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  • Saving Society

    Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life

    by Bernard S Phillips, David Christner ...
    Why do many problems throughout the world seem to be getting worse? Saving Society argues that a dramatic change in our mode of thinking is required. The authors show how many of our fundamental assumptions lead to an overly bureaucratic approach, blocking solutions to many of our problems. They contrast our present emotional repression and conforming behaviour with a more liberated form of ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Revolution in the Social Sciences

    Beyond Control Freaks, Conformity, and Tunnel Vision

    by Bernard Phillips, David Christner ...
    Revolution in the Social Sciences centers on integrating knowledge from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science and economics in order to confront increasing worldwide problems that threaten all of us. That integration of knowledge of human behavior is essential for understanding those problems, given their enormous complexity coupled with the highly specialized nature of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

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  • The Heart of Higher Education

    A Call to Renewal

    by Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner, Arthur Zajonc ...
    A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Office Politics Handbook

    Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work

    by Jack Godwin ...
    The Office Politics Handbook is for business executives, managers, consultants, lawyers, agents, editors, and anyone who wants to become more politically astute, more powerful, and more successful. This is not a book on political game playing; it is for people who hate power games but who know that politics takes place in every organization and want to make sure they wind up on top of the heap…not ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work

    by Willem Vanderburg, Jacques Ellul ...
    Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories. Jacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Relational Being

    Beyond Self and Community

    by Kenneth J. Gergen ...
    This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only from psychologists working in the academy, but also from communities of therapy and counseling. The ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Talk of Love

    How Culture Matters

    by Ann Swidler ...
    Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's Talk of Love is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior in the process. To this end, Swidler conducted extensive interviews with Middle Americans and wound up offering us something more ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Our War on Ourselves

    Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

    by Willem H. Vanderburg ...
    Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics

    by Donna M. Orange ...
    Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence to set out the likely effects of climate change on politics, economics and society more generally, including impacts on psychoanalysts.Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times of crisis summon ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Creating Better Futures

    Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow

    by James A. Ogilvy ...
    As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods. In Creating Better Futures, Ogilvy presents a profound new vision of how the world ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Resilient Life

    The Art of Living Dangerously

    by Brad Evans, Julian Reid ...
    What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of ‘resilience’ that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences ... Read more

    $21.00 USD