This concise and lucid supplementary text guides students through discussions of reason, religion, power, crime, and love, demonstrating that sociology offers striking and "nonobvious" insights that deepen our understanding of society. By highlighting unusual and unexpected conclusions this lively book dramatizes the significance of sociological analysis for those new to its study.
In this book you’ll learn how to conquer anxiety about public speaking, grab your listeners’ attention with your very first words, gain a more imposing voice and send the right nonverbal signals, use “command phrases” to grab and hold an audience, handle tough questions and tough crowds, deliver special-occasion speeches such as introductions, award presentations, eulogies, and toasts, …
Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it "transcendental idealism" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that i…