Kirsten Mensch & Jan C. Schmidt 
Technik und Demokratie [PDF ebook] 
Zwischen Expertokratie, Parlament und Burgerbeteiligung

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget»s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the ‘war between the sexes’. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education — either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established unders …

Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to supp …

Mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy»s survival. The essays in this volume analyse differing aspects of the complex relationshi …

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them i …

Whilst workers» organizations and third-party analysts around the world commonly cite age as the most prevalent form of discrimination in the workplace, age discrimination has not had the same high …

Tourism in Cuba — described by Fidel Castro as »the evil we have to have» — has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a …