by Erik Olin Wright (1997)
Class Counts combines theoretical discussions of the concept of class with a wide range of comparative empirical investigations of class and its ramifications in developed capitalist societies. What unites the topics is not a preoccupation with a common object of explanation, but rather a common explanatory factor: class. Four broad themes are explored: class structure and its transformation; the permeability of class boundaries; class and gender; and class consciousness. The specific empirical studies include such diverse topics as the sexual division of labor in housework, gender differences in managerial authority, friendship networks in the class structure, the expansion of self-employment in the United States in the past two decades, and the class consciousness of state and private-sector employees. The results of these studies are then evaluated in terms of how they confirm certain expectations within the Marxist tradition of class analysis and how they pose challenging surprises.
Douglas R. Weiner
Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s - Lenin's rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published.
Bruno Trentin
""La città del lavoro" è un libro programma. Oggi il fordismo, con le sue grandi fabbriche, è in Italia e in Occidente al tramonto. Ma non è in crisi il taylorismo, che nel Novecento è stato accettato anche dal socialismo di Stato e dalla cultura di sinistra e comunista. Il lavoro continua, in larga parte, ad essere eterodiretto, ridotto a merce e a cosa, appendice e schiavo della tecnica, mentre la sinistra è incapace di dare una risposta adeguata ai neoliberismo, ai processi tecnologici e di globalizzazione in corso. Ripensare la sinistra significa porre al centro della politica il lavoro come diritto di cittadinanza costituzionale; e soprattutto affermare la democrazia e la libertà nel lavoro affinché la persona umana possa realizzare il proprio progetto di sapere e di vita."--Page 4 of cover.
Kunihiko Kaneko, Ichiro Tsuda
Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.
William F. Clocksin, Christopher S. Mellish
Since the first edition of this book in 1981, Prolog has continued to attract an unexpectedly great deal of interest in the computer science community and has turned out to be a basis for an important new family of programming languages and systems for Artificial Intelligence. In the preceding three editions, the authors have steadily added new material, improved the presentation, and corrected various minor errors to provide a textbook as well as a reference work for everyone who wants to study and use Prolog as a practical programming language. The authors concentrate on teaching "core" Prolog. All examples conform to this standard and will run on the most widely-used Prolog implementations some of which are listed in the appendices with indications as to how they diverge from the standard.