The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis:" programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as many syntheses as synthesizers. This volume considers an...

"Shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read . . . a boon for students." —Robert J. Sampson, professor of the social sciences at Harvard UniversityToday's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the p...

In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe—from India, Brazil, and China to...

RICK RIORDAN meets DAN BROWN in this epic historical adventure series packed full of puzzles, clues and edge-of-your-seat excitement!Legend has it that Copernicus found twelve powerful relics that could harness the cosmos and transport people through time when assembled in the shape of an astrolabe. Recognising the astrolabe’s terrible power, Copernicus hid the relics in far-flung corners of the globe and assigned loyal Guardians to pass down the duty of protecting the relics acros...

How do you rediscover what makes you you in a world where AI can replicate everything you do?In AI and the Art of Being Human, leading experts Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard explore how to embrace your full humanity at a time when machines are increasingly able to mirror your every move. Blending storytelling and practical insight while drawing on their own work and experiences, they reveal what becomes possible when technology reflects who we ...

The reader is greeted with a Preface by the renowned military strategist and soldier, Andrew J. Goodpaster, followed by a Forward and Introduction. Each thinker is arranged in two tables of content, chronological and topical. Each thinker is introduced with a summary, followed by the title of their writing and then the original writing itself. The writings lift peace out of 20th and 21st centuries' chaos and rise above to places where people of all ages and walks of life can explore direct...

10 Civil War Diaries assembles intimate records of the American Civil War, tracing how military conflict entered homes, cities, plantations, hospitals, and routes of displacement. The selections range from compressed daily notation and reflective observation to political commentary and vivid scenes of scarcity, grief, religious conviction, and endurance. Especially striking are accounts of besieged communities and the shifting moral language through which civilians interpret war. Together,...

When Olivia calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. Two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called to investigate, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. Her car is in the garage and her purse is in her handbag. For some reason every single picture of this family has been removed from albums, phones and computers. Then they find the blood…

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School ...

"Dear Colleagues: I send you greetings from Hyde Park, where the one hundred and twentysecond Autumn Quarter of University of Chicago is right now at its midpoint. The students are hurrying through the quadrangles; the University Libraries are packed with faces worried about midterm examinations; the faculty are frowning at computer screens filled with a thousand things scholarly and unscholarly."

Filled with pulse-pounding action and cryptic codes, The Golden Vendetta is the third engrossing book in bestselling author Tony Abbott's cloak-and-dagger series for young readers. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this adventurous series.It's been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to face her again. Now they mu...

RICK RIORDAN meets DAN BROWN in this epic historical adventure series packed full of puzzles, clues and edge-of-your-seat excitement!The four friends are back and on another even more awesome adventure…