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Pleasure and Change - The Aesthetics of Canon - Bok av Sir Frank (Professor Kermode - Häftad

The issue of the canon has been debated in academic circles for many years. This title contains two lectures on this important subject - delivered as the Tanner lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001 - by the literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. It reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two central notions: pleasure and change.

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things - Bok av Elizabeth R. (Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies DeSombre - Häftad

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. Why do we behave in ways that cause environmental harm?It is often easy and inexpensive to behave in ways with bad environmental consequences, but more difficult and costly..

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'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part - Love and Marriage in African America - Bok av Frances Smith (Charles Howard Chandler Professor in English and Wome

'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part is the first scholarly treatment of love, courtship, sexual morality and marriage in African America from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Most people believe that marriages were forbidden and families destroyed during the era of slavery in the United States; however, this book demonstrates that antebellum publications by African Americans for African Americans about themselves do not support these conclusions. Based upon extensive research in early African..

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Do Morals Matter? - Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump - Bok av Joseph S. Nye - Häftad

A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents haveΓÇöand have notΓÇöincorporated ethics into their foreign policy.Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s presidency onward. Nye works through each presidency..

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Do Morals Matter? - Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump - Bok av Joseph S. Nye - Inbunden

What is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the..

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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning? - Bok av Steven (Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus Cassedy - Inbunden

In What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning?, Steven Cassedy tells the story of \meaning.\ The word began by denoting \signifying\ and \intending,\ but came to acquire a broad array of sub-definitions. The book begins with the early Christian thinkers who believed meaning could be \read\ from the world as if it were holy scripture, then moves into the philosophers who adapted this notion and eventually theromantic-era Germans that coined \the meaning of life,\ a phrase that later traveled..

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Iracema - Bok av Jose de Alencar - Häftad

This poem is based on one of the best known literary pieces in the Brazilian canon. It tells the tale of doomed love between a soldier and an Indian maiden.

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What's Luck Got to Do with It? - How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream - Bok av Edward D. (Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law Klein

In What's Luck Got To Do With It? renowned law professor Edward D. Kleinbard argues that government's proper role is addressing the unfairness and injustice of brute luck. Considering government expenditure as social insurance, Kleinbard demonstrates how the path to greater economic growth, and a more equal sharing of that growth, lies in stronger government spending policies.

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What Should We Do? - Bok av Peter (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs Levine - Inbunden

In What Should We Do?, Peter Levine explores how to organize individuals to act in concert, how to talk and think well about contentious matters, and how to address exclusion. In the broadest available theory of civic engagement and civic life, he analyzes the work of major thinkers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jürgen Habermas, and Elinor Ostrom. He also provides many practical examples of successful civic action and principles that are useful for real-world civic action.

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Redeeming the Kamasutra - Bok av Wendy (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School Doniger - Inb

In Redeeming the Kamasutra, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature.

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Euripides: Bakkhai - Bok av Euripides - Häftad

Euripides' \Bakkhai\ is the staple of the canon of Greek tragedy, as its structure and thematics offer exemplary models of the classic tragic elements. The plot centres around the actions of Pentheus, King of Thebes, who refused to recognize the god Dionysus or permit Thebans to worship him.

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Moral Machines - Teaching Robots Right from Wrong - Bok av Wendell Wallach - Häftad

Moral Machines explores the development of computers and robots capable of making moral decisions. Why do we need them? Do we want computers and robots making moral decisions? And if we do, how can we make ethics computable? The challenge of building moral machines forces one to think deeply about how humans make moral decisions.

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Birdsong - A Natural History - Bok av Don (Professor of English Stap - Häftad

Following one of the world's experts on birdsong around the world, Don Stap brings to life the quest to unravel an ancient mystery: Why do birds sing and what to do their songs mean?

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Beckett at 100 - Revolving it All - Bok - Häftad

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett, this book, containing twenty-three essays by leading international Beckett scholars, rethinks traditional critical assumptions, readings, and theories concerning the Beckett canon, provides new contexts and associations, and reassesses his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations.

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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) - An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Recons

Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works.

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Was Huck Black? - Mark Twain and African-American Voices - Bok av Shelley Fisher (Professor of American Studies Fishkin - Häftad

An examination of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suggesting that more than any other work, Twain let African-American voices, languages, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. Adds new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism, and the literary canon, showing how it has helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century.

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Creationism USA - Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution - Bok av Adam (Professor of Education and History Laats - Inbunden

Who are America''s creationists? What do they want? Do they truly believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs, as sometimes depicted? Creationism USA reveals how common misconceptions about creationism have led Americans into a century of unnecessary culture-war histrionics about evolution education and creationism. Adam Laats argues that Americans do not have deep, fundamental disagreements about evolution - not about the actual science behind it and not in waysthat truly matter to public policy. Laats..

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Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science - The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society - Bok av Mark (Distinguished University Professo

What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In this volume, Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions.

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Life Itself - Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell - Bok av Boyce Rensberger - Häftad

This text explores cell research with some of the investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Topics in late 1990s biomedical research are covered here, such as: how do cells and their minute components move?; how do the body's cells heal wounds?; and what is cancer?

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Why Nations Rise - Narratives and the Path to Great Power - Bok av Manjari Chatterjee (Associate Professor of International Relations Miller - Häftad

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller answers these questions and shows that some countries rise not just because they develop the military and economic power to do so but because they develop particular narratives about how to become a great power in the style of the great power du jour. These active rising powers accept theprevalent norms of the international order..

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The Business of America is Lobbying - How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate - Bok av Lee (Senior Fellow Drutman - Häf

The Business of America is Lobbying provides a fascinating and detailed picture of what corporations do in Washington, why they do it, and why it matters. Lively and engaging, rigorous and nuanced, The Business of America is Lobbying will change how we think about lobbying - and how we might reform it.

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Lawyers as Leaders - Bok av Deborah L. (Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law Rhode - Häftad

Why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so untrustworthy and unprepared? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answers these questions but crafts an essential manual for attorneys who need to develop better leadership skills.

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TikTok Broadway - Bok av Trevor (Content Creator & Social Media Manager Boffone - Inbunden

TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age explores how TikTok has revolutionized musical theatre fandom and democratized musical theatre fan cultures and spaces. The book argues that TikTok has created a new canon of musical theatre thanks to the way virality works on the app, expanding musical theatre into a purely digital realm that spills into other, non-digital aspects of U.S. popular culture.

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Hold On - The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting - Bok av Peter (Professor of Classics Toohey - Inbunden

What do you do when you're not asleep and not eating? You're most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to describe how many people experience waiting and how important this is, in popular and highbrow culture and in real life and how we cope with it.