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The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Paperback): Alexander Riley The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Paperback)
Alexander Riley; Contributions by Stephane Courtois, Paul Hollander, Ronald Radosh; Edited by Alfred Kentigern Siewers
R1,022 R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Save R57 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona files.

Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Paperback): Alexander Riley Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Paperback)
Alexander Riley
R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the discipline into marginality. This book takes its place in a rich tradition of efforts to integrate sociological thinking into the world of the biological sciences that can be traced to the origins of the discipline, and that took on modern form beginning a generation ago in the works of thinkers such as E.O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection, the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human societies.

Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Hardcover): Alexander Riley Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Hardcover)
Alexander Riley
R4,023 Discovery Miles 40 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the discipline into marginality. This book takes its place in a rich tradition of efforts to integrate sociological thinking into the world of the biological sciences that can be traced to the origins of the discipline, and that took on modern form beginning a generation ago in the works of thinkers such as E.O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection, the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human societies.

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 - A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse (Paperback):... Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 - A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse (Paperback)
Alexander Riley
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse is a punchy, conversational look at some of the most interesting pieces of cultural and social conflict from the '60s, reflected through the lens of our own vantage point today. This approachable, informative volume uses transcripts of public interviews to provide the viewpoints of half a dozen nationally known scholars with long records of writing in scholarly and popular realms. They represent a range of disciplinary and political perspectives from the humanities to the social sciences and from the progressive left to the conservative right. These scholars offer their thoughts on: the place of youth in American society that emerged from the '60s the lingering contributions the counterculture made to American institutions and social life the legacy in contemporary America of the struggles over racial disparities in the '60s the ways in which the revolution of sexual mores and relations of that decade have affected marriage and family today the war in Vietnam and its effects on contemporary views of America's military power and responsibility in the world the evolution of American state power and administration that was energized by Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. This book will be of interest to students of American history and the history and politics of the 1960s as well as sociologists. It searches for meaning in a period that made major contributions to the shape of America as a country.

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 - A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse (Hardcover):... Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 - A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse (Hardcover)
Alexander Riley
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse is a punchy, conversational look at some of the most interesting pieces of cultural and social conflict from the '60s, reflected through the lens of our own vantage point today. This approachable, informative volume uses transcripts of public interviews to provide the viewpoints of half a dozen nationally known scholars with long records of writing in scholarly and popular realms. They represent a range of disciplinary and political perspectives from the humanities to the social sciences and from the progressive left to the conservative right. These scholars offer their thoughts on: the place of youth in American society that emerged from the '60s the lingering contributions the counterculture made to American institutions and social life the legacy in contemporary America of the struggles over racial disparities in the '60s the ways in which the revolution of sexual mores and relations of that decade have affected marriage and family today the war in Vietnam and its effects on contemporary views of America's military power and responsibility in the world the evolution of American state power and administration that was energized by Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. This book will be of interest to students of American history and the history and politics of the 1960s as well as sociologists. It searches for meaning in a period that made major contributions to the shape of America as a country.

Impure Play - Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture (Hardcover): Alexander Riley Impure Play - Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Alexander Riley
R2,583 Discovery Miles 25 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Impure Play is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. Alexander Riley harnesses a range of cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and tragedy in order to make sense of the emergence of realms of popular culture where violence and death have a prominent role. The range of popular cultural spheres explored is wide. Topics described in various chapters include gangsta rap and death metal music, popular fiction called racist and pornographic by some critics, violent video games, sports scandals involving sex and violence, and online sites specializing in images of violence and death. Instead of moralizing about these cultural products as much media commentary and even the work of many scholars does, Riley frames this cultural transgression as a structural response to shifts in the broader American culture and especially in American religious culture. An effort is made to read these cultural practices as texts that tie in to broader cultural narratives of tragedy and impurity and that therefore have an essential meaning-making function to play in contemporary American society.

Impure Play - Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture (Paperback): Alexander Riley Impure Play - Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture (Paperback)
Alexander Riley
R1,311 Discovery Miles 13 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Impure Play is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. Alexander Riley harnesses a range of cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and tragedy in order to make sense of the emergence of realms of popular culture where violence and death have a prominent role. The range of popular cultural spheres explored is wide. Topics described in various chapters include gangsta rap and death metal music, popular fiction called racist and pornographic by some critics, violent video games, sports scandals involving sex and violence, and online sites specializing in images of violence and death. Instead of moralizing about these cultural products as much media commentary and even the work of many scholars does, Riley frames this cultural transgression as a structural response to shifts in the broader American culture and especially in American religious culture. An effort is made to read these cultural practices as texts that tie in to broader cultural narratives of tragedy and impurity and that therefore have an essential meaning-making function to play in contemporary American society.

The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Hardcover): Alexander Riley The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Hardcover)
Alexander Riley; Contributions by Stephane Courtois, Paul Hollander, Ronald Radosh; Edited by Alfred Kentigern Siewers
R2,253 Discovery Miles 22 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona files.

Addiction 101 - Being A Human Being First (Paperback): Alexander Riley Addiction 101 - Being A Human Being First (Paperback)
Alexander Riley
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gives you an opportunity to learn and understand human nature regarding both an individual with an addiction challenge and self. The dialogue format gives you insight as to how human beings view a variety of emotional stages in our lives and how these emotions have a direct relationship with how those emotions dictate the individuals response affecting their decisions. It opens up your mind to a clear understanding of how to help addicted challenged individuals move from the label to that of understanding themselves and oneself in the process of real unconditional support both the caregiver and the recipient.

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