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Brill Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 4: Writings on Economic and Social History
Book SynopsisThe pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx’s theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Rick Kuhn 1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria 2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists) 3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792 Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790 Preface Introduction Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76 1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73 2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774 3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75 4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76 Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90 5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia 6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland 7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776 8 Supplementary Provisions 9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84 10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776 11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778 12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79 13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90 Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790 14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia 15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia 16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk 17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80 18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90 Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90 19 The Tariff Reform of 1784 20 The Extension of the Reform Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90 21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste 22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia Final Observations Appendices Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778 Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality References Index
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Brill Marxist Archaeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers written by archaeologists utilising the methods of historical materialism, attesting not only to what Marxism has contributed to archaeology, but also to what archaeology has contributed, and can contribute, to Marxism as a method for interpreting the history of humanity. The book’s contributors consider the question of what archaeology can contribute to a historical perspective on the overcoming of present-day capitalism, synthesising developments in world archaeology, and supplying concrete case studies of the archaeology of the Americas, Europe and the Near East. Contributors are: Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, Marcus Bajema, Bernardo Gandulla, Alex Gonzales-Panta, Pablo Jaruf, Vicente Lull, Savas Michael-Matsas, Rafael Micó, Ianir Milevski, Patricia Pérez Martínez, Cristina Rihuete Herrada, Roberto Risch, Steve Roskams, Henry Tantaleán, Marcelo Vitores, and LouAnn Wurst.
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Brill Transformations in the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development between the Early 1950s and the Mid-2010s: From Global Capital Accumulation to Late Industrialisation
Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Graphs and Tables Introduction 0.1 State-centred accounts: neoliberal and statist approaches 0.2 Global capital accumulation and the development of the East Asian and Latin American national economies 0.3 Summary and conclusions Part 1 The Specificity of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development Introduction to Part 1 1 Capital Accumulation in Brazil and Korea: An Overview 1.1 Capital accumulation and the Brazilian state 1.2 Capital accumulation and the Korean state 1.3 Summary and conclusions Appendix 2 The Valorisation of Capital in Brazil and Korea 2.1 Valorisation of the total social capital and of the portions invested in the industrial and agrarian sectors 2.2 Rate of profit of social, industrial (manufacturing) and agrarian capital 2.3 Surplus value in the form of ground-rent 2.4 Inflows of aid resources and interest-bearing (loanable) capital 2.5 Summary and conclusions 3 Determinants of the Valorisation Capacity of Industrial Capital in Brazil and Korea: The Steel, Automotive and Semiconductor Industries 3.1 Development of the system of machinery and the productive attributes of the collective worker in large-scale industrial productions 3.2 Summary and conclusions Appendix 3.1: The determinants of the rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean, Japanese and Brazilian steel industries Appendix 3.2: The rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean and Japanese automobile industries Appendix 3.3: Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Argentinian and Mexican automotive industries: base data 4 Growth and Development Characteristics of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation 4.1 Economic growth 4.2 Industrial exports 4.3 Labour productivity in the industrial sector 4.4 Individual and collective characteristics of the industrial labour-force 4.5 Cost and reproduction patterns of the industrial labour-force 4.6 Labour-market institutions and working-class political representation 4.7 Summary and conclusions Appendix: Tables A4.1–A4.17 Part 2 Historical Development of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation Introduction to Part 2 5 Brazil and Korea up to the mid-1960s 5.1 Brazil: From nationalistic to developmentalist populism 5.2 Korea: From autocratic democracy to electoral autocracy 5.3 End of chapter conclusions 6 Brazil and Korea between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s 6.1 Brazil: From ‘corrective inflation’ to the ‘economic miracle’ 6.2 Korea: From the ‘democratic restoration’ to the Yusin Republic 6.3 End of chapter conclusions 7 Brazil and Korea between the early and the early 1980s 7.1 Brazil: From the first ‘oil shock’ to the ‘debt crisis’ 7.2 Korea: From the Heavy and Chemical Industry Plan to the Comprehensive Stabilisation Programme 7.3 End of chapter conclusions 8 Brazil and Korea between the early 1980s and the early 1990s 8.1 Brazil: From the IMF ‘stabilisation’ programme to the hyperinflation crisis 8.2 Korea: From the Kwangju massacre to the Great Workers’ Struggle 8.3 End of chapter conclusions 9 Brazil and Korea between the early 1990s and the early 2000s 9.1 Brazil: From the neoliberal reforms to the neoliberal crisis 9.2 Korea: From the conservative coalition to the ‘democratic market economy’ 9.3 End of chapter conclusions 10 Brazil and Korea between the early 2000s and the mid-2010s 10.1 Brazil: From neoliberalism to neodevelopmentalism 10.2 Korea: From ‘participatory government’ to ‘post-democracy’ 10.3 End of chapter conclusions Summary and Conclusions of the Book Appendix A: The qualitative and quantitative determination of the capitalist ground-rent Appendix B: Methodological bases and sources Appendix C: Statistical tables Databases consulted References Index
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Brill Language in Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism
Book SynopsisNathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch’s contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch’s ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch’s utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov’s insights into language through Bloch’s categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Bloch’s Marxism 2 Philosophy of Language as a Problem 3 Outline of the Book 1 Bloch’s Utopian Materialism 1 Kant ‘Burning’ through Hegel 2 Tendency 3 Possibility 4 Latency 2 Bloch’s Anacoluthon 1 The Anacoluthon 2 The Anacoluthon as Trace 3 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Tendency 4 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Latency 3 Bloch and Marxist Philosohpy of Language 1 Voloshinov and Relationality 2 Refraction 3 Neo-Kantianism 4 Freudianism 4 Bloch and Fascism 1 Marx’s Incipit 2 The Eighteenth Brumaire 3 The Expressionism Debate 4 Fascism and Language, Then and Now: Postscript References Index
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Brill What Was Bolshevism?
Book SynopsisHow did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders – Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev – to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Original Publication Introduction: What Was Bolshevism? Part 1 Overview 1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition 2 The Soviet Union and the Path to Communism Part 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921) 3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard 4 The Mystery of the ABC 5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by Bolsheviks Part 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921) 6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities 7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism 8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920 Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921) 9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices 10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 1920 11 Zinoviev: Populist Leninist Part 5 NEP (1921–1930) 12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP 13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEP Part 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953) 14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov 15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings 16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court 17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia 18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He? Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991) 19 Perestroika Looks Back Bibliography Index
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Brill The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and
Book SynopsisIn the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Introduction 1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation 2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject 3 Romantic Anti-capitalism 4 Historiography of Rescue 5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure 6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz 7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement 1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter 2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling 3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals 1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’ 2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger 3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be 4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics 1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger 2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory 1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London 2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist 3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’ 4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian 5 Relentlessness 6 Mystères – Misère 7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs 8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom 1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’ 2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’ 3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels 4 Class Slavery 5 Why ‘White Slaves’? 6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique 7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’ 1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People 2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage 3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’ 7 Class in Struggle 1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck 2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne 3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling 4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm 5 Rescuing the Rebels 6 Revenge and Class 7 The Machine Breakers 8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? 9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel 10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from Above Bibliography Index
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Brill Writings of Larisa Reisner
Book SynopsisThe six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Timeline Introduction Cathy Porter The Front Afghanistan Berlin, October 1923 Hamburg at the Barricades Coal Iron and Living People In Hindenburg’s Country Index
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Brill The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the
Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index
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Brill The Negative of Capital
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Brill Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination: Theories and Practices
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.Table of ContentsJoseph C. KUNKEL: Editorial Foreword. Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Laurence F. BOVE: Preface. Acknowledgments. SECTION I DOMINATION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES. Introduction. ONE Robert LITKE: Domination and Other Kinds of Power. TWO William C. GAY: The Violence of Domination and the Power of Non-violence. THREE Gail M. PRESBEY: Hannah Arendt on Power. FOUR Maria MORALES: The Corrupting Influence on Power. SECTION II POWER, SELF, AND SOCIETY. Introduction. FIVE Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Physical Education for Domination and Emancipation: A Foucauldian Analysis of Aerobics and Hatha Yoga. SIX Glen T. MARTIN: Eschatological Ethics and Positive Peace: Western Contributions to the Critique of the Self-Centered Ego and Its Social Manifestations. SEVEN Jerald RICHARDS: Power Imbalance and Human Worth. EIGHT. Judith PRESLER: Plato's Solution to the Problem of Political Corruption. NINE Marc STIER: The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? Deception and the Educative Ideal of Politics. SECTION III POWER, WAR, AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY. Introduction. TEN Bernard R. BOXIL: Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World Peace. ELEVEN Joseph C. KUNKEL: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Starve: Is There an Ethical Alternative? TWELVE Michael HOWARD: Future Generations and Moral Duties. THIRTEEN Barbara A. THIEDE: Assuming Power: Liberal Peace Advocacy in the U.S. and Germany. FOURTEEN David J. ULBRICH: A Kantian Critique of Machiavelli's Ethic of Power. SECTION IV POWER, RACE, AND GENDER. Introduction. FIFTEEN Elizabeth KAMARCK MINNICH: Preparing to Think about Power and Domination: Locating Errors that Perpetuate Injustice. SIXTEEN Laurence F. BOVE: Malcolm X's Rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nonviolence. SEVENTEEN Judith A. BOSS: Throwing Pearls to the Swine: Women, Forgiveness, and the Unrepentent Abuser. EIGHTEEN David E. JOHNSON: Educational Responses to Tailhook. NINETEEN Amy IHLAN: Burning Crosses, Political Expression, and the First Amendment: The Case of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. TWENTY Alison BAILEY: Mothers, Birthgivers, and Peacemakers: The Need for an Inclusive Account. Reference Bibliography. About the Authors. Index
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Brill East Germany: Continuity and Change
Trade Review”…an important contribution to GDR studies and German Studies.” in: Monatshefte, Vol. 97, No. 2, 2005Table of ContentsIan WALLACE: Preface. Section One: Martin KANE: The Role of the East German Writer. Paul COOKE: Continuity and Taboo: Sexual Repression and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Weiber Simon BEVAN: Change and Continuity in the Work of Christoph Hein: a Comparison of Horns Ende (1985) and Von allem Anfang an (1997) David CLARKE: 'Mit Kunst der Welt beikommen': Christoph Hein on Literature, Ideology and the Possibility of Change in the GDR Diana ALBERGHINI: Re-defining the Role of the Intellectual and the Function of Literature: The Example of Helga Königsdorf Section Two: Wilfried van der WILL: The Visual Arts Astrid IHLE: Framing Socialist Reconstruction in the GDR: Women under Socialism - a Discussion of the Fragments of a Documentary Project by the Photographer Evelyn Richter Jennie HAWKSLEY: Continuity of Practice versus Change in Circumstance: GDR Visual Culture and the East German Artist. An Examination of the Work of Via and Pina Lewandowsky Section Three: Ian WALLACE: Varieties of Non-Conformity Jonathan GRIX: Non-Conformist Behaviour and the Collapse of the GDR Gordon Charles ROSS: The Swastika in Socialism: Right-Wing Extremism and Militant Nationalism in the GDR Stephen BROWN: The Protestant Churches and Political Opposition: Continuity and Change 1978 to 1989 Brendan de SILVA: The Protestant Church and the East German State: An Organisational Perspective Michael PLOETZ: The East German Peace Council in the Peace Struggle of the Early 1980s Section Four: Peter BARKER: Institutions and Parties Daniel HOUGH: SED to PDS - A Case of Continuity through Change? Julian RHYS: 'Was denn, es gibt euch noch?' The Freie Deutsche Jugend in the 1990s Thorsten LAUTERBACH: The German Reunified - Challenges to the Legal System Section Five: Chris FLOCKTON: Women, Economy and the Regions Bettina IGANSKI: The Meaning of Women's 'Second Family' for Current Patterns of Discontinuity in Rural East Germany Vanessa BECK: The Impact of Unemployment on Women in the New Bundesländer Corinne NATIVEL and Hannah TOOZE: The Significance of the Region in East Germany's Economic Transition List of Contributors
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Brill Coercion: A Nonevaluative Approach
Book SynopsisIn this book, Rhodes provides a nonevaluative account of coercion. He begins with a thorough discussion of the charge that coercion is an essentially contested concept. He argues that effective communication of regulations pertaining to human conduct requires a basic level of clarity as to the kind of conduct being regulated. Accordingly, he argues that before we prescribe or proscribe conduct, we should describe it. In short, he maintains that wherever possible description should precede prescription and proscription. Rhodes begins his descriptive project by providing a fundamental account of human motivation. Upon this foundation he supports his distinctions between threats, offers, throffers, and neutral proposals. He argues that all coercion claims can be understood in light of these components. He applies this analysis to three prominent accounts of coercion as advanced by F.A. Hayek, Harry Frankfurt, and Robert Nozick. After comparing and contrasting these views, Rhodes provides his own account. Rhodes's account is based upon the identification of what he refers to as perceived-threat-avoidance-behavior as a necessary condition for coercion. As a descriptive, or nonevaluative, account, Rhodes is able to identify coercion independent from normative judgments. He argues that it is not the wrongfulness of some conduct that makes it coercion, instead, it is the coerciveness of some conduct that makes it wrong. Unique to Rhodes's account, coercion is not necessarily wrong. As a descriptive account, his view permits an independent analysis of the moral status of an act of coercion. The book concludes with a discussion of the normatively significant variables of a coercion claim.Trade Review”[Rhodes] develops his analysis out of an admirably broad canvassing of the recent literature on coercion … offering reasonable amendments…” in: Ethics, Vol. 112, No. 2, January 2002Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Richard T. Hull. Acknowledgments. ONE Essential Contestability and Evaluative Concepts. TWO Our Own Doings. THREE Works on Coercion. FOUR Coercion and Morality. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.
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Brill Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Book SynopsisTradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a woman’s place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays.Table of ContentsBarbara GARLICK: Introduction 1 Virginia BLAIN: “Be these his daughters?” Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disruption in a Patriarchal Poetics of Women’s Autobiography 2 Meg TASKER: Aurora Leigh: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Novel Approach to the Woman Poet 3 E. WARWICK SLINN: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Problem of Female Agency 4 Debra FRIED: In Daisy’s Lane: Variants and Personification in Emily Dickinson 5 Lori LEBOW: Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics: Text, Lies and Autobiography 6 Susan CONLEY: Burying the Medusa: Romantic Bloodlines in Christina Rossetti’s Gothic Epistle 7 Sharon BICKLE: A Woman of Women for “A Sonnet of Sonnets”: Exploring Female Subjectivity in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” 8 C.C. BARFOOT: “Thus only in a dream”: Appetite in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry. 9. Barbara GARLICK: Defacing the Self: Christina Rossetti’s The Face of the Deep as Absolution 10 Tomoko TAKAGUCHI: Christina Rossetti in Secrecy: Revising the Poetics of Sensibility Notes on Contributors Index
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Brill Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.Trade Review"[an] excellent edited collection … Stone’s volume is hugely welcome as an admirable comprehensive guide for an Anglophone readership to an alternative tradition of thinking about the Holocaust." - in: The Jewish Quarterly (Autumn 2002)Table of ContentsEDITORIAL FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN: Interrupting Confession, Resisting Absolution: Monuments after the Holocaust TWO RAVIT REICHMAN: The Myth of Old Forms: On the Unknowable and Representation THREE IAN JAMES: Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self FOUR DAN STONE: Georges Bataille and the Interpretation of the Holocaust FIVE SARA GUYER: Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L’espèce humaine SIX RICHARD STAMP: “Do Not Forget the Very Thing that Will Make You Lose Your Memory”: Blanchot’s “Désastre” and the Holocaust SEVEN HEIDRUN FRIESE: Silence — Voice — Representation EIGHT MICHAL BEN-NAFTALI: Lyotard’s and Derrida’s “Catastrophist Phenomenology” NINE SIMON SPARKS: The Experience of Evil: Kant and Nancy ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX
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Stockholm University Press Narrowed Lives: Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability
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Astral International Effect of Cort Programme on Critical Thinking
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Westland Books Beyond Biryani
Book SynopsisThe book concludes with looking at the last thirty years where Hyderabad has taken a giant leap towards becoming a modern city that is now the preferred location of scientific and technological institutions and companies.
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Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond
Book SynopsisAn eclectic collection of 19 essays, conversations and reports intended to reach beyond regions and compartamentalized disciplines. They encompass the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and the arts. The book hopes to broaden the horizons of what we call ‘The Caribbean’ both geographically and intellectually. Included are Harvey Neptune’s re-evaluation of CLR James’ American Civilization as a book that foretold the rise of a populist autocratic leader in the US long before Trump. Christopher Laird provides a revealing outline of Banyan holdings, the largest cultural archive in the Caribbean while Heather Cateau explores the 400- year old links between Connecticut and the Caribbean. The notion of the Caribbean as a ‘new Mediterranean’ is examined by Gary Reger and Honduran historian Dario Euraque traces references to Afro-origins in Central American curricula. Tony Hall argues for recognition of Marcus and Amy Garvey in societies ranging from Jamaica and Costa Rica to the US. The collection also includes Pablo Delano’s installation The Museum of the Old Colony and a conversation with Trinidad masman artist Peter Minshall. Essays also focus on Hindu, Moslem and Afro-Caribbean women in the Diaspora and on the difficulties facing LGBTQ communities in the Caribbean and the US. Other authors compare the UK Leeds carnival with that of Trinidad and on the importance of David Rudder’s Cricket Chronicles as cultural documents.
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Elsevier Science Encyclopedia of Violence Peace and Conflict
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MIT Press Ltd History of Shit
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Little, Brown Book Group Cancel The Apocalypse
Book SynopsisEver get the feeling that things are falling apart? You''re not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? In fascinating and iconoclastic detail - on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives - Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment, and hasn''t even made us any happier in the process. Simms believes passionately in the human capacity for change, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beg
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Copenhagen
Book SynopsisTONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn’s ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the
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Taylor & Francis Ltd IBSS Sociology 1988 Vol 38 International
Book SynopsisThis bibliography is now under the editorial direction and authority of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, at the London School of Economics. The editorial expertise of the world''s leading social science institution will ensure that the IBSS maintains its unrivalled position as a bibliographic source. This bibliography lists the most important works in sociology published in 1988.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Science Education
Book SynopsisEducation in, about, and through, the sciences â physics, chemistry, biology, earth science â has grown rapidly in the last 150 years. Starting from the twin bases of an elective provision for those likely to become scientists and engineers and of informal provision for the general populace, it has evolved into a core component of compulsory education across the globe. Above this rises an edifice of provision at university level and beyond, both formal and informal. This expansion has been justified by the perceptions that science is one of the major roots for economic prosperity, that it must inform an increasing number of decisions in democratic societies, and that it increasingly impinges on the personal lives of individuals. This collection of papers, drawn from worldwide literature and reflecting diverse cultural traditions, provides a fascinating resource for scholars seeking to unravel the historical trajectories of these complexities, to understand the nature of current provision, and to identify likely future directions of development.Table of ContentsVolume 1: Science, Education, and the Formal Curriculum Section A: The Relationship between Science and Science Education Section B: Aims of the Formal Science Curriculum and the Needs of Students Volume 2: Science Education and Assessment in the Formal Curriculum Section C: Science Education in the Formal Curriculum Section D: Assessment in Formal Science Education Volume 3: Teaching and Learning in Science Education Section E: Teaching in Science Education Section F: Learning in Science Education Volume 4: Conceptual and Teacher Development in Science Education Section G: The Conceptual Development of Students in Science Education Section H: The Professional Development of Science Teachers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Genetics
Book SynopsisScientific developments have always been central to conceptions of society at particular historical moments. However, the rise of molecular biology and the new genetic knowledge in the twentieth century pose particular challenges to our notions of the individual, our sense of past and future, and our relationships with the body, nature and the family. As a number of authors have suggested, the meanings of âlife itselfâ may be in the process of subtle transformation and many of these reconfigurations are occurring more rapidly than our ability to fully grasp their social and cultural implications.A fascinating work, the first volume in this collection sets out the background to scientific developments, the social responses to them and the constitution of science and technology as subjects for sociological analysis. The following volumes explore the interactions between biotechnology and the politics of the environment, the cultural context in which science is practised, and the broader social consequences that it may be expected to have.A general introduction maps key approaches and controversies, highlighting particular theoretical and methodological perspectives, and each individual volume is introduced by a specialist in the field. Table of ContentsVolume 1: New Genetic Knowledge, the Body, Health and Disease Volume 2: The Environment, Food and Biodiversity Volume 3: Genomic Applications: Consent, Ownership, Control Volume 4: Citizenship, Diversity and Governance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Animals and Society
Book SynopsisAnimals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food, labour, raw materials, modes of transport, companionship, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation, and forms of leisure and entertainment. Given both the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies, and also the broad range of controversies (from vivisection for scientific and commercial purposes, to factory farming) that have arisen, the study of animals is by its very nature interdisciplinary. Each social scientific discipline has distinctive and interesting things to say about the relations that pertain both historically and in the present day between humans and animals. In subjects such as anthropology and geography, the study of human-animal relations has become in recent years a key area of analysis. Other subjects, such as sociology, are now increasingly recognising the need to put animals firmly on their research agendas.This collection brings together the rich diversity of research work from across the social sciences on the topic of human-animal relations, and also provides overviews of research that has been carried out within particular disciplines in this area.
£760.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Food
Book SynopsisIn the last five years or so, there has been a huge explosion of scholarly work on the history of food and, likewise, pressing problems such as food scares and genetic modification, as well as anorexia and obesity, have become increasingly present in the public consciousness.Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines, this fascinating four-volume collection covers anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, cultural history, land economy, and, outside of the arts and social sciences, disciplines such as health sciences and health economics. An engaging and comprehensive reference, it is undoubtedly a highly useful resource for both student and scholar alike.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leisure Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Room in Our Hearts Keeping Family Ties
Book SynopsisAdopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child's psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption. Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape ofTrade Review'Every once in a while, a book comes along that can make an honest difference in the understanding of an important subject—and, therefore, in people's lives. I'm delighted to say that Making Room in Our Hearts is one of those books. It takes on open adoption, which remains too poorly understood despite its growing prevalence, and explains it in the best possible way: through the stories of those who live it. The result is simultaneously touching and enlightening; it's a wonderful combination that I hope and believe will make an honest difference in the continued evolution of adoption from the stigmatized, secretive process that it used to be into one that is honest, healthy and better serves all of its participants, especially the children.' - Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute'Micky Duxbury has written an interesting, up-to-date book on the beauty and the complexity of families built through open adoption. She has integrated the knowledge provided by other experts in the field with the poignant sharings of real families who have been living their open adoptions over several years. This is a book well worth reading and owning; I highly recommend it.' - Sharon Roszia, co-author of The Open Adoption Experience and Program Manager, Special Needs Adoptions for Kinship Center of Southern California'Open adoption is not a trend—it is the wave of the future. Making Room in Our Hearts helps us prepare for that future by providing an ethical and child-centered perspective as it puts a human face on open adoption. You will meet real people revealing, as well as struggling, with the ups and downs of these complex relationships. This book fills an important need by providing adoption professionals, birth and adoptive families and their extended familial networks with a wealth of practical and personal information.'- Brenda Romanchik, MSW, Open Adoption educator, Birth Parent advocate, and Director of Insight: Open Adoption Resources and Support'Having been born under the closed adoption system some forty-something years ago, it was a profoundly moving experience for me to read about families—birth and adoptive families—who have come to embrace openness for their children. I believe that the adoption community is moving in a brave and important new direction, and that Micky Duxbury's book will provide a vital map for families and professionals alike. I am grateful for this work and only wish that it had been the standard of practice while I was growing up.'- Susan Ito, adult adoptee and co-editor of A Ghost At Heart's Edge:Stories & Poems of Adoption'This book is a valuable inclusion as an educational tool in the arena of open adoption … that can build understanding among those personally involved with adoption, considering adoption, professionals and anyone else who is interested in this topic. Additionally, it offers support to those already in open adoptions who want to hear about how this experience has evolved for others as the years have passed.' - Patricia Martinez Dorner, MA, LPC, LMFT, Co-author of Children of Open Adoption and author of How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birthparents of Minors'I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Making Room in our Hearts, by Micky Duxbury so that I could recommend it to every adopting family I have the fortune of consulting with. Never has there been a volume so compassionate, inspiring and informative about why child-centered, open adoption is the correct paradigm for today's adoptions. Ms. Duxbury understands that openness in adoption is not a quantifiable obligation, but a quality that can be cultivated and resides in the heart of family members touched by adoption.'- Leslie Foge, MA, MFT, Adoption Psychotherapist and Co-author of The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide for Placing a Child for Adoption'Making Room in Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actual words of those who live it day in and day out.'- James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers:Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption'This is a wonderful book… and the author seems to have complete control of this often-confusing area of relationships. The topic is covered in a thorough as well as realistic fashion. Duxbury is a skilled writer and has a very friendly writing style that should appeal to the reader….As families become more and more "non-traditional" the notion of openness cannot be stressed enough.'- Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D., ABPP, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University"Every once in a while, a book comes along that can make an honest difference in the understanding of an important subject—and, therefore, in people's lives. I'm delighted to say that Making Room in Our Hearts is one of those books. It takes on open adoption, which remains too poorly understood despite its growing prevalence, and explains it in the best possible way: through the stories of those who live it. The result is simultaneously touching and enlightening; it's a wonderful combination that I hope and believe will make an honest difference in the continued evolution of adoption from the stigmatized, secretive process that it used to be into one that is honest, healthy and better serves all of its participants, especially the children." - Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute"Micky Duxbury has written an interesting, up-to-date book on the beauty and the complexity of families built through open adoption. She has integrated the knowledge provided by other experts in the field with the poignant sharings of real families who have been living their open adoptions over several years. This is a book well worth reading and owning; I highly recommend it." - Sharon Roszia, co-author of The Open Adoption Experience and Program Manager, Special Needs Adoptions for Kinship Center of Southern California"Open adoption is not a trend—it is the wave of the future. Making Room in Our Hearts helps us prepare for that future by providing an ethical and child-centered perspective as it puts a human face on open adoption. You will meet real people revealing, as well as struggling, with the ups and downs of these complex relationships. This book fills an important need by providing adoption professionals, birth and adoptive families and their extended familial networks with a wealth of practical and personal information." - Brenda Romanchik, MSW, Open Adoption educator, Birth Parent advocate, and Director of Insight: Open Adoption Resources and Support"Having been born under the closed adoption system some forty-something years ago, it was a profoundly moving experience for me to read about families—birth and adoptive families—who have come to embrace openness for their children. I believe that the adoption community is moving in a brave and important new direction, and that Micky Duxbury's book will provide a vital map for families and professionals alike. I am grateful for this work and only wish that it had been the standard of practice while I was growing up." - Susan Ito, adult adoptee and co-editor of A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption"This book is a valuable inclusion as an educational tool in the arena of open adoption … that can build understanding among those personally involved with adoption, considering adoption, professionals and anyone else who is interested in this topic. Additionally, it offers support to those already in open adoptions who want to hear about how this experience has evolved for others as the years have passed." - Patricia Martinez Dorner, MA, LPC, LMFT, Co-author of Children of Open Adoption and author of How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birthparents of Minors"I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Making Room in our Hearts, by Micky Duxbury so that I could recommend it to every adopting family I have the fortune of consulting with. Never has there been a volume so compassionate, inspiring and informative about why child-centered, open adoption is the correct paradigm for today's adoptions. Ms. Duxbury understands that openness in adoption is not a quantifiable obligation, but a quality that can be cultivated and resides in the heart of family members touched by adoption." - Leslie Foge, MA, MFT, Adoption Psychotherapist and Co-author of The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide for Placing a Child for Adoption"Making Room in Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actual words of those who live it day in and day out." - James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers: Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption"This is a wonderful book… and the author seems to have complete control of this often-confusing area of relationships. The topic is covered in a thorough as well as realistic fashion. Duxbury is a skilled writer and has a very friendly writing style that should appeal to the reader….As families become more and more "non-traditional" the notion of openness cannot be stressed enough." - Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D., ABPP, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University"Ms. Duxbury excels as a writer and a storyteller. Her book is so compelling and such a pleasure to read because the stories of the families are told in such lucid language with well paced story lines. You can feel the excitement of a family when a baby is placed in their home and the anguish of a birthfather wanting a stronger connection to his son. Ms. Duxbury, an advocate of open adoption, does not spare either the joy or the pain of open adoption." - Ann Wrixon, Independent Adoption Center Executive DirectorTable of ContentsIto, Foreword. Introduction. My Family's Story. Into the Heart of Child-centered Open Adoption. Understanding Each Other's Fears and Concerns. "This Baby Belongs to Itself and the More People Who Love It, The Better". Becoming Extended Family. Openness in the Public Adoption System. Opening Closed Adoptions. Unique Families - Unique Challenges. Making It Work. A Call For Change. Closing Thoughts. Resources. References
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Minds of Billy Milligan
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of Flowers for Algernon comes the shocking true story of a man battling multiple personality disorder—the inspiration for the streaming series The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland. Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan.Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Future Shock
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
£9.49
HarperCollins Pushkins Children Writing on Russia and Russians
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Simon & Schuster Moving Beyond Words Age Rage Sex Power Money Muscles Breaking the Boundries of Gender Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
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Random House USA Inc GIDEONS TRUMPET
Book SynopsisThe classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
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Princeton University Press Gaon Conflict and Cohesion in an Indian Village
Book SynopsisThis study opposes the prevailing view that Indian villages have little social solidarity and points out the relationship between village solidarity and the potentially centrifugal factors of caste, conflict, and power. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available prTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Illustrations, pg. x*1. Introduction, pg. 3*2. The Village, pg. 17*3. The Family, pg. 35*4. The Khari Bhauki, pg. 62*5. The Bilateral Kindred, pg. 91*6. The Castes and Their Place in Village Life, pg. 107*7. The Distribution and Organization of the Castes, pg. 120*8. Caste Rank, pg. 136*9. Interpersonal Relations Among the Castes, pg. 150*10. Village Politics, pg. 168*11. Village Cohesion, pg. 198*12. The Changing Village, 1954-1955, pg. 237*13. The Changing Village, 1961, pg. 280*14. Summary and Conclusion, pg. 305*Appendices, pg. 317*Index, pg. 335
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Edinburgh University Press Classical Sociological Theory
Book SynopsisThis Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to gain a full understanding of the texts.Table of ContentsSection 1 Karl Marx: alienated labour; the theses on Feuerbach; "The German Ideology" and historical materialism; "The Communist Manifesto"; wage labour and capital; the preface to "A Critique of Political Economy"; the fetishism of commodities; the so-called primitive accumulation; selected correspondence. Section 2 Max Weber: "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"; class, status and party; bureaucracy; science as a vocation; definitions of sociology and social action; legitimacy and authority. Section 3 Emile Durkheim: "The Division of Labour in Society"; sanctions and mechanical and organic solidarity; the division of labour - causes of abnormal forms; "The Rules of Sociological Method"; "Suicide: a Study in Sociology"; religion and society.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Living in Scotland
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year Award, 2005Living in Scotland gives an account of the key social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been transformed over the last two to three decades. Drawing on a uniquely wide range of data from government statistics, social surveys and over-time data sources, the book tells the story of society in Scotland during the approach and arrival of the new century.The authors analyse the large-scale changes which have profoundly altered Scottish society affecting the country''s demography, patterns of work and employment, the distributions of income, wealth and poverty, social class and social mobility, educational opportunities, and patterns of consumption and lifestyle.While Scotland shares many of these social trends with similar western societies, its reaction to them is shaped by its own history and culture. The authors argue that Scotland is now a more affluent, comfortable and pleasant place to live in thanTable of ContentsList of Tables in Main Text; List of Supplementary Tables in Appendix I; List of Figures in Main Text; Preface; Notes on the Authors; Introduction; 1. Population and Demography; 2. Families and Households; 3. Work and Employment; 4. Income, Wealth and Poverty; 5. Social Class and Social Opportunity (chapter written jointly with Cristina Iannelli); 6. Education and Life Chances; 7. Consumption, Lifestyle and Culture; 8. Conclusions; Appendix I Supplementary Tables; Appendix 2 Sources of Data; Appendix 3 Measuring Social Class; Appendix 4 Comparing Percentages; References; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Social Theory
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduction to Social Theory is unique in addressing key issues in sociological, political and cultural analysis through an examination of modern theories of social conflict, cohesion and consent.Table of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Marx and Engels; (i) Social classes and the role of class struggle in history; (ii) Economic analysis of capitalist society; (iii) The state; (iv) The concept of ideology; (v) Social conflict and social change; 3. Antonio Gramsci and the concept of hegemony; (i); The critique of Marxism and the model of economic base and political-cultural; superstructure; (ii); Machiavelli and the Modern Prince - strategies for leading and directing; (iii); Hegemony: Coercion and consent; (iv); Hegemony: Historical bloc and passive revolution; (v); Hegemonic strategy: Wars of position and manoeuvre; (vi); The role of the intellectual, consent through organic ideas; (vii); Recent applications: Economic and cultural theory; (4); Max Weber and rationalisation; (i); Charismatic leadership, traditional leadership and domination; (ii); The state as a monopoly of violence. Civil society and the determination of; social status; (iii); Legal-rational society, the modern state and its legitimacy; (iv); Elitism and the rise of bureaucracy (also introduces elitist theorists); (v); Modernity and the 'iron cage'; (5); The Frankfurt School; (i); Influences: A synthesis of Weber and Marx; (ii); Adorno and Horkheimer: Enlightenment thinking; (iii); Adorno and Horkheimer: The role of the culture industry; (iv); Marcuse: One-dimensional society; (v); Jurgen Habermas: Public sphere and legitimation crisis; (vi); Habermas: System, lifeworld and communication; (6); Michel Foucault; (i); Discourse: Madness and civilisation; (ii); Practice: Discipline and punishment; (iii); Power and knowledge; (iv); Foucault and feminism; (v); Foucault and postmodernism; (7); Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Get Set for Sociology
Book SynopsisFor students who have never studied Sociology before, this book will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Sociology at school or college, it will provide a concise but comprehensive learning aid.Trade ReviewThis book provides students with an excellent and thought-provoking introduction to the ideas, theories and practices of Sociology, and how to study them, in an accessible and lively way that will encourage deeper study of the subject. -- Ian Marsh, Liverpool Hope University College This book provides students with an excellent and thought-provoking introduction to the ideas, theories and practices of Sociology, and how to study them, in an accessible and lively way that will encourage deeper study of the subject.
