The Slammer: A Critique of Prison Overpopulation, a menacing flaw in American culture, Paperback - Robert Allyn Goldman

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Henry Maurice Goldman grew up in a blue collar section of Boston, but he rose through Ivy League institutions to become one of the world's greatest...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Craig (St Thomas Aquinas College, USA) MartinNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Reducere. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011To be fat hasn't always occasioned the level of hysteria that this...

DescriptionNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 Winner of the Helen Bernstein Bo...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

Publisher: Pitchstone PublishingAuthor(s): Robert M. PriceNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 17Cover type: Paperback...

Facing an uncertain future and an unstable present, our most urgent task today involves a ruthless critique of all that exists.Publisher: John Hunt...

Life in America. An introduction to the study of contemporary american culture. Editia a 2-a - Ovidiu Leonte

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Gil AnidjarNumber of pages: 464Collection: Religion, Culture, and Public LifePublication date: 2016D...

Paving The Third Way. A Critique of Parliamentary Socialism. A Socialist Register Anthology - David Coates

Navigating Japan's Business Culture: A Practical Guide to Succeeding in the Japanese Market delivers clear, specific information to help executives...

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time, " wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increas...

Reducere. Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Lisa Endlich draws on an insider's knowledge to bring to life this unique company and the most stunning accompl...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of private pr...

Reducere. Collected in this 3-in-one omnibus edition are Kant's ground breaking critiques. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, and...

Reducere. The conclusion of this professor-historian (emeritus) is that our gun culture had its uses in establishing American civilization, as slavery did. B...

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania. In this, his final book, Rob...

Reducere. In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning S...

Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collab...

Reducere. Wind and solar energy have negative economic value. An objective analysis of the economics involved show that wind and solar are heavily subsidized...

In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Robert Kagan explained why America is much more adversarial--likely to rely on legal threats and ...

Reducere. Description"Redemption Songs" takes the reader inside the walls of a medium-security prison and offers a glimpse at how music and the arts are offe...

Contributor(s): Author: Adriana CavareroTranslator: Adam SitzeTranslator: Amanda MinerviniIn this new and accessible book, Italy's best known femin...

"First published in French as Enrichissement, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2017"--Verso.

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Herbert MarcuseNumber of pages: 108Publication date: 1979Dimensions: 221 x 140 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. English edition.Das Kapital (Capital) is a truly revolutionary book; it was forged during the political and industrial revolutions of the nineteent...

This book presents more than half a century of Gustavo Esteva's "reflection in action" in the form of essays, books, and interventions in national ...

Reducere. The aesthetic known as the Bakersfield Sound transformed country music, its hard edge a stark contrast to Nashville's stringed orchestras. It turne...

Reducere. DescriptionMost people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a proc...

Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Paperback

Did Christ assume a fallen human nature? "What is not assumed is not healed." So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus re...

Reducere. This volume (1867) is a critical analysis of the political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it...

Reducere. Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the central fig...

Reducere. For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political v...

Description 50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in hi...