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  • V6A

    Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside

    An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity. ... Leer más

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  • Elements of Moral Cognition

    Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment

    de John Mikhail ...
    Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyse human speech in terms of its grammatical structure? Questions like these have been at the forefront of moral psychology ever since John ... Leer más

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  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Leer más

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Leer más

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  • $2.00 A Day

    Living on Almost Nothing in America

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThe story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, ... Leer más

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  • All God's Children

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    James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group -- they called themselves a "family" -- was arrested for a string of violent murders.While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to ... Leer más

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  • Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language

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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Leer más

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