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Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters such as Raven and Èṣ-Elegba, to their confined role in Western civilization, and then on to Trickster's 20th century jailbreak as led by dada and the hippies. Disruptive Play bears witness to how this spirit informs social progress today, whether by Anonymous, Banksy, Bugs Bunny, or unrevealed mischief-makers and culture jammers. Such...
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This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers 'new perspectives' on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted the attention of historians; all represent new research on Scottish history from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. They indicate renewed interest in an age crucial to the development of modern Scotland.
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#1 The name of liberalism is liberty. It is the belief in and pursuit of human freedom. Liberals have proven to be attractive and resilient because of this core commitment to the longing for human freedom so deeply embedded in the human soul.
#2 While there are continuities between modernity and premodernity, such as the liberal political philosophy that arose in distinction...
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"One of Financial Times (FT.com)'s Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Sports list for 2010" Andrei S. Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. His books include Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America and Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (both Princeton). Lars Rensmann is DAAD Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University...
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The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges...
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Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted-- and shaped-- the state of American liberalism, publishing many of the twentieth century's most important thinkers. Insurrections of the Mind is an intellectual biography of this great American political tradition. In more than fifty essays, organized chronologically by decade, a stunning collection of writers explores...
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World War I The "Great War" volume 3
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Even among those who expected war, there were widespread misconceptions about the nature of the conflict to come. In this lecture you explore the prevailing ideas and attitudes in Europe and then turn to the premonitions noted by contemporaries of coming disaster.
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The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history-and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate. Generational conflict, with Millennials and Generation Z pitted against the aging Boomer cohort, has become a media staple. The generation gap is widening into a political fault line.
Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey...
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Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In “Not with a Bang but a Whimper”, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive...
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Understand the difficulties and challenges of daily living, religious customs, providing for a family, life at home, education, the Roman occupation, along with an authentic view of what was happening throughout the world in the first-century. Jesus lived in a time of great tension and upheaval. It is estimated there were approximately 700,000 Jews then living in Israel under the Roman occupation. Discover the complexities of life in a tiny Nazereth...
13) Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
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At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science-especially Darwinian biology-would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal justice, these experts denied the existence of free...
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"Television commentator Sally Kohn talks to leading scientists and researchers to investigate the evolutionary and cultural roots of hate, and confronts her own shameful moments and points the way toward change with the hopeful message that we all have the capacity to combat hate"--
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"From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking "Bad Feminist and Hunger," Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society -- state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy -- alongside more individually personalized matters:...
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Cabbages and Kings is a rather whimsical title (borrowed from Lewis Carroll) for a collection of what are, for the most part, learned essays on serious subjects. But the collection has a somewhat whimsical spirit as it brings together writings on many things, such as style in life and art, in restaurant design, and in the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde, relations between liberalism and conservatism, Islam and the West, church...
17) Chile
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Discusses the land, the history, the economy, the people, and the festivals of Chile.
18) Guyana
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Discusses the land, the history, the economy, the people, and the festivals of Guyana.
19) Venezuela
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An introduction to Venezuela, discussing the history, geography, economy, people, and society of the South American country, and including a calendar of Venezuelan festivals, recipes, a glossary, project and report ideas, a chronology, and resources.
20) Costa Rica
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An introduction to Costa Rica, discussing the history, geography, economy, people, and society of the Central American country, and including a calendar of Costa Rican festivals, recipes, a glossary, project and report ideas, a chronology, and resources.
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