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In 'Shades of Freedom', A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law.

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil, but his work has only recently become known to the English-speaking world. This new translation of Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, first published in 1881, now brings Machado de Assis's sardonic wit and keen appreciation of human foibles to a much larger audience.

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Synthesizing many years' investigation into sexual identity and orientation, this book presents Dr Money's formulation of how sexual preference is determined. It includes a review of long-term follow-up studies on pre-natal influences on sexual identity, and discusses gender differentiation in childhood. (Hardback published in 1988).

Philosophers have traditionally sought objective knowledge. This text uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views.

This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell. A newly edited version of the Italian text can be found on facing pages, and this edition includes fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects.

This book investigates how values such as freedom, work, family, free time, and politics changed in Czech society in the two decades before and after the November 1989 Velvet Revolution. Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke use public opinion polls as well as 300 interviews with Czech citizens to create a multi-layered view of Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation.

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe. However, reports that such contractors have been responsible for human rights abuses have spurred the need to evaluate the industry's impact on conflicts. This book identifies two market forces that impact PMSCs' military effectiveness: local or conflict-level competition and global or industry-level competition. The book argues that competitive marketpressure creates a strong monitoring system and that the company's corporate structure and external competitive environment in a given conflict help to explain the variance in accountability to clients. Including an analysis of data on international PMSCs' interventions in civil wars from 1990-2008,Seden Akcinaroglu and Elizabeth Radziszewski show the impact of competition on companies' contribution to the termination of different types of civil wars.

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Title: The Elephant in the Brain, Author: Kevin (Writer and Software Engineer) Simler, Publication Year: 2021-01-05, Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, Language: eng

In the early sixteenth century, a series of military campaigns between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf brought the entirety of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers under Ottoman control. This book offers a history of this rare political unification of the longest rivers in West Asia and its impact on the Ottoman state, provincial society, and the environment.

Popular stereotypes of Rockwellian storekeepers have characterized grocery retailers as backward and resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to show that early grocers were important but unsung innovators, revolutionizing business practices from the bottom, and transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry.

In this insightful and timely book, author George Case shows how an important strain of rock music spoke as much to a working-class populist audience as to the rebellious youth audience we typically associate with this music, helping to reset the boundaries of left and right in American society.

How do individuals, communities, and societies use music as a form of mourning? This book demonstrates how music became a crucial outlet for processing loss in communist East Germany, where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss.

Vicarious identification, or "living through another" is a familiar social-psychological concept. As this book argues, it is also an under-appreciated and increasingly relevant strategy of international relations. According to this theory, states identify and establish special relationships with other nations (often in an aspirational way) in order to strengthen their sense of self, security, and status on the global stage. In addition to theorizing vicariousidentity in global politics and exploring a range of cases, the book outlines a qualitative methodology for analyzing vicarious identity at the collective level.

In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops a new sociological theory of religion by reconstructing existing scientific theories of religion, from the eighteenth century to the present. Through a critical reading and reasssessment of key texts, Joas proposes an alternative to the narratives of disenchantment and secularization which have dominated debates on the topic. He further offers the most thorough reconstruction of the meaning of this concept,demonstrates how problematic it is for an appropriate understanding of religion in modernity, and presents the basic features of an alternative.

Competitive Agents in Certain and Uncertain Markets uses concepts from optimization theory to develop an integrated analytic framework for treating consumer, producer, and market equilibrium analysis as special cases of a generic optimization problem. Building on basic economic concepts, Robert G. Chambers shows how virtually identical conjugate analyses form the basis for modeling economic behavior across both certain and uncertaincircumstances.

With an emphasis on the ideas that shaped the postwar international system, Robert Triffin: A Life explores both the man and his work. This biography evaluates what made Triffin a crucial figure in modern economic history, tracing Triffin's story from a child of the interwar period to his key role in European integration and ultimately the euro.

With growing awareness of global climate change and its devastating impacts, there is significant interest in finding new, sustainable ways of life. This volume brings together important new essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the character traits and virtues needed to successfully achieve such flourishing, sustainable lives-the virtues of sustainability. Our pursuit of sustainability will challenge our values and character, fromrethinking consumption and our relationship to nature, to being resilient in the face of environmental disaster. This volume provides readers with a rich understanding of the nature and importance of these virtues, and practical guidance on how they can be developed and applied.

The field of culture and psychology is one of the fastest growing areas in the social sciences. The Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 8 belongs to the only annual series that offers state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research programs in this burgeoning field.

The field of culture and psychology is one of the fastest growing areas in the social sciences. The Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 8 belongs to the only annual series that offers state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research programs in this burgeoning field.

The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, ClariceLispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement'' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of Jewishworks in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.

This book investigates the kinds and quantities of treasure seized by Alexander the Great, from gold and silver to land and slaves. It reveals what became of the king's wealth, and what Alexander's redistribution of these vast resources can tell us today about his much-disputed policies and personality.

Our experience of a unified sense of the self is underwritten by a multiplicity of self-aspects having very different metaphysical commitments. Our experience of unity is provided by a process-which, under certain clinical conditions, is rendered inoperative-that enables a person to experience mental states as personally owned.

Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society they anticipate. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of the migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism.