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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Abomination of Desolation: Introducing Evil and Myth -- Part I: Evil Is Abroad -- 1 Defilement -- 2 Evil People -- 3 Space Invaders -- 4 The Way Things Are -- 5 Couldn't It Have Happened Differently? -- 6 Trickster's Gameplan -- 7 Traumatic Initiations -- 8 The Hero's Dragon -- 9 Evil under Analysis -- Part II: The Road Back: Curing Evil -- 10 Laughter and Wisdom -- 11 Through Death to Life -- 12 The Hero Victorious -- 13 The Meaning of War -- 14 The End of Days -- 15 Summing Up -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

With an emphasis on data, theory and policy, the third edition of this introductory-level text book tackles each issue by exploring three key questions in each chapter: What does the data tell us about what has been happening to the American economy? What are the economic theories needed to understand what has been happening?.

If there was any question before, there is no longer a question today: inequality, discrimination, poverty, and mobility are prominent national issues. The notion of "The American Dream" has been sold to generations of young Americans as the idea that working hard and following your dreams will allow you to break through any barriers in your path and inevitably lead to success. However, recent findings on inequality, discrimination, poverty, and mobility show that "The American Reality" is very different. The third edition of this introductory-level text has been completely revised to bring students up to date with current economic thinking on these issues. With an emphasis on data, theory, and policy, this book tackles each issue by exploring three key questions in each chapter: What does the data tell us about what has been happening to the American economy? What are the economic theories needed to understand what has been happening? What are the policy ideas and controversies associated with these economic problems? Key controversies are highlighted in each chapter to drive classroom discussion, and end-of-chapter questions develop student understanding. The book will also be accompanied by digital supplements in the form of PowerPoint slides for each chapter. This clearly written text is ideally suited to a wide variety of courses on contemporary economic conditions, inequality, and social economics in the United States.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Twilight of Myth -- 2. The Early History of "God": An Archaeology of the Sacred -- 3. The House of God: Founding Sacred Space -- 4. The Discovery of the Self in Israelite Literature -- 5. Alienation and the Tragic Adventure of Biblical History -- 6. From Autochthon to Alien: Territoriality in the Bible -- 7. Conclusion: The Dawn of Apocalypticism -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

The fundamental problem -- What we know and don't know about climate change -- The role of uncertainty in climate policy -- Climate policy and climate change : what can we expect? -- What to do : reducing net emissions -- What to do : adaptation.

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance. Robert S. Kinsman's introduction examines Renaissance uses of ratio, ""fancy"" and ""folly,"" melancholy, anxietas, and alienation. Lynn White Jr. presents the essential thesis o

Introduction : an ongoing pursuit -- Take refuge in how : an abolitionist approach to communally consciousness in teaching, learning, and care -- A tree with roots : probing history to situate an abolitionist approach to crisis / co-authored with Willie Dwayne Francois, III -- Survival is not an academic skill : radically humanizing trauma as a means of power in navigating crisis -- Knowing people and place : strategic planning for increasing communal-consciousness -- The danger of acting : making decisions as acts of resistance at the risk of resentment -- Just say the thing : communicating clearly, directly, and humanely -- Asking a lot of all : reimagining accountability for the sake of the community -- Conclusion : a new way, a new world, a new song.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part 1: Kantian Affinities -- 1 Rawls's Kantianism -- Part 2: Reconstructing Rawls -- 2 The Kantian Conception of the Person -- 3 The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty -- 4 The Priority of Civil Liberty -- 5 The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity -- 6 The Difference Principle -- Part 3: Kantian Foundations -- 7 Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person -- 8 The Poverty of Political Liberalism -- Conclusion -- References -- Index