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“robert j brym”

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  • Jews in Canada

    by Robert J. Brym ...
    Ethnic groups in Canada may be successful, persecuted, cohesive, or endangered; only Canada's Jews appear to embody all of these characteristics simultaneously. Canadian Jewry is enduringly fascinating, worth knowing about because the community is an archetype of multiculturalism as it confronts the difficulties and advantages of ethnicity in the modern world. By examining the achievements of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • The Tyranny of the Politically Correct

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  • Beyond the End of History

    Rejecting the Washington Consensus

    by Keith Preston ...
    In the quarter century that has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, fanciful establishment intellectuals have advanced the idea that an “end of history” has somehow arrived. The model of “democratic capitalism” is said to be the final stage in the development of political economy. It is often suggested that it is simply a matter of waiting for the rest of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding Socialism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A blend of history, analysis, and theory, "Understanding Socialism" is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. "Richard Wolff's book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and ... Read more

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious ... Read more

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  • Left Is Not Woke

    by Susan Neiman ...
    If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and the Jews

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    How the fate of the Jews has been shaped by the development of capitalismThe unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality ... Read more

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  • First World War

    Still No End in Sight

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book ... Read more

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  • First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
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  • Marx - The Key Ideas: Teach Yourself

    by Gill Hands ...
    [Teach Yourself] Marx - the Key Ideas will quickly familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this great man. It will take you through all the essential concepts - from class struggle to dialectical materialism. Expressing Marx's sometimes complex ideas in simple terms, and backed up with references to his own texts, this book gives you everything you need to know.NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, ... Read more

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