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Pathos and anti-pathos
This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmedial...
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On being adjacent to historical violence
This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect...
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How science engages with ethics and why it should
We live in an era of extreme claims versus weak consensus on issues critical to the public. Is climate change a hoax, or is it destroying our planet? Were the vaccines and social distancing measures of COVID-19 designed to protect us, or were they an invasion of our liberty? How do we determine t...
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Geschlechtsleben und fortpflanzung der eskimo
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Translating the language of the syrian revolution (2011/12)
While the Arab revolutions have obviously triggered extensive social and political changes, the far-reaching consequences of the cultural and discursive changes have yet to be adequately considered. For activists, researchers, and journalists, the revolution was primarily a revolution in language...
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Practice r
Many students learn to analyze data using commercial packages, even though there is an open-source software with cutting-edge possibilities: R, a programming language with countless cool features for applied empirical research. Practice R introduces R to social science students, inspiring them ...
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Soziologische theorien kompakt
Das Buch stellt theoretische Ansätze der Soziologie in ihren Grundlagen und Grundfragen sowie den mit ihnen verbundenen Gegenwartsdiagnosen vor. Es konzentriert sich auf die klassischen Grundlegungen der Soziologie und die zentralen theoretischen Weiterentwicklungen im 20. Jahrhundert, die nach w...
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Filmische leseszenen
Unabhängig von Produktionsland, zeitlichem Kontext, Genre und der Einordnung in U- oder E-Kunst finden sich in der filmgeschichte zahlreiche literarisch-ästhetische Lektürebegegnungen. In dieser Studie werden die filmischen Inszenierungsmöglichkeiten des sinnlichen Leseaktes erstmals interdiszipl...
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The imperial qín dynasty
The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus, which is named after an ancient township in present-day Lóngshān 龍山, Húnán province, grants unique opportunities to reshape the image and redefine our knowledge about social, legal, political, administrative and ritual responsibilities of the first Chinese empire. The imp...
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›instrumenta domestica‹ aus pompeji und ihr design
Dieses Buch zu römischen Haushaltsobjekten (instrumenta domestica) widmet sich der Komplexität und Gestaltung der vermeintlich kleinen Dinge des Alltags. Es rückt die Frage in den Fokus, wie verschiedene Gefäße, Geräte, Instrumente und Werkzeuge im Wohnkontext der pompeianischen Insula del Menand...
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Resonating sacralities
In The Netherlands, the arts have gained a sacralized status, while religion is increasingly viewed through the lens of heritage. The dynamic resonance of sacred forms this results in, is exemplary for the postsecular. Exploring this resonance, this book offers a strong counterweight to the popul...
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Religion im transit
Wie bekommen Migrationserfahrungen durch religiöse Überzeugungen eine neue Deutung? Wie verändern sich religiöse Praktiken und Motive durch Auswanderung und wie entstehen neue Identitätszuschreibungen, Diasporagesellschaften und religiöse Unterstützungsnetzwerke? Im Fokus des vorliegenden Bandes...
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Postmemory und die transformation der deutschen erinnerungskultur
Deutet die zunehmende Ausweitung und Verflechtung deutschsprachiger Erinnerungsnarrative auf eine Aufsplitterung des Kollektivs hin, oder signalisiert sie vielmehr die Entstehung einer neuen, transnationalen und transkulturellen Form von Gemeinschaft? Inwiefern vermag die kritische Perspektivieru...
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Mode – kleidung – textil
Mode, Kleidung, Textil – diesen ebenso allgegenwärtigen wie komplexen Grundphänomenen des menschlichen Daseins wissenschaftlich gerecht zu werden, setzt Transdisziplinarität und Flexibilität voraus. Für eine Zusammenführung heterogener Zugänge und eine damit verbundene institutionelle Konsolidie...
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Der erste weltkrieg im filmischen gedächtnis
Die vorliegende Monografie untersucht die genre- und traumatheoretische Entwicklung von TV- und Kinoproduktionen des Ersten Weltkrieges im Zentenarium. Es wird nach filmgeschichtlichen Mustern und Neuerungen gefragt und beleuchtet, welche Bedeutung der filmischen Kodierung von Traumata bei Verarb...
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Birth in kabbalah and psychoanalysis
Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the centrality of death in Western culture and existential philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discuss similarities betwe...
