Sociology
epub |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Joel Kotkin [Kotkin, Joel]
“SHARPENING OUR AXES” The Soviets had equally little reverence for the role of sacred place or the past in the evolution of cities. In short order, Nizhniy Novgorod became Gorky; ...
( Category:
Sociology
September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
San Francisco, 10 March 1973 ONE HAS TO find out what it means to observe, to observe your relationship with another, however intimate or however distant. Observation implies total attention. ...
( Category:
Philosophy
September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Walvin
In all this, those seeking freedom found encouragement and support among black friends who were already free and who were conscious of the social and legal possibilities for freedom in ...
( Category:
Europe
September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]
Press victims were not only from the working class. The fact that his father was a ship's captain did not save the young John Newton from the press. Men from ...
( Category:
Europe
September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Landsburg, Steven E. [Landsburg, Steven E.]
Michael Kinsley, a journalist I much admire (and who hired me years ago to write for Slate magazine, for which I will be forever grateful), has a very persistent bee ...
( Category:
Anthropology
September 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]
Racism and Causation At the heart of the prevailing liberal vision of race today is the notion of “racism”— a concept with multiple, elusive and sometimes mutually contradictory meanings. Sometimes ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]
7 The Ideology of Machines: Computer Technology That American Technopoly has now embraced the computer in the same hurried and mindless way it embraced medical technology is undeniable, was perhaps ...
( Category:
Technology
September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Bryan Caplan [Caplan, Bryan]
The same goes for traditional farmers: Investing in your children is less lucrative than stuffing money in your mattress. In modern societies, little has changed. Parents give more to their ...
( Category:
Sociology
September 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Greg Grandin [Grandin, Greg]
CHAPTER 14 LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism ...
( Category:
Biography & History
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]
12 Leventhal strode home blindly and rapidly, his stout body shaken by the unaccustomed gait. Perspiration ran from his bushy, lusterless hair over his dark skin. He was thinking that ...
( Category:
Literary
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jonathan Kozol [Kozol, Jonathan]
5 Distancing Ourselves from Pain and Tears Men and women from the Coalition for the Homeless, who befriended Holly, note that, in the period she has described, her capability for ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Tracy McMillan [McMillan, Tracy]
6. You’re a Mess Or, You Need to Get Your Shit Together 1. Do you seem to be attracted to—or to attract—guys with major issues? 2. Are you keeping certain ...
( Category:
Humor
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Debra Weyermann [Weyermann, Debra]
* Although Krakauer’s best-selling book Under the Banner of Heaven did not specifically concern FLDS, Krakauer’s extensive research into Mormon fundamentalism included the group, which alarmed him to the point ...
( Category:
Theology
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Alan Ehrenhalt [Ehrenhalt, Alan]
CHAPTER SIX UNEASY COEXISTENCE TWO NOTABLE EVENTS TOOK PLACE in Philadelphia in late February 2009. They had nothing to do with each other, but taken together, they suggest why Philadelphia ...
( Category:
Sociology
September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-02 | Author:John Bateson
AUTOEROTICISM One of the odder forms of death that Holmes encountered had to do with autoerotic asphyxiation—the practice of becoming sexually stimulated through near suffocation or self-strangulation. Holmes didn’t come ...
( Category:
Sociology
September 3,2017 )
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