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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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The passing of Protestant England
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S. J. D. Green |
"In The Passing of Protestant England, S. J. D. Green offers an important new account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cul… |
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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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Joined at the heart
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Al Gore,Tipper Gore,Albert Gore |
Considers the ways in which the American family is undergoing transformation, citing cultural shifts and economic pressures while sharing anecdotes about such topics as day care and technological adv… |
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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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Urban education
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Karen S. Gallagher |
"Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual an… |
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Inside job
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Charles H. Ferguson |
The definitive big picture on the financial crisis from the man behind the film "Inside Job", one of the top 30 documentaries of all time and an Oscar-winning film. Based on explosive interviews cond… |
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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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Bang!
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Graham Stewart |
1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade. |
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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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Against the grain
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Gillian Ranson |
"Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The … |
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Time for outrage, indeed!
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Alexander Bergmann |
The title of this text by Alexander Bergmann has largely borrowed from Stéphane Hessel's book entitled "Time for outrage!" This is no accident. Indeed the author was stimulated to write his book by h… |
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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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