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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

Assessing the Protestant interpretive tradition in conversation with modern contemplative theologies... more

A bestselling textbook in its first three editions, Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Fourth Editio... more

This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of...... more

an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed...... more

First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a att... more

? Neil Smelser begins by tackling the fundamental problem of defining what exactly terrorism is. He shows why a precise...... more

This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We b... more

political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California...... more

From the 1950s onward, Americans were quite receptive to a view of World War II similar to the view ... more

From the 1950s onward, Americans were quite receptive to a view of World War II similar to the view ... more

Germani. Neil J. Smelser is emeritus professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Seymour Martin...... more

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoreti... more

The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our ... more

One of the last century s most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading vis... more

Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisal--and extension--of the work of the most significant and i... more

This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic high... more

Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the p... more

For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across...... more

These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt...... more

As neo-fascist rumblings are being felt again throughout Europe, it is proper to re-examine the deve... more

"Smelser demonstrates that a good historian can write good sports history and that good sports history makes good...... more

Neil Smelser’s Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever...... more

Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-es... more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California... more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California... more

My goal was to achieve financial freedom through real estate investing, and if you picked up this bo... more

Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology...... more

This is Volume XVII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. First publ... more

From 1945 to 1990 communist East Germany was an officially atheistic state. Nevertheless, members of... more

Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Third Edition provides engineering students with a complete, conc... more

lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and...... more

in its coverage as the first edition, represents a wholesale revamping. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg have kept the...... more

The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, profoundly changed the course of history of the nati... more

How can one link the Holocaust and justice, given the enormity of the Holocaust? Is justice even pos... more

How can one link the Holocaust and justice, given the enormity of the Holocaust? Is justice even pos... more

Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisal--and extension--of the work of the most significant and i... more

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part, w... more

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part, w... more

Macmillan s 1991 Dartmouth Medal-winning Encyclopedia of the Holocaust set the standard for genera... more