Product Description: Other People’s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law – legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on – that ‘govern’ waters and that make bodies of water ‘lawful’ within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and ‘the political’, the chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler colonial ‘places’ rather than abstract structures of domination...read more

Product Description: This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Quentin Skinner’s theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins’s idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons...read more

Product Description: ‘Our planet's for big thinkers. That’s why I feel so at home on it’ Harvey Smith, an eighteen year old bilateral leg amputee, lives in East London with his sister, Jackie. It’s an arrangement that is doomed to end when her new boyfriend, Alfonso Barrera, announces they are moving to Spain...read more

Product Description: American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.

Product Description: Turner's second chapbook,Climbing Mt. Purgatory, is his sophomore contribution to the genre. In contrast to "Gardens of Neon Lights", a book which is very intimate, reflective, and personal, "Climbing Mt. Purgatory" is Turner stepping away from the mirror and instead, writes about the immediate world while continuing to touch on universal themes...read more

Product Description: Under Troubled Skies, the third volume in the Western Quest Series, follows Aaron Turner, his family and friends, through the tumultuous years culminating in the War for Texas Independence from Mexico. Aaron, a tall red headed forty-three year old Methodist minister and Major in the militia wants to raise his family, crops and livestock in peace along the Navasota River...read more

Product Description: A major surprise awaits you in this follow-up to "The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia". The Mars/EarthCon war continues and comes to a conclusion. Help comes from a surprising quarter! Ralph and the troupe become more involved in the war and Kessel and Mansfield's lives are changed forever! Ralph gets situated in the Martian community on a permanent basis and a major new characters are introduced! Ralph also learns some things about the Cassiopeia's last mission and incidents connected to it that even he didn't know about, as viewed from the perspective of history...read more

Product Description: This is a breezier read than the previous "Cassiopeia" books, more full of humor than its companion tomes in the series. It follows the Kleinkinders as they assimilate to living on Earth after being rooted in the Centauri system for a millennium, and Chloe Wymark as she lords it over a prospering Western Provisional government...read more

Product Description: New characters are introduced as the story of a new group of expatriate Earthers in the Proxima Centauri star system is told. These are people who, after initially being welcomed by the native populace of the fairly civilized world, were eventually viewed suspiciously as witches and charlatans, and forced to live in poverty and desperation for their thousand year stint in the system...read more

Product Description: Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably...read more

Product Description: The story of two men and the Universe they're exposed to. One man gets to see the very secrets of Creation itself and the other ends up living the most incredible adventure a man could ever conceive of in his wildest imaginings! The latter is accompanied in his adventures by a troupe of a dozen cloned French actors, six male and six female, with a spectrum of personalities and temperaments...read more

Product Description: These papers are taken from the 14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 2000. They cover: challenges for future research; parallel simulation for continuous and real-time applications; optimistic system performance; interoperability issues; load balancing; and scheduling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts such as "the Protestant Ethic" and "modernity." Prominent as a founding father of sociology, Weber has been a major influence in the study of ancient history, religion, economics, law and cultural studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume presents proceedings from the 13th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS '99), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.

Product Description: This is a complete guide to counterbomb tactics. Includes chapters on improvised bomb construction principles, recognition features of commonly used explosive materials, letter/package bomb precautions and much more. Turner has real-world IED experience...read more

We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why has this history been shrouded in silence for so long? In this major work of historical scholarship sociologists from around the world describe and evaluate the reactions of sociologists to the rise and practice of fascism.

Details the techniques of basic uphauling and maneuvering, gybing, wave riding and jumping, and freestyle and speed sailing

Product Description: Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of the facts of such behavior through statistical inquiry...read more

Product Description: Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the ‘classical era’, they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society...read more