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This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...

Daniel Defoe is known as the father of the English novel. This is the modern critical edition of Defoe's novels. It brings together all three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. The editorial material includes an introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index in volume 10.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...

This early works was originally published in 1899. It is a fascinating look at Kinematics and Dynamics and is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all students with much of the information still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back...

The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation...

The authors propose a new theory of political behavior that re-invigorates the role of institutions—from laws and bureaucracy to rituals and symbols—as essential to understanding the modern political and economic systems that guide contemporary life.

El ser humano puede estar en silencio por diversos motivos: porque no sabe qué decir, porque duda, está perplejo o asombrado, o porque siente curiosidad. Pero también hay silencio ante el suspense, el miedo o la vergüenza, el dolor o el amor… Hay "minutos de silencio", de relajación y yoga,...

El ser humano hace buenas máquinas, que duran largo tiempo y solucionan diversas necesidades. Otras veces las hace mal, y dejan de funcionar. Entonces se parchean, se arreglan de cualquier modo, para que al menos "parezca" que todavía funcionan. Tirarlas puede avergonzar a su comprador, pues supone...

While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...

The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...

This book draws on a study of student transitions in higher education institutions to both unpack the concept of a learning transition and develop pedagogic strategies to enable learners to develop their learning careers. This book provides an original perspective on teaching and learning in higher education.

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

     Criminals, police, military forces, and civilians practice martial arts which often utilize weapons. One major difference is weather or not the weapons are handled according to legal guidelines. This special anthology includes insightful writings that focus on aspects of martial...

Bhaskar's was an ordinary life and he was perfectly happy with it. Then, one day, he decided to write a book. And for that he had to meet a publisher. From then on, his life changed. Publishers are of course, enigmatic creatures, notorious for conducting midnight sacrifices with small-time authors,...