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The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is
the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts
available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin
Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 75 Charts. Now
improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company
Data since 1952, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most
comprehensive, easy to read and accessible music chart data and
information. It's all here -- expanded artist biographies, side
notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions,
number of weeks on chart and weeks at number one. Also includes EP
charts. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and
reference, for any music lover.
At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed
entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance
of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The
Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston
Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented
as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's
Steppenwolf and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Beidler's coverage
also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual
and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's Last
Whole Earth Catalog, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,
Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and
others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and
prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his
conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document
and interpret the era.
Fragen der Gerechtigkeit und des Sozialstaats. Die Frage nach der
sozialen Gerechtigkeit ist eine der Herausforderungen der
gegenwartigen politischen Philosophie. Der Band stellt die
unterschiedlichen Theorien und Grundlagen der sozialen
Gerechtigkeit vor, verfolgt die aktuelle Diskussion der
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit bis hin zu Fragen nach Burgereinkommen,
Burgerarbeit etc. und entwirft schliesslich eine eigene Theorie
politischer Solidaritat.
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