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MB - Cornell University Press Startup Capitalism
Book SynopsisIn Startup Capitalism, Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Ramon Pacheco Pardo explore the place of startups in contemporary East Asian economies. The last few decades have seen East Asian governments provide increasing support for startupsnew, high-growth, technologically oriented firms. Yet, as the authors observe, such initiatives do not necessarily benefit the growth of startups as challengers to large, established firms. Rather, they often enable startups to function as boosters for the competitiveness of these firms. Startups, in short, are both disruptors to and resources for big businesses. Klingler-Vidra and Pacheco Pardo demonstrate this dual role by examining the evolution of startup-centric policies in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. They show that in the region, what they call startup capitalisman economic and political system in which startups contribute to employment, innovation, and growthcan take multiple forms. Rich with empirical detail, Startup Capitalism reveals how and why startups can end up working withor even forlarge firms to drive a country's technological capabilities.
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MB - Cornell University Press Criminalizing the Casbahs
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MB - Cornell University Press UnGerman Racialized Otherness in PostCold War
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MB - Cornell University Press Butterflies and Moths of Costa Rica
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MB - Cornell University Press Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem
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MB - Cornell University Press Women and the Jet Age
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MB - Cornell University Press Letters from Rousseau
Book SynopsisLetters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before, while others address substantive issues in his thought and complement his published writings. Although these letters went through the post as ordinary letters, once Rousseau became famous, he knew that they might be opened by the police and that they were very likely to be circulated and even published. Indeed, he wrote some of them with a view to their ultimate publication. Rousseau's enormous "private" correspondence extends into all periods of his life, including intimate letters to friends, letters to famous individuals, and responses to readers who posed philosophic questions to him. Thus, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly also share his responses to readers who had been moved by his books. Further, this volume includes letters written to or about major intellectual figures, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, and Mirabeau.
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MB - Cornell University Press Unsilencing
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MB - Cornell University Press Between the Sheets
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MB - Cornell University Press Unbounding Europe Bordering and the Politics of Mediterranean Solidarity in Sicily and Tunisia
Book SynopsisAt a time of global border fortification and rising nationalisms, Unbounding Europe analyzes the potential of Mediterranean borderlands to offer alternative models of belonging. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Ilaria Giglioli writes about relations between Sicilians and Tunisians and how they negotiate relationships of proximity and difference in multiple arenas of life. She argues that histories of marginalization within the nation-state do not automatically make borderlands inclusive for migrants. Understanding the interplay of different degrees of marginality is key to identify how solidarity movements can emerge and be effective. Giglioli argues that depoliticized celebrations of cross-Mediterranean coexistence ignore longstanding inequalities and reinforce symbolic hierarchies between Sicilians and Tunisians. She stresses that recognizing and addressing these inequalities is key to developing a transformative politics of solidarity. Rather than idealize intermediate border spaces or subjects, Unbounding Europe asserts that it is more effective to reconstruct histories of material and symbolic boundary drawing to demonstrate the contingency and mutability of borders.
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MB - Cornell University Press Persistent Illusions Visual Culture and
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MB - Cornell University Press Reading across Cultures
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MB - Cornell University Press Radiances
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MB - Cornell University Press The Sewards of New York
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John Wiley & Sons The Art of Coercion
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MB - Cornell University Press The Province of All Mankind
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John Wiley & Sons The Medium Is Still the Message
Book SynopsisThe Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (19111980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with transformational effects on politics, economics, culture, identity, religion, and nature. Grant N. Havers argues that McLuhan's key insight"the medium is the message"is even more relevant today as humanity grapples with the unintended effects of new media. As McLuhan demonstrated, a lack of understanding about the power of media technologies allows these entities to become idols that enslave their makers. At the same time, they encourage human beings to act like gods who can reinvent reality itself, all the while leading to the decline of literacy, the weakening of democracy, the resurgence of tribalism within the global village, and the elusive search for identity in cyberspace. The Medium Is Still the Message ultimately offers good news: using McLuhan's insights, human beings can escape the technological cave that they have fashioned for themselves.
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MB - Cornell University Press Reforming Social Services in New York City How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies
Book SynopsisReforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies. As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key figures, the HRA has been the focus of several mayoralties. The John Lindsay administration's creation of the HRA in 1966 was a classic liberal effort to fight poverty; Rudy Giuliani brought dramatic change by implementing work-oriented welfare reform; and the Bill de Blasio administration attempted to install a progressive social welfare agenda within the city's social service agencies to reduce inequality. Reforming Social Services in New York City tells the story of these efforts, assessing the strategies employed and the success of their outcomes, concluding that major nonincremental change in urban welfare policy is not only possible but has been effective.
