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A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of
contemporary life Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our
behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in
mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people
and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary?
Why do we care so much about how others see us that we may even do
irrational and harmful things to try to influence their opinion? In
this engaging book, Gloria Origgi draws on philosophy, social
psychology, sociology, economics, literature, and history to offer
an illuminating account of an important yet oddly neglected
subject. Origgi examines the influence of the Internet and social
media, as well as the countless ranking systems that characterize
modern society and contribute to the creation of formal and
informal reputations in our social relations, in business, in
politics, in academia, and even in wine. She highlights the
importance of reputation to the effective functioning of the
economy and e-commerce. Origgi also discusses the existential
significance of our obsession with reputation, concluding that an
awareness of the relationship between our reputation and our
actions empowers us to better understand who we are and why we do
what we do. Compellingly written and filled with surprising
insights, Reputation pins down an elusive subject that affects
everyone.
The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative
reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social,
political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon. Although
illiberalism is most often discussed in political and
constitutional terms, its study cannot be limited to such narrow
frames. This Handbook comprises sixty individual chapters authored
by an internationally recognized group of experts who present
perspectives and viewpoints from a wide range of academic
disciplines. Chapters are devoted to different facets of
illiberalism, including the history of the idea and its
competitors, its implications for the economy, society, government
and the international order, and its contemporary iterations in
representative countries and regions. The Routledge Handbook of
IIliberalism will form an important component of any library's
holding; it will be of benefit as an academic reference, as well as
being an indispensable resource for practitioners, among them
journalists, policy makers and analysts, who wish to gain an
informed understanding of this complex phenomenon.
Designed for young children aged 2-5, these handy little floor
puzzle packs contain a 16-page board book and a giant jigsaw puzzle
perfect for little hands. Children will love singing the nursery
rhyme or listening to/reading the story (in this case a simple
modern adaptation of the classic story of Christmas), and they'll
have loads of fun doing the extra-large jigsaw. The text promotes
literacy and the puzzle helps with the development of
colour-matching and coordination skills.
A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of
contemporary life Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our
behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in
mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people
and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary?
Why do we care so much about how others see us that we may even do
irrational and harmful things to try to influence their opinion? In
this engaging book, Gloria Origgi draws on philosophy, social
psychology, sociology, economics, literature, and history to offer
an illuminating account of an important yet oddly neglected
subject. Compellingly written and filled with surprising insights,
Reputation pins down an elusive subject that affects us all.
The well-known children's fairy tale charmingly illustrated by
Stephen Holmes. Children will love the innovative new 'Snappers'
format where the jaws open to reveal the board book pages within.
In this case the jaws represent the bear whose porridge Goldilocks
eats, whose chair she sits on and whose bed she sleeps in.
How the book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas
of statecraft The book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one
of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's
anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author
was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the
moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power
inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics mines the story of
Israel's first two kings to unearth a natural history of power,
providing a forceful new reading of what is arguably the first and
greatest work of Western political thought. Through stories such as
Saul's madness, David's murder of Uriah, the rape of Tamar, and the
rebellion of Absalom, the author of Samuel deepens our
understanding not only of the necessity of sovereign rule but also
of its costs-to the people it is intended to protect and to those
who wield it. Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes show how these
beautifully crafted narratives cut to the core of politics,
offering a timely meditation on the dark side of sovereign power
and the enduring dilemmas of statecraft.
New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless
meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is
universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of
biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than
an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute
observer of political life and the moral compromises and
contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The
Beginning of Politics mines the story of Israel's first two kings
to unearth a natural history of power, providing a forceful new
reading of what is arguably the first and greatest work of Western
political thought. Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes show how the
beautifully crafted narratives of Saul and David cut to the core of
politics, exploring themes that resonate wherever political power
is at stake. Through stories such as Saul's madness, David's murder
of Uriah, the rape of Tamar, and the rebellion of Absalom, the
book's author deepens our understanding not only of the necessity
of sovereign rule but also of its costs--to the people it is
intended to protect and to those who wield it. What emerges from
the meticulous analysis of these narratives includes such themes as
the corrosive grip of power on those who hold and compete for
power; the ways in which political violence unleashed by the
sovereign on his own subjects is rooted in the paranoia of the
isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action
through proxies; and the intensity with which the tragic conflict
between political loyalty and family loyalty explodes when the
ruler's bloodline is made into the guarantor of the all-important
continuity of sovereign power. The Beginning of Politics is a
timely meditation on the dark side of sovereign power and the
enduring dilemmas of statecraft.
*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize* FINANCIAL TIMES,
ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK A
landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the
crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did
the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?
In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal
democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European
countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself,
not only in the East but also back in the heartland of the West. In
this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and
Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to
be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the
history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful
force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern
Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become
Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an
ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from
communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a
strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orban's
Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two
pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light
that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the
extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the
Sheath: A Book of Readings features carefully selected articles
that help students better understand the causes, functions, and
similarities of sacred forms of violence across the spectrum.
Students learn about crimes committed by individuals or groups
against another based on an errant belief that their acts will
bring about a greater good. This information equips readers with
the knowledge they need to identify and understand the classic
signs of group affiliation. The anthology is divided into eight
parts. The first part presents readers with an introduction to the
volume and a discussion of the sacred power of violence in popular
cultural. Parts II through IV focus on cults, sects, and religious
crimes; millennial religions; domestic and international terrorist
religions. Students read articles about Satanism, vampirism and the
Goth movement, and syncretistic religions, Wicca, and neo-paganism.
The final part speaks to new religious movements, including
fiction-based religions and Scientology. Throughout, students are
encouraged to consider how groups grow, flourish, and prosper, as
well as the elements that either render them benign or violent.
Providing students with a unique view into group behavior,
Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the
Sheath is an ideal resource for courses in criminal justice,
criminology, or law enforcement.
All legally enforceable rights cost money. A practical, commonsense
notion? Yes, but one ignored by almost everyone, from libertarian
ideologues to Supreme Court justices to human rights advocates. The
simple insight that rights are expensive reminds us that freedom is
not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it
- and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated.
Laying bare the folly of some of our most cherished myths about
rights, this groundbreaking tract will permanently change the terms
of our most critical and contentious political debates.
Title: The guerrillas of the Osage, or, The price of loyalty on the
border.Author: Stephen HolmesPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04853200CollectionID:
CTRG04-B675PublicationDate: 18640101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "Various firms are shown as 'publishers agents' (for
American tales), but the real publisher was Beadle & Co." Cf.
Bragin, Charles. Dime novels bibliography, 1860-1928. Publisher's
advertising (Beadle & Co.): 2 p., 2nd count. Two columns to the
page.Collation: 45, 2 p.; 25 cm
Forty daily readings from inspirational Christians past and present
on the theme of following Jesus. Reflections from St. Augustine to
Martin Luther King; from Thomas a Kempis to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Jesus calls us to a life of radical discipleship. He invites us to
follow him and learn his ways. This book provides 40 days worth of
daily readings from Christians -- past and present -- who have
walked that path with Jesus. Here you will find insight from: -
Early Christian leaders (e.g., Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine) -
Mystics (e.g. St. Theresa, St. John of the Cross, Thomas a Kempis)
- Monks (e.g. St. Benedict, St. Francis) - Reformation giants (John
Calvin) - Puritans (e.g. John Bunyan), - Evangelicals (e.g.
Wilberforce, Catherine Booth, Spurgeon) - Novelists (Dostoyevsky)
and poets (Herbert) - Liberation theologians (e.g. Gutierez), -
Modern spiritual guides and radicals (Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther
King, Mother Theresa, Henry Nouwen, Brian McLaren)
In this collection of essays on the core values of liberalism,
Stephen Holmes--noted for his scathing reviews of books by
liberalism's opponents--challenges commonly held assumptions about
liberal theory. By placing it into its original historical context,
"Passions and Constraints" presents an interconnected argument
meant to fundamentally change the way we conceive of liberalism.
According to Holmes, three elements of classical liberal theory are
commonly used to attack contemporary liberalism as antagonistic to
genuine democracy and the welfare state: constitutional constraints
on majority rule, the identification of individual freedom with an
absence of government involvement, and a strong emphasis on the
principle of self-interest. Through insightful essays on Hobbes's
analysis of the English Civil War in "Behemoth," Bodin's writings
on the benefits of limited government, and Mill's views on science
and politics, Holmes shows that these basic principles provide, to
the contrary, a necessary foundation for the development of
democratic, regulatory, and redistributionist politics in the
modern era.
Holmes argues that the aspirations of liberal democracy--including
individual liberty, the equal dignity of citizens, and a tolerance
for diversity--are best understood in relation to two central
themes of classical liberal theory: the psychological motivations
of individuals and the necessary constraint on individual passions
provided by institutions. Paradoxically, Holmes argues that such
institutional restraints serve to enable, rather than limit,
effective democracy.
In explorations of subjects ranging from self-interest to
majoritarianism to "gag rules," Holmes shows thatlimited government
can be more powerful than unlimited government--indeed, that
liberalism is one of the most effective philosophies of state
building ever contrived. By restricting the arbitrary powers of
government officials, Holmes states, a liberal constitution can
increase the state's capacity to focus on specific problems and
mobilize collective resources for common purposes.
"Passions and Constraint" is an assessment of what that tradition
has meant and what it can mean today.
Brave New Hungary focuses on the rise of a "brave new" anti-liberal
regime led by Viktor Orban who made a decisive contribution to the
transformation of a poorly managed liberal democracy to a
well-organized authoritarian rule bordering on autocracy during the
past decade. Emerging capitalism in post-1989 Hungary that once
took pride in winning the Eastern European race for catching up
with the West has evolved into a reclusive, statist,
national-populist system reminding the observers of its communist
and pre-communist predecessors. Going beyond the self-description
of the Orban regime that emphasizes its Christian-conservative and
illiberal nature, the authors, leading experts of Hungarian
politics, history, society, and economy, suggest new ways to
comprehend the sharp decline of the rule of law in an EU member
state. Their case studies cover crucial fields of the new
authoritarian power, ranging from its historical roots and
constitutional properties to media and social policies. The volume
presents the Hungarian "System of National Cooperation" as a
pervasive but in many respects improvised and vulnerable experiment
in social engineering, rather than a set of mature and irreversible
institutions. The originality of this dystopian "new world" does
not stem from the transition to authoritarian control per se but
its plurality of meanings. It can be seen as a simulacrum that
shows different images to different viewers and perpetuates itself
by its post-truth variability. Rather than pathologizing the
current Hungarian regime as a result of a unique master plan
designed by a cynical political entrepreneur, the authors show the
transnational dynamic of backsliding - a warning for other
countries that suffer from comparable deadlocks of liberal
democracy.
Brave New Hungary focuses on the rise of a "brave new" anti-liberal
regime led by Viktor Orban who made a decisive contribution to the
transformation of a poorly managed liberal democracy to a
well-organized authoritarian rule bordering on autocracy during the
past decade. Emerging capitalism in post-1989 Hungary that once
took pride in winning the Eastern European race for catching up
with the West has evolved into a reclusive, statist,
national-populist system reminding the observers of its communist
and pre-communist predecessors. Going beyond the self-description
of the Orban regime that emphasizes its Christian-conservative and
illiberal nature, the authors, leading experts of Hungarian
politics, history, society, and economy, suggest new ways to
comprehend the sharp decline of the rule of law in an EU member
state. Their case studies cover crucial fields of the new
authoritarian power, ranging from its historical roots and
constitutional properties to media and social policies. The volume
presents the Hungarian "System of National Cooperation" as a
pervasive but in many respects improvised and vulnerable experiment
in social engineering, rather than a set of mature and irreversible
institutions. The originality of this dystopian "new world" does
not stem from the transition to authoritarian control per se but
its plurality of meanings. It can be seen as a simulacrum that
shows different images to different viewers and perpetuates itself
by its post-truth variability. Rather than pathologizing the
current Hungarian regime as a result of a unique master plan
designed by a cynical political entrepreneur, the authors show the
transnational dynamic of backsliding - a warning for other
countries that suffer from comparable deadlocks of liberal
democracy.
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