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Discreet Power

Author : Christina Garsten
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503606058
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Discreet Power written by Christina Garsten and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this informative study, Garsten and Sorbom explore both the inner workings and the communication strategies of the WEF.” —Foreign Affairs In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of “discretionary governance,” in which actors craft ideas and entice formal authorities and top leaders to garner significant sway. Yet despite its image as a powerful, exclusive brain trust, the WEF has no formal mandate to implement its positions. It must convince others to advance chosen causes and enact suggestions, rendering its position quite fragile. Garsten and Sörbom argue that the WEF must be viewed relationally as a brokering organization that lives between the market and political spheres and that extends its reach through associated individuals and groups. They place the WEF in the context of a broader shift, arguing that while this type of governance opens up novel ways of dealing with urgent global problems, it challenges core democratic values. Praise for Discreet Power “Between raw forces of the global economy and disordered world politics lie organizations that are neither political nor economic. The World Economic Forum is central among these structures. Garsten and Sörbom give a most impressive depiction and analysis of its role—responsible but undemocratic—in what is now called global governance.” —John W. Meyer, Stanford University “This is an outstanding exemplar of a very difficult genre in the craft of ethnography: working within the highest reaches of elite organization. The challenge lies less in limited access than in not reinforcing our deep-seated stereotypes of what goes on in such groups. This work is distinguished by its observational quality and derived expression of the stakes and issues at hand.” —George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

Power and Technology

Author : Faridun Sattarov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786611317
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Power and Technology written by Faridun Sattarov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of technological power is fast becoming an object of both academic and policy discourses. Within such discourses one can observe several different senses of power being employed, especially when viewed from a multi-disciplinary angle. This demonstrates the need for the creation of a cross-disciplinary and integrative framework for identifying and clarifying different conceptions of the relations between technology and power. In this respect, the book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology. In addition, the framework presented in this book aims to contribute to better critical and ethical evaluation of technologies and their powers. Any adequate ethics or critique of technology must be based on a better, clearer, and more nuanced and differentiated understanding of the many ways in which technology can be described as ‘powerful’.

Discreet Power

Author : Christina Garsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804794145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Discreet Power written by Christina Garsten and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disentangling discretionary governance -- Liquid mandate -- Setting precedence -- The status machinery -- Mobilizing for the future -- Political sway -- Conclusions : a new narrative for future globalization?

Aging A-Z

Author : Carroll L. Estes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429619588
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Aging A-Z written by Carroll L. Estes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.

Radiation Technology for Polymers

Author : Jiri George Drobny
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 142003197X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Radiation Technology for Polymers written by Jiri George Drobny and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial use of ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) radiation is growing rapidly and now penetrates an ever-widening range of applications, including electronics, printing, packaging. Resources and references for seasoned professionals abound, but few effectively introduce the field to newcomers or provide fast access to specifics on UV a

Communicate for Change

Author : Genelle Aldred
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281085587
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Communicate for Change written by Genelle Aldred and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we advocate for justice effectively in a world deeply divided by racial, gender and class inequalities? If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots - only then can we understand how to be part of the solution and start having meaningful conversations. In Communicate for Change, journalist and communication consultant Genelle Aldred offers suggestions and guidance to help us be better listeners, readers, watchers and talkers. With insight drawn from years of experience, she breaks down the barriers to effective conversation so we can communicate in a more nuanced, thoughtful way and understand our part in bringing about a more just society. You'll soon be noticing how singular narratives drive behaviour and conversation and how language helps to shape our views, understanding how fake news magnifies your own biases and blind spots, and reflecting on how to be a better ally; in a way that is not just performative but that creates meaningful, effective and lasting change. Communicate for Change is a book for anyone interested in the conversations about race that have been happening in the UK and around the world, and anyone wanting to play their part in bringing about class, gender and racial equity. Thought-provoking and stimulating, it lays out how we can take that next step from learning and talking about anti-racism and unconscious bias to putting it into practice and actively shaping an environment in which justice can thrive.

Capitallessism

Author : Anthony Horvath, PhD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503554503
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Capitallessism written by Anthony Horvath, PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: a blueprint for national E-conomy. 5 STAR rating by Pacific Book Review. MICHAEL MOORE tells us his new movie will change America. OUR BOOK WILL TELL YOU HOW MY BOOK TRAILER CAPITALLESSISM proposes : a strong free-enterprise-based democratic national E-conomy model when no capital is available, either because of a crisis or by speculations. ..scientific solutions for a capital-less public cooperative banking system. .economic engineering to create a commodity-based virtual-capital, .a national public bank, .a nationalized artificial capital creation process called fractional-reserve-banking rights, licensed back to banks (in return for sharing the created public-E-capital with the government), and various processes to activate its E-capital circulation, This is not Socialism, nor Communism. It is COMMUNITY-ISM based on human and spiritual values where inequalities will still exist resulting from individual efforts, but everybody has a fair financial starting chance for free enterprise. Some of our controversial ideas are not politically right. Austerity is outdated. The nature of national debts may be reexamined. It is inspired by Roosevelts second bill of rights and Edisons visions of a commodity-based currency. Our MACRO-MODEL is inspired by our efficient blood circulatory system, which provides oxygen to trillions of cells. We copy this for an efficient E-capital circulation model to assure survival and to sustain everyones productivity. www.capitallessism.com Excerpts Pacific Book Review www.pacificbookreview.com: .CAPITALlessISM, interestingly compares our economic system to a biological circulatory system. . the prototype for economic engineesring. . is a mindset of a macro-model for redesigning our inefficient national economy. . that remedies a lack of capitalThe human factor and spiritual God element are fundamental. . a decrease of inequalities among people and an emphasis on democracy, .Benefit ..includes the cancellation of most national debts Excerpts the U.S. review of Books http://www.theusreview.com/: innovative and thought-provoking book, .. a new economic model, one that can function where no capital is available and that embraces the concept of "community-ism.". his synthesis of various models is unique..

Creating Room to Read

Author : John Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142180505
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Creating Room to Read written by John Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world,” he strived to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector—and succeeded spectacularly. In his acclaimed first book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, Wood explained his vision and the story of his start-up. Now, he tackles the organization’s next steps and its latest challenges—from managing expansion to raising money in a collapsing economy to publishing books for children who literally have no books in their native language. At its heart, Creating Room to Read shares moving stories of the people Room to Read works to help: impoverished children whose schools and villages have been swept away by war or natural disaster and girls whose educations would otherwise be ignored. People at the highest levels of finance, government, and philanthropy will embrace the opportunity to learn Wood’s inspiring business model and blueprint for doing good. And general readers will love Creating Room to Read for its spellbinding story of one man’s mission to put books within every child’s reach.

An Eye for Hitchcock

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533957
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book An Eye for Hitchcock written by Murray Pomerance and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films are extraordinarily famous and have been seen - and misunderstood - countless times: North by Northwest and Vertigo. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics, or considered to be colossal mistakes, while two others, Spellbound and I Confess have received almost no critical attention at all. Hitchcock's vision and his screen architecture, revealing key elements and showing how Hitchcock was profoundly interested not only in social class, but also in humanity's philosophical predicament, as we traverse a world fraught with shifting appearances, multiple deceptions, vulnerability and peril. Pomerance also reveals the link between Hitchcock's work and a wide range of thinkers and artists in other fields.

Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury

Author : Tereza Østbø Kuldova
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031571401
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury written by Tereza Østbø Kuldova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cornhill Magazine

Author : George Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Shadow

Author : William V. Spanos
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816633371
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book America's Shadow written by William V. Spanos and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national identity and its foreign policy from its origins. The Vietnam War is at the center of this book. In the contradiction between the "free world" logic employed to justify U.S. intervention in Vietnam and the genocidal practices used to realize that logic, Spanos finds the culmination of an imperialistic discourse reaching back to the colonizing rationale of the Roman Empire. Spanos identifies the language of expansion in the "white" metaphors in Western philosophical discourse since the colonization of Greek thought by the Romans. He shows how these metaphors, and their role in metaphysical discourse, have long been complicit in the violence of imperialism.

Sino-Russian Relations

Author : R.K.I. Quested
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136575324
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Sino-Russian Relations written by R.K.I. Quested and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic history of Sino-Russian relations, a history which is invaluable in forming an understanding of relations between the two nations today. Becoming neighbours in the seventeenth century, their changing relations in peace and war, in isolation, cooperation and confrontation have steadily assumed a greater importance in world politics and become increasingly important to the stability of international relations.

Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication

Author : Daya Thussu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351985833
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication written by Daya Thussu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. As an intersection between communication and international relations, it bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. One central theme that emerges in the book is the continuity of asymmetries in power relations that can be traced back to 19th-century European imperialism, manifested in its various incarnations from ‘liberal’ to ‘neo-liberal’, to ‘digital’ imperialism. The book includes a discussion of the post–Cold War US-led transformation of the hardware and software of global communication and how it has been challenged by the ‘rise of the rest’, especially China. Other key issues covered include the geopolitics of image wars, weaponization of information and the visibility of discourses emanating from outside the Euro-Atlantic zone. The ideas and arguments advanced here privilege a reading of geopolitical processes and examples from the perspective of the global South. Written by a leading scholar of global communication, this comprehensive and transdisciplinary study adopts a holistic approach and will be of interest to the global community of scholars, researchers and commentators in communication and international relations, among other fields.

The Spirit of Democracy

Author : Sofia Näsström
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192654233
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Democracy written by Sofia Näsström and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one revitalize democracy in times of crisis? Democracy is today challenged by populism and elitism, as well as by the resurgence of new forms of authoritarianism. The Spirit of Democracy: Corruption, Disintegration, Renewal shows that while we have good reasons to worry about the corruption of democratic practices and ideals, these worries are often attributable to questionable assumptions about what democracy is. Drawing on Montesquieu's classical work on the spirit of laws, the book sets out to reconceive the ways in which we understand and conceptualise modern democracy: from sovereignty to spirit. According to Montesquieu, different political forms are animated and sustained by different spirits: a republic by virtue, a monarchy by honour, and a despotic form by fear. This book argues that modern democracy is a sui generis political form animated and sustained by a spirit of emancipation. The removal of divine, natural, and historical authorities in political affairs unleashes a fundamental uncertainty about the purpose and direction of society. In a democracy, we respond to that uncertainty by sharing and dividing it equally. It emancipates us from a state of self-incurred tutelage. Based on this argument, the book develops a new theoretical framework for studying the corruption, disintegration, and renewal of democracy: what it is, how it begins, and where in society it plays out.

The Cornhill Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Complete Bordeaux

Author : Stephen Brook
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784728578
Total Pages : 1715 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Complete Bordeaux written by Stephen Brook and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 1715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wines of Bordeaux are universally recognized as being among the finest in the world and in this fully revised and updated edition of his classic text, renowned wine expert Stephen Brook provides an unrivalled survey of the region and its wines. The Complete Bordeaux offers detailed information on the many communes and appellations of Bordeaux along with descriptions and assessments of all its major properties. As well as incisive portraits of the leading properties and their produce, Stephen Brook provides a detailed look at Bordeaux's lesser-known areas and chateaux. There is also an invaluable vintage guide to the last four decades. Bordeaux encapsulates an incredible 13,000 wineries throughout 54 appellations and this book includes a thorough explanation of Bordeaux's history, terroir and winemaking styles. Praise for the third edition: "A fresh and authoritative addition to the Bordeaux library." Eric Asimov, The New York Times "This new edition is the ultimate guide to perhaps the greatest wine area in the world. Whether you use the book in your local wine store or tote it on a journey to Bordeaux itself, this book is definitive. And magnificent." Huffington Post