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Book SynopsisThis is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers.Trade ReviewHere, practically for the first time, we can see how Germans before and during World War II were at all times in their daily lives confronted with a carefully designed view of the world in which a mythical Jewish enemy was portrayed as threatening Germans and hence had to be killed. No prior study has shown as clearly as this one how central this theme was to German wartime propaganda in all its forms. -- Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North CarolinaJeffrey Herf has written a brilliant book that reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. Arguing that racial antisemitism, however vicious, was an insufficient basis for genocide, Herf demonstrates that a major shift occurred in Nazi propaganda during the war: Jews were now presented as a political threat to the German nation, and as the instigators, through their puppets, America, England, and the Soviet Union, of a deadly world war against Germany. -- Susannah Heschel, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish JesusA commendable and compelling elucidation of the Nazi propaganda which accompanied the Holocaust, indispensable for both students of the Third Reich and general readers. -- Jay W. Baird, author of The Mythical World of Nazi Propaganda, 1939-1945In this impressive book, Jeffrey Herf shows that the omnipresent image of the 'international Jew' as the source of Germany's victimhood was central to the propaganda and political imagination of the Nazi leadership, which made no secret of its intention to destroy European Jewry. -- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton UniversityWith the market so saturated with books that have "Nazi" in their titles, when a path-breaking new work does appear, one that explains the "why"--not just another documentation of the "how"--there is a chance it will slip under many readers' radar. One can only hope that such a fate will not befall Jeffrey Herf's incredibly important The Jewish Enemy, one of those rare works of Holocaust history that poses the most essential question: "Why did European, especially German, antisemitism, which had never led to an effort to murder all of Europe's Jews before, do so between 1941 and 1945 in the midst of World War II? What changed to make anti-Semitism a rationale for mass murder rather than for a continuation of centuries old patterns of persecution?"...[Herf is] the legitimate intellectual heir to [George] Mosse. -- Noah Strote * Forward *Jeffrey Herf's latest book, The Jewish Enemy--dealing with Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust--sheds new light on what happened then in Europe and is a trenchant refutation of those who try to make us believe that antisemitic hate speech is merely a cynical tool employed by politicians...At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the demented discourse of radical antisemitism has resurfaced in different idioms and cultural contexts. It would be complacent to assume that variants on the narrative explored in Jeffrey Herf's brilliant work will not play a part in the future as well...This is a book that should be read widely. -- Karl Pfeifer * Searchlight *What may be the most important book on the Holocaust in a generation...In The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, [Herf] concedes that hatred and racism were important, but he argues that they don't explain Germany's unique efforts to destroy the Jews...The real answer isn't hate, but fear. Poring through miles of speeches, private comments, journal entries, party memoranda and all 24,000 pages of Goebbel's diaries, Herf concludes that the Nazis really believed that the Jews ran the world and wanted to destroy Germany. They believed that Jews controlled not only the Bolsheviks to the east but the capitalists to the west. -- Jonah Goldberg * Los Angeles Times *Many historians who have tackled Hitler and the Third Reich have found it impossible to take the Führer's rhetoric or Nazi ideology seriously. A. J. P. Taylor was infamous for treating Hitler as an ordinary statesman in the German mould. A succession of historians, including Rainer Zitelmann, Detlev Peukert and Götz Aly, continues to insist that Nazism was a rational modernizing force. It is hard to see how this approach will withstand Jeffrey Herf's patient, incisive and ultimately devasting analysis of the Nazi world-view in The Jewish Enemy. -- David Cesarani * Times Literary Supplement *Which of the major findings of this excellent study is more disturbing: that human beings are capable of inventing and believing the kind of vicious nonsense the Nazis believed about Jews, or that such profoundly irrational beliefs can become the basis of a meticulously devised and implemented program of industrial mass murder? It is indeed the case, to say the least, that 'an examination of modern political culture draws attention to the causal significance of many irrational and illusory ideological perspectives'...The Jewish Enemy is both a revealing, carefully documented historical study and a reminder of the timeless and astonishing human capacity for demented belief, bottomless hatred, and a correspondingly stunning readiness to act upon bizarre convictions and fantasies...This study is also highly informative about the methods and character of Nazi propaganda. The author makes use of sources not widely used before, such as the ubiquitous wall newspapers (also favored in communist states), posters, and archival materials (including directives to the press about the tasks and methods of propaganda), and the diaries of Goebbels, among others. Some striking visual images of 'the Jewish enemy' used in the press and posters are reproduced (remarkably similar to both Soviet anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda and the images purveyed in Arab anti-Israeli propaganda). -- Paul Hollander * New Criterion *Through a chronological structure that moves seamlessly from an introductory section on pre-1939 Nazi propaganda themes and structures to the shifting narratives of the wartime period, Herf shows convincingly that the attacks on the regime's wartime "enemies" (Britain; after 1941 the Soviet Union and the United States) were underpinned by the same Überbegriff of an alleged "international Jewish conspiracy."...Herf's book adds much-needed intellectual ammunition to the argument that propaganda should be taken very seriously. -- Aristotle A. Kallis * H-Net *Undoubtedly, this is a much-needed study that convincingly demonstrates the centrality of radical anti-Semitic language in the Nazi leadership's thinking and the regime's wartime propaganda. Herf has succeeded in showing how in the minds of the regime's leaders and propagandists the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews were directly and inherently connected. -- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan * Canadian Journal of History *Herf is meticulous in his scholarship, and the book's vivid detail can certainly hold up to historians' scrutiny...This is a must-read. -- Dave Roy * Curled Up with a Good Book *Herf has made excellent use of many overlooked sources...Most shockingly, he shows the remarkable extent to which the German people were informed by Hitler and his colleagues that the Third Reich was engaged in annihilating Europe's Jews. The overall effect is one of a regime in thrall to its own paranoid fantasies, with devastating consequences that are all too familiar. -- Dan Stone * Journal of Genocide Research *Jeffrey Herf, one of the most prolific and challenging historians of twentieth-century Germany, has written an important book, the first comprehensive work detailing the structure of the Third Reich’s effort to inculcate antisemitism in the German population. This was a propaganda effort, and much of Herf’s book focuses on Joseph Goebbels; but Herf also carefully delineates changes in the antisemitic content of Hitler’s speeches and gives a great deal of attention to Otto Dietrich, the Reich press chief. The result for readers is a nuanced sense of the volume and flow of antisemitic propaganda—and The Jewish Enemy leaves no doubt that antisemitism, indeed murderous antisemitism, was an ideology propagated up front and in public. For some readers, this may seem an obvious point, but a great deal of older research underscored how the Nazis placed antisemitism in the background, emphasizing instead the material gains that ordinary citizens could expect from Nazi rule. Herf shows that nothing could be further from the truth...it is Herf’s significant achievement to gather the antisemitic propaganda of the Third Reich and demonstrate its patterns. For the first time, we have a nuanced account of how state-produced antisemitism changed during the war and how this antisemitism connected to the Holocaust. -- Helmut Walser Smith * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Jews, the War, and the Holocaust 2. Building the Anti-Semitic Consensus 3. "International Jewry" and the Origins of World War II 4. At War against the Alliance of Bolshevism and Plutocracy 5. Propaganda in the Shadow of the Death Camps 6. "The Jews Are Guilty of Everything" 7. "Victory or Extermination" Conclusion Appendix: The Anti-Semitic Campaigns of the Nazi Regime, as Reflected in Lead Front-Page Stories in Der V&omul;lkische Beobachter List of Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Bibliographical Essay Index

