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Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent fi liation residence and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists biologists and students of human evolution.

GBP 140.00
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The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down represents an early contribution to the study of comparative social systems. Its treatment of life in the East European shtetls is as moving as the analysis of ghetto life in America. In his new introduction to this edition Drake illustrates the intellectual camaraderie shared between Park and Washington in their studies of race. Drake also details their individual observations philosophies and activities in both their academic and political lives.

GBP 130.00
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Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

As it entered the 1960s American institutional psychiatry was thriving with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness. ” His point was not that no one is mentally ill or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control not medical science. The editors were uniquely close to Szasz and here they gather for the first time a group of their peers—experts on psychiatry psychology rhetoric and semiotics—to elucidate Szasz’s body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz’s impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness addiction the insanity plea schizophrenia and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time. | Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

GBP 145.00
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The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

In The End of Economic Man long recognized as a cornerstone work Peter F. Drucker explains and interprets fascism and Nazism as fundamental revolutions. In some ways this book anticipated by more than a decade the existentialism that came to dominate the European political mood in the postwar period. Drucker provides a special addition to the massive literature on existentialism and alienation since World War II. The End of Economic Man is a social and political effort to explain the subjective consequences of the social upheavals caused by warfare. Drucker concentrates on one specific historical event: the breakdown of the social and political structure of Europe which culminated in the rise of Nazi totalitarianism to mastery over Europe. He explains the tragedy of Europe as the loss of political faith resulting from the political alienation of the European masses. The End of Economic Man is a book of great social import. It shows not only what might have helped the older generation avert the catastrophe of Nazism but also how today's generation can prevent another such catastrophe. This work will be of special interest to political scientists intellectual historians and sociologists. The book was singled out for praise on both sides of the Atlantic and is considered by the author to be his most prescient effort in social theory. | The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

GBP 145.00
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A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China Centennial Reflection on China’s Revolutionary Road

A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China Centennial Reflection on China’s Revolutionary Road

Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China presents an executive summary of Chinese academic discourse about China’s progress and achievements in the past one hundred years. Using a scientometric method to analyze bibliographic records retrieved from the largest library database in China on aspects of Chinese Studies this book offers an insider’s view regarding social cultural historical and political aspects of China that have never been systematically published in English before. This book first follows a quantitative approach using bibliometric analysis to identify keywords in the Chinese academic works about China in conceptual clusters for the past hundred years. Then a qualitative method is adopted to select significant and representative discourses within each conceptual cluster. By helping to establish two-way communication and facilitate mutual understanding this book holds great potential for helping to resolve conflict and promoting peace. This book offers an eye-opening experience for anyone studying or researching Chinese Studies including related subjects such as Chinese language culture and education or a broader subject within global politics economy sociology and culture which acknowledges China as a major player in the field. | A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China Centennial Reflection on China’s Revolutionary Road

GBP 130.00
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The Man behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner a South African Liberal Life

The Man behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner a South African Liberal Life

Deneys Schreiner was an academic a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences arts and public affairs. In his steady way he transformed the University of Natal and the community around it. Between the 1960s and 1980s Schreiner supported and initiated several endeavors to promote constitutional futures other than those imposed by the apartheid government. One of the most significant was the Buthelezi Commission which he chaired. This biography sets out the context of the times in which Schreiner lived and his life from his ancestors to his tenure as Vice-Principal. This book is created with extensive archival research supported by interviews with family members former colleagues friends and journalists. Schreiner was a man who made a considerable contribution to the struggle for democracy in South Africa. And then there is the story of his beard once described as a potent symbol of his presence and implacable integrity. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | The Man behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner a South African Liberal Life

GBP 130.00
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Black Man Emerging Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America

Black Man Emerging Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America

In the face of centuries of institutional and interpersonal racism in light of the signals they receive from society and given the choices they must make about what they want from life and how to go about getting it-how can Black men in America realize their full potential? In Black Man Emerging psychologists Joseph L. White and James H. Cones III fashion a moving psychological and social portrait that reflects their personal views on the struggle of Black men against oppression and for self-determination. Using numerous case histories and biographical sketches of Black men who have failed and those who have prevailed the authors describe strategies for responding to racism and entrenched power-underscoring the healing capacity of religion family Black consciousness movements mentorships educational programs paid employment and other positive forces. They also explore the concept of identity as it applies to being Black and male and ithe influence of Black men on American culture. Black Man Emerging is a poignant and personal discussion of the issues facing and felt by Black men in this country and an important commentary on the conflicts born of human diversity. | Black Man Emerging Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America

GBP 175.00
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The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

