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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the HolocaustTrade ReviewThe saga of the Red Army Faction's decades-long war with the West German state hardly ended when the shooting stopped, as Charity Scribner's superb book explains. Instead, the conflict captured and even haunted the imagination of generations of German novelists, filmmakers, and visual artists, whose diverse works are themselves an integral part of the RAF's legacy. Scribner offers both incisive and inventive readings of an array of texts, showing how they labored - and often struggled - to articulate a post-militant politics to move beyond the moral hazards of armed struggle. After the Red Army Faction dramatically expands our understanding of what it means to "read" violence and come to terms with its many wounds. -- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research, author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics. -- Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of "All Power to the Imagination!": Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture Charity Scribner's After the Red Army Faction will be an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of the left-wing terrorism of 1970s West Germany, and in particular the Baader-Meinhof Group or Red Army Faction (RAF), on culture in West Germany and beyond. -- Hans Kundnani, editorial director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust How can 'postmilitancy' offer clues to understanding West Germany's RAF and its afterlives, all the more after 9/11? How might it suggest new directions for resistance when everyday life remains saturated with violence? Charity Scribner provides searching and compelling answers in this study that reaches across disciplines. -- Belinda Davis, Rutgers University, University, editor of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Poised between an increasingly nostalgic tendency to romanticize the violent struggles of 1970s militants and our own deeply troubled response to the brutality of contemporary fundamentalisms, After the Red Army Faction provides us with an invaluable reflection on the complexities of past leftist terrorism and its continuing ramifications. With a keen eye for the ambiguities and blind spots of ideological extremism, Scribner examines German postmilitant culture through literature, film, dance, and the visual arts. Shunning easy cliche and superficial spectacle, she reminds us of the intellectual and human costs of the German armed struggle and of the ways gender and sexuality inflected its attitudes and representation in the media. A brilliant piece of cultural history. -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York, editor of The Situationists and the CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Militancy Part 1. Militant Acts 1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout 2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse 3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army Faction Part II. Postmilitant Culture 4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane 5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film 6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer 7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke Afterword: Signs of a New Season Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRoberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.Trade ReviewFacebook Society arrives at the moment when the idea that 'Facebook is us' is front page news. Just in time, Roberto Simanowski gives us a theory as to how it is that Facebook produces the very subjects who cannot feel shortchanged by what it offers. But he delivers more. Here is the crucial test of the philosophy of history and Frankfurt School critical theory brought to bear on the phenomenon defining the sociality of our time. -- Jane M. Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?Facebook Society is a wonderfully rich and deeply thought extended essay on a symptomatic social medium of our day. With his focus on autobiography, friendship, memory, and narrative Simanowski outlines ways in which digital media have the power to change human perception and social relations. A broad historical, literary, and critical perspective on social media such as Simanowski’s is very much needed both in the humanities and in the social sciences. -- Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of AmnesiaWho says Facebook can only lead to a flattening of intellectual life and political discourse? In a series of intriguing readings, Simanowski offers a compelling assessment of Zuckerberg’s empire without capitulating before its celebration of ceaseless connectivity and frenzied interaction. Whether it draws on Schopenhauer, Kracauer, or Nancy, Facebook Society brilliantly exemplifies why thought and theory remain essential to gauge the impact of social media on our imagination, our sense of self and community, and our ability to engage the past as a medium to shape different futures. -- Lutz Koepnick, author of On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the ContemporaryFrom Pascal to Butler, Goethe to Baudrillard, Facebook Society offers a rich philosophical engagement with one of the most important platforms of our time. Simanowski's skillful text demonstrates how the mundane nature of Facebook includes a long media ecology of issues which bind us to others as communities and through friendship while defining what we are as subjects. This book offers coordinates to nothing less than the transformation of this political field. -- Jussi Parikka, author of Digital Contagions and A Geology of MediaVery readable book, I am sure that you will find it very captivating and absolutely informative. I just can tell you that I read it in a few hours. Highly recommended. -- Anna Maria Polidori, freelance journalist * Storie, racconti, recensioni Blog by Anna Maria Polidori *Table of ContentsPreface1. Stranger Friends2. Automatic Autobiography3. Digital NationAfterwordEpilogue to the English EditionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAt its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders' Constitution and the tension Trade Review“Progressivism is novel because neither is it in thrall to progressivism nor does it consider progressivism as inevitable and inevitably domesticated. Rather, the author is capable of criticizing progressivism at a fundamental level.” —Johnathan O’Neill, author of Originalism in American Law and Politics“This is a singularly original contribution. I know of no such comprehensive review of the historiography of progressivism.” —Paul Moreno, author of Black Americans and Organized Labor“Watson has crafted, not so much a historical genealogy of Progressivism, as its historiography. . . . Along the line of Watson’s march appear some of the brightest stars in the firmament of American historical writing (and political-history writing) in the 20th century: Richard Hofstadter, . . . Henry Steele Commager, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, David Potter, Louis Hartz, Arthur Link, Gabriel Kolko, Henry F. May, and Robert Wiebe.” —Claremont Review of Books"The book is more than an extended review of the literature . . . ; it is an indictment. And it is hard not to agree with Watson’s assessment that these historians were guilty of obscuring as much as they illuminated about the Progressives." —Law and Liberty"Bradley C. S. Watson’s new book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea points scholars in new and productive directions regarding the political thought of the Progressive Era. Watson writes with vigor and verve, making the book of great appeal to anyone trying to take the true measure of the legacy of Progressive political thought in American history." —Public Discourse"In this new offering from Watson, Progressivism is put under the microscope and examined during its 20th-century development. . . . The book proceeds chronologically through the 20th century to the current day, which gives readers a solid accounting of how Progressive ideas evolved and then merged with still later ideas." —Choice"This book leaves the reader with a deep suspicion of several generations of progressive historians who wrote without being fully honest or fully aware of the tensions between progressivism and the American founders. Beyond that, [it] requires us to think about the challenges of progressive thought to the legitimacy of American institutions and to the American regime as a whole. By provoking these questions, Watson leads us to the deepest level of American politics which is nothing other than a continuous dialogue and critical engagement with the American Founders." —VoegelinViewTable of ContentsForeword by Charles R. Kesler Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Revolt against the Constitution 2. The Real Presence of Christ 3. Gray in Gray: The Strange History of Progressive History in the 1940s and 1950s 4. Progressive Historiography in a Countercultural Age 5. Intellectual Consolidation and Counterattack: Conservatism and Revisionism from the 1980s to the Present 6. The Shades of History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAt its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders' Constitution and the tension Trade Review“Progressivism is novel because neither is it in thrall to progressivism nor does it consider progressivism as inevitable and inevitably domesticated. Rather, the author is capable of criticizing progressivism at a fundamental level.” —Johnathan O’Neill, author of Originalism in American Law and Politics“This is a singularly original contribution. I know of no such comprehensive review of the historiography of progressivism.” —Paul Moreno, author of Black Americans and Organized Labor“Watson has crafted, not so much a historical genealogy of Progressivism, as its historiography. . . . Along the line of Watson’s march appear some of the brightest stars in the firmament of American historical writing (and political-history writing) in the 20th century: Richard Hofstadter, . . . Henry Steele Commager, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, David Potter, Louis Hartz, Arthur Link, Gabriel Kolko, Henry F. May, and Robert Wiebe.” —Claremont Review of Books"The book is more than an extended review of the literature . . . ; it is an indictment. And it is hard not to agree with Watson’s assessment that these historians were guilty of obscuring as much as they illuminated about the Progressives." —Law and Liberty"Bradley C. S. Watson’s new book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea points scholars in new and productive directions regarding the political thought of the Progressive Era. Watson writes with vigor and verve, making the book of great appeal to anyone trying to take the true measure of the legacy of Progressive political thought in American history." —Public Discourse"In this new offering from Watson, Progressivism is put under the microscope and examined during its 20th-century development. . . . The book proceeds chronologically through the 20th century to the current day, which gives readers a solid accounting of how Progressive ideas evolved and then merged with still later ideas." —Choice"This book leaves the reader with a deep suspicion of several generations of progressive historians who wrote without being fully honest or fully aware of the tensions between progressivism and the American founders. Beyond that, [it] requires us to think about the challenges of progressive thought to the legitimacy of American institutions and to the American regime as a whole. By provoking these questions, Watson leads us to the deepest level of American politics which is nothing other than a continuous dialogue and critical engagement with the American Founders." —VoegelinViewTable of ContentsForeword by Charles R. Kesler Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Revolt against the Constitution 2. The Real Presence of Christ 3. Gray in Gray: The Strange History of Progressive History in the 1940s and 1950s 4. Progressive Historiography in a Countercultural Age 5. Intellectual Consolidation and Counterattack: Conservatism and Revisionism from the 1980s to the Present 6. The Shades of History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force.Trade ReviewA stunning achievement in the anthropology of religion. Weaving together narrative and analysis, Falen provides a gripping account of the imponderables that constitute the occult in Benin. He demonstrates how African science can refine our comprehension of fidelity and betrayal, health and illness, science and religion, and life and death—the philosophical themes that define our humanity." - Paul Stoller, author of In Sorcery's Shadow, "Guides readers straight into the untranslatable Beninois world of àze on its own terms. Falen's sensitivity and commitment to local framings and his accessible experiential narratives make this an ideal ethnography with which to explore the ontological turn, as well as a marvelously provocative challenge to the bulwarked categories separating science from magic and religion." - Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff"African Science is a masterpiece of ethnography and among the best books available on African spirituality." - Nova ReligioTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Fon Transcription and Pronunciation Introduction 1 Àzě and Bǒ: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Benin 2 Black and White: Witchcraft, Science, and Identity 3 Whose Reality? 4 Religion and the Occult: Opposition and Connection 5 Healing and the Globalization of Witchcraft Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that public higher education institutions remain a bastion of collaborative problem solving. The contributors to this volume restore the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good, contending that they deserve renewed and robust support.Trade ReviewGoldberg situates the Wisconsin Idea in its historical, educational, institutional, and political context in ways that enlighten its original impulses, illuminating its significant contributions to rural and urban areas and to the very nature of the University of Wisconsin as a university of the people." - Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison"An important look back at the progressive Wisconsin Idea and a look forward to its possible renewal. The authors take us through numerous ideas and practices that came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea and chart out a civic vision of higher education that is badly in need of being reinvented today." - Kevin Mattson, Ohio University

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.

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Book SynopsisRecent books in the Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Editors Vic Barnett J. Stuart Hunter David W. Scott Geoffrey S. Watson Ralph A. Bradley Joseph B. Kadane Adrian F.M. Smith Nicholas I. Fisher David G. Kendall Jozef L. Teugels Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications Second Edition Dietrich Stoyan, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany Wilfrid S. Kendall, University of Warwick, UK Joseph Mecke, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany This standard text makes the results and methods of stochastic geometry and spatial statistics accessible to practitioners and non-theoreticians. The book is also ideal as an introduction to the subject for mathematicians. The exposition is mathematically precise and takes into account the latest results, but in many cases proofs are omitted. Topics covered include the basic theories of point processes, random sets, fibre and surface processes, random tessellations, stereology and the statistical theory of shape. The theory is illustrated by mTable of ContentsThe Scope of Assessment (H. Goldstein & T. Lewis). Assessment: Some Historical Perspectives (G. Sutherland). Assessment and Learning: Power or Partnership (P. Broadfoot)? Statistical and Psychometric Models for Assessment (H.Goldstein). Defining, Setting and Maintaining Standards in Curriculum-EmbeddedExaminations: Judgemental and Statistical Approaches (M.Cresswell). Group Differences and Bias in Assessment (H. Goldstein). Moderation Procedures and the Maintenance of Assessment Standards(T. Lewis). Errors in Grading and Forensic Issues in Higher Education (D.McLay). The Use of Assessment to Compare Institutions (J. Gray). The Statistical Analysis of Institution-Based Data (G. Woodhouse& H. Goldstein). The Extent and Growth of the Educational Testing in the UnitedStates: 1956-1994 (G. Madaus & A. Raczek). The Integrity of Public Examinations in Developing Countries (V.Greaney & T. Kellaghan). Large-Scale Assessment Programmes in Different Countries andInternational Comparisons (L. McLean). Vocational Assessment (A. Wolf). Assessment in the Workplace. (R. Vincent). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences

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Book SynopsisPresents a carefully reasoned discussion of how existing philosophy and legal theory can accommodate increasingly sophisticated AI technology. Arguing for the legal personhood of an artificial agent, the authors discuss what it means to say it has knowledge and the ability to make a decision.

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Book SynopsisArgues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age.Trade ReviewThe success of Mongrel Nation stems from Dawson's rigorous attention to the depth and richness of contextual frames: how all of the texts he reads are deeply interwoven in social, political, and cultural contexts whose racial and national lines criss-cross and spiral out transnationally." —Omaar Hena, The Minnesota Review

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Book SynopsisTheorists assume that people are unable to coordinate strategies, but this book suggests this is an implausible proposition. It seeks to show how individuals gauge the value of their participation in a given endeavor, and how they calibrate their decisions with those of other group members.

