Hierarchy and Value

Hierarchy and ValueGlobalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchyor the reemergence of old formsas people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East

This book explores the role Dutch scholars played in the development of instruments and technology in the 17th Century that would allow sailors to accurately and precisely determine their position

Anna witnesses their act in secret

This collection of essays written by scholars from a variety of disciplines is about a favourite game of Anglo-French intellectual life since the eighteenth century: the game of cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals themselves

leading to the creation of schools for girls

Offers discharge guidelines for inpatient conditions

radical theologies tend to reject the absolute authority of traditional sources of guidance such as the Bible and the tradition of a church

This edition of Peary Chand Mitra’s The Spoilt Child is a classic of Bengali literature reimagined for modern readers

This book presents his memoirs-translated in English for the first time-interposed with those of his wife

or by bolstering existing functions to incorporate process improvements and to support Knowledge Management initiatives

Includes many previously unpublished materials

this book investigates the questions of self knowledge

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