With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one of the biggest political issues of our time: from the Wall Street bail-outs - where bankers still received huge bonuses while thousands of people lost their homes - to the rise of 'the One Percent', who between them control 40 per cent of US wealth. So where are the Democrats - the notional party of the people - in all this? In his scathing examination of how the Democratic Party has failed to combat financial inequality, despite being given near perfect conditions for success, Thomas Frank argues that the Left in America has abandoned its roots to pursue a new class of supporter: elite professionals. Under this 'meritocratic' system, the educated middle class prosper, but ordinary workers continue to suffer. Unless the Democrats remember their historic purpose and win back the working class, Frank warns, the rift between America's rich and poor will deepen further still, with dire consequences for both sides.

Dieses erfolgreiche Praktikumsbuch bewahrt sich seit vielen Jahren bei Studierenden der Physik sowie anderer naturwissenschaftlicher Studiengange und des Lehramts, die ein physikalisches Grundpraktikum absolvieren. Vielfach genutzt wird es auch von Studierenden der Ingenieurwissenschaften an Technischen Universitaten und Fachhochschulen.
In der vorliegenden 14. Auflage wurden Anderungen bzw. Erganzungen im Text und in einigen Abbildungen vorgenommen, die zur Verbesserung der Darstellung einiger Inhalte beitragen sollen. Die bisherigen Onlinematerialien zum Buch wurden durch zusatzliche Erganzungen zu ausgewahlten Themen (z.B. Simulationsprogramm zum nichtlinearen Drehpendel nach "Pohl," Fourier-Transformation und -Analyse, Ermittlung der Unsicherheit bei Messungen, Begrundungen von Gleichungen) erweitert.
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Everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Donald Trump. Brexit. European right-wing extremists. All have been accused of populism. But what does this often thrown about, yet generally misunderstood, term actually mean? The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; the story of democracy itself, of its promise of a decent life for us all. Here, acclaimed political commentator Thomas Frank takes us from the emergence of the radical left-wing US Populist Party in the 1890s, through the triumphs of reformers under Roosevelt and Truman, to the present day, reminding us how much we owe to the populist ethos. He pummels the elites, revisits the movement's provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. People Without Power is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution.

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of interlocking essays perfect for this political moment.

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times–bestselling author Thomas Frank takes us on a tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration.

Holding nothing back, Frank skewers both the right and left, and rages about the systematic inequality that led, in 2016, to millions of anxious, ordinary people rallying to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.

For those who despair of the future of America and of reason itself, Rendezvous with Oblivion is a booster shot of energy, reality, and moral outrage.

An evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated irrepressible youth and promoted defiance and revolt. In the 1950s, Madison Avenue deluged the country with images of junior executives, happy housewives and idealized families in tail-finned American cars. But the author of this study seeks to show how, during the "creative revolution" of the 60s, the ad industry turned savagely on the very icons it had created, using brands as signifiers of rule-breaking, defiance, difference and revolt. Even the menswear industry, formerly makers of staid, unchanging garments, ridiculed its own traditions as remnants of intolerable conformity, and discovered youth insurgency as an ideal symbol for its colourful new fashions. Thus emerged the strategy of co-opting dissident style which is so commonplace in modern hip, commercial culture. This text aims to add detail to a period in the 60s which has hitherto remained unresearched.

With a New Afterword by the Author
"The New York Times" bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins)
Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" ("Chicago Tribune"), "very funny and very painful" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), and "in a different league from most political books" ("The New York Observer"), "What's the Matter with Kansas?" unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas-a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most eager participants in the culture wars. Charting what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"-the popular revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment-Frank reveals how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.
A brilliant analysis-and funny to boot-"What's the Matter with Kansas?" is a vivid portrait of an upside-down world where blue-collar patriots recite the Pledge while they strangle their life chances; where small farmers cast their votes for a Wall Street order that will eventually push them off their land; and where a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs has managed to convince the country that it speaks on behalf of the People.

The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated text in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas and Frank Macchia make the brilliant but challenging text of Revelation more accessible and easier to understand on its own terms, rather than as a futuristic prophecy. In addition to their literary, exegetical, and theological analysis of the text, Thomas and Macchia offer sustained theological essays on the book's most significant themes and issues, accenting especially the underappreciated place of the Holy Spirit in the theology of the book. Uniquely, Thomas and Macchia work to locate and help readers better understand the original audiences to whom Revelation was written by examining Revelation's storyline and its connection to the broader Johannine community.

Three case studies trace the history of urban fraternities in the church state of the 14th and 15th centuries. The central example is Viterbo, a commune on the Via Francigena to the north of Rome, where, after an enthusiastic start, the development of flagellant and other fraternities displayed a more subdued development in the subsequent course of events. The comparison with Orvieto and Assisi, where economic and political conditions were similar but the ecclesiastical background was very different, indicates that the structure of local churches is the main factor determining the history of late medieval fraternities.

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre gewinnen integrative raumorientierte Verfahren der Quartiersentwicklung - beispielsweise im Rahmen des Programms Soziale Stadt - an Bedeutung. Dabei wird jedoch der im Zentrum stehende Raumbezug uber eine territoriale Abgrenzung kommunaler raumlicher Zustandigkeitsbereiche hinaus kaum weiter qualifiziert. Vielmehr erscheint "Raum" als die einzige "gegebene" Variable. Thomas Franke geht in seiner qualitativen Untersuchung der Frage nach, mit welchen raumrelevanten Zielen aus welcher Akteursperspektive der neue Entwicklungsansatz verfolgt wird. Er analysiert, wie die beteiligten Akteure den ihm zugrunde liegenden Raumbezug zwischen "Programmgebiet" und "Alltagsraum" definieren und welche Arbeitserfahrungen damit gemacht werden. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse und sein Modell des "Doppelten Gebietsbezugs" tragen zu einer anwendungsbezogenen Qualifizierung des Umgangs mit "Raum" in der Quartiersentwicklung bei.

Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous. Consumerism, greed, and the insatiable desire for more are American obsessions. In the native tradition of Twain, Veblen, and Mencken, the editor of Lapham's Quarterly here examines our fascination with the ubiquitous green goddess. Focusing on the wealthy sybarites of New York City, whom Lewis H. Lapham has been able to observe firsthand in their natural habitat, Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who, in the thirty years since the book was originally written, have become only further removed-both in terms of wealth and social awareness-from everyone else.