Identity and Violence - The Illusion of Destiny (Sen Amartya FBA)(Paperback / softback)

Identity and Violence - The Illusion of Destiny (Sen Amartya FBA)(Paperback / softback)

Examines the explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war. In this book, the author argues that we are becoming increasingly divided along lines of religion and culture, ignoring the many other ways in which people see themselves,

Collective Choice and Social Welfare - Expanded Edition (Sen Amartya FBA)(Paperback / softback)

Argumentative Indian - Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (Sen Amartya FBA)(Paperback / softback)

India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. This title brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary

Home in the World - A Memoir (Sen Amartya FBA)(Pevná vazba)

Hinduism - with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen (Sen K. M.)(Paperback / softback)

The essential guide to one of the world's most diverse and fascinating faiths, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen K. M. Sen discusses the evolution of Hinduism's central systems of belief and codes of conduct, as well as popular cults and sects such as Bhakti, Tantrika and the mystics of North India,

Inequality Reexamined (Sen Amartya)(Paperback)

The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum 'all people are created equal' serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating

An Analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom (Miletzki Janna)(Paperback)

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says people

The Stone Face (Smith William Gardner)(Paperback)

A roman clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge

Great Economic Thinkers: An Introduction-From Adam Smith to Amartya Sen (Conlin Jonathan)(Paperback)

Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of thirteen of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Nobel Prize winners Friedrich

Quiet Acts of Violence (Staincliffe Cath)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that bind and those that break

Identity - Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition (Fukuyama Francis)(Paperback / softback)

The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses

Mind is Flat - The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind (Chater Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Identity, Personal Identity and the Self (Perry John)(Paperback / softback)

One Punch - The Tragic Toll of Random Acts of Violence (Dickins Barry)(Paperback / softback)

An in-depth exploration of the random acts of violence that reverberate across our communities and strike at the heart of our

Identity and Idolatry - The Image Of God And Its Inversion (Lints Dr Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Kalyvas Stathis)(Paperback)

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective

Who Is an African?: Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa (Hewitt Roderick R.)(Paperback)

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African

Islam and the Destiny of Man (Eaton Gai)(Paperback / softback)

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (Incite! Women of Color Against Violence)(Paperback)

The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of

Schemer (Chambers Kimberley)(Paperback / softback)

The heir to Martina Cole's crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis (Steiner John)(Paperback)

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are

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

Scapegoat (Du Maurier Daphne)(Paperback / softback)

A masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. One of du Maurier's most accomplished