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Butterfly Politics by MacKinnon Catharine A
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:MacKinnon, Catharine A.

[TWENTY-THREE] Engaged Scholarship as Method and Vocation For better and worse, law perforce engages and affects its world, making butterfly effects to some extent inevitable. It is my view that ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 13,2018 )
The Trouble with Post-Blackness by Baker Houston A.; Simmons K. Merinda;
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda;

NOTES 1. Toni Morrison was the one who infamously dubbed Bill Clinton “America’s first black president,” in a 1998 piece she wrote for the New Yorker. For further discussion, see ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 13,2018 )
White Backlash by Abrajano Marisa; Hajnal Zoltan L.;
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Abrajano, Marisa; Hajnal, Zoltan L.;

Data and Empirical Strategy To assess the effects of state and neighborhood context on white views, we turn to the 2000 and 2004 NAES. The NAES is an ideal source ...
( Category: Sociology April 13,2018 )
Miseducation by Diane Reay
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Reay [Reay, Diane]

Commonalities and differences in mobility stories There has been a gender imbalance in this chapter so far; these have been predominantly men’s tales, and reflect the history of social mobility ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching April 13,2018 )
Social Cognition by Martha Augoustinos
epub |eng | 2018-02-05 | Author:Martha Augoustinos

Chapter Summary In this chapter, we have reviewed how the major, classical attribution theorists proposed that people function in their day-to-day lives as though they were intuitive scientists. Research on ...
( Category: Psychology April 13,2018 )
Losing Ground by Charles Murray
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Charles Murray [CHARLES MURRAY]

This and analogous accounts of the wrenching cultural transition involved in leaving the ghetto provide a plausible explanation for why large numbers of each generation do not escape. They do ...
( Category: Economics April 13,2018 )
Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind by Lawrence E. Harrison
epub |eng | 1985-04-13 | Author:Lawrence E. Harrison

Rotberg quotes Dantès Bellegarde, a Haitian who wrote critically of his own society in 1901: Everyone has two faces—one for those above him and one for those below. Flattery is ...
( Category: Economics April 13,2018 )
State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development by Fred L. Block & Matthew R. Keller
epub |eng | 2015-11-16 | Author:Fred L. Block & Matthew R. Keller [Block, Fred L.]

U.S. PV Research and Development Research and development (R&D) is crucial to increasing the efficiency by which solar cells convert sunlight into electricity, as well as reducing the cost of ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 13,2018 )
Critiques of Everyday Life by Gardiner Michael
epub |eng | | Author:Gardiner, Michael

Situationist critique in the service of demystification does not, therefore, rely on the postulation of a realm of abstract, transcendental values. Rather, it is an immanent critique because it seeks ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 13,2018 )
Surviving Poverty by Joan Maya Mazelis
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Maya Mazelis

Conclusion Membership in KWRU does not provide strong employment networks or financial capital, and in that way the organization does not aid members in getting out of poverty. However, KWRU ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 13,2018 )
Shiny Objects by James A. Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:James A. Roberts

Chapter 10 Heaven Help Us: The Prosperity Gospel If you want “pie-in the sky when you die,” then Reverend Ike is not your man. If you want your pie now, ...
( Category: Personal Finance April 12,2018 )
In Defense of Elitism by Henry III William A
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Henry III, William A. [ ]

Sexual dicta might seem remote from the concerns of this volume, but they are in fact among the most significant points of leverage in the attempted restructuring of how elite ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 12,2018 )
In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:William A. Henry, III [Henry, William A.]

Sexual dicta might seem remote from the concerns of this volume, but they are in fact among the most significant points of leverage in the attempted restructuring of how elite ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 12,2018 )
In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Peter Berger

AREN’T THERE SOME TRUTHS THAT ARE ABSOLUTE? The fact that truth stands open to falsification doesn’t mean that there’s no “doubtless” truth at all. There are, to begin with, the ...
( Category: Philosophy April 12,2018 )
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture by Theodor W. Adorno
epub | | | Author:Theodor W. Adorno

4 CULTURE AND ADMINISTRATION Whoever speaks of culture speaks of administration as well, whether this is his intention or not. The combination of so many things lacking a common denominator ...
( Category: Philosophy April 12,2018 )

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