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This book deals with the social costs of markets from a heterodox perspective. It deals with the degrading of work, decline of community, and rising income inequality in the United States as markets and especially financial markets come to dominate society. Of course, if there is an attempt to point out the social costs of markets, the response of...

The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of humanity-a world state-has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded history. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the history of world government, and questions whether political globalization, in the form of a federal world government, could and should...

The binary model of sexuality can be devastating and even fatal for people left outside the category of heterosexuality. Essentialist categories of sexuality and gender are often enforced by harassment and violence, as is clear in the case of violence directed against sexual minorities such as homosexual men. This book investigates why men launch...

Książka zawiera refleksje Autora o znaczących postaciach polskiej historii współczesnej, a także szkice do portretów wybitnych socjologów, z których część była cmentarnymi mowami pożegnalnymi. Niektóre z tekstów zamieszczonych w książce nie były dotychczas publikowane. Andrzej Kojder jest profesorem Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, kierownikiem Katedry...

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification. Its detailed descriptions and cross-approach comparisons can help professionals better determine which of several techniques might be...

In the first book from inside Russia in more than fifteen years on the influence and role of the security services, two courageous journalists chart how the KGB rose from the Soviet ashes and recreated itself at the prompting and with the assistance of Vladimir Putin. In "The New Nobility", two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up...