Jon Elster's Books

Sour Grapes

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sour Grapes

By: Jon Elster

This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107142024

ISBN 13

9781107142022

Closing the Books

Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Closing the Books

Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

By: Jon Elster

An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. Part I, 'The Universe of Transitional Justice', describes more than thirty transitions, some of them in considerable detail, others more succinctly. Part II, 'The Analytics of Transitional Justice', proposes a framework for explaining the variations among the cases - why after some transitions wrongdoers from the previous regime are punished severely and in other cases mildly or not at all, and victims sometimes compensated generously and sometimes poorly or not at all. After surveying a broad range of justifications and excuses for wrongdoings and criteria for selecting and indemnifying victims, the 2004 book concludes with a discussion of three general explanatory factors: economic and political constraints, the retributive emotions, and the play of party politics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521548543

ISBN 13

9780521548540

America Before 1787

The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

America Before 1787

The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime

By: Jon Elster

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution With America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their seemingly deep internal antagonisms. Elster documents the importance of the radical uncertainty about their opponents that characterized both British and American elites and reveals the often neglected force of enthusiasm, and of emotions more generally, in shaping beliefs and in motivating actions. He provides the first detailed examinations of “divide and rule” as a strategy used on both sides of the Atlantic and of the rise and fall of collective action movements among the Americans. Elster also explains how the gradual undermining in America of the British imperial system took its toll on transatlantic relations and describes how state governments and the American Confederation made crucial institutional decisions that informed and constrained the making of the Constitution. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and on theories of modern social science, Elster brings together two fields of scholarship in innovative and original ways. The result is a unique synthesis that yields new insights into some of the most important events in modern history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

488

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691242658

ISBN 13

9780691242651

Explaining Social Behavior

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Explaining Social Behavior

By: Jon Elster

A substantially revised edition of Jon Elster's critically acclaimed book exploring the nature of social behavior and the social sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

517

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107071186

ISBN 13

9781107071186

Securities Against Misrule

Juries, Assemblies, Elections

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Securities Against Misrule

Juries, Assemblies, Elections

By: Jon Elster

It is often argued that democratic institutions should be designed to produce good outcomes, assuming that we know what good outcomes are and which institutions will track them. This book denies both assumptions. The idea of the general interest is ill-defined and our understanding of social causality is fragile. Instead, one should reduce as much as possible the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice, and bias on the decision makers, and then let the chips fall where they may. In addition to making novel theoretical proposals, this book discusses a welter of case studies and historical episodes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107031737

ISBN 13

9781107031739

Alchemies of the Mind

Rationality and the Emotions

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alchemies of the Mind

Rationality and the Emotions

By: Jon Elster

A comprehensive book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

468

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521644879

ISBN 13

9780521644877

Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

By: Jon Elster

Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasises Tocqueville's substantive and methodological insights.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

213

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052151844X

ISBN 13

9780521518444

Sour Grapes

Studies in the Subversion of Rationality

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sour Grapes

Studies in the Subversion of Rationality

By: Jon Elster

Dr Elster analyses the notation of rationality through the study of irrational behaviour, desires and belief.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521313686

ISBN 13

9780521313681

Political Psychology

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Political Psychology

By: Jon Elster

The text reveals how belief and preference formation are shaped by social and political institutions; argues for an important distinction between mechanisms and theories in the social sciences; illustrates principles of political psychology through authoritative readings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521422868

ISBN 13

9780521422864

France Before 1789

The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

France Before 1789

The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime

By: Jon Elster

France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

280

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

069124152X

ISBN 13

9780691241524

An Introduction to Karl Marx

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

An Introduction to Karl Marx

By: Jon Elster

A critical introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought that stresses the relevance and importance of many of the philosopher's theories. It can be considered a standard basic reference work for the study of Marx in conjunction with the author's companion selection of Marx's writings, Karl Marx: A Reader.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052133831X

ISBN 13

9780521338318

Reason and Rationality

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reason and Rationality

By: Jon Elster

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a wealth of historical and contemporary illustrations, Reason and Rationality marks a new development in Elster's thinking while at the same time providing a brief, elegant, and accessible introduction to his work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691139008