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Paranoia und technisches bild
In ihren Anfängen um 1980 zeichnet sich die Medienarchäologie durch eine eigentümliche Nähe zum paranoischen Wahn aus. Friedrich Kittler begreift die Paranoia als Medienpathologie und entwickelt – Stichwort „Aufschreibesysteme“ – medienarchäologische Konzepte und Fragestellungen anhand von parano...
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Affect poetics of the new hollywood
How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hauke Lehmann aims at rethinking our conception of a critical period in US film history – the New Hollywood: as a moment of crisis that can neither be r...
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Die ausstattung kleinerer häuser in pompeji (insula ix 5)
Das Buch untersucht das Zusammenspiel von alten und neuen Decor-Elementen auf der Insula IX 5 in Pompeji in der letzten Phase der Stadt zwischen 62–79 n. Chr. Dabei wird für die Häuser erstmals der Versuch unternommen, Bau- und Ausstattungsphasen zu greifen. Die Ausstattung wird jedoch nicht nur ...
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‘greater india’ and the indian expansionist imagination, c. 1885–1965
This series seeks to focus on the politics inherent in historical thinking, professional and non-professional, promoted by states, political organisations, ‘nationalities’ or interest groups, and to explore the links between political (re-)education, historiography and mobilisation or identity fo...
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Auszeiten
Zeit gilt heute als der wahre Luxus. Zumindest legt ein Blick in Magazine, Ratgeberliteratur und Umfrageergebnisse nahe, dass diese Gleichsetzung zu einem Topos der Gegenwart geworden ist. Luxus, verstanden als höchst relative und stets neu auszuhandelnde Kategorie von Überfluss und Überschuss, l...
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Ambivalent literary farewells to the german democratic republic
This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East a...
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Religion and state in the altaic world
This collection of papers presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference explores the complex relations of religion and state in history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC. It examines as...
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Filmische poetiken der schuld
Wie werden komplexe Sinn-, Identitäts- und Wertekonstruktionen in den zeitlichen und dynamischen Mustern medialer Formen und Praktiken hergestellt? Wie generieren und transformieren filmische Bilder die affektiv grundierten Strukturen, in denen der Wertehorizont eines Gemeinwesens vermessen, best...
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Appropriations of literary modernism in media art
By analyzing appropriations of literary modernism in video, experimental film, and installation art, this study investigates works of media art as agents of cultural memory. While research recognizes film and literature as media of memory, it often overlooks media art. Adaptation studies, art his...
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Einführung in die gender studies
Typisch Frau, typisch Mann – was heißt das eigentlich? Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit werden nicht allein durch den anatomisch-biologischen Diskurs (‚Sex‘) definiert, sondern auch durch Rollenangebote wie z.B. Kleidercodes und Verhaltensnormen. Die Gender Studies legen den Fokus auf diese soziale...
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Forumsdiskussionen
Forumsdiskussionen sind Gruppendiskussionen, die online in Internetforen durchgeführt werden und sich grundlegend von üblichen Gruppendiskussionen unterscheiden. Auf der Basis eines Methodenexperiments wird untersucht, welche Möglichkeiten solche Forumsdiskussionen der Sozialforschung bieten und ...
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Kunstsoziologie
Das Einführungsbuch bietet einen kompakten Einstieg in die Kunstsoziologie. Vorgestellt werden wichtige Grundlagenwerke und die mit ihnen verbundenen Perspektiven auf die Kunst, sowie aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten, in denen diese Perspektiven aufgegriffen und fruchtbar gemacht werden. Darüber hinau...
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Lost cities
Angesichts einer fortschreitenden Urbanisierung und der ungeheuren Erfolgsgeschichte der Siedlungsform „Stadt" wird selten die paradoxe Kehrseite dieser Geschichte in den Blick genommen. Seit 5000 Jahren steht der Entstehung von Städten ihr Untergang gegenüber. Verlassene Städte sind ein geradez...
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Das ländliche japan zwischen idylle und verfall
Im Zuge des demografischen Wandels und der ökonomischen Rezession, der Tōhoku-Dreifachkatastrophe im Jahr 2011 sowie des Diskurses um Natur- und Umweltschutzkonzepte sind Japans Regionen wieder verstärkt ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Bilder des ländlichen Japans dienen als nostalgischer...
