Titres dans Sociologie

The Principles of Scientific Management by F.W. Taylor is a tremendously important book, the essence of which has had irreversible impact on the way we think about organized labour and management today. It is a product of many years of experimentation, uncertainty, and hard work, fused with thoroughly modernist ideals of a pedantic mind. This book is a culmination of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s career as, perhaps, the most famous management consultant. It stands on the shoulders of his previous examinations of the wage system and the operational characteristics of machine tools.

Groundbreaking scientific analysis that breaks the JFK assassination wide open! Did a shot from the "grassy knoll" kill President Kennedy? If so, was Oswald part of a conspiracy or an innocent patsy? Why have scientific experts who examined the evidence failed to put such questions to rest? In 2001, scientist Dr. Donald Byron Thomas published a peer-reviewed article that revived the debate over the finding by the House Select Committee on Assassinations that there had indeed been a shot from the grassy knoll, caught on a police dictabelt recording.

Do you want to improve your leadership skills and learn how to bring out the best in your employees, co-workers, or students? Then The Art of Supportive Leadership can help you! Large and small companies of every kind (from well-established industrial corporations to sparkling new tech firms) are using this proven approach to leadership with great success. It has become equally indispensable to the non-profit organizations, schools, and military personnel who also use it.

Mujeres que se rebelaron contra el matrimonio y rompieron las reglas de etiqueta. Rebeldes, genias, decadentes, artistas.... Señoras que, pese a todas las dificultades de su tiempo, se atrevieron a expresar su sexualidad y desafiar a su época. Este libro, que contempla desde el siglo XVII hasta el siglo XX, explora la historia pública y privada de estas fascinantes mujeres que amaban a otras - Anne Seymour Damer, Anne Lister o Josephine Baker, entre tantas otras - para visibilizar y sacar a la luz una realidad que nunca debería haber sido secreta.

Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology.

How and why right-wing Christian women have risen to the forefront of American politics.

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu man. In Ubuntu Relational Love, he uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures.

On n'est pas sérieux quand on a douze ans. On tombe amoureux. Furieusement amoureux. Isabelle Samain, Isabelle Samain, Isabelle Samain. Son nom est un refrain, sa beauté, une chanson d'amour. On la guette, on se pâme, on fantasme, on la désire. Qui ça, on ? Ici, pas de nous (trop banal), encore moins de je (trop pédant). Le confident de C'est aujourd'hui que je vous aime, par pudeur, par plaisir, se nomme "les hommes", alias tous les garçons, alias François Morel.

Trouvez la paix face au deuil et explorez la nature de l'âme avec cette réflexion philosophique sur la fin de vie. Conçu pour les moments d'introspection, ce cheminement doux et méditatif vous accompagne dans l'épreuve de la perte et l'incertitude de l'existence. Sans imposer de vérité...

Transformez votre projet agricole en un écosystème florissant où la permaculture nourrit la terre et les liens humains. Que vous soyez en pleine reconversion professionnelle ou en quête de sens pour votre travail collectif, cette écoute apaisante et pragmatique vous ancre instantanément...

Décryptez le pouvoir économique et la finance moderne pour comprendre la face cachée des fortunes extrêmes. Loin des mythes et des condamnations hâtives, cette enquête sociologique dissèque la création, la gestion et la transmission des empires contemporains. Parfait pour enrichir vos...

Apaisez votre rapport à la finitude avec cette fascinante exploration spirituelle des mythes de la vie après la mort. Idéal pour une écoute contemplative lors de vos marches solitaires ou pour vous détendre le soir, ce récit anthropologique dresse un panorama mondial de nos espoirs face à...

Plongez dans un mystère archéologique captivant où la science moderne interroge les corps intacts de l'Europe ancienne. Idéal pour un trajet immersif, ce récit dresse un portrait sombre et respectueux de ces lointains ancêtres. Les zones humides révèlent enfin leurs secrets enfouis. Loin...

Décrypter la mythologie antique et ses rites funéraires, c'est comprendre comment une civilisation a défié la mort. Lors de vos trajets quotidiens ou d'une session de concentration, plongez dans cette atmosphère mystérieuse pour explorer les croyances complexes entourant le grand passage...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London) From National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably timely” (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire...

A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. “An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just...

In the post-9/11 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simple, black v. white, us v. them, good v. evil, formulaic solutions. The rise of the internet; increasingly sophisticated knowledge about how to influence and manipulate others; and the growing vulnerabilities of people across the planet-make for a dangerous, potentially devastating combination.

Why do people with mental health conditions die 15-20 years earlier than people without? Why is £100 million spent every year placing patients far from their homes? How did the question, 'What matters to you?' transform mental health care in Norway? We live in a country in which community is...

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of All That Remains by Professor Sue Black, read by the author. Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and...