Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers

Although Germany and Scandinavia often display a shared cultural inheritance, they are polar opposites in their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Each displays a different set of mythologies and coping modes when faced with breakdown and disorder. In this important new book, the authors argue that it is at these "critical junctures," that the tradition and identity of national and local communities are formed, polarized, and revalued; it is here that social change charts its own course.

Product Description: The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges...read more