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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Social Engineering in the Modern World
Häftad, 2016
912 kr
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As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens, …
Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform
A Life Well Lived
Häftad, 2026
417 kr
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This book offers a historical look at the life and theology of Charles Fletcher Dole. Dole was born into what he described as an “ultra-orthodox” religious family. He was unable to accept the severe, quasi-Calvinist theology of his relatives, and when he attended Harvard College, he was influenced …
Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism
A Comnaz Analysis
Av Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1397 kr
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The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same …
Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism
Häftad, 2015
632 kr
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Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis—that capitalism first emerged in Arabia, not in late medieval Italian city states as is commonly assumed.Early Islam made a seminal but largely unrecognized contribution to the history of economic thought; it is the only …
Under Siege
Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community
Av Walter S. DeKeseredy, Shahid Alvi m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
604 kr
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Under Siege is one of the first books of its kind. It vividly describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other alarming structural transformations that currently plague the United States …
K-Pop Idols
Popular Culture and the Emergence of the Korean Music Industry
Av Hark Joon Lee, Dal Yong Jin
Häftad, 2021
534 kr
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Converging theory and practice, this book provides a unique analysis of Korean youth’s attempts to become global celebrities within the growing K-pop phenomenon, which is rapidly becoming part of global media systems and culture. K-pop has become one of the most popular cultural forms in the global …
Andrey Platonov
The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution
Av Tora Lane
Häftad, 2020
629 kr
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This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov’s vision of the Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro et contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the proposal of this book is to look …
Emergence of a New Urban China
Insiders' Perspectives
Av Zai Liang, Steven Messner m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
739 kr
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This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative …
Christian Fasting
Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives
Av S.H. Mathews
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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Rooted in a rigorous social-scientific reading of the New Testament, S.H. Mathews illuminates how fasting functioned within the honor-shame, kinship-bound, and collectivist world of the first-century Mediterranean. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and historical criticism, the volume re-situates …
Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans
Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania
Häftad, 2014
859 kr
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Promotion of the low risk “ABC” behaviors—Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use—has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana …
Safe Travel Book
Av Peter Savage
Häftad, 1999
574 kr
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Forgotten Battles
Italy's War of Liberation, 1943-1945
Inbunden, 2001
1910 kr
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Italy's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, …
Poison
Modern Manifestations of a Blood Libel
Inbunden, 2002
1397 kr
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This is the story of an amazing manifestation of a modern blood libel against the Jews and Israel, involving not only Arabs and Muslims, but also the European media and world organizations. Based on rich documentation from all angles: Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, European, American, and …
Poison
Modern Manifestations of a Blood Libel
Häftad, 2002
636 kr
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This is the story of an amazing manifestation of a modern blood libel against the Jews and Israel, involving not only Arabs and Muslims, but also the European media and world organizations. Based on rich documentation from all angles: Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, European, American, and …
From Bakunin to Lacan
Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power
Av Saul Newman
Inbunden, 2001
1357 kr
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In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and …
Witness from the Pulpit
Topical Sermons, 1933-1980
Av Harold I. Saperstein, Marc Saperstein
Häftad, 2001
632 kr
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Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish perspective based on personal encounters with great …
Over and over Again
Av Fugen Neziroglu, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias
Häftad, 2002
601 kr
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Forgetting Futures
On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity
Inbunden, 2001
1560 kr
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Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting. In the book Petar Ramadanovic presents an elegant critique of the most significant concepts of memory, from Plato to Nietzsche, as …
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Av Dave Hill, Peter McLaren m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
697 kr
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Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and …
Melusine The Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology
Inbunden, 2003
1642 kr
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Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws …
Debates of Liberty
An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881-1908
Inbunden, 2002
1251 kr
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In her pioneering work, The Debates of Liberty, Wendy McElroy provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most remarkable and influential political phenomena in America: the anarchist periodical Liberty and the circle of radicals who surrounded it. Liberty, which is widely considered to be …
International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
Av Richard Sobel, Eric Shiraev Ph.D
Häftad, 2003
717 kr
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Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution? Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how public reaction impacted democratic …
Between Nazis and Soviets
Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947
Inbunden, 2004
1910 kr
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Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German …
Postmodern Anarchism
Av Lewis Call
Inbunden, 2003
1286 kr
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Delving into the anarchist writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Baudrillard, and exploring the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, theorist Lewis Call examines the new philosophical current where anarchism meets postmodernism. This theoretical stream moves beyond anarchism's …
Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship
The 1996 'Asian Donorgate' Controversy in Perspective
Inbunden, 2004
1286 kr
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The Asian American activist and political communities viewed 1996 as a watershed year, in which the Democratic Party took seriously its Asian American constituency—until the "Asian Donorgate" campaign finance controversy complicated that representation. In the ensuing public discourse Chinese …
Centaur in Auschwitz
Reflections on Primo Levi's Thinking
Inbunden, 2003
1315 kr
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In A Centaur in Auschwitz, Massimo Giuliani sheds new light on Primo Levi's rational, demythologizing approach to suffering and survival. Whether working in narrative or poetic form, Levi grappled with the ambiguities and complexities of innocence and guilt, triumph and loss. Giuliani presents a …
Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America
The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'
Häftad, 2003
717 kr
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While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. In this insightful political history, Nimtz argues that Marx and his partner, Frederick Engels, had a far more acute and …
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Policies, Prospects, and Possibilities
Av Christopher Marsh, June Teufel Dreyer
Häftad, 2003
604 kr
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the once numerous pronouncements of a coming conflict with China have been muted as both countries face new challenges. The contributors to this insightful volume discuss some of the most critical issues in contemporary U.S.-China relations and provide …
Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living
Häftad, 2004
743 kr
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Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, …
Redistricting in the New Millennium
Inbunden, 2005
1575 kr
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Politics, and the redistricting process through which it is carried out, has always been part of our history. In the last four decades, however, the frequency with which redistricting has taken place has grown dramatically. Through a series of theoretical, historical, and case study essays by …