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games has blurred. The Military-Entertainment Complex traces how the realities of war are inflected by their representation in entertainment. War games, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and scenarios from the War on Terror.Trade ReviewLocked and loaded, this astonishing account of the ‘military-entertainment complex’ exposes the links between military technologies and popular media, the alignments and affinities among defense agencies, video game companies, and Hollywood studios. With tactical precision, Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell show how the militarization of contemporary society is driven less by political interests than by economic interests, revealing the ways in which the entertainment industry and its commercial practices shape the imagination of postmodern warfare. This is a provocative, high-octane book about the war games of everyday life and the future of digital culture. Epic pwn. -- Colin Milburn, University of California, DavisWhile the term ‘military-entertainment complex’ conjures images of dystopian collusion, what Lenoir and Caldwell uncover is far more disturbing: collusion is unnecessary. By avoiding authenticity in favor of adrenaline, billion-dollar video game franchises, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, do more to create a cultural acceptance of war than military PR could ever hope to achieve. Games have not been co-opted by the military, but rather the opposite. Civilians have transformed war into a consumer product, reducing its emotional resonance to that of a theme park ride, all in service of reaching a larger audience. -- Walt Williams, Lead Writer, Spec Ops: The Line

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Book Synopsis* This is a brief, authoritative and accessible introduction to the idea of modernity, written by a leading social theorist. * Wagner shows that modernity was based on ideas of freedom, reason and progress, but he examines the extent to which these ideas have been, and can be, realized in the modern world.Trade Review‘Modernity as an organizing theoretical-interpretative device has had an untidy and unruly history. No one recognizes this better than Peter Wagner, and no one has done more to unpack, analyse, tame, and repack its meanings and its claims. Modernity extends his previous work significantly, and consolidates his position as simultaneously the most creative and the most sensible of writers of our time on the topic. He is especially to be congratulated for referring to historical and comparative actualities.' Neil Smelser, University of California, Berkeley ‘Peter Wagner's work is simply indispensable to those who wish to conceptualize modernity in a truly global way that challenges the Eurocentrism built into all classical writings on the subject. Wagner is a high theorist but his openness to questions of historical diversity remains exemplary.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago ‘Peter Wagner's developing "world sociology of modernity", outlined in this splendid book, is a major advance in his and our thinking about modernity around the world. The book is also an excellent and very readable summary of the current state of the field.' William Outhwaite, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsPrefacePart IRe-theorizing modernityChapter 1Retrieving modernity's past, understanding modernity's presentChapter 2Changing views of modernity:from convergence and stability to plurality and transformationsChapter 3Successive modernities:crisis, criticism and the idea of progressChapter 4Disentangling the concept of modernity:time, action and problems to be solvedPart IIAnalyzing contemporary modernityChapter 5The link between capitalism and democracy reconsideredChapter 6European and non-European trajectories of modernity comparedChapter 7Violence and justice in global modernity:reflections on South Africa with world-sociological intentChapter 8Towards a world-sociology of modernityReferences

