Special Papers in Palaeontology, published by The Palaeontological Association, is a series of substantial separate works conforming to the style of the Palaeontology journal. Two issues are published each year and feature high standard illustrations.
A study of the stratigraphical occurrences of non-ammonoid cephalopods in the Late-Silurian-Middle Devonian. It collects more than 2000 cephalopod specimens from a section in the Tafilalt of south-east Morocco. It includes 16 plates and 23 text-figures.
Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety of primary source materials, this documentary reader includes over 50 primary documents and highlights the most important themes of the era.
In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, but no beast is a cook.
This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century , now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today.
In this fascinating examination of popular culture, esteemed cultural critic Perry Meisel shatters conventionally held notions about the division between 'high' and 'low' culture with the provocative theory that popular culture has a sustained dialectical rhythm.
This is the second book in the Social Work in Theory and Practice series that began with Roger Smith's 'Social Work with Young People' in Sept 08.
States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens.
Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept-Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts that have been instituted to care for homeless people.
* Lahire is a leading French sociologist who has developed an original theoretical approach that is indebted to Pierre Bourdieu but less deterministic in character. * This book presents the core of his theory of the plural actor .
* Written by a leading social work academic whose work is internationally renowned. * Confronts contemporary challenges facing social workers in relation to globalization and the rise of international global problems.
EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work,... Læs mere