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Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Agency
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Subject Knowledge Readings For The Study Of
Book SynopsisSchool knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson''s analysis of his own work in the UK and North America examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.Table of ContentsThe need for curriculum history; becoming a school subject; the micro- politics of curriculum change - European studies; on explaining curriculum change; subject status and curriculum change; subjects and the everyday life of schooling; subject cultures and the introduction of classroom computers; computer studies as symbolic and ideological action; on curriculum form; nation at risk and National Curriculum.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Vilfredo Pareto Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
Book SynopsisThis collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary relevance of Pareto''s ideas on a bewildering variety of topics; while illuminating his attempt to unite different disciplines, such as history and sociology, in his quest for a ''holistic'' understanding of society. Bringing together the world''s leading experts on Pareto, this collection will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of sociology and social psychology, monetary theory and risk analysis, philosophy and intellectual history, and political science and rhetoric.Trade Review'Pareto's contributions to economics, sociology and political science are well known to specialists in these different fields, but the relations between them as part of a more general theory of social science is far less appreciated. By exploring how his work crossed these disciplinary boundaries, this collection of chapters moves us towards a fuller and better understanding of the writings of this key figure.' Richard Bellamy, University College, London, UK 'I would urge prospective students of Pareto - which this book might well cause to increase - to begin their study with Giorgio Baruchello’s chapter on Pareto’s rhetoric, there being nothing else like it in English. Pareto was a great polemicist, and until his special use of language is appreciated, the full weight of his achievement cannot be comprehended or enjoyed to the extent it should be. American scholars will find refreshingly instructive the chapters by their countrymen, François Neilsen (on stratification research), Charles Power (on social systems), and John Higley (elite cycles), since so little reference is made to Pareto nowadays in sociology. Given the high quality of their work, and that of others in this densely constructed book, this avoidance of Pareto’s obvious genius seems increasingly irresponsible...' Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall; Pareto and the elite, John Scott; Talents and obstacles: Pareto's morphological schema and contemporary social stratification research, François Nielsen; The role of sticking points in Pareto's theory of social systems, Charles Powers; Pareto, Machiavelli and the critique of ideal political theory, Joseph V. Femia; The idea of a sociology of risk and uncertainty: insight from Pareto, Alasdair J. Marshall and Marco Guidi; Pareto's theory of elite cycles: a reconsideration and application, John Higley and Jan Pakulski; Pareto, Mill and the cognitive explanation of collective beliefs: unnoticed 'middle-range theories' in the Trattato, Alban Bouvier; Pareto's rhetoric, Giorgio Baruchello; Pareto's manuscript on money and the real economy, Michael McLure; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Splicing Life The New Genetics and Society
Book SynopsisGeno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the ''book of life'', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local andTrade Review’A thorough, stimulating and well-researched account. Glasner and Rothman take the reader from the competitive science of the human genome project to the global strategies of the biotechnology business. Gene technology raises fundamental issues of governance, ethics and citizenship. Splicing Life? represents an essential guide to this fascinating field.’ Professor Alan Irwin, Brunel University, UK ’...the authors offer an interesting perspective on the important matter of human genetics research, technology and society.’ Nursing EthicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The hunt for the holy grail: compiling the book of life; Doing the human genome project; Managing genetic information; 'Frankenstein' foods, or the revenge of the genetically modified potatoes; Globalization and the transformation of nature; From commodification to commercialization; Rights or rituals: involving the people; New genetics, new millennium, new society?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Couples and Body Therapy
Book SynopsisBring the physical dimension into your therapeutic work with couples! This helpful book offers couples therapists new and powerful techniques derived from several body-oriented therapies. This fresh approach can help you identify the hidden conflicts and attitudes of your clients. Couples and Body Therapy offers you exercises, tips, and practical suggestions for helping troubled couples. In Couples and Body Therapy, expert therapists candidly discuss the dangers and benefits of using touch to heal. Their discussion of whether, when, how, and whom to touch clients includes valuable suggestions for working through transference and countertransference, as well as for dealing with hostile clients and obtaining informed consent to touch.Couples and Body Therapy provides thoughtful explorations of the ideas and methods of well-regarded experts--including Virginia Satir, Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos, Fritz Perls, Stanley Keleman, and John Gutman--as theTable of ContentsContents Preface Virginia Satir and Body-Mind-Soul Grounding in Couples Core Energetic Therapy Core Energetic Couples Therapy: An Integrated Approach Sexuality and Intimacy in Couples Therapy: The Journey of the Soul Keeping It Up Couples Therapy as a Formative Process Touch in Psychotherapy Body Psychotherapy with Couples: Using the Seven Developmental Stages Model of Bodynamic Analysis Working Experientially and Somatically with Couples Method Acting and Gestalt Therapy with Couples Index Reference Notes Included
£99.75
Taylor & Francis Inc Community Interventions to Create Change in
Book SynopsisHelp a child meet the challenges of the real world! Our children spend a significant amount of time in school, working to develop the skills they need to succeed in the real world. But more and more, they face social and emotional challenges that can''t be effectively addressed during school hours. Community Interventions to Create Change in Children reflects the efforts by psychologists to work outside the classroom, combining research with action to produce community-based interventions that address the concerns children struggle with every day: bullying and victimization, prejudice, cross-cultural friendships, poverty, and homelessness. Community Interventions to Create Change in Children presents varied interventions, methodologies, and practices with diverse groups of children. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies are used with accompanying case studies as psychologists interact with children in settings as varied as public parks, Table of Contents Introduction Life Imitates (and Informs) Meta-Analysis: A Participatory Approach to Increasing Understanding of Effective Youth Mentoring Practices Evaluation of an Incentive System at a Summer Camp for Youth Experiencing Homelessness Prevention of Victimization: Survival Skills for Urban Youth Urban Children’s Video Production and Performance-Based Programming: Implications for Learning and Cross-Cultural Friendships Kids’ College: Enhancing Children’s Appreciation and Acceptance of Cultural Diversity Index Reference Notes Included
£99.75
Black Rose Books Understanding Technological Change
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£999.99