ISBN 13

9780691139005

Reason and Rationality

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reason and Rationality

By: Jon Elster

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691139008

ISBN 13

9780691139005

Closing the Books

Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Closing the Books

Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

By: Jon Elster

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521548543

ISBN 13

9780521548540

The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Historical Introduction to Knowledge Management and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Historical Introduction to Knowledge Management and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

In the last thirty years, there has been an industrial revolution that has changed the world and given rise to an innovation economy that is changing the face of organizational logic. Here, Jon-Arild Johannessen shows how the knowledge worker emerges to become the new working class of the fourth industrial revolution.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

144

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1789739934

ISBN 13

9781789739930

Knowledge Management Philosophy

Communication as a Strategic Asset in Knowledge Management

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Knowledge Management Philosophy

Communication as a Strategic Asset in Knowledge Management

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Knowledge Management is an important part of all business, and yet the discipline lacks a philosophy based on systemic thinking. Exploring this gap, expert author Jon-Arild Johannessen continues his research on knowledge management with the groundwork for a new philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1839096349

ISBN 13

9781839096341

Robot Ethics and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Robot Ethics and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations. It examines the moral and ethical problems that arise in relation to the development, design and use of intelligent robots, which are capable of autonomous or semi-autonomous decision-making. These problems might relate, for example, to medical robots, driverless cars, intelligent military drones, pedagogical robots, police robots, legal robots and many others. The main question addressed in this book is how we can understand, explain and apply the concept of ethics in relation to intelligent robots and artificial intelligence. In each chapter, the author examines a different aspect of this question. The author also questions how we can ensure that intelligent robots are of service to humans and under what conditions intelligent robots could become more ethical than humans. The book employs an original approach to examining this cutting-edge research question, combining different research areas, and offers a wealth of practical relevance and real-world examples, illustrated through vivid case studies. With its jargon free approach and a dedicated chapter on relevant concepts at the end, this book is also accessible to readers without prior knowledge on intelligent robots and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. By providing a general account of this debate, and of the consequences of the innovations resulting from these trends, the book serves as an important contribution to the discussion and will find a natural readership among scholars and students of the innovation economy and those concerned with the ethical considerations arising in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

203

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000398595

ISBN 13

9781000398595

Automation, Innovation and Economic Crisis

Surviving the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Automation, Innovation and Economic Crisis

Surviving the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre. It is also taking place at enormous speed. This development will shape the workplaces of the future, which will be entirely different from the workplaces created by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Industry created the industrial worker. The knowledge society will create a new type of "industrial worker", the knowledge worker. While the third industrial revolution was concerned with the digitalization of work, in the fourth industrial revolution, robots will bring about the informatization of work. Many of these robots will be systematically connected, such that they can obtain updated information and learn from their own and others’ mistakes. The way we work, where we work, what we work on, and our relationships with our colleagues and employers are all in a state of change. The workplace of the future will not necessarily be a fixed geographical location, but may be geographically distributed and functionally divided. In his book, Jon-Arild Johannessen argues that a "perfect" social storm occurs when inequality grows at a catastrophic rate, unemployment increases, job security is threatened for a growing number and robotization takes over even the most underpaid jobs. Thus, the ingredients for a perfect social storm will be brought forward by cascades of innovations that will most likely lead to economic and social crises and he argues that it is reasonable to assume that it will only take a small spark for this social storm to develop into a social revolution.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

197

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351039849

ISBN 13

9781351039840

Jews, Race and Popular Music

By: Jon Stratton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jews, Race and Popular Music

By: Jon Stratton

Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351561707

ISBN 13

9781351561709

Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy

Tackling the Inequality, Climate and Biodiversity Crises

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy

Tackling the Inequality, Climate and Biodiversity Crises

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis are systemically linked. Accordingly, they should be understood as a single, interconnected system and strategies for resolving them should be guided by this understanding. This book demonstrates how the Green New Deal and its systemic alternative, the Red New Deal, could influence the course of these three global crises, all within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The author has developed several scenarios that are relevant to the automation that will result from advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent robots. The first is one of mass unemployment, while the second envisages low rates of unemployment, although workers will experience stagnation and then a decline in their wages. It is possible to envisage a different set of scenarios; however, we must replace the capitalist economic model with a different model: mutualism, a sustainable model that would allow for economic growth while also addressing the three current systemic crises. The author argues that if such a model is implemented, there will be jobs for everyone and the climate crisis will be tackled because people’s welfare will be prioritized over profit. We can assert that such a model will foster the development of economic equality. The basic premise of this mutual and sustainable economic model is that sustainability is in everyone’s interests. The book employs not only established and innovative methods, such as literature reviews, scenario thinking and historical methods, to underpin its arguments, but also conceptual generalization as an intellectual tool to tackle the general research problem; thus, it will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sustainability and the innovation economy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

