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  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Kathleen Woodward, Yolanda Moses, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Charlotte Melin, Bethany Nowviskie0, John McGowan1, Jeffrey J. Williams2, Christopher Newfield3 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    An American Tragedy

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    **In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Making Museums Matter

    by Stephen Weil ...
    In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Central Liberal Truth

    How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Identity in Democracy

    by Amy Gutmann ...
    Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Immigration Wars

    Forging an American Solution

    by Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick ...
    The immigration debate has challenged our nation since its founding. But today, it divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Here at last is an attainable resolution guided by two core principles: first, immigration is vital to America’s future; second, any enduring resolution must adhere to the rule of law.Unfortunately, current ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators

    American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

    by William J. Bennett ...
    For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible portrait in numbers of who and where we are as a nation.First ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Utopia Like Any Other

    Inside the Swedish Model

    by Dominic Hinde ...
    Series series A Utopia Like Any Other
    Does a utopia really exist within northern Europe? Do we have anything to learn from it if it does? And what makes a nation worthy of admiration, anyway? Since the '30s, when the world was wowed by the Stockholm Exhibition, to most people Sweden has meant clean lines, good public housing, and a Social Democratic government. More recently the Swedes have been lauded for their environmental ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradoxical Japaneseness

    Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema

    by Andrew Dorman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Settling Scores

    German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953

    by David Monod ...
    Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence of Aryan superiority. In the minds of many Americans, further German aggression could be ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cultural Governance and the European Union

    Protecting and Promoting Cultural Diversity in Europe

    Edited by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
    This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines the ways in which cultural issues have been framed at the EU level and the policies and instruments to which they have given vent. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Perilous Desert

    Insecurity in the Sahara

    Edited by Frederic Wehrey, Anouar Boukhars ...
    The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises.This insecurity ... Read more

    $15.99 USD