Studying Contemporary Western Society : Method and Theory. by Mead, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Studying Contemporary Western Society; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Introduction; Part One. …”
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Forensic medicine in Western society : a history / by Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)

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A history of Western society / by McKay, John P.

Deconstructive Variations : Music and Reason in Western Society. by Subotnik, Rose Rosengard

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In Their Time : a History of Feminism in Western Society. by LeGates, Marlene

Table of Contents: “…In Their Time A History of Feminism in Western Society; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One Feminism and Patriarchy: An Introduction; Chapter Two From Jesus to Joan ofArc; Chapter Three The Impact of the Renaissance: Women, Learning, and the CreativeArts; Chapter Four Religion, Politics, and Literature in Early ModernEurope; Chapter Five Revolutions in Philosophy andPolitics; Chapter Six Radicals andReformers; ChapterSeven The Beginnings of First-Wave Feminism; Chapter Eight Issues in First-WaveFeminism; Chapter Nine Wartime and InterwarFeminism…”
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Spiritual Tourism : Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society. by Norman, Alex

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Children and childhood in western society since 1500 / by Cunningham, Hugh

“…Children and childhood in western society since fifteen hundred…”
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We need two worlds : Chinese immigrant associations in a Western society / by Li, Minghuan, 1953-

“…Chinese immigrant associations in a Western society…”
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The power of death : contemporary reflections on death in western society /

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Cold War cultures : perspectives on Eastern and Western societies /

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Gender and Love by de Haro Garcia, Noemi

Table of Contents: “…Father-Son Expressions of Love and Intimacy: Social and Cultural Evolution in Contemporary Western Society /…”
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Lives in spirit : precursors and dilemmas of a secular Western mysticism by Hunt, Harry T., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society --…”
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The sociology of shari'a : case studies from around the world

Table of Contents: “…Contradictions, conflicts, dilemmas and temporary resolutions : a sociology of law analysis of shari'a in selected Western societies /…”
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Globalization and terrorism : death of a way of life by Stapley, Lionel

Table of Contents: “…The field of study : societal cultures -- The parallel worlds of globalization and global Muslim terrorism -- The Industrial Revolution : the first globalization -- Globalization -- The effect of globalization on Western societies -- An analysis of the effects of globalization on non-Western societies -- Exploring the effects of globalization on inter-cultural relationships and relatedness.…”
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Shame : a brief history by Stearns, Peter N.

Table of Contents: “…Exploring Shame: The Interdisciplinary Context -- Shame and Shaming in Premodern Societies -- The Impact of Modernity: Some Possibilities -- Reconsidering Shame in Western Society: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Revival of Shame: Contemporary History.…”
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From fear to fraternity : a Russian tale of crime, economy and modernity by Rawlinson, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Telling tales -- Crime-time stories -- From bandits to Bolsheviks to Brezhnev -- Shadowlands: the Gorbachev years -- Comrade capitalists: the tale of crime and economy in the 'new' Russia -- The Sovietising of western society -- From fear to fraternity.…”
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The designed self : psychoanalysis and contemporary identities by Strenger, Carlo

Table of Contents: “…Finding ethnic identity and a place in Western society -- ch. 6. Psychoanalysis in the age of the designed self.…”
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The art of loving by Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980

Table of Contents: “…Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society -- IV. The Practice of Love.…”
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Communities and consumption

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The importance of management style in labour retention; Managing social relations: the dimension of intellectual labour; Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative; Spatial peripheries, social peripheries: reflections on the "suburbs" of Paris; Understanding risk and old age in western society; Could CAFTA be the latest conduit for outsourcing pollution?…”
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The Wellbeing of Children in Care : a New Approach for Improving Developmental Outcomes. by Owusu-Bempah, Kwame

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Fostering and adoption in historical perspective; 2 Fostering in cross-cultural perspective; 3 Fostering in contemporary Western societies; 4 Motives for child fostering; 5 Public care and kinship care; 6 Public care versus kinship care: Psychosocial developmental outcomes; 7 In the interest of the child Kinship care; 8 Policy, practice and research implications; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Alarming Reports : Communicating Conflict in the Daily News. by Arno, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Title page-Alarming Reports; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-News and the Anthropology of Conflic Communication; Chapter 2-The Dark Side of the Media; Chapter 3-Two Theories of News; Chapter 4-The News Act; Chapter 5-News and Law as Conflict Communication Systems; Chapter 6-News in Extra-Textual Terrain; Chapter 7-Policy Talk; Chapter 8-Order, Disorder, and the News Media in Western Society; References; Index.…”
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Critical Victimology : International Perspectives. by Mawby, R. I.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Contents; Chapter 1 -- Perspectives on Victimology; Chapter 2 -- Crime and its Impact; Chapter 3 -- The Place of the Victim in Non-Western Societies; Chapter 4 -- The 'Rebirth' of the Victim as a Significant Actor; Chapter 5 -- Immediate Help for the Victims of Crime; Chapter 6 -- Victims, Courts and Compensation; Chapter 7 -- Developing an Appreciation of the Victim: Looking to 'Eastern Europe'; Chapter 8 -- The Principles of a Critical Victimology; Chapter 9 -- Conclusion: Questions for Policy?…”
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When rituals go wrong : mistakes, failure and the dynamics of ritual

Table of Contents: “…Handling of Rules, Mistakes and Failure in Public Rituals of Modern Western Societies (Burckhard Dücker); Dealing with Deviations in the Performance of Masonic Rituals (Jan A.M. …”
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Young People's Experiences Of Loss And Bereavement : Towards An Interdisciplinary Approach. by McCarthy, W. E. J. (William Edward John)

Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Half title; Title; Copy right; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Contexts; Chapter 1 Knowledge production in context; Chapter 2 Young people, death and bereavement in contemporary western societies; Part 2 Evidence; Chapter 3 The perspectives of young people; Chapter 4 Bereavement as a 'risk' factor in young people's lives; Chapter 5 The social contexts of bereavement experiences and interventions; Part 3 Conclusions; Chapter 6 Knowledge, 'meaning', and interdisciplinarity; References; Index; Back cover.…”
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Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada by Hoerder, Dirk

Table of Contents: “…Settings -- Sources -- Transitions -- Immigrants in a settled society: the Maritimes -- French-Canadian migrations -- The coming of the Irish -- Immigrants in Montreal -- Life on the Ontario frontier -- Northward-bound to the lumbering and mining frontier -- The labouring and lower middle classes in Toronto -- Immigrant crossroads at Winnipeg -- The opening of the west -- Community-building: homesteading and bloc farming -- Storekeepers and small entrepreneurs -- Building and imagining western society -- Mining in the Rockies -- East and west do meet -- From dislocation to politics of protest -- The depression thirties and discriminatory forties -- Years of change and redefinition -- Multicultural lives in Canada.…”
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Punishing juveniles : principle and critique

Table of Contents: “…Prelims; Title Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Themes in Juvenile Justice; Part I Past and Present; 2 The Juvenile Justice System: Past and Present Trends in Western Society; 3 Recent Changes in Youth Justice Policy in England and Wales; 4 Rehabilitation in America:The Philosophy and Methods, from Past to Present; Part II Education and Punishment; 5 Not Punishing Children, but Committing Them to Restore; 6 Punishing the Young; 7 The Moral Dialogue: A Pedagogical Perspective on Juvenile Justice; Part III Shame, Guilt and Remorse.…”
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Routledge Revivals : Tolerating Terrorism in the West : An International Survey. by Gal-Or, Noemi

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 From the vindication of honour to blackmail: the impact of the changing role of ETA on society and politics in the Basque region of Spain; 2 The terrorist lobby in West Germany: campaigns and propaganda in support of terrorism; 3 Tolerating terrorism in Israel; 4 The CCC phenomenon in Belgium: unbacked terrorism; 5 Terrorism supporters in the west: the Italian case; 6 Do western societies tolerate terrorism?; Index.…”
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Aging in East and West : families, states, and the elderly

Table of Contents: “…Korea: Demographic Trends, Sociocultural Contexts, and Public Policy; Part III: Aging in Western Societies.…”
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The Shame of Death, Grief, and Trauma. by Kauffman, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Speaking of Shame; About the Editor; About the Contributors; SECTION 1 Introductory Essay; CHAPTER 1 On the Primacy of Shame; SECTION 2 A Personal Narrative; CHAPTER 2 Side by Side; SECTION 3 Psychological Reflections on Shame and Grief; CHAPTER 3 Between Shame, Death, and Mourning: The Predispositional Role of Early Attachments and the Sense of Self; CHAPTER 4 Combat, Combat Stress Injuries, and Shame; CHAPTER 5 Healing the Narcissistic Injury of Death in the Context of Western Society; CHAPTER 6 Shame: A Hospice Worker's Reflections.…”
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Spiritualities of Life : New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism. by Heelas, Paul

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Co-whites : how and why white women "betrayed" the struggle for racial equality in the United States by Aniagolu, Emeka

Table of Contents: “…A brief literature review -- Women in western and non-western societies -- Women in post-Civil War United States: Reconstruction through Jim Crow -- White women and African American women: friends or foes? …”
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J.S. Mill on civilization and barbarism by Levin, Michael, 1940-

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Envy and gratitude revisited

Table of Contents: “…Shmuel Erlich -- An independent response to Envy and Gratitude / Caroline Polmear -- On gratitude / Edna O'Shaughnessy -- Keeping envy in mind : the vicissitudes of envy in adolescent motherhood / Alessandra Lemma -- Envy in western society : today and tomorrow / Florence Guignard -- He thinks himself impaired : the pathologically envious personality / Ronald Britton -- The repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct / John Steiner -- Romantic perversion : the role of envy in the creation of a timeless universe / Heinz Weiss -- Envy and the negative therapeutic reaction / Michael Feldman -- Reflections on Envy and Gratitude / Irma Brenman-Pick -- Being envious of envy and gratitude / Peter Fonagy -- Vicious circles of envy and punishment / Henry F. …”
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Happiness in World History by Stearns, Peter N.

Table of Contents: “…Part III: Happiness in Contemporary World History -- 10 Disputed Happiness, 1920-1945 -- 11 Communist Happiness -- 12 Comparing Happiness in Contemporary Societies -- 13 Western Society in Contemporary History: Even Happier? …”
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Gods behaving badly : media, religion, and celebrity culture by Ward, Pete, 1959-

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Death's door

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Buddhism and transgression : the appropriation of Buddhism in the contemporary West by Konik, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I THE EMERGENCE OF DISCIPLINARY/BIO-POWER AND THE ARISING OF DISCURSIVE TENSION IN WESTERN SOCIETY -- Chapter One The problem of effective critique -- Chapter Two Disciplinary/bio-power and rational autonomy -- Chapter Three Secularized/medicalized confession and the problematization of rational autonomy -- PART II A REAPPRAISAL OF WESTERN INTEREST IN TIBET AND VAJRAY256;NA BUDDHISM -- Chapter Four The blank canvas of Tibet -- Chapter Five Lobsang Rampa's The Third Eye: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama -- Chapter Six John Blofeld's The Wheel of Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist -- Chapter Seven Anagarika Govinda's autobiographical The Way of the White Clouds -- PART III ENGAGING WITH THE DISCURSIVE LIMITS OF TRANSGRESSION -- Chapter Eight The 'technological mind, ' discourse analysis, and the emergence of a new type of socially engaged contemporary Western Buddhism -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Lifelong engagement with music : benefits for mental health and well-being

Table of Contents: “…Frameworks for using music as a therapeutic agent for hospitalized newborn infants / Helen Shoemark -- Musical development in infancy / Jacinta Calabro -- Non-musical benefits of school-based music education and training / Anneliese Gill and Nikki Rickard -- Educating amateurs : new technologies and models to enhance music participation in western societies / Neil McLachlan -- Music and adolescents / Katrina McFerran -- Musicking and the performance of gender : a double act / Lucy O'Grady -- Music and neutral placticity / Dawn L. …”
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Heritage and the existential need for history by Webster, Maud

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Thomas Hobbes : turning point for honor by Johnson, Laurie M.

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