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Poise and Pose (Hardcover)
Stephen Glass; Illustrated by Colin Gordon; Yahya El-Droubie
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R647
Discovery Miles 6 470
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Major changes which have occurred since this book was first
published have been included in this edition. In particular, the
chapter on Germany has been substantially revised and now includes
a separate section on easter Germany. The other five countries
covered in the book have also witnessed changes in their business
culture and these have been taken into consideration. This book
examines the background to business practice in Europe of six major
countries: Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Spain and the
Netherlands. Each chapter tracks the commercial development of that
country in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the
business environment, special features affecting business, and the
response to the EC's single market. The business culture section in
each is divided further into business and government, business and
the economy, business and the law, business and finance, business
and the labour market, business and trade unions and business
training, education and development. The test is organized in such
a manner to enable cross-referencing between countries, and maps
have been included in the new edition.
The 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited
nationwide protests and brought widespread attention to tragically
relevant issues like police brutality and institutional racism. But
Ferguson is not alone. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and
timely book, the events in Ferguson exposed not only the deep
racism of the local police department, but the ways in which
decades of public policy effectively segregated and curtailed
citizenship across the St. Louis suburbs... Citizen Brown uncovers
half a century of private practices and public policies that
resulted in bitter inequality and sustained segregation in Ferguson
and beyond. Gordon shows how municipal and school district
boundaries were pointedly drawn to contain or exclude African
Americans, how local policies and services--especially policing,
education, and urban renewal--were weaponized to maintain civic
separation. He also makes clear that the outcry that arose in
Ferguson was no impulsive outburst, but an explosion of pent-up
rage against longstanding local systems of segregation and
inequality--of which a police force which viewed citizens not as
subjects to serve and protect, but as sources of revenue, was just
the most immediate example. Worse, Citizen Brown illustrates the
fact that, though the greater St. Louis area provides some
extraordinarily clear examples of fraught racial dynamics, it is
hardly alone among American cities and regions.
Major changes which have occurred since this book was first
published have been included in this edition. In particular, the
chapter on Germany has been substantially revised and now includes
a separate section on easter Germany. The other five countries
covered in the book have also witnessed changes in their business
culture and these have been taken into consideration. This book
examines the background to business practice in Europe of six major
countries: Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Spain and the
Netherlands. Each chapter tracks the commercial development of that
country in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the
business environment, special features affecting business, and the
response to the EC's single market. The business culture section in
each is divided further into business and government, business and
the economy, business and the law, business and finance, business
and the labour market, business and trade unions and business
training, education and development. The test is organized in such
a manner to enable cross-referencing between countries, and maps
have been included in the new edition.
This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in
thirty years. Employing archival research and insights from
history, political sociology, and economics, the author reassesses
the origins and premises of the industrial, labour, and welfare
policies of the 1920s and 1930s. Gordon argues that the labour and
welfare law of the latter New Deal - indeed the origins of the
modern welfare state - grew from a piecemeal private response to
the competitive instability of the 1920s. This study is both an
economic history of the interwar era, and an examination of the
relationship between political and economic power in the United
States.
This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years. The author reassesses the origins and premises of the industrial, labor, and welfare policies of the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that the labor and welfare law of the latter New Deal--indeed the origins of the modern welfare state--grew from a piecemeal private response to the competitive instability of the 1920s. This study is both an economic history of the interwar era, and an examination of the relationship between political and economic power in the United States.
The Philosophical Imaginary teaches us how to read philosophy
afresh. Focusing on central, but often undiscussed, images, Le
Doeuff's patient, perspicacious, and always brilliant readings show
us how to uncover the political unconscious at work in great
philosophy. Le Doeuff's contribution to philosophy and feminism is
unequalled. This book is a classic.
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited
nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police
brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration.
As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the events in
Ferguson exposed not only the deep racism of the local police
department but also the ways in which decades of public policy
effectively segregated people and curtailed citizenship not just in
Ferguson but across the St. Louis suburbs. Citizen Brown uncovers
half a century of private practices and public policies that
resulted in bitter inequality and sustained segregation in Ferguson
and beyond. Gordon shows how municipal and school district
boundaries were pointedly drawn to contain or exclude African
Americans and how local policies and services-especially policing,
education, and urban renewal-were weaponized to maintain civic
separation. He also makes it clear that the outcry that arose in
Ferguson was no impulsive outburst but rather an explosion of
pent-up rage against long-standing systems of segregation and
inequality-of which a police force that viewed citizens not as
subjects to serve and protect but as sources of revenue was only
the most immediate example. Worse, Citizen Brown illustrates the
fact that though the greater St. Louis area provides some
extraordinarily clear examples of fraught racial dynamics, in this
it is hardly alone among American cities and regions. Interactive
maps and other companion resources to Citizen Brown are available
at the book website.
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Helter Skelter (DVD)
Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Peter Hammond, Richard Hearne, …
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R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
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British comedy from the late 1940s starring David Tomlinson and
Carol Marsh. The film follows wealthy socialite Susan Graham
(Marsh) as she enlists the help of various zany characters in her
eternal quest to cure herself of a never-ending bout of the
hiccups.
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States
not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed
this question, "Dead on Arrival" is the first to do so based on
original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth
century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business,
and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven
story of political failure and private response. He examines, in
turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely
American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and
gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation
between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.
"Dead on Arrival" stands alone in accounting for the failure of
national or universal health policy from the early twentieth
century to the present. As importantly, it also suggests how
various interests (doctors, hospitals, patients, workers,
employers, labor unions, medical reformers, and political parties)
confronted the question of health care--as a private
responsibility, as a job-based benefit, as a political obligation,
and as a fundamental right.
Using health care as a window onto the logic of American
politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and
informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued,
"Dead on Arrival" is thus not only a compelling history of the
health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country's
political economy and political culture through "the American
century," of the role of private interests and private benefits in
the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the
American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its
citizens.
This collection of primary source documents and essays provides
in-depth coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and
intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era. In keeping with the
proven strengths of the Major Problems series, the compelling
documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied
by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested
readings.
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.
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Naked in the Menagerie (Hardcover)
Yahya El-Droubie; Illustrated by Colin Gordon; Photographs by Stephen Glass
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R841
R647
Discovery Miles 6 470
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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St.
Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses,
boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City
is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized,
and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a
typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like
a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and
dramatic form.""Mapping Decline" examines the causes and
consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity
of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and
federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth
from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy--and often
sheer folly--of a generation of urban renewal, in which even
programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city
ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as
this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of
economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound
political failure of our recent history."Mapping Decline" is the
first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local
archival research with the latest geographic information system
(GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color
maps--rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and
local planning and property records--illustrate, in often stark and
dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our
neglected cities.
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