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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Challenges to Self -- PART I: New Patterns of Social Experience -- 1. Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism -- 2. Émile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection -- 3. Max Weber: Rationalization's Iron Grip -- 4. Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition -- 5. Erich Kahler: Split from without - and within -- 6. Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community -- 7. Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World -- 8. Daniel Bell: Capitalism's Contradictions -- 9. Hannah Arendt: Politics as Possibility -- PART II: Culture Transformed -- 10. Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit -- 11. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment -- 12. David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society -- 13. Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations -- 14. Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine -- 15. Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter -- 16. Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom -- 17. Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism -- 18. Juliet Schor: The Work and Spend Cycle -- PART III: Forms of Inequality -- 19. C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses -- 20. Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control -- 21. Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other -- 22. W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness -- 23. Frantz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism -- 24. Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender -- 25. Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain -- 26. Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age -- 27. William Julius Wilson: Dilemmas of the Truly Disadvantaged -- PART IV: Modern Selves -- 28. Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts -- 29. Erich Fromm: Society against Self -- 30. Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society.

The complex security dynamics of the pivotal Asia Pacific region, involving disparate and contentious power blocs, clearly have implications far beyond the region itself. Thomas Wilkins sheds new light on those dynamics, providing a rich framework for better understanding the nature of security alignments in Asia Pacific, as well as a reexamination of the dominant forces at play: the US alliance system, ASEAN, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

"Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history's most studied figures."--Dust jacket

American media is the subject of constant critique. The seeming exaltation of violence, sex, and illicit themes creates virulent opponents of the media and its content. But could it be that the American experiment--even the quest to fulfill the American Dream--actually encourages media to act in a way that deserves these critiques?Probing deep into the canon of all things screen, Thomas Hibbs uncovers the disturbing truths about the contemporary media landscape. Beneath the shallow facade of evil lies the Nietzschean framework of nihilism--a nothingness that undermines notions of right and wrong while destroying any sense of meaning or purpose. Yet what makes this nihilism even more profound is Nietzsche's warning that liberal democracies are especially susceptible to such nothingness. In his examples, Hibbs shows how the popular story lines and characters of our time often rule out any possibility of making a "right" decision. Ultimately, Shows about Nothing toes the line between something and nothing to suggest how popular culture can move beyond nihilism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Warm Up: The Tunnel Vision of the Doping Debate -- 1 Doping and Health -- 2 Doping and the Spirit of Sport -- 3 Doping and Role Models -- 4 Doping and Coercion -- 5 Doping and the Wish for Prohibition -- 6 Doping and Fair Competition -- 7 Doping and Onwards: Bottom of the Ninth -- References -- Index

Biogeochemistry of Estuaries offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary biogeochemical cycling in estuaries. Designed as a text for intermediate to advanced students, this book utilises numerous illustrations and an extensive literature base to impart the current state-of-the-art knowledge in the field.

The rise of evangelicals -- Evangelicals ascendant and the coming of the Civil War -- The "fundamentalists" and evangelical controversy -- The neo-evangelical movement and Billy Graham -- Two-track evangelicals and the new Christian Right -- Evangelicalism from Reagan to Obama -- Donald Trump and the crisis of evangelicalism.

A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today. Evangelicalism is arguably America's most controversial religious movement. Non-evangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what "evangelical" means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white Republicans. Many may recall that 81 percent of self-described white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, and they may well wonder at the seeming hypocrisy of doing so. In this illuminating book, Thomas Kidd draws on his expertise in American religious history to retrace the arc of this spiritual movement, illustrating just how historically peculiar that political and ethnic definition (white Republican) of evangelicals is. He examines distortions in the public understanding of evangelicals, and shows how a group of "Republican insider evangelicals" aided the politicization of the movement. This book will be a must read for those trying to better understand the shifting religious and political landscape of America today

Thomas S. Konrad analyzes the management control design and reveals critical success factors of strategically oriented public-private partnerships for development between international governmental actors and the private sector. He builds a sound basis for the identification of a research gap and the derivation of research questions. The results generate sufficient evidence to answer these questions and therefore to close the identified research gap. Finally, he excelled in the discussion of the results by making a contribution of theory and by providing substantive recommendations to practitioners equally well. Contents Basics of Management Control in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) Control Archetypes and Typologies Actor-Centered Institutionalism Transaction Cost Economics Basic Characteristics of PPPs for Development Partnership Setting Target Groups Researchers and students in the field of economic science with focus on controlling Practitioners in this area The Author Dr. Thomas S. Konrad wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoffjan at TU Dortmund University.--