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The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies. Bryan S Turner considers the ways in which different social theorists hav...

How did people talk during the Third Reich? What films could they see? What political jokes did they tell? Did Nazi ranting about the role of women (no make-up, smoking, or dieting) correspond with re

This volume unites two classic Civil War campaign studies by the foremost southern historian of the immediate postwar era--History of the Campaign of General T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. Together they compromise a brilliant chronicle of the high tide of the Confederacy in 1862. 16 maps.

The fast, easy way to build your math power Quick Business Math Steve Slavin's step-by-step approach offers: Quick ways to do all kinds of business-math problems, including basic arithmetic, algebra, percentages, and conversions Specific, real-life applications such as figuring discounts, calculating simple and compound interest, reading balance sheets and income statements, and preparing graphs and charts Frequent quizzes that help you check ...

John G. Nicolay (1832-1901) was an undeniably apt and brilliant choice to inaugurate the landmark Campaigns of the Civil War series. Private secretary to President Lincoln and coauthor (with John Hay)

In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologis

When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one o

The theme of Yahweh as healer is illuminated in this comprehensive biblical study of the Divine Healer.

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign remains one of the most famous personal accounts of the climactic three days which ended the military career and empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. Captain Cavalie Mercer

Through candid interviews with close friends, family, and the Beach Boys themselves, this biography portrays and evaluates all those who propelled the California myth, and the group who sang about it, into world-wide prominence. With dozens of photos, this book recounts the bitter saga of the American dream realized and distorted, and the music that survived. 66 photos.

With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Si

Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other,

Compiled by S.Y. Agnon, one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the twentieth century and winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, Days of Awe is the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayerbook. Here in one volume are readings from the meditations from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, to deepen the spiritual experience of the holiest days of the Jewish year. More than three hundred texts. selected ...

»Gegen große Vorzüge eines anderen«, so die Summe von Goethes Einsichten über das Ausländische, das Fremde, das Andere, »gibt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe.« Goethe hat sein Leben als Lebenskunstwerk gelebt, hat Großes geleistet. »Das wahre Große«, schrieb er in den >Wanderjahren<, »hebt uns über uns selbst hinaus und leuchtet uns vor wie ein Stern.« »Über uns selbst hinaus« -, aber, so Siegfried Unseld, zuallererst führt er uns zu uns ...

Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre von 1794 gehört zweifellos zu den faszinierendsten systematischen Werken der gesamten Philosophiegeschichte. Zweihundert Jahre nach ihrem Erscheinen in Jena schien es daher angezeigt, sich in einer Ringvorlesung am selben Ort von diesem Text erneut philosophisch stimulieren zu lassen: von dem Text und dem Projekt der Wissenschaftslehre, von ihrem Ausstrahlen auf das übrige Werk Fichtes und die Philosophie nach ihm.Di...

Dieter Flader kommt in dieser Arbeit zu dem Schluß, daß für eine psychoanalytische Gesellschaftskritik weniger Freuds kulturkritische Schriften theoretisch von Belang sind, sondern vielmehr das Modell der psychischen Instanzen, vorausgesetzt, es wird im Zusammenhang von Sprache, Wissen und Handeln interpretiert.