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Book SynopsisA philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thi

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Book SynopsisIn this timely study, world renowned Middle Eastern and Western scholars and advisers provide expert analyses of the contemporary affairs of the MENA region and offer solutions for achieving peace, security and prosperity. Ideal for students and lecturers of Middle Eastern Studies, political sciences, Islamic studies and globalisation.Trade Review'Sincere and informed opinion pieces ... they bring fresh ideas and perspectives to important debates.' - Nordicum-MediterraneumTable of ContentsForeword Preface 1. Towards a Discursive Framework of Change, Behrooz Sabet & Cyrus Rohani 2. Culture for Openness and Coexistence: How Can We Create It?, Abdul Hamid Al-Ansari 3. Guiding Principles of Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, Cyrus Rohani 4. Confronting Violence through Policies of Dialogue: Towards Establishing a 'Citizenship that Incorporates Diversity' in the Post-ISIS Era, Saad Salloum 5. Nonviolence and the Challenges in the Middle East, Ramin Jahanbegloo 6. Religion of Peace: Islamic Principles of Good Governance, Christopher Buck 7. Traditionalist and Reformist Discourses Pertaining to Islamic Revival, Armin Eschraghi 8. Defining Islamic Social Principles, Christopher Buck 9. Women's Rights in the Middle East, Nazila Ghanea 10. Reason in Islam: Taking Back Their Own, Ian Kluge 11. 'Be Just': Qur'anic Ethics as Benchmarks for Islamic Law, Christopher Buck

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Book SynopsisStigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day discrimination against Muslims, refugees and the ''undeserving poor'', stigma has long been a means of securing the interests of powerful elites.In this radical reconceptualisation Tyler precisely and passionately outlines the political function of stigma as an instrument of state coercion. Through an original social and economic reframing of the history of stigma, Tyler reveals stigma as a political practice, illuminating previously forgotten histories of resistance against stigmatization, boldly arguing that these histories provide invaluable insights for understanding the rise of authoritarian forms of government today.Trade ReviewHistorically, when people were physically branded and maimed, it was clear who was creating stigma and why. While such practices are rare today, Tyler (Lancaster Univ., UK) argues that powerful, hidden processes in developed modern societies still create stigma … Chapters include an analysis of race and Black power in the US, the European refugee crisis, poverty within austerity Britain (based partly on her work with a local Poverty Truth Commission), and autobiographical insights from her working-class upbringing … [The] analysis of oppression in other places can provide a more acceptable way to explore dynamics that also apply to the US. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *A profoundly original and innovating book. By giving voice to the dehumanised, Tyler’s book powerfully bears witness to the suffering and tragedy unfolding in our age. Historically attentive and theoretically sophisticated… intellectually rich and elegantly written. * Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow *A devastating and brilliant book that reconceptualises stigma for the Twenty-First Century. Tyler skewers austerity and border regimes, laying out their human costs with clear-eyed, thoughtful analysis. Stigma is essential reading for these times. * Emma Jackson, Goldsmiths *If you think you know what stigma is, think again. This book is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the roots of stigma in our society and how it is leveraged to embed inequities. * Mary O'Hara *Imogen Tyler’s passionate book brings out the enduring power of stigma to mark inequality on the body in profound, searing ways. This will be a vital contribution to recognising the lived experience of inequality across history. * Mike Savage, London School of Economics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Stigma, the Machinery of Inequality 1. The Penal Tattoo 2. From Stigma Power to Black Power 3. The Stigma Machine of the Border 4. The Stigma Machine of Austerity 5. Shame Lives on the Eyelids 6. Conclusion: Rage Against the Stigma Machines

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Book SynopsisCelebrate every fabulous trait of the golden retriever with this heartwarmingly illustrated book filled with breed info and tips for pet parents.Trustworthy, outgoing, and easy to please, with a love of play and an openness to befriend everyone, the golden retriever deserves to shine in the spotlight. Brimming with helpful tips for new and longtime pet parents alike, A Golden Life explores all of the breed’s wonderful traits and shares tricks for bonding and making memories with your beloved golden. Filled with gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this book is divided into sections that describe our favorite golden qualities, teach their incredible history and characteristics, and share humorous and loveable anecdotes. Learn more about your golden’s individual personality while understanding the breed’s: Talk and barks Friendliness High adaptability Playfulness Trainability Love of outdoor play Heart of gold And more! Golden retrievers are adorable, popular pups that have earned their time in the sun. Whether dogs have always been a part of your family or you’re considering becoming a pet parent for the first time, A Golden Life is sure to convince you to invite this adorable dog to your pack.The Favorite Dog series will captivate hearts and minds with a delightful series of charmingly illustrated books, each dedicated to showcasing the unique personality, history, and charm of our favorite dogs. Through adorable artwork, these books aim to showcase the love we feel for our beloved doggie companions, celebrating their quirks and charm and the special bond they share with us. Titles in the series include: A Frenchie Life, A Labrador Life

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Book SynopsisCelebrate every fabulous trait of the labrador retriever with this heartwarmingly illustrated book filled with breed info and tips for pet parents.Black, chocolate, or yellow, the labrador retriever is one of the most beloved and popular breeds out there. With their high energy, family-friendly disposition, and trainability, it’s easy to see why the lab remains one of America’s favorite pets. Content to cuddle with you on the couch or explore and adventure in nature, the lab deserves to shine in the spotlight. Brimming with helpful tips for new and longtime pet parents alike, A Labrador Life explores all of the breed’s wonderful traits and shares tricks for bonding and making memories with your beloved lab. Filled with beautiful illustrations, this book is divided into sections that describe our favorite labrador qualitites, teach their incredible history and characteristics, and share humorous and loveable anecdotes. Learn more about your lab’s individual personality while understanding the breed’s: Beautifully colored coats Endless appetitite Love of water Quick minds and paws Childlike sensibilities Great sense of smell Heart of gold And more! Labrador retrievers are popular, family-friendly pups that have earned their time in the sun. Whether dogs have always been a part of your family or you’re considering becoming a pet parent for the first time, A Labrador Life is sure to convince you to invite this adorable dog to your pack.The Favorite Dog series will captivate hearts and minds with a delightful series of charmingly illustrated books, each dedicated to showcasing the unique personality, history, and charm of our favorite dogs. Through adorable artwork, these books aim to showcase the love we feel for our beloved doggie companions, celebrating their quirks and charm and the special bond they share with us. Titles in the series include: A Frenchie Life, A Golden Life

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Book SynopsisThe Saxons of Transylvania documents a fading civilization with a mix of archival images, new photographs, illustrations and storytelling. In their second book photographed in Romania, Martínez + Sáez focus on ethnic German Saxons returning to Transylvania to preserve their distinct culture and heritage built over eight centuries. Indigenous to the region, their conflicted story is told through legend and history, and with current texts, revealing an uncertain future for what is now a dispersed group of people.

