The Debt of the Living

The Debt of the LivingAn analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism. Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for

The chapter reviews the behavioural ecology of pigs

A sense of displaced time saturates the blending of real and unreal events

It book discusses how different experiences of partition and consolidation informed or resisted architectural developments and urban planning

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In Theatres of Human Sacrifice

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the misuse of power

This is the first book dedicated to Centaurs

It features case studies of physically and developmentally challenged individuals using Adaptive Technology to assist them in their education

The book engages with some of the major themes and continuing concerns of Goffman’s sociology

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two major concentrations of rock inscriptions and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of the Egyptian Western Desert