Public Life – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 10

Jeffrey Boutwell
Boutwell

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to "redeem America's promise" of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. F…

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Matthew Motta
Anti-Scientific Americans

In Anti-Scientific Americans, Matthew Motta offers new theoretical and data-driven insights into the prevalence, origins, and policy consequences of anti-intellectualism in the US. He brings together &quo…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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Lee Smith
Disappearing the President

"Even before a would-be killer tried to murder President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a clique of political assassins set about eliminating him from public life entirely. In Disappearing the Presid…

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Michael Pettit
Governed by Affect

Why do ordinary people turn to psychology in the hopes of making themselves healthier, wealthier, and happier? Governed by Affect offers a multi-sited history of psychology and its role in American public…

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Ria Banerjee
Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf

This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in dia…

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Peter Jones
Corrupt Britain

This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial among memb…

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Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North

What makes sounds "religious"? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and publ…

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Mary Lucia
What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate to

An iconic rock DJ of the Twin Cities tells her harrowing story of being stalked while living her very public lifeWhat's it like to be in the public spotlight when it just might get you killed? For Mary Lu…

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Louis Markos
Passing the Torch

"In this highly energetic volume, Louis Markos makes his case that education must recover its power to form persons. Drawing from both Christian and the classics of the literary and intellectual trad…

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Joan Didion
Political Fictions

National BestsellerIn these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public lif…

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Sally M Promey
Religion in Plain View

"Religion is ever-present in American public life. Displays of religion-such as bumper stickers or Jesus fish on cars, anti-abortion billboards with Bible verses, and the Star of David on Jewish deli…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Philip Cunliffe
The National Interest

With peak globalization behind us, we urgently need a new debate about the national interest. Yet across the West it is a concept that is conspicuous by its absence from public life. All too often the 'na…

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Helena Sadílková, Du¿an Sla¿ka, Milada Závodská
Equality and Representation

Brill | Schöningh, Roma History and CultureRoma History and Culture - Band 6

This book challenges the notion of Roma as mere victims of human rights violations in 20th century Europe and as another collective victim of Nazism and Stalinism. Focusing on post-war Czechoslovakia in t…

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Glenn C Loury
Late Admissions

Glenn C. Loury is often radically opposed to the political mainstream and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more than the arguments themselves-on affirmative action, insti…

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Amoako Boafo. Proper Love (English)

The Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafoja is considered one of the most important voices from a new generation of Black artists. Boafo portrays his friends, acquaintances, and people from public life, presentin…

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Setha Low
Why Public Space Matters

Public spaces are vital to a healthy civic life. Even fleeting interactions in such places tend to expand people's horizons. Sidewalks, plazas, public parks, central squares, and public libraries all enha…

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Azadeh Westergaard,
The One & Only Googoosh

"The legendary Iranian singer and actress Googoosh (born Faegheh Atashin) made her stage debut at age two while performing alongside her acrobat father. By the time she reached adulthood, she was wid…

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Jonas Vanderschueren
Queering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005

Theatre has long been an art form at the centre of public life in Poland. Whether it is the self-professed poet-prophets of the Romantic era, or the dissident theatre makers working under the strictures o…

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