Author: Atta Arghandiwal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997887006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"A stunning and poignant memoir . . . a treasure. An exemplary job of portraying the struggles of the first Afghan-American generation." -Dr. Belal A. Kaifi, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Trident University International"
Lost Decency
Author: Atta Arghandiwal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997887006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"A stunning and poignant memoir . . . a treasure. An exemplary job of portraying the struggles of the first Afghan-American generation." -Dr. Belal A. Kaifi, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Trident University International"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997887006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"A stunning and poignant memoir . . . a treasure. An exemplary job of portraying the struggles of the first Afghan-American generation." -Dr. Belal A. Kaifi, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Trident University International"
For Shame
Author: James B. Twitchell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312194536
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A scathing, take-no-prisoners look at contemporary American shamelessness, from Jerry Springer to Joey Buttafuoco. Twitchell traces the disappearance of shame in family values, politics, education, the entertainment industry, and religion, arguing that this has had disastrous results for our society.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312194536
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A scathing, take-no-prisoners look at contemporary American shamelessness, from Jerry Springer to Joey Buttafuoco. Twitchell traces the disappearance of shame in family values, politics, education, the entertainment industry, and religion, arguing that this has had disastrous results for our society.
Imposing Decency
Author: Eileen Findlay
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.
A National Party No More
Author: Zell Miller
Publisher: Stroud & Hall Pub
ISBN: 0974537616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Democratic senator discusses issues and values he recommends the Democratic Party must embrace to make the party relevant for the American people.
Publisher: Stroud & Hall Pub
ISBN: 0974537616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Democratic senator discusses issues and values he recommends the Democratic Party must embrace to make the party relevant for the American people.
Immigrant Success Planning
Author: Atta Arghandiwal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997887013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This comprehensive book provides proven guidelines for immigrants and refugees, from their inception and resettlement to full integration. The lessons learned and the best practices compiled in this book will help immigrants and refugees take control of and lead successful lives." Ambassador Waheed Waheedullah, Ph.D.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997887013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This comprehensive book provides proven guidelines for immigrants and refugees, from their inception and resettlement to full integration. The lessons learned and the best practices compiled in this book will help immigrants and refugees take control of and lead successful lives." Ambassador Waheed Waheedullah, Ph.D.
Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China
Author: Robert P. Newman
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520368622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520368622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
No Sense Of Decency
Author: Robert Shogan
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1615780009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magnified its impact was its gavel-to-gavel coverage by television. Thirty-six days of hearings transfixed the nation. With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the phenomenon and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business—the issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1615780009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magnified its impact was its gavel-to-gavel coverage by television. Thirty-six days of hearings transfixed the nation. With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the phenomenon and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business—the issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association.
Realm of Lesser Evil
Author: Jean-Claude Michea
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745646212
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves ‘masters and possessors of nature’, it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves. As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea – an eminently modern one – that the desire to establish the reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the human race. Liberalism’s critique of the ‘tyranny of the Good’ naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a purely negative art – that of defining the least bad society possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood, and understands itself, as the ‘politics of lesser evil’. And yet while liberalism set out to be a realism without illusions, today liberalism presents itself as something else. With its celebration of the market among other things, contemporary liberalism has taken over some of the features of its oldest enemy. By unravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, Michea is able to shed fresh light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745646212
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves ‘masters and possessors of nature’, it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves. As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea – an eminently modern one – that the desire to establish the reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the human race. Liberalism’s critique of the ‘tyranny of the Good’ naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a purely negative art – that of defining the least bad society possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood, and understands itself, as the ‘politics of lesser evil’. And yet while liberalism set out to be a realism without illusions, today liberalism presents itself as something else. With its celebration of the market among other things, contemporary liberalism has taken over some of the features of its oldest enemy. By unravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, Michea is able to shed fresh light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West.
The Book of Unconformities
Author: Hugh Raffles
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
How the Right Lost Its Mind
Author: Charles J. Sykes
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250147174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A book on the implosion of the Republican party and the conservative movement, by a bestselling author and radio host who drew national attention after denouncing Donald Trump
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250147174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A book on the implosion of the Republican party and the conservative movement, by a bestselling author and radio host who drew national attention after denouncing Donald Trump