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Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
Häftad, 2007
169 kr
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Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
Whistling Vivaldi
And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes—merely reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are considered naturally inferior to men at …
Identity and Violence
The Illusion of Destiny
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2007
169 kr
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In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that …
Modern Liberty
And the Limits of Government
Häftad, 2007
257 kr
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In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality and community are often the most potent rivals of freedom. Declared a “spirited, sophisticated manifesto” by the New York Times Book Review, Modern Liberty …
More than Just Race
Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
Häftad, 2010
296 kr
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In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the …
