гуманитарные и общественные науки

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regi…

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: …

Падение рождаемости в западной цивилизации авторами трактуется как форма самоуничтожения человека. Происходит смена социально-экономических систем, когда социализм и капитализм утратили свои традиционные элементы бытия. Мировая финансовая элита акти…

This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamental concept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts i…

This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term «territory» in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities…

This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual i…

'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 …