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  • Ambition in America

    Political Power and the Collapse of Citizenship

    by Jeffrey A. Becker ...
    Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected officials. The structure of political representation and the separation of powers detailed in the United States Co ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology

    by Jeffrey A. Becker, Kitty Wheater ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Claude Lévi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as ‘French theory,’ Lévi-Strauss was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th-century. His theories of interpretation, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China

    From Peasants to Protesters

    by Jeffrey Becker ...
    The growth of China’s internal migrant labor population is one of the most important issues emerging from the Hu Jintao regime. As China continues to undergo an urbanization process as profound as any in modern history, there is little doubt migrant workers are affecting economic and political decision making at the central and local levels. Relying on interviews with over 250 Chinese migrant ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology

    by Jeffrey A. Becker ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation. Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language beyond definitions, looking at the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss’s insight was to apply this concept ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dark Places

    Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy

    by Joseph Romance, Erik Anderson, Paul Babbitt, Deirdre Condit, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Darrell A. Hamlin, Lexey A. Bartlett, Jeffrey A. Becker, Caitlin B. Coulter0, W. John Green1 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for exploring the connection between the murder of his own mother, when he was ten years old, and his troubled adolescence and early adulthood struggles with addiction. “Dead people belong to the live people who ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Biotechnology

    A Laboratory Course

    Edited by Jeffrey M. Becker, Guy A. Caldwell, Eve Ann Zachgo ...
    The objectives of this Second Edition of Biotechnology: A Laboratory Course remain unchanged: to create a text that consists of a series of laboratory exercises that integrate molecular biology with protein biochemistry techniques while providing a continuum of experiments. The course begins with basic techniques and culminates in the utilization of previously acquired technical experience and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory

    by Christine Becker, Susan J. Douglas, Herman Gray, Jonathan Gray, Heather Hendershot, Eric Hoyt, Deborah Jaramillo, Derek Kompare, Susan Murray0, Allison Perlman1, Lynn Spigel2 ...
    Series series
    Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, turning their ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • How To Read Foucault

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    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

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  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
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