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  • A Mortuary of Books

    The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

    de Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner ...
    Series Libro 17 - Goldstein-Goren American Jewish History
    Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Social Theory

    Twenty Introductory Lectures

    de Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    Traducido por Alex Skinner ...
    Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Foundations of Global Communication

    A Conceptual Handbook

    de Kai Hafez, Anne Grüne ...
    Traducido por Alex Skinner ...
    This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication.This exceptionally ambitious and systematic project takes a critical perspective on the globalization of communication. Uniquely, it sets media globalization alongside a plethora of other globalized forms of communication, ranging from the individual to groups ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Power of the Sacred

    An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

    de Hans Joas, Alex Skinner ...
    Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the history of religion? In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a new sociological ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • The Age of Fitness

    How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement

    de Jürgen Martschukat ...
    Traducido por Alex Skinner ...
    We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get fit. Why this modern preoccupation with fitness?In this new book, Jürgen Martschukat traces the roots of our modern ... Leer más

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  • Alva and Gunnar Myrdal

    Social Engineering in the Modern World

    Traducido por Alex Skinner ...
    de Thomas Etzemüller ...
    As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens, disciplining bodies, and reorganizing social relationships they attempted to intervene in the lives of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    de Timothy Snyder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Leer más

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  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    de W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Leer más

    $70.19 USD

  • On Being Human

    de Erich Fromm ...
    An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom .Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally pa... ... Leer más

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    de Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Leer más

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  • The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    de Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Years of Extermination

    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

    de Saul Friedländer ...
    "Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews . . . A masterpiece that will endure." — The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearThe Years of Extermination, the completion... ... Leer más

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