Search Results - "Libération"

Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home /

Table of Contents: “…Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. …”
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Gandhi : a spiritual biography / by Sharma, Arvind

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Black Disability Politics / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

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Queer Lives across the Wall : Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 / by Rottmann, Andrea

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Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography /

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Backlash against welfare mothers past and present / by Reese, Ellen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform -- Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- The first welfare backlash (1945/1979) -- The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky -- The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York -- Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004) -- The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats -- Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004 -- Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families.…”
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The politics of truth selected writings of C. Wright Mills / by Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962

Table of Contents: “…-- The conservative mood -- Mass society and liberal education -- On knowledge and power -- The power elite : comment on criticism -- Science and scientists -- A pagan sermon to the Christian clergy -- The man in the middle -- The big city -- Culture and politics : the fourth epoch -- The cultural apparatus -- The decline of the left -- On Latin America, the left, and the U.S. -- Soviet journal -- Listen, Yankee! …”
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The texture of being essays in first philosophy / by Schmitz, Kenneth L.

Table of Contents: “…. -- The geography of the human person -- Immateriality past and present -- The first principle of personal becoming -- Purity of soul and immortality -- Is liberalism good enough? -- PART III. GOD. -- Theological clearances: foreground to a rational recovery of God -- God, being and love: new ontological perspectives coming from philosophy -- The death of good and the rebirth of man -- The witness of beauty: the profile of God.…”
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Language and power an introduction to institutional discourse / by Mayr, Andrea, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : power, discourse and institutions / Andrea Mayr -- Discourses of higher education : enterprise and institutional change in the university / Andrea Mayr -- Prison discourse : enterprising managerialism in a total institution / Andrea Mayr -- News discourse I : understanding the social goings-on behind news texts / David Machin -- News discourse II : anti-racism and neo-liberalism in the British regional press / David Machin and Andrea Mayr -- Defence discourse I : the visual institutionalization of discourses in war monuments / Gill Abousnnouga and David Machin -- Defence discourse II : a corpus perspective on routine and rhetoric in defence discourse / Tony Bastow -- Conclusion : researching institutional discourse / Andrea Mayr with Tony Bastow.…”
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life by Francis, Mark, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…I: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.…”
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Newspeak in the 21st century by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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Institutional microeconomics of development

Table of Contents: “…Institutional economics of development : some general reflections / Pranab Bardhan -- Spontaneous markets, networks, and social capital : lessons from Africa / Marcel Fafchamps -- Financial markets and conflict in the developing world / Eliana La Ferrara -- Liberalization meets investment climate / Robin Burgess -- Local democracy and ethnic diversity : a review, a new framework, and some evidence from Indonesian villages / Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy -- Local accountability improves health services / Martina Björkman, Ritva Reinikka, and Jakob Svensson -- Extended family networks in rural Mexico : a descriptive analysis / Manuela Angelucci ... …”
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The educational legacy of Woodrow Wilson from college to nation /

Table of Contents: “…The educational vision of Woodrow Wilson / James Axtell -- Woodrow Wilson on liberal education for statesmanship, 1890-1910 / Adam R. …”
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Macrofinancial linkages trends, crises, and policies /

Table of Contents: “…The quality effect : does financial liberalization improve the allocation of capital? / Abdul Abiad, Nienke Oomes, Kenichi Ueda -- Policy issues -- Monetary policy and asset prices : does "benign neglect" make sense? …”
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Seeking Peace in the Wake of War : Europe, 1943-1947 /

Table of Contents: “…; The Challenges of the Liberation in France and Italy; Gabriella Gribaudi, Olivier Wieviorka and Julie Le Gac; 'Liberators and Patriots'…”
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The essential Drucker : selections from the management works of Peter F. Drucker. by Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005

Table of Contents: “…Management as social function and liberal art -- The dimensions of management -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- What the nonprofits are teaching business -- Social impacts and social problems -- Management's new paradigms -- The information executives need today -- Management by objectives and self-control -- Picking people : the basic rules -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Effectiveness must be learned -- Focus on contribution -- Know your strengths and values -- Know your time -- Effective decisions -- Functioning communications -- Leadership as work -- Principles of innovation -- The second half of your life -- The educated person -- A century of social transformation : emergence of knowledge society -- The coming of entrepreneurial society -- Citizenship through the social sector -- From analysis to perception : the new worldview.…”

Aboriginal rights and self-government the Canadian and Mexican experience in North American perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Lindau and Curtis Cook -- A just relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples of Canada / James Tully -- Indigenous movements and politics in Mexico and Latin America / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Rights and self-government for Canada's Aboriginal peoples / C.E.S. Franks -- Liberalism's last stand : Aboriginal sovereignty and minority rights / Dale Turner -- First nations and the derivation of Canada's underlying title : comparing perspectives on legal ideology / Michael Asch --Quebec's conceptions of Aboriginal rights / Andrée Lajoie ... …”
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The ironies of freedom sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / by Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Sex for sale: entrepreneurial and consumerist freedom -- The hooking economy: entrepreneurial choice and commercial sex in the liberalizing economy -- Hierarchy and geography: class and national identity in sex consumption -- The real and the true: governing by choice and coercion -- The rise of the empirical and the case of medical expertise: a genealogy of governance -- Governing passion: consumers' choice and the production of a differentiated citizenry in public medicine -- Who you truly are: coercion, culture, and the global imaginary in the governmental rehabilitation of sex workers -- What kind of power? …”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self.…”
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The right to justification elements of a constructivist theory of justice / by Forst, Rainer, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the foundation of justice -- Practical reason and justifying reasons: on the foundation of morality -- Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality: toward a theory of normativity after Kant -- Ethics and morality -- The justification of justice: Rawls's political liberalism and Habermas's discourse theory in dialogue -- Political liberty: integrating five conceptions of autonomy -- A critical theory of multicultural toleration -- The rule of reasons: three models of deliberative democracy -- Social justice, justification, and power -- The basic right to justification: toward a constructivist conception of human rights -- Constructions of transnational justice: comparing John Rawls's the law of peoples and Otfried Höffe's democracy in an age of globalisation -- Justice, morality, and power in the global context -- Toward a critical theory of transnational justice.…”
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