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Book Synopsis''Remarkable . . . A singular book about the true meanings of strength and flexibility, about our ability to define who we are and who we might be'' Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesFrom the bestselling author of Why We Swim comes a mind-expanding exploration of muscle that will change the way you think about how we move and why it matters.Cardiac, smooth, skeletal-these three different types of muscle in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, attach to our bones and help us move. Individually, they do different things. Collectively, they drive us through our days.Join athlete and writer Bonnie Tsui as she jumps headfirst into the intriguing world of muscle from the five angles of strength, form, action, flexibility and endurance. Tsui introduces us to the first female weightlifter to pick up the famed Scottish Dinnie Stones, then takes us on a 50-mile run through the Nevada desert that follows the path of escape from a Native boarding school, giving the concept of endurance new meaning. She travels to Oslo, where cutting-edge research reveals how muscles help us bounce back after injury and illness, an important aspect of longevity. She jumps into the action with a historic Double Dutch club in Washington, D.C., to explain anew what Charles Darwin meant by the brain-body connection.On Muscle is a powerful reminder that using our muscles promote longevity, joy, and, most important, the feeling that we can do anything.

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Book SynopsisThe Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.1 Problem of the Greek perfect active 1.2 Existing frameworks for understanding the perfect 1.3 Existing frameworks for understanding the Greek perfect 1.4 Critical assessment of existing studies 1.5 Aims and approach 1.6 Corpus 1.7 Outline 2. The perfect and lexical aspect 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Events and the Greek perfect 2.1.2 The true domain of events 2.1.3 Aspect: semantic, pragmatic or morphological? 2.1.4 Viewpoint aspect, situation aspect and telicity 2.1.5 Tense and aspect in terms of Utterance Time and Topic Time 2.1.6 Viewpoint aspect in Greek 2.1.7 Lexical aspectual categories: Aristotle, Kenny and Vendler 2.1.8 The domain of situation aspect: syntax or lexis? 2.1.9 Developing a lexical aspectual framework for Greek 2.2 Perfect of homogeneous verbs 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2 Non-durative state verbs 2.2.3 Durative state verbs 2.2.4 Terminative state verbs 2.2.5 Non-state homogeneous verbs 2.2.6 Conclusion 2.3 Non-durative terminative verbs (describing achievements) 2.4 Non-homogeneous durative verbs (describing activities and accomplishments) 2.4.1 Introduction 2.4.2 Non-COS verbs 2.4.3 COS verbs 2.4.4 Verbs with two perfect active stems 2.4.5 Verbs alternating between COS and non-COS readings without specialised stems 2.4.6 Conclusion 2.5 Noise verbs 2.6 Conclusion 3. Syntactic theoretical frameworks 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Neo-Davidsonian tradition 3.2.1 Event semantics in the Davidsonian tradition 3.2.2 Argument projection in a neo-Davidsonian framework 3.2.3 Semantic roles and grammatical relations 3.2.4 Determining the number of arguments 3.2.5 Formally representing semantic roles in a neo-Davidsonian framework 3.2.6 Are states predicates of eventualities? 3.2.7 Theme hierarchies and thematic proto-roles 3.3 Government-Binding (GB) theory 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 Unaccusativity hypothesis and (causative) change of state 3.3.3 X-bar theory 3.3.4 Status of the subject as a verbal argument 3.3.5 Subject of state sentences 3.3.6 Combining Davidsonian semantics with GB theory 3.4 Predicate types 3.4.1 Introduction 3.4.2 State predicates 3.4.3 Change of state and causative change of state 3.4.4 Change of state and change of location 3.4.5 Accomplishment predicates 3.4.6 Activity predicates 3.5 Voice alternations and the resultative 3.5.1 Passive voice 3.5.2 Resultative 3.5.3 The middle 3.6 Conclusion 4. The causative alternation 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 Transitivity in traditional Greek grammar passive 4.1.2 The function and development of the Greek middle and passive 4.1.3 Voice and argument projection in Greek 4.1.4 Transitivity and the Greek perfect 4.2 Labile transitivity outside of the perfect 4.2.1 Introduction 4.2.2 Verbs fully participating in the causative alternation 4.2.3 Anticausative denoted by infl ection 4.2.4 Anticausative perfective with a root stem 4.2.5 Semantic distinction determining participation in the causative alternation 4.2.6 Conclusion 4.3 Labile transitivity in the perfect 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 Causative/anticausative distinctions in the perfect 4.3.3 Re-expression of external cause argument by means of an adjunct phrase 4.3.4 Productivity of the specialised causative/anticausative perfect stems 4.3.5 Implications for the meaning of the perfect 4.4 Conclusion 5. The interaction of the perfect with different predicate types 5.1 Introduction: tense and aspect in a neo-Davidsonian framework 5.1.1 Approach 5.1.2 Aspectual Interface Hypothesis (AIH) 5.1.3 Situation aspect 5.1.4 Tense and aspect in a Government-Binding (GB) and neo- Davidsonian framework 5.1.5 Constructing the path of an event 5.1.6 Role of VAspP 5.1.7 Resultative and perfect in English 5.1.8 Outline of the present chapter 5.2 Homogeneous eventualities 5.2.1 Non-durative predicates 5.2.2 Durative predicates 5.2.3 Conclusion 5.3 Non-homogeneous non-COS eventualities 5.3.1 Introduction 5.3.2 Activity predicates 5.3.3 Accomplishment predicates 5.3.4 Conclusion 5.4 COS accomplishment predicates 5.4.1 Introduction 5.4.2 Unaccusative and anticausative predicates 5.4.3 Causative COS predicates 5.4.4 Unaccusativised activity predicates 5.4.5 Delimiting the post-state 5.5 COS achievement predicates 5.5.1 COS predicates 5.5.2 Causative COS predicates 5.6 Conclusion 6. The interaction of the perfect with COS predicates 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Extent predicates 6.2.1 COS and extent predicates 6.2.2 Achievements in a difference scale framework 6.2.3 Non-COS extent predicates 6.2.4 Disambiguation of extent and temporal readings 6.2.5 Viewpoint aspect and difference scales 6.2.6 Tense and extent predicates 6.2.7 The resultative construction 6.2.8 Extent predicates in Greek 6.2.9 Implications for the semantics of the perfect 6.3 Temporal versus extent readings of perfect predicates 6.3.1 Introduction 6.3.2 Prestate not logically present in time 6.3.3 Prestate logically present in time 6.3.4 Metaphorical extension of extent predicates to non-distance scales 6.4 Suppression of the internal argument in non-causative COS predicates 6.5 Suppression of the external argument 6.6 A special case 6.7 Conclusion 7. Deriving homogeneous atelic eventualities from states and non-states 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Deriving a homogeneous atelic eventuality by negation 7.3 Telic state predicates 7.4 Activity predicates 7.5 Non-COS accomplishment predicates 7.6 Causative COS predicates 7.7 Deriving states from states: the perfect of atelic state predicates 7.7.1 Introduction 7.7.2 Pure state predicates 7.7.3 Continued state predicates 7.7.4 COS predicates 7.8 Obligatory anteriority in derived states 7.9 Semantic contribution of the Greek perfect 7.10 Tense and the time adverbial problem 7.11 Noise predicates 7.12 Conclusion 8. Conclusion: the semantics of the Greek perfect

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Book SynopsisA brand new edition of an internationally-renowned philosophy of science bestseller.Now well into its fourth decade, What is This Thing Called Science? has become something of a classic the world over, available in 19 languages. Each decade, Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text. In his accessible style, Chalmers illuminates the major developments in the field of the philosophy of science over the past few years.The most significant feature of this fourth edition is the addition of an extensive postscript, in which Chalmers uses the results of his research into the history of atomism to illustrate and enliven key themes in the philosophy of science. Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms common in philosophy since the time of Democritus proves to be a highly revealing and instructive way Table of ContentsPreface to the first editionPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionPreface to the fourth editionIntroductionScience as knowledge derived from the facts of experienceObservation as practical interventionExperimentDeriving theories from the facts: inductionIntroducing falsificationismSophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of scienceThe limitations of falsificationismTheories as structures I: Kuhn's paradigmsTheories as structures II: research programmesFeyerabend's anarchistic theory of scienceMethodical changes in methodThe Bayesian approachThe new experimentalismWhy should the world obey laws?Realism and anti-realismEpilogue to the third editionPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex of names

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Book SynopsisBased upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience.

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Book SynopsisReviews of the first editionâœNot only does the clarity of the authorsâ writing make the book very accessible, but their argument is also illustrated throughout with a broad range of empirical material â undoubtedly a strong contribution to the study of both contemporary youth and âlate-modernâ society.âYouth JusticeâœA very accessible, well-evidenced and important book â It succeeds in raising important questions in a new and powerful way.âJournal of Education and Workâœthe book will be very popular with students and with academicsâ..The clarity of the organization, expression and argument is particularly commendable. I have no doubt that Young People and Social Change will rightly find its way onto the recommended reading lists of many in the field.â Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teesside A welcome update to one of the most influential and authoritative books on young people in modern societies. With a fuller theoreticalTable of ContentsIntroduction The risk society Change and continuity in education Social change and labour market transitions Changing patterns of dependency Leisure and lifestyles Health risks in late modernity Crime and insecurity Politics and participation The epistemological fallacy of late modernity Bibliography Index.

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Book Synopsis* Slavoj Zizek is one of the world s most widely read and controversial philosophers and social critics.Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in several decades."—Terry Eagleton "Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."—The Observer "... an excellent introduction to both the breadth and depth of Zizek's ideas, made all the better to follow his arguments via an imaginative format of short thematic interviews."—The SubstantiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1) Politics and Responsibility 2) Obsession for Harmony / Compulsion to Identify 3) Politicization of Ethics 4) Means Without End: Political Phronesis 5) “May you live in interesting times” 6) Communism The Ethico-political Fiasco 7) Who is Afraid of a Failed Revolution? 8) Another World is Possible 9) For They Know Not What They Do 10) Parallax View on Post-modern Globalization 11) The Public Use of the Scandal 12) The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and Performatives 13) Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism 14) The Subversive Use of Theory 15) Becoming Proletarian Position 16) New Forms of Apartheid 17) Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space 18) Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes 19) Café Revolution 20) To Begin from the Beginning 21) The Fear of Real Love 22) Dialectic of Liberal Superiority 23) The Day After 24) The Universality of Political Miracles 25) Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking 26) Politicization of Favelas 27) Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation 28) Violent Civil Disobedience 29) Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence 30) Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence 31) No Moralization But Egotism 32) Possibility of Concrete Universality 33) Common Struggle for Freedom 34) The Impossible Happens

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Book SynopsisSheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.Trade Review"The Land of Open Graves is hard to put down. Its violent and vivid content draws you into a reality that we should all know about, and the author's interpretation provides a political and theoretical perspective that challenges conventional beliefs about undocumented migration." TLS "A powerful book ... The Land of Open Graves is very appropriately published in the California Series in Public Anthropology and represents just what public or engaged anthropology can and should be... This is a book that all parties should read." Anthropology Review Database "Important and gut-wrenching ... [De Leon's] engagement with illegal immigration through photography, archeology, forensic science, linguistics, and ethnography is revitalizing in its full encapsulation and acknowledgement of its complexity... I wholly recommend this book." Border Criminologies "Everyone should read this book... De Leon introduces readers to a world that they likely either do not know or wish they could forget." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE. THIS HARD LAND 1. Prevention Through Deterrence 2. Dangerous Ground 3. Necroviolence PART TWO. EL CAMINO 4. Memo and Lucho 5. Deported 6. Technological Warfare 7. The Crossing PART THREE. PERILOUS TERRAIN 8. Exposure 9. You Can't Leave Them Behind 10. Maricela 11. We Will Wait until You Get Here 12. Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A. Border Patrol Apprehensions, Southern Border Sectors, 2000-2014 Appendix B. Border Patrol Apprehensions, Tucson Sector, by Distance from the Border, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCompellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive. The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that housing insecurity and the poor health associated with it are central components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. Housing discrimination is a civil and economic injustice, but it is also a menace to public health. With this book, George Lipsitz reveals how the injuries of housing discrimination are augmented by racial bias in home appraisals and tax assessments, by the disparate racialized effects of policing, sentencing, and parole, and by the ways in which algorithms in insurance and other spheres associate race with risk. But The Danger Zone Is Everywhere also highlights new practices emerging in health care and the law, emphasizing how grassroots community mobilizations are creating an active and engaged public sphere constituency promoting new forms of legislat

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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 SynopsisInterfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media.Trade Review"Of vital importance to digital research; it should be included in any studies of the digital or mediated domain."Media International Australia"The Interface Effect fuses sophisticated contemporary theory with a detailed knowledge of the technics and techniques of digital media. Galloway is an important voice, and the book is sure to have a wide uptake among those interested in new media theory and contemporary aesthetics."Jodi Dean, author of Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive "Employing a sustained, powerful methodology, The Interface Effect sparkles with original insights. Galloway is interested not only in the effects that interfaces have, but also in them as themselves the results of cultural, technological, economic, and political forces. This double movement provides a way to connect the historical with the political, and the technological with both. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in new media studies, contemporary theory, and digital technologies."N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University, and author of How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary TechnogenesisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: The Computer as a Mode of MediationI. The Unworkable InterfaceII. Software and IdeologyIII. Are Some Things Unrepresentable?IV. Disingenuous InformaticsPostscript: We Are the Gold FarmersNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?) at an excellent price. The Concise Edition of an international bestseller. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self-defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever. This book 'teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.' (Independent on Sunday) The distilled wisdom of the masters - illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there. Wry, ironic and clever this is an indispensable and witty guide to power. The laws are now famous:- Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conceal your intentions Law 4: Always say less than necessary

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Book Synopsisaeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community.Trade Review"Bauman on a bad day is still far more stimulating than most contemporary social thinkers. He is the Georg Simmel of our age, and his books and essays will be read when contemporary exponents of social arithmetic are long forgotten." Times Higher Education Supplement "Liquid Modernity is Zygmunt Bauman's term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the 'solid' modernity that preceded it ... He is a vivid and original writer with an eye for the revealing personal experience.' Dennis Wrong, Times Literary Supplement "Zygmunt Bauman can be counted among those giants of sociology - C. Wright Mills, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber - who are bound together not by a shared ideological or disciplinary alignment, but by a profound and moral passion. I do not employ the term "moral" in the commonly used sense of "judgmental", but to describe their ability to define the spirit of the age, to ask cutting questions about society's direction, warn of dangers and perceive opportunities." Contemporary Politics "These books mark an important advance in Bauman's project. He seems to be trying to bring the intellectuals back into the game, twitting them for their passivity. Bauman wants social critics to take a more active role, taking a lead by showing how the relationships between individuals and society and between the private and public spheres may be rearticulated and the spirit of the agora restored to social and political life." British Journal of Sociology "His work is essential reading for those political theorist who feel that part of their task is to elaborate relevant and compelling normative critique." Contemporary Political Theory "Bauman lucidly depicts what others call the 'postmodern situation' a term that he painstakingly avoids, and his analysis is important for anyone interested in cultural criticism" Caterina Norlin-Brage, Religious Studies Review "One of post-modernity's great commentators." Pete Ward, Church TimesTable of ContentsForeword: On Being Light and Liquid. 1. Emancipation. 2. Individuality. 3. Time/Space. 4. Work. 5. Community. Afterthoughts: On Writing; on Writing Sociology. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisProfessor Walens shows that the Kwakiutl visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten. His analyses of the social rituals of meals, native ideas of the ethology of predation, a key Kwakiutl myth, and the Hamatsa dance, the most dramatic of their ceremonials, demonstrate the ways in which oral, assimilative metaphors enTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One Metaphors of Structure, Process, and Identity, pg. 21*Two Meals and the Moral Basis of Social Action, pg. 67*Three Animals as Metaphors of Morality, pg. 97*Four Myth, Metaphor, and the Ritual Process, pg. 124*Appendix One The First Salmon Rites, pg. 165*Appendix Two Index to Boas's Kwakiutl Texts, pg. 170*References, pg. 173*Index, pg. 189

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Book SynopsisDevelops an analyses of a number of central everyday concepts of social phenomena, including shared action, a social convention, a group's belief, and a group itself. This book proposes that the core social phenomena among human beings are "plural subject" phenomena.Trade Review"In this rich and rewarding work, Margaret Gilbert provides a novel and detailed account of our everyday concepts of social collectivity. In so doing she makes a seminal contribution to ... some vexed issues in the philosophy of social science... [An] intellectually pioneering work."--Social Epistemology

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Book SynopsisScience, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today's culture and society. Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, colonialism, the Internet, cyborgs and robots, and biotechnology Includes case studies, a glossary, and further reading lists Trade Review“In clear and understandable language, this introduction to STS brings home the point that science and technology are social constructions by human communities. Its applications range from science’s border with religion, to cyborgs, robots, and new reproductive technologies. Students will quickly turn on to what STS is all about.” Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania “Amidst the science wars this book reads as a peace treaty: skillfully navigating between the sirens of absolutism and relativism, the authors lead the reader into the land of technoscience." Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel “…recommend[ed] for its robust and engaging argument, political concerns and ambitions, and challenge to readers to explore their own beliefs and experiment with new visions.” ISISTable of ContentsPrefaceP. Introduction Introduction. Our Premises and Our Approach / Nuts and Bolts and the Systems that Tighten Them / Conclusion. 2 Cultures of Science. Birth of a Fact / Society and Culture / Worldviews / The Social Construction Conjecture / Feminism and Science Studies / Technology in Motion / Pre-Scientific: You Or Me? / Mind and Society / What Can Sociologists Say About Mathematics? / Conclusion. 3 The Dance of Truth. Science and Technology as Social Institutions / The Dance of Magic, Science, and Religion / What Is Truth? / Dangerous Icons: From Magic and Religion to Science and Law / Conclusion. 4 STS and Power in the Postmodern World. Technology and Society / Power, Values, and Agency / Cyborgs, Humans, and Technology / Contemporary Society: Globalization Or Bust? / Metaphors, Narratives, and Glocal Cultures / Conclusion: Technoscience and Globalizations. 5 Life after Science and Technology Studies. Technoscience Revisited / Case Study: the New Reproductive Technologies / Case Study: Robots, Minds, and Society / Frontiers and Horizons / Conclusion: Where We Have to Stand in Order to Begin. Glossary. References. Name Index. Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of critical race theory Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - in today's world Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new forms of racism Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world - from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America, and from Israel and Palestine to the United States Trade Review"Yet, it has the great value of underlining that Africa's future is indeed in the hands of Africans, and only they will determine if it is a successful future or a return to second fiddle of human history ... At the same time, I am sure, those who know Africa will realize how much this book reflect the reality on the ground. A reality that will surprise the world in the years to come." (South World, 1 October 2011) "This is powerful stuff. The author intends no scholarly dispassion, no footnoted academic treatise. Rather he presents an impassioned argument at length, replete with examples, full of word games to emphasize a point. There is fire in this work. The book is interesting, written with passion and obvious pleasure in playing with the language. The Threat of Race is a strong addition to the growing library of anti-globalism, [and] anti-neoliberal critiques." Indigenious Peoples and Issues Website Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vi Author's Note xii 1 Buried, Alive 1 2 "Killing Me Softly": Civility/Race/Violence 32 3 Deva-Stating Discriminations, Discriminating Devastations (On Racial Americanization) 66 4 Targets of Opportunity (On Racial Palestinianization) 106 5 Precipitating Evaporation (On Racial Europeanization) 151 6 Revealing Alchemies (On Racial Latinamericanization) 199 7 A Political Theology of Race (On Racial Southafricanization) 245 8 Enduring Occupations (On Racial Neoliberalism) 327 Index of Authors 377 Index of Keywords 382

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, posthumanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Krüger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.

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Book SynopsisWar X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare. It is also a deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and the indescribable future of war that beckons.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why X 1. Crawling Flesh: The Infant Comes to Battle 2. Breathing Metal: Armour Suited for War 3. Heavy Tread: On Track for Battle 4. Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter as War's Pacemaker 5. Dead Slow: Loitering in Battlespace 6. Wastage: War after War

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Book SynopsisThe Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace.Trade Review"...provides an in-depth look at the machinery that enables the continued expansion of pharmaceutical products, markets, and subjects." - Ellen Rubinstein for Anthropology Book Forum, Anthropology NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1 Introduction 1Jeremy A. Greene and Sergio Sismondo Part I Pharmaceutical Lives 17 2 The Pharmaceuticalisation of Society? A Framework for Analysis 19Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe 3 Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct]to]Consumer Advertising 33Joseph Dumit Part II New Drugs, Diseases, and Identities 49 4 Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension 51Jeremy A. Greene 5 DepRession and ConsumŠtion: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Practices 70Nathan Greenslit 6 BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 87Anne Pollock 7 Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual Dysfunction 106Jennifer R. Fishman Part III Drugs and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge 121 8 Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors 123Adriane Fugh]Berman and Shahram Ahari 9 Getting to Yes: Corporate Power and the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster 133Kalman Applbaum 10 Pushing Knowledge in the Drug Industry: Ghost]Managed Science 150Sergio Sismondo 11 Transcultural Medicine: A Multi]Sited Ethnography on the Scientific]Industrial Networking of Korean Medicine 165Jongyoung Kim Part IV Political and Moral Economies of Pharmaceutical Research 179 12 Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam 181Gabriela Soto Laveaga 13 “Ready]to]Recruit” or “Ready]to]Consent” Populations? Informed Consent and the Limits of Subject Autonomy 195Jill A. Fisher 14 Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health 208Adriana Petryna 15 The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India 222Kaushik Sunder Rajan Part V Intellectual Property in Local and Global Markets 235 16 Intellectual Property and Public Health: Copying of HIV/AIDS Drugs by Brazilian Public and Private Pharmaceutical Laboratories 237Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa 17 Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis’ Anti]Cancer Drug Glivec 247Stefan Ecks 18 Generic Medicines and the Question of the Similar 261Cori Hayden Index 268

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Book Synopsis*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*''Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world'' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.In his ground-breaking book, Gary Younge argues that we have recoiled into refuges of race or class, religion or national identity to survive in a state seemingly indifferent to our lives. Ranging from his Stevenage childhood to present day America, from the borders of Europe to division in South Africa, Younge explores the issues that bind the powerful elite and the poor immigrant, the fundamentalist and the conservative. In this powerful dissection of modern society Gary Younge challenges us not to succumb to what divides us, but through solidarity to search for a common - and higher - ground.''With brilliant clarity, Gary Younge carefully guides us through a political minefield'' Andrea LevyTrade ReviewAn indispensable guide to "identity" in politics, and a terrific read! * Margaret Atwood *Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalized world * The Times *An absorbing and thoughtful discussion of identity * Financial Times *Penetrating and provocative * Sarfraz Manzoor *With brilliant clarity, Gary Younge carefully guides us through a political minefield * Andrea Levy *An indispensable guide to "identity" in politics, and a terrific read! * Margaret Atwood *Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalized world * The Times *An absorbing and thoughtful discussion of identity * Financial Times *Penetrating and provocativeWith brilliant clarity, Gary Younge carefully guides us through a political minefield * Andrea Levy *

