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In recent social and political theory the term `civil society' has achieved renewed currency. Traditionally used in a normative or `ideal-type' sense, the term describes a form of social organization - that is simply neither economic nor political - where democracy, liberty and widespread solidarity are essential regulatory concepts. Written from an empirical social-science perspective by some of the world's most important social theorists, ...

A Special Operations Group Team is sent on a mission. They return without their team leader who is hurt and unable to get into the chopper at the extraction. Twenty-nine days later, he walks out of the tropical forest at a base camp. He returns without memory of anything between the failed extraction and the moment he stumbles into the camp except for hazy nightmares of shadowy figures - Stacker Joe, Willie the Wonk, and Slackman. Four years o...

Esta obra se ocupa de las teorías sociológicas contemporáneas, entendidas como respuesta a los acontecimientos más decisivos para la evolución social del siglo XX, desde la gran depresión de los años treinta y la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el desencanto de los proyectos utópicos de los años sesenta y las radicalizaciones en diversas direcciones a partir de los setenta. Temas principales de este volumen son el estructural-funcionalismo (Parso...

Jeffrey C. Alexander gathers new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultura...

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Mi ritrovai in un mondo completamente nuovo. Il mondo più bello e più strano che avessi mai visto... Luminoso, vibrante, estatico, stupefacente. C'era qualcuno vicino a me: una bella fanciulla dagli zigomi alti e dagli occhi intensi. Eravamo circondati da milioni di farfalle, ampi ventagli svolazzanti che si immergevano nel paesaggio verdeggiante per poi tornare a volteggiare intorno a noi. Non fu un'unica farfalla ad apparire, ma tutte insiem...

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The papers in this volume reflect the richness and diversity of the subject of dynamics. Some are lectures given at the three conferences (Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, Symbolic Dynamics and Coding Theory and Smooth Dynamics, Dynamics and Applied Dynamics) held in Maryland between October 1986 and March 1987, some are work which was in progress during the Special Year, and some are work which was done because of questions and proble...

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What if all those lifelike little avatars in your PC game were real living human beings desperately trying to figure out the meaning of life as we know it? What if your favorite simulation computer game was being played out on a real planet far, far away? And what if that planet was also a life-size game for someone else and its creator was fast tiring of the usual fun and games and was ready for something completely different? Has the Earth f...

Three Crises in Early English History gives a clear, concise, and up-to-date account of the three crises in early English history beginning with the Norman Conquest which began with the battle of Hastings and ended in William the Conqueror's Suppression of the Yorkshire rebels in 1071. There is a detailed account of the positive and negative effects of the Conquest on English government. A special effort is made to explain King John's judicial...

It has been said that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Drawing on this notion, Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and Responding to Christian Absolutism recounts the author's journey as a member of the fundamentalist subculture as a child and his life among the Jesus Freaks (Jesus Movement)-- a congregation of deserters from the hippie drug culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's. This movement, though ...

It has been said that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Drawing on this notion, Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and Responding to Christian Absolutism recounts the author's journey as a member of the fundamentalist subculture as a child and his life among the Jesus Freaks (Jesus Movement)-- a congregation of deserters from the hippie drug culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's. This movement, though ...

Alexander sees the characteristic feature of the Eisenhower era as aneffort to "hold the line" -- against Communism, against big government, againstintellectual challenge, against disruptive social change. The period 1952-1961 isexamined in trenchant detail by the author, who focuses on domestic politics andforeign policy but also examines economic, social, intellectual, and culturalaspects of the period. He scrutinizes such features of the fi...

Algebraic preliminaries.- Smooth actions of on even dimensional manifolds.- Cyclotomic number fields.- W*(Q, Cn) and dress induction.- Torsion signature theorem.- Metabolic and hyperbolic forms.

This book completes the trilogy starting with "My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923" by Alexander Alekhine ISBN 0923891498 and followed by "My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937" by Alexander Alekhine ISBN 4871878260. This is a reprint of the original third book, with all of the games converted into Algebraic Figurine PGN Notation with diagrams in the back. Alekhine died in 1946, so this third volume was edited by International Master and British Che...

Collection of key works in an important and distinctively American sociological tradition.

Does the Bible justify instrumental music for Christian worship? In 2006, advocates for the use of instrumental music in worship presented a three-part series titled "The Both/And Church, " suggesting that people should read old texts in fresh, new ways. These advocates proposed that their understanding of biblical texts justifies instruments in church worship. Since that time, some churches have followed their lead. Ironically, this misreadin...