Социология

This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Moves beyond other “lesbian and gay studies” readers by presenting a broader view…

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the in…

Жан Бодрийяр – французский социолог, культуролог и философ-постмодернист, его нередко называют «гуру» («духовным отцом») постмодернизма. Бодрийяр утверждал, что современную эпоху характеризует чу…

Написанная в 1928 году на волне успеха предыдущих работ автора, «Пропаганда» принесла Бернейсу звание отца-основателя технологий связи с общественностью и по сей день считается одной из фундамент…

Developments in AI, robotics and big data are changing the nature of education. Yet the implications of these technologies for the teaching profession are uncertain. While most educators remain c…

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the patho…

The term «storytelling» is gaining prominence both in academia and industry – rightly so – because narrative techniques allow for particularly effective and sustainable communication. Stories are…

The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn: intended as an appendix to «Observations on the corn laws» by Thomas Robert Malthus <br/> libreka classics …

The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and g…

Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audien…

Now in its fourth edition, [i]Civil Society [/i]has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in a troubled world. Recent economic and…

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils—industrial, chemical, geological—that humans are leaving behindA Times Book of the Year • A Daily…

The Tragic Muse Henry James – The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama …

Segregation is one of the starkest social realities of contemporary societies. Though often associated with explicitly racist laws of the past, it is a phenomenon that persists to this day and is…

As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested.…

Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he conceives as “the primal scene of postcoloniali…

We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not eng…

This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of mo…

An Essay on the Principle of Population by T. R. Malthus <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well…

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to …