Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Essays

Everyone edits what they say. It's a part of growing up. But what if we applied tell-it-like-it-is honesty to grown-up issues? In Impolite Conversations, two respected thinkers and writers openly discuss five "third-rail" topics--from multi-racial identities to celebrity worship to hyper-masculinity among black...

PART MUCKRAKER, PART ADVENTURER, AND PART RACONTEUR, FRAZIER BEHOLDS, CAPTURES, AND OCCASIONALLY REIMAGINES THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. HOGS WILD OFFERS US AN UTTERLY UNIQUE BRAND OF INQUIRY WITHOUT AN AGENDA, CURIOSITY WITHOUT CALCULATION.

-A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense- (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of contemporary America's most gifted chroniclers. While travelling down south to examine feral hogs, he learns that their presence in a county is a strong indication it votes Republican. He introduces us to a man who, when...

In their annual sessions the various Sections of the Royal Society are accustomed to take up for general discussion a topic of current interest and this gives Fellows and special guests from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities an opportunity for useful communication across the disciplines on an important subject.

In 1961 the topic was an especially vital issue, the population explosion, and this volume, based on the papers given at the meeting, has much valuable information and many pertinent and provocative comments on this phenomenon particularly as it...

'Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller -geeks out- the problematic of software. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to Github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies.'
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University

'This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society - software. From mobile...

Koffi GBEGLO, konata Esperantisto en Togolando - same kiel originalstila raktontisto kaj elstara organizanto de la afrika Esperanto-movado - prezentas i tie siajn ideojn pri kiel estas kaj devus esti Esperantujo, en du eseoj: "Esperanto en la interna vivo de afrikanoj" kaj "Esperantujismo: Dek tri unuaj vortoj." Li atus, ke liaj ideoj estu kiom eble plej lar e diskutataj.

La libreto donas interesan enrigardon en la vivkondi oj de afrikaj Esperantistoj, sed i estas krome unika kaj ege interesa atesto pri la renkonti o de progresemaj afrikaj kaj "okcidentaj" mondperceptoj.

FROM THE AUTHOR:

As of July, 2016, I have had 52 op-ed columns published in the Joplin Globe, Joplin, Missouri, which began in 2009. Given that volume of material, I had, in effect, written a book. The question then became one of selecting which op-eds to include. After making the selections, I found that they could be divided into five categories:

- Economic Issues

- Governance and Democracy

- National Security

- Political Issues

- Social Issues

Regardless of the category, each of the Op-Eds here is my own reflection on certain aspects of...

In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race, gender, history, and social and political forces.

The twelve essays in this volume shine a particularly bright light on the significance of race in shaping the history of southern sexuality, primarily in the period since World War II. Francesca Gamber...

This collection of powerful essays-written by leading scholars in migration studies-puts a human face on mass deportation by telling the stories of people bearing the brunt of...