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by Stephan Feuchtwang, Hans Steinmüller
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern...
Modernization and Its Political Consequences
Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
People’s capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymous structures and processes over which they have little...
The New Natural Resource
Knowledge Development, Society and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Increasingly in the public discourse there are references to the knowledge economy, knowledge society, knowledge workers and knowledge organisations. The argument is that knowledge is becoming the main economic resource, replacing the natural resources that drove the industrial revolution. The new...
Mind, Self, and Society
The Definitive Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable,...
Faith as an Option
Possible Futures for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's...
The Sacredness of the Person
A New Genealogy of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional...
Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge
Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited. We can only address this...
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of...
Building Lean Companies
How to Keep Companies Profitable as They Grow
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Hans D. Baumann, has almost fifty years of business experience analyzing the organizational structure & internal workings of hundreds of companies &, as a result, has reached some startling conclusions as to the major influences affecting their profitability. Ever wonder why large corporations become...
by Hans van Dijk, Ron van Megen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Het Geheim van Hardlopen - Hét handboek voor hardlopers In Het Geheim van Hardlopen worden alle factoren ontcijferd die van belang zijn voor hardlopen en een goede conditie. De invloed van alle factoren wordt in 61 hoofdstukken helder en op populaire geschreven wijze uitgelegd aan de hand van praktijkvoorbeelden....
by Hans Kundnani
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different from the stereotype of nineteenth-...
by Hans Christian Asbosen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Sit back, relax and allow Hans Christian Asbosen to tell you fantastical stories of far-away lands. Once upon a time there were. . . Hansel and Courtney and their trail of Wotsits, Jack and the Weedstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dads and Bling-erella. There's Little Red Riding Hoodie, the Crack Piper...
The Party's Primary
Control of Congressional Nominations
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Primary elections were supposed to limit the influence of party bosses on the nomination process. The decision to run for House or Senate and a candidate's success in securing the party's nomination for these offices has been considered to be largely candidate-centered. In The Party's Primary, Hans...
Wege übers Land und durch die Zeiten
Gespräche mit Hans-Dieter Schütt
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Sie war eine der populärsten ostdeutschen Schauspielerinnen: Ursula Karusseit. 1968 spielte sie die Hauptrolle in einem "Straßenfeger" des Adlershofer Fernsehens: "Wege übers Land", einem Fünfteiler von Helmut Sakowski. Sie war am Deutschen Theater Berlin die Elsa in der legendären...