Aton - Social & Cultural Studies 1

A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done and might yet do. It proposes 1……続きを見る

What is real in the twenty-first century, and how humans can navigate this shifting world. Despite a twenty-first-century plethora of images and our collective understanding that digital tools may a……続きを見る

High Attitude outlines the history of Aspen through the story of Hunter S. Thompson; the '70s shooting of Spider Sabich by his movie star wife; a casual pass-through murder by Ted Bundy, who was lat……続きを見る

Published in 1857, The Impending Crisis of the South is a data-driven indictment of slavery as an economic blight. Addressed to non-slaveholding whites, Helper raids the 1850 census and state report……続きを見る

At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and military interventions, the essays in this collection serve as a timely reminder of the need for grounded……続きを見る

What exactly is a credit hour? What's an elective course and why should you care? What's the secret to studying for tests? Compact and to-the-point, this is an easy-to-use guide to everything first-……続きを見る

Le Gorgias met en scène Socrate face aux sophistes, qui se targuent de rendre vraisemblable aux yeux de tous le vrai comme le faux. Le philosophe, ardent défenseur de la pensée libre, s’empresse d’i……続きを見る

Comment parler des origines ? Comment dire ce que furent la naissance de l’univers, celle de l’homme, celle de la société ? Du Timée au Critias, la réponse ne varie pas : c’est à un discours qui con……続きを見る

Au banquet d’Agathon, les convives doivent prononcer un éloge d’Éros : sept interlocuteurs exposent leur vision de l’Amour. Socrate orchestre la soirée, entraînant chacun dans une conversation philo……続きを見る

Accusé d’impiété et de corrompre les jeunes gens, Socrate est condamné à mort en 399 avant notre ère. Lors de son procès, qui mobilise toute la cité d’Athènes, il choisit de se défendre avec l’arme ……続きを見る

Pendant deux ans, Marie Vaton a enquêté auprès des travailleurs sociaux de la protection de l’enfance, des familles dysfonctionnelles et des enfants en danger. En France, les chiffres des violences ……続きを見る

Croisant les approches de l'historien, de l'ethnologue et de l'anthropologue, les études réunies dans cet ouvrage constituent un tour d'horizon des gastronomies africaines. Des champs en culture au ……続きを見る

Décembre 1999. La nuit. La tempête souffle sur une petite maison blanche à l'intérieur du parc de Versailles. Un homme en sort, qui assiste au spectacle des arbres arrachés comme des fétus de paille……続きを見る

The climate crisis is here, and the end of this worldーa world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocideーis on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Ind……続きを見る

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people an……続きを見る

This edited volume brings together scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and filmmakers engaged in environmental communication and media studies to explore the constructions of primitive and w……続きを見る

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Busin……続きを見る

A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage cris……続きを見る

In "My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People," William Wells Brown offers a vivid and poignant portrait of the antebellum South, drawing from his experiences as an escaped slave and a prominen……続きを見る

In "To The Working People," Leo Tolstoy presents a poignant manuscript that articulates his heartfelt plea for social justice and moral responsibility towards the working class. Written in accessibl……続きを見る

This open access book provides a unique way of documenting traditional Sámi knowledge that has survived almost 300 years followed by today’s analysis of the modern state of Sámi reindeer husbandry. ……続きを見る

Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This b……続きを見る

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two……続きを見る

Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transf……続きを見る

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrator……続きを見る

Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These m……続きを見る

Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These m……続きを見る

Culinary journeys from around the globe: recipes and stories from immigrants to the United States Immigrants carry more than hope as they cross oceans and traverse continents to come to the United S……続きを見る

"If one has not been told what to expect, the first effects of hasheesh pass by unnoticed; these consist of a certain motor and sensor excitability of the spinal cord. There is a twitching in the na……続きを見る

Pour quoi nous travaillons ? Dans quel but passons-nous des milliers d’heures à faire en sorte que le produit que nous fabriquons, le service que nous rendons soient bien faits ? Pourquoi, malgré to……続きを見る