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Book Synopsis Shattering Orthodoxies by : A. Haag Sherman
Download or read book Shattering Orthodoxies written by A. Haag Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s, the sun never set on the British Empire, and the pound sterling was the world's reserve currency. Today, it is America and the dollar. Tomorrow, it may well be China and the yuan. As late as 1900, Britain was the world's military and economic superpower-the largest creditor nation in the world. The next 50 years proved fatal to its global dominion. Two costly world wars and the economic strain of maintaining an empire caused Britain to borrow heavily from its largest emerging global competitor-the United States. By the mid-1950s, Great Britain was a debtor nation-no longer in control of its currency-and the United State was the largest creditor nation in the world, destined to dominate world affairs for the remainder of the century. Currently, the United States finds itself in a position eerily reminiscent to that of Great Britain a century ago. Undoubtedly, the U.S. is the world's superpower, both militarily and economically. Yet, like England before it, America is becoming increasingly indebted to its largest global competitor (China) and is fighting a costly war with no end in sight. America's economic and foreign policies are making China's rise as the world's leading superpower increasingly likely. This is not news to most Americans. Americans sense that the United States faces a series of challenges to its position as the world's lone superpower. The problems are easy to identify. They are economic: the risks associated with America's budget and trade deficits, its runaway entitlement programs and its aging population. They include military threats from Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, energy and environmental problems. These challenges are easily spotted. They are even easier to demagogue (whether from the right or the left). Solutions, however, have been in short supply. The purpose of this book is to address the most pressing issues confronting the United States-including economic, foreign policy, environmental and energy issues-in one place. The unfolding economic crisis only serves to high-light the importance of an intelligently reasoned analysis and the urgent need for practical solutions we can implement immediately. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Drama of Everyday Life by : Karl Scheibe
Download or read book The Drama of Everyday Life written by Karl Scheibe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheibe brings to his reflection on psychology the drama of literature, poetry, philosophy, history, music, and theater. Challenging our dispirited senses, he asks us to take note of the self-representation, performance, and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life.
Book Synopsis Economics in a Changed Universe by : Gerald L. Houseman
Download or read book Economics in a Changed Universe written by Gerald L. Houseman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the revolution in economics, wrought by Joseph E. Stiglitz and the economics of information, has provided us with new methods and answers to solving economic problems, especially for the poor nations of the world. It brings 230 years of economic thought and folklore into question and shows us that 'free enterprise' and the 'market' that we once respected does not exist.
Book Synopsis Two Systems, Two Countries by : Kevin Carrico
Download or read book Two Systems, Two Countries written by Kevin Carrico and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why. Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico shows, is more than just a provocation testing Beijing’s red lines: it represents a collective awakening to the failure of One Country Two Systems and the need to transcend obsolete orthodoxies. With a conclusion that examines Hong Kong nationalism’s influence on the 2019 protest movement, Two Systems, Two Countries is an engaging and accessible introduction to the tumultuous shifts in Hong Kong politics and identity over the past decade.
Book Synopsis Orthodoxies in Massachusetts by : Janice Knight
Download or read book Orthodoxies in Massachusetts written by Janice Knight and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining religious culture in seventeenth-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, Knight describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love. A strong countervoice, expressed by such American divines as John Cotton, John Davenport, and John Norton and the Englishmen Richard Sibbes and John Preston, articulated a theology rooted in Divine Benevolence rather than Almighty Power, substituting free testament for conditional covenant to describe God's relationship to human beings. Knight argues that the terms and content of orthodoxy itself were hotly contested in New England and that the dominance of rationalist preachers like Thomas Hooker and Peter Bulkeley has been overestimated by scholars. Establishing the English origins of these differences, Knight rereads the controversies of New England's first decades as proof of a continuing conflict between these two religious ideologies. The Antinomian Controversy provides the focus for a new understanding of the volatile processes whereby orthodoxies are produced and contested. This book gives voice to this alternative piety within what is usually read as the univocal orthodoxy of New England, and shows the political, social, and literary implications of those differences.
Book Synopsis The Descent of the Imagination by : Kevin Z. Moore
Download or read book The Descent of the Imagination written by Kevin Z. Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Descent of the Imagination places Thomas Hardy's writing within the context of nineteenth-century fiction writing as a genre. Moore therefore regards his examination of Hardy's work as a form of archaeology as well as a genealogy of the romantic figure in fiction, from Wordsworth through Hardy. The book provides a new interpretation of Hardy's method of composition and uses new source material that will interest Hardy scholars. It offers an original view of the novelist that argues that his work, especially his later writings, were a deliberate rewriting of romanticism.
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory by : Antony Bryant
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory written by Antony Bryant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded Theory is by far the most widely used research method across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas, including social sciences, nursing and healthcare, medical sociology, information systems, psychology, and anthropology. This handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Grounded Theory, taking into account the many attempts to revise and refine Glaser and Strauss′ original formulation and the debates that have followed. Antony Bryant & Kathy Charmaz bring together leading researchers and practitioners of the method from the US, the UK, Australia and Europe to represent all the major standpoints within Grounded Theory, demonstrating the richness of the approach. The contributions cover a wide range of perspectives on the method, covering its features and ramifications, its intricacies in use, its demands on the skills and capabilities of the researcher and its position in the domain of research methods. The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory is an indispensable reference source for academics and researchers across many disciplines who want to develop their understanding of the Grounded Theory method.
Book Synopsis Shattering the Stereotypes by : Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Download or read book Shattering the Stereotypes written by Fawzia Afzal-Khan and published by Olive Branch Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of September 11th. Muslim women in the West found themselves more marginalized than ever by a panicked discourse that did little to promote a true understanding of Islam or the Islamic world. Here. in this ambitious volume that includes essays. poetry, fiction, memoir, plays, and artwork, Muslim women speak for themselves, revealing a complexity of experience and thought that escapes most Western portrayals. Islam is, as editor Fawzia Afzal-Khan puts it only "one spoke in the wheel of our lives." In Shattering the Stereotypes. essays by such writers as Ayesha Jalal, the Pakistani-American historian, poems by award-winning poets including Sucheir Hammad and Nathalie Handal, and a selection of short fiction and plays that are not just ethnically but attitudinally diverse, together make a more rounded portrait of what it is to be a Muslim woman in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Researching Indonesia by : Gerald L. Houseman
Download or read book Researching Indonesia written by Gerald L. Houseman and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American scholar of Asia studies who has lived in Indonesia, Malaysia, and other Asian countries, Houseman believes that Indonesia deserves greater attention and emphasis in the contemporary world, and advises researchers how to investigate the fledgling democracy that rose in 1998 after more tha
Book Synopsis The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980 by : Mark Edward Ruff
Download or read book The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980 written by Mark Edward Ruff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church's relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society - in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream.
Book Synopsis Postmodern Geographies by : Edward W. Soja
Download or read book Postmodern Geographies written by Edward W. Soja and published by Verso. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.
Download or read book Circus written by Frederic Weinstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force of astonishing power and poetry, Circus uses the mystic panorama of a traveling mud show as a metaphor for the neverending cycle of life. Dwarves and roustabouts, clowns and elephants, freaks and puppet shows, snakes and ringmasters, talking beasts and a single elusory beauty all parade before a silently observant child over the course of a single day, engaging him as well as the reader with humor, ribaldry and prophetic wisdom. A testament to the mystery of creation, Circus challenges and inspires. To read it is to celebrate everything majestic and terrible about the world, the firmament and mankind's precarious place in it.
Book Synopsis The Thucydidean Turn by : Benjamin Earley
Download or read book The Thucydidean Turn written by Benjamin Earley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the insights that it could offer into contemporary politics, and that it was also used as part of the justification for the academic and cultural relevance of Classics at this time of great political upheaval. Academic classicists and classically trained commentators were instrumental in this 'turn' in academic focus onto Thucydides' contemporary relevance. Among the former were several prominent figures, such as Francis Cornford, Gilbert Murray, and Enoch Powell, who attempted to find in Thucydides a dark depiction of human nature and the passions that drove politics to justify his contemporary relevance. The latter included International Relations scholars and journalists such as Alfred Zimmern, Albert Toynbee, and George Abbott, who 'turned' to Thucydides in order to better understand contemporary global and European politics. A final chapter demonstrates how this British 'turn' to Thucydides was received and reinterpreted in America on the eve of the Second World War.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by : Julie Armstrong
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature written by Julie Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. Accessible to undergraduates and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a rapidly growing field and lays the foundation for future studies.
Book Synopsis Qualitative Research in Education by : Peter R Freebody
Download or read book Qualitative Research in Education written by Peter R Freebody and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-02-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of qualitative approaches to educational research. The text draws upon a broad range of real-life examples to describe and illustrate the methods through which educational data may be analyzed. Through a detailed yet concise explanation, the reader is then shown how these methods work and how their outcomes may be interpreted. Key features of this title include: - Links theory and practice by locating forms of analysis within a clear theoretical perspective. - Locates qualitative research in the social and cultural context in which it originates. - Contains a variety of `real-life′ examples and case studies. - Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises and questions for further discussion. Qualitative Research in Education presents a thorough explanation of the complexities of educational research and demonstrates the importance of placing this knowledge within cultural, linguistic and sociological contexts. It is an extremely informative text, which constitutes essential reading for those engaged in the research and analysis of educational data.
Book Synopsis Ethnography and Schools by : Yali Zou
Download or read book Ethnography and Schools written by Yali Zou and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of both traditional and new approaches to the study of schools and their communities. The book emphasizes discourse, critical pedagogy and ethnicity.
Book Synopsis Foreign Language Teaching in the Universities by : F. G. Healey
Download or read book Foreign Language Teaching in the Universities written by F. G. Healey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
