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Homo Sociologicus

Homo Sociologicus

First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973. The controversial book deals with the history significance and limits of the category of social role and discusses the dilemma posed by homo sociologicus. The author shows that for society and sociology socialization invariably means depersonalization the yielding up of man’s absolute individuality and liberty to the constraint and generality of social roles. This volume includes the essay Sociology and Human Nature written as a postscript to Homo Sociologicus.

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Homo Ecophagus A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth

Homo Ecophagus A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth

Home Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species but all other species on Earth due to human activities over the past tens of thousands years. The title of the book indicates Hern’s new name for the human species: The man who devours the ecosystem. Over the course of its evolution Hern observes humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant and that the human species at the global level has all the major characteristics of a malignant neoplasm – converting all plant animal organic and inorganic material into human biomass or its adaptive adjuncts and support systems. Hern contends that this process is incompatible with continued survival of the human species and most other species on the planet offering a diagnosis and prognosis of the current environmental impasse. | Homo Ecophagus A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth

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Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

For millennia humanity has simultaneously deplored and waged war. With each conflict the stakes have risen and we now face global annihilation for the sake of a practice all the world claims to condemn. Is there some seemingly irresistible force that impels us toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of human behaviour Genetic Seeds of Warfare originally published in 1989 advances a startling new theory. It traces the origins of warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for scarce resources showing that warfare evolved as these groups evolved: kin-group against kin-group; tribe against tribe; nation against nation. Rather than being tied to a specific gene warfare emerged as one of many behavioural strategies for maximising genetic survival. As social groups became more complex motivations for warfare developed from simple protection of blood relations to political appeals to shared ethnicity religion and national identity. But the ultimate cause of warfare is rooted in the most basic of human drives: the need to ensure that one’s genes will survive and reproduce. The authors challenge many assumptions about human behaviour in general and warfare in particular. They convincingly present the case for an evolutionary understanding of the propensity for warfare supporting their argument with data from a vast array of social and natural science research. In doing so they reveal why previous attempts at ending war have failed and make proactive suggestions toward the development of a new agenda for world peace. | Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

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World Prehistory: The Basics

World Prehistory: The Basics

World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past. Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past the story begins with human origins in Africa some 6 million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the Old World. Then we return to Africa and describe the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern humans) over 300 000 years ago then much later their permanent settlement of Europe Eurasia Asia and the Americas. From hunters and foragers we turn to the origins of farming and animal domestication in different parts of the world after about 11 000 years ago and show how these new economies changed human existence dramatically. Five chapters tell the stories of the great pre-industrial civilizations that emerged after 5000 years before present in the Old World and the Americas their strengths volatility and weaknesses. These chapters describe powerful rulers and their ideologies also the lives of non-elites. The narratives chronicle the rise and fall of civilizations and the devastating effects of long droughts on many of them. The closing chapter poses a question: Why is world prehistory important in the modern world? What does it tell us about ourselves? Providing a simple but entertaining and stimulating account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective World Prehistory: The Basics is the ideal guide to the story of our early human past and its relevance to the modern world.

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Communicating The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

Communicating The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This Finnegan argues seriously underestimates the far-reaching multi-modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch olfaction and above all audition and vision that we draw on. In an authoritative and readable account Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic and sensory anthropology material culture non-verbal communication computer-mediated communication and strikingly research on animal communication such as the remarkable gesture systems of great apes. She draws on her background in classical studies and her long anthropological experience to present illuminating examples from throughout the world past and present. The result is to uncover an amazing array of sounds sights smells gestures looks movements touches and material objects used by humans and other animals to interconnect both nearby and across space and time She goes on to first explore the extra-sensory modes of communication now being revealed in the extraordinary new science research and then in an incendiary conclusion to deny the long-prevailing story of human history by questioning whether orality really came before literacy; whether it was really through the acquisition of language that our prehistoric cave painting ancestors made a sudden leap into being true humans; and finally astonishingly to ask whether human communicating had its first roots not after all in verbal language but something else. Not to be missed this highly original book brings a fresh perspective on among other things that central topic of interest today – the dawn of human history – and on what being homo sapiens really means. This revised and updated edition has additional illustrations updated chapters and a new concluding chapter. A provocative and controversial account that will stir worldwide debate this book is an essential transdisciplinary overview for researchers and advanced students in language and communication anthropology and cultural studies. | Communicating The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

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An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet

An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet

In this book Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing this Sedgwick provides a history of sexuality that contends that the dualistic homo/heterosexual model is as much a basis for modern culture as it is an outcome of it. Thus Sedgwick laid the foundations of Queer Theory contributing to the contemporary debates regarding the relationship between desire and normative structures of power the question of empirical sexuality and the intricacies of the relationship between sexuality and gender. | An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet

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Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of or downplayed in mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that is aspects related to sensitive cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume Smith Malthus Mill Marshall Keynes Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought economic philosophy heterodox economics moral philosophy and intellectual history. | Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy

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Basics of Polymer Chemistry

Basics of Polymer Chemistry

Basics of Polymer Chemistry is of great interest to the chemistry audience. The basic properties of polymers including diverse fundamental and applied aspects are presented. This book constitutes a basis for understanding polymerization and it presents a comprehensive overview of the scientific research of polymers. The chapters presented can be used as a reference for those interested in understanding the sustainable development in polymers. Basics of Polymer Chemistry provides a balanced coverage of the key developments in this field and highlights recent and emerging technical achievements. The topics covered present a comprehensive overview of the subject area and are therefore of interest to professors and students. The recent developments in polymerization using catalysts homo and copolymerization are presented and it contains current efforts in designing new polymer architectures. Improved property performance attributes of the polymers by controlling their molecular-structural characteristics such as molecular weight distribution comonomer type content distribution and branching level are also discussed.

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A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed theHobbit this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a brain the size of a chimpanzee‘s was a tool-using fire-making cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern humans as recently as 13 000 years ago. This book is Morwoods description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our species. He chronicles the bitter debates over Homo Floresiensis the objections (some spiteful) of colleagues the theft and damage of some of the specimens and the endless battle against government and academic bureaucracies that hindered his research. This updated paperback edition contains an epilogue that reports on the most recent debates findings and analyses of this amazing discovery. | A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

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World War II A Global History

World War II A Global History

Fully revised and restructured the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations home fronts brutal regimes and logistics. This textbook includes the following features: A lively narrative of facts events people and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes conduct and consequences of World War II Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context Chapters sections and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II. Global in focus by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century. | World War II A Global History

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Emergent Identities New Sexualities Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era

Emergent Identities New Sexualities Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era

Examining the emergence of new sexual and gender identities in the context of an ever-changing digital landscape Emergent Identities considers how traditional binary understandings of sexuality and gender are being challenged and overridden by a taxonomy of non-binary fluid classifications and descriptors. In this comprehensive account of the ongoing shift in our understandings of gender and sexuality Cover explores how and why traditional masculine/feminine and hetero/homo dichotomies are quickly being replaced with identity labels such as heteroflexible bigender non-binary asexual sapiosexual demisexual ciswoman and transcurious. Drawing on real-world data Cover considers how new ways of perceiving relationships attraction and desire are contesting authorised institutional knowledge on gender and sexuality. The book explores the role that digital communication practices have played in these developments and considers the implications of these new approaches for identity individuality creativity media healthcare and social belonging. A timely response to recent developments in the field of gender identity this will be a fascinating read for students of Psychology Gender Studies Media and Cultural Studies and related areas as well as professionals in this field. | Emergent Identities New Sexualities Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era

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Cain Abel and the Politics of God An Agambenian reading of Genesis 4:1-16

Cain Abel and the Politics of God An Agambenian reading of Genesis 4:1-16

The Genesis story of Cain’s murder of Abel is often told as a simplistic contrast between the innocence of Abel and the evil of Cain. This book subverts that reading of the Biblical text by utilising Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer the state of exception and the idea of sovereignty to re-examine this well-known tale of fratricide and bring to the fore its political implications. Drawing from political theory philosophy and psychoanalysis this book creates a theoretical framework from which to do two things: firstly to describe and analyse the history of interpretation of Genesis 4:1-16 and secondly to propose an alternative reading of the Biblical text that incorporates other texts inside and outside of the Biblical canon. This intertextual analysis will highlight the motives of violence law divine rule and the rejected as they emerge in different contexts and will evaluate them in an Agambenian framework. The unique approach of this book makes it vital reading for any academic with interests in Biblical Studies and Theology and their interactions with politics and ethics. | Cain Abel and the Politics of God An Agambenian reading of Genesis 4:1-16

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A New Economic Anthropology

A New Economic Anthropology

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists anthropologists and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics despite the prominence given to the individual in microeconomics. And there is very little in the way of dialogue between the two sides. This book argues for a new economic anthropology which goes beyond the conflict of economics and anthropology to show the complementarity of the two approaches. Economics needs to go beyond the stage of homo oeconomicus and be open to broader ideas about the person. Equally anthropology can be enriched through the methods and models of economic theory. This new economic anthropology goes beyond a simple observation of societies. It is new because it introduces the responsible person with a wider range of characteristics in particular vulnerability and suffering as a subject of economics. It is a particular interpretation of economic anthropology calling for a broadening of the subject (moving from the individual to the person) range of values (admission of negative values for altruism social capital responsibility) and disciplinary references. Through this approach both economics and anthropology can be enriched. This book will be of great interest to those working in the fields of economics anthropology philosophy and development studies.

