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Anas Karzais timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzais book highlights how Nietzsches observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.

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Becoming a parent is a life changing experience and, like all major changes, parenthood can also be a source of strain. This title offers practical ideas to help get back some normality and restore the relationship.

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She let me go and disappeared ... without a backward glance. And I, I turned away, sick at heart, but not knowing ... that I had said goodbye to her forever. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything ... that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not recognise as such.

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

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Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, the nation's leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both parents and teachers.

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On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the future of our young people.

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One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately. The studies in this book reevalu

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Drawing on case studies from a variety of organizational environments, this book explores the social processes and experiences of failure in order to argue that it is an intentional and routine part of organizational activity rather than something to avoid.

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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"The 12 community types that make up our nation"--Front cover.

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Provides an overview of out-of-wedlock births in the United States from a comparative and historical perspective.

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Initially published in Moscow in 1950 following the author's death, this book contains the first chapters of a large monograph Krylov planned entitled The foundations of physical statistics," his doctoral thesis on "The processes of relaxation of statistical systems and the criterion of mechanical instability," and a small paper entitled "On the de

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