Stephen Turner: 29 books
The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Narratives of Former Slaves (Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
by Alanah Andrews, Maddie Jensen, Matthew P. Copping
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
16 stories. 16 Australian authors. One theme. Beginnings.
Esmeralda is trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake and escape from the darkness.
A simple bus trip turns into a fight for survival.
Alone in a strange place with no memories of who she is or how she got there, Alora's...
by Stephen P. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed...
The Social Theory of Practices
Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Presuppositions
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession that is 'shared' by and the same for different people,...
by Stephen P. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution...
by Stephen P. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s...
Cognitive Science and the Social
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular...
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature
Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
by Bryan S. Turner, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
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.
by Bryan S. Turner, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
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...
by Bryan S. Turner, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
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...