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Scholarly Communication
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an...
Reification
A New Look at an Old Idea
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.
Drugs and Justice
Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...
Tangible Things
Making History through Objects
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any...
The Great Endarkenment
Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities...
Teaching the Reformation
Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Though the Reformation was sparked by the actions of Martn Luther, it was not a decisive break from the Church in Rome but rather a gradual process of religious and social change. As the men responsible for religious instruction and moral oversight at the village level, parish pastors played a key...
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient...
How to Do Things with History
New Approaches to Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying...
Journalism Without Profit
Making News When the Market Fails
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
The last decade has witnessed a dramatic decline in the presence and influence of legacy news organizations. This decline has led to tremendous growth in news startups, which have attempted to fill the gap left by their legacy counterparts by producing the quality public service journalism upon which...
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2000
The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has...
On Staff
A Practical Guide to Starting Your Career in a University Music Department
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A practical guide to starting a successful career in a music department in higher education, this book thoroughly details the application, interview, and negotiation processes. It offers a wealth of practical information on getting a post, your first days in the post, acquiring tenure and promotion,...
by John R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well."--Allen Newell, December 4, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University...
Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism
Religious Identity and National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Derek Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I--when National Socialism first emerged--to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism. Although an antagonistic relationship between the Catholic Church and...