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  • Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems

    Advancing the Sociological Imagination

    by Bernard S Phillips, J. David Knottnerus ...
    On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described continues to define our world more than ever before. In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating bureaucratic barriers ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • The Fable of the Bees

    by Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth ...
    A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the fullest defences of his early paradox that social benefit is the unintended consequence of personal ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Terrorism

    Building on the Sociological Imagination

    by Bernard S Phillips ...
    Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • Saving Society

    Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life

    by Bernard S Phillips, David Christner ...
    Why do many problems throughout the world seem to be getting worse? Saving Society argues that a dramatic change in our mode of thinking is required. The authors show how many of our fundamental assumptions lead to an overly bureaucratic approach, blocking solutions to many of our problems. They contrast our present emotional repression and conforming behaviour with a more liberated form of ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD

  • Armageddon or Evolution?

    The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems

    by Bernard S Phillips ...
    We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Revolution in the Social Sciences

    Beyond Control Freaks, Conformity, and Tunnel Vision

    by Bernard Phillips, David Christner ...
    Revolution in the Social Sciences centers on integrating knowledge from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science and economics in order to confront increasing worldwide problems that threaten all of us. That integration of knowledge of human behavior is essential for understanding those problems, given their enormous complexity coupled with the highly specialized nature of ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society

    Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions

    by Bernard S Phillips, Louis C. Johnston ...
    Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture

    An integrated systems research approach

    Edited by Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe, Michael Phillips, Richard Thomas, Willemien Brooijmans, Kwesi Atta-Krah ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Goffman Unbound!

    A New Paradigm for Social Science

    by Thomas J. Scheff, Bernard S Phillips, Harold Kincaid ...
    "Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham University ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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    Carl Weber's Five Families of New York: Manhattan

    by C.N. Phillips ...
    Narrated by K. Bernard ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    The gritty tales of New York’s five families returns for its fifth installment.Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and Caesar King feels weighted to the ground. The Five Families are in complete disarray, and Caesar realizes too late that stepping down was the wrong thing to do. It’s up to him to make the puzzle whole again.But when another war comes to their doorsteps and a past mistake comes ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family and Community Life of Older People

    Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas

    by Miriam Bernard, Jim Ogg, Judith and Phillips, Chris Phillipson ...
    Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies in the late 1940s and 1950s and explores changes to the family and community lives of older ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Carl Weber's Five Families of New York: Harlem

    by C.N. Phillips ...
    Narrated by K. Bernard ...
    Series series Carl Weber's Five Families of New York

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    Building on the success of the Kingpins series, Carl Weber's Five Families series features some of Urban Books' most popular authors writing about crime in the boroughs of New York City, this time in Harlem.Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing but more darkness on the other side.After the failed attempt on his life, he is afraid that the Pact of the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus