Search Results - Political science

Economic conditions and electoral outcomes the United States and Western Europe /

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Badiou a subject to truth / by Hallward, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Taking sides -- From Maoism to l'organisation politique -- Infinite by prescription : the mathematical turn -- Badiou's ontology -- Subject and event -- The criteria of truth -- Love and sexual difference -- Art and poetry -- Mathematics and science -- Politics : equality and justice -- What is philosophy? …”
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The book in the Renaissance by Pettegree, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The book world before print -- Gutenberg -- Renaissance encounters : the crisis of print -- The creation of a European book market -- Book town Wittenberg -- Luther's legacy -- First with the news -- Polite diversions -- At school -- The literature of conflict -- The search for order -- Market forces -- Science and exploration -- Healing -- Building a library -- Word and the street.…”
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Environmental sociology from analysis to action /

Table of Contents: “…Imagining nature -- pt. II. Political economy -- pt. III. Environmental inequalities -- pt. …”
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Remastering morals with Aristotle and Confucius by Sim, May, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Confucius and Aristotle : problems and prospects -- Aristotle in the reconstruction of Confucian ethics -- Categories and commensurability in Confucius and Aristotle : a response to MacIntyre titual and realism in early Chinese science -- Harmony and the mean in the Nicomachean ethics and the Zhongyong -- The moral self in Confucius and Aristotle -- Virtue-oriented politics : Confucius and Aristotle -- Making friends with Confucius and Aristotle.…”
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The first three years & beyond brain development and social policy / by Zigler, Edward, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…The more things change : politics and pet scans -- The science of brain research -- Family leave -- Early intervention and child care -- Home visitation and parent education -- Child abuse and the brain -- The Mozart effect : not learning from history -- The brain, prenatal development, and nutrition -- The brain campaign : brain development and the media -- Implications of the infant brain debate.…”
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Constructing pragmatist knowledge : education, philosophy and social emancipation / by Hooley, Neil

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy and democratic society -- Immersion in beach inquiries -- Thinking about science and the universe -- Activism and the Vietnam War -- Confusions of teaching and curriculum -- Teacher unionism, then and now -- Community participation in education -- Educational policy-making -- Respecting indigenous knowledge in the regular classroom -- Corruption of higher education -- Collapse of the political left -- Bricolage : closing the circle of practice-theorising.…”
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Maine an annotated bibliography / by Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Finding the real Maines: physical, political, demographic and psychographic -- Dimensions -- The wild, wild East -- Ethnicity matters -- Maine media -- Polling: the art and the science -- The history of modern Maine politics. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.…”
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Is it safe? BPA and the struggle to define the safety of chemicals / by Vogel, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann), 1974-

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The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard by Demastes, William W.

Table of Contents: “…Playing with the stage; 5. Science takes the stage; 6. Love is in the air; 7. …”
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Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery The Eye in Ideas. by Sanitt, Nigel

Table of Contents: “…Science and history; 11.1 History: useful guide or baggage; 11.2 Phoenix theories; 11.3 Changing forms and narratives; 11.4 Context; 11.4.1 Political change; 11.4.2 Economic change; 11.4.3 Social dimension; 11.4.4 Digital world; 12. …”
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Behavioral economics : the basics / by Corr, Philip, Plagnol, Anke C.

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 2 The ascent and dissent of economics -- chapter 3 ECON: homo economicus -- chapter 4 HUMAN: more Homer (Simpson) than homo economicus -- chapter 5 Manners, monkeys and moods -- chapter 6 Nudge: whys, ways and weasels -- chapter 7 Sell! Behavioral science of the commercial (and political) world of persuasion.…”
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Routledge handbook of ecological economics : nature and society /

Table of Contents: “…Value and ethics -- pt. 7. Science and society : uncertainty and precaution -- pt. 8. …”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Rossetti's "Jenny" -- Reproduced in finer motions: encouraging the fallen in Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Afterword: intersubjectivity and the politics of poststructuralism.…”
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Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
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Russia under the last tsar

Table of Contents: “…Riha -- Problems of industrialization / T. Von Laue -- Politics, universities, and science / A. Vucinich -- The cultural renaissance / G. …”
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Shaking the world for Jesus media and conservative evangelical culture / by Hendershot, Heather

Table of Contents: “…: Christian music and the secular marketplace -- Virgins for Jesus : the gender politics of therapeutic Christian media -- Holiness codes and holy homosexuals : interpreting gay and lesbian Christian subculture -- Putting God under the microscope : the Moody Institute of Science's cinema of devotion -- Praying for the end of the world : the past, present, and future of Christian apocalyptic media.…”
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The invention of international relations theory realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory /

Table of Contents: “…One discipline, many histories / Nicolas Guilhot -- Morality, policy, and theory : reflections on the 1954 conference / Robert Jervis -- Tensions within realism : 1954 and after / Jack Snyder -- The Rockefeller Foundation conference and the Long Road to a theory of international politics / Brian C. Schmidt -- The speech act of realism : the move that made IR / Ole Waver -- The realist gambit : postwar American political science and the birth of IR theory / Nicolas Guilhot -- Kennan : realism as desire / Anders Stephanson -- American hegemony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of academic international relations in the United States / Inderjeet Parmar -- Realism and neoliberalism : from reactionary modernism to postwar conservatism / Philip Mirowski.…”
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The place of law

Table of Contents: “…/ Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Time against territoriality : national laws and literary translations / Wai Chee Dimock -- The empty place : legal formalities and the cultural state / Annelise Riles -- The architecture of authority : the place of law in the space of science / Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick -- Digital networks, state authority, and politics / Saskia Sassen -- The place of cyberlaw / Lawrence Lessig -- Against cyberspace / Richard Ford.…”
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