A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.[...]

The classic work that redefined the sociology of knowledge and has inspired a generation of philosophers and thinkersIn this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, [...]

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Ye[...]

'A bitter fool' King Lear The lobby of a grand hotel, New Year's Eve. A snow storm rages. Minetti, a long-forgotten actor, arrives in great spirits to discuss his comeback as King Lear with a theatre director. While he waits patiently in the hotel lobby, Minetti's obsessive personality reveals itse[...]

English summary: This text and workbook describes biblical books according to their contexts and structure and then provides the process of their historical development back to their origins. The framework targets the canon of the Hewbrew Bible, which is set apart in the introduction from the Greek [...]

Presents a reference work in the field of Ionic Liquids in synthesis. This title is supplemented by numerous practical tips, providing those working in both research and industry with useful source of information.[...]

This book explains how to design and analyze heat exchangers, offering the latest correlations for heat transfer coefficients and their application. Covers steady state and transient heat conduction; free and forced convection; heat exchanger design and more.[...]