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Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research
This book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality that the social sciences can and sometimes do achieve. It also argues that good social...
MPN: e138e11743bc04be2671051ab9cae560
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Finite Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youselect the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual sc...
MPN: 741f5b142306379ddccc21c0e4c69725
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Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism
In "Family and the Politics of Moderation," Lauren K. Hall argues that the family is a fulcrum upon which societal values balance. Hall describes a set of intermediate institutions that hold the power to alter polarized political and cultural views-ch...
MPN: 909e13a394672578f90fdbee466a67ce
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Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has...
MPN: 6a27abe456cb6040c65290f44007f948
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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Paperback, Cambridge Univ Pr, 2006, ISBN13 9780521034685, ISBN10 052103468X
MPN: a02782285d676e0bc1652101d789ae0c
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State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change
State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary but it has been, and remains, central to understanding modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Communist worlds of Russia and China, and for alternative...
MPN: 714fcef60e04ed6a46fa8d76c0c33081
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
I read Peter Y. Paik s lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." Bruce SterlingRevolutionary narratives in recent science fictio...
MPN: 7b158dd25ce406a16d910fb6179bd149
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The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design Since 1990
Taking the break-up of the Soviet Union and the entry of Russia, China and India into the global market as the start of a new era of globalisation, Robert Adam compares new developments in architecture and urban design with major shifts in the balance of...
MPN: 94667cde90023ba5bfed1e6e2773c0d7
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Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers...
MPN: 362b7b27aea122d369e3a6bd208ac50f
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The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
The Genealogical Science"analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history.A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations their...
MPN: a1aa2a9a1bc702fe8d94f42f87bf8731
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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics: An Uneasy Alliance
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co, 2014, ISBN13 9781472442284, ISBN10 1472442288
MPN: 6aa76c91e4e9053411636042bf5a9dcf
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The Art and Politics of Science
Jeffrey Sachs has called Harold Varmus a global scientist-statesman who bridges science and society to solve the weightiest global challenges. But as readers will learn in this engaging memoir chronicling one man s series of remarkable careers, as well as some of the central health-policy issues of our time, Varmus didn t decide that he was drawn to medicine until he was one year into a PhD in English literature Changing course in characteristically adventurous fashion, Varmus dove headfirst into medical sc...
MPN: faaf3bbeca7262faf400a5fb19de3bbd
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