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Intro -- Acquiring Modernity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- 2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- 3 Divesting Philosophy's Ultimate Word -- 4 The Concept of Society -- 5 History and Human Development -- 6 A History of Struggles -- 7 Mystical Consciousness -- 8 Illusions to this Day -- 9 An Inverted World -- 10 Educating the Educator -- 11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- 12 Middle Class Snobbism -- 13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- 14 Social Scum -- 15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- 16 The Cult of Nature -- 17 World Literature -- 18 Modern Society's All-dominating Power -- 19 An Impulse never Before Known -- 20 Head of the Movement -- 21 Absurd Epidemics -- 22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- 23 Machines -- 24 Rule of the Towns -- 25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- 26 Solids Melting into Air -- 27 Civilization and Barbarism -- 28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- 29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- 30 The Economic Existence of the State -- 31 Democracy for their Truth -- 32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- 33 The Executive Committee -- 34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- 35 Rolling Back the Wheel -- 36 The Goal of Popular Desire -- 37 National Egoism -- 38 Every Sect is Religious -- 39 Disgusting Despotism -- 40 The Sycophantic Babblers -- 41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- 42 The Measure of Social Progress -- 43 Defiling Republics -- 44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- 45 The World Market -- 46 The Political Chessboard -- 47 Throwing Dust in People's Eyes -- 48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- 49 The Sorcerer -- 50 Prevailing Tendencies -- 51 Common Ruin -- 52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- 53 Socialist Sentimentalizing -- 54 Whether We Want it or Not -- 55 Afterword -- 56 Postmodernism?.

America finds itself in an acute predicament: The international order it has helped construct over many decades is under increasing stress from various quarters. As the world's predominant military power and principal guarantor of global peace and security, the United States must fulfill its many responsibilities without becoming entangled in costly conflicts that threaten its security, deplete its national power, and weaken its international standing. Preventive Engagement proposes a long-term strategy for how the United States can manage the risks of a more turbulent world in a way that lessens the demand for--and potential drain on--U.S. power. Its novel approach adapts the basic techniques used to prevent many societal problems, such as infectious diseases, violent crime, and drug trafficking. Preventive engagement has three complementary components: the promotion of policies known to lower the risk of violent conflict and political instability; the anticipation of crises most likely to precipitate major U.S. military engagement; and a concerted effort to mitigate if not resolve conflicts that erupt in the short term before escalating into a threat to U.S. interests. This comprehensive approach stresses early detection and foresight to actively manage sources of conflict. Using examples from Syria, Ukraine, and the South China Sea, Preventive Engagement shows its strategy in practice and illuminates the role that international actors, including NGOs, the United Nations, regional organizations, and private businesses, can play to further U.S. preventive goals

The ethics of soil -- The environmental critics of agriculture -- The productionist paradigm -- Agricultural stewardship and the good farmer -- Calculating the true cost of food -- The holistic alternative -- Sustainable agriculture -- The agrarian vision

"Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt-and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own. Based on extensive research, Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us reveals the best practices of the most successful entrepreneurs, those who are adept at continually innovating and seeing opportunity where others do not. They do that by following a rigid approach. For example: They never start with a new idea, but by trying to solve a market need. Financing is an afterthought. They get started with the resources at hand (not only does that allow them to move quickly, if things don't work out, they are not out much). Perfect is the enemy of good, it is much more important to get out into the marketplace with a prototype than to keep fiddling with what you have. In short, the entrepreneurial mindset is a protection against economic uncertainty, and Brown's goal is to spread that thinking to individuals and large organizations alike. Though of course we won't all start or run our own companies, we need to learn to think like entrepreneurs so that when uncertainty hits, as it will again and again, individuals and companies will be better prepared to not only survive but win"--

A wide array of topics in food ethics is considered in an approach that dives deeply into specific topics, while emphasising the integrated nature of food systems and the potential for food ethics to identify key intersection points in the landscape of contemporary life

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- 1. An Overview and Evaluation of Group Influence -- Some Background and Perspectives -- An Overview of Psychology of Group Influence -- Looking Backward and Forward -- References -- PART I: BASIC GROUP INFLUENCE -- 2. Alternative Conceptions of Social Facilitation -- History of Social Facilitation Research -- Drive Theory -- Directive Influences in Social Facilitation -- Attentional Effects of Presence of Others -- Conclusions -- References -- 3. Spatial Behavior of Individuals and Groups -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Affiliative Conflict Theory of Spatial Behavior -- Applications to Groups, Audiences and Crowds -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Deindividuation and the Self-Regulation of Behavior -- Early Theories of Deindividuation -- Mechanics of Behavioral Self-Regulation -- Alternative Explanations of Disinhibited Group Aggression -- Applications of Deindividuation -- Deindividuation: Avoided or Sought? -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Environmental Influences on Groups -- Crowding -- Spatial Factors in Social Interaction -- Crowding Versus Social Cohesion: An Environment/Social Interaction Model -- Relevance to Other Group Processes -- Summary -- References -- PART II: SOCIAL INFLUENCE PROCESSES IN GROUPS -- 6. Newcomers and Oldtimers in Small Groups -- Research on Newcomers and Oldtimers -- Conclusions -- References -- 7. Reaction to Opinion Deviance in Small Groups -- Plan of the Paper -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Empirical Investigations -- Unresolved Issues -- References -- 8. Self-Categorization Theory and Social Influence -- Introduction -- Self-Categorization Theory and Social Identity: Social Change, Social Categorization and the Interpersonal-Intergroup Continuum.

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Die Einführung in Theorie und Forschung der Familiensoziologie. Der Band gibt einen fundierten Einblick in die Familiensoziologie. Dabei werden zunächst die historischen und ethnologischen Variationen der Formen familialen Lebens thematisiert und die wichtigsten Theorietraditionen der Familiensoziologie vorgestellt. Für die zentralen Gegenstandsbereiche - etwa Partnerwahl, Heiratsverhalten, innerfamiliale Interaktion, Fertilität, Familienformen sowie Trennung und Scheidung - wird der theoretische und empirische Stand der Forschung vorgestellt und diskutiert