Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay
The thesis behind this book is that American industry cannot compete in the marketplace because their organizational structure and management style has become pathologically narcissistic. The theory is illustrated with real-life examples such as t...
Rifleman Costello
Rifleman Costello
On Photography
What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photograp...
New Chakra System Handbook, The
Mankind is changing. The evolution has begun, and there is no stopping it. We are becoming Super Humans, possessing more senses and with more awareness of the universe. This Handbook is a simple guide that will take you from the Old Chakra system ...
Evaluating Demand-Driven Acquisitions
Evaluating Demand-Driven Acquisitions examines recent research in demand-driven acquisitions in an effort to develop an evaluation framework specific to demand-driven programs. The chapters in this volume focus on the criteria and me...
Society Against Itself
States that organizations are made up of the rules, common understandings, and obligations that 'the father' represents, and which are given meaning in the oedipal dynamic. This title looks at how anti-oedipal dynamics have played out in various o...
Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scho...
Tricks of the Trade
Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to gener...
Outsiders
One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance. Howard S. Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early 1960s-and the ideas it proposed and problems i...
Making the Grade
Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has a...
Boys in White
The transition from young layman aspiring to be a physician to the young physician skilled in technique and confident in his dealings with patients is slow and halting. To study medicine is generally rated one of the major educational ordeals of A...
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...
Klippdockor i lekfulla sagomiljöer : lätta att klippa ut
Välkommen till en värld full av glädje och lek med klippdockor! Här är varje charmig karaktär bara ett enkelt klipp bort från att ge sig ut på en resa fylld av magiska äventyr. Skapa din egen berättelse genom att kombinera dessa förtrollande figur...
Målarbok. Strandsemester
Den här fängslande målarboken bjuder in dig till en magisk resa under och över havet. Från tropiska stränder till havets djup, följ med på resan med den mångfald av varelser som kallar havet sitt hem.
Utanför - Avvikandets Sociologi
Marijuanarökare och jazzmusiker är två av de avvikande grupper som den amerikanske sociologen Howard S. Becker studerar i den moderna klassikern Utanför (originalet Outsiders gavs ut 1963). Han visar här hur och varför någon blir en avvikare. Därigenom kan vi också förstå hur samhällets regler skapas och tillämpas. "Avvikande livsstilar" är ett mycket mer allmänt fenomen än man tidigare trott. Att de skulle vara "patologiska" är en föreställning med svåra följder för dem som stämplas som avvikare. Denna banbrytande och lättillgängliga bok kommer att vara aktuell så länge vi definierar vissa människor, och ibland oss själva, som "utanför".
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...
Telling About Society
One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it cont...
Evidence
Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, a...
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition
This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at...
Becoming a Marihuana User
OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and ...
Telling About Society
One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it cont...
Det går visst / Hubaal waa suurtogal
Sienna får inte vara med och leka brandman med Jakob och Erik. Erik fnyser och säger att en tjej inte kan vara brandman. Det känns konstigt att någon annan kan bestämma en sån sak. Sienna blir arg. En dag står det någon i hallen på förskolan...
Det går visst! / Jkwen iue!
Sienna får inte vara med och leka brandman med Jakob och Erik. Erik fnyser och säger att en tjej inte kan vara brandman. Det känns konstigt att någon annan kan bestämma en sån sak. Sienna blir arg. En dag står det någon i hallen på förskolan...
Red Moon Gang
Filled with information and free from cultural hang-ups, this gender-neutral book is directed at anybody that's ever dealt with having a period. Writer and influencer Tara Costello has been writing about menstruation for more than a decade and, he...
El triste triste monstruo
Spanish Language Edition: The Sad, Sad Monster Monster is Sad. So Sad. A sad monster is sad at school. He is sad because he doesn't have any friends. Is there someone who can make him happy? The Sad, Sad Monster is a cute book for monster-loving toddlers through beginning readers. Simple sentences make this a perfect first reader. In this Xist Kids Spanish Edition, Spanish text brings the story to new audiences. This book is in Spanish only. There is no English translation.
Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel
Lauren wouldn't change a thing about The Moonlight Hotel. She loves its vintage glamour, lakeside setting and, above all, its precious memories from back when her late dad ran the place. ¿ But handsome entrepreneur Joe is the new owner. And he has...
Doom 3: Worlds on Fire
The year is 2144...and the battle over Earth's precious resources has raged for a century. With global economies in ruins and all-out world war more than a possibility, the U.S government turned to the Union Aerospace Corporation, giving it carte blanche on the legendary red planet of Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources, a military advantage...as well as something so secret that even members of government don't have a clue about it.... Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane was once a careerist simply glad to have a job, and couldn't care less about politics just as long as Uncle Sam's check cleared. But that was before he listened to his conscience and disobeyed a direct order. Busted down to private, Kane has been reassigned to the 'U.S. Space Marines' -- the private army of the UAC -- with the prospect of becoming little more than a glorified security guard on Mars.... Now Lt. Kane's fate leads him to Mars City -- part
River Capture
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE IRISH TIMES and IRISH INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards Shortlisted for Novel of the Year, Dalkey Literary Awards Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Luke O'B...
Paris Bookshop Secret
How far will they go to find their story? When Alexis meets Maeve - a reclusive woman in her eighties - they feel an unexpected and beautiful kinship. Alexis is embracing nomad life after burning out as a big-shot editor. And Maeve is mourning her...
Barcelona
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN SUMMER READ In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet h...
Nearly-Weds
RNA¿Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award winner! ¿ After being dumped on her wedding day, Zoe jumps on a plane to Boston, USA, to find work as a nanny and leave the drama at home in England behind her. ¿ She's finds two lovely kids but a hellis...
World Historians and Their Goals
Costello analyzes paradigms of world history, focusing on seven twentieth-century historians, from H. G. Wells to William H. McNeill. He interprets central models of the history of civilizations as responses to modernism and as efforts to rescue m...
The Plural of Us
The Plural of Us
