гуманитарные и общественные науки

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind …

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experim…

Раскрыта сущность финансов предприятий, показана их особенность, роль и место в системе управления финансами в государстве, раскрыты финансовые отношения предприятий, их системы управления денежными фондами и денежными потоками. Для студентов высших…

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West – and the more recent impact of recession – a vigorous pol…

Обобщен и систематизирован теоретический и практический материал по бухгалтерскому учету, дана авторская трактовка управленческого учета и анализа, проведен сравнительный анализ методологии управленческого учета и анализа на предприятиях кабельного …

Последовательно изложены методические подходы к осуществлению процесса бизнес-планирования, представлены структура и взаимосвязь плановых и отчетных документов управленческого учета, процесс разработки бизнес-планов в различных отраслях и секторах эк…

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to …

В учебном пособии подробно освещены вопросы нормативного регулирования бухгалтерского учета внешнеэкономической деятельности в России, правила учета и анализа валютных операций на предприятиях, взаимосвязи бухгалтерского и налогового учета. В отдельн…

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines – economics, philosophy and political science – and national boundaries. He was an early critic of Keynes, …

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his i…

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureauc…

Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for o…

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under …

This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonstrating, through contemporary sociological theory, that many of the old approaches are in need of reconstruction.

Системно изложены основные теоретические и научно-практические проблемы страховых отношений, место и роль страхования в финансовой системе страны, представлены специальные категории, понятия и термины страхового законодательства, рассмотрены методы п…

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people’s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. …

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the…

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmoder…

The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, long a champion of multiculturalism, has recently restricted the veil proper. Ever since home-grown Isl…