroeconomics from a comparative and critical point of view that confronts the original texts and later comments as a first dimension of comparison. The second dimension appears in a historical context, since none of the new classical doctrines can be analyzed ignoring the parallelism and discrepancies with the theory of Keynes, Friedman or Phelps. Radicalism of new classical macroeconomics has brought fundamental changes in economic thought, but the doctrines got vulgarized and distorted thanks to the mass of followers. Nowadays, economic theory and policy, trying to find their ways, have a less clear relationship than ever. Therefore, this volume is aimed at mapping and reconsidering the policy instruments and transmission mechanisms offered by the new classicals. Its central question points to the real nature of new classical macroeconomics: what consequences are grounded by the assumptions new classicals used. Moreover, issues raised by automatic fiscal stabilizers and fiscal reforms are analyzed as well, even if they were out of the range of classical texts. The book draws a picture of new classical macroeconomics stressing the analogies with Keynesian countercyclical policies, instead of the discrepancies commonly held.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

386

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319175785

ISBN 13

9783319175782

Book's by Peter Weber

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email