First published in 1961 The Moulding of Modern Man discusses views of the nature and boundaries of the Self its relation to the physical world and to human beings real and imagined with reference to procedures training ‘space men’ to travel alone or in company deprived of the assurances of sight sound even weight. It discusses methods of publicity and advertising of overtly or covertly influencing motives subception or subliminal persuasion and techniques of ‘thought reform’ often vaguely termed character training and more confusingly ‘brain-washing’. Other topical subjects are conflicting loyalties with special reference to the moral problems of scientists; the social significance in different countries of intellectuals and anti-intellectuals; the effects of mass culture upon the individual’s beliefs tastes and opinions; the role of the Organization Man in Britain; the concepts of ‘face’ and ‘prestige’ in groups and nations; and conflicting ideas of progress maintained by contemporary thinkers in ‘two cultures’. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and psychology. | The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

GBP 90.00
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The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge

The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge

In this seminal contribution to the sociology of knowledge first published in 1940 Florian Znaniecki develops a typology of the variety of specific social roles that scholars have played and investigates the normative patterns that govern their behavior. A central tool for the investigation of these problems is the notion of “social circle” the audience to which intellectuals address themselves. Znaniecki shows that thinkers do not speak to the total society but address selected segments and markets. Specific social circles bestow recognition provide material or psychic support and help shape the self-image of the thinker. | The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge

GBP 110.00
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The Blind Man Sees Freud's Awakening and Other Essays

The Blind Man Sees Freud's Awakening and Other Essays

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. The author argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. He examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from blindness to founding an institution and finds counterparts in the development of psychoanalysis while drawing examples from Buddhism Christianity and Islam. He invites the reader on a journey with him - to examine the human mind our society the process of psychoanalysis science and philosophy. He successfully uses examples from the consulting room to illuminate his arguments. The author's honest accounts of the search for answers relevant to all of us encourage the reader to think further and deeper than he or she had intended. 'The psychoanalyst examines scientifically the emotional pattern in himself and the other. | The Blind Man Sees Freud's Awakening and Other Essays

GBP 130.00
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The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The role of the military in a society raises a number of issues: How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in order to provide national security? Recently the dangers of military dictatorships-as have existed in countries like Panama Chile and Argentina-have become evident. However developing countries often lack the administrative ability and societal unity to keep the state functioning in an orderly and economically feasible manner without military intervention. Societies of course have dealt with the realities of these problems throughout their histories and the action they have taken at any particular point in time has depended on numerous factors. In the first world of democratic countries the civil-military relationship has been thoroughly integrated and indeed by most modern standards this is seen as essential. However several influential Western thinkers have developed theories arguing for the separation of the military from any political or social role. Samuel Huntington emphasized that professionalism would presuppose that the military should intervene as little as possible in the political sphere. Samuel E. Finer in contrast emphasizes that a government can be efficient enough way to keep the civil-military relationship in check ensuring that the need for intervention by the armed forces in society would be minimal. At the time of the book's original publication perhaps as a consequence of a post-World War II Cold War atmosphere this was by no means a universally accepted position. Some considered the military to be a legitimate threat to a free society. Today's post-Cold War environment is an appropriate time to reconsider Finer's classic argument. The Man on Horseback continues to be an important contribution to the study of the military's role in the realm of politics and will be of interest to students of political science government and the military. | The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

GBP 145.00
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Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

From premodern societies onward humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into and images for adult men to imitate. The figure of Alexander the Great has fascinated people both within and outside academia. As a historical character military commander cultural figure and representative of the male gender Alexander’s popularity is beyond dispute. Almost from the moment of his death Alexander’s deeds have had a paradigmatic aspect: for over 2300 years he has been represented as a paragon of manhood – an example to be followed by other men – and through his myth people have negotiated assumptions about masculinity. This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective. It explores the masculine ideals of the Greco-Roman and medieval pasts through the figure of Alexander the Great analysing the gendered views of masculinities in those periods and relating them to the ways in which Alexander’s masculinity was presented. It does this by investigating Alexander’s appearance and its relation to definitions of masculinity the way his childhood and adulthood are presented his martial performance and skill proper and improper sexual behaviour and finally through his emotions and mental attributes. Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great will appeal to students and scholars alike as well as to those more generally interested in the portrayal of masculinity and gender particularly in relation to Alexander the Great and his image throughout history. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license | Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

GBP 130.00
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The Third World Calamity

The Third World Calamity

First published in 1981 The Third World Calamity is a controversial book on the social conditions politics economics and cultural barriers that have according to the author stagnated Western-style socio-economic development in the Third World. The book deals particularly with India Iran and Nigeria where the author has gathered a large part of the material. The content of the book and the language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this republication. This book will be of interest to students of history political science international relations and geography.