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‘abdurra’uf fitrat in istanbul
This book explores how to locate the sources which influenced the political, social, and ideological stance of a famous Turkestani Jadid thinker, writer, journalist and scholar, ‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat (1886-1938), thus also putting in perspective some overall intellectual trends in Turkestan, especia...
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Perspectives on privacy
Due to rapid developments in the communication sector, the right to privacy faces new challenges. The increasing digitization and internationalization of communication processes have raised a number of issues, and lead to conflicts wherever national legal systems and moral concepts collide. ...
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Touch in the time of corona
A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the particular ways in which the possib...
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Wissenschaftsforschung
Die Wissenschaftsforschung macht die Wissenschaft zum Gegenstand von Wissenschaft. Sie untersucht zum einen die Innenwelt der Wissenschaft, also die Produktion wissenschaftlichen Wissens, die Praxis der Forschung und ihre institutionellen Strukturen. Zum anderen interessiert sie sich für die Auße...
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Die politisierung des abfalls
Diese kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung befasst sich mit den sozialen und politischen Dimensionen des alltäglichen Abfalls. Im Fokus steht die Frage, wie das Müllentsorgen – vom Beginn der systematischen Abfallwirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart – gesellschaftlich bewertet wird:...
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I, robot – i, care
Technik ist aus der Pflege nicht wegzudenken. Mit Pflege 4.0 werden ganz neue Dimensionen im Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine vorstellbar. Besonders die Pflegewissenschaft ist hier gefordert, Stellung zu beziehen und den Diskurs kritisch mitzuentwickeln. In diesem Sammelband wird der aktue...
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Beyond diversity
Japan presents a unique context for conducting queer studies. Unlike Europe, North America, and other regions of the world, it is said to lack homophobia due to the absence of Christianity as moral foundation. Furthermore, the situation of LGBTQ+ people has changed rapidly over the past ten year...
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Theorien der wirtschaftssoziologie
Die Wirtschaftssoziologie bietet Antworten auf die drängenden Fragen unserer Gesellschaft: Sie beschreibt die Vielfalt ökonomischer Ordnungen; hält Analysen bereit für den Einfluss der Finanzmärkte; sie zeigt Wege im Umgang mit ökonomischen Krisen; sie motiviert Kritik an nicht nachhaltigen Produ...
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Life configurations
Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of d...
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Suizid und geschlecht in der moderne
Frauen* nehmen sich aus Liebeskummer das Leben? Männer* erschüttert der Verlust von Arbeit und Leistungsfähigkeit? Und Queersein selbst macht vulnerabel? So verlockend diese geschlechtsbezogenen Erklärungen sind, so stereotyp sind sie auch. Was sie so attraktiv macht, ist ihr Versprechen, suizid...
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Meaning-making and political campaign advertising
Although recent linguistic and media-studies' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological probl...
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Die soziologische film- und fernsehanalyse
Allgegenwärtig und auf vielfache Weise in den sozialen Alltag eingebettet sind die Produkte aus Film und Fernsehen ebenso Vermittler als auch Archivare gesellschaftlichen Wissens. Wie die medialen Produkte gestaltet sind – und damit zur Produktion von Bedeutung sowie der sozialen Konstruktion von...
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Pictorial affects, senses of rupture
German film in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods is regarded as marked by a strong sense of cultural conservatism and the aspiration to be recognized as an art form. This book takes an alternative approach to the history of German cinema from the emergence of the early feature film to the transi...
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Tel nagila
This volume is an excavation report on the important Bronze and Iron Age site, Tel Nagila. The site was excavated in the 1960s but the report was never published. Tel Nagila was an important Middle Bronze Age site and a Judahite site during Iron Age II. This report includes chapters by experts di...
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Bildkommunikation
Die gegenwärtigen medientechnischen Entwicklungen haben zu einem immensen Aufschwung der Bilder beigetragen. Noch nie wurde so viel mit Bildern kommuniziert wie heute. Wie verständigen wir uns mit Bildern? Wie erzeugen wir in unserem Alltag Sinn mit ihnen? Die Logik des Bildes hat, im Vergleich z...
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Cultural techniques
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the for...
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Kultursemiotik digitaler bildzeichen der tunesischen revolution
Die Tunesische Revolution von 2010/2011 sowie die postrevolutionäre Phase wurden begleitet von einer regen Kommunikation in sozialen Medien, allen voran Facebook. Die tunesischen User reagierten besonders mit Bildzeichen auf die politische Situation im Land. Dennoch sind die soziokulturellen Dime...
