Ulrich Beck 
Objektivität und Normativität 
Die Theorie-Praxis-Debatte in der modernen deutschen und amerikanischen Soziologie

This book provides a succinct, student-friendly outline of the principles, approaches, and issues in participant observation. An examination of these basic tenets is important for clarifying the …

This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist ‘civil society building’ have impacted new generations of progressive, …

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purpos …

First published in 1945, The Impact and Value of Science is both a plea and a challenge: a plea for more and more science – not to increase the sum total of technical knowledge nor to extend present …

Tashi Hansen du Toit was 15 years old when her mother, Karen, suffered a severe haemorrhagic stroke which left her with multiple physical and cognitive impairments. This beautifully written and poign …

This title was first published in 2003. This volume contains essays by prominent commentators on topics in commercial law. It addresses the increasing harmonization of international commercial law …

A positive look at parenting sons. Here”s a hands-on parenting guide that takes readers from the birth of their sons to the day they head off to college. In warm, wise words, the husband-and-wife te …

A scientific solution to women”s heath issues and concerns. ”The Pocket Idiot”s Guide™ to Bioidentical Hormones” provides essential information on the molecules that are animal derived and identi …

An otherworldly examination of the unknown that will keep fright fans reading all night. from any strange experience that can”t be defined by science to psychic phenomena to monsters and weird creat …