Deadly Contradictions: The New American Empire and Global Warring, Stephen P. Reyna

Автор: Jim Neilson
Название: Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative
ISBN: 1617038423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617038426
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Although the Vietnam conflict ended two decades ago, a fierce cultural war over how its literature is to be perceived continues to be waged. Warring Fictions charges American critics with twenty years of white-wash and reminds us that Vietnam was not just an American anguish and its fiction a rock-and-roll acid trip.

Автор: Kwok-Bun Chan
Название: Cultural Hybridity: Contradictions and Dilemmas
ISBN: 1138110183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138110182
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this volume argue that, rather than assume clashes of civilizations, assimilation, conversion and essentialism to be the expected outcomes of cultural encounters, we should focus our analytical attention on processes rather than outcomes; on emergence, dialectics, contradictions, ironies and paradoxes, and complexity. We should focus on attempting to learn and grow, to synthesize and integrate, to create and innovate, to change and transform, at personal, micro, macro and global levels. Or, in one word: hybridity. Contexts of cultural encounters analyzed in this book range from business organizations, through individual travels, to personal philosophies, and from mechanical models to complex systems as social imaginaries. This book is based on a special issue of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.

Автор: Mignon Duffy
Название: Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work
ISBN: 0813563119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813563114
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Описание: A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide critical support to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Caring on the Clock provides a wealth of insight into these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. Caring on the Clock is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research on a wide range of paid care occupations, and to place the various fields within a comprehensive and comparative framework across occupational boundaries. The book includes twenty-two original essays by leading researchers across a range of disciplines-including sociology, psychology, social work, and public health. They examine the history of the paid care sector in America, reveal why paid-care work can be both personally fulfilling but also make workers vulnerable to burnout, emotional fatigue, physical injuries, and wage exploitation. Finally, the editors outline many innovative ideas for reform, including top-down and grassroots efforts to improve recognition, remuneration, and mobility for care workers. As America faces a series of challenges to providing care for its citizens, including the many aging baby boomers, this volume offers a wealth of information and insight for policymakers, scholars, advocates, and the general public.

Автор: Zimring
Название: Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
ISBN: 0195178203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195178203
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved?
In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our
country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation's highest legal principles of fairness and due process. It sets us increasingly apart from our allies and indeed is regarded by European nations as a barbaric and particularly egregious form of American exceptionalism. On the
other hand, the death penalty represents a deeply held American belief in violent social justice that sees the hangman as an agent of local control and safeguard of community values. Zimring uncovers the most troubling symptom of this attraction to vigilante justice in the lynch mob. He shows that
the great majority of executions in recent decades have occurred in precisely those Southern states where lynchings were most common a hundred years ago. It is this legacy, Zimring suggests, that constitutes both the distinctive appeal of the death penalty in the United States and one of the most
compelling reasons for abolishing it.
Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Contradictions in American Capital Punishment casts a clear new light on America's long and troubled embrace of the death penalty.

Автор: Lott Eric
Название: Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism
ISBN: 0674967712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674967717
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Blackness is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, it invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while remaining "wholly" white. From sports to literature, film, and music to investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other racial mirroring.

Автор: Steven D. Walt, William D. Warren
Название: Walt and Warren`s Secured Transactions in Personal Property - CasebookPlus
ISBN: 1684670918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684670918
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This law school casebook provides a detailed examination of secured transactions in both the commercial and consumer context. New problems and notes are integrated with cases to allow convenient treatment of statutory innovations. It retains the mix of problems and cases present in previous editions. Forms are included.

Автор: Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute
Название: Warring for America: Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
ISBN: 1469631512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469631516
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Описание: The War of 1812 increased interest in the American democratic project and elicited calls for national unity, yet the essays collected in this volume suggest that the United States did not emerge from war in 1815 having resolved the Revolution`s fundamental challenges or achieved a stable national identity. The cultural rifts of the early republican period remained vast and unbridged.

Автор: Warren, Aiden (rmit, Australia)
Название: Obama administration`s nuclear weapon strategy
ISBN: 1138490091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138490093
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book will comprehensively outline and evaluate the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008-2012.

Автор: Watt Robert
Название: Apache Warrior 1860–86
ISBN: 1472803523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472803528
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Focusing on the Chiricahua Apache, led by such famous warriors as Cochise Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, Nana and Geronimo, this book explains how their upbringing, training and culture equipped them uniquely for survival in the harsh environment of New Mexico and Arizona, and enabled them to fight off their Mexican and American enemies for so long.