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Book SynopsisUntil this century, Northern Nigeria was a major centre of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies examines this dramatic change in textile aesthetics, technologies, and social values in order to explain the extraordinary shift in textile demand, production, and trade.Trade Review“Textile Ascendancies is an empirically rich, beautifully illustrated collection of essays that explores the meanings, making and trading of cloth in northern Nigeria over more than a century. The collection’s contribution to the history of aesthetics, commodity meanings and commercial transactions in Africa is profound. There is no other book that attempts such an ambitious agenda, exploring the diverse histories of any product over such a long period of time.” —Laura Fair, Michigan State University “A detailed African textile history that provides rich insights into the history of handweaving, dyeing, and local aesthetics.” —Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

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Book SynopsisProducts and services based on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are normally considered to be for rich consumers in advanced countries. This book demonstrates how marginalized and vulnerable groups, specifically the world’s bottom four billion population, can also benefit from these technologies.Trade Review“Empirical evidence agrees that information and communications technologies have not necessarily benefited the world’s least developed economies, and may have perhaps led to greater disparities. In the emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution, how could technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, remote sensing, and the internet of things be applied so that socioeconomic benefits may accrue to all? Professor Nir Kshetri argues that in order to ensure that the bottom half of humanity also benefit from these transformative innovations, stakeholders must come together to provide the regulatory protection and incentive to the marginalized and vulnerable. Having read a preprint of this book, I recommend it to any serious scholar of ‘tech for good.’” —Ravishankar Sharma, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Dubai“The ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is empowered by the dizzying advancement of modern emerging technologies, which are often deployed with little forethought about their potential adverse consequences on society at-large, and the poorest and most vulnerable in particular. Professor Kshetri delivers an insightful, timely, and relevant perspective about how to move the Fourth Revolution forward without leaving behind the ‘bottom four billion’ in the developing world." —Stephen Wingreen, University of CanterburyTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Boxes Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1: Background and Overview of the Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion Chapter 1: The Fourth Revolution and the bottom four billion: Key underlying concepts and developments Part 2: Major Fourth Revolution technologies Chapter 2: Artificial intelligence Chapter 3: Blockchain Chapter 4: Remote sensing and satellite imagery Chapter 5: Internet of things* Part 3: The 4R in economic and social developments Chapter 6: Healthcare and pandemic preparedness Chapter 7: The agricultural sector Chapter 8: Finance, banking, and insurance Part 4: Opportunities, challenges, implications and the way forward Chapter 9: Opportunities, barriers and challenges Chapter 10: Economic developmental implications Chapter 11: Social, political and ethical implications Chapter 12: Discussion, conclusion and recommendations Glossary About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the idea that practical and useful knowledge historically changes over time under the guises of educational reform, instructional improvement, and professionalisation. Thomas Popkewitz explores how the research to correct social wrongs paradoxically is entangled with the inscription of differences in its efforts to be inclusive.Trade ReviewThe book contributes to a broad intellectual program of rethinking the taken-for-granted terms and ideas of education. Showing the historical development of practical-oriented educational research pushes readers to consider a different epistemology regarding knowledge production around teacher education and schooling." —Nancy Lesko, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisOutlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. This book argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition.Trade Review"Peter Jordan has written what I believe will come to be recognised as one of the most influential books in evolutionary anthropology and archaeology of this decade. It is important as it nimbly engages with what is arguably the fundamental concern of a significant number of social anthropologists and archaeologists, that of how the complex interactions between social structure and human agency contribute to the development of cultural traditions." AntiquityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Data Sets 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Northwest Siberia 4. Pacific Northwest Coast 5. Northern California 6. Conclusions Appendix: Mantel Matrix Correlations References Index

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Book SynopsisOutlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. This book argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition.Trade Review"Peter Jordan has written what I believe will come to be recognised as one of the most influential books in evolutionary anthropology and archaeology of this decade. It is important as it nimbly engages with what is arguably the fundamental concern of a significant number of social anthropologists and archaeologists, that of how the complex interactions between social structure and human agency contribute to the development of cultural traditions." AntiquityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Data Sets 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Northwest Siberia 4. Pacific Northwest Coast 5. Northern California 6. Conclusions Appendix: Mantel Matrix Correlations References Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for her sense of society, and for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, this title looks at social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for students and researchers whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra, this book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand so they can employ time series analysis for their research and practice.Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences 2 * Modeling (1) Preliminary Definition (2) Preparing for Analysis (3) Seasonal Components and Trend (4) Systematic Patterns of Residuals (5) Fitting the Residuals (6) Further Reading 3 * Diagnostics (1) Residual Assumptions (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (3) Further Reading 4 * Forecasting (1) How to Forecast Values (2) Measuring the Accuracy of Time Series Models (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 5 * Smoothing (1) Moving Average Smoothing 07 (2) Exponential Smoothing (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 6 * Time Series Analysis with Two or More Time Series (1) Correlation and Regression Analysis (2) Prewhitening (3) Multiple Time Series Analysis with Lagged Variables (4) Diagnostics (5) Further Reading 7 * Time Series Analysis as an Impact Analysis Method (1) Interrupted Time Series Analysis (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1985-2004 (3) Further Reading Appendices 1. Links to Online Time Series Analysis Program Manuals 2. U.S. Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-2004 3. Data Resources for Social Science Time Series Analysis 4. Statistical Tables Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for students and researchers whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra, this book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand so they can employ time series analysis for their research and practice.Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences 2 * Modeling (1) Preliminary Definition (2) Preparing for Analysis (3) Seasonal Components and Trend (4) Systematic Patterns of Residuals (5) Fitting the Residuals (6) Further Reading 3 * Diagnostics (1) Residual Assumptions (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (3) Further Reading 4 * Forecasting (1) How to Forecast Values (2) Measuring the Accuracy of Time Series Models (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 5 * Smoothing (1) Moving Average Smoothing 07 (2) Exponential Smoothing (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 6 * Time Series Analysis with Two or More Time Series (1) Correlation and Regression Analysis (2) Prewhitening (3) Multiple Time Series Analysis with Lagged Variables (4) Diagnostics (5) Further Reading 7 * Time Series Analysis as an Impact Analysis Method (1) Interrupted Time Series Analysis (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1985-2004 (3) Further Reading Appendices 1. Links to Online Time Series Analysis Program Manuals 2. U.S. Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-2004 3. Data Resources for Social Science Time Series Analysis 4. Statistical Tables Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBy the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen from the ashes of World War II, it was seen by many as a country to be admired if not emulated. But by the early 1990s, that bubble burst in spectacular fashion. The Japanese economic miracle was over. In this book, John Lie argues that in many ways the Japan of today has the potential to be even more significant than it was four decades ago. As countries face the prospect of a world with decreasing economic growth and increasing environmental dangers, Japan offers a unique glimpse into what a viable future might look likeone in which people acknowledge the limits of the economy and environment while championing meaningful and sustainable ways of working and living. Beneath and beyond the rhetoric of growth, some Japanese are leading sustainable lives and creating a sustainable society. Though he does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all cure for the world, Lie makes th

