гуманитарные и общественные науки

В книге рассказывается о похищении иноземных чудовищ и их превращениях в загадочных русских манускриптах. Вы узнаете о жизни драконов на Руси, о появлении ног у медузы и ехидны, о привлекательных бестиях с чертами прекрасных дев, о том, как между Сци…

Монография посвящена изложению результатов разработки возможности и целесообразности дополнения современного правосудия, прежде всего уголовного, системой «возвратного права», основанной на адекватном возмещении преступником ущерба, нанесенного им по…

Учебное пособие подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования Российской Федерации и программой по социологии. Пособие состоит из десяти тем, в которых раскрываются исходные п…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publicati…

Данная книга — это путеводитель по миру экономической статистики, предлагающий погрузиться в понимание непростых экономических процессов простым и доступным языком. Автор проводит читателя через основные понятия, начиная с инфляции — феномена, затраг…

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages w…

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. Authored by 19 experts in the field. Explores how historical…

This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. Writt…

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Look…

This book explores the multiple ways in which archaeologists give meaning to the past, highlighting debates over the ontological and epistemological status of the discipline and evaluating current responses to these issues. Explains why absolute foun…

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, the volume identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move fro…

Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these…

This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on d…

In this important book Niklas Luhmann – one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century – analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in…

A Companion to Economic Forecasting provides an accessible and comprehensive account of recent developments in economic forecasting. Each of the chapters has been specially written by an expert in the field, bringing together in a single volume a ran…

This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture…

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of chall…

В учебном пособии рассматриваются разделы теории дифференциальных и разностных уравнений. Приводятся примеры применения методов непрерывного и дискретного моделирования в экономике. Даются задачи для практических занятий и самостоятельной работы. Для…

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of t…