Социология
5875 кн.
The moving and powerful story that stunned South Africa: Edwin Cameron – the first public office holder to disclose he was living with AIDS – writes about his decision, his experience and the struggle that millions face in seeking treatment. Part memoir, part thought-provoking analysis, this book is a vivid exploration of what HIV/AIDS means – for Edwin Cameron as he faces the possibility of lingering death, for all of us in facing one of the foremost challenges of our time. He explains...
| Автор | Edwin Cameron |
Reflecting Rogue – Inside the Mind of a Feminist is a mesmerizing collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and SA culture, written by 2016 Alan Paton Award winner, Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. In her most personal book to date, written from a classic Gqola anti-racist, feminist perspective, Reflecting Rogue delivers twenty essays of incisive brain food, deliciously accessible to a general critical readership, without sacrificing intellectual rigour. Professor Gqola...
| Автор | Pumla Dineo Gqola |
What will South Africa look like in 2030? And how will the next fifteen years unfold? South Africa has undergone dramatic change in recent years. Political tensions are on the up, economic performance has weakened, and more and more South Africans are taking their frustrations to the streets. What does this mean for our future? Will a spark ignite the powder keg? In this book, leading scenario planner Frans Cronje analyses the latest trends and presents four brand new scenarios for the...
| Автор | Frans Cronje |
From initiation ceremonies in the Eastern Cape to Helen Zille's Twitter account, South Africa is a land ripe with contradiction. It is a place where first world aspirations often clash with third world realities. Acclaimed commentator Gareth van Onselen takes a fresh and fearless look at some of these faultlines, from the rise and fall of Nelson Mandela's Christmas party to the contested meaning of words like 'respect' and 'excellence'. In the South African Twilight...
| Автор | Gareth van Onselen |
Hoe gaan Suid-Afrika in 2030 lyk? En hoe gaan die volgende vyftien jaar ontvou? Die afgelope paar jaar het Suid-Afrika dramatiese veranderinge ondergaan: Politieke spanning het verhoog, die ekonomie het in die hek geduik en al meer Suid-Afrikaners wend hulle uit frustrasie straat toe. Wat beteken dit vir die land se toekoms? Gaan die vonk in die kruitvat vlamvat? In dié boek ontleed die bekende scenariobeplanner Frans Cronje die jongste tendense en skets vier splinternuwe scenario's vir die...
| Автор | Frans Cronje |
There is evidence that the “knowing” of spirituality can be unified with the observations of science through two geometric symbols consisting of the triangle and the arc and their aspects. Author Carroll shows how, through the millenniums, religions have intuited the importance of these shapes and incorporated their symbolism throughout their beliefs, while these same shapes have been found by modern science to be the essence of life and the cosmos. This shared geometry is not mere coincidence....
| Автор | Donald B. Carroll |
No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way. The first part of the book consists of a thought-provoking essay, in which Fingarette examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He also thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a...
| Автор | Herbert Fingarette |
Child brides sold as objects, with a rite of marriage or a simple exchange of money, to people of adult age, suffer real abuse, an act which aids paedophilia. The stories told in this book are true, they took place in Africa, India, Yemen, Niger, Pakistan, Syria, Mexico; places where, due to poverty, war, famine, it becomes customary for parents to sell their daughters to adult suitors in exchange for money. The social denouncement aims of the #maipiùsposebambine [no more child brides] inquiry...
| Автор | Wanda Montanelli |
Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this fourth edition shows the reader how the «old economy» is now operating within the «new economy» and how that integration shapes the development of work opportunities. Authors Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins use an international comparative...
| Автор | Stephen Sweet |
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important...
| Автор | Sabrina Strings |
[i][/i] Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms—making it easier for you to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates. In every chapter, activist and award-winning sociologist Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl describes the emergence of a theory and the problem it addresses; discusses the scholars who are most closely associated with the theory; and...
| Автор | Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl |
GIS Research Methods: Incorporating Spatial Perspectives shows researchers how to incorporate spatial thinking and geographic information system (GIS) technology into research design and analysis. Topics include research design, digital data sources, volunteered geographic information, analysis using GIS, and how to link research results to policy and action. The concepts presented in GIS Research Methods can be applied to projects in a range of social and physical sciences by researchers...
| Автор | Steven J. Steinberg |
