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  • University in Crisis

    From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence

    de Michael Schapira ...
    Series series Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
    As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis. This book brings necessary clarity to contentious debates about the state and future of the university by reconstructing the institution’s history ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    de Christine Ma, Michael Schapira ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Anxiety Culture

    The New Global State of Human Affairs

    Edición de John P. Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael I. Schapira, Karen Struve ...
    A collection of timely essays on the rising wave of anxiety in culture.The twenty-first century is characterized by uncertainty: from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change, societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future. In Anxiety Culture, editors John Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael Schapira, and Karen Struve bring together a ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Qualitative Inquiry and Human Rights

    Edición de Norman K Denzin, Michael D Giardina ...
    Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Series
    Qualitative researchers are increasingly being called upon to become human rights advocates, to help individuals and communities honor the sanctity of life, and to promote the core values of privacy, justice, freedom, peace, and human dignity. In this volume of plenary papers from the Fifth International of Qualitative Inquiry in 2009, leading qualitative researchers show the various dimensions of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Habits of Inequality

    de Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman ...
    British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine the outcome of our socioeconomic status and integration into society. It may seem unfair, but the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Truth About Denial

    Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion

    de Adrian Bardon ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. People believe what they want to believe. It is a striking-yet all too familiar-fact about human beings that our belief-forming processes can be so distorted by fears, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    de James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy

    Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies

    Edición de Michael Brecher, Frank P. Harvey ...
    Series series Millennial reflections on international studies
    No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies consists of twelve original ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Spiral of Silence

    New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

    Edición de Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati ...
    Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting the interest of scholars from communication, political science, sociology, public opinion and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Edición de George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan ...
    This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the disciplineDistilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topicsGlobal in scope, both in terms of topics ... Leer más

    $51.00 USD

  • Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts

    Edición de Anke Finger, Manuela Wagner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept.Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are aware of them, why they compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our convictions when ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Politics

    Rationality, Culture, and Structure

    de Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanation and evidence and Alan ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD