Filtering the News
ISBN: 9781551642604 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 'propaganda model' argues that there are five classes of 'filters' in society which determine what is news: in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by radio and television. Whether a news item is going to be used by the media, or not, is going to depend on whether it can pass through these filters. Filtering the News begins with a critical review and assessment of the propaganda model, then applies Herman and Chomsky's model to a range of ongoing news events. In the final chapters, several common criticisms of the... Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 'propaganda model' argues that there are five classes of 'filters' in society which determine what is news: in ... |
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Why Work?: The Perceptions of A Real Job and the Rhetoric of Work through the Ages
ISBN: 9781557534545 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Why Work" explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, "A Real Job." This volume examines "work" in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Mary Parker Follett to answer the question, "Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past?" A final chapter re-examines the core issue in light of the vary concept of "work" and ask one more time "why work?" This work is a result of an...
"Why Work" explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, "A Real Job." This volume examines "work" in the wr...
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Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
ISBN: 9781593761509 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. True skepticism is an attitude of constant questioning, a mode of thinking Frederick Crews held so dear he applied it to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, an intellectual tradition he initially believed to be empirically sound. But as his examination of the logical structure and institutional history of psychoanalysis revealed ever more cracks in the field's empirical framework, Crews broke with Freudian theory, eventually labeling it the very model of a modern pseudoscience. This collection features essays chronicling his rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis and our recent recovered memory...
True skepticism is an attitude of constant questioning, a mode of thinking Frederick Crews held so dear he applied it to Freudian psychoanalytic theor...
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79,99 zł |
Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action
ISBN: 9781844671908 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics and social science, from early 1960s articles on the Algerian War of Independence to the last text he published before his death, proves that this vision was enduring throughout his life as well as a serious scholar Bourdieu was always an outspoken public intellectual. Political Interventions includes many texts hitherto unavailable in English and, placing them in their... Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a ... |
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The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
ISBN: 9782869781986 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts.
Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two... This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, a...
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431,62 zł |
The Simple Truth About Income Tax
ISBN: 9780595476411 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short book cuts through all the confusion about the income tax laws, because in reality there is no confusion in the law, and cuts through the maze of legal distractions asserted by the United States government to mislead the American people about the income tax, to quickly and absolutely demonstrate the proper application of the income tax under today's laws, and to clearly and succinctly show how the government has unlawfully misused and misapplied the provisions of the statutes to wrongfully force all American citizens and corporations to pay an income tax that they do not actually...
This short book cuts through all the confusion about the income tax laws, because in reality there is no confusion in the law, and cuts through the ma...
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Asylums : Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
ISBN: 9780202309712 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern... A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wid... |
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 2, 1899 - 1924: Journal Articles, Book Reviews, and Miscellany in the 1902-1903 Period, and Studies in Logical
ISBN: 9780809307548 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes the complete text of Dewey's "Studies in Logical Theory "and "The Child and the Curriculum."
Includes the complete text of Dewey's "Studies in Logical Theory "and "The Child and the Curriculum."
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 3, 1899 - 1924: Essays on the New Empiricism, 1903-1906 Volume 3
ISBN: 9780809307753 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning the crucial years of Dewey s move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 collects thirty-six essays and reviews published at the very time Dewey determined that his professional future would lie in the field of philosophy. After resigning from Chicago, Dewey seriously considered a career in university administration before finally deciding to accept a professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia, where he was to remain the rest of his professional life."
Spanning the crucial years of Dewey s move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 collects thirty-six essays and reviews publ...
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 5, 1899-1924: Ethics, 1908 Volume 5
ISBN: 9780809308347 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains "Ethics "by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which appeared as one of the last in the Holt American Science series of textbooks. Within some six months after publication, "Ethics "was adopted as a textbook by thirty colleges. The book continued to be extremely popular and widely used, and was reprinted twenty-five times before both authors completely revised their respective parts for the new 1932 edition.Up to the time "Ethics "was published, Dewey s approach to ethics was known primarily from...
This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains "Ethics "by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which ap...
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How Many Exceptionalisms?: Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis
ISBN: 9781592138319 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in "How Many Exceptionalisms?" span the long history of the intellectual output of Aristide Zolberg, one of the most distinguished social scientists of our time. In this collection, Zolberg shows his originality, insights, and breadth of thought as he addresses subjects including theories of immigration policy, the making of Belgium, and the origins of the modern world system. Writing over three decades and featuring many essays that have not been in wide circulation, Zolberg here draws from political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to provide a configurative...
The essays in "How Many Exceptionalisms?" span the long history of the intellectual output of Aristide Zolberg, one of the most distinguished social s...
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278,16 zł |
Progressive Secular Society: And Other Essays Relevant to Secularism
ISBN: 9781845401320 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical nature and opposes any appeal to supernatural agencies or explanations. In particular, human moral perspectives are human creations and the only basis for ethics. Secular values need re-affirming in the face of the resurgence of aggressive supernatural religious doctrines and practices. This book gives a set of 'secular thoughts for the day' many only a page or two long on topics as varied as Shakespeare and Comte, economics, science and social... A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical ... |
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The Early Works of John Dewey, Volume 1, 1882 - 1898: Early Essays and Leibniz's New Essays, 1882-1888 Volume 1
ISBN: 9780809303496 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1 of "The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898" is entitled "Early Essays and "Leibniz"'"s New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, "1882-1888." Included here are all Dewey's earliest writings, from his first published article through his book on Leibniz. The materials in this volume provide a chronological record of Dewey's early development--beginning with the article he sent to the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy "in 1881 while he was a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and closing with his widely-acclaimed work on Leibniz in the Grigg's Series of German...
Volume 1 of "The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898" is entitled "Early Essays and "Leibniz"'"s New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, "1882...
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Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown: A Work by ROM Harre Volume 1
ISBN: 9780444514646 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harre's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harre of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harre, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and...
Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harre's work on modeling in science (particularly p...
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Regionalism and the Humanities
ISBN: 9780803276345 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of architecture, agriculture, and women, this volume implements some of the most innovative and intriguing approaches to the history and value of regionalism as a category for investigation in the humanities. In the volume's inaugural...
Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essa...
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Scripting Identity: Writing Cultural Experience
ISBN: 9780761839293 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Scripting Identity: Writing Cultural Experience, Theresa Carilli explores how understanding one's identity can assist in the process of writing a performative script. After a brief review of how the Performance Studies discipline interprets the act of performative writing, Carilli shares her own methodology for creating performative texts. By introducing the concept of the primary narrative--the story that is at the core of one's identity--the study demonstrates how several of her students at a working-class university campus (surrounded and influenced by a steel mill culture) exemplify...
In Scripting Identity: Writing Cultural Experience, Theresa Carilli explores how understanding one's identity can assist in the process of writing a p...
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248,52 zł |
Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
ISBN: 9781905422289 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conversations with one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time.
Conversations with one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time.
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77,20 zł |
Essays of a Penitentiary Philosopher
ISBN: 9780595485185 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
ISBN: 9780143115151 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does... Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had ... |
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101,30 zł |
Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs: Essays in Honour of Ted Benton
ISBN: 9780230201156 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together some of the most eminent thinkers in the field, this book celebrates the seminal contribution of Ted Benton to such pressing themes as: realism, naturalism and the philosophy of the social sciences; the continuing relevance of Marxism; philosophical anthropology and human needs; and ecology, society and natural limits.
Bringing together some of the most eminent thinkers in the field, this book celebrates the seminal contribution of Ted Benton to such pressing themes ...
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194,08 zł |