Author: James Oran HardinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshall County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Hardin U.S.A.--
Author: James Oran HardinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshall County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
How Do You Know?
Author: Russell HardinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691137552
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? You might think I am acting irrationally--against my interest or my purpose--until you realize that what you know and what I know differ significantly. My actions, given my knowledge, might make eminently good sense. Of course, this pushes our problem back one stage to assess why someone knows or believes what they do. That is the focus of this book. Russell Hardin supposes that people are not usually going to act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. To try to understand how they have come to their knowledge or beliefs is therefore to be charitable in assessing their rationality. Hardin insists on such a charitable stance in the effort to understand others and their sometimes objectively perverse actions. -- Publisher details.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
One for All
Author: Russell HardinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140082169X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway. Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests--mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies.
United States of America V. Hardin
Author: The American Magazine
Author: Dental Research in the United States and Other Countries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A catalog of dental research projects sponsored by federal and non-federal organizations.
A History of the People of the United States
Author: John Bach McMasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
American Illustrated Magazine
Author: A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War: 1784-1790 ... 1924
Author: John Bach McMasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description