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Global Capitalism

A Sociological Perspective

By: Miguel A. Centeno,Joseph N. Cohen

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Global Capitalism

A Sociological Perspective

By: Miguel A. Centeno,Joseph N. Cohen

The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market, governments and societies are now calling for a retreat to a yet undefined new economic order. In order to provide a guide to what the twenty-first-century economy might look like, this book revisits the great project of Global Capitalism. What did it actually entail? How far did it go? What were its strengths and failings? By deconstructing its core ideas and examining its empirical record, can we gain clues about how to move forward after the crisis? Miguel Centeno and Joseph Cohen define capitalism as a historically-evolving and socially-constructed institution, rooted in three core economic activities trade, finance and marketing and identify the three key challenges that any new economic system will need to surmount inequality, governance, and environmental sustainability. This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for students of economic sociology, and all those interested in the construction of our economic future.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745655947

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9780745655949

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE

A TRILOGY OF RECONCILIATION APPROACHES

By: Joseph Mark Holmes

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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE

A TRILOGY OF RECONCILIATION APPROACHES

By: Joseph Mark Holmes

The first section of the trilogy deals with epistemology. The approaches to determine what is true in the author’s religion and science use are discussed, and shown to be somewhat similar. The fundamental beliefs of both religion and science are based on metaphysical assumptions that cannot be proven true with empirical evidence. In the second part of the trilogy, seven essential metaphysical assumptions of the author’s faith are discussed. They are shown to be reasonable beliefs based on respected theories of quantum physics, relativity, the big bang, superstrings, evolution, psychology, geology and anthropology. The third section of the trilogy deals with beliefs about the creation of the earth. Each of the seven days of the creation story in Genesis are reinterpreted based on the finding of science, and beliefs of the LDS Church. This includes a form of evolution and pre-Adamic man. It is consistent with the writer's religious faith.

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 13

9798369420379

Financial Crisis in American Households

The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class

By: Joseph Nathan Cohen

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Financial Crisis in American Households

The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class

By: Joseph Nathan Cohen

More than one-third of Americans could not sustain a basic livelihood without government assistance. Almost 60 percent of seniors are dependent on the government. Why is this? This book examines how the U.S. economy's failure to deliver high-quality, universally accessible basic necessities is creating acute financial insecurity among the American middle class. Over the past 30 years, America's middle class has grown more financially insecure. How much of this pressing problem is due to Americans' failure to restrain their spending versus their upwards spiraling—and increasingly necessary—expenditures on health care, education, and housing? And how can Americans choose between financial security and paying for essentials on a day-to-day basis? This book answers these tough questions and many more in its evaluation of a complex and contentious issue: how basic expenses of life in the 21st century are bankrupting American families. The book begins with a snapshot of U.S. household