The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to lay bare negative assumptions forming methodologies in modern social theory in order to redirect the social sciences towards real problems and the progressive consequences of their solution. Examples are given and, throughout, the continuity of particular and general concerns is demonstrated.

Explanation and Social Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Stewart, Alexander

Holmwood, John

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Elements of Gaelic Grammar

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Franklin Classics

Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began, they never really disappeared. Making the Scene challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the vital role of big bands in the ongoing development of jazz. Alex Stewart describes how jazz musicians have found big bands valuable. He explores the rich "rehearsal band" scene in New York and the rise of repertory orchestras. Making the Scene combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis, ethnic studies, and gender theory, dismantling stereotypical views of the big band.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of California Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Elements Of Gaelic Grammar: In Four Parts

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Kessinger Publishing

Social Stratification and Occupations

Prandy, Kenneth

Blackburn, Robert M.

Holmes & Meier Pub

Social Stratification and Occupation

Jeremiah - the man and his work

Religion & Spirituality

Knox Press (Edinburgh)

The Works of William Robertson: Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India; and the Progress of Trade With That ... of the Passage to It by the Cape of Good Hope

History

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM

Asia

Legare Street Press

Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth, when he ran away to sea, was captured by the French, and spent some ten years as a prisoner. On returning home, he took to teaching, but then came a compelling inner call to the Christian ministry, and for the remainder of his life he preached the gospel with characteristic vigour and courage. Sir P. Malcolm Stewart, his grandson, in his Preface speaks of his "sense of pride in Alexander Stewart's patience, endurance, and determination, in his great physical and moral courage, and his fight for freedom whether in prison or in the ministry." "The style of writing," says Alexander Stewart, "which I have adopted is that of unadorned narrative," and such a story needed no external embellishments. His early narrative is given in extenso; the later portion is taken and abridged from his diary. Altogether it is a remarkable addition to the corpus of memoirs of the Napoleonic era. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

The Life of Alexander Stewart: Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel (Sir Halley Stewart Trust: Publications)

Europe

Routledge

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