An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Belton Pdraig)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Belton Pdraig)(Paperback)

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as 'evolving' from 'savage' beliefs in magic, to religion, to modern

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Douglas Mary)(Paperback)

Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean? In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In

An Analysis of Ludwig Von Mises's the Theory of Money and Credit (Belton Pdraig)(Paperback)

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (North Douglass C.)(Paperback)

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the

An Analysis of Chris Argyris's Integrating the Individual and the Organization (Stoyanov Stoyan)(Paperback)

A critical analysis of Argyris's Integrating The Individual and the Organization, which forms part of a series of essays and books considering how organisations should be run. The essay explores the lack of congruence between the needs and expectations of individual employees and the organisations

An Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Scobie Ruth)(Paperback)

Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers - people who

On Violence (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the

Among the Believers - An Islamic Journey (Naipaul V. S.)(Paperback / softback)

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic

An Analysis of Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams (Jenkins William)(Paperback)

There is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud's 1899 Interpretation of Dreams. Though the original edition of just 600 copies took eight years to sell out, it eventually became a classic text that helped cement Freud's reputation as one of

The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis (Thiruvengadam Arun K.)(Paperback)

This book provides an overview of the content and functioning of the Indian Constitution, with an emphasis on the broader socio-political context. It focuses on the overarching principles and the main institutions of constitutional governance that the world's longest written constitution

Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts (Povh Bogdan)(Pevná vazba)

Hors d'oeuvre.- Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter.- Global Properties of Nuclei.- Nuclear Stability.- Scattering.- Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- Elastic Scattering off Nucleons.- Deep Inelastic Scattering.- Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- Particle Production in e+e- Collisions.-

An Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (de Goede Meike)(Paperback)

Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often still plague, African governments. Analysis is one of the broadest and most fundamental critical thinking skills, and involves understanding the structure and

An Introduction to Data Analysis (Bergin Tiffany)(Paperback)

Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis. Using real-world case studies as illustrations, it helps readers understand theories behind and develop techniques

An Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Quinn Riley)(Paperback)

Many people want to understand what revolutions are and - especially - how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol who has done most to create a viable model of

The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (Mazierska Ewa)(Paperback)

'The Cinema of Nanni Moretti' provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema. Interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, the book uses Moretti's films as a lens to view and

An Analysis of Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (Smith-Laing Tim)(Paperback)

Security and Crime (Wakefield Alison)(Paperback)

Security and Crime is an authoritative and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between security and crime, addressing much of the confusion about its nature and meaning, clarifying its relevance to criminological analysis, and giving due attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the

Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (Berman Morris)(Paperback)

Presents an analysis of the 'nomadic' consciousness of our ancestors, and the forces --religious and political --that overwhelmed it during the Neolithic era, and considers its revival in the twentieth

An Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis (Allan Jacqueline)(Paperback)

Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis - a book that is

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty (Duncan John B.)(Paperback)

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (Schlesinger W. H.)(Paperback)

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, Fourth Edition, considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been, and are being, affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the

Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation - The Nuremberg Trial (Gaiba Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. This work provides an overview of the specific linguistic needs of the trial, and examines the recruiting of interpreters and the technical support available

An Analysis of Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Guzman Sebastian)(Paperback)

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is a masterpiece of sociological analysis whose power is based on

Fundamentals of Design - Mike Ambach

From analysis of the formal components of objects, via an overview of the possibilities of developing and optimizing the creative process, to the development of one's own evaluation catalog. What shapes exist? What form-giving operations are possible? What are the evaluation standards for existing