Why do we do what we do? : : motivation in history and the social sciences / / Ramsay MacMullen.

Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it - philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, case by case. Occasionally the specialists have offered their ideas to a genera...

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Place / Publishing House:Warsaw, [Poland] ;, Berlin, [Germany] : : De Gruyter Open,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (165 pages) :; illustrations
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