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it Trade Review"A fine piece of qualitative sociolinguistic work that crowds decades of research into the social motivation of phonetic variation and change in some American English dialects... It will also provide rich methodological guidance and material data for scholars interested in the social underpinnings of sound change." Multilingua "William Labov's work is the cornerstone of quantitative sociolinguistics, and his pre-eminence in the field is assured for now and for some time to come. He has taught a whole generation of scholars the skills of careful and accountable fieldwork and of analysing linguistic data collected in the field, and in this respect his work has been inspirational." Journal of Linguistics "It was the unanimous decision of the Committee to award this year's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award to Labov's book. The Committee feels this book is a landmark in the study of language change. It not only presents a coherent and compelling account of the internal mechanics of phonological change, but successfully integrates this account with theoretical advances in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and dialectology, as well as historical linguistics. Labov's scholarship in this work is unsurpassed and ranges from a proposed solution to the Neogrammarian controversy, to an account of the changing dialect situation in the United States, to proposals for applying the theory of lexical phonology to the explanation of a set of historical paradoxes, and to exploring the limits of functional explanation." LSA "This is a book that anyone interested in social factors in language change will want to read." Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development.Table of ContentsForeword. Notational Conventions. Part I: The Speech Community. 1. The Darwinian Paradox. The Social Effects of Language Change. The Parallels Between Biological and Linguistic Evolution. Earlier Proposals for the Causes of Sound Change. Differend Kinds of Sound Change. The Narrow Interface between Language and Society. The Social Location of the Innovators. Individual, Group, Community. 2. The Study of Linguistic Change and Variation in Philadelphia:. Sampling the Community. The City of Philadelphia. The Exploratory Phase. The Neighborhood Study. The Telephone Survey. 3. Stable Sociolinguistic Variables:. The Necessary Background for the Study of Change in Progress. Variables to be Examined in this Chapter. The Stability of the Stable Variables. The Sociolinguistic Sample of Philadelphia. Cross-tabulation of (dh), Class, and Style. Cross-tabulation by Age. Cross-tabulations by Age and Social Class. Second Regression Analysis. An Exploration of Social Class Indicators. Conclusion. 4. The Philadelphia Vowel System. The Philadelphia Dialect Area. A General Framework for the Description of the Philadelphia Vowel System. Earlier Records of the Philadelphia Vowel System. The Philadelphia Vowel System in the 1970's. Development of Sound Changes in Apparent Time. Part II: Social Class, Gender, Neighborhood, and Ethnicity. 5. Location of the Leaders in the Socioeconomic Hierarchy:. The Data Set. Accuracy and Sources of Error. First Regression: Age Correlations. First Tabulation of Social Class. Second Regression: Age and Social Class. Third Regression: Re-analyzing the Age Dimension. The Centralization of (ay) before Voiceless Consonants. The Telephone Survey. Components of the Socioeconomic Index. An Overview. Further Observations of Class Distributions. The Curvilinear Pattern and the Causes of Change. Are Sound Changes Part of an Adaptive Process?. 6. Subjective Dimensions of Change in Progress. Field Methods for the Study of Subjective Reactions to Language Change. The Philadelphia Self-Report Test. The Philadelphia Subjective Reaction Test. 7. Neighborhood and Ethnicity. The Relation of Local Differentiation to Linguistic Change. The Belfast Neighborhoods. The Relation of Neighborhood to Social Class in Philadelphia. Results of the Fourth Regression Analysis: Adding Neighborhoods. An Overview of Neighborhood Effects. Ethnicity. (r) in Philadelphia. Other Unexplained Adstratum Effects. Ethnic Effects on Philadelphia Vowel Change. The Role of the Neighborhood and Ethnicity in Linguistic Change. 8. The Gender Paradox:. Gender Differentiation of Stable Sociolinguistic Variables in Philadelphia. The General Linguistic Conformity of Women. Gender Differentiation of Changes from Below. 9. The Intersection of Gender, Age, and Social Class. The Case of (ay0). Developments of Time by Gender. A Gender-Asymmetrical Model of Linguistic Change. Nearly Completed and Middle-Range Changes in Philadelphia. The Punctuating Events. The Male-Dominated Variable: (ay0). Conclusion. Part III: The Leaders of Linguistic Change:. 10. Social Networks. The Sociolinguistic Use of Social Networks. Social Networks in Belfast. Social Networks in Philadelphia. The Two-Step Flow of Influence. A General View of Fashion and Fashion Leaders. Who Leads the Leaders?. 11. Resolving the Gender Paradox. The Conformity Paradox. The Strategy of this Chapter: Combining Stable Variables with Changes in Progress. Correlations between Stable Sociolinguistic Variables and Changes in Progress. The Relation of (dha) to Linguistic Changes for Women of Different Social Classes. Combined Male and Female Analysis. Incremental and Saccadic Leaders. 12. Portraits of the Leaders. Celeste S. Teresa M. The Corcorans. Rick Corcoran. Individuals as Regression Variables. The Leaders of Palatalization in Cairo Arabic. The Leaders of Linguistic Change. Part IV: Transmission, Incrementation, and Continuation. 13. Transmission. The Transmission Problem. The Transmission of Stable Sociolinguistic Variables. The Transmission of Change. Directional Language Change Among Philadelphia Children. Transmission Among Adolescents in Detroit. 14. Incrementation. Stabilization. A Model of Linear Sound Change. 15. Continuation:. Continued Change in the Philadelphia Dialect. The Incrementation of Sound Change in North America. 16. Conclusion:. The Linguistic Basis for Continuation. The Social Location of the Leaders of Change. Tramsmission and Incrementation. The Social Basis of Linguistic Change. Global Polarities of Socially Motivated Projection. Afterword. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisAlexis de Tocqueville is an ancestor of modern social science and one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century. This reader includes his major writing, travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public.Trade Review“This fine volume should become the standard source of Tocqueville's writings in the Anglophone world. Now that ideologues are trying to highjack Tocqueville for their own partisan purposes, it is particularly valuable to have this splendid collection that reflects the depth of Tocqueville's insights into democracy, liberty, and the delicate balance between them on both sides of the Atlantic. By including the best of Tocqueville's work on a wide range of topics and providing lucid commentary, Zunz and Kahan offer readers an accurate, historically grounded understanding of one of the 19th century's most brilliant thinkers.” James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University “A collection like this has been needed for a long time. It is accessible, broad-ranging, ably translated and superbly edited. Anyone who appreciates the genius of this greatest of French political writers will find it both a handy reference, and a source of delightful surprises.” David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University "Highly Recommended. General readers, and lower-division undergraduates and above." P.Coby, Smith College "The Tocqueville Reader... is a splendid selection from Tocqueville's works that reflects the originality and depth of his ideas on democracy, liberty and modern society" Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chronology. Part I: The Discovery of Democracy in America:. Preliminary Note. Illustration: Map of the American Voyage. 1. Travel Letters: First Impressions of America and Important Sketches of Democracy in America, 1831. 2. Excerpts from American Notebooks: Tocqueville's Conversations with His American Informants; Travel Impressions on the Road. 3. Volume One of Democracy in America, 1835. Part II: Great Britain, France, and the United States:. Preliminary Note. 4. Discovery of England, Poverty, Pauperism, and Social Policy, 1835-1837. 5. Ambitions, Marriage, and Tocqueville's Views of His Own Brand of Liberalism, 1833-1840. 6. Volume Two of Democracy in America. Part III: The Years in Politics:. Preliminary Note. 7. Tocqueville's Political Philosophy. 8. Tocqueville the Colonialist. 9. Tocqueville in 1848. 10. Tocqueville Retires from Political Life and Returns to Writing. Part IV: The Return to The Old Regime and the Revolution:. Preliminary Note. 11. The Old Regime and the Revolution Volume One. 12. The Old Regime and the Revolution Volume Two. 13. Last days. Suggestions for Further Reading. Note on Sources and Translations. About the Editors.

