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Bausparen 2012
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2012; US$ 4.30Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Haufe Kompass ist das perfekte Nachschlagewerk für alle Ihre Fragen rund um das Thema Bausparen. Er enthält alles Wissenswerte rund um den Immobilienerwerb und zum Immobilienrecht. Ein Bausparvertrag ist der erste Schritt, den Wunsch vom eigenen Heim Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Nahezu 80% aller Eigenheime werden unter... more...
The Risk Society and Beyond
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 67.00Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought. more...
Adaptation and Innovation
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 26.95This book, the second in a series on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences, contains the collection of papers presented at the second Belgirate conference plus four additional papers reflecting on and making sense of several participants conference experiences. Taken together, these papers offer an exciting picture of the Group Relations enterprise... more...
Group Relations Conferences
Karnac Books 2012; US$ 26.95This book is a compilation of chapters based on presentations at the third Group Relations (GR) international meeting in Belgirate, Italy in November 2009, plus a number of pieces from participants reflecting on their experience of the meeting. The book takes yet another step in continuing the discourse, which began in 2003, articulating the relevance... more...
Risk
Wiley 2013; US$ 22.95This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws extensively on the wide array of contemporary social theories of risk and relates these to the many and diverse areas in contemporary society where risk plays an important role.... more...
Embracing Risk
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 27.50For much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of and address social problems and as an incentive to reduce individual claims on collective... more...
Social Darwinism
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95"The most systematic and comprehensive effort yet made to assess the role played by Darwinian ideas in the writings of English-speaking social theorists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." --Isis "In seeking to set the record straight, Bannister cuts through the amalgam with an intellectual shredder, exposing the illogic and... more...
Biology and Freedom
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 64.00Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, this 1989 book gives a lucid portrait of human nature. more...
The Lived Body
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 58.95The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies... more...









