The third edition of Re Orient: Change in Asian Societies provides up-to-date information on the important issues and trends in this dynamic region. It analyses them without resorting to oversimplifications or stereotypes, doing justice to the rich variety of the cultural traditions and historical experience within the region. The discussion is clear, direct and free of jargon, and all subjects…
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human natures as unchanging and sel…
In this endessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profoud implications: Large group of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow's society. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shapping a future already very much with us.
Brings together seventeen essays on the dynamics of social change published in a wide array of journals over the course of Amitai Etzioni's long and distinguished career. Applying sociological methods of study to seemingly disparate disciplines from ethics to economics, politics to genetics, Etzioni uncovers important interrelationships between these fields.
This newly updated fourth edition re-examines the plight of Third World countries in light of the recent events and trends of the post-cold war world. As market forces become increasingly more influential, allowing for unprecedented growth and the accumulation of great wealth, many of the promises of the twentieth century continue to be transformed and abandoned. The vulnerability of developing…
The book also explores the role of the ethnographer involved in anthropology and suggests how one can develop an ethnographic praxis to be expressed cooperatively with a community. This exploration and synthesis of both a changing community and the means of interpretation will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, and students of political science looking at the effect…
This book clearly and unequivocally states the contribution of Namibian women to the struggle for independence and freedom. More important the experience is conveyed through the words of the women themselves.
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice, by Kathryn Sorrells, introduces students to the complex relationships, structures, and contexts that shape intercultural communication in the new millennium. This book examines intercultural communication within the geopolitical, economic, and cultural context of globalization and offers a dynamic and complex understanding of cultur…
This book punctures old information revolution myths and breaks important new ground. It will transform the way you think about information and its role in shaping both business and society at large