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Book SynopsisThis book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide, many drawn from firsthand experience.Trade ReviewMedia capture is one of the most pressing problems facing democracies today. Bringing together the voices of scholars and reporters, this book provides a fascinating overview of the many ways in which this phenomenon is affecting political landscapes around the world. Importantly, it also proposes novel solutions for combating media capture and protecting journalists. A must-read! -- Julia Cagé, author of Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and DemocracyThis is a highly insightful collection showing how media capture has crept within a range of systems and institutions for the past two decades. It is also an important contribution to the literature on democratic backsliding. It is the great merit of Anya Schiffrin to highlight a major but understudied threat to democracy. -- Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, author of The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of CorruptionThis book is a remarkable achievement. For scholars and concerned citizens alike, it is a milestone in the ongoing debates about the uncertain future of news. At a moment when democratic institutions are under assault and journalism is withering away, the essays featured in Schiffrin’s wonderful volume are especially timely. Anyone who cares about the future of journalism—and democracy—should read this important book! -- Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation SocietyMuch of our lives as journalism, communication and media scholars and researchers are spent talking and writing about“them”—the journalists. With this book, we listen to them and are richer because of their insight. * Journalism *This is a collection around a theme of great importance which media scholars will find stimulating and original. * Australian Journalism Review *The book is a recommended read for both academics and the general audience, and strongly advised for policymakers who wish to help independent media. * European Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsPart I: OverviewIntroduction, by Anya Schiffrin1. How Silicon Valley Copied Wall Street’s Media Capture Playbook, by Rana Foroohar2. From Media Capture to Platform Capture, by Nikki Usher3. Media Capture and the Crisis in Local Journalism, by Philip M. Napoli4. Nobody Home, by Noam CohenPart II: Examples of Problems5. A Serf on Google’s Farm, by Josh Marshall6. The Rise and Fall of Blogging in the 2000s, by Felix Salmon7. Digital Payola: Policing the Open Contributor Network, by James Ledbetter8. Media Capture and the Corporate Education-Reform Philanthropies, by Andrea Gabor9. Using Old Media to Capture New in Turkey, by Andrew Finkel10. A Loud Silence, by Raju Narisetti11. The Capture of Britain’s Feral Beast, by Mary Fitzgerald, James Cusick, and Peter GeogheganPart III: Solutions12. A Global Strategy for Combating Media Capture, by Mark M. Nelson13. The Hamster Wheel, Triumphant: Commercial Models for Journalism Are Not Working; Let’s Try Something Else, by Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum14. Building Trust (and a Trust), by Andrew Sullivan15. Defending Vanguard Journalists, by Joel Simon16. Do Technology Companies Care About Journalism?, by Emily BellList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.Trade ReviewThe New Pragmatist Sociology introduces readers to the long sociological tradition of pragmatism and shows how it can be harnessed effectively to address a wide range of empirical problems central to the discipline. The editors are widely considered among the leading voices in the pragmatist revival, and this volume illuminates a promising path for sociology to take. -- Peter Bearman, author of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at WalmartReading this book, many of us will discover that we have always been pragmatists, without knowing it. The New Pragmatist Sociology proposes to lead the social sciences out of the wilderness of crisis in which we have been wandering for the past fifty-odd years. Its rich and diverse range of topics—from everyday life to structural issues of racism and inequality—simultaneously demonstrates and enacts pragmatism’s breadth and significance. More than a theory or methodology, it becomes a double mode of engagement, of sociologists in pragmatic inquiry and sociologists coming to understand people engaging in pragmatic action. -- John R. Hall, author of Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of ModernityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Pragmatist Sociology: Histories and Possibilities, by Isaac Ariail Reed, Neil Gross, and Christopher WinshipPart I: Inquiry2. What Sociologists Should Get Out of Pragmatism, by John Levi Martin3. Self-Reflection and Social Responsibility in Research: Lessons from Early Pragmatist Historical Investigations, by Daniel Huebner4. Problem Situation Misassessment and the Financial Crisis, by Luis Flores and Neil Gross5. Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Sociology, by Daniel Silver6. Disambiguating Dewey; or Why Pragmatist Action Theory Neither Needs Nor Asks Paradigmatic Privilege, by Josh WhitfordPart II: Agency7. Problem-Solving in Action: A Peirceian Account, by Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans8. Projective and Responsive Creativity Among On-Demand Workers, by Mazen Elfakhani9. Words Versus Actions in the Network Behavior of Low-Income African Americans, by Mario Small, Cayce C. Hughes, Vontrese D. Pamphile, and Jeffrey N. Parker10. Scientific Innovation as Environed Social Learning, by Natalie B. Aviles11. Why Do Biologists and Chemists Do Safety Differently? The Reproduction of Cultural Variation Through Pragmatic Regulation, by Susan SilbeyPart III: Democracy12. Accidental Discovery and the Pragmatist Theory of Action: The Emergence of a Boston Police and Black Ministers Partnership, by Christopher Winship13. Pragmatist Comparative-Historical Sociology, by Isaac Ariail Reed and Paul Lichterman14. American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro, by Karida L. Brown and Luna Vincent15. The Public Arena: A Pragmatist Concept of the Public Sphere, by Daniel Cefaï16. Finding the Future in Pragmatist Thought: Imagination, Teleologies, and Public Deliberation, by Ann MischeIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local policies. This title draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war.Trade Review"[A] brilliant compilation... One of the most thought-provoking books this reviewer has read in many years." Choice "Meticulously researched, well balanced and absorbing... Interesting and thought provoking." European Review Of History/Revue Europeenne D'histoire "A very thought-provoking contribution to the literature. The analysis is precise and persuasive." -- Mark Welch Metapsychology Online Review "Humanitarian reason constitutes an outstanding study of contemporary Western moral and political economy." Social Anthropology

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Book SynopsisPresents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration (Augustine), and fame (Hobbes).Trade Review"Boltanski and Thévenot's On Justification is one of the most important contributions to the field of economic sociology in the past decade. It does not fit neatly into any of the major theoretical perspectives that currently dominate the field—institutionalism, organizational ecology, network analysis, rational choice, or transaction-cost economics. But precisely because it is so original, it has great potential to chart new territory and enliven debates. The book has already had an enormous impact in France, where it is one of the founding documents of the 'economics of conventions' school. It is sure to have a big impact in sociology in the United States and Britain too. I could list at least twenty major sociologists who have asked me when the book will be translated."—David Stark, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACE How We Wrote This Book 1 Generalizing Field Observations and Producing Statistical Equivalency 1 Ordinary Identification and Scientific Qualification 3 From Comparison to Judgment 4 Construction of Proofs and Tension between the General and the Particular 7 The Tension between Different Forms of Generality 8 Attention to Critical Operations 10 Generality and the Common Goo d: Concepts of Worth in Political Philosophy 12 The Search for a Common Model 14 The Social Bond Put to the Test of Things 16 The Line of Argument 18 PART ONE: THE IMPERATIVE TO JUSTIFY 23 CHAPTER ONE: The Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of Agreement 25 The Critique of Sociology's Lack of Realism 26 Individualis m: A Different Social Metaphysics 27 Political Metaphysics as a Social Science 28 The Question of Agreement 31 Association and Forms of Generality 32 The Order of the General and the Particular 35 The Requirement of General Agreement and the Legitimacy of Order 37 The Reality Test and Prudent Judgment 40 CHAPTER TWO: The Foundation of Agreement in Political Philosophy: The Example of the Market Polity 43 A Social Bond Based on an Inclination toward Exchange in One's Own Interest 44 Individuals in Concert in Their Lust for Goods 48 The Sympathetic Disposition and the Position of Impartial Spectator 53 PART TWO: THE POLITIES 63 CHAPTER THREE: Political Orders and a Model of Justice 65 Political Philosophies of the Common Good 66 The Polity Model 74 An Illegitimate Orde r: Eugenics 80 CHAPTER FOUR: Political Forms of Worth 83 The Inspired Polity 83 The Domestic Polity 90 The Polity of Fame 98 The Civic Polity 107 The Industrial Polity 118 PART THREE: THE COMMON WORLDS 125 CHAPTER FIVE: Judgment Put to the Test 127 Situated Judgment 127 The Polity Extended to a Common World 130 Tests 133 Reporting on Situations 138 A Framework for Analyzing the Common Worlds 140 The Sense of the Commo n: The Moral Sense and the Sense of What Is Natural 144 The Arts of Living in Different Worlds 148 CHAPTER SIX: The Six Worlds 159 The Inspired World 159 The Domestic World 164 The World of Fame 178 The Civic World 185 The Market World 193 The Industrial World 203 PART FOUR: CRITIQUES 213 CHAPTER SEVEN: Worlds in Confiict, Judgments in Question 215 Unveiling 215 Causes of Discord and the Transport of Worths 219 Clashes and Denunciations 223 The Monstrosity of Composite Setups 225 Setting Up Situations that Hold Together 228 The Humanity of an Equitable Judgment 231 Free Wil l: Knowing How to Close and Open One's Eyes 232 EIGHT The Critical Matrix 237 Critiques from the Inspired World 237 Critiques from the Domestic World 241 Critiques from the World of Fame 247 Critiques from the Civic World 251 Critiques from the Market World 261 Critiques from the Industrial World 269 PART FIVE: ASSUAGING CRITICAL TENSIONS 275 CHAPTER NINE: Compromising for the Common Good 277 Beyond Testing to Compromising 277 The Fragility of Compromises 278 An Example of a Complex Figur e: Denunciation Supported by Compromise 282 Composing Compromises and Forming Polities 283 Developing a State Compromis e: Toward a Civic-Industrial Polity 285 CHAPTER TEN: Figures of Compromise 293 Compromises Involving the Inspired World 293 Compromises Involving the Domestic World 304 Compromises Involving the World of Fame 317 Compromises Involving the Civic World 325 Compromises Involving the Market World 332 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Relativization 336 Private Arrangements 336 Insinuation 338 Flight from Justification 339 Relativism 340 Violence and Justification 343 Afterwor d: Toward a Pragmatics of Reflection 347 The Place of Justifications in the Gamut of Actions 347 Below the Level of Public Judgment: Determining the Appropriate Action in Light of a Snag 348 From Anger to Crisis 350 The Moment of Truth in Judgment 351 The Tension of Judgment and the Qualification of Ungraspable Persons 352 Judgment between Power and Oblivion 354 The Humane Use of Judgment and Tolerance in Action 355 Knowledge about Actions 356 NOTES 359 WORKS CITED 375

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Book SynopsisMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would aTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, The American Philosophical Association One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates for 2010-2011 "[A] real tour de force of philosophical argumentation utilizing social science data."--Brian Leiter, Leiter Reports blog "[T]his book is an impressive addition to the growing literature in so-called 'non-ideal' political theory, which as Anderson herself notes, begins 'from a diagnosis of injustices in our actual world, rather than from a picture of an ideal world.'"--Andrew Peirce, Philosophy in Review "There are social, academic and economic benefits to integration--the evidence for which is so powerfully represented in Elizabeth Andreson's award-winning book, The Imperative of Integration."--Jonathan Jansen, The TimesTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter One: Segregation and Social Inequality 1 Chapter Two: Racial Segregation and Material Inequality in the United States 23 Chapter Three: Segregation, Racial Stigma, and Discrimination 44 Chapter Four: Racial Segregation Today: A Normative Assessment 67 Chapter Five: Democratic Ideals and Segregation 89 Chapter Six: The Imperative of Integration 112 Chapter Seven: Understanding Affirmative Action 135 Chapter Eight: The Folly and Incoherence of Color Blindness 155 Chapter Nine: The Ordeal and Promise of Integration 180 Notes 193 Index 239

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The author has masterfully balanced careful explanations of the quantitative theory with the practical computer implementation of the methods applied to real world data sets. . . . That Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction is carefully written, detailed, and interactive makes it useful either as a textbook for a lecture course or for self-study. . . . I highly recommend the book to anyone looking for an introduction to data science."---Jason M. Graham, Mathematical Association of America ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Tables xiii List of Figures xv Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Overview of the Book 3 1.2 How to Use this Book 7 1.3 Introduction to R 10 1.3.1 Arithmetic Operations 10 1.3.2 Objects 12 1.3.3 Vectors 14 1.3.4 Functions 16 1.3.5 Data Files 20 1.3.6 Saving Objects 23 1.3.7 Packages 24 1.3.8 Programming and Learning Tips 25 1.4 Summary 27 1.5 Exercises 28 1.5.1 Bias in Self-Reported Turnout 28 1.5.2 Understanding World Population Dynamics 29 2 Causality 32 2.1 Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market 32 2.2 Subsetting the Data in R 36 2.2.1 Logical Values and Operators 37 2.2.2 Relational Operators 39 2.2.3 Subsetting 40 2.2.4 Simple Conditional Statements 43 2.2.5 Factor Variables 44 2.3 Causal Effects and the Counterfactual 46 2.4 Randomized Controlled Trials 48 2.4.1 The Role of Randomization 49 2.4.2 Social Pressure and Voter Turnout 51 2.5 Observational Studies 54 2.5.1 Minimum Wage and Unemployment 54 2.5.2 Confounding Bias 57 2.5.3 Before-and-After and Difference-in-Differences Designs 60 2.6 Descriptive Statistics for a Single Variable 63 2.6.1 Quantiles 63 2.6.2 Standard Deviation 66 2.7 Summary 68 2.8 Exercises 69 2.8.1 Efficacy of Small Class Size in Early Education 69 2.8.2 Changing Minds on Gay Marriage 71 2.8.3 Success of Leader Assassination as a Natural Experiment 73 3 Measurement 75 3.1 Measuring Civilian Victimization during Wartime 75 3.2 Handling Missing Data in R 78 3.3 Visualizing the Univariate Distribution 80 3.3.1 Bar Plot 80 3.3.2 Histogram 81 3.3.3 Box Plot 85 3.3.4 Printing and Saving Graphs 87 3.4 Survey Sampling 88 3.4.1 The Role of Randomization 89 3.4.2 Nonresponse and Other Sources of Bias 93 3.5 Measuring Political Polarization 96 3.6 Summarizing Bivariate Relationships 97 3.6.1 Scatter Plot 98 3.6.2 Correlation 101 3.6.3 Quantile-Quantile Plot 105 3.7 Clustering 108 3.7.1 Matrix in R 108 3.7.2 List in R 110 3.7.3 The k-Means Algorithm 111 3.8 Summary 115 3.9 Exercises 116 3.9.1 Changing Minds on Gay Marriage: Revisited 116 3.9.2 Political Efficacy in China and Mexico 118 3.9.3 Voting in the United Nations General Assembly 120 4 Prediction 123 4.1 Predicting Election Outcomes 123 4.1.1 Loops in R 124 4.1.2 General Conditional Statements in R 127 4.1.3 Poll Predictions 130 4.2 Linear Regression 139 4.2.1 Facial Appearance and Election Outcomes 139 4.2.2 Correlation and Scatter Plots 141 4.2.3 Least Squares 143 4.2.4 Regression towards the Mean 148 4.2.5 Merging Data Sets in R 149 4.2.6 Model Fit 156 4.3 Regression and Causation 161 4.3.1 Randomized Experiments 162 4.3.2 Regression with Multiple Predictors 165 4.3.3 Heterogenous Treatment Effects 170 4.3.4 Regression Discontinuity Design 176 4.4 Summary 181 4.5 Exercises 182 4.5.1 Prediction Based on Betting Markets 182 4.5.2 Election and Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Mexico 184 4.5.3 Government Transfer and Poverty Reduction in Brazil 187 5 Discovery 189 5.1 Textual Data 189 5.1.1 The Disputed Authorship of The Federalist Papers 189 5.1.2 Document-Term Matrix 194 5.1.3 Topic Discovery 195 5.1.4 Authorship Prediction 200 5.1.5 Cross Validation 202 5.2 Network Data 205 5.2.1 Marriage Network in Renaissance Florence 205 5.2.2 Undirected Graph and Centrality Measures 207 5.2.3 Twitter-Following Network 211 5.2.4 Directed Graph and Centrality 213 5.3 Spatial Data 220 5.3.1 The 1854 Cholera Outbreak in London 220 5.3.2 Spatial Data in R 223 5.3.3 Colors in R 226 5.3.4 US Presidential Elections 228 5.3.5 Expansion of Walmart 231 5.3.6 Animation in R 233 5.4 Summary 235 5.5 Exercises 236 5.5.1 Analyzing the Preambles of Constitutions 236 5.5.2 International Trade Network 238 5.5.3 Mapping US Presidential Election Results over Time 239 6 Probability 242 6.1 Probability 242 6.1.1 Frequentist versus Bayesian 242 6.1.2 Definition and Axioms 244 6.1.3 Permutations 247 6.1.4 Sampling with and without Replacement 250 6.1.5 Combinations 252 6.2 Conditional Probability 254 6.2.1 Conditional, Marginal, and Joint Probabilities 254 6.2.2 Independence 261 6.2.3 Bayes' Rule 266 6.2.4 Predicting Race Using Surname and Residence Location 268 6.3 Random Variables and Probability Distributions 277 6.3.1 Random Variables 278 6.3.2 Bernoulli and Uniform Distributions 278 6.3.3 Binomial Distribution 282 6.3.4 Normal Distribution 286 6.3.5 Expectation and Variance 292 6.3.6 Predicting Election Outcomes with Uncertainty 296 6.4 Large Sample Theorems 300 6.4.1 The Law of Large Numbers 300 6.4.2 The Central Limit Theorem 302 6.5 Summary 306 6.6 Exercises 307 6.6.1 The Mathematics of Enigma 307 6.6.2 A Probability Model for Betting Market Election Prediction 309 6.6.3 Election Fraud in Russia 310 7 Uncertainty 314 7.1 Estimation 314 7.1.1 Unbiasedness and Consistency 315 7.1.2 Standard Error 322 7.1.3 Confidence Intervals 326 7.1.4 Margin of Error and Sample Size Calculation in Polls 332 7.1.5 Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials 336 7.1.6 Analysis Based on Student's t-Distribution 339 7.2 Hypothesis Testing 342 7.2.1 Tea-Tasting Experiment 342 7.2.2 The General Framework 346 7.2.3 One-Sample Tests 350 7.2.4 Two-Sample Tests 356 7.2.5 Pitfalls of Hypothesis Testing 361 7.2.6 Power Analysis 363 7.3 Linear Regression Model with Uncertainty 370 7.3.1 Linear Regression as a Generative Model 370 7.3.2 Unbiasedness of Estimated Coefficients 375 7.3.3 Standard Errors of Estimated Coefficients 378 7.3.4 Inference about Coefficients 380 7.3.5 Inference about Predictions 384 7.4 Summary 389 7.5 Exercises 390 7.5.1 Sex Ratio and the Price of Agricultural Crops in China 390 7.5.2 File Drawer and Publication Bias in Academic Research 392 7.5.3 The 1932 German Election in the Weimar Republic 394 8 Next 397 General Index 401 R Index 406

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to sex education, the personal is political.Trade Review'As a passionate sex educator, it’s Natalie Fiennes’ firm belief that everyone deserves to learn about the full spectrum of human sexuality and to discover their desires, shame-free' -- gal-dem'A short, punchy, intersectional, unstuffy overview of all sorts of issues that impact sexuality and sexual activity' -- 'The f Word'‘Shows how can we rise up against powerful and oppressive politics’ -- ‘The f Word’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: She may be a bag of trouble: A short history of sex education 1. Sex: I am fast 2. Gender identity: Changing rooms 3. Masculinity: Trump’s button 4. Body image: From scrawny to brawny 5. Sexual consent: No means no 6. Contraceptives: ‘If you have sex you will get pregnant and die’ 7. Virginity: Purity 8. Sexual violence: ‘Abuse of power comes as no surprise’ 9. Sexuality: From Stonewall to Yarl’s Wood 10. Pornography: Sex education today 11. Sex work: The oldest job in the world 12. Relationships: Just swipe right Conclusion Resources

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Book SynopsisReveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Warner PART I Get over it: HeteroTheory; PART II Get used to it: the new queer politics

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Book SynopsisIn Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called beingness. In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a Table of ContentsMoving Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Legal Status for Animals 1. No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Law’s Property Foundations 2. What’s Wrong with Personhood?: The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos 3. Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology 4. Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals 5. Liberal Humanism Repackaged? 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the dynamics of racial violence in Brazil, where poverty, unemployment, residential segregation, and a biased criminal justice system create urban conditions of racial precarity. The Anti-Black City provocatively offers race as a vital new lens through which to view violence and marginalization in the supposedly “raceless” São Paulo. Ironically, in a context in which racial ambiguity makes it difficult to identify who is black and who is white, racialized access to opportunities and violent police tactics establish hard racial boundaries through subjugation and death. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in prisons and neighborhoods on the periphery of this mega-city, Alves documents the brutality of police tactics and the complexity of responses deployed by black residents, including self-help initiatives, public campaigns against police violence, ruthless gangs, and self-policing of communities.The Anti-Black City reveals the violent and racist ideologies that underlie state fantasies of order and urban peace in modern Brazil. Illustrating how “governing through death” has become the dominant means for managing and controlling ethnic populations in the neoliberal state, Alves shows that these tactics only lead to more marginalization, criminality, and violence. Ultimately, Alves’s work points to a need for a new approach to an intractable problem: how to govern populations and territories historically seen as “ungovernable.”Trade Review"With impeccable scholarship and ethics, The Anti-Black City offers devastating, yet beautiful, narratives of resistance against brutality, poverty, and abandonment. Jaime Amparo Alves labored for years with maternal activists to resurrect critical thinking about communities suturing against evisceration and loss. In this impressive work, fighting for lives and the memories of their slain, resolute if not always resilient captives become the political doulas to a diaspora."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader"Jaime Amparo Alves’s poignant and powerful ethnography offers a vital critique of racialized forms of governance in the anti-black city of São Paulo. Beyond making a profound contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered inequalities which shape urban life in Brazil, this theoretically provocative work of activist scholarship also shows us a way forward."—Erika Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil"With the narrative drive of a captivating novel, the immanent critique of critical theory at its best, the empirical precision and accuracy of an anthropologist whose trust has been hard won in the field, and a bone-deep commitment to Black liberation, The Anti-Black City illustrates how police terror in the favelas of São Paulo constitutes a violence of genocidal proportions. This book is a game-changer in the field of anthropology."—Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms "Jaime Amparo Alves’s book is a tragically timely contribution to this hypervisibility of violence in Brazil. It is a thoroughly rare accounting of violence that is only possible because of Alves’ years of community organizing."—Antipode"This book certainly offers a timely contribution to the fields of urban, transnational and globalization studies, mostly at the graduate level, particularly concerning the rampant reproduction of racial and social inequalities in contemporary cities."—City & Society"A current and necessary analysis of the impoverished black population in Brazil. "—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: On Our Own Terms1. Macabre Spatialities2. “Police, Get off My Back!”3. The Favela-Prison Pipeline4. Sticking Up!5. Bringing Back the DeadConclusion: BlackpolisAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAbout the bookThis is a practical guide on how those who learned to be a man' can embrace feminism not just theoretically, but as a practice in everyday life. With a pragmatic and compassionate approach to masculinity, it offers eleven tools to grow beyond the destructive limits patriarchal norms try to impose on who we are and how we relate to each other.About sabotage L.A. publishings.L.A.p. books start as direct interventions into the political reality of our own social circle: How could we, our friends and their friends (and beyond) live together differently, here and now? s.L.A.p. itself is an attempt to make books for a world in which ideas cannot be created, owned or sold by any individual or institution: Creative commons licensing allows anyone to freely copy, edit, translate or remix our publications for non-commercial use. We give out digital copies to anyone who cannot afford the material book.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media really expands what media theory can do. The materiality of media is no longer restricted to questions of economies or technics but extends all the way to its molecular composition. It connects the fast calculations of digital time to the deepest of temporalities, that of the earth itself. An essential contribution to a media theory for the Anthropocene."—McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red "A Geology of Media does not complete or close down an area of research, but rather opens one up. This book is vital to any continuing consideration of media today."—Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism"A powerful, illuminating, passionate book rewriting the history and future of media from a much needed materialist perspective."—Theory, Culture & Society"Parikka prods us to think big, to get past our primordial inhibitions, to look beyond mass media consumerism."—Furtherfield"Parikka’s book offers refreshing insights into the materiality of digital technologies - that have radically changed cinema too - and can make us place past and theoretical debates into the present."—New Review in Film and Television Studies"Parikka points readers toward a more expansive media theory in ways that no other researcher has."—CHOICE"A satisfying and challenging book."—boundary 2"Parikka’s invaluable book will prompt a myriad of important conversations within his discipline over the nature of media and technology."—The New Inquiry"A Geology of Media offers a greatly expanded definition of media materialism, productively redefines the scope of media archaeology, and nuances the discourse of ecocritical media theory with its emphasis on the importance of the nonorganic world."—Afterimage"With A Geology of New Media, Parikka not only expands and vitalizes the fields of media theory and media history, he also forces the humanities at large to rethink its methods and objectives."—Spheres"A Geology of Media is an excellent book, which mixes cultural theory and history with geological science and contemporary art."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Radical in its far-reaching and interdisciplinary approach, and welcome for being so, the scope of A Geology of Media reflects its topical intricacy whilst reshaping the arenas of discourse in which interrogations of an evolving, non-discrete, complex of media cultures can take place."—TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies"A provocative book that succeeds in proposing a potentially vast field of study."—Early Popular Visual Culture"A Geology of Media provides rich theoretic interventions and examples that expand on the increasing scholarship on the Anthropocene, materiality, and waste."—Cultural Geographies" A welcome contribution to this relevant area of study."—Prabuddha Bharata"Jussi Parikka deeply has examined the rawest matter of media."—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "In A Geology of Media, Jussia Parikka offers a refreshingly raw materiality approach to media studies." —Culture MachineTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Materiality: Grounds of Media and Culture2. An Alternative Deep Time of the Media3. Psychogeophysics of Technology4. Dust and the Exhausted Life5. Fossil FuturesAfterword: So-Called NatureAppendix. Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art MethodGarnet Hertz and Jussi ParikkaNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a must-read for any researcher, even those who specialize in quantitative methods. . . .It aims to be a textbook but achieves much more." * EPIC - Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community *"Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research is a wonderful book that should be required reading for all graduate students in Sociology; indeed, it is a useful guide for any social science discipline that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative training." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Introduction 1 Cognitive Empathy 2 Heterogeneity 3 Palpability 4 Follow-Up 5 Self-Awareness Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: A Note on Proposals Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape covered in snow, far away from the bustle of human life? When we listen closely, silence reveals a neglected reality. Neither empty nor singular, silence is instead plentiful and multiple. In this book, eco-acoustic historian Jérôme Sueur allows us to discover a vast landscape of silences which trigger the full gamut of our emotions: anxiety, awe and peace. He takes us from vistas resplendent with full and rich natural silences to the everyday silence of predators as they stalk their prey. To explore silences in animal behaviour and ecology is to discover a counterpoint to the acoustic diversity of the natural world, throwing into sharp relief the grating reverberations of the human activity which threatens it. It is to attune ourselves to a world that our human insensitivities have closed off to us, to take a moment simply to breathe and listen to the place of silence in nature.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for those who are interested in herbal medicine, this book provides an insight into Prophetic phytotherapy, a branch of herbal medicine which relies exclusively on the herbal prescriptions of the prophet Muhammad.

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Book SynopsisAs We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States, South America, as well as throughout the African continent, this volume provides a timely exploration of Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic. As Teju Cole describes in his preface, “Too often in the larger culture, we see images of Black people in attitudes of despair, pain, or brutal isolation. As We Rise gently refuses that. It is not that people are always in an attitude of celebration—no, that would be a reverse but corresponding falsehood—but rather that they are present as human beings, credible, fully engaged in their world.” Drawn from Dr. Kenneth Montague’s Wedge Collection in Toronto—a Black-owned collection dedicated to artists of African descent—As We Rise looks at the multifaceted ideas of Black life through the lenses of community, identity, and power. Artists such as Stan Douglas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Barkley L. Hendricks, Texas Isaiah, Liz Johnson Artur, Seydou Keïta, Deana Lawson, Jamel Shabazz, and Carrie Mae Weems, touch on themes of agency, beauty, joy, belonging, subjectivity, and self-representation. Writings by Isolde Brielmaier, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Mark Sealy, Teka Selman, and Deborah Willis among others provide insight and commentary on this monumental collection.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What drives student politics at the American university? And why do so many students-on both sides of the political aisle-seem to shout past each other? Amy Binder and Jeff Kidder have produced a fresh set of answers. Whether you sit on the left or the right-or somewhere in between-you should read this smart book. It might change where you stand." -- Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in AmericaTable of Contents1 The Channels of Student Activism 2 Generation Z and Campus Politics (with Ellen Stolzenberg) 3 Doing Campus Politics 4 The Conservative Channel—Pulled Outside from the Right (with Zosia Sztykowski) 5 The Progressive Channel—Pushed Inside from the Left 6 The Politics of Speech on Campus 7 Genuine Openness in Polarizing Times and a Look toward the Future Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisContributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Event and the Everyday 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity 7. In the Region of Rumor 8. The Force of the Local 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician and a tractor have in common? Pretty much nothing except for the fact that, no matter how small, large, important or insignificant something is, it rarely survives without being cared for. Every object eventually experiences wear and tear, it deteriorates, stops working or breaks down. But are we giving the care of things the recognition it deserves? A counterpoint to our modern obsession with innovation but less striking than the one-off act of restoration, the delicate act of making things last rarely attracts our attention. This book disrupts our dominant narratives by putting those individuals skilled in the art of maintenance front and centre. Jérôme Denis and David Pontille shine a spotlight on the subtle aspects of caring for things, tracing the stories of those involved and, with them, the ethical challenges raised and political lessons learned. These people demonstrate a sensitivity and attentiveness to fragility; they encourage us to cultivate a material diplomacy in which wear is accepted and our relation to things becomes a matter of negotiation and compromise a far cry from the frenetic rhythm of planned obsolescence inherent in hyper-consumerism. Maintenance demarcates the contours of a world in which we have relinquished the human longing for unlimited power and technological autonomy, a world where our attachment to things is more profound than we ever imagined.

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Book Synopsis LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE''Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives'' Financial Times ''Superb'' Literary ReviewThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayIn March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching almost every person in Britain today, they are one of our best-kept secrets.''If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... highly readable ... a goldmine of social history'' Eric Kaufmann, Literary Review''Hugely engaging ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch'' Nick Curtis, Evening StandardTrade ReviewAn elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year -- Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016 * Observer *An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year -- Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016 * Observer *Eye-opening book, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives ... Part scientific narrative and part postwar social history, along with some fantastically cut-throat academic politics ... A very British success story -- Isabel Berwick * Financial Times *Fascinating, shocking, heartening ... The greatest scientific experiment in modern British history -- Dominic Sandbrook * Daily Mail *Highly enjoyable ... Reading this book has reminded me of how much we owe to birth cohorts and their participants ... Delightful -- Kate Pickett * author of The Spirit Level *A spellbinding account of the UK's pioneering cohort studies ... [A] cogent, persuasive book -- Robin McKie * Observer *Intriguing ... [A] fine, detailed book -- Jenni Russell, 'Must Reads' * Sunday Times *Fascinating -- Alice Jones * Independent *The Life Project is in many ways a very British story ... Absorbing ... A tribute to Helen Pearson's skill as a writer -- Keith Kahn-Harris * Independent *Hugely engaging, and gives much to chew on ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch -- Nick Curtis * Evening Standard *A highly readable, deeply informative book ... If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... [Pearson] does a superb job of bringing [the cohort studies] to life ... -- Eric Kaufmann * Literary Review *Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does a great service in bringing them and the people at their heart to life -- Andrew Steptoe * Nature *Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been -- Michael Prodger * The Times *Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies * Telegraph *Incredible * Tech Insider *

