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Magic, Science and Society
Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of science in the 1970s and 1980s, to the ‘epistemological’ and ‘ontological’ turns of the early twenty-first century. Different people have different understandings of what is rational: some practise magic, some orientate to legal convention and tradition and others defer to science and logic. Starting with anthropological studies of witchcraft, and working through to contemporary debates a...
Sociologies of Interaction
Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the social status of people we meet, and enjoy leisurely pursuits in the company of friends and like-minded others. All these things are fundamental parts of human sociality that can be discovered and understood through 'sociologies of interaction'. This book provides an invaluable introduction to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of interactionist approaches to everyday life. Beginning with an overview of three core traditions - symb...
The Adventures of Big Alex and His Friends 8.5 X 11
Childrens Stories about a family of buses
Making Decisions about People
This title was first published in 2001. Engaging with both management science and interactionist sociology, this book employs a case study of stroke rehabilitation in hospitals to clarify a range of practical organizational concerns and conceptual issues related to decision making in complex organizations.
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations
For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations is a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness. Braude begins with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds...
Christopher's Blade
A killer’s blade craves fresh blood… Marcus Holt is Subject B, a Vietnam veteran forced to take part in Professor Abel Worthe’s sadistic experiment. Worthe keeps his human lab rats in a village haunted by murderous ghosts, and forces them to one terrifying ordeal after another. This time, the prisoners find themselves hunted by another vicious spirit. Within the walls of a rotting old New England cottage, the ghost of a vicious serial killer lies in wait. His name is Christopher, and his razor-sharp bayonet longs to taste the blood of a fresh victim. Even as they plan to defeat Christopher, Marcus prepares for an onslaught from outside the village walls, and finds strange new allies in the coming battle. He must fight on two fronts, battling an undead killer within the village walls, and an enemy gathering strength beyond the gates. But will victory be enough to free them all from the professor’s unholy grasp? Or is it all just another trap in Worthe’s diabolical game?
Transformation Formula
After surviving the CIA investigation of a terrorist bomb plot, then a plane crash in a Florida swamp, engineer Alex Marzoni, along with his wife Marisa and his karate trainer and friend, Ralph Sorenson, recover from their ordeal. They begin to resume their lives on their island homes off the coast of Panama. However, with the help of an international drugs and arms dealer, a villain resurfaces and sets up on a Caribbean Island as he plots his diabolical schemes against Alex, his friends, and the rest of the world. This tale of adventure and torture takes our heroes from the Caribbean Islands to the streets of New York to avenge their pain and suffering at the hands of the crazed lunatic. How can our team track the villains and stay alive to prevent world wide terrorist attacks led by their insane enemy? Also, Can Alex survive the battle with his own inner demons and fears?
