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  • The Long Defeat

    Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan

    de Akiko Hashimoto ...
    In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the contentious politics surrounding Japan's pacifist constitution and remilitarization, and fuel the escalating ... Leer más

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  • Letter to a Christian Nation

    de Sam Harris ...
    From the new afterword by the author:Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy

    de Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    **In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Nonbeliever Nation

    The Rise of Secular Americans

    de David Niose ...
    A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious RightToday, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group at a time when traditional Christian churches are dwindling in numbers - and they are flexing their muscles like never before. Yet we still see almost none of them openly serving in elected office, while Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and many others ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Debating Brain Drain

    May Governments Restrict Emigration?

    de Michael Blake, Gillian Brock ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Hearts and Mines

    The US Empire’s Culture Industry

    de Tanner Mirrlees ...
    From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it’s clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Utopia Like Any Other

    Inside the Swedish Model

    de Dominic Hinde ...
    Series series A Utopia Like Any Other
    Does a utopia really exist within northern Europe? Do we have anything to learn from it if it does? And what makes a nation worthy of admiration, anyway? Since the '30s, when the world was wowed by the Stockholm Exhibition, to most people Sweden has meant clean lines, good public housing, and a Social Democratic government. More recently the Swedes have been lauded for their environmental ... Leer más

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  • Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract

    de Darren O'Donnell ...
    A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world.We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and power- less; they understand they’re subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or not. But their unique ... Leer más

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  • Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

    The Sub-Saharan African Experience

    de Randolph Quaye ...
    Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • News on the Internet

    Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century

    de David Tewksbury, Jason Rittenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of “news” have shifted and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • New Myths and Old Politics

    The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition

    de Tipene O'Regan ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi’s legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngāi Tahu’s Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O’Regan describes what happened when claims of New Age mysticism attempted to undermine traditional whakapapa and academic scholarship. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Settling Scores

    German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953

    de David Monod ...
    Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence of Aryan superiority. In the minds of many Americans, further German aggression could be ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD