A Pelican Book

The author combines data on the ecological problem of population and demand outstripping the resource base and recovery ability of the planet with fiction. Population control, even by severe measures, living with less and reliance on renewable resources are the suggested strategies for planetary success.

In this illuminating celebration of the political world, Bernard Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is messy and complex, and his book defends it against those who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, democracy, nationalism, or technology. This Fourth edition has been updated to include an assessment of the revolutions in 1989 in Eastern Europe. It also examines current situations in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, and South Africa.

The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins"--who gave ideological cover for the war.

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

On March 30, 1282, the Sicilian townsfolk of Palermo slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. The massacre came at a climatic moment of thirteenth century Mediterranean history and its background is traced in this volume.

This is volume 3 of 4 volumes. I actually loathe Trevelyan but even so he does come in useful (not to say indispensible) at times

The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individual's growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood. - Back cover.

This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.

Story of the Greek bronze age, and the curious drama of that story's gradual recovery from the silent earth--Preface.

Full history of the American Negro, from his origins in the great empires of the Nile Valley and the western Sudan through the Negro revolt of the 1960's.

Examines the history and inherent flaws of the tests science has used to measure intelligence.

Discusses the physical, emotional, and ethical aspects of sex including such topics as dating, petting, intercourse and its consequences, lesbianism, and other related topics.

2 of 2 vols.

Detailed, richly informed, birth-to-death biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt by a member of the original "brain trust." Original Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1957. Original Edition/Format: Print book : Biography : English : [1st ed.]

Presents excerpts from the philosopher's works with a critical study of his main ideas and sociological views.