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Author : Mikael Hård
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book In the Icy Waters of Calculation written by Mikael Hård and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert D. Lewis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350133
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Calculating Property Relations written by Robert D. Lewis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago. Robert Lewis's rich trove of material--drawn from research on more than six hundred federally funded wartime industrial sites in metropolitan Chicago--supports three major conclusions. First, the relationship of the key institutions of the military-industrial complex was refashioned by their calculative actions on industrial property. The imperatives of war forced the federal state and the military to become involved in industrial matters in an entirely new manner. Second, federal and military investment in defense factories had an enormous effect on the industrial geography of metropolitan Chicago. The channeling of huge lumps of industrial capital into sprawling plants on the urban fringe had a decisive impact on the metropolitan geographies of manufacturing. Third, the success of industrial mobilization was made possible through the multi-scale relations of national and locational interaction. National policy could only be realized by the placing of these relations at the local level. Throughout, Lewis shows how the interests of developers, factory engineers, corporate executives, politicians, unions, and the working class were intimately bound up with industrial space. Offering a local perspective on a city permanently shaped by national events, this book provides a richer understanding of the dynamics of wartime mobilization, the calculative actions of political and business leaders, the social relations of property, the working of state-industry relations, and the making of industrial space.
Author : Rafael Chirbes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222853
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book On the Edge written by Rafael Chirbes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Edge is a monumental fresco of a brutal contemporary Spain in free fall On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain—a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and corruption. Stuck in this town is Esteban—his small factory bankrupt, his investments stolen by a “friend,” and his unloved father, a mute invalid, entirely his personal burden. Much of the novel unfolds in Esteban’s raw and tormented monologues. But other voices resound from the wreckage—soloists stepping forth from the choir—and their words, sharp as knives, crowd their terse, hypnotic monologues of ruin, prostitution, and loss. Chirbes alternates this choir of voices with a majestic third-person narration, injecting a profound and moving lyricism and offering the hope that a new vitality can emerge from the putrid swamps. On the Edge, even as it excoriates, pulsates with robust life, and its rhythmic, torrential style marks the novel as an indelible masterpiece.
Author : Alan D. Schrift
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113471470X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Gift written by Alan D. Schrift and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the primary focal points at which contemporary interdisciplinary discourses intersect. Into this context comes a new, indispensable volume. The Logic of the Gift offers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving that are often referred to but seldom read, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection.
Author : David Denby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684835339
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Great Books written by David Denby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-09-25 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.
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Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
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Author : Jonna Doolittle Hoppes
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809155
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Calculated Risk written by Jonna Doolittle Hoppes and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for leading the Tokyo Raid, America's first strike against Japan in World War II, Jimmy Doolittle led a remarkable life as an American pilot. This firsthand account by his granddaughter reveals an extraordinary individual—a scientist with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, an aviation pioneer who was the first to fly across the United States in less than 24 hours and the first to fly “blind” (using only his plane’s instruments), a barnstormer well known for aerobatics, a popular racing pilot who won every major air race at least once, recipient of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom, a four-star general, and commander of both the 8th, 12th and 15th Air Forces. This memoir provides insights into the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle and his family and sheds light on the drives and motivation of one of America's most influential and ambitious aviators.
Author : Roy Kreitner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804768054
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Calculating Promises written by Roy Kreitner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It meticulously details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers. Breaking with conventional wisdom, the author argues that our current understanding of contract is not the outgrowth of gradual refinements of a centuries-old idea. Rather, contract as we now know it was shaped by a revolution in private law undertaken toward the end of the nineteenth century, when legal scholars established calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their notion of contract. The author maintains that the revolution in contract thinking is best understood in a frame of reference wider than the rules governing the formation and enforcement of contracts. That frame of reference is a cultural negotiation over the nature of the individual subject and the role of the individual in a society undergoing transformation. Areas of central concern include the enforceability of promises to make gifts; the relationship of contracts to speculation and gambling; and the problem of incomplete contracts.
Author : Brett Foster
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113218
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book John Milton written by Brett Foster and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of John Milton.
Author : Wendy Helsby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839021020
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Understanding Representation written by Wendy Helsby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the 'Understanding the Moving Image' series. Like other books in the series, it aims to provide a strong critical and theoretical base for the study of the media. It has been co-authored by experienced Media and Film Studies tutors, offering fresh and innovative ways of talking about the key concept of representation. How is the world mediated to deliver messages and create beliefs about groups such as the mentally ill, institutions like the family and schools, minority and marginalised people and issues of nation seen through football and films? It also looks outside our ethnocentric mediated world to see how we are represented to others. The choice of texts reflects both an attempt to push the boundaries of the study of representation with new research, but also to make it accessible and stimulating for students coming into this area for the first time. Case studies reflect contemporary concerns in the media, often from different perspectives.
Author : Larry Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134327013
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Globalization and Everyday Life written by Larry Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the meanings of globalization as a concept, discussing the key debates and pointing towards new ways of understanding the process as a whole.
Author : Annabel M. Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317900200
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book John Milton written by Annabel M. Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such as Michael Wilding, Victoria Kahn, James Grantham Turner and Mary Ann Radzinowicz and guides the reader through the varied ways Milton's achievement has been explored and debated by modern criticism.
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Total Pages : 1060 pages
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Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720113
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Practice written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical masteryor between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one's own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairsthat is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, "Critique of Theoretical Reason," covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the habitus), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, "Practical Logics," develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu's ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice. It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu's theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Lévi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power.
Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415062077
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Max Weber, Critical Assessments 2 written by Peter Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manfred Bienefeld
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Globalisation and Social Change written by Manfred Bienefeld and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars Tønder
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719070440
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Radical Democracy written by Lars Tønder and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors here discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the two dominant approaches to radical democracy: theories of abundance inspired by Gilles Deleuze and theories of lack inspired by Jacques Lacan. They examine the idea of radical democracy from a wide variety of perspectives: identity/difference, the public sphere, social movements, nature, popular culture, right wing populism, and political economy. In addition, the volume relates the work of contemporary thinkers such as Deleuze, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault to classical thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche.
