Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael lynch

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  • HITLER
    MICHAEL LYNCH
    Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination. Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological approach to describe the main features of Hitler’s career. Set against the backgro...

    $1,160.00

  • ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND CONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS
    GRAHAM BUTTON / MICHAEL LYNCH / WES SHARROCK
    This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute soc...

    $1,120.00

  • THE EARLY MODERN TOWN IN SCOTLAND
    MICHAEL LYNCH
    Originally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The first part of the book is based on studies of individual burghs (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Perth) drawing extensively on archival material. The second part includes a discussion of the pres...

    $860.00

  • POLARISATION, ARROGANCE, AND DOGMATISM
    MICHAEL PATRICK LYNCH / ALESSANDRA TANESINI
    Polarisation, intransigence and dogmatism in political and moral debate have in recent years threatened to overwhelm many Western-style democracies, where for centuries reasoned argument has been a hallmark feature of tackling disagreement. For many people, this marks a worrying deterioration in the moral and political climate, threatening to create a divisive environment of "u...

    $1,260.00

  • SURVIVING GAME SCHOOL…AND THE GAME INDUSTRY AFTER THAT
    MICHAEL LYNCH / ADRIAN EARLE
    Surviving Game School speaks about what to expect in a top game design or game development college program, and what to expect once students get out. Making games is not at all the same as playing games. Uncommonly blunt, the book reveals the rigors – and the joys – of working in this industry. Along the way the book touches on themes of time management, creativity, teamwork, a...

    $1,340.00

  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: ART AND ARTIFACT IN LABORATORY SCIENCE (1985)
    MICHAEL LYNCH
    First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in the laboratory during 1975 and 1976, and taking an ethnomethodological approach, it focuses on the phenomenon of the social accomplishment of natural scientific order. Through the examination of shop work and shop talk...

    $1,100.00

  • MAO
    MICHAEL LYNCH
    Michael Lynch’s second edition of Mao examines the life of this controversial figure. Opening with a detailed chronology, it delves into Mao’s younger years and tracks his gradual rise to power, with a chapter dedicated to the cult status that surrounded him. Through a wealth of primary and secondary sources and a balanced consideration of the conflicting views that surround Ma...

    $1,160.00

  • EXPLORING GREEN CRIMINOLOGY
    MICHAEL J. LYNCH / PAUL B. STRETESKY
    Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology needs to take green harms more seriously and to be revolutionized so t...

    $1,760.00

  • THE TREADMILL OF CRIME
    PAUL STRETESKY / MICHAEL LONG / MICHAEL LYNCH
    Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime is written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology and examines ...

    $1,320.00

  • CALIFORNIA STATE PARK RANGERS
    MICHAEL G. LYNCH
    The first park ranger in the world was appointed in California in 1866. Galen Clark was chosen as �Guardian of Yosemite,� at what was then Yosemite State Park, and the concept of rangers to protect and administer America�s great nature parks was born. The tradition continued in 1872 with the establishment of the first national park at Yellowstone. From the earliest days, park r...

    $279.00

  • EDINBURGH AND THE REFORMATION
    MICHAEL LYNCH
    Edinburgh’s reformation was one of the last of the great city reformations of the sixteenth century. It took on a highly distinctive shape due to the burgh’s social and economic problems and its position as a cockpit for English policy in Scotland and the shifting factionalism of Scottish politics. In studies of the Scottish Reformation, too little attention has been paid to th...

    $447.99

  • THE REIGN OF JAMES VI
    JULIAN GOODARE / MICHAEL LYNCH
    The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted attempt by a group of ten scholars of the reign, drawn from three different disciplines, to shed light on its politics and government, viewed through various perspectives. These include th...

    $447.99

  • DECOLONISING SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
    KRIS CLARKE / MICHAEL WALLENGREN-LYNCH / MICHAEL YELLOW BIRD
    In a world gripped by intersecting crises and deepening inequalities, can social work break free from its colonial entanglements to imagine a more just and compassionate future? Decolonising Social Work Education: Memory, Haunting and Critical Hope in the Nordics confronts the enduring legacies of colonialism that continue to shape the foundations of social work education. Thro...

    $1,160.00

  • TRUTH MACHINE
    MICHAEL LYNCH / SIMON A. COLE / RUTH MCNALLY / KATHLEEN JORDAN
    DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases ...

    $572.85