155

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040008747

ISBN 13

9781040008744

Knowledge Management as a Strategic Asset

An Integrated, Historical Approach

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Knowledge Management as a Strategic Asset

An Integrated, Historical Approach

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

169

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1787696618

ISBN 13

9781787696617

The Workplace of the Future

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Workplace of the Future

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies, Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust has settled from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, workplaces and professions will be unrecognizable and we will see the rise of a new social class: the precariat. We will live side by side with the 'working poor' – people who have several jobs, but still can’t make ends meet. There will be a small salaried elite consisting of innovation and knowledge workers. Slightly further into the future, there will be a major transformation in professional environments. Johannessen also presents a typology for the precariat, the uncertain work that is created and develops a framework for the working poor, as well as for future innovation and knowledge workers, and sets out a new structure for the social hierarchy. A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Workplace of the Future will be of interest to professionals and academics alike. The book is particularly suited to academic courses in management, economy, political science and social sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

167

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429805349

ISBN 13

9780429805349

Political Philosophy A-Z

By: Jon Pike

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Political Philosophy A-Z

By: Jon Pike

Both topical and historical, this book guides the reader through the intricacies of political theory, enabling them to trace their way through a debate, fixing historical and theoretical points of reference along the way.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1474471633

ISBN 13

9781474471633

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy?

By: Jon Naustdalslid

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy?

By: Jon Naustdalslid

A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming. The failure of global climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions and halt climate change has led an increasing number of scientist and activists to lose confidence in democracy's ability to handle climate change and led them to look to more authoritarian measures to meet the problem. The book documents these trends, also from a historical perspective, criticize them and sketches more democratic alternatives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3031344715

ISBN 13

9783031344718

The End of Cinema as We Know it

American Film in the Nineties

By: Jon Lewis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The End of Cinema as We Know it

American Film in the Nineties

By: Jon Lewis

In The End of Cinema As We Know It, contributors well known in the 'movie' field talk about the movie industry and look at the variety of new ways we are viewing films. They query whether or not we are getting different, better movies?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

Pluto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0745318797

ISBN 13

9780745318790

Evidence-Based Innovation Leadership

Creating Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Organizations

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen,Hanne Stokvik

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Evidence-Based Innovation Leadership

Creating Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Organizations

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen,Hanne Stokvik

This book offers a holistic model for what it calls "innovation leadership," which includes entrepreneurial action,creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1787696375

ISBN 13

9781787696372

Contemporary Democracy and the Sacred

Rights, Religion and Ideology

By: Jon Wittrock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contemporary Democracy and the Sacred

Rights, Religion and Ideology

By: Jon Wittrock

Debates on the impact of religious traditions upon secular politics have raged throughout the last century and continue today. Exposing the ambiguity of secularity in political life, Jon Wittrock investigates the contemporary relevance of the scared beyond established religious communities and within wider civic society. In the context of globalization, characterized by the spread of capitalist commodification and new technologies of transportation and communication, determining the legitimacy of democratic nation-states is particularly urgent. Questioning ontological challenges to democracy, this book confronts the public narratives, symbols and rituals of the political domain. It analyses modern scholarship on the impact of eschatological figures of thought on government and political ideologies, what hopes there are for universal rights or justice, and the “public worship” of contemporary democracies. Bridging the analytical and continental sides of the philosophical divide, this book draws upon conceptual analysis as well as phenomenology and deconstruction. It advocates neither a left- nor a right-wing political approach, but seeks to outline what political secularization could and should mean.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350058823

