San Antonio College Library

Study of the Philippines - covers historical factors, and the present-day situation in regard to political problems, the social structure, religion, living conditions, etc. Bibliography.

Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped create a broad and inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, the author describes how religious thought and practice shaped Mexico's popular politics. As he shows, religion facilitated the emergence of new social categories and modes of belonging in which individuals--initially...

Social research study of the political leadership and social structure of Peru - covers historical aspects, the economic structure and economic administration, social movements of the poverty-stricken, strikes of miners and bank employees, nationalist political parties, elections, political problems, the introduction of agrarian reform measures, etc. Map.

"The Age of Aging explores a unique phenomenon in the history of mankind, and therefore, one which is taking us all into uncharted territory. The combination of low or declining birth rates and rising life expectancy is producing rapid aging of the world's population and stagnation in the number of people of working age in Western societies. Aging is most obvious in Japan and will soon become more visible in other Western countries and some emerging...

For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the!Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that the !Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that...

In this collection of essays, management expert Peter Drucker examines such topics as the meaning and message of the Information Age, the implications for business in the reinvention of government, the shifting balance of power between management and labor, the differing kinds of teamwork organizations can choose, the lessons to be learned from the rise and fall and rise again of such giants as IBM and GM, where the most important jobs will be in...