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John Wiley & Sons The Work of Reform
Book SynopsisThe Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes brings together a rich poetic archive with agrarian husbandry manuals, prose polemics, and imperial tracts to connect conflicts over land and labor on the English manor to those of Tudor Ireland, offering a new eco-Marxist literary history of ecological transformation across the medieval-modern divide. In the aftermath of the Black Death, the depopulation of the countryside, and the beginnings of the Enclosure Movement, English poets imagined enforced labor as a panacea for social unrest precipitated by environmental catastrophe. Arguing that Piers Plowman established how poetry could envision religious and economic transformation based on agrarian production, The Work of Reform reveals that the Piers Plowman tradition's valorization of agrarian toil was open to appropriation by later writers developing totalizing, top-down colonialist projects.
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MB - Cornell University Press Resilience beyond Rebellion How Todays Rebels
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MB - Cornell University Press Age of Deception
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MB - Cornell University Press The Soldiers Choice City and Soul in the Life of Classical Athens
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MB - Cornell University Press Orchestrating Power The American Associational State in the First World War
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MB - Cornell University Press The Remote Revolution Drones and Modern Statecraft
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MB - Cornell University Press Europes Laboratory
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MB - Cornell University Press Small Revolutionaries Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War
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John Wiley & Sons Connected to Place Regenerating Nature Communities and Local Economies Through Systems Change
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MB - Cornell University Press The Profligate Colonial
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John Wiley & Sons Civilizing Contention International Aid in Syrias War
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John Wiley & Sons A Most Quiet Murder Maternity Affliction and Violence in Late NineteenthCentury France
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MB - Cornell University Press The Gods of Egypt
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MB - Cornell University Press Restless Quietists Muslim Forms of Life in Russias Volga Region
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MB - Cornell University Press Irans Look East Policy New Directions
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MB - Cornell University Press Hegels Lectures on the Philosophy of World Hist The Essentials
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MB - Cornell University Press Norms in International Relations The Struggle Against Apartheid
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MB - Cornell University Press When Rebels Win Ideology Statebuilding and Power After Civil Wars
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MB - Cornell University Press Arrested Development The Soviet Union in Ghana Guinea and Mali 19551968
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MB - Cornell University Press Democracy in Exile Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual
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MB - Cornell University Press From Popular Front to Cold War The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order 19301954
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MB - Cornell University Press Trafficking with Demons Magic Ritual and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
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MB - Cornell University Press Mobilizing Mainstream Islam The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective
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MB - Cornell University Press The Salvation of Israel Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans
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MB - Cornell University Press Servants of God Slaves of the Church Service as Religious Metaphor and Social Reality in Early Medieval Europe
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MK - Stanford University Press Handicraft Philosophies
Book SynopsisThe term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full of practical knowledge associated with the body and with craft. This book is an account of the eighteenth-century thinkers from across social classes who turned to the body to formulate new ways of knowing natural and social worldswhat Ruth Mack calls handicraft philosophies. The writers discussed in this book include a formerly enslaved man, Olaudah Equiano, and a washerwoman, Mary Collier, as well as gentlemen Joseph Banks and James Boswell, and the artist William Hogarth. In their efforts to communicate embodied ways of knowing, they bring together theory and practice; they set aside objectivity and relish the practical ways of knowing that are traditionally associated with lower classes and less-than-privileged bodies. Mack focuses on how such knowledge proved especially helpful for understanding "society" as a new object of enquiry in the Enlightenment, laying the groundwork for the emergence of anthropological and sociological thought. Complicating the intellectual history of Enlightenment Britain amidst the rise of popular science and imperial expansion, Handicraft Philosophies is a new account of the thinkers who configured "philosophy" as a practice open to all.
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MK - Stanford University Press Titos Gulag A History of the Prison Island of Goli Otok
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MK - Stanford University Press The Latino Threat
Book SynopsisNews media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used to malign an entire population. In this updated and expanded third edition of his groundbreaking book, Chavez incorporates Donald Trump's emergence in American political life, with particular focus on the US-Mexico border as a site of political theater and the further sharpening of anti-Latino and anti-immigration rhetoric in public discourse. He also includes new discussions of "anchor babies," Dreamers and DACA, Latina reproduction and white replacement theory, and the emotional and psychological effects of negative political rhetoric on those whom it targets. Through trenchant analysis, this book reexamines urgent questions about what it means to be American.
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Stanford University Press Belonging without Othering
Book SynopsisThe root of all inequality is the process of othering and its solution is the practice of belongingWe all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race, ethnicity, caste, and sexuality are pervasive. This ubiquitous yet elusive problem feeds on fears created, inherited of the other. While the much-touted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are undeniably failing, and activists narrowly focus on specific and sometimes conflicting communities, Belonging without Othering prescribes a new approach that encourages us to turn toward one another in unprecedented and radical ways. The pressures that separate us have a common root: our tendency to cast people and groups in irreconcilable terms or the process of othering. This book gives vital language to this universal problem, unveiling its machinery at work across time and around the world. To su
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MK - Stanford University Press Demolishing Detroit How Structural Racism Endures
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