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The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway
Häftad, 2025
255 kr
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Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about almost everything. The story of a single day in London after the First World War, it travels backward and forward in time and consciousness, venturing beyond the ordinary world into epic, mythic, and mystical modes. The novel is a work of extraordinary richness, as …
Rise and Fall of Class in Britain
Häftad, 2000
629 kr
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Although it is widely believed that the British are obsessed with class to a degree unrivaled by any other nation, politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," and scholars are concluding that class does not matter any more. But has class-once considered the master narrative of …
Losing Control?
Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Inbunden, 1996
866 kr
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What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who …
Losing Control?
Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
222 kr
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What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who …
Desolation and Enlightenment
Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2003
1123 kr
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During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating …
Desolation and Enlightenment
Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Häftad, 2004
282 kr
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During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating …
Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith
Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science
Inbunden, 2000
1307 kr
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Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in …
Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith
Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science
Häftad, 2013
464 kr
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Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in …
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power
Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2005
581 kr
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The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and …
Politics of the Governed
Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
Inbunden, 2004
1920 kr
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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On …
Politics of the Governed
Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
Häftad, 2006
525 kr
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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On …
Invention of Painting in America
Av David Rosand
Inbunden, 2004
936 kr
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Struggling to create an identity distinct from the European tradition but lacking an established system of support, early painting in America received little cultural acceptance in its own country or abroad. Yet despite the initial indifference with which it was first met, American art flourished …
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Inbunden, 2006
891 kr
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In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, …
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Häftad, 2008
219 kr
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In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, …
Globalization Challenged
Conviction, Conflict, Community
Av George Rupp
Inbunden, 2006
694 kr
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In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive …
Globalization Challenged
Conviction, Conflict, Community
Av George Rupp
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive …
Serious Play
Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
Inbunden, 2010
1415 kr
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Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled …
Beyond Pure Reason
Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents
Inbunden, 2012
651 kr
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The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through …
Deaths in Venice
The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Inbunden, 2013
1193 kr
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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the …
Deaths in Venice
The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Häftad, 2016
304 kr
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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the …
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Inbunden, 2013
823 kr
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Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions-elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives-to do so. Expanding a traditional vision of the …
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Häftad, 2014
247 kr
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Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions-elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives-to do so. Expanding a traditional vision of the …
Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
Inbunden, 2019
257 kr
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In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in …
Plots
Inbunden, 2016
995 kr
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Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, …
Plots
Häftad, 2017
285 kr
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Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, …
Dispossession and the Environment
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
Av Paige West
Häftad, 2016
290 kr
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When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce …
Cinematic Overtures
How to Read Opening Scenes
Inbunden, 2017
1387 kr
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A great movie's first few minutes are the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in and set up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A strong opening sequence leads the viewer to trust …
Cinematic Overtures
How to Read Opening Scenes
Häftad, 2017
208 kr
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A great movie's first few minutes are the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in and set up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A strong opening sequence leads the viewer to trust …
Antagonistic Cooperation
Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Inbunden, 2022
1157 kr
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Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted, Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright FoundationRalph Ellison famously characterized ensemble …
Antagonistic Cooperation
Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Häftad, 2022
290 kr
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Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted, Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright FoundationRalph Ellison famously characterized ensemble …