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Japan der regionen
Mit Blick auf Herausforderungen, wie Strukturschwäche, Überalterung und Entvölkerung, gilt es in Japan seit der Dreifachkatastrophe 2011 mehr denn je, mithilfe verschiedenster Bottom-Up- und Top-Down-Initiativen ländliche Regionen wiederzubeleben. Nicht nur sollen Regionsanwohner in ihrer Heimatv...
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Cinematic poetics of guilt
How do the temporal and dynamic patterns of media forms and practices create complex constructions of meaning, identity and value? How can we describe the way cinematic images generate and transform the affectively grounded structures that survey, confirm or revise a political community’s horizo...
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Qualitative interviews mit jugendlichen führen
Dieses Buch bietet eine grundlegende und gut verständliche Einführung in die Voraussetzungen für qualitative Interviews mit Jugendlichen. Es führt Schritt für Schritt durch den qualitativen Forschungsprozess und illustriert anhand zahlreicher praktischer Beispiele die richtige Durchführung qualit...
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Das fernsehen als sinnproduzent
Das vorliegende Buch handelt davon, was im Fernsehen gezeigt wird. Zugleich thematisiert es, was sich in den Angeboten des Fernsehens zeigt. An den vielfältigen Produkten, Sendungen, Formaten und Programmen, die das heutige Fernsehen ausmachen, wird das Bild erkennbar, das jeweilige Gesellsc...
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Die kultivierung des geschmacks
Seit dem 17. Jh. gehören Geschmack und Schmecken zu den zentralen sinnlichen Selbsttechniken eines neuen metropolitanen Weltbürgertums. Die Übung des Schmeckens, ihre Mitteilung und Inszenierung verspricht, losgelöst von politischen, ökonomischen und körperlichen Notwendigkeiten, eine freie und e...
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China und europa
Für Leibniz standen China und Europa in unterschiedlichen Bereichen auf der gleichen kulturellen bzw. zivilisatorischen Stufe. In der Gegenwart prägen trotz Postkolonialismus und Globalisierung (die auch koloniale Elemente hat) Krisenhaftigkeit, Asymmetrie und Ungleichzeitigkeit die gegensei...
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Internetsoziologie
Internet und (deutsche) Gesellschaft, das war – und ist – eine schwierige Beziehung. Die Soziologie bildet da keine Ausnahme, ganz im Gegenteil: Die spannenden und relevanten Ideen rund um das Phänomen Digitalisierung kamen in den vergangenen Jahren fast immer aus anderen Disziplinen und Ländern....
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Lament in jewish thought
Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships bet...
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Repräsentative umfrage
Repräsentative Umfrage ist ein Grundlagenbuch: Es führt in die Techniken der Umfrageforschung ein und präsentiert grundlegende statistische Auswertungsverfahren. Inhaltlich anspruchsvoll, jedoch sprachlich leicht verständlich geschrieben, bietet es theoretische Ausführungen ergänzt um Beispiele u...
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Cultural turns
The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the ...
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Religionssoziologie
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Managing mixed economies
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Budgetary politics and elections
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Privatizing subsidized housing
This volume explains why there is bipartisan interest in privatization of public housing and how it can be accomplished.
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Europe and israel
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Legitimacy / légitimité
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The politics of steel
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Europe's coming demographic challenge: unlocking the value of health
Examines the region's demographic challenges, the curious new phenomenon of the underworked European, and policies that stand in the way of the region benefiting from its health advantage.
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La théorie de la société bien ordonnée chez jean-jacques rousseau
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The increase in leisure inequality 1965-2005
Using data spanning forty years and tens of thousands of survey respondents, Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst seek to answer several key questions about leisure inequality: How much has the leisure time of the average American increased or decreased over the last several decades?
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The politics of abortion
In The Politics of Abortion, Anne Hendershott carefully analyzes the politics behind our most contentious issue. How did the culture shift that produced Roe v Wade occur? How did the Democratic Party move from being the party of the New Deal, Medicare, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...
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Freedom feminism
Women’s equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute?In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why...
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Two nations
While many Americans live in conditions of prosperity, a second nation-where illegitimacy, child and drug abuse, violence, criminality, and other social ills proliferate-is growing within.
