Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discusses about the anthropology's contributions to modern thought, and examines specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture.
First published in 1869, Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and how it can best be disseminated. This edition reproduces the first book version and enables readers to appreciate its historical context and its continued importance.
Charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America. This book explains these transformations by showing how the social organisation of society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime.
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
The course of true love never did run smooth. Especially for Cyrano, cursed with a monstrosity of a nose, and in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in town. Worst of all, Roxane loves another, and Cyrano, craving her happiness above all things, finds himself helping his rival to woo the woman they both love.
Explores the range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism, whilst at the same time establishing the aesthetic differences between the movements. This book also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body.