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  • RELIGIOUS AMERICA, SECULAR EUROPE?
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    RELIGIOUS AMERICA, SECULAR EUROPE?
    PETER BERGER / GRACE DAVIE / EFFIE FOKAS
    Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? The first chapter of this book - the theme - articulates this contrast. The remaining chapters - the variations - look in turn at the historical, philosophical, institutional and sociological dimensions of thes...

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  • A FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA
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    A FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA
    PETER L. BERGER
    This book identifies the key 'actors' whose visions and strategies are crucial to the pattern which change will take in South Africa. These actors, their visions and 'strategic logic' were subjected to a critique by their researchers in the light of contemporary South African 'realities'. ...

    $860.00

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  • EXPECT MIRACLES
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    EXPECT MIRACLES
    PETER COOKSON / KRISTINA BERGER / PETER W. COOKSON JR
    "Cookson and Berger provide a thoughtful summary and insightful critique of the charter school movement. Expect Miracles explodes the myth that the charter schools operating in an educational 'marketplace' will recast public education to better serve America's children and promote democratic civic values. Anyone interested in the future of U.S. school reform should read this bo...

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  • THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL COHESION
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    THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL COHESION
    PETER L. BERGER
    Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them? This pathbreaking...

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  • THE MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY OF INDIA
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    THE MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY OF INDIA
    PETER BERGER, FRANK HEIDERMANN
    The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particu...

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  • A RUMOR OF ANGELS
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    A RUMOR OF ANGELS
    PETER L. BERGER
    A sociologist's look at the continuing importance of religion and the supernatural in the modern world, "cleverly expounded [and] enhanced by wit" ( Kirkus Reviews).   Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in o...

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  • THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
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    THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
    PETER L. BERGER / THOMAS LUCKMANN
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).   In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philoso...

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  • THE SACRED CANOPY
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    THE SACRED CANOPY
    PETER L. BERGER
    "The most important contribution to the sociology of religion since Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" ( Commonweal).   Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradu...

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  • INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY
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    INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY
    PETER L. BERGER
    The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers   Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradi...

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  • DEVELOPING CULTURES
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    DEVELOPING CULTURES
    LAWRENCE E. HARRISON / PETER BERGER
    Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world. ...

    $1,540.00

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  • IN PRAISE OF DOUBT
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    IN PRAISE OF DOUBT
    PETER BERGER / ANTON ZIJDERVELD
    In Praise of Doubt explores how to survive the political, moral, and religious challenges raised by the extreme poles of relativism and fundamentalism. In this insightful and thought-provoking book, two world-renowned social scientists, Peter L. Berger and Anton C. Zijderveld, ask and answer Big Questions, offering invaluable guidance on how to have convictions without becoming...

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  • ATLAS OF ZEBRAFISH DEVELOPMENT
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    ATLAS OF ZEBRAFISH DEVELOPMENT
    BRYSON-RICHARDSON, ROBERT / BERGER, SILKE / CURRIE, PETER
    Zebrafish are widely considered an excellent model system for vertebrate development. The embryo is transparent, thereby enabling visualization and use of labelling and transgenic approaches. Moreover, because of the ease of inducing new mutations in zebrafish and similarity with the human genome, this organism may be used effectively for disease studies. For example, mutant ze...

    $1,895.00

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