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Party governments
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Home away from home
For most people, the word orphanage” conjures up images of poor little Oliver Twist pleading for more gruel. Many are convinced that the history of orphanages is a social welfare record of total devastation to the lives of the children who grew up in them. Indeed, many of the scholars who contri...
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Uncivil wars
The idea that taxpayers should pay reparations to African Americans for the damages of slavery and segregation is quickly becoming a central demand of some civil rights leaders. It has the backing of important black politicians like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), distinguished black intellectuals li...
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Beside the golden door
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'_the last line of Emma Lazarus's famous poem invites immigrants to enter a land of economic opportunity. Many have accepted that invitation; today, foreign-born workers make up nearly 16 percent of the U.S. workforce and account for almost half of workforce ...
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The way back
The promise of America is that, with ambition and hard work, anyone can rise to the top. But now the promise has been broken, and we’ve become an aristocracy where rich parents raise rich kids and poor parents raise poor kids. We’ve been told that the changes are structural, that there’s nothing ...
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Do federal regulations reduce mortality?
This monograph assesses how the adverse health implications associated with regulatory costs can affect mortality risk by considering a broad group of federal regulations.
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Taking sex differences seriously
This provocative book dispels social cliches and spotlights biological realities.
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Business interests, organizational development and private interest government
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The night is long but light comes in the morning (large print edition)
From the winner of The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, a spiritual guide to restoring yourself from racial trauma and committing to the long work of dismantling racism.
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Reduce inequality, increase economic growth
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, discusses the state of the world’s economy in this interview, offering policy interventions to better serve society’s economic needs. Pointing to a grave failure of modern macroeconomic theory to predict the financial crisis, Stiglitz call...
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Bentham and the oppressed
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Culture et politique / culture and politics
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Rethinking rehabilitation:
This monograph contends that fundamental principles of deterrence are far more humane in the long run than the progressive approaches that are becoming more popular today.
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Blacklisting myself
Blacklisting Myself details Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon's odyssey from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to darling of the political right. In this tale of Hollywood radical chic run amuck, Simon relates his adventures with Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Wood...
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Men on strike
American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been ...
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Manifesto for media freedom
The rise of alternative media over the last 20 years has broken the liberal stranglehold over news and opinion outlets. The Left blames much of the Democratic Party's electoral woes on the influence of the new media's many vigorous conservative voices. Yet, instead of fighting back with ideas, to...
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Coloring the news
William McGowan opens the door to the newsrooms at "USA Today," the "New York Times," the "Washington Post" and other pillars of the "mainstream press" in this carefully researched investigation of how the quest for "diversity" has affected American journalism. Focusing on coverage of the "div...
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Diversity rules
America’s traditional values of liberty and equality have recently been overshadowed by a new ideal: diversity. This ideal claims that group differences matter more than commonalities, personal freedom, and individual rights. In Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Wood told the story of how ...
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Remedios
A biography examining the maxims, faith, and enduring struggle of a celebrated curandera
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Renewal
In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the end” of the Catholic priesthood. Demands for an end to celibacy, coupled with calls for women’s ordination, dominated discussions on the effectiveness of the Catholic Church in America. Renewal argu...
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The cost of choice
Captures the moral, legal, medical and political complexities surrounding abortion.
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Fierce kindness
Contagious Kindness for Troubled TimesRight now, the only thing worth spreading is kindness. Uplift the world during these troubled times with a dose of Fierce Kindness─a peaceful revolution poised to make a change on a personal and global level.How to be kind in troubled times. Join the nonviole...
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The rise and fall of violent crime in america
A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that ...
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Diversity
Diversity is America's newest cultural ideal. Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policy in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions rules in the name of a diverse student body. What its proponents have in mind when they cite the compelling importance of ...
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In defense of faith
Religious faith is under assault. In books, movies, and on television, secular critics are attacking religion and the religious with ever-increasing intensity. These new atheists” typically repeat a two-part mantra: They claim that only an idiot could believe in God, and that idiots who do so ha...
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When harry became sally
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally pr...
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Lengthened shadows
In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, mo...
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What to expect when no one's expecting
Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.It’s all bunk. The “population b...
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Don't tread on me
Don't Tread on Me is Carol Gould's journey through the astonishing world of British and European anti-Americanism. From Yanks being spat on, to other acts, the level of US-bashing has evolved into something more than just Bush-hatred. Wrapped in the anti-American fever sweeping Europe and Britain...
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