Authors:Jennifer Gunning, Soren Holm,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: society, law, ethics
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2006-11-24
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754648818
ISBN-13: 9780754648819
This is the second volume in a series exploring key issues in ethics, law and society, published in association with the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. This volume presents a selection of papers and commentaries on topics in bioethics, ethics and society, and business and professional ethics. Multidisciplinary in approach, the work will be a valuable resource for all those concerned with contemporary ethical issues.
Author: Nanette Gottlie
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: society, japanese, contemporary, japan, language
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-03-07
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521825776
ISBN-13: 9780521825771
Nanette Gottlieb’s comprehensive study considers the role of language in Japanese society, particularly in relation to the formation of national and personal identities. It covers important questions such as multilingualism, language and nationalism, language and technology, and literacy and reading habits. Written by a leading authority in this field, Gottlieb’s work is essential reading for students and scholars wishing to know more about the Japanese language and the society in which it is spoken.Book DescriptionNanette Gottlieb’s comprehensive study considers the role of
Author: Yoneji Masuda
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: society, industrial, post, information
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 1980-01-01
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 0930242157
ISBN-13: 9780930242152
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: society, association, theory, culture, published, modernity, towards, new, risk
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0803983468
ISBN-13: 9780803983465
Ulrich Beck’s panaromic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.Western industrial society is widely seen to be going through a decisive transitional period into a form defined variously as `post-Enlightenment’, `post-Fordist’ or `postmodern’. Arguing that we are instead facing a different modernity typified by reflexivity
Author: M. M. Hildebrandt
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: society, ages, renaissance, vol, middle, education, school, carolingian, external
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1991-04-01
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 9004094490
ISBN-13: 9789004094499
This study explores one means of imparting Latin literacy in early medieval society: the so-called "external school," often presumed to have been a common feature of medieval monastic education. It questions the prevalence of this institution and whether the external school can be used as evidence of relatively widespread literacy among the non- clerical Carolingian population in particular. By precisely defining and chronicling external schooling, M.M. Hildebrandt invites the reader to reconsider conventional notions about the nature of the Carolingian educational program. The author examines
Author: John Rigby Hale
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Pre
Keywords: war, society, european, renaissance, europe
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0773517650
ISBN-13: 9780773517653
Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history.
Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: JAI Pre
Keywords: law, society, issue, reconsidered, special, volume, studies, politics
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2008-01-25
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0762314605
ISBN-13: 9780762314607
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of interdisciplinary research. It contains articles by scholars from political science, sociology, and law. These articles examine the legal treatment of "suspect" populations, the work of legal actors, and the works of various legal devices. Taken together the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done by legal scholars from different disciplines.Studies in Law, Politics, and Society is now available online at ScienceDirect - full-text online of volumes 18 onwards.