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Book SynopsisEthnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they adopt the participants language and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups.Trade ReviewThe book contains much that is interesting and novel: an illuminating exploration of how research in cognitive psychology can inform our understanding of ethno-national identity; an essay on the return of a soft version of assimilation as a desideratum for immigrants in the West; a trenchant critique of the use of the ethnic/civic distinction in nationalist studies; a rich analysis of how the 1848 revolutions were commemorated in 1998 in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia; and a sensible review of the literature on nationalist and ethnic violence. The analysis is lucid and well written throughout and makes for a worthwhile collection… Brubaker is to be commended for producing a stimulating mix of history, politics, and sociology. -- Bill Kissane * Ethics and International Affairs *The chapters of Rogers Brubaker’s excellent new book are a stimulating collection of essays and articles, several of them co-authored, which were published between 1999 and 2004. The book takes its title from Chapter One, ‘Ethnicity without Groups,’ an elegant critique of the reification of ethnic groups… A fine book by a distinguished author. -- Steve Fenton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *[I]ts main messages concern how to think and talk about ethnicity: shake off the conceptual and analytical confusions that have made the subject a trap for unwary enthusiasts. Wisely, scrupulously, and concretely, Rogers Brubaker provides guidance for avoiding the trap. -- Charles Tilly * Sociological Forum *Ethnicity without Groups is decidedly the most incisive and compelling treatment known to me of a complex of issues that engage sociologists, historians, political scientists, literary theorists, and cross-disciplinary specialists in ethnic studies. Where are we right now, in our understanding of ‘ethnicity,’ ‘identity,’ ‘nationalism,’ and ‘assimilation’? The answers to these basic questions contained in the chapters now before us speak vividly to contemporary discourse, and will command immediate attention. -- David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, author of Postethnic America: Beyond MulticulturalismEthnicity without Groups is a formidable manuscript that is certain to become a key reference for the ethnicity, nationalism, and it is to be hoped race literatures. It is marvelously unconventional and originally argued as well as energetically written. -- Christian Joppke, International University Bremen, author of Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal StateTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnicity without Groups 2. Beyond "Identity" 3. Ethnicity as Cognition 4. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence 5. The Return of Assimilation? 6. "Civic" and "Ethnic" Nationalism 7. Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post-Cold War Europe 8. 1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe.Trade Review"Shot through with radiant insights." The New Statesman and Society "An excellent introduction to the range, depth, and perceptiveness of his thinking. He has the distinctive ability to bring illumination where there is darkness and obscurity." Richard J. Bernstein, New School of Social ResearchTable of ContentsPart I: Marxism and Revolutionary Theory. . 1. Marxism: A Provisional Assessment. 2. Theory and Revolutionary Project. 3. The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach. Part II: The Social Imaginary and the Institution. . 4. The Social-Historical. 5. The Social-Historical Institution: Legein and Tukhein. 6. The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things. 7. Social Imaginary Significations. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.”—Washington Post“Magisterial . . . Hutton concerns himself with the bad, black version of the craft that has terrified poor souls for centuries. His approach blends a broad geographic sweep with the detailed attention of microhistory.”—Kathryn Hughes, Guardian“[A] panoptic, penetrating book.”—Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books“What he has done very valuably, though, is to put what most of us know already into a far wider context, both geographically and historically. It’s up to us then to examine our own notions of witches and witchcraft—no longer threatening, but still perfectly familiar.”—Wall Street Journal“Hutton, a leading authority on paganism and witchcraft, traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.”—Los Angeles Times“There are several over-familiar images that we jump to when we think of witches, even today: the hat, the broom, the cauldron. Yet this scholarly, engrossing take on the witch travels across centuries and continents to prove that it is a figure that is both more pervasive and more diverse than we might expect.”—History Revealed“Ronald Hutton is the doyen of British occult studies. Through his scrupulous, but always sympathetic, approach… his latest book offers a convincing account of how an early conspiracy theory, the spurious idea of an organised Satanic religion, came to obsess political and religious authorities, killing in the process so many simple healers and users of folk medicine.”—Ian Irvine, Prospect“The history of witchcraft and its persecution makes for compelling, often terrifying reading. . . what makes [Hutton’s] history unique is it provides a much longer – and broader – perspective. The Witch draws upon previously neglected anthropological and ethnographic findings to set the origins of witchcraft and its subsequent persecution in an ancient and global context.”—Tracy Borman, Literary Review“This is an extremely ambitious, thought-provoking, challenging and inspiring book.”—Dr. Willem de Blecourt, Reviews in History“Ronald Hutton’s The Witch is a true masterpiece which follows several intersecting strands of debate on these subjects to test if a global approach can illuminate the early modern witch hunts”— Gary K. Waite, Journal of Ecclesiastical History"An engrossing journey through the world of witches and witchcraft. Highly recommended for those fascinated by the nature and extent of the notorious European Witch Trials."—Tony Robinson "Eloquent, historically grounded, and global in reach, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the social and political context of witchcraft and the manipulation of supposed supernatural powers."—Timothy Darvill, OBE, author of Prehistoric Britain"Few historical concepts come as imbued with horror and intrigue as that slippery figure of the witch. Ronald Hutton has turned his considerable expertise to this always-current subject, illuminating the late Medieval and early modern idea of witches and witchcraft. Readers looking for a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to the history of witchcraft will devour this book."—Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane“The book we have all been waiting for.”—Diane Purkiss, author of The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-century Representations

