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  • Compromising the Ideals of Science

    by R. Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Digital Exposure

    Postmodern Postcapitalism

    by R. Sassower ...
    This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Price of Public Intellectuals

    by R. Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals. Sassower suggests how the state might financially support the essential work of public intellectuals so as to critically engage the public and improve public policies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

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  • Doing Qualitative Research in Politics

    Integrating Theory Building and Policy Relevance

    Edited by Angela Kachuyevski, Lisa M. Samuel ...
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  • Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Žižek

    A Conspiracy of Hope

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    Taking its cue from the renewed interest in theology among Marxist and politically radical philosophers or thinkers, this study inquires into the reasons for this interest in theology focusing on the British literary theorist Terry Eagleton and the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, as two contemporary prominent Marxist thinkers. ... Read more

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  • My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat

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    by Carl A. Bastiani, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training ...
    This volume reviews highlights of the authors twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find of particular interest Bastianis account and analysis of developments while he was head of the U.S ... Read more

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    Series Book 34 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
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