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Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever-present symbols erupt in popular culture today and what work they do in transforming self and society.

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The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase of Islamic civilization and the Ottoman collapse. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin

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Two of the courses of lectures given in London by Karl Manheim form the basis of this book. The main parts of the book consist of discussions of man and his psychic endowment, elementary social processes, the nature of social integration, and an examination of some of the factors which make for social stability and for social change.

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Drawing on current scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous bogus methods to prove that blacks were superior physically.

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Providing a critical examination of anti-discrimination law and policy relating to race in a selection of the EU member states, this book discusses provisions and developments likely to result from the creation of a unified Europe as well as the relevance of international and regional treaty obligations.

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A book from business leader Anita Roddick that brings together some of the most prominent of authorities on globalisation (including Susan George, David Korten and Naomi Klein), taking a look at the myths and reality behind this phenomenon that affects us all, and showing us how we can all fight it.

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This volume offers an analysis of the American women's magazine as a distinct form, as well as a presentation of the construction of the popular woman reader.

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Offers a collection of the haunting German stories from the past 200 years. This title includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity "The Sandman"; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece "Peter Schlemiel", where a man barters his own shadow; and Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire "In the Penal Colony".

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Talking Politics presents the opinions of some of America's leading broadcasters and political commentators on the tension-fraught relationship between politics and the media.

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The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesisthat the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferiorand alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families.

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Who should be first in line for kidney transplantsthe relatively healthy or the severely ill Should chronic troublemakers be allowed to remain in public housing or in public school classrooms Peter Schuck and Richard Zeckhauser take on such vexing policy dilemmas in Targeting in Social Programs.

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Provides the history and anecdotes about what people eat, drink, and inhale for pleasure.

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Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general process of marking and being marked and is a social production of identity and difference.

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The "musket wars" rewrote the Maori landscape, changing traditional regional power balances and depopulating whole areas of the country. This study asks, "what is a musket war" and details what was happening in Maori society at the time.

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This edited collection deals with intersecting axes of power and privilege in order to advance conversation on motherhood across disciplines. Mother-scholar contributors explore theoretical and disciplinary approaches to academic motherhood, examine its critical and cultural territory, and articulate the challenges of their dual identity.

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This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised.