Product Description: This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre’s promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoover’s efforts to stop the Great Depression, to the intelligence failures of 9/11. Assessing the causes of 10 additional historical cases, the author’s comparative analysis shows how each leadership failure was caused by an expansion of the range of control attempts, their scope, and/or their diversity...read more

Product Description: Sociological investigation of the statistcal enigma of suicide?exploring such questions as differences in national and cultural suicide rates. Suicide rate of populations are linked to status structure within the society. Originally published in 1964.

Product Description: Control: Sociology's Central Notion