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The Functions of Role-Playing Games
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychological and sociological functions. Sometimes dismissed as escapist and potentially dangerous, role-playing actually encourages creativity, self-awareness, group cohesion and "out-of-the-box" thinking.... more...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Encounter Books 2005; US$ 17.95This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic... more...
Risk and Public Policy in East Asia
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures capable of caring for family members in need; and governmental economic and political competence. Against this backdrop, this volume offers a timely review of these critical issues, offering an introduction... more...
Imagology Revisited
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 160.00Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the other. The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and multiple functions in a wide range of texts from... more...
The Social Amplification of Risk
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00Brings together case studies and theoretical work informed by the social amplification of risk framework. more...
Why?
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 23.95Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair,... more...
The Yellow Book of Games and Energizers
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011; US$ 32.95The book is a collection of tried and tested games for use in workshops, youth groups and the classroom. With clear instructions, delightful illustrations and discussion ideas for every game, this book makes it easy to encourage everyone from age 6 to 86 to think for themselves, use their imagination, and interact positively with those around them. more...
Policy Issues in Insurance Risk Awareness, Capital Markets and Catastrophic Risks
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 70.00The OECD contributes to the improvement of the financial management of major catastrophes both through the activities of the International Network on the Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes and through the leadership of its High-Level Advisory Board. This publication compiles a series of reports reflecting the OECDs extensive work... more...
The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological policy making against its critics, while at the... more...









