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The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity.

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's "society" is no l...

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Excerpt from The Gregory Geneology: Containing the Names of the Descendants of Hezekiah and Abigail Benedict Gregory by Their Children Hezekiah, Ruth, John, Polly, Mary, Chloe, Seth, Uriah, Elias and EbenezerHis work was begun just to know who and where our ancestors were but we found we had data to show a record back only about one hundred years, and that not complete so the work was taken up to get in line, as far as.About the PublisherForgo...

Excerpt from The Gregory Geneology: Containing the Names of the Descendants of Hezekiah and Abigail Benedict Gregory by Their Children Hezekiah, Ruth, John, Polly, Mary, Chloe, Seth, Uriah, Elias and EbenezerHis work was begun just to know who and where our ancestors were but we found we had data to show a record back only about one hundred years, and that not complete so the work was taken up to get in line, as far as.About the PublisherForgo...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

British Marine Conchology - being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical lite...

Excerpt from British Marine Conchology: Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great BritainThe intent of the following pages, is to supply the collector of British Shells, at a moderate cost, and in a portable form, with a complete descriptive catalogue of all the marine species decidedly indigenous to this country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousan...

Mobile robots are playing an increasingly important role in our world. Remotely operated vehicles are in everyday use for hazardous tasks such as charting and cleaning up hazardous waste spills, construction work of tunnels and high rise buildings, and underwater inspection of oil drilling platforms in the ocean. A whole host of further applications, however, beckons robots capable of autonomous operation without or with very little interventi...

Excerpt from British Marine Conchology: Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great BritainThe land and freshwater shells of Great Britain, having been so ably illustrated in the recent edition of Turton's Manual, the author refraining altogether from that branch of his subject, has restricted his attention to the salt-water species alone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publi...

In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx's writings on alienation and Erich Fromm's conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection and material manifestation of this basic feature of capitalism: the rule of dead capital over living labor. The author argues that necroculture represent...