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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability, Islam has emerged as a civilizational force strong enough to challenge the imposition of Western, particularly American, homogenizing...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 468 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species. If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, they have held that our biology puts a hard upper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson India Education Services
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
As in all growing disciplines, sociology has witnessed continuous advances in our knowledge about the phenomena it studies. Over time, some themes are ped, and new concerns are incorporated, necessitating a reprioritization of themes to meet changing times, even as older and classical texts become less relevant. Sociology: Study of the Social Sphere is a detailed and concise attempt to fulfill the need for new texts that reflect this. This textbook...
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This classic reference has been updated to reflect many changes in society and in the field of sociology in recent years. Articles covering core issues such as race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy and abortion have been updated and expanded, and completely new articles have been written on topics such as the Internet, privacy and epidemiology.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and...
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