Beyond Bauman

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317174813

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Beyond Bauman by Michael Hviid Jacobsen Pdf

Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman’s work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards a fuller understanding of contemporary society. The volume deals with some proposed omissions and absences in Bauman’s sociology, with chapters comparing Bauman’s ideas to those of other prominent social thinkers as well as chapters devoted to teasing out some problems and pitfalls in his work. Paying attention to central concepts and themes of Bauman’s thought, authors engage with various aspects of his work, considering potential deficiencies in his ethical perspective, his neglect of the religious dimensions of modernity, his lack of consideration for ethnicity and gender, his overlooking the importance of socialisation in liquid modernity and his problematic argument for individual choice and freedom in a world that is increasingly closed down by consumer capitalism. Beyond Bauman aspires to show that despite Bauman's status as a key sociological thinker, there are also certain deficiencies in his work demand critical discussion. It will be of use to scholars of sociology, contemporary society, social theory and modernity.

Author : Diane L. Bauman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780470256565

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Beyond Basic Dog Training by Diane L. Bauman Pdf

Since its initial publication, Beyond Basic Dog Training has achieved well deserved recognition as an innovative, unique guide to obedience instruction. Obedience authority Diane Bauman's proven training philosophy asserts that the time has come to go beyond training dogs and start teaching them to please us. This has made a vital difference for those who use her method-and for dogs taught by it to succeed in competitive canine sports. In this new, updated edition, Bauman presents the most current knowledge on canine learning patterns. Believing that dogs learn by trial and error, Bauman provides a novel approach that encourages dogs to learn by removing corrections for incorrect responses. As a result, dogs do not fear failure and are taught to exercise options in a quest for the desired behavior. Bauman shows you how to become a "thinking handler" who can train the "thinking dog." Her remarkable ability to view training from the dog's perspective translates into an invaluable tool for building effective communication between you and your dog. The instruction in this authoritative guide is behind Gaines "Superdogs," numerous obedience trial champions, and a host of other canine successes. If you want your dog to be happy, confident stimulated, and secure in the obedience ring, Beyond Basic Dog Training is the book of choice.

Author : Carlo Bordoni
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783732835157

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Interregnum by Carlo Bordoni Pdf

Challenging the thought of Zygmunt Bauman on the subject of liquid modernity, where everything has become unstable, precarious and uncertain, Carlo Bordoni (author with Bauman of »State of Crisis«) proposes to look at contemporary society as an »interregnum«, a temporary break with the past. In a condition characterised by anomie, the questioning of democratic achievements and the primacy of an unbridled economy, he offers a new perspective on our social condition. Understanding the interregnum and being aware of its instability and the social degradation that it entails can help us to make the right choices.

Author : Janina Bauman
Publisher : Virago
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1844083195

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Beyond These Walls by Janina Bauman Pdf

Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War began but, unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a story of survival. When Hitler's decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, Janina, an intelligent, lively girl, suddenly found herself in a cramped flat, hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal. Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman's courage and survival.

Author : Tony Blackshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134255962

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Zygmunt Bauman by Tony Blackshaw Pdf

This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent refocusing on 'liquid' modernity – as well as offering a clear and accessible guide to the key conceptual hinges which move the reader on. This book, the only concise introduction to Bauman's work on the market, goes on to explain the importance of the full range of persistent themes concerning Bauman, dealing specifically with individualization, freedom, identity, community, social control, consumption and waste, building a penetrating understanding of why these issues matter for this Key Sociologist. Bauman's ideas have impacted beyond sociology into criminology, political theory, cultural studies, leisure studies and so forth, and have also now penetrated outside the walls of the academy into social policy, welfare reform, social work and politics. Making use of pedagogical features such as boxed sections, chapter summaries, an annotated bibliography and links to further reading, this well-written text assumes no prior familiarity with Bauman's work and will appeal to anyone in any of these fields wishing to get acquainted with the ideas of one of the world's most wide-ranging thinkers.

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Sophia Marshman,Keith Tester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Culture
ISBN : 8773077836

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Bauman Beyond Postmodernity by Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Sophia Marshman,Keith Tester Pdf

The acclaimed Bauman Before Postmodernity started a project to provide a complete critical bibliography of the work of Zygmunt Bauman, one the world's leading social and cultural critics. It took the story from 1953 to 1989. This book brings the story closer to today. Like the first book, Bauman Beyond Postmodernity contains original conversations with Bauman and a detailed guide to his academic publications. The book begins in 1988/1989 and continues to the end of 2005, when Bauman celebrated his eightieth birthday. During this period, Bauman attempted to identify a key metaphor that would grasp the present, and enter into a dialogue with fellow citizens. He started with post- modernity but went beyond it with his discussion of liquid modernity. The world is increasingly mosaic-like, and as both reflection and response the sweep and range of Bauman's publication has increased. Yet, all the time Bauman never forgets that he is talking about a world in which men and women live; a world that can help or hinder the fundamental human task of becoming human. In this book, Bauman talks in detail about the style and stakes of his work. It is the most thorough catalogue of Bauman's work from 1989 to 2005, and it includes detailed discussions of his academic essays from this period. Bauman Beyond Postmodernity also contains some brief and engaging critical appreciations of Bauman's work from a range of international scholars, all of whom have been excited, stimulated and provoked by it. Bauman Beyond Postmodernity is essential reading for anyone who has encountered the work of Zygmunt Bauman. The authors of the book - Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Sophia Marshman and Keith Tester - have all for several years written extensively on the inspirational work of Zygmunt Bauman.

Author : Katharine G. Bristol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3366279

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Beyond the Pruitt-Igoe Myth by Katharine G. Bristol Pdf

Author : Janina Bauman
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0860686523

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Winter in the Morning by Janina Bauman Pdf

Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not completely wipe out her passion for books, boys and romance, 'Perhaps we've been wasting the last bits of our lives not even trying to found out what life is?' Then came the raids and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by years spent behind hidden doors, where dependence on others was crucial, and all that a growing girl craves, denied. Told through her teenage diaries, this is an extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman's survival and courage.

Author : Izabela Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509526895

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Bauman by Izabela Wagner Pdf

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eighties, had his finger on the pulse of the youth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman’s life and work. Izabela Wagner returns to Bauman’s native Poland and recounts his childhood in an assimilated Polish Jewish family and the school experiences shaped by anti-Semitism. Bauman’s life trajectory is typical of his generation and social group: the escape from Nazi occupation and Soviet secondary education, communist engagement, enrolment in the Polish Army as a political officer, participation in the WW II and the support for the new political regime in the post-war Poland. Wagner sheds new light on the post-war period and Bauman’s activity as a KBW political officer. His eviction in 1953 from the military ranks and his academic career reflect the dynamic context of Poland in 1950s and 1960s. His professional career in Poland was abruptly halted in 1968 by the anti-Semitic purges. Bauman became a refugee again - leaving Poland for Israel, and then settling down in Leeds in the UK in 1971. His work would flourish in Leeds, and after his retirement in 1991 he entered a period of enormous productivity which propelled him onto the international stage as one of the most widely read and influential social thinkers of our time. Wagner’s biography brings out the complex connections between Bauman’s life experiences and his work, showing how his trajectory as an ‘outsider’ forced into exile by the anti-Semitic purges in Poland has shaped his thinking over time. Her careful and thorough account will be the standard biography of Bauman’s life and work for years to come.

Author : Great Britain. Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103820694

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Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to Magistrates, Municipal, and Parochial Law ... by Great Britain. Courts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121366120

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The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Magistrates' cases
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Justices of the peace
ISBN : OXFORD:555003005

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Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to Magistrates, Municipal, and Parochial Law by Great Britain. Magistrates' cases Pdf

Author : Ine Gevers,Jeanne van Heeswijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : UCAL:B4279118

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Beyond ethics and aesthetics by Ine Gevers,Jeanne van Heeswijk Pdf

Met bijdragen van: Oscar van Alphen, Ute Meta Bauer & Yvonne P. Doderer, Marianne Brouwer, Martin Lucas, Adrian Piper, Simon Critchley, Helmut Draxler, Jean Fisher, Avital Geva, Tijs Goldschmidt, Roy Villevoye, Multiple Autorenschaft, Jouke Kleerebezem, Viktor Misiano, Everlyn Nicodemus, fordacity, Sadie Plant, Martha Rosler, Rob Schröder, Jorinde Seijdel, Barbara Steiner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ross Sinclair en de samenstellers van deze bundel beschouwingen.

Author : G. William Whitehurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021070656

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Diary of a Congressman: ABSCAM and beyond by G. William Whitehurst Pdf

Author : Diane L. Bauman
Publisher : *Howell Book House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0876054106

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Beyond Basic Dog Training by Diane L. Bauman Pdf

Beyond Basic Dog Training has, since its initial publication, achieved well-deserved recognition as an innovative guide to obedience instruction that is truly unique among books on the subject. Beyond Basic Dog Training makes a vital difference for those who read and use it and for dogs taught by it. This book shows how dogs learn, what they do with what they learn, and how a stimulated canine mind, along with an untrampled canine ego, makes for a dog that is a constant joy to live and work with. The new edition presents the most current knowledge on canine learning patterns, and provides updated American Kennel Club obedience trial regulations, greatly expanded since the first edition appeared. The instruction in Beyond Basic Dog Training is behind Gaines "Superdogs," numerous obedience trial champions, and a host of canine successes. This is the book of choice for informed obedience fans. It can do for you and your dog what it has done for them and theirs. A Howell Dog Book of Distinction