In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, Istvan Meszaros, the world's preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the Bolivar Prize), lays bare the exploitative structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great power that the world's economies are on a social and ecological ......
Test, Monitor & Constantly Improve Your Selling Skills
Many books simply lists prescribed techniques and leave
the reader to interpret them. What makes this book
different os hat is provides clear, practical advice on
every aspect of making a sale, but you'll also find much
more: templates, tables, exercises and stimulating ideas
to develop your sales techniques and monitor your
progress in a ......
Kayaking and Canoeing the Keystone State's Rivers and Lakes
Pennsylvania contains more miles of rivers and creeks than any state but Alaska, making the Keystone State a prime destination for canoers and kayakers. This guide contains information for 211 of the commonwealth's rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs.
Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza’s notion of conatus and Hobbes’s ......
A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System
In telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Rosemary Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by "idealistic reformers" and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who ......
The Biology of Small Mammals is the first exploration of the lives of small mammals undertaken in decades. Mammalogist Joseph F. Merritt offers an engaging, in-depth discussion about a diverse array of small mammals, from the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat of Southeast Asia to the bizarre aye-aye of Madagascar to the familiar woodchuck of North ......
Dylan Riley reconceptualizes the nature and origins of interwar fascism in this remarkable investigation of the connection between civil society and authoritarianism.From the late nineteenth century to World War I, voluntary associations exploded across Europe, especially among rural non-elites. But the development of this 'civil society' did not ......
The events of September 11 and subsequent American actions irrevocably changed the political, military, and legal landscapes of US national security. Predictably, many of the changes were controversial, and abuses were revealed. The US needs a legal framework that reflects these new realities. This title presents an agenda for reforming the ......
