Category: Biographies Memoirs

By Professor Dr. Y. P. S. Bajaj (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642735207

ISBN-13: 9783642735202

ISBN-10: 3642735223

ISBN-13: 9783642735226

By Frank Pearce

ISBN-10: 1551301695

ISBN-13: 9781551301693

This appraisal of Durkheim's sociological concept indicates how his arguments might be built to increase our realizing of social and political swap. for the reason that a massive predicament of the e-book is to boost a extra sufficient photograph of the parameters during which a possible socialist society may well function, there's a continuous connection with the show up and latent socialist components of Durkheim's notion. the writer produced this synthesis of principles after analyzing the works of Marx, Weber and Durkheim and coming to the realization that whereas Marx was once scathing approximately utopian socialism he was once not at all resistant to its hazards and this was once relatively real of his photo of communism and of its courting to socialism. He unearths how Durkheim is helping offer a critique of Marx's suggestion of communism and forces socialists to be a little much less sanguine concerning the presence and position of the nation and legislations in socialist societies. Later it's proven that while there are major discontinuities among capitalist and socialist societies that there also are continuities in dating to their types of order and their most likely assets of sickness. the writer signifies that this might aid socialists produce much less moralistic evaluations of capitalism and improve extra sensible and realizeable political programmes.

By J.J. Thomson

By Jonathan Aitken

ISBN-10: 0826476309

ISBN-13: 9780826476302

The sequel to the best-seller delight and Perjury, Porridge and keenness describes Aitken's trip from sentencing on the outdated Bailey, via his incarceration at Belmarsh legal and the various dramas alongside the best way, to his eventual liberate and the beginnings of a brand new existence. it really is very unlikely to be detached to Jonathan Aitken. a few appreciate the best way he pulled himself jointly having been convicted and imprisoned for perjury within the excessive court docket. Many others are much less inspired and stay deeply sceptical. In his sequel to his first quantity of autobiography delight and Perjury Aitken starts off his tale as he's taken down from the court and incarcerated at Her Majesty's excitement. He writes frankly of next occasions. Visited by means of the ever-optimistic Lord Longford, Aitken emerged from the jaws of melancholy a chastened guy. How this outdated Etonian former cupboard Minister on Mrs Thatcher's internal circle controlled to set up new relationships and lasting friendships with fellow prisoners is interesting - so too is that this account of ways non secular trust reworked his existence and started to persuade the lifetime of others. rising from Bellmarsh felony someday with not anything yet a black plastic sack of garments, Aitken recounts how he used to be authorised at Wycliffe corridor Oxford to learn theology and the way this reconditioned his brain in addition to his soul. Aitken has misplaced none of his attraction, fluency and backbone. yet now those are used for higher reasons. He has came across a brand new lifestyles and aspiring to it. The authenticity of this new lifestyles is anything which drives him on, and which readers of this enjoyable new e-book should be capable of pass judgement on for themselves.

By Linda Schmittroth, Mary Kay Rosteck, Stacy A. McConnell

ISBN-10: 0787637920

ISBN-13: 9780787637927

ISBN-10: 0787637939

ISBN-13: 9780787637934

ISBN-10: 0787637947

ISBN-13: 9780787637941

Profiles sixty women and men who have been key avid gamers at the British or American aspect of the yankee Revolution, from John Adams, who turned the second one president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the day British infantrymen looted her South Carolina domestic.

By Shakespeare, William; Joughin, John J.; Shakespeare, William

ISBN-10: 0203400380

ISBN-13: 9780203400388

ISBN-10: 0415173884

ISBN-13: 9780415173889

ISBN-10: 0415173892

ISBN-13: 9780415173896

Philosophical Shakespeares specializes in and encourages the turning out to be dissolution of barriers among literature and philosophy. The procedure is interdisciplinary and contains problem-centred readings of specific plays.

By Naomi Mitchison

ISBN-10: 0850361826

ISBN-13: 9780850361827

Ebook through Mitchison, Naomi

By Jean Ping

ISBN-10: 2296078206

ISBN-13: 9782296078208

Ministre gabonais des affaires étrangères (1999-2008), Jean Ping vient d'être désigné Président de los angeles fee de l'Union africaine (avril 2008). Qui mieux que lui pouvait analyser le nouveau virage du développement en Afrique? Faut-il remettre en reason le modèle distinctive imposé par le monde occidental jusqu'à los angeles fin du XXè siècle? Jean Ping illustre à foison ses réponses d'exemples et d'anecdotes personnelles.

By James Olney

ISBN-10: 0691616264

ISBN-13: 9780691616261

Professor Olney gathers jointly during this publication the superior and most crucial writings on autobiography produced some time past decades.

Originally released in 1980.

The Princeton Legacy Library makes use of the newest print-on-demand expertise to back make to be had formerly out-of-print books from the celebrated backlist of Princeton collage Press. those paperback versions look after the unique texts of those very important books whereas proposing them in sturdy paperback versions. The aim of the Princeton Legacy Library is to drastically elevate entry to the wealthy scholarly history present in the millions of books released by way of Princeton collage Press in view that its founding in 1905.

By Nancy Boyd

ISBN-10: 0333376366

ISBN-13: 9780333376362

ISBN-10: 1349075671

ISBN-13: 9781349075676