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by George Lakoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff...
Going Public
A Guide for Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
At a time when policy discussions are dominated by “I feel” instead of “I know,” it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates about pressing social issues—such as climate...
by David F. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed,...
From Eve to Evolution
Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women’s responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that...
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John...
We Have Not a Government
The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government collapsed, and Congress grudgingly agreed to support...
I Say to You
Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal perpetrators of which were the Kalenjin, who lashed...
The Making of Tocqueville's America
Law and Association in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans’ propensity to form voluntary associations—and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans...
Measuring the New World
Enlightenment Science and South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s...
Personalities on the Plate
The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but...
Reading History Sideways
The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm—one that has affected generations of thought on societal development—was...
Pressed for Time
The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture,...
Science in the Archives
Pasts, Presents, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists;...
Revolutionizing Repertoires
The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit—they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new.
Drawing on pragmatist theories of social...