D.O - Social & Cultural Studies 100

How have powerful Americans convinced their fellow citizens to support policies beneficial only to the wealthy? Why have so many given up on public education, safe food and safe streets, living wage……続きを見る

Ziel dieses Lehrbuches ist es, Strukturen, Akteure und Prozesse der Politik wie der Medien aus einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive heraus zu analysieren und dabei integrativ auf die T……続きを見る

Skrupellose Machenschaften lassen sich schwer im friedlichem Dorf erkennen. Das Harmonische und ausgewogene Zusammenleben prägen die Einheit der Dorfbewohner. An einem Frühen Morgen, in Nebeldurchzo……続きを見る

In 1917, barely into his second term as governor of Texas, James E. Ferguson was impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Impeached provides a new examination of the rise and fall of Ferguson’……続きを見る

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research pro……続きを見る

Lumea modernă este construită pe fundația libertății. Libertatea este înscrisă în constituțiile și practicile sociopolitice ale majorității țărilor civilizate și oferă cetățenilor acestora un spațiu……続きを見る

We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship. Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public repr……続きを見る

This book questions whether and to what extent a conjunctural phenomenon such as an economic crisis can bring about lasting political consequences. It focuses on the parties and party systems of fou……続きを見る

The global financial crisis has drawn attention to the importance of understanding historical ideas and learning lessons from the past. However, it can sometimes be difficult to trace the connection……続きを見る

Africo è il nome di un paese montano che una alluvione, nel 1951, travolse in una frana di terra e di pietre e rese inabitabile. In questo libro di Corrado Stajano si racconta la storia di una comun……続きを見る

Nel novembre 2011, dopo un anno tormentato per l’Italia e per il mondo, Silvio Berlusconi cedeva la leadership politica a Mario Monti, nuovo capo del governo. Una svolta, nel bene e nel male. È stat……続きを見る

Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more recent analyses of gay sex, transsexualism, and the newly visible forms……続きを見る

At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone……続きを見る

This essay is a non-economists’ (there’s not a bit of math in it) inquiry into the US employment losses which have been happening for about a half century. Businesses have been reducing workers and ……続きを見る

In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America’s national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions……続きを見る

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, whi……続きを見る

This book offers a theoretically informed empirical investigation of national media reporting and political discourse on environmental issues in Australia, China and Japan. It illuminates the risks,……続きを見る

(a5,185 p.) - A Pedagofilosofia Clínica (psicanálise pedagógico-filosófica existencial-humanista), longe de ser um processo psicológico, psicanalítico-freudiano ou psiquiátrico-medicamentoso, é um m……続きを見る

This essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the strugg……続きを見る

Gods and goddesses, magicians and mermaids, fairies, warriors and giants weave a series of enchanting spells for young readers in this charming collection of age-old Scottish stories. Derived from a……続きを見る

In over 200 images accompanied by an insightful narrative, this collection uncovers the trials and triumphs of migration, ethnic survival, and daily life. Italians have been a part of the Chicago co……続きを見る

Understanding the Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency provides a concise overview of the LRA, which has, for almost 30 years, conducted untold atrocities across the central African nations of Uganda, ……続きを見る

In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibriu……続きを見る

Today when this extensive and great world is in the shadow of diverse means of communication, just like an enclosed and confined house it is joined and grafted together and confined house it is join……続きを見る

What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genea……続きを見る

"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder als……続きを見る

Every day, trials impact the lives of untold numbers of citizens. But the public has only popular images and urban myths to give it an idea of what goes on in a trial. There has been no handy, easy-……続きを見る

Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice,……続きを見る

This rich source book informs its reader in a comparative perspective about the political and social-economic past and present of fifteen Western, Central and Eastern European countries. This includ……続きを見る

Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s hist……続きを見る