eBooks
There are 1625 books in this aisle.
 Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $30.75 Electronic List Price $31.95 
add to wish list |
|
Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression
by Lucy Sargisson  Publisher Comments A study of utopianism as a critique of the political present. The book is organised around three types of body: bodies of thought, of people and physical bodies. It covers three areas: feminism, environmentalism and sex/gender theory....
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $27.91 Electronic List Price $29.00
add to wish list |
|
Evil and Human Agency
by Arne Johan Vetlesen Publisher Comments Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative and original approach to evil, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $11.05 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
THE PHILIPPINES Damaged Culture?!
by Earl K. Wilkinson Publisher Comments 'It forces readers to think things through, to reflect on and investigate further. a nice contribution to what may yet become national soul-searching on a culture-and-faith-damaged people.' -Roberto Bernardo, Professor and Rizal scholar 'It is a very...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $33.64 Electronic List Price $34.95
add to wish list |
|
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
by Peter L. Bernstein Publisher Comments Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $25.02 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Key Issues Criminal Career Research
by Alex R. Piquero Publisher Comments This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
The Theory Of The Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen Publisher Comments Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. As wealth accumulates on his hands, his own unaided effort will not avail to sufficiently put his opulence in evidence by this method. The aid of friends...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
The Idea Of Progress
by John Bagnell Bury Publisher Comments At the same time Pascal recognised that we are indebted to the ancients for our very superiority to them in the extent of our knowledge. "They reached a certain point, and the slightest effort enables us to mount higher; so that we find ourselves on a...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $13.00 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
An Examination of the Theory of the Commodity and its Application to Critical Media Studies.
by Jeffrey R. Young Publisher Comments The theory of the commodity is used by critical theorists to explain the general organization and development of capitalist society. It was originally proposed by Marx, and subsequently developed by Lukcs and later Adorno and the Frankfurt School. Media...
|
||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $30.75 Electronic List Price $31.95
add to wish list |
|
Informality
by Barbara Misztal Publisher Comments Argues that only the society that achieves an appropriate balance between informality and formality of interaction will find itself in a position to move forward to further democratisation and an improved quality of life....
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $45.24 Electronic List Price $47.00
add to wish list |
|
Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles
by Karl Olav Sandnes Publisher Comments An exploration of the 'belly' motif offering a new insight into the writings of St Paul....
|
||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $14.95 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
by Andrew J. Polsky Publisher Comments Assuming that 'marginal' citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $8.87 Electronic List Price $9.99
add to wish list |
|
Are We So Different?:The Hierarchy of Races, Socrates' Lie
by Dr Aroll Exama Publisher Comments For those who are willing to wear new glasses and take a different (science-based) look at people surrounding them, this book is a must....
|
||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $9.95 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Why the Wealthy Give: The Culture of Elite Philanthropy
by Francie Ostrower Publisher Comments Through a series of candid personal interviews with nearly one hundred donors, Why the Wealthy Give offers an in-depth look at the world of elite philanthropy. Francie Ostrower focuses on the New York City area, with its high concentration of affluent...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $26.95 Electronic List Price $28.00
add to wish list |
|
Schizophrenia Culture Subjectivity
by Janis Hunter Jenkins Publisher Comments This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - currently studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $6.89 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Zip Lock The Future
by G, W Washington Publisher Comments ZIP LOCK YOUR FUTURE to keep in the freshness of new ideas, spirit and hope If you Feel alienated by our modern world. Understand corporations and know how they abuse their power. Think new economic and social structures are still possible. Utilize your...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $25.02 Electronic
add to wish list |
|
The Crime Drop in America 2ed
by Alfred Blumstein Publisher Comments Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, after which something unprecedented occurred. The crime level declined to a level not seen since the 1960s. This revised edition of The Crime Drop in America...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $26.90 Electronic List Price $27.95
add to wish list |
|
Boys, Girls and Achievement
by Becky Francis Publisher Comments This book provides teachers with a thorough analysis of the various ways in which secondary school pupils construct their gender identities in the classroom....
|
||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $17.71 Electronic List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Jackpot Nation
by Richard Hoffer Publisher Comments Is this a great country or what? You can bet on the turn of the card, a roll of the dice—but also the NFL, the NCAA, and which Olson twin marries first. We bet $80 million a year, the amount growing wildly as more and more people gain access to...
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $34.65 Electronic List Price $36.00
add to wish list |
|
Social Action
by Seumas Miller Publisher Comments Provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action....
|
||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $17.71 Electronic List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Book of Vice, The
by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host--the man who put the second L in vanilla--decided to find out if it's true. From...
|
||||||