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Book SynopsisVolume II in this major new reference series brings together leading international scholars to present an expansive global vision of the latest research into Japanese history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Genealogies of Japanese early modernity David L. Howell; Part I. The Character of the Early Modern State: 1. The end of civil war and the formation of the early modern state in Japan Morgan Pitelka; 2. Politics and political thought in the mature early modern state in Japan, 1650–1830 Kiri Paramore; 3. Regional authority during the Tokugawa period David L. Howell; 4. Tokugawa philosophy: a socio-historical introduction Federico Marcon; 5. Foreign relations and coastal defense under the mature Tokugawa regime Robert Hellyer; 6. The Meiji restoration Mark Ravina; Part II. Economy, Environment and Technology: 7. International economy and Japan at the dawn of the early modern era Adam Clulow; 8. The Tokugawa economy: of rulers, producers and consumers Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Komuro Masamichi; 9. The pacific context of Japan's environmental history Brett L. Walker; 10. Scientific communities and the emergence of science in early modern Japan Yulia Frumer; 11. The problem of western knowledge in late Tokugawa Japan Hansun Hsiung; 12. Technology, military reform and warfare in the Tokugawa–Meiji transition D. Colin Jaundrill; Part III. Social Practices and Cultures of Early Modern Japan: 13. Religion in the Tokugawa period Mark Teeuwen; 14. The medical revolution in early modern Japan Susan L. Burns; 15. Flows of people and things in early modern Japan: print culture Laura Nenzi; 16. Labor and migration in Tokugawa Japan: moving people Amy Stanley; 17. The Tokugawa status order Maren Ehlers; 18. On the peripheries of the Japanese archipelago: Ryukyu and Hokkaido David L. Howell; 19. The early modern city in Japan Thomas Gaubatz; 20. Popular movements in early modern Japan: petitions, riots, martyrs Anne Walthall; 21. Civilization and enlightenment in early Meiji Japan Amin Ghadimi.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gordon’s confidently gripping and at the same time persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism. Engaging with Adorno's lectures, Gordon shows how the negative dialectic, though eluding direct access to statements about the 'good life,' means to spell out the contours of a 'right' life. Within the enchanted bounds of a distorted whole, Adorno searches for traces of a failed happiness. From the despairing criticism of the world’s hopeless condition, the Hegelian nonetheless discerns a transcending impulse of hope that points far beyond the Kantian encouragement to use our rational freedom." -- Jürgen Habermas“With a fine sensibility, Gordon shows how Adorno, like Kafka, gropes in the gloom for glimpses of a precarious happiness, its possibility animating his critique of society.” -- Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin“Written in a captivating style, Gordon carefully analyzes the whole range of Adorno’s writings to demonstrate that the philosopher grounds his critique of contemporary societies in an idea of human flourishing that he takes as being accessible only in small, easily overlooked fragments within our damaged form of life. By this, Gordon manages something at which almost everyone else has failed so far: to give a coherent picture of the scattered pieces of Adorno’s idea of morality.” -- Axel Honneth, Columbia University

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Book Synopsis'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Poignant... striking... important and illuminating.' NEW YORK TIMES______________________No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still don't treat people equally.Why not?Every day, unconscious biases affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behaviour in ways that are subtle and very difficult to recognise without in-depth scientific studies. In a single interaction, they might slip by unnoticed. Over thousands of interactions, they become a huge and powerful force.Jennifer Eberhardt is a pioneering social psychologist one of the world's leading experts on unconscious bias. In this landmark book, she lays out how these biases affect every sector of society, leading to enormous disparities from the classroom to the courtroom to the boardroom.But unconscious bias is not a sin to be condemned. It's a universal human condition, and as Eberhardt shows, one that can - and must - be overcome.______________________'A critically important book.' DAVID OLUSOGA, author of Black and British'Groundbreaking... essential reading for anyone interested in how we become a more just society.' BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy'This book should be required reading for everyone.' ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility'Jennifer Eberhardt's ground-breaking work has the power to shift the debate and help shape a fairer society.' DAVID LAMMY MP'Jennifer Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways, ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves and the world we want to create.' MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of The New Jim Crow'An illuminating and readable account of how racial stereotypes and assumptions can cause social devastation and keep huge inequalities in place.' DR PRIYAMVADA GOPAL, University of Cambridge'Read this book. Biased will enlighten your journey through race relations and associations.' DAWN BUTLER MPTrade ReviewThis book is deep. Deep because Jennifer Eberhardt digs right down to the lowermost areas of mindsets, customs and attitudes. She does so logically, thoroughly, and comprehensively, in a way that I really believe has never been done before. It is very rarely that you can call something highly intellectual, deeply personal, and beautifully accessible at the same time. This book is rational, honest, depressing but inspiring. Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you. -- Benjamin ZephaniahJennifer Eberhardt's work is essential to helping us understand racial inequalities in our country and around the world. Her groundbreaking research and deep insight makes it possible for individuals and communities to face our deeply-rooted human biases with greater compassion and courage. We avoid talking about race for fear it will divide us, but avoidance inevitably leads us to repeat past mistakes and create conditions in which old wounds fester rather than heal. Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways, ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves and the world we want to create. -- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowJennifer Eberhardt is one of the great thinkers and one of the great voices of our time. Everything she writes transforms the way people see things. Every talk she gives changes people’s lives. There is nobody like her. She has unique insights into contemporary society and a unique ability to evoke images, emotions, and understandings that people will never forget. I believe her book will change the conversation on race in our society – and perhaps our society itself. -- Carol Dweck, author of MindsetIn the next decade there is a chance to make unprecedented progress in confronting America's history of racial inequality which has created a society where racial bias remains one of the most challenging problems our nation faces. The hope for progress is greatly increased by Jennifer Eberhardt's groundbreaking new book on implicit bias. Biased presents the science of bias with rare insight and accessibility, but it is also a work with the power and craft to make us see why overcoming racial bias is so critical. Jennifer Eberhardt is one America's preeminent social psychologists and her book will be essential reading for anyone interested in how we become a more just society.An illuminating and readable account of how racial stereotypes and assumptions can cause social devastation and keep huge inequalities in place. It seeks to show how things can change for the better if we are honest and embrace a degree of discomfort about understanding how race works in reality. -- Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Reiner Schürmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schürmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories of history, social relations, and economy. Whereas Marxist readings of Marx conceive history, classes, and social relations as primary realities, Schürmann brings out a radically immanent understanding of praxis that introduces multiplicity. This edition is complemented by a reprinting of Schürmann’s Anti-Humanism essay, in which he reads Marx alongside Nietzsche and Heidegger as spelling out the dissociation of being and action. Reading Marx showcases underappreciated facets of Schürmann’s work and offers an interpretation of Marx that resonates with the readings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Henry, Antonio Negri, and François Laruelle.

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