Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: human, experience, dimension, comic, laughter, redeeming
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1997-06
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 3110155621
ISBN-13: 9783110155624

The author of numerous previous books of broad appeal and scholarly acclaim on subjects ranging from sociological theory to religious ethics in government and economic systems, and the co-author of a vastly influential treatise on The Social Construction of Reality, Berger unfolds in Redeeming Laughter a new perspective on a classic domain. Berger’s comic terrain is at once noble and amusing, the terrain of Erasmus and Swift. Like his predecessors’, Berger’s writing in these pages is bolstered with exemplary learning and wry observation.

Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: middle, position, resources, religious, fundamentalism, relativism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-12-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0802863876
ISBN-13: 9780802863874

Our contemporary culture is dominated by two extremes — relativism and fundamentalism. Neither is desirable: relativism claims that all questions of truth are irrelevant, whereas fundamentalism insists on sole possession of absolute truth. Internationally renowned sociologist of religion Peter Berger has gathered a group of scholars to consider how, from out of different traditions, one can define a middle position between both extremes. / After an extensive introductory overview by Berger, three essays (“sociological descriptions”) give an objective picture of how relativism and fundame

Author: Klaus Peter Berger
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Keywords: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, business, international, dispute, resolution, private
Number of Pages: 872
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $102.00
ISBN-10: 9041124993
ISBN-13: 9789041124999

This extraordinary work brings powerful unifying analysis to the various ways of resolving an international business dispute. Its print components convert each theory into crystal-clear practical guidance, while its interactive electronic resources provide vivid simulation and documentary support down to the smallest detail. Private Dispute Resolution in International Business consists of two books and an interactive DVDRom. Volume I follows the progress of a dispute between two companies, in step-by-step detail, through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in turn. Volume II provides p

Authors:Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckma,
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: sociology, knowledge, treatise, reality, construction, social
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1967-07-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385058985
ISBN-13: 9780385058988

This book reformulates the sociological  subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge.  Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as  well false consciousness, propaganda, science and  art.

Authors:Peter L. Berger, Samuel P. Huntington,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, contemporary, diversity, cultural, globalizations
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-11-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195168828
ISBN-13: 9780195168822

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world’s problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring together an array of experts who paint a subtle and richly shaded portrait, showing both the power and the unexpected consequences of this great force. The stereotypes of globalization--characterized as American imperialism on the one hand, and as an economic panacea on the other--fall apart under close scrutiny. Surveying globalization from individual countries of the five major continen

Authors:Richard A. Berger, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: volume, surgery, hand
Number of Pages: 2800
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $379.00
ISBN-10: 0781728746
ISBN-13: 9780781728744

Edited by rising stars in orthopaedic surgery, this book is written by internationally recognized experts in hand surgery. The book begins with a basic science section on pathophysiology of the hand, wrist and forearm. The rest of the two-volume book then follows a progressive organization from the most common problems to the least common problems of the hand. Implements a practical approach by containing a chapter on the principles of portal placement, and features over 700 full-color illustrations. Section topics covered include radiographic imaging of the hand, wrist and forearm, avascular

Authors:Peter L. Berger, Jonathan Sacks, David Martin, Tu Wei
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: world, politics, religion, resurgent, desecularization
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1999-07
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0802846912
ISBN-13: 9780802846914

Theorists of "secularization" for two centuries have been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern world. But much of the world today is as religious as ever. This volume challenges the belief that the modern world is increasingly secular, showing instead that modernization more often strengthens religion. Seven expert social observers examine several regions and several religions--Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam--and explore the resurgence of religion in world affairs.