Category Archives: Social Scientists & Psychologists

Remembering Sir J C Bose

The year 2008 marks the centennial birth anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose who, at a relatively young age, established himself among the ranks of European scientists during the heyday of colonial rule in India. He was one of those … Continue reading

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The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the … Continue reading

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Paul Virilio (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio’s main textsfrom their political and historical contexts,and case studies from contemporary culture and media in order to explain … Continue reading

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Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality (Key Sociologists)

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist … Continue reading

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Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no region aroused … Continue reading

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Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists)

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A … Continue reading

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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the … Continue reading

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JOURNEYS TO THE EDGE: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part … Continue reading

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Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists (Routledge Key Guides)

Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, … Continue reading

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LSD: My Problem Child

This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD’s path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. We follow Dr. Hofmann’s trek … Continue reading

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