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117 Days
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 14.00An unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth First's isolation and abuse at the hands of South African interrogators after her arrest in 1963.... more...
Accountability Without Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China. more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 149.95This Companion brings together a collection of new essays by leading and emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences on some of the key issues facing multiculturalism today. It offers scholars and students a clear account of the leading theories and critiques of multiculturalism that have developed over the past twenty-five years and a... more...
Children and Citizenship
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 57.00`This collection...is outstanding. It has an excellent grasp of the field' - Jens Qvortrup, Professor of Sociology, University of Trondheim This book offers a contemporary and critical approach to notions of children's citizenship. Drawing on different disciplinary perspectives and including contributions by leading scholars in the field,... more...
Collective Beings
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Collective behaviors play a fundamental role in many scientific and technical disciplines. This book introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in different ways. more...
The Dawning Age of Cooperation
Algora Publishing 2011; US$ 22.95Rugged individualism is great for legendary heroes, but does it really shape a society that can endure for the long term? A massive social transformation is underway, driven by technology; it requires and is pushing us toward a cooperative culture. Our American competitive, individualistic culture is outmoded and increasingly ineffective. This book... more...
Drift into Failure
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 29.95This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opp more...
The Handbook of Social Capital
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 174.99The study of social capital is one of the most exciting recent developments in the social sciences. Written by some of the main experts in the field this Handbook is an authoritative, critical, and innovative introduction to the study of social capital. - ;Social capital is a relatively new concept in the social sciences. In the last twenty or so years... more...
Inklusion und Exklusion: Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und sozialen Ungleichheit
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 39.99Innovation in Complex Social Systems
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 160.00Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists. Innovation in Complex Social Systems uses a "hard... more...









