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  • Self Programming Book for Beginner

    The ultimate step-by-step guide to learn programming and advance

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    A "Self-Programming Book for Beginners" is a comprehensive and beginner-friendly resource designed to introduce individuals with little to no programming experience to the world of coding. This book is carefully crafted to take you from the very basics of programming to a point where you can confidently write code and tackle programming challenges on your own.How this book will help you:Learning ... Read more

    $13.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

    Culture and Society in Transition

    by Jeffrey Alexander, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Kenneth Thompson, Laura Desfor Edles, Moshoula Capous-Desyllas ...
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Memoirs of Ken Thompson

    A Wwii Fighter Pilot

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    This book is a recounting of some of the experiences I had while serving in the Army and Army Air Corps during WWII. The events are as accurate as I could recall without embellishment. I took the pictures of Don Lawless and Gene Van Houten in Don Woerpel's book , The 79th Fighter Group. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Readings from Emile Durkheim

    Edited by Prof Kenneth Thompson ...
    Emile Durkheim is regarded as a founding father of sociology, and is studied in all basic sociology courses. This handy textbook is a key collection of translations from Durkheim's major works. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Taxi-Dance Hall

    by Paul G. Cressey ...
    First published in 2003. This is Volume II of eight in the Early Sociology of Culture collection and offers a sociological study on the commercialized recreation. Paul G. Cressey while serving as a case-worker and special investigator for the Juvenile Protective Association was requested during the summer of 1925 to report upon the new and then quite unfamiliar closed dance halls. This book is in ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Moral Panics

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies. This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and reflected through the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Emile Durkheim

    by Prof Kenneth Thompson ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    This book examines Durkheim's considerable achievements and situates them in their social and intellectual contexts, with a concise account of the major elements of Durkheim's sociology. The book includes a critical commentary on the four main studies which exemplify Durkheim's contribution to sociology: The Division of Labour in Society; Suicide; The Rules of Sociological Method and The ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Culture & Progress:Esc V8

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    First published in 2003. This final volume in the VIII-volume set titled The Early Sociology of Culture, deals with human culture, and confines itself neither to contemporary life nor to Western European civilization. The author argues that, if the volume demonstrates an inadequacy of the methods used in interpreting culture and progress, the study is justified. The chapters are separated into ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • Truth and Tragedy

    Tribute to Hans J. Morgenthau

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    Featuring a new fifty-page interview with Hans J. Morgenthau by Bernard Johnson, this volume on the renowed scholar and philosopher demonstrates how pervasive is his mark on the study of international relations and political philosophy. The interview illuminates Morgenthau's intellectual development in Europe between the world wars and in the United States. It is in recognition of his unsurpassed ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Key Quotations in Sociology

    by Kenneth Thompson, Ken Thompson ...
    Jean Baudrillard on consumption: `It is not defined by the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the car we drive ... but in the organization of all this as signifying substance ... Consumption, in so far as it is meaningful, is a systematic act of the manipulation of signs.' Auguste Comte on science and sociology: `From science comes prevision; from prevision comes action (Savoir pour prevoir et ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • To Tell A Tale Or Two

    Here's What I Have To Offer

    by Kenneth Thompson ...
    This book has approximately forty thousand words in it. These words are separated into dozens and dozens of short stories, vignettes, and poems. These dozens and dozens of short stories, vignettes, and poems consist of a variety of themes. These themes include stupidity, love, fate, stupidity, life, death, uneducated opinions, and more stupidity. The good thing about this book is that if you ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD