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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of dualism.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.

Rambo and the Dalai Lama

Contrasts two approaches to conflicts and their resolution: the aggressive, confrontative elements of the adversary paradigm represented by the fictional figure Rambo, and the compassionate non-violence of the mutuality paradigm advocated by the Dalai Lama.

Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research

By Robert Prus
Subjects: Sociology

Examines a series of theoretical and methodological issues faced by social scientists in interpretive and ethnographic studies of human group life.

Profits, Power, and Prohibition

This is the first comprehensive study of America's anti-liquor/anti-drug movement from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933. It examines the ...