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"This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean, English, Russian and Chinese language sources, as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA, this book provides an illuminating insight into the experience of KPA personnel. It presents fascinating and detailed examples of everyday life in the KPA, such as the systems of discipline and reprimands, the experience of women in the army, typical salaries and daily food allowances. The book also succinctly traces the history of the KPA from its foundation under the guidance of the Soviet Union and the experiences of the Korean War, through to the current iteration under Kim Jong-un. This pioneering work will be of huge interest to students and scholars of North Korea, the Cold War, Military Studies and Communism"--

Abstract: This paper is based on sixty in-depth interviews that took place between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 in two major towns in Latvia – Riga and Daugavpils – within MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement), a project with young people aged from 16 to 25. In Latvia's case, a very important data collecting and analysis issue is the language used by the respondents in the interviews. On the whole, interviews were held in two languages - Latvian and Russian. The data and detailed analysis of the narrative fragments about history show that contradictions between Latvian-speaking respondents and Russian-speaking respondents remain troubling and traumatic and both parties (Latvian-speaking respondents and Russian-speaking respondents) seek arguments to justify their opinion. All that essentially affects everyday life and the interpretation of historical events. Significant aspects of contemporary youth identity searching are studied in the project (and partly in this paper): 1) the understanding of contemporary Latvian youth about politics, political process and its impact on the society as well as the opinion about political systems and culture in Europe and Latvia are analysed; 2) particular attention is paid to history and memory concepts within everyday life; the importance of the identification of historical events in the growth of youth identity; 3) the relation between political issues and the everyday life is closely connected to the process of development of young people as individuals, their leisure activities, and system of values. This paper emphasizes the youth understanding of history and memory in society, its influence on their everyday life and in what way different historical events and places construct their identities. Keywords: Youth, historical places, historical events, everyday life, political, historical and national identity.

1 An Incubation Era: 1900–1944 -- Sociology as Social Reform: Alexandros Papanastasiou and 'the Sociologists' -- The Sociological Society -- The Sociologists' Theoretical Aspirations -- 'Protosociologists' Avrotelis Eleftheropoulos (1869–1963), Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (1902–1986) and Evangelos Lembesis (1904–1968) -- Avrotelis Eleftheropoulos: Extolling Individualism -- The Heidelberg Circle and Kanellopoulos' Idea of Sociology -- Evangelos Lembesis: Sociologist of 'Ressentiment' -- References -- 2 From Academic Uncertainty to the Birth of Empirical Research: 1944–1974 -- From Social Welfare to Sociology: 1945–1962 -- The Emergence of Social Research and Greek Modernization -- The Athens Social Sciences Centre: 1959–1967 -- The National Centre of Social Research: 1968–1974 -- References -- 3 Institutionalization and Re-politicization Amid Modernization and Dependency: 1974–1990 -- The Debate on the Greek Social Formation After 1974: The Turn to Dependency and Underdevelopment -- International Capitalism as the Decisive Element in Underdevelopment: Vergopoulos and Poulantzas -- Vassilis Filias: Social Classes in Underdevelopment -- Constantinos Tsoukalas: Periphery and Underdevelopment— From Class Structure to Class Relations -- Nicos Mouzelis and the Capitalist Mode of Production as an Enclave Form -- Institutional Developments: 1974–1990 -- References -- 4 Boundary Challenges from Abroad and from Neighbouring Disciplines -- 'Sociology in Greece': Prolegomena on Re-classification Issues -- Cornelius Castoriadis: Sociological Contribution and Legacy in Greece -- The 1944 Writings -- The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975) -- Influence and Presence in Greece -- Nicos Poulantzas: Sociological Contribution and Legacy in Greece -- The 'Miliband-Poulantzas' Debate -- The 1966 'Class and the State' Lectures/Seminars and the 1976–1977 Lectures at Panteion University -- The 'Poulantzas-Castoriadis' Polemic -- Sociological Theory Input from Neighbouring Disciplines and Scholars -- Panagiotis Kondylis -- Kondylis' Sociologically Informed and Incomplete The Political and Man -- Kondylis' Sociological Diagnostics -- The Kosmas Psychopedis Axiologika Interdisciplinary Group -- References -- 5 Greek Sociology's Interdisciplinary and Multiparadigmatic Shift: 1990–2000 -- Reconstructing Sociological Theory: Nicos Mouzelis -- Interdisciplinarity: Sociology's Identity Already in Doubt? -- Sociology in Public and Virtual Spaces -- Sociology Journals and Research Centres -- Greek TV's Mission Impossible: Disseminating Sociology to a Wider public Public (1) -- Multi-paradigmatic Post-Modernism: Veltsos' Non-sociology -- Greek Sociology's Steady Growth -- References -- 6 Sociology in Greece After 2000: The Discipline in Face of Crises -- The Crisis in Greece and the Crisis of Sociology? -- Greece's Crises: In Search of the 'Intermediate' Way? -- Greek Sociology's Struggle for a Public Audience -- The Journals Landscape -- The Translations Landscape -- Greek TV's Mission Impossible: Disseminating Sociology to a Wider Public (2) -- Recent Developments and Mouzelis' and Tsoukalas' Latest Works -- Mouzelis' Late Works -- Tsoukalas' Recent Diagnostic Sociology -- The Sociology of Sociology in Greece: The Work of Lambiri-Dimaki -- Further International Reach -- The 'Hellenic Sociological Society' -- The Current Profile of Sociology Departments in Greece -- References -- Conclusion.

The epic of America -- What I am fighting for -- People of plenty -- The making of a counter culture -- The poverty of affluence -- The world is flat

Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends