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Developing Civil Society
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 120.00Addressing an important issue from a new perspective, this provocative and challenging book illustrates how a positive human factor is essential not only to developing, but also industrialized countries. It is ideal as supplementary reading for classes in political sociology, criminal justice, development studies and philosophy. more...
European Values at the Turn of the Millennium
BRILL 2004; US$ 65.00This book provides insights in and explanations of the varieties ans similarities in values in Europe in a number of life spheres at the turn of the millennium. more...
Biomedicine as a Contested Site
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 29.99This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts, of processes of adaptation, accommodation, and of resistance, in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations. more...
Die Konstruktion von Inklusion
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 41.29Hauptbeschreibung Stefan Bernhard untersucht die europäische Sozialpolitik aus soziologischer Sicht. Anhand der Entstehung der Inklusionspolitik zeigt er, wie sich die EU schrittweise die Kompetenz zur Definition von Kategorien, Begriffen und statistischen Instrumenten angeeignet hat. In direktem Wettbewerb mit den Mitgliedsstaaten arbeitet sie an... more...
The Grammar of Society
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00In The Grammar of Society, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, the expectations that they generate, and how they evolve and change. Bicchieri draws on intellectual traditions of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game... more...
Sozialversicherungsrecht und sonstige Bereiche des Sozialrechts
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2009; US$ 29.77Hauptbeschreibung Die Sozialversicherung und die übrigen Bereiche des Sozialrechts bilden eine solide Basis für die soziale Existenz jeden Bürgers. Das Sozialgesetzbuch regelt in seinen 12 Büchern den weitaus größten Teil des Sozialrechts. Die systematische Gliederung dieses Werkes orientiert sich deshalb auch am Aufbau des SGB. Aber das eBook berücksichtigt... more...
Measuring Justice
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00Examines and evaluates two approaches to social justice, the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach. more...
Global Justice
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 44.99Gillian Brock develops a model of global justice that takes seriously the moral equality of all human beings notwithstanding their legitimate diverse identifications and affiliations. She addresses concerns about implementing global justice, showing how we can move from theory to feasible public policy that makes progress toward global justice. - ;Gillian... more...
Current Debates in Global Justice
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99The papers collected in this volume represent some of the finest recent work by political philosophers and political theorists in the area of global justice. Covering both theoretical and applied issues, these papers are distinguished by their exceptional quality. Moreover, they give the reader a sense both of the scope of the field as it is currently... more...
Human-Environment Interactions
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections of the volume reflect complementary approaches to... more...