ISBN 13

9781350058828

Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

By: Jon E. Lewis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

By: Jon E. Lewis

Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more under arms. His new model army of volunteers and conscripts at epic battles such as Austerlitz, Salamanca, Borodino, Jena and, of course, Waterloo marked the beginning of modern warfare, the road to the Sommes and Stalingrad. The citizen-in-arms of Napoleon's Grande Armée and other armies of the time gave rise to a distinct body of soldiers' personal memoirs. The personal accounts that Jon E. Lewis has selected from these memoirs, as well as from letters and diaries, include those of Rifleman Harris fighting in the Peninsular Wars, and Captain Alexander Cavalie Mercer of the Royal Horse Artillery at Waterloo. They cover the land campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1739-1802), the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and the War of 1812 (1812-1815), in North America. This was the age of cavalry charges, of horse-drawn artillery, of muskets and hand-to-hand combat with sabres and bayonets. It was an era in which inspirational leadership and patriotic common cause counted for much at close quarters on chaotic and bloody battlefields. The men who wrote these accounts were directly involved in the sweeping campaigns and climactic battles that set Europe and America alight at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the years that followed. Alongside recollections of the ferocity of hard-fought battles are the equally telling details of the common soldier's daily life - short rations, forced marches in the searing heat of the Iberian summer and the bitter cold of the Russian winter, debilitating illnesses and crippling wounds, looting and the lash, but also the compensations of hard-won comradeship in the face of ever-present death. Collectively, these personal accounts give us the most vivid picture of warfare 200 and more years ago, in the evocative language of those who knew it at first hand - the men and officers of the British, French and American armies. They let us know exactly what it was like to be an infantryman, a cavalryman, an artilleryman of the time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

501

Publisher

Robinson

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472136160

ISBN 13

9781472136169

North Sea Cooperation

Linking International and Domestic Pollution Control

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

North Sea Cooperation

Linking International and Domestic Pollution Control

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth

This is the first book to examine the link between international and national environmental institutions. It examines this link in depth by analyzing the making and implementation of North Sea pollution commitments. The author develops two models generating different propositions aimed at distinguishing the significance of institutions from other explanatory factors. The key to understanding the success of international institutions in the North Sea cooperation lies in the balancing of hard legally binding and soft politically acting institutions in the same issue-area. He goes on to show the extent to which different national institutions in Norway, the Netherlands and the UK are suited to implement the North Sea commitments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0719058090

ISBN 13

9780719058097

Strong Feelings

Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Strong Feelings

Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior

By: Jon Elster

Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster's study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice. The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the variety of human motivations who are dissatisfied with the prevailing reductionisms. *Not for sale in Belgium, France, or Switzerland.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

MIT Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0262262541

ISBN 13

9780262262545

Feudal Capitalism and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feudal Capitalism and the Innovation Economy

By: Jon-Arild Johannessen

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed. Freedom was restricted, and people were kept in their place by institutional structures. In capitalism, the focus is on free markets, free trade, and a personal freedom, where self-interest is assumed to lead to progress for the collective good. In today’s world, there is a move towards algorithmic capitalism at the micro-level, platform capitalism at the meso-level, and feudal capitalism at the macro-level. This is the new and innovative concept developed in this book. The author argues that feudal capitalism is distinct but linked to the innovation economy, and represents an interconnection between the organization of feudal society and central aspects of capitalism. Additionally, he asserts that the balance between feudal capitalism and a reinvented, sustainable capitalism based on the innovation economy, can help restore the moral compass lost in the evolution of global capitalism. The key argument of the book is that even if we see a development towards feudal capitalism, a more just and moral capitalism can be restored through various social mechanisms such as changes in the institutional framework, the development of a balanced form of globalization and re-establishing social cohesion and equality of opportunity. Further, the book offers policy interventions to support this idea. The book will find an audience among scholars and researchers of political economy, political theory, economic history, management, AI and ethics, philosophy and automation, inequality and equality of opportunity

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000886239

ISBN 13

9781000886238

Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

By: Jon Elster

This 1989 book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a toolbox of mechanisms - nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels - that can be used to explain complex social phenomena. Within a brief compass, Jon Elster covers a vast range of topics. His point of departure is the conflict we all face between our desires and our opportunities. How can rational choice theory help us understand our motivation and behaviour? More significantly, what happens when the theory breaks down but we still cleave to a belief in the power of the rational? Elster describes the fascinating range of forms of irrationality - wishful thinking, the phenomenon of sour grapes, discounting the future in noncooperative behaviour. This is a remarkably lucid and comprehensive introduction to the social sciences for students of political science, philosophy, sociology and economics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107077753

