Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: dennis smith

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  • CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL
    DENNIS SMITH
    First published in 1990, Capitalist Democracy on Trial explores the long transatlantic debate on capitalist democracy. It examines the conflicting verdicts of writers and politicians in the USA and Europe. The first section focuses on democracy and the rise of big business. It discusses the views of Tocqueville, Mill, Carnegie, Chamberlain, Bryce, Ostrogorski, Veblen and Hobson...

    $860.00

  • CIVILIZED REBELS
    DENNIS SMITH
    Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the West from global power since the late nineteenth century, relating this to the decli...

    $1,160.00

  • BARRINGTON MOORE JR
    DENNIS SMITH
    This title was first published in 1983. Throughout this present book author states his objective will be to elicit Moore’s approach to the question he regards as central: how may historical knowledge be used by men and women in order to comprehend and master their destiny within the limits of their moral and rational development and the stage of evolution reached by the societi...

    $1,260.00

  • CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE
    DENNIS SMITH
    First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield – in their social development. These paths reflect the comp...

    $1,100.00

  • HANDBOOK OF FLUOROPOLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    DENNIS W. SMITH
    Fluoropolymers continue to enable new materials and technologies as a result of their remarkable properties.  This book reviews fluoropolymer platforms of established commercial interest, as well as recently discovered methods for the preparation and processing of new fluorinated materials. It covers the research and development of fluoropolymer synthesis, characterization, and...

    $2,348.00

  • PRACTICE ISSUES IN HIV/AIDS SERVICES
    R DENNIS SHELBY / JAMES D SMITH / RONALD J MANCOSKE
    Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS! Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based care that addre ...

    $660.00

  • NORBERT ELIAS AND MODERN SOCIAL THEORY
    DENNIS SMITH
    Offering a fascinating survey of Norbert Elias′s life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias′s work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias′s insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political ...

    $2,289.61

  • MANY TABLES
    DENNIS E. SMITH / HAL TAUSSIG
    What happens inside the church doors is its liturgy. It is there that life and fulfillment should be found, but too often today liturgy seems stale and lacking in vitality. The problem is not a lack of faith so much as it is a lack of life in the liturgy itself. In our liturgies we have let our emphasis on preserving traditional forms and expressions overrule attempts to give v...

    $355.00

  • HANDBOOK OF FLUOROPOLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    SMITH, DENNIS W. / IACONO, SCOTT T. / IYER, SURESH S.
    Handbook of Fluoropolymer Science and Technology reviews fluoropolymer platforms of established commercial interest, as well as recently discovered methods for the preparation and processing of new fluorinated materials. Emphasis is placed on emerging technologies in optics, space exploration, fuel cells, microelectronics, gas separation membranes, biomedical instrumentation, a...

    $2,348.00