GBP 105.00
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Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

First Published in 1981. Pater is certainly the least widely read and understood of any of the Victorian critics and creative writers though there are signs of a coming revival of interest in him. Each of the discussions included in this issue devoted to Pater touches in some significant way on his imaginative sense of fact on his struggle with the objective ‘givens’ of experience (ideas or individuals) and on his efforts to co-opt or turn that Other into a reordered reflection of his own image. | Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

GBP 130.00
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The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates that followed was to allow for dialogue as well as controversy to take place. Respecting the convictions of the other and allowing their expression in their own terms became a prerequisite in the dialogue. Topics discussed included phantasy sexuality counter-transference the unconscious interpretation and technique and child analysis. The meetings provided an opportunity for reflection upon the implications for respective positions and an appreciation of the sensitivities of both schools. | The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

GBP 130.00
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Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School Mathematics and Science

Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School Mathematics and Science

This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school Mathematics and Science classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching learning and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection consuming little class time costing nothing and uniting the three dimensions of education through reflective practice. The chapters begin with a reflective teaching strategy followed by classroom examples. Guiding icons will help you coordinate and implement each strategy. Chapters conclude with a set of learning community discussion questions to guide personal growth as well as faculty discussions. | Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School Mathematics and Science

GBP 105.00
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Cicero

Cicero

First published in 1965 Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cicero is a man on whom most judgments have been harsh. His political ideals though sincerely held were bypassed by the march of events; his public life was a series of frustrations; his personality was egotistical. However as a speaker and a thinker as a master of the use of language and as a man of cultured interests and human disposition he deserves sympathetic study. The chapters in this volume deal with his political career his character his oratory philosophy and poems and his influence on subsequent literature and scholarship. This book will be of interest to students of literature history and philosophy.

GBP 90.00
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Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century comprises original scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism and creative reflection. The volume draws on a flourishing recent body of Christian ecocriticism and environmental activity incorporating both practical ethics and environmental spirituality but with particular emphasis on the notion of human responsibility. It discusses responsibility in its dual sense as both the recognized cause of environmental destruction and the ethical imperative of accountability to the nonhuman environment. The book crosses boundaries between traditional scholarly and creative reflection through a global range of topics: African oral tradition Ohio artists off the grid immigrant self-metaphors of land and sea iconic writers from Milton to O’Connor to Atwood and Indigenous Canadian models for listening to the nonhuman Mother of us all. In its incorporation of academic and creative pieces from scholars and creative artists across North America this volume shows how environmental work of its nature and necessity crosses traditional academic and community boundaries. In both form and orientation this collection speaks to the most urgent intellectual physical social and spiritual needs of the present day. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment ethics animal welfare poetry memoir and post-secularism. | Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

GBP 130.00
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Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School English and Social Studies

Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School English and Social Studies

This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school English and Social Studies classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching learning and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection consuming little class time costing nothing and uniting the three dimensions of education through reflective practice. The chapters begin with a reflective teaching strategy followed by classroom examples. Guiding icons will help you coordinate and implement each strategy. Chapters conclude with a set of learning community discussion questions to guide personal growth as well as faculty discussions. | Teaching Learning and Assessment Together Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School English and Social Studies

GBP 105.00
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Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Walter Kaufmann completed this the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study writing and teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund Freud the man he thought had done as much as anyone to discover and illuminate the human mind. Kaufmann's own analytical brilliance seems a fitting reflection of Freud's and his acute commentary affords fitting company to Freud's own thought. Kaufmann traces the intellectual tradition that culminated in Freud's blending of analytic scientific thinking with humanistic insight to create a poetic science of the mind. He argues that despite Freud's great achievement and celebrity his work and person have often been misunderstood and unfairly maligned the victim of poor translations and hostile critics. Kaufmann dispels some of the myths that have surrounded Freud and damaged his reputation. He takes pains to show how undogmatic how open to discussion and how modest Freud actually was. Kaufmann endeavors to defend Freud against the attacks of his two most prominent apostate disciples Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Adler is revealed as having been jealous hostile and an ingrate a muddled thinker and unskilled writer and remarkably lacking in self-understanding. Jung emerges in Kaufmann's depiction as an unattractive petty and envious human being an anti-Semite an obscure and obscurantist thinker and like Adler lacking insight into himself. Freud on the contrary is argued to have displayed great nobility and great insight into himself and his wayward disciples in the course of their famous fallings-out. | Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

GBP 145.00
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