ISBN 13

9781107077751

Alchemies of the Mind

Rationality and the Emotions

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alchemies of the Mind

Rationality and the Emotions

By: Jon Elster

A comprehensive book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

468

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521644879

ISBN 13

9780521644877

America Before 1787

The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime

By: Jon Elster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

America Before 1787

The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime

By: Jon Elster

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

488

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691242658

ISBN 13

9780691242651

Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century

Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform

By: C. Eugene Steuerle,Jon M. Bakija

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century

Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform

By: C. Eugene Steuerle,Jon M. Bakija

Study of the Social Security debate arguing that Social Security needs reform and offering a blueprint for implementing them to meet today's and tomorrow's needs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

358

Publisher

The Urban Insitute

Published Date

ISBN 10

0877666024

ISBN 13

9780877666028

Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio

By: Jon D. Swartz,Robert C. Reinehr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio

By: Jon D. Swartz,Robert C. Reinehr

The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States. During this time, radio was as popular and ubiquitous as television is today. It was amazingly varied in the types of programming it offered; many characters and programs were so popular that virtually everyone was familiar with them. Even today, recorded versions of these programs are still extremely popular and widely available, both from commercial outlets and from hobbyists. Behind the production of these programs was a complex technological and financial infrastructure that had to be developed virtually from scratch in a world unaccustomed to the rapid communication and technological marvels that we take for granted today. The Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio provides essential facts and information on the Golden Age of Radio. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the radio networks, programs, directors, producers, writers, actors, radio series, and radio stations. Entries on your favorite shows_The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Dragnet, and Suspense_and actors_Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Edgar Bergen_will have you jumping from one entry to the next as you relive old favorites and discover hidden treasures from the Golden Age of Radio.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810864223

ISBN 13

9780810864221

Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice'

An Introduction

By: Jon Mandle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice'

An Introduction

By: Jon Mandle

A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a compelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. The argument for this alternative is, however, complicated and often confusing. In this book Jon Mandle carefully reconstructs Rawls's argument, showing that the most common interpretations of it are often mistaken. For example, Rawls does not endorse welfare-state capitalism, and he is not a 'luck egalitarian' as is widely believed. Mandle also explores the relationship between A Theory of Justice and the developments in Rawls's later work, Political Liberalism, as well as discussing some of the most influential criticisms in the secondary literature. His book will be an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to engage with this ground-breaking philosophical work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139483056

ISBN 13

9781139483056

Legacies of the Nazi Camps in Norway

Falstad 1941-49

By: Trond Risro Nilssen,Jon Reitan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Legacies of the Nazi Camps in Norway

Falstad 1941-49

By: Trond Risro Nilssen,Jon Reitan

During World War 2 (WW2) Nazi Germany established 500 camps in occupied Norway. In May 1945 these camps quickly became symbols of terror and death. At war's end war criminals and collaborators had to be arrested pending their trials, in a time marked by revenge. This book examines new perspectives on the scope and fate of the Nazi camps in Norway during WW2. One of the most symbol-laden sites in Norwegian war history is in focus. The SS camp Falstad in central Norway was an arena of Nazi abuses from 1941-1945. After the war, it was made into a prison and played a key part in the Norwegian post-war trials.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

LIT Verlag Münster

Published Date

ISBN 10

3643910029

ISBN 13

9783643910028

Mets by the Numbers

A Complete Team History of the Amazin' Mets by Uniform Number

By: Jon Springer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mets by the Numbers

A Complete Team History of the Amazin' Mets by Uniform Number

By: Jon Springer

This is the first team history of the New York Mets—or any other team—to be told through a lighthearted analysis of uniform numbers. Ordinary club histories proceed year by year to give the big picture. Mets by the Numbers uses jersey numbers to tell the little stories—the ones the fans love—of the team and its players. This newly revised edition is a catalog of the more than 700 Mets who have played since 1962, but it is far from just a list of No. 18s and 41s. Mets by the Numbers celebrates the team’s greatest players, critiques numbers that have failed to attract talent, and singles out particularly productive numbers, and numbers that had really big nights. With coverage of superstitions, prolific jersey-wearers, the ever-changing Mets uniform, and significant Mets numbers not associated with uniforms, this book is a fascinating alternative history of the Amazin’s. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1613218869

ISBN 13

9781613218860

Book's by Jon Elster

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email