Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: dixon keith

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
    KEITH SMITH / CARINA J. FEARNLEY / DEBORAH DIXON / DEANNE K. BIRD / ILAN KELMAN
    The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems i...

    $1,240.00

  • SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    KEITH DIXON
    Most professional sociologists claim that sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues here that this claim is formulated in such a way that a proper evaluation of its status is extremely difficult, and that the contingent objections to the possibility of sociological theorizing are sufficiently strong for such activity to be labelled as pretence. He ...

    $860.00

  • SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KEITH DIXON
    First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving status to research findings only in so far as they relate to often arbitrary theo...

    $640.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KEITH DIXON
    First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx ...

    $1,160.00

  • FREEDOM AND EQUALITY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KEITH DIXON
    Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of f...

    $1,320.00

  • DON'T BLAME THE TOOLS: THE ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGERIAL INNOVATIONS
    DANIEL, ELIZABETH / MYERS, ANDREW / DIXON, KEITH
    Those managing organisations are often criticised for being ‘faddish’ in their use of new management ideas or innovations, too easily falling into the trap of adopting the latest new idea or concept because it is ‘flavour of the month’. This research-based report presents an in-depth account and analysis of the adoption and implementation of two popular large-scale managerial ...

    $674.00