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  • Discipling Like the Master
    Stephen J Turner
    On the vital subject of disciple-making, there is no better pattern than the ways of Jesus Himself. But relatively little has been written on this topic. Stephen J. Turner draws on his fascination for the theme of discipleship, and many years of experience, to provide this important book. Discipling Like the Master confronts present Christian ministry with the private ministry ...
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    16,01 €

  • Making Democratic Theory Democratic
    George Mazur / Stephen Turner
    This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. ...
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    70,71 €

  • Making Democratic Theory Democratic
    George Mazur / Stephen Turner
    This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Mad Hazard
    Stephen Turner
    Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university. ...
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    178,66 €

  • Energy Management Handbook
    Stephen A. Roosa / Steve Doty / Wayne C. Turner
    This comprehensive handbook is recognized as the definitive stand-alone energy manager’s desk reference, used by tens of thousands of professionals throughout the energy management industry. This new ninth edition includes new chapters on energy management controls systems, compressed air systems, renewable energy, and carbon reduction. There are major updates to chapters on en...
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    361,48 €

  • Cognitive Science and the Social
    Stephen P. Turner
    A serious encounter between cognitive neuroscience and social science is likely to be challenging, and transformative, for both parties. Although a literature has developed on proposals to integrate neuroscience and social science, these proposals go in divergent directions. None of them has a developed conception of social life. Turner surveys these issues, introduces the basi...
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    77,36 €

  • Cognitive Science and the Social
    Stephen P. Turner
    A serious encounter between cognitive neuroscience and social science is likely to be challenging, and transformative, for both parties. Although a literature has developed on proposals to integrate neuroscience and social science, these proposals go in divergent directions. None of them has a developed conception of social life. Turner surveys these issues, introduces the basi...
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    268,08 €

  • Max Weber
    Stephen P. Turner
    Relates the categories of Weber’s social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. As such, this is the only account of the key sources of Weber’s sociology of law. ...
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    268,18 €

  • Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism (RLE Social Theory)
    Bryan S. Turner / Nicholas Abercrombie / Stephen Hill
    In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern capitalism. They confront a central assumption of western culture: namely, that the individual is sovereign, and that capitalism above all other economic forms depends on individualism. These ideas have an unbroken history from Al...
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    57,14 €

  • The Dominant Ideology Thesis (RLE Social Theory)
    Bryan S. Turner / Nicholas Abercrombie / Stephen Hill
    As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has also been widely accepted, however, as a major critical appraisal of one central theoretical concern within modern Marxism and an important contribution to the current debate about the functions of ideology in social life. ...
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    88,25 €

  • Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
    Bryan S. Turner / Nicholas Abercrombie / Stephen Hill
    In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms tha...
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    90,69 €

  • Emile Durkheim
    Stephen Turner
    Recent international scholarship has produced a new understanding of Durkheim that has reassembled what for him was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. ...
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    88,05 €

  • The Politics of Expertise
    Stephen P. Turner
    The problem of expertise is an important topic in contemporary science studies and increasingly important in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. Drawing on a global range of case studies, this volume provides an alternative to the developing standard interpretations of the problem of expertise within sociology, broadening the frame of reference to ask critical questio...
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    87,63 €

  • Understanding the Tacit
    Stephen P. Turner
    This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics. ...
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    88,14 €

  • The Last Trail West
    Stephen L. Turner
    Aaron Turner is nearing the peak of his success in ranching and other ventures in this eighth and final volume of the Western Quest Series. The story follows the unending series of natural and man-made disasters that forever changed the cattle culture of Texas: epic blizzards and drought, 'The Great War,' the Spanish influenza epidemic, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl an...
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    17,60 €

  • A Global Environmental Right
    Stephen Turner
    This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. ...
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    95,09 €

  • Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
    Bryan S. Turner / Nicholas Abercrombie / Stephen Hill
    In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms tha...
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    267,88 €

  • Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism (RLE Social Theory)
    Bryan S. Turner / Nicholas Abercrombie / Stephen Hill
    In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern capitalism. They confront a central assumption of western culture: namely, that the individual is sovereign, and that capitalism above all other economic forms depends on individualism. These ideas have an unbroken history from Al...
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    169,41 €

  • Understanding the Tacit
    Stephen P. Turner
    This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics. ...
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    301,86 €

  • American Sociology
    Stephen Turner
    American Sociology has changed radically since 1945, when the field was dominated by young lions attempting to make sociology a science. The 1968 student revolt ended much of this, leaving sociology divided and directionless. By the 1980s, enrolments had fallen and departments were closing. But sociology revived, and at both the graduate and undergraduate level the field became...
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    65,72 €

  • The Politics of Expertise
    Stephen P. Turner
    The problem of expertise is an important topic in contemporary science studies and increasingly important in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. Drawing on a global range of case studies, this volume provides an alternative to the developing standard interpretations of the problem of expertise within sociology, broadening the frame of reference to ask critical questio...
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    301,35 €

  • A Global Environmental Right
    Stephen Turner
    This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. ...
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    302,06 €

  • On the Western Trail
    Stephen L. Turner
    'On the Western Trail,' the seventh book in the Western Quest Series, follows the rough and tumble life of Aaron Lloyd Turner as the burgeoning cattle business reaches its zenith and gradual decline to something more like what we know today. Aaron and his friends hit their stride in the cattle business busting maverick cattle out of the wild lands along the far reaches of the C...
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    16,86 €

  • Up from the Ashes
    Stephen L. Turner
    Aaron Turner returned from the devastating War Between the States to find Texas prostrate under the heel of Yankee soldiers, carpetbaggers and scalawags during Reconstruction. Texans' rights were swept away in a tide of vengeful reforms only to be regained through much tribulation. The economy of Texas was in shreds. 'King Cotton' was dead. Taxes and property appraisals increas...
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    15,40 €

  • On the Road to Glory
    Stephen L. Turner
    'On the Road to Glory,' the fifth volume in the Western Quest Series, follows Aaron Lloyd Turner, his brothers David and Noah, and their brother-in-law, Pinckney Hawkins, through the greatest tragedy in American history, the Civil War. Aaron’s father had died when he was only a toddler. He was raised by his mother, Nancy, and his brothers and sister. As the drum beat of war sou...
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    16,86 €

  • Ride for the Lone Star
    Stephen L. Turner
    Aaron Turner is a tall redheaded fifty-three year old minister and Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas militia. Duty calls him to participate in both the Cherokee and Wichita Wars. He and his family struggle to survive the financial panic of 1837, Indian raids, a whooping cough epidemic and scorching drought. He responds with optimism, determination and innovation. When money is sc...
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    16,82 €

  • Under Troubled Skies
    Stephen L. Turner
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    16,89 €

  • On the Camino Real
    Stephen L. Turner
    Aaron Turner was a third generation American. His grandfather, Thomas Turner, first appearing in 'Out of the Wilderness,' had come from Ireland to settle in South Carolina. In this second installment in the Western Quest Series, Aaron hears the call of the West, like many Americans of the period. Each time Aaron travels to Vera Cruz, New Orleans or Natchitoches on trading ventu...
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    16,86 €

  • Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value
    Regis A. Factor / Stephen P. Turner
    The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber’s contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber’s views have been used, revised an...
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    87,95 €

  • Out of the Wilderness
    Stephen L. Turner
    In 1749, red haired blue eyed Thomas Turner left Belfast for South Carolina. The seventeen year old was expected to carve a home and a plantation out of the raw wilderness. The young Scots Irishman would grow up in a hurry. Overcoming his own doubts, pirates, wild animals, Indians, and European soldiers, he gained a foothold there to grow crops and a family. He succeeded in est...
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    19,34 €


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