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Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...
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Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...
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Examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From interviews...
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The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
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The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
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Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...
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Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a window into the lives and culture...
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Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book...
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Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...
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Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities...
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Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community...
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Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call...
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Presents an exposition of the author's sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of...
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The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on...
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A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....
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Includes essay 'On Seeing in Nature', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of...