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Journalism in the Generation Z Age - D. Jasun Carr - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Communication Instruction in the Generation Z Classroom - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Gen Z, Digital Media, and Transcultural Lives - Kiran Vinod Bhatia - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Valeria Z Nollan - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Valeria Z. Nollan - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Valeria Z. Nollan - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sergei Rachmaninoff experienced life-changing upheavals and competing inflection points of musical taste, traversing countries and continents as he pursued the triply-brilliant career of composer-conductor-virtuoso pianist. Born in tsarist Russia and raised as a nobleman in a well-educated musical family, Rachmaninoff led a bold lifestyle as a cutting-edge composer, admirer of the latest trends in art, and even aficionado of new developments in farm equipment for his beloved estate of Ivanovka. Wherever his concertizing took him, to glittering capitals all over the world, Rachmaninoff became a nexus for prominent musicians, writers, actors, and other personalities defining this era. Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran in parallel ways to Rachmaninoff’s own—and whose meetings with the composer’s grandson in Switzerland informed her work—Nollan brings important cultural insights into her observations of the activities of this generation of creative artists. She also traces the intricacies of Rachmaninoff’s relations with the women closest to him—whose imprints are palpable in his compositions—and introduces a mystery woman whose existence challenges our established narrative of his life.

DKK 972.00
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Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions - Asaf Z. Sokolowski - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions - Asaf Z. Sokolowski - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In defiance of the predominant pattern of reading liberal political thought in isolation from the metaphysical and theological investigations of its classic thinkers, Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions: Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke seeks to place their writings in context. Asaf Z. Sokolowski demonstrates that the political measures offered by theorists to remedy the social state of instability, known as the "state of nature," are intrinsically connected to distinctive metaphysical conceptions of the relationship between order and individuation. In each system of thought the origin and role of the self are determined by a particular conception of a created and evolving universal order. In turn, each version of order must contend with the vital question of how the individual is able to sustain a continuous identity. Thus, contrary to conventional thinking, it becomes apparent that the political theory developed by thinkers like Hobbes and Locke is predicated less on a security threat than on a debilitating insecurity concern, derived from ontological identity difficulties. This identity-focused reinterpretation of the liberal tradition transforms differences between key thinkers, previously reduced to nuance, into pivotal discords that shed a new light on the theoretical underpinnings of the self, the state, and the nation. As such, it will be valuable to scholars of political theory, metaphysics, theology, social science, and law.

DKK 866.00
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Applying Dialogic Pedagogy - Cynthia Z. Cohen - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

After Involuntary Migration - Milica Z. Bookman - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

After Involuntary Migration - Milica Z. Bookman - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende - Lubna Z. Qureshi - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende - Lubna Z. Qureshi - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Radical Novel and the Classless Society - Robert Z. Birdwell - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Radical Novel and the Classless Society - Robert Z. Birdwell - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

"We Didn't Start the Fire" - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Understanding Human Conduct - Sam S. Rakover - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

"We Didn't Start the Fire" - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Jesuit Education at the Crossroads - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Nietzsche and Zen - Andre Van Der Braak - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

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Nietzsche and Zen - Andre Van Der Braak - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

DKK 450.00
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Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s–2000s - Teri Finneman - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s–2000s - Teri Finneman - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Recent history suggests the United States is within reach of its first woman president. This book examines the media experiences of women political pioneers who helped pave the way to the breaking of the glass ceiling. It analyzes newspaper treatment of four pioneering politicians between the 1870s and 2000s and explores how media discourse of women politicians has and hasn’t changed over 150 years. The women featured are Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress; Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to receive a presidential nomination at a major party’s convention; and Sarah Palin, the first Republican woman vice presidential candidate. The social, political, and journalistic cultures of each woman’s era are also explored to provide context for the women’s media coverage. The findings illustrate that the press has used a variety of discursive strategies to delegitimize the candidacies of women politicians throughout history, which might have contributed to negative voter attitudes toward women in politics. Gendered stereotypes, gendered news frames, and double binds utilized in news coverage served to protect a male-dominated status quo. Yet a significant finding in Palin’s coverage indicates that gender bias in news coverage is increasingly facing criticism, suggesting the tide may finally be turning in favor of more equalized discourse.

DKK 450.00
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Prison Bureaucracies in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras - Brian Norris - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Prison Bureaucracies in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras - Brian Norris - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Modern criminal justice institutions globally include police, criminal courts, and prisons. Prisons, unlike courts which developed out of an old aristocratic function and unlike police which developed out of an ancient posse or standing army function, are only about 200 years old and are humanitarian inventions. Prisons, defined as modern institutions that deprive the freedom of individuals who violate societies’ most basic norms in lieu of corporal or capital punishment, were near universal at the dawn of the 21st century and their use was expanding globally. The US alone spent $60 billion on prisons in 2014. Prison Bureaucracies addresses two fundamental questions. Do prisons in Christian, Hindu, and Muslim societies separated by space and level of socioeconomic development follow a common evolutionary path? Given that differences in prison structure and performance exist, what factors—resources, laws, leadership, historical accident, institutions, culture—account for differences? Based on more than 150 interviews conducted in ten international trips with prison administrators in 15 male state prisons in the US, Mexico, India, and Honduras, Norris provides ethnographic descriptions of prisons bureaucracies that are immediately recognizable as similar institutions, but that nonetheless possessed distinctive forms and developmental trajectories. Economists and political scientists have argued that incentives provided by institutions matter for good or bad public administration, and this is undeniable in the prisons of this study. But institutional incentives were one factor among many affecting the form and function of the prisons and prison systems of this study.

DKK 927.00
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Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India - Ethan Mills - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India - Ethan Mills - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Beginning with the earliest strata of Indian philosophy, this book uncovers a distinct tradition of skepticism in Indian philosophy through a study of the “three pillars” of Indian skepticism near the beginning, middle, and end of the classical era: Nāgārjuna (c. 150-200 CE), Jayarāśi (c. 770-830 CE), and Śrī Harṣa (c. 1125-1180 CE). Moving beyond the traditional school model of understanding the history of Indian philosophy, this book argues that the philosophical history of India contains a tradition of skepticism about philosophy represented most clearly by three figures coming from different schools but utilizing similar methods: Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi, and Śrī Harṣa. This book argues that there is a category of skepticism often overlooked by philosophers today: skepticism about philosophy, varieties of which are found not only in classical India but also in the Western tradition in Pyrrhonian skepticism. Skepticism about philosophy consists of intellectual therapies for those afflicted by the quest for dogmatic beliefs. The book begins with the roots of this type of skepticism in ancient India in the Ṛg Veda, Upaniṣads, and early Buddhist texts. Then there are two chapters on each of the three major figures: one chapter giving each philosopher’s overall aims and methods and a second demonstrating how each philosopher applies these methods to specific philosophical issues. The conclusion shows how the history of Indian skepticism might help to answer philosophy’s detractors today: while skeptics demonstrate that we should be modest about philosophy’s ability to produce firm answers, philosophy nonetheless has other uses such as cultivating critical thinking skills and lessening dogmatism. This book is situated within a larger project of expanding the history of philosophy. Just as the history of Western philosophy ought to inform contemporary philosophy, so should expanding the history of philosophy to include classical India illuminate understandings of philosophy today: its value, limits, and what it can do for us in the 21st century.

DKK 950.00
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