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Book SynopsisIn Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy, Robert E. Kuenne packages postwar classics with contemporary discussions to examine the impact of social welfare theory on policy development. The book introduces students to frameworks developed by scholars to monitor the market''s inefficiencies, to modify its income distribution and resource allocation, and to make decisions for social investment. The readings cover practical issues of national and international concern, such as income and wealth distribution, the measurement of social welfare, recent movements in government regulation theory and practice, the economics of drug prohibition, and the role of the public''s risk aversion in the determination of public investment. This book and its complement, Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions, are part of the Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics series.Table of ContentsList of Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: STATIC AND LIFE CYCLE VIEWS. Introduction. 1. Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth (Edward N. Wolff). 2. The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform (Martin Feldstein). PART II. SOCIAL JUDGMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS. Introduction. 3. The General Theory of Second Best (R. G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster). 4. An Economic Theory of Clubs (James M. Buchanan). 5. Consumer’s Surplus Without Apology (Robert D. Willig). 6. The Social Costs of Monopoly Power (Keith Cowling and Dennis C. Mueller). 7. Rationality and Social Choice (Amartya Sen). PART III. WHEN MARKETS FAIL OR FALTER. Introduction. 8. The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin). 9. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism (George A. Akerlof). PART IV. SOCIAL REGULATION. Introduction. 10. Behavior of the firm Under Regulatory Constraint (Harvey Averch and Leland L. Johnson). 11. Theories of Economic Regulation (Richard A. Posner). 12. Surprises of Airline Deregulation (Alfred E. Kahn). 13. The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition (Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel). 14. Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts (W. Kip Viscusi). PART V. PUBLIC GOODS AND INVESTMENT. Introduction. 15. The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure (Paul A. Samuelson). 16. Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions (Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert C. Lind). 17. Selling Spectrum Rights (John McMillan). 18. Analyzing the Airwaves Auction (R. Preston McAFee and John McMillan). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories have failed to capture the way people in general think about issues of social justice. David Miller develops a new theory and argues that principles of justice must be understood contextually, with each principle finding its natural home in a different form of human association.Trade ReviewAs with all David Miller’s work, a high level of scrupulousness marks Principles of Social Justice. He remains unswayed by ideological and philosophical background noise—no mean feat with this topic—and, as always, displays a distrust of grand generalization. The exposition, lucid and wholly unpretentious, is a model of its kind. And the argument is impressively sustained throughout, with some particularly acute remarks about the role of luck in judgments of desert, and about the relevance of procedures to just outcomes. -- Glen Newey * Times Literary Supplement *This groundbreaking book explores…how extremely divergent views about what is required to bring about justice might be reconciled when they stem from shared beliefs at a deeper level… This is a complex and ambitious book. Instead of proposing a normative theory of social justice, Miller illustrates how different principles are used in different social contexts. His theory of justice does more than simply report popular beliefs, however. It presents principles of need, desert, and equality that are philosophically coherent and blended together to form a cohesive theory. -- Dorothy Van Soest * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Scope of Social Justice 2. A Sketch of a Theory of Justice 3. Social Science and Political Philosophy 4. Distributive Justice:What the People Think 5. Procedures and Outcomes 6. Virtues, Practices, and Justice 7. The Concept of Desert 8. Deserving Jobs 9. Two Cheers for Meritocracy 10. "To Each According to His Needs" 11. Equality and Justice 12. Prospects for Social Justice Notes Credits Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. This book describes the varied nature of personal relationships, and also locates friendship in contemporary debates about individualization and the supposed collapse of community.Trade Review"How many friends do you have? How important are friends in your life? How important is friendship to the health of a nation? These are the kind of questions that Liz Spencer (with colleague Ray Pahl) has been investigating. It's a subject that their discipline, sociology, has largely neglected, leaving it to the novelists and agony aunts. Their findings, as recorded in ... Rethinking Friendship, require us to do just that. Rethink."--John Sutherland, The Guardian "Perceptive, thought-provoking and wholly accessible, this book contributes to broader debates about friendship and will appeal to a wide audience from general readers to academic scholars and students interested in the literary field of informal social networks. Unequivocally, this book delightfully delivers essentially what it promises to. It is an empirically grounded and methodologically sound exploration, which is rich in detail and convincingly uncovers the persistence of hidden solidarities where family members are considered to be friends and friends take on family-like status. Here, the everyday is rethought in a new light which shines on old solidarities and new forms of social cohesion, successfully debunking the myth of an alleged lack of commitment and trust in declining personal relationships."--Sharon Elly, SociologyTable of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Fragmentation of Social Life? 9 CHAPTER TWO: Capturing Personal Communities 32 CHAPTER THREE: The Nature of Friendship 57 CHAPTER FOUR: Patterns of Friend-Making 87 CHAPTER FIVE: Friends and Family: The Case for Suffusion 108 CHAPTER SIX: Personal Communities Today 128 CHAPTER SEVEN: Micro-SocialWorlds in theMaking 156 CHAPTER EIGHT: Hidden Solidarities Revealed 190 APPENDIX: HowWe Carried Out Our Study 213 Notes 241 Index 293

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Book SynopsisIn the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however, is how to actually theorize. This is a practical guide to doing just that, written by a well-known sociologist.Trade Review"[C]oncise and readable... Writing in accessible language and using the canon of social theorists to illustrate points, Swedberg meets a need for practitioners and students alike."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Theorize and Can You Learn to Do It? 1 Part 1: How to Theorize Chapter 1. Starting Anew 13 Chapter 2. Social Observation 29 Chapter 3. Naming, Concept, and Typology 52 Chapter 4. Analogy, Metaphor, and Pattern 80 Chapter 5. Coming Up with an Explanation 98 Part 2: Preparing for Theorizing Chapter 6. Heuristics 127 Chapter 7. Practical Exercises 146 Chapter 8. The Role of Theory 169 Chapter 9. Imagination and Art 188 Chapter 10. Summary and More 210 Appendix: How to Theorize according to Charles S. Peirce 230 Acknowledgments 249 Notes 251 References 253 Index 279