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

For an entire millennium Byzantine hagiography inspired by the veneration of many saints exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes an interest in depicting social landscapes and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists medievalists historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance. | The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

For an entire millennium Byzantine hagiography inspired by the veneration of many saints exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes an interest in depicting social landscapes and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists medievalists historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance. | The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

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Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

All cultures make and break images. Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists curators and museum conservators as well as historians of art literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence punishment memory intentionality ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’ or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.

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A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche) autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi Mishima Warhol) literary autobiography (Hemingway Das) as well as other genres of autobiography including the graphic novel (Spiegelman Satrapi) as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar Pawar Angelou Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo The Story of My Experiments with Truth Waiting for a Visa I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Moveable Feast Night Baluta My Story Sun and Steel The Philosophy of Andy Warhol MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid bold and authoritative this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy literature gender studies political philosophy media and popular culture social exclusion and race and discrimination studies. | A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

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Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and homo-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to scriptural characters and storylines. This book examines the ways in which the scriptural referents fit in with or differ from the traditional Andalusian poetic conventions. The study then proceeds to compare the scriptural stories and characters as presented in the poems with their scriptural and exegetical sources. This new intertextual analysis reveals that the Jewish and Muslim scholar-poets utilized their sacred literature in their poems of desire as more than poetic ornamentation; in employing Qur’ānic heroes in their secular verses the Muslim poets presented a justification of profane love and sanctification of erotic human passions. In the Hebrew lust poems which utilize biblical heroes we can detect subtle subversive and surprisingly placed interpretations of biblical accounts. Moving beyond the concern with literary history to challenge the traditional boundaries between secular and religious poetry this book provides a new multidisciplinary approach to existing materials and will be of interest to students scholars and researchers of Islamic and Jewish Studies as well as to those with an interest in Hebrew and Arabic poetry of Islamic Spain.

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Organizational Entrepreneurship Politics and the Political

Organizational Entrepreneurship Politics and the Political

Entrepreneurship as the creation of new organizations has globally become an appealing call for individuals and governments alike. Too often still it is simply associated with the idea of 'enterprise' thus sustaining a pervasive politics of homo economicus agents living a 'measured life' in competition-based individuality. Organizational Entrepreneurship Politics and the Political disconnects entrepreneurship from the politics of enterprise to more fully explore its potential to resist the economic and ethical demand of the enterprise to be instrumentally innovative and instead to disrupt and disturb the established order. As such entrepreneurship is seen as inevitably political – it is a constant attempt at declassifying existing structures and institutions de-normalizing practices and sensemaking to make room for and initiate the new. The chapters invite the readers to revisit key concepts in entrepreneurship studies – opportunity motivation identity experimentation creative destruction and experimentation – by approaching them through a political process lens. This book offers a new conceptual repertoire and vocabulary that reconnects entrepreneurship studies with the socio-political dimensions of organization-creation opening up multiple possibilities for understanding and questioning the meanings and effects of entrepreneurship in society. Combining philosophical reflections with organizational and processual perspectives this book will be of interest to academics students and researchers in the areas of business social and political entrepreneurship organization studies and management. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.

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Interfacial Electroviscoelasticity and Electrophoresis

Interfacial Electroviscoelasticity and Electrophoresis

In the 20 years since the pilot plant experiments used to develop the concept of electroviscoelasticity inroads have been made in the understanding of its many related processes. Interfacial Electroviscoelasticity and Electrophoresis meets a massive scientific challenge by presenting deeper research and developments in the basic and applied science and engineering of finely dispersed particles and related systems. Introducing more profound and in-depth treatises related to the liquid-liquid finely dispersed systems (i. e. emulsions and double emulsions) this book describes a new theory developed through the authors’ work. These findings are likely to impact other research and applications in a wide array of other fields considering that the modeling of liquid-liquid interfaces is key to numerous chemical manufacturing processes including those used for emulsions suspensions nanopowders foams biocolloids and plasmas. The authors cover phenomena at the micro nano and atto-scales and their techniques theory and supporting data will be of particular interest to nanoscientists especially with regard to the breaking of emulsions. This groundbreaking book: Takes an interdisciplinary approach to elucidate the momentum transfer and electron transfer phenomena Covers less classical chemical engineering insight and modern molecular and atomic engineering Reviews basic theory of electrokinetics using the electrophoresis of rigid particles as an example Built around the central themes of hydrodynamic electrodynamic and thermodynamic instabilities that occur at interfaces this book addresses recently developed concepts in the physics chemistry and rheological properties of those well-studied interfaces of rigid and deformable particles in homo- and hetero-aggregate dispersed systems. The book also introduces the key phenomenon of electrophoresis since it is widely adopted either as an analytical tool to characterize the surface properties of colloid-sized particles or in the separation and purification process of both laboratory and industrial scales. The applications and implications of the material presented in the book represent a major contribution to the advanced fundamental applied and engineering research of interfacial and colloidal phenomena.

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