Ulrich: 1425 books
by Ulrich Wilcken
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
“ALEXANDER THE GREAT opened a new era in the history of the world, and by his life’s work determined its development for many centuries. He is conspicuous among the great men of history, because this work was accomplished in so short a span; when he died, he had not yet reached his thirty-third...
by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.
PM Meditations For Children (international edition, English)
eBook with 6 short, guided meditations for children - can be played right from within the book
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The multimedia eBook "P.M. Meditations For Children" contains 6 guided meditations (including a FREE Bonus Meditation). In just 3 minutes it will help your child to come to rest in the evening, solving one of the biggest everyday parental problems. Ideal for children of primary school...
Zen Camera
Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone.
David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography...
Flying Tiger
International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In this book, Ulrich Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches--social constructivism and historical institutionalism--to reframe our understanding of how international relationships evolve. While other scholars have touched on these issues, until now no one has provided a sustained, finely-grained,...
Our Broad Present
Time and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited...
by Ulrich Beck
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater...
by Ciaran Cronin, Ulrich Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as...
by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate...
by Ulrich Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long job paths, is giving way to...
by Ulrich Beck
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.
by Ulrich Beck, Edgar Grande
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket...
What is Money?
A Discussion Featuring Joseph Beuys
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
The world of finance exerts a huge influence over our lives, being responsible for economic turmoil and seemingly interminable peaks and crashes. Whereas money was once a simple means of exchange, today it is a commodity in itself and as ‘capital’ exerts power over individuals, degrading work...
The Dissident Mullah
Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time of his death, Montazeri was considered one of the Islamic Republic's fiercest critics. What made this man, who was once...