Chronicles the history of multisport competitions modeled after the Olympic Games, discussing regional games, the Special Olympics and the Paralympics, and games for specific populations or professions.

Product Description: Esta obra explora la sociedad post-industrial a través de reflexiones que giran en torno a temas conexos: las teorías del desarrollo en la sociedad industrial (Marx Sombart, Max Weber, Schumpeter, Raymond Aron), el paso de una economía productora de bienes a otra de servicios y los cambios de la estructura del empleo en pr...read more

Product Description: While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, discussions of Confucian practices and institutions appropriate for the modern era have been conspicuously absent. This volume discloses in meticulous detail the relevance of Confucianism to the contemporary world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise. In a new introduction to the year 2000 edition, he argues that with the end of communism, we are seeing a resumption of history, a lifting of the heavy ideological blanket and the return of traditional ethnic and religious conflicts in the many regions of the former socialist states and elsewhere. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In 1965, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated the Commission on the Year 2000, the forerunner of what became the field of futurism. The Commission did not believe that one could "predict" the future, but sought instead to identify structural changes in society that would have long-term social impacts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Bell, Daniel

The noted sociologist argues that the attitudes, values, and expectations engendered by capitalism have resulted in contradictory cultural tendencies whose increasing ideological incompatibilities threaten Western society's continuation

Product Description: This book challenges the view that liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societies of Pacific Asia, it argues that contemporary political arrangements are legitimised by the values of hierarchy, familism and harmony...read more

Product Description: Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualistic, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting and defending a distinctively communitarian theory against the objections of a liberal critic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class...read more

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Product Description: Book by Bell, Daniel, Thurow, Lester