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The elephant paradigm
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Gurcharan Das |
Social changes in contemporary India. |
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Invention by Design
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Henry Petroski |
This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world … |
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Overshoot
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William R. Catton |
To quote John Michael Greer: "Plenty of books in the 1970s and early 1980s applied the lessons of ecology to the future of industrial civilization and picked up at least part of the bad news that res… |
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Smart mobs
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Howard Rheingold |
From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the wide… |
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Ageing and development
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José Antonio Ocampo,Rob Vos,Ana Luiza Cortez |
That we all live longer is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of human progress. This book looks at how increasing numbers of older people across the globe are having a huge impact on the struc… |
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Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian politics
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Richard Robison |
"This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge examination of this important subje… |
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Online society in China
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David Kurt Herold,Peter Marolt |
This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institu… |
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What Democracy Looks Like
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Christina R. Foust |
1 online resource |
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Transforming communication
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Sohail Inayatullah |
Will the communications revolution become able to transform communication as a human act of sharing values? Or will it allow capitalism to pursue economic efficiencies among the world's weatlthy nati… |
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The Changing constitution
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Jeffrey L. Jowell,Dawn Oliver |
These essays cover central but much neglected areas of modern constitutional law, theory and practice. ...certain to become required reading on university politics courses.'___ Tribune . |
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Schwankender Westen
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Udo Di Fabio |
Udo Di Fabios Buch analysiert die Fundamente der westlichen Gesellschaft, zeigt deren Gefährdungen auf und plädiert für ein neues Gesellschaftsmodell. Untersucht werden die Auswirkungen, die instabil… |
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Post-capitalist society
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Peter F. Drucker |
Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical effects it will… |
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The future of society
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William Outhwaite |
This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives. Written by leading social theorist William Outhwaite Asks if th… |
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New families, no families?
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Frances K. Goldscheider |
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The new "decline of the family" -- Family trends since the baby boom : decline or restructuring? -- Studying family change -- Planning for new families -- The transition to marriag… |
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Bowling Alone
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Robert D. Putnam |
"Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of … |
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A Nation Divided
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Samuel Lipsman,Clark Dougan |
Examines the course of social reformation in America, from the end of the second World War to the Vietnam War. Includes picture essay on Woodstock, as well as material on the civil rights movement, t… |
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Powerful Times
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Eamonn Kelly |
Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it! We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profou… |
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The cult of the amateur
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Andrew Keen |
Entrepreneur Andrew Keen warns of what he sees as a narcissistic and cancerous culture developing with the invent of Web 2.0, whereby professionals are put out of business and the value of the media … |
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April 4, 1968
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Michael Eric Dyson |
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic … |
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Writing a New Society
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Virginia Matheson Hooker |
"Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence o… |
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