Product Description: This brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. The author argues that we should reassess the significance of psychological causes in human affairs...read more

Product Description: This is the first work in English or French to deal comprehensively with the attitudes and activities of Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, in France during the Vichy regime and under the German yoke. The author shows how Christians reacted to Marshal Pétain and the Laval government, as well as to the Allies, the Germans, the Resistance and the Vatican...read more

Product Description: Hardbound. Europe is undergoing rapid and profound social and political change, and time-honoured methods and practices are being challenged as a result. Nowhere is this challenge more pressing and relevant than in education, which is charged with the task of preparing future generations for the New Europe...read more

Product Description: The present volume fills a gap in the literature of comparative education by depicting globally the status of a very amorphous field of pure and applied science, a field which now embraces the globe. Although comparative education was originally grounded in history and philosophy, since the 1960s it has broadened its base and established links with many other disciplines, and this volume represents this extended global and academic dimension...read more

When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective.