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“sharon m oster”

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  • Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations

    Theory and Cases

    by Sharon M. Oster ...
    Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. earn more than $100 billion annually, and number over a million different organizations. They face increasing competition for donor's dollars and many of the issues they confront are similar to those confronted by for-profit organizations. Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations applies powerful concepts of strategic management developed originally in ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Def-measuremnt Poverty-2

    by Sharon M. Oster ...
    Are the poor, as one writer suggests, only those without enough to eat? Or does poverty instead consist of "the inability to buy a beer when everyone else has one"? These two volumes provide a comprehensive summary and annotated bibliography of the issues associated with the definition and measurement of poverty. The discussion is organized around eleven topics in the areas of economics, political ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • No Place in Time

    The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Sharon B. Oster ...
    An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism. The Hebraic myth, while integral to a Protestant understanding of time, was ... Read more

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    Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisisBy the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created ... Read more

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  • Radical Universalism

    Beyond Identity

    by Omri Boehm ...
    A compelling philosophical exploration of the concept of universalism and its role—or lack thereof—in contemporary politics. This accessible study challenges the prioritization of identity politics over universal equality, using Kant as a lens through which to understand our present moment.Winner of the 2024 Leipzig Book Award for European UnderstandingThe entire political spectrum of our day, ... Read more

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  • American Nietzsche

    A History of an Icon and His Ideas

    by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen ...
    If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and ... Read more

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  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    by Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

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  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Life in Culture

    Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    A great literary critic's quarrels with himself and others, revealed through his personal correspondence: "A joy to read." — Library Journal (starred review)In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, ... Read more

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  • Arendt and America

    by Richard H. King ...
    German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly ... Read more

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  • Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism

    by Sarah Imhoff ...
    An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others.How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither ... Read more

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  • Unclean Lips

    Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

    by Josh Lambert ...
    Series Book 10 - Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies
    Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish StudiesJews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions ... Read more

    $35.99 USD