4856 results for '"Maurice J. Elias'

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death...

This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad...

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the...

The last major work by one of our century's most influential social theorists,The Germans is a penetrating account of German social development, from the seventeenth century to the present. Enhanced...

Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.

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Studies the influence of Symbolism in 20th century drama beginning with Mallarme and ending iwth the plays of Beckett, which Valency sees as the final consummation of the movement.

This comprehensive and readable history of contemporary France sets the changing fortunes of government and people in a broad, international context. Larkin details the evolution of French political...