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A major achievement. The breadth and depth of this brilliant book, from rich ethnography to elaborate agent-based models, are awe inspiring and standard setting."—Scott E. Page, author of The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy"This exceptional book is chock-full of ideas that can inspire a new generation of researchers in the study of human societies using the framework of complex systems."—Mark Moritz, Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A major achievement. The breadth and depth of this brilliant book, from rich ethnography to elaborate agent-based models, are awe inspiring and standard setting."—Scott E. Page, author of The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy"This exceptional book is chock-full of ideas that can inspire a new generation of researchers in the study of human societies using the framework of complex systems."—Mark Moritz, Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisWe live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free?Trade Review'Dystopian ... a scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform.' -- Eva Illouz, author of 'Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation''Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism, despite the title, is not a sad book. It dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. It's a savage journey into the heart of the digital self, and a wake-up call to break free of our own enslavement' -- Donatella Della Ratta, author of 'Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria''Geert Lovink, who is expertly familiar with digital dynamics - technological as well as social - provides in this book a searing criticism of platform nihilism, considered above all as a perversion of computational design' -- Bernard Stiegler, author of 'The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism'Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Society of the Social 1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet 2. Social Media as Ideology 3. Distraction and its Discontents 4. Sad by Design 5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures 6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when our society is faced with an existential crisis?Trade Review'Just what we need so desperately in this moment. How we come out of this pandemic will shape the future of humanity. Now, as never before, we have to break the deadly logic of capital. A beautiful and important book.' -- John Holloway, author of 'Change the World Without Taking Power''In the midst of a global crisis, we must listen, learn, and build with people from around the world - the essays and insights collected here help us do just that. A crisis is a turning point, and this valuable book can serve as a guide to a better future.' -- Astra Taylor, director of 'What Is Democracy?''These stories teach us of the enormous potential for love and resistance in a world threatened by apocalyptic capitalism.' -- Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz''Mutual aid, solidarity and commoning become most visible during periods of deep crises. This book inspires us all on the path to social change.' -- Massimo De Angelis, author of 'Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism''If you take a break from doom-scrolling to read Pandemic Solidarity you’ll learn how we launched the largest mobilization of mutual aid projects in history' -- Indypendent‘Helps us to rethink and re-imagine an egalitarian society where no one is left behind’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Foreword by Rebecca Solnit Introduction by Marina Sitrin About Colectiva Sembrar PART I - GREATER MIDDLE EAST (ROJAVA, TURKEY AND IRAQ) 1. Communal Lifeboat: Direct Democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) - Emre Sahin and Khabat Abbas 2. “Capitalism Kills, Solidarity Gives Life”: A Glimpse of Solidarity Networks from Turkey - Seyma Özdemir 3. Solidarity Network in Iraq During Covid-19: This Time the Enemy is Invisible - Midya Khudhur PART II - SOUTH AND EAST ASIA (TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA AND INDIA) 4. Sharing Spaces and Crossing Borders: Voices from Taiwan - Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang 5. Standing in Solidarity with Those Who Must Refuse to Keep Social Distance: Disability Activism in South Korea - Ji Young Shin (translated by Han Gil Jang) 6. Rethinking Minority and Mainstream in India - Debarati Roy PART III - SOUTHERN AFRICA (MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE) 7. Confronting State Authoritarianism: Civil Society and Community-Based Solidarity in Southern Africa - Boaventura Monjane PART IV - EUROPE (PORTUGAL, GREECE, ITALY AND THE UK) 8. On Intersectional Solidarity in Portugal - Lais Gomes Duarte and Raquel Lima 9. Solidarity Flourishes Under Lockdown in Italy - Eleanor Finley 10. Solidarity Networks in Greece - EP and TP 11. Viral Solidarity: Experiences from the UK - Neil Howard PART V - TURTLE ISLAND (NORTH AMERICA) 12. Turtle Island - carla bergman and magalí rabasa with Ariella - Patchen and Seyma Özdemir PART VI - SOUTH AMERICA (ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL) 13. Argentina: Injustices Magnified; Memories of Resistance Reactivated - Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese 14. On Grassroots Organizing: Excerpts from Brazil - Vanessa Zettler Concluding to Begin - Colectiva Sembrar Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHow do childcare, healthcare, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives under capitalism?Trade Review'Theoretically robust and empirically grounded chapters demonstrate the enduring value of a Marxist feminist approach. A welcome collection!' -- Rosemary Hennessy, L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Rice University, and author of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism'The varied and suggestive essays in this rich collection are of great value, not only to newcomers to the field, but also to those already grounded in this rich arena for inquiry and organising' -- Hester Eisenstein, author of Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labour and Ideas to Exploit the World (2009)'A must read for those who want to go beyond the binaries and the 'social' conceived as an aggregation of intersecting systems or overlapping spheres. It is an ambitious project aiming for epistemologies of resistance' -- Himani Bannerji, author of The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (2000)'A marvellous new collection' -- Jordy Rosenberg, Los Angeles Review of Books'Every socialist needs to read it now' -- Socialist Action'Feminist thinking about questions of social reproduction offers a much-needed break with the impasse that mainstream feminism finds itself in - and this collection provides a fantastic weapon for that task' -- Red PepperTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Lise Vogel 1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya 2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser 3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman 4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya 5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally 6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective - Susan Ferguson 7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal - Carmen Teeple Hopkins 8. Pensions and Social Reproduction - Serap Saritas Oran 9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears 10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza Notes Index

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Book Synopsisaeo Discusses a topic of great interest in social science at the moment -- the idea of a risk societya . aeo Is directly relevant to current debates about the BSE crisis and aspects of technological innovations and risk. aeo Contains contributions from some of the leading figures in the debate, notably Ulrich Beck himself.Trade Review"The book broadly reflects the approach of the influential theory of "Risk Society" associated with Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. Both of these prominent sociologists have contributed to this volume, and their essays each provide a clear synthesis of their arguments. For those new to this discussion, this collection provides an excellent introduction to the notion of 'Risk Society.'" Times Literary Supplement Table of ContentsContributors. Introduction: Jane Franklin. 1. Politics of Risk Society: Ulrich Beck. 2. Risk Society: the Context of British Politics: Anthony Giddens. 3. Lessons from Lloyd's: the Limits of Insurance: Adam Raphael. 4. Nature Bites Back: John Gray. 5. Risky Business, Safety: Martin Woollacott. 6. Risk Society, Politics and BSE: Robin Grove-White. 7. Procrastination, Precaution and the Global Gamble: Stephen Tindale. 8. Once the Men in White Coats Held the Promise of a Better Future...: John Durant. 9. There's Method in the Magic: Pat Kane. 10. Technology and Democracy: Patricia Hewitt. 11. People in Distress: Susie Orbach. 12. Friendship: the Social Glue of Contemporary Society?: Ray Pahl. 13. The Politics of Prevention: Martin Woollacott. 14. Risk and Public Policy: Towards a High Trust Democracy: Anna Coote. Index.

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Book SynopsisA A provocative and intelligent look at the 'myths' used to explain recent changes in the nature of work. A The authors unravel these myths, explain how they have come about, and question their accuracy. In doing so they provide a more accurate picture of employment and the modern workplace.Trade Review"This book marks a welcome return to one of sociology's fundamental tasks - a critical and radical analysis of current work practices and processes. It provides both excellent reviews of the literature on work and effectively questions many of the myths at work." Keith Grint, Reader in Organizational Behaviour at the Said Business School and Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford "There is no better or more accessible guide to the debates about work and employment than this volume. The strong emphasis on well-grounded empirical studies - some carried out by the authors - will help to keep students' feet on the ground and provide them with the evidence to demolish some of the more egregious of fashionable theories. This will surely be the best text in the field for many years to come. This book brilliantly explodes the fallacy that work and employment need not be a central component of any sociology programme."Ray Pahl , Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex "The authors examine changes at work and in industrial relations in the light of some of the principal myths that have been used to explain the changes ... The book deals very effectively with the myth that trade unions are in permanent decline, concluding that the UK continues to be typified by adversarial industrial relations, giving the unions hope for recovery." Labour Research "The overall selection covers the most prevalent and seductive myths in an accessible and stimulating style. Consequently, I would expect this book to appear on numerous undergraduate reading lists ... Myths at Work may signal the launch of a new genre in the sociology of work in which academics willingly engage with the claims advanced by contemporary management gurus and business philosophers. If this makes it easier to capture student attention and stimulate classroom discussion, then books like this will serve an important ... function." British Journal of Industrial Relations "This is a useful text: it puts 'politics' and 'class' at the centre of the analysis of contemporary work and many of the individual chapters provide useful correctives to some of the more unthinking claims advanced on behalf of such phenomena as lean production, non-standard employment and the feminisation of work"Tom Keenoy, Labour and IndustryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Myths at Work. Chapter 1: The Myth of Globalization. Chapter 2: The Myth of Lean Production. Chapter 3: The Myths Of Non-Standard Employment. Chapter 4: The Myth of the Female Takeover. Chapter 5: The Myth of Technology and Science as the Solution to Workplace Problems. Chapter 6: The Myth of the Skills Revolution. Chapter 7: The Myth of the Death of Class. Chapter 8: The Myth of the End of Trade Unionism. Chapter 9: The Myth of the 'Economic Worker'. Conclusion: Beyond the Myths?. References. Index. Notes

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Book SynopsisThis absorbing book unravels the reasons for the enduring respect and reverence that Muhammad Ali commands long after the end of his athletic career. It will appeal to those teaching and studying cultural studies, social theory, sports studies, and sociology, as well as to general readers interested in Muhammad Ali.Trade Review"A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemert's Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age." Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear "Ali's fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross-currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross-currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit … This is a remarkably interesting and re-readable essay." Financial TimesTable of Contents1. From the Beginnings : GG is Gonna Whip Everybody. 2. Celebrity, Tricks, and Culture: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee. 3. Trickster Queers the World: I Don’t Have to Be What You Want Me to Be. 4. The Irony of Global Cultures: No Viet Cong ever Called me Nigger. 5. Coming Home to the Heart of Darkness: When we were Kings. 6. Trickster Bodies and Cultural Death: You’ll Die One Day So Better Get Ready. Ali and the World: A Chronology. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis absorbing book unravels the reasons for the enduring respect and reverence that Muhammad Ali commands long after the end of his athletic career. It will appeal to those teaching and studying cultural studies, social theory, sports studies, and sociology, as well as to general readers interested in Muhammad Ali.Trade Review"A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemert's Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age." Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear "Ali's fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross-currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross-currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit … This is a remarkably interesting and re-readable essay." Financial TimesTable of Contents1. From the Beginnings : GG is Gonna Whip Everybody. 2. Celebrity, Tricks, and Culture: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee. 3. Trickster Queers the World: I Don’t Have to Be What You Want Me to Be. 4. The Irony of Global Cultures: No Viet Cong ever Called me Nigger. 5. Coming Home to the Heart of Darkness: When we were Kings. 6. Trickster Bodies and Cultural Death: You’ll Die One Day So Better Get Ready. Ali and the World: A Chronology. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index.

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Book Synopsis* A robust examination of the role of citizenship * Provides a critique of Blairite and Thatcherite approaches to public, market and private domains * Argues that the public domain is essential to a civilised society .Trade Review"David Marquand is a unique, perhaps irreplaceable, figure in British life ... [He] has written yet another stimulating book. He could strike a massive popular chord as Will Hutton did in the State We're In, and re-ignite British political thought." (Kenneth O. Morgan, The Guardian) "Gripping from start to finish ... a brilliant book. Marquand is as fresh and powerful as ever." (Financial Times) "What makes Marquand's book so helpful is the historical sweep of how Britain developed the "public domain" in the first place." (Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian) "Highly readable." (Camden New Journal) "Decline of the Public echoes concerns being heard across the political divide ... Marquand's analysis of the problem is compelling - and certainly worth worrying about." (Health Service Journal) "...powerful and eloquent polemic." (TLS) "This short, powerful book should interest students and eperts alike." (Political Studies Review)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue. 1 Economical with the Actualité. 2 The Public Conscience. 3 Troubled Zenith. 4 Kulturkampf. 5 Counter Attack. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMedia are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.Trade ReviewWinner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title"In his new and refreshingly ambitious book on media and social theory, Nick Couldry attempts to map out the rough contours of our new media world and give us some direction... The book throughout is marked by an ethical seriousness, and a careful attention to empirical work, and Couldry's ability to handle an amazingly diverse set of sources is truly impressive. All told, it strikes me as an honest accounting of where we stand at the present moment"New Media & Society"An excellent summation of current media theory, presented in a manner meant to be accessible for those in the broader field of sociology."MedieKultur"A compelling case for the study of media practices as the foundation for a new sociology of digital media culture."Cultural Studies"Media, Society, World is comprehensive and current in its coverage - of research, of real-world examples, and of larger pressing questions about new media. The book is empirically and theoretically informed, and surveys both the academic research and historical developments in media in a single work. It is Castells-like in its range and ambition."John Durham Peters, University of Iowa"Media keep reframing, de-centring and dis-intermediating one another. A shrinking world offers the startling experience of radically new contiguities. 'Society' is no longer the ultimate explanation once sought by Durkheim. Couldry's portrayal of this unsteady constellation offers a much needed counterpart to the short-lived enthusiasms of technophilic sycophants. His book invites us to confront a basic crucial question. What is it that the media - old and new - allow us to do to each other? What should they permit us to do for each other?"Daniel Dayan, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris "In this richly insightful, incisive and thoroughly engaging book, Nick Couldry's original synthesis of social theory, media analysis and subtle observation invites a radical rethink of what it means to live in a media-saturated world."Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Digital Media and Social Theory2. Media as Practice3. Media as Ritual and Social Form4. Media and the Hidden Shaping of the Social5. Network Society? Networked Politics?6. Media and the Transformation of Capital and Authority7. Media Cultures: A World Unfolding8. Media Ethics, Media JusticeReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWinston Churchill said of democracy that it was the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves masters and possessors of nature', it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves. As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea an eminently modern one that the desire to establish the reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the human race. Liberalism's critique of the tyranny of the Good' naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a purely negative art that of defining the least bad society possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood, and understands itself, as the politics of lesser evil'. And yet while liberalism setTrade Review"In this highly original study of contemporary free-trade liberalism, Jean-Claude Michea develops and brings to a conclusion his decade-long duel with the bankrupt thinking of the institutionalized Left. The originality of Michea's approach consists in his strenuous effort to discover and unravel the original populist themes in Marx's work, themes that return - recycled and somewhat refashioned - in present-day liberal individualism. This allows him to rewrite, in a controversial yet fascinating manner, the history of modernity. The result is a book that should be widely read and discussed and should stir up debate across the social sciences, drowning as they now are in a stale concoction of yesterday's intellectual fashions." Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of the University of LeedsTable of ContentsNote. Chapter One: The Unity of Liberalism. Chapter Two: Questions of Method. Chapter Three: The ‘Open Society’ and the Politics of Necessity. Chapter Four: Tractatus Juridico-Economicus. Chapter Five: Egoism and Common Decency. Chapter Six: The Unconscious of Modern Societies. Chapter Seven: From the Realm of Lesser Evil to the Best of Worlds.

