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  • Cultural Theory

    by Michael Thompson, Richard J Ellis, Aaron Wildavsky, Mary Wildavsky ...
    Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally well to people of all times, places, and walks of life.Taking their cue from the pioneering work of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Best Friends, Worst Enemies

    Understanding the Social Lives of Children

    by Michael Thompson, PhD, Catherine O'Neill Grace ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, and children's book author Catherine O'Neill Grace ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Lights From the East

    Pray for Us

    by J. Michael Thompson ...
    "Holy” expresses the impossibility of attaining or grasping the Light that none can approach. In other words, it expresses the impossibility of comprehending or knowing that Light as fully as it is comprehended by God’s Word and Spirit alone, but which all the same is so close and attainable that all of our blessedness lies in seeing God face to face.—Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky“Read Sheptytsky ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Saints of the Roman Missal

    Pray for Us

    by J. Michael Thompson ...
    Learn about new saints, pray with their stories, and sing your praise! This collection of 16 saints are newly included in the third edition of the Roman Missal. J. Michael Thompson has written prayers and hymn text about each saint set to familiar melodies to support your prayer as you reflect on the lives of these holy witnesses. Inspire your own journey of faith as you sing and pray with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Soils

    Genesis and Geomorphology

    by Michael L. Thompson, Randall J. Schaetzl ...
    In its first edition, Soils established itself as the leading textbook in the fields of pedology and soil geomorphology. Expanded and fully updated, this second edition maintains its highly organized and readable style. Suitable as a textbook and a research-grade reference, the book's introductory chapters in soil morphology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics and organisms prepare the reader for the ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • The Specter of Babel

    A Reconstruction of Political Judgment

    by Michael J. Thompson ...
    Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Descent of the Dialectic

    Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

    by Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality.This book argues that defects in modern forms of social reason are the result of the powers of social structure and the norms and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Domestication of Critical Theory

    by Michael J. Thompson ...
    Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson argues in this highly original book that this once critical tradition has been domesticated - it no longer offers a philosophically convincing nor ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Colourful Views of Stability and Chaos

    by J Michael T Thompson ...
    This book provides a glimpse of the author JMT Thompson's lifetime work on the buckling of thin shell structures, the general theory of elastic stability, chaos theory and some aspects of nonlinear dynamics relevant to the escape from a potential well.Besides the traditional topics that will be useful to readers who are engineers and researchers, the compilation also includes a paper on climate ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Culture Matters

    Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky

    by Richard J Ellis, Michael Thompson ...
    Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Cultural theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavsky’s teaching and research for the last decade of his life, a life that profoundly affected many fields of political science, from the study of the presidency to public budgeting. In this volume, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics

    Edited by Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
    The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegel’s political philosophy must be reconstructed without the metaphysical structure that Hegel saw as his crowning philosophical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory

    Edited by Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory ... Read more

    $242.09 USD