Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. His works, of which Origins of Modern Japanese Literature is the only one previously translated into English, are the generic equivalent to what in America is called "theory." Karatani's writings are important not only for the insights they offer on the various topics under discussion, but also as an example of a distinctly non-Western critical intervention.
In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism," but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism.
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Harold James - The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
"Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.
James examines one of the great historical nightmares of the twentieth century: the collapse of globalism in the Great Depression. Analyzing this collapse in terms of three main components of global economics--capital flows, trade, and international migration--James argues that it was not simply a consequence of the strains of World War I but resulted from the interplay of resentments against all these elements of mobility, as well as from the policies and institutions designed to assuage the threats of globalism. Could it happen again? There are significant parallels today: highly integrated systems are inherently vulnerable to collapse, and world financial markets are vulnerable and unstable. While James does not foresee another Great Depression, his book provides a cautionary tale in which institutions meant to save the world from the consequences of globalization--think WTO and IMF, in our own time--ended by destroying both prosperity and peace.
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Garbage and Recycling
“Garbage is gold,” according to one expert quoted in this standout survey of what happens to what we throw away and how those decisions affect the globe. As in other titles in the Hot Topics series, this overview offers a balance of viewpoints in its clear comparison of traditional methods of waste management with more sustainable technologies, such as recycling and new landfill techniques. In one chapter, a quote from the Wall Street Journal calls consumer electronics, or e-waste, “the world’s fastest growing and potentially most dangerous waste problem,” while on the opposite page, another quote, from the journal Issue Analysis, states that e-waste makes up only “a tiny percent” of the waste stream. Sidebars on topics such as garbage problems, from outer space to tropical paradises, such as Bali, make for compelling reading, while numerous color photos, charts, and maps will further attract readers’ attention. Extensive chapter notes, discussion questions, lists of contact organizations, and suggested reading close this well-presented, sobering introduction to increasingly critical issues
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Kevin Featherstone, Dimitris Papdimitriou - The Limits of Europeanization: Structural Reform and Public Policy in Greece
What are the limits of Europeanization? This book explores the impact of the European Union's agenda of structural reform on Greece. This is a setting that welcomes closer European unity, but which apparently struggles to adapt to the demands of adaptation. The book analyses why the domestic system has so often resisted adaptation in these important economic areas by charting policy initiatives over the last decade on privatization, labour market regulation, and pensions. Its findings raise questions about the scope of the EU to coordinate a programme of economic reform, alongside the inclusion and governability of a system that fails to deliver.
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Gary Zatzman - Intangibles in the Big Picture: The Delinearised History of Time
The so-called 'TINA syndrome' provides the fundament, the actual rock, on which the political, economic, military and other elites and establishments of the Anglo-American world and European bloc have built their church. Inscribed over its entrance stands the motto: 'there is no god but monopoly and maximum is his profit'. On this basis, continuous attacks on the very concept of intangibles are launched, most prominently against time-consciousness. Especially singled out is time-consciousness based on appreciating and/or priorising the long term over the short term, as well as placing the interests of the social collective over the interests of any individual member of the collective. In this book, it is argued that Humanity has been on the wrong track since Sir Isaac Newton published his "Principia Mathematica" at the end of the 17th century, and that the scientific research enterprise developed since then has taken the world on a merry chase to nowhere.Without exception, the assaults on time-consciousness, and on cognition of what happens in and through the passage of time, take the form of a denial of the principle of Nature as the Mother of all wealth. The denial of this principle has always encountered resistance. Some resist by breaking the attacks down and responding to selected cases. For example, the contributors to the book Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada (Toronto 1979), following precisely this tact, act according to the principle that 'the movement is everything...' This places the struggle of the people for livelihood where it belongs, viz., at the centre of economic theory and practice. However, these writers' version of this approach is silent about long-term or final aims. Their work actually priorises t = 'right now' over longer-term views of the role of time in social-historical processes.People's deepest desires to see Justice prevail and Injustice sent packing are generally aroused, positively, by their apparent stand on the side of 'labour' against 'capital'; a great deal of hope might well be vested in these stands. Has this hope, however, been misplaced? Analysis of these authors' collective work from 1979 (as the Soviet Union began its final slide to oblivion by invading Afghanistan), and its source in theories of 'regional underdevelopment' (formulated at the Cold War's height in the late 1950s), suggests this may be the case. Especially disturbing is the outlook underlying that theory, and specifically its extreme pragmatism and welter of contradictions and inconsistencies. These disclose a position entirely at odds with the proclaimed mission to establish the truth of matters under investigation.In order to maintain a position in what they see as the mainstream today, some of these writers have taken matters further, adapting to fit the cut of current discourse in the early 2000s some of the concerns raised in the earlier work. En route, however, they make a major concession to the disinformation of the Canadian fisheries department that 'there are too many fishermen chasing too few fish'. Disguising the concession as an appeal for 'ecological sanity' in the face of a pending environmental crisis of raw material food supplies during a period of still-excessive capitalization in the coastal fishing industry, those putting forward this argument decline to challenge the claims by the government and the largest fish processors that the problem at bottom is a shortage of raw material, a defect in Nature.As, however, the problem is actually one of how Humanity has arranged its affairs when it comes to extremely fundamental matters like food-gathering, this concession, no less than any of the other more direct attacks on time consciousness and on cognition as a source of reliable information, forms part of a far more general and sweeping assault on the very concept of human agency. This assault challenges the fundamental notion that no human social problem is without some human social solution. The fact of the matter is that the essence of human social agency lies on the path of pursuing knowledge. Whosoever would increase knowledge is bound to disturb the status quo, but even so, a person must increase his knowledge of the truth.
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Democratization and the Politics of Constitution Making in Turkey
Explores and illustrates how domestic and international factors shape the direction of democratization process with special reference to the constitution making process in the Turkish context.
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Janine Aron, Brian Kahn, Geeta Kingdon - South African Economic Policy under Democracy
South Africa experienced a momentous change of government from the Apartheid regime to its first democratic government in 1994. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of South Africa's economic policies and performance under democracy. The book includes a stand-alone introduction and economic overview, as well as chapters on growth, monetary and exchange rate policy and fiscal policy, on capital flows and trade policy, on investment and industrial and competition policy, on the effect of AIDs in the macroeconomy, and on unemployment, education and inequality and poverty. Each chapter, and the overview chapter in particular, also addresses prospects for the future.
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Gavin Schaffer - Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62
The study of race has been an important feature in British universities for over a hundred years. During this time, academic understanding of what race describes and means has changed and developed as has the purpose of racial study. Once considered the preserve of biologists and physical anthropologists, over the course of the last century the study of race has transferred mostly into social scientific disciplines such as sociology. This book explores this passing of authority on racial matters in the context of international and domestic political issues.
In a period which spans the rise and fall of Nazism, the onset of the Cold War, the birth of Apartheid and the death of legal US segregation, Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 considers the relationship between science, politics and ideology, arguing that racial scholarship in Britain was shaped in every period by factors outside of science. At the same time it argues that it is possible to see the influence of expert racial scholarship in every significant action of government immigration policy during this period. This major new study of Twentieth-century Britain calls into question the impact of racial ideas on British society and probes into the nature of knowledge production in science.
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Robert Ellickson - Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
In Order without Law Robert C. Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules-social norms-that develop without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory, and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.
The springboard for Ellickson's theory of norms is his close investigation of a variety of disputes arising from the damage created by escaped cattle in Shasta County, California. In "The Problem of Social Cost" --the most frequently cited article on law--economist Ronald H. Cease depicts farmers and ranchers as bargaining in the shadow of the law while resolving cattle-trespass disputes. Ellickson's field study of this problem refutes many of the behavioral assumptions that underlie Coase's vision, and will add realism to future efforts to apply economic analysis to law.
Drawing examples from a wide variety of social contexts, including whaling grounds, photocopying centers, and landlord-tenant relations, Ellickson explores the interaction between informal and legal rules and the usual domains in which these competing systems are employed. Order without Law firmly grounds its analysis in real-world events, while building a broad theory of how people cooperate to mutual advantage.
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Kathryn Simpson - Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf
This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.
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FAO - Making Land Rights More Secure: Proceedings of an international workshop. Ouagadougou
This international workshop brought together some 80 West Africans to consider the results of recent research and practical experience in the area of land tenure security. Researchers, decision-makers, leaders of farmers’ organisations and elected councillors got discussed tenure security and debated new approaches that might improve the situation for rural producers. Characterised by economic liberalisation, structural adjustment, democratisation and administrative decentralisation, the 1990s marked a clear break with the post-Independence situation. With the advent of globalisation, further wide-ranging changes are appearing, so it is therefore all the more essential to work out appropriate rules governing competition for land. Negotiations between the state and farmers’ organisations, some examples of which were discussed during the workshop, are leading to more democratic practices involving civil society organisations and experts in the debate on agriculture and land tenure.
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"The Economics of Consumer Credit" by Giuseppe Bertola, Richard Disney, Charles Grant
This book brings together leading international researchers to focus specifically on consumer debt, presenting current empirical and theoretical research crucial to ongoing policy debates on such topics as privacy rules, the regulation of contractual responsibilities, financial stability, and overindebtedness.
Contents
Preface
1 The Economics of Consumer Credit Demand and Supply
2 Consumer Credit Markets in the United States and Europe
3 Household Debt Demand and Supply: A Cross-Country Comparison
4 Regulation, Formal and Informal Enforcement, and the Development of the Household Loan Market: Lessons from Italy
5 Housing Wealth and the Accumulation of Financial Debt: Evidence from U.K. Households
6 Credit Cards: Facts and Theories
7 Bankruptcy and Consumer Behavior: Theory and U.S. Evidence
8 The Evolution of the Credit Counseling Industry in the United States
9 Development and Regulation of Consumer Credit Reporting in the United States
10 The Role and Effects of Credit Information Sharing
Contributors
Index
"Re-thinking Socio-economic Rights in an Insecure World" by Nsongurua Udombana and Violeta Beširević
The papers collected in this volume are the outcomes of roundtable around the theme: Re-thinking Socio-Economic Rights in an Insecure World. The roundtable brought together scholars and human rights practitioners from different regions to reflect on the following questions relating to social and economic rights, particularly in the context of the global insecurity.
Contents
Preface
Part One: SOME CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
Introduction - Wiktor Osiatynski
The Horizontal Priority of Economic Rights - Filip Spagnoli
Part Two: AN ACCOUNT OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION
Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution for Europe: Between Symbolism and Legal Realism - Violeta Beširević
Grand Promises in the Face of High Expectations: Welfare Rights in Hungarian Constitutional Jurisprudence - Renata Uitz
Social and Economic Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court - Daniel Smilov
Litigating for Socio-Economic Rights on National and International Level: Problems of Standing and Legal Strategies - Anita Soboleva
Part Three: SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
The Patrimonial States and Socio-economic Rights in Africa - Nsongurua Udombana
Socio-economic Factors of Conflicts - Countering the Risks - Vidan Hadži-Vidanović
Part Four: SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND MARGINALIZED GROUPS
Roma Rights, Racial Discrimination and ESC Rights - Claude Cahn
List of Contributors
Index
The New Workforce: Five Sweeping Trends That Will Shape Your Company's Future
Dramatic trends are already in motion that will force organizations to do some major rethinking about their relationships with their employees. The New Workforce outlines five of these crucial developments, and describes how they will affect critical HR policies and programs in the very near future. The book considers the implications of ever-increasing life (and work-life) expectancy, new household types including same-sex partners and "Mr. Moms," the Baby Boom "Echo," widening diversity, and employee demands for greater emphasis on spirituality and social responsibility in the workplace. The New Workforce addresses such concerns as: How can we deal with the conflicting needs of four generations of employees? What changes must we make in our benefits coverage? Our pay policies? Our management training efforts? Do we need new recruiting and retention strategies? Why should the company care about employees' personal values and beliefs?
