Basic books jun 1996 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative critique of the failures of liberalism "Compelling." Wall Street Journal This book is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with factsand sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elitesthe anointedoften consider themselves "thinking people," but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against these assumptions.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both the positive and negative aspects of the relationship.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do so many smart, career-oriented, even ardently feminist women end up with nearly sole responsibility for running their households and raising their children Why does it happen even in couples who had promised to share that work equally Kidding Ourselves traces the decisions that women and men make?usually unwittingly?before and after marriage, and especially after the birth of a child, that lead inevitably to an old-fashioned division of labor at home. It also explains why change is necessary. As long as nearly all men devote themselves first and foremost to paying work, they will on average outearn women, who reduce their hours and travel in their paying job once they have a child. With this groundbreaking book, Rhona Mahony suggests practical ways to bring men into child raising and end the unfair burden of women's second shift.…