Author: Citizens' Association of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Annual Report of the Citizens' Association of Chicago
Author: Citizens' Association of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Report
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Communities of Journalism
Author: David Paul NordPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators on the history of journalism in the United State, David Paul Nord offers a lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital component of community. In settings ranging from the religion-infused towns of colonial America to the rrapidly expanding urban metropolises of the late nineteenth century, Nord explores the cultural work of the press.
The Limits of Power
Author: Christine Meisner RosenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book examines the rebuildings of Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore following great fires.
The Ugly Laws
Author: Susan M. SchweikPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
In the culture of the modern West, we see ourselves as thinking subjects, defined by our conscious thought, autonomous and separate from each other and the world we survey. Current research in neurology and cognitive science shows that this picture is false. We think with our bodies, and in interaction with others, and our thought is never completed. The Fiction of a Thinkable World is a wide-ranging exploration of the meaning of this insight for our understanding of history, ethics, and politics Ambitious but never overwhelming, carrying its immense learning lightly, The Fiction of a Thinkable World shows how the Western conception of the human subject came to be formed historically, how it contrasts with that of Eastern thought, and how it provides the basic justification for the institutions of liberal capitalism. The fiction of a world separated from each of us as we are separated from each other, from which we make our choices in solitary thought, is enacted by the voter in the voting booth and the consumer at the supermarket shelf. The structure of daily experience in capitalist society reinforces the fictions of the Western intellectual tradition, stunt human creativity, and create the illusion that the capitalist order is natural and unsurpassable. Steinberg’s critique of the intellectual world of Western capitalism at the same time illuminates the paths that have been closed off in that world. It draws on Chinese ethics to show how our actions can be brought in accord with the world as it is, in its ever-changing interaction and mutual transformation, and sketches a radical political perspective that sheds the illusions of the Western model. Beautifully conceived and written, The Fiction of a Thinkable World provides new ways of thinking and opens new horizons.
Joint Documents of the State of Michigan
Author: MichiganAnnual Report of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Green Capitalism?
Author: Hartmut BerghoffPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to protect parts of nature, limit their production of wastes, and support broader environmental reforms. In the last thirty years, especially, many businesses have worked hard to reduce their direct and indirect environmental footprint. But are these efforts exceptional, or can capitalism truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? offers a critical, historically informed perspective on building a more sustainable economy. Written by scholars of business history and environmental history, the essays in this volume consider the nature of capitalism through historical overviews of twentieth-century businesses and a wide range of focused case studies. Beginning early in the century, contributors explore the response of business leaders to environmental challenges in an era long before the formation of the modern regulatory state. Moving on to midcentury environmental initiatives, scholars analyze failed business efforts to green products and packaging—such as the infamous six-pack ring—in the 1960s and 1970s. The last section contains case studies of businesses that successfully managed greening initiatives, from the first effort by an electric utility to promote conservation, to the environmental overhaul of a Swedish mining company, to the problem of household waste in pre-1990 West Germany. Ranging in geographic scope from Europe to the United States, Green Capitalism? raises questions about capitalism in different historical, sociocultural, and political contexts. Contributors: Hartmut Berghoff, Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Brian C. Black, William D. Bryan, Julie Cohn, Leif Fredrickson, Hugh S. Gorman, Geoffrey Jones, David Kinkela, Roman Köster, Joseph A. Pratt, Adam Rome, Christine Meisner Rosen.
Library Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Catalogue of the Periodicals and Other Serial Publications
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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