Sager - Social & Cultural Studies 1

Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, providing an authoritative and practical guide to the key……続きを見る

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to ……続きを見る

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering o……続きを見る

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is tra……続きを見る

Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime, by the award-winning journalist Mike Sager, is a pocket collection of five true storiesーfirst published in Rolling Stone, GQ, and Esquireーthat ……続きを見る

Be Happier Now gives readers 100 simple things they can do right now to make an immediate and positive difference in their lives. Plus, built-in habit trackers on the book’s inside jacket help you t……続きを見る

Die Themen Bildung und Schule entscheiden Wahlkämpfe und beherrschen die Schlagzeilen von heute. Was aber hat davon mit 1968 zu tun? Was ist von der Aufbruchstimmung übrig geblieben, was hat geschad……続きを見る

“Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make t……続きを見る

Die öffentliche Politik wird in der Schweizer Politikwissenschaft sehr aktiv beforscht. Ihre Erforschung dient der Lösung gesellschaftlicher Probleme. So untersucht die Policy-Analyse etwa das Verhä……続きを見る

This book offers an examination of the Roaring Twenties in the United States, focusing on the vibrant icon of the newly liberated womanーthe flapperーthat came to embody the Jazz Age. Flappers takes……続きを見る

Mike Sager's bestselling debut collection brings pop culture's seamy underbelly into sharp focus. It brings together nineteen of Sager's greatest true crime stories, including "The Devil and John Ho……続きを見る

Nach Jahren der Stagnation erhebt sich der russische Koloss. Um jeden Preis trachtet das Land danach, auf die Bühne der Supermächte zurückzukehren. Nicht mehr nur sein militärisches Potenzial ist im……続きを見る

*Now updated with new cover, new interior art, and vintage movie posters. "John Holmes was every man's gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar and lots of buttons undone……続きを見る

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political sci……続きを見る

Using the economic approach of social choice theory, this unique book examines difficulties found in democratic processes involved in the creation and implementation of planning policies. Social cho……続きを見る

This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist……続きを見る

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one……続きを見る

With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics……続きを見る

Intellectual traditions are commonly regarded as cultural variations, historical legacies, or path dependencies. By analyzing road junctions between different traditions of Public Administration thi……続きを見る

In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi lost their lives and left their seven child……続きを見る

In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuri……続きを見る

This book proposes a cosmopolitan ethics that calls for analyzing how economic and political structures limit opportunities for different groups, distinguished by gender, race, and class. The author……続きを見る

From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke; from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bu……続きを見る

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context……続きを見る

From the start it sounds ridiculous: Go to Tahiti and find Marlon Brando. But the worldwide search for the legendary Method actor, the star of such classic movies as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, O……続きを見る

Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der Politikevaluation ein. Es zeigt deren Begrifflichkeiten, Entstehung, Theorien und die heute gültigen Konzepte sowie die empirischen Methoden für die Wirku……続きを見る

Mike Sager has made a career "finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque," according to award-winning author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedma……続きを見る

Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments……続きを見る

NEXT WAVE collects the work of today's finest young writers– nineteen creative reporters whose work builds upon foundations laid by previous generations, dating back more than fifty years to John He……続きを見る

Bestselling author Mike Sager’s fourth collection, The Someone You’re Not, showcases Sager’s deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-ar……続きを見る