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nsider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft
This book will teach IT professional and law enforcement officials about the dangers posed by insiders to their IT infrastructure and how to mitigate these risks by designing and implementing secure IT systems as well as security and human resource policies. The book will begin by identifying the types of insiders who are most likely to pose a threat. Next, the reader will learn about the variety of tools and attacks used by insiders to commit their crimes including: encryption, steganography, and social engineering. The book will then specifically address the dangers faced by corporations and government agencies. Finally, the reader will learn how to design effective security systems to prevent insider attacks and how to investigate insider security breeches that do occur.
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"I Think, Therefore I Laugh. The Flip Side of Philosophy" by John Allen Paulos
Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, John Allen Paulos shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level.
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
chapter o n e
TWO UNLIKELY PAIRS OF MEN
Introduction
Wittgenstein and Carroll
Groucho Meets Russell
chapter t w o
LOGIC
Either-Or
You Bet Your Life
Sillygisms
The Titl of This Section Contains Three Erors
Russell’s Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Rubin
Language and Metalanguage: Do You Get It?
Meaning, Reference, and Dora Black’s First Husband
Analytic vs. Synthetic, Boole vs. Boyle, and Mathematics vs. Cookery
Miscellany
chapter t h r e e
SCIENCE
Induction, Causality, and Hume’s Eggs
The Tortoise Came First?
Of Birds and Strange Colors
Truths, Half-Truths, and Statistics
Duhem, Poincaré, and the Poconos-Catskill Diet
Reductionism, Fallibilism, and Opportunism
Randomness and the Berry Task
Determinism and Smart Computers
Bell’s Inequality and Weirdness
On Assumptions
chapter f o u r
PEOPLE
Context, Complexity, and Artificial Intelligence
Why Did He Just Now Touch His Head?
Arrow, Prisoners, and Compromise
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
"Generalist Practice: A task-centered approach" by Eleanor Reardon Tolson, William J. Reid, Charles D. Garvin
This basic textbook seeks to establish a "task-centered" methodology a structured, short-term, problem-solving approach applicable across systems at five levels of practice: the individual, the family, the group, organizations, and communities. The second edition offers more information on systems theories and includes case studies with each chapter.
Checklists are provided for each level of practice along with questions for consideration and practice exercises to help students monitor their understanding and skill development.
TOC
Introduction: Task-Centered and Generalist Practice
PART 1 Individuals
PART 2 Families
PART 3 Groups
PART 4 Larger Systems
PART 5 Diversity and Conclusions
Crisis of Our Age
This is an analysis of the nature, causes and consequences of the crisis of modern society. Professor Sorokin asserts that the whole of modern culture is undergoing a period of transition brought on by the struggle between the forces of the largely outworn materialistic order and the emerging, creative forces of a new idealistic order. On the outcome of this struggle, the author contends, rests the progress and survival of mankind.
Political Anthropology: An Introduction Third Edition
Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. Significantly updated and expanded with extensive changes in many chapters, three additional chapters, and a new conclusion, this second edition provides the basic text and structure for a full course. Renownded anthropologist Victor Turner called the first edition a "succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over four decades . . . the introduction we have all been waiting for.
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Ruth Marshall - Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria
After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement’s dramatic rise and how can we make sense of its social and political significance? In this ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important thinkers—including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to answer these questions.
To account for the movement’s success, Marshall explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, corruption, and inequality.
Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, and Political Spiritualities persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the place of religion in contemporary politics.
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