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Routledge
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written. This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism. The problem of democracy forced its way into the place it now occupies in this volume because it proved impossible to state my views on the relation between the...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Movies matter -- that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooksʹ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks -- one of Americaʹs most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics -- talks back to films that have moved and provoked her, from Quentin...
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English
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World-renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was interested in explaining the theory of Relativity to people who were not especially well-versed in higher mathematic concepts and theoretical physics. His solution to this was to write the ground-breaking work, "Relativity: The Special and General Theory." In the paper, Einstein lays out two contradictory principles: a principle of relativity and a principle of light. Einstein proposed that,...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Explore the fascinating world of childhood cognition with Jean Piaget's groundbreaking work, "The Language and Thought of the Child." This seminal book provides an in-depth analysis of how children develop language and thought, offering profound insights into the cognitive processes that shape their understanding of the world.
Jean Piaget, a renowned Swiss psychologist, revolutionized our understanding of child development through his meticulous...
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Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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The Nobel Prize—winning British scholar offers readers an introduction to philosophy and explores how we acquire knowledge from the world around us.
British philosopher Bertrand Russell believed philosophy was concerned with the universe as a whole. In An Outline of Philosophy, he analyzes the differences between the physical world as defined by modern science and the reality we perceive as humans. He looks at methods of gaining knowledge, learning...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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"One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W. H. R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent...
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