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Book SynopsisReviews of the 1st Edition:"....This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised." - Sociology"....sets a remarkably high standard in breadth of coverage, in scholarship, and in readability and can be recommended to the general reader and to the specialist alike." - Science and Society"....This remarkably readable and well-edited anthology focuses, in a wide variety of concrete examples, not on the impacts of technologies on societies but in the reverse: how different social contexts shaped the emergence of particular technologies." - Technology and Culture How does social context affect the development of technology? What is the relationship between technology and gender Is production technology shaped by efficiency or by social control? Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about whicTrade Review"Delanty has written a fluent and succinct overview of social theory, including informed commentary and critique...The book presents some very good potted accounts of the various theoretical positions in the social sciences and sets out issues that are not yet resolved. It should be added to the reading lists of theory and methodology courses in the social sciences." - The Times HigherTable of ContentsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsEditors' notePreface to the Second Edition/f002Part 1: Introductory essay and general issuesIntroductory essay: the social shaping of technologyDo artifacts have politics?Modest_Witness@Second_MilleniumEdison and electric lightInventing personal computingConstructing a bridgeCompeting technologies and economic predictionThe social construction of technologyRedefining the social linkfrom baboons to humansCaught in the wheelsthe high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineeringMaking 'white' people white/f002Part 2: The technology of productionIntroductionThe watermill and feudal authorityThe machine versus the workerTechnology and capitalist controlSocial choice in machine designthe case of automatically controlled machine toolsThe material of male powerWhat machines can't dopolitics and technology in the industrial enterpriseWriters, texts and writing actsgendered user images in word processing softwareLearning by tryingthe implementation of configurational technologyWorking relations of technology production and use/f002Part 3: Reproductive technologyIntroductionThe industrial revolution in the homeA gendered socio-technical constructionthe smart houseA woman's placeDolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution'Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reformThe decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with post-modernity/f002Part 4: Military technologyIntroductionCold war and white heatthe origins and meanings of packet switchingManufacturing gender in military cockpit designThe American army and the M-16 rifleThe Thor-Jupiter controversyThe weapons succession processTheories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weaponsBibliographyIndex.

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Book SynopsisExposes the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists in the United States. This title weaves together a wealth of voices - from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others.Trade Review"An informative call to action ... a humane and helpful primer on how to sever the links that create and hide human bondage." Publishers Weekly "Will likely change the way you understand your community." -- Deborah Fink Friends Journal "Anyone wanting a better understanding of the ongoing problem of slavery in the United States-and their own role in perpetuating or eradicating it-should read this book." -- Charles Song California Lawyer "Essential reading for anyone interested in human rights... [The authors] appeal to the reader's sense of justice and compassion." -- Tiffany Williams Foreign Policy In Focus "If you read one book on human trafficking this year, make it The Slave Next Door... Digestible, enjoyable, and ultimately uplifting." Change.org "With the help of this great book ... we can shift from ignoring this crude reality to [eradicating] this abominable practice." African Politics Portal "An arresting volume." History WireTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments PART I: SLAVES IN THE LAND OF THE FREE 1. The Old Slavery and the New 2. House Slaves 3. Slaves in the Pastures of Plenty 4. Supply and Demand 5. New Business Models 6. Eating, Wearing, Walking, and Talking Slavery PART II: THE FINAL EMANCIPATION 7. Slaves in the Neighborhood 8. States of Confusion 9. The Feds 10. A Future without Slavery Appendix: For Further Information Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories.Trade Review"An important approach to social inequality." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Of Essences and Bonds 2. From Transactions to Structures 3· How Categories Work 4. Modes of Exploitation 5· How to Hoard Opportunities 6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality 7· The Politics of Inequality 8. Future Inequalities References Index

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Book SynopsisIn examining the work of Theodor Adorno, this collection of essays focuses on the German philosopher's ideas in the field of musicology. Though it addresses complex theories, this inquiry maintains a lucid style, describing the nuances of Adorno's thought while not relying on a great deal of prior knowledge to shed light on his contributions to music theory. Included is a discussion of the applicability of Adorno's ideas to popular music and an assessment of Adorno's continuing relevance in light of other commentaries.Trade Review"Paddison has assembled an accessible and timely collection of reflections on Adorno's aesthetics of music in service of showing just how it might compose a framework for the present critical interpretation of culture." - Tom Huhn, Professor of Philosophy, British Journal of Aesthetics.; "...a briliant piece of work..." Charles Rosen, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface, Introduction, 1. Critical Theory and Music, 2. Adorno's Aesthetics of Modernism, 3. Adorno, Popular Music and Mass Culture, 4. Critical Reflections on Adorno, Bibliography, Indices

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the Jewish Revolution, Emile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions d

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