Fragile -- Al Saud survival skills -- Islam: dominant and divided -- The social labyrinth -- Females and fault lines -- The young and the restless -- Princes -- Failing grades -- Plans, paralysis, and poverty -- Outcasts -- And outlaws -- Succession -- Saudi scenarios -- On pins…
A study of the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life.
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the e…
"Critical mass asks the question, Why is society the way it is? How does it emerge from a morass of individual interactions? Are there laws of nature that guide human affairs? Is anything inevitable about the ways humans behave and organize themselves, or do we have complete fre…
by De Laude, Silvia, Siti, Walter, Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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by Giddens, Anthony, Appelbaum, Richard P., Duneier, Mitchell
1. Introduction; Kenneth D. Pimple -- 2. Three Case Studies; Donald R. Searing and Elizabeth A.M. Searing -- 3. Health information in the background; Lisa M. Lee -- 4. Surveillance in the Big Data Era; Mark Andrejevic -- 5. We know where you are. And we're more and more sure wha…
Does social class or the state of the economy influence whether people with schizophrenia recover from their illness? Has industrial development affected the number of people with this illness who become severely disabled? Does the level of economic development determine which c…
"The basic economic resource - 'the means of production', to use the economist's term - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor 'labour'. it is an will be knowledge."With penetrating insight Peter Drucker describes the changes that are affecting politics, business and s…
Provides insight into the changes that are affecting politics, business and society itself. Business managers need to be aware of these changes in order to benefit from the opportunities that the future has to offer.
