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  • Death, Deeds, and Descendents

    Inheritance in Modern America

    Series series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen ... Leer más

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  • Amis disparus, amis apparus...

    de Remi Clignet ...
    Series series Mémoires, témoignages
    Grâce au pouvoir de l’imagination et de la mémoire, Remi Clignet réussit, l’espace d’un livre, à retrouver ses amis disparus, qui vivent dans son cœur à jamais et l’accompagnent au fil du temps. Ensemble et silencieusement, ils remontent le fleuve de la vie de ce grand voyageur. Les amis ravivent les souvenirs endormis sur ses berges et rattrapent le temps perdu en trouvant enfin, sans le chercher ... Leer más

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  • Naïf ou le petit chose

    de Remi Clignet ...
    Series series Mémoires, témoignages
    S’identifiant au Petit Chose d’Alphonse Daudet, Remi Clignet nous invite à dérouler en sa compagnie le fil de son existence. Il a traversé le monde, a vécu à Abidjan et à Chicago, a enseigné la sociologie aux États-Unis... Une vie riche et mouvementée dont il fait le bilan, racontant des anecdotes d’enfance, d’adolescence... et de maturité, aussi. Naïf ? Il l’était autrefois. Qu’en est-il aujourd ... Leer más

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    The Demonization of the Working Class

    de Owen Jones ...
    In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs.In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the ... Leer más

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  • The End

    The Human Experience Of Death

    A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death. We sat around and on the bed, laughing and joking as if this was a typical family gathering. The shrunken form of our dying grandmother lay on the bed, breathing fast and shallow, her once-bright eyes half closed and sunken in their sockets. To some it might have seemed disrespectful to be treating her as part of the furniture ... Leer más

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  • Occupy the Economy

    Challenging Capitalism

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the ... Leer más

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  • Social and Economic Networks

    Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, ... Leer más

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  • The Dreamer's Book of the Dead

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  • Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy

    Traducido por Michael J. Miller ...
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  • Inside the Wire: An Alternative View of the Vietnam War

    de Tom Allemeier ...
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  • The Work of the Dead

    A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

    The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes ... Leer más

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  • Slavery

    Antiquity and Its Legacy

    de Page DuBois ...
    Series series Ancients and Moderns
    'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable human right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by ... Leer más

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