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Book SynopsisUnravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, this book sheds light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West.Trade Review"In this highly original study of contemporary free-trade liberalism, Jean-Claude Michea develops and brings to a conclusion his decade-long duel with the bankrupt thinking of the institutionalized Left. The originality of Michea's approach consists in his strenuous effort to discover and unravel the original populist themes in Marx's work, themes that return - recycled and somewhat refashioned - in present-day liberal individualism. This allows him to rewrite, in a controversial yet fascinating manner, the history of modernity. The result is a book that should be widely read and discussed and should stir up debate across the social sciences, drowning as they now are in a stale concoction of yesterday's intellectual fashions." Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of the University of LeedsTable of ContentsNote. Chapter One: The Unity of Liberalism. Chapter Two: Questions of Method. Chapter Three: The ‘Open Society’ and the Politics of Necessity. Chapter Four: Tractatus Juridico-Economicus. Chapter Five: Egoism and Common Decency. Chapter Six: The Unconscious of Modern Societies. Chapter Seven: From the Realm of Lesser Evil to the Best of Worlds.

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Book SynopsisEveryone cares about recognition: no one wants to be treated with disrespect, insulted, humiliated, or simply ignored. In this compelling new book, McBride examines how a basic need for recognition is the motivation behind struggles for inclusion and equality in contemporary society.Trade Review"McBride is a sure-footed guide to the recognition literature and a clear-eyed judge of the claims to be found there. This is a very fine book."Philip Pettit, Princeton University"Cillian McBride's penetrating and broad-ranging study gives a sympathetic hearing to the claims of recognition but also exposes a multitude of errors and false assumptions in the thinking that has dominated the subject. His insightful analysis and acute criticism deliver a radical reappraisal of how we should respond to demands for recognition."Peter Jones, Newcastle University"In this book, McBride successfully performs a difficult feat: he gives a wide-ranging and insightful account of the various philosophical, political and sociological aspects of the idea of recognition, while at the same time presenting and providing a persuasive defence of his own 'interactive' conception of recognition."Simon Thompson, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 The Politics of Recognition 9 2 Respect 42 3 Esteem and Social Distinction 72 4 Justice and Recognition 103 5 The Struggle for Recognition 134 Notes 164 References 171 Index 180

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.Trade Review"In this decisive contribution to a critical understanding of contemporary life, Stiegler demonstrates how mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes a form of generalized impoverishment, threatening to reduce our existence to mere subsistence. Typically though, he also suggests how we might build alternatives to this 'symbolic misery'. This work forms a vital part of Stiegler's essential project." Martin Crowley, Queen�s College, University of Cambridge "Expanding on Deleuze�s idea of 'control societies', Bernard Stiegler provocatively diagnoses the 'misery' of contemporary society as a collective exclusion from the creation of symbols. A war is being waged, he argues: capitalistic marketing is the instrument of choice, the battleground is aesthetics and the fight is for the control of affect. Recommended for anyone interested in the contemporary cultural condition." N. Katherine Hayles, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Of Symbolic Misery, the Control of Affects, and the Shame that Follows As Though We Were Lacking or How to Find Weapons in Alain Resnais’s Same Old Song Allegory of the Anthill The Loss of Individuation in the Hyper-industrial Age Tiresias and the War of Time On a Film by Bertrand Bonello Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a ?katastroph of the sensible?. This katastroph is not an apocalypse or the end of everything, but the denouement of a drama; it is the final act in the process of psychic and collective individuation known as the ?West?. Hyper-industrialization has brought about the loss of symbolic participation and the destruction of primordial narcissism, the very condition for individuation. It is in this context that artists have a unique role to play. When not subsumed in the capitalist economy, they are able to resist its synchronizing tendency, offering the possibility of reimagining the contemporary model of aesthetic participation. This highly original work - the second in Stiegler?s Symbolic Misery series - will be of particular interest to students Trade Review"What links Andy Warhol, Bela Bartok, Glenn Gould and Joseph Beuys? This, says Stiegler: each in his own way understood the decisive changes brought about in the arts by their entanglement in networks of industrial production and commercial consumption, and each also realized that this entanglement called into question whether any of us - actual or merely potential artists - could any longer be said to participate in the creation and circulation of symbols. This is the question of what Stiegler terms �symbolic misery�, and he answers it with characteristic defiance. If we are indeed excluded from such participation, then the possibility of overturning this state of affairs is everywhere around us: in precisely those technical forms we more usually experience as feeding our addiction to alienation. All that is needed is to transform these from poison into cure, which is to say: to learn how to use them! This is a work of sober, impassioned understanding." Martin Crowley, Queens� College, Cambridge "In Symbolic Misery one of Europe�s leading contemporary thinkers offers indispensable insights into modern technology and its influence on the ways we come to think and feel. Stiegler does not simply diagnose a collective malaise, however; his writing is a call to arms and a programme for a total rethinking of our relationship to technical objects." Ian James, Downing College, CambridgeTable of ContentsCall to Adventure Notice to the Reader Prologue with Chorus Sensibility’s Machinic Turn and Music’s Privilege I Sensing through Participation Or the Art of Acting Out II Setting Out From Warhol and Beuys III Us All Individuation as Trans-formation and Trans-formation as Social Sculpture IV Freud’s Repression Where the Living Seize the Dead and Vice Versa V The Disjunctive Conjunction Mais où est donc Ornicar?

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Book SynopsisBruno Latour's long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have never been modern'. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of religious speech acts. Even though there is no question that religion is one of the values that has been intensely cherished in the course of history, it's also clear that it has become immensely difficult to tune in to its highly specific mode of enunciation. Every effort to speak in the right key sounds awkward, reactionary, pious or simply empty. Hence the necessity of devising a way of writing that brings to the fore this elusive form of speech to render it audible again. In this highly original book, the author offers a completely different tack on the endless science and religion' conflict by protecting them bTrade Review"In a book both informative and transformative, Latour may well have succeeded in his aim to ‘reboot the teeniest hint of a beginning of a religious sentiment’" Southern Semiotic Review "Rejoicing is a kind of meditation: Latour has composed, in Yeats’ phrase, a dialogue of self and soul.” Chicago Tribune "In this honest , profound yet accessible book, a distinguished French scholar and public intellectual carries on an agonized dialog with himself as he faces the obstacles to religious faith today - and then points toward a resolution. As I read, I felt he had climbed into my soul." John O’Malley, Georgetown University "Rejoicing constitutes a creative, thought-provoking and impressive blend of, and reflection upon, learning and traditions." Rebecca Catto, Coventry University

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