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Author: T. Messer-Kruse
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-29
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1137322519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit.
Author: J. Gossman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1137402709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRespected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, André Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent him from achieving lasting distinction and impact?
Author: M. Yar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1137403756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.
Author: R. Lauermann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1137400439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing specifically on the factors shaping constituent evaluations of the US House Representatives and the resulting implications for government.
Author: F. Bouchetoux
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1137404175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA call for new methods for anthropology, this book explores the nature of anthropological knowledge and the conditions of integration and communication with people. Starting with an analysis of anthropologists' guilt, Fan addresses issues of reflexivity, reciprocity, and respect, then builds on this to evaluate how researchers generate knowledge.
Author: D. Beer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1137371218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors.
Author: J. Yamin-Ali
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1137412399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYamin-Ali shows how schools can undertake responsible decision-making through gathering and evaluating data, using as examples six fully developed case studies that shed light on common questions of school culture and student life, including student stress, subject selection, and the role of single-sex classes.
Author: K. Jungnickel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 113731253X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive fieldwork, Jungnickel's research into community WiFi networking explores the innovative digital cultures of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. Committed to making 'ournet, not the internet', these digital tinkerers re-inscribe wireless broadband technology with new meanings and re-imagined possibilities of use.
Author: M. Ascari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1137400366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted.
Author: L. Pope
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-29
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1137298553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends that in the information age diplomacy is more important than ever, and that, as President Obama has stressed, without a "change of thinking" the U.S. may be drawn into more wars it does not need to fight.
