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The Sexual Politics Of Disability: Untold Desires (Sexual Politics Ser.)
by Tom Shakespeare Kath Gillespie-Sells Dominic Davies
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James SurowieckiIn this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications: Decisions take by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. With great erudition, Surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Along the way Surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand - economics. What are prices? How does money work? Why do we have corporations? Does advertising work? His answers, rendered in a delightfully clear prose, demystify daunting prospects. As Surowiecki writes: 'The hero of this book is, in a curious sense, an idea, a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business, politics and society'.
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay And Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by J. D. McClatchyFrom Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcìa Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noël Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety.
The Barbarous Years (PDF): The Peopling Of British North America - The Conflict Of Civilizations, 1600-1675
by Bernard BailynBernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
The Clearest Promises Of God: The Development Of Calvin's Eucharistic Teaching (Studies In Religious Tradition #No. 1)
by Thomas J. DavisThis work provides a detailed analysis of the development of Calvin's eucharistic doctrine. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of examining the full range of Calvin's writings and dispels the notion that one need look only at the 1559 ""Institutes"" to grasp Calvin's eucharistic theology. Davis pinpoints the doctrine as the work of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist, accommodation, instrumentality, and the Eucharist as a means of grace. There is a nuanced discussion of substantial partaking not duplicated elsewhere. Davis's work makes clear the exegetical foundations for much of Calvin's teaching on the Eucharist. Finally, Davis demonstrates that there are eucharistic gifts according to Calvin. The more general gift is that of true communion with the body and blood of Christ. However, the specific gift of the Eucharist is the assurance it brings believers of God's good will towards them. Thus, the text underscores Calvin's understanding of the Eucharist as an exhibition of the ""clearest promises of God"", namely, the promise of union with Christ and all which that entails.
Women's Fabian Tracts (Women's Source Library)
by Sally AlexanderIntroduction to tracts from the Fabian Women's Group situates their work and writings in the context of both Fabian socialism and the thought and practice of the early twentieth century Women's Movement.;This book should be of interest to students and teachers of feminism, history and politics.
Sardines (African Writers)
by Nuruddin FarahFarah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.Sardines brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.
American Sociology: Perspectives, Problems, Methods
by Talcott ParsonsThis volume provides a welcome opportunity to piece together at least a partial picture of the state of a rapidly growing and changing discipline in the social science area.
Handbook of Child Psychology (PDF): Volume 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development
by William Damon Richard M. LernerPart of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the "Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition" contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. "Volume 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development," edited by Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, explores a variety of theoretical approaches, including life-span/life-course theories, socio-culture theories, structural theories, object-relations theories, and diversity and development theories. New chapters cover phenomenology and ecological systems theory, positive youth development, and religious and spiritual development.
People Power: Fighting For Peace From The First World War To The Present
by Lyn SmithPeople Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, telling the story of conscientious objectors and others who have been engaged in protest over the past century. Drawing on testimonies from the Imperial War Museum's vast collection, and its rich archive of visual material, including photographs, paintings, posters, cartoons and badges, the book explores the wide-ranging reasons for opposing war and examines the changes and continuity in the movement as the nature of conflict has evolved from trench warfare to nuclear weapons. The role of key organizations and groups within the movement is examined, such as the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the 1980s, as well as that of high-profile individual campaigners, including Fenner Brockway and Tony Benn. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in 2017, People Power is an important and compelling counterpart to the myriad histories of war in the past 100 years.
The Cosmic Fragments
by Heraclitus G. S. KirkThis work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal translation and and an extended commentary in which problems of textual and philosophical criticism are discussed. Ancient accounts of Heraclitus were inadequate and misleading, and as Kirk wrote, understanding was often hindered by excessive dogmatism and a selective use of the fragments. Professor Kirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.
Lords And Peasants In A Changing Society: The Estates Of The Bishopric Of Worcester, 680-1540 (Past And Present Publications)
by Christopher DyerThe Ontogeny of Information (PDF): Developmental Systems and Evolution
by Susan OyamaIn The Ontogeny of Information, Susan Oyama draws on psychology, biology, and anthropology, as well as philosophy and history, to explore the many facets of the nature-nurture debate. Our deepest beliefs about what is natural, inevitable and unchangeable, what is normal and good, are affected by our concept of biological nature. Because the non-academic world also continues to frame important questions in terms of genetic necessity and cultural overlay, this distinction between nature and culture has serious implications for the conduct of private lives and for the making of public policy.
From Newman to Congar: The idea of doctrinal development from the Victorians to the Second Vatican Council
by Aidan NicholsA new treatise on the idea and development of doctrine
International Law (Longman Law Series)
by Richard K. GardinerInternational law is now of potential concern to all lawyers. Even subjects which seem purely of national or domestic concern can be affected by public international law, such as where new law is derived from treaties or where issues have international aspects. Students and lawyers therefore need to study international law as much for its practical effects and consequences within national legal systems as for its more widely-known role in relations between states and its geo-political significance. This book concentrates on the concepts and core areas of public international law, as well as the skills which students and lawyers need to acquire in order to study and work with international law, whether generally or in specialist areas.
A Woman's Place (PDF): An Oral History of Working Class Women, 1890-1940
by Elizabeth Roberts'A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations...and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected.'--New Societ
Race And The Enlightenment (PDF): A Reader
by Emmanuel Chukwudi EzeEmmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced.
