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How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is...
by Rita Felski
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates...
Fighting Financial Crises
Learning from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
If you’ve got some money in the bank, chances are you’ve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close attention to whether the banking system would...
Down, Out, and Under Arrest
Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.
Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of...
Switching Codes
Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish...
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever...
The World in Guangzhou
Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese...
Buying Power
A History of Consumer Activism in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party...
The Fixers
Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Stories of Newark’s postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city’s decline mounted by Newark’s residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists...
Human Capital
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination,...
Animal Personalities
Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they’ll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals—from invertebrates to monkeys and apes—behave in consistently different ways, meeting...
Making Natural Knowledge
Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
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Creatively Undecided
Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions.
By turning our attention to ambiguity and indecision in science, Menachem...
A Final Story
Science, Myth, and Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move...