Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions 1317257405, 9781317257400

Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity 0774817569, 9780774817561

The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural

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On Assumptions 0520031393

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The Homeless in Contemporary Society

The United Nations designated 1987 as the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless in an attempt to secure the com

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Society in Contemporary Laos 9780415342193

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Design Is Invisible: Planning, Education, and Society 9783035610710, 9783035612011

Socially sustainable design With Design is Invisible, Lucius Burckhardt was one of the first to point out that factors

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change 9781350117822, 9781350195394, 9781350117853, 9781350117839

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or turning away from it, how can a society go abou

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The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 8-15 9781512821666

"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources,

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Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography 0807847828, 9780807847824

Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast,

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Cinema of crisis : film and contemporary Europe 9781474448505, 9781474448529, 9781474448536

This collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars fr

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Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe 9781474448529

Investigates contemporary European cinema’s response to the challenges posed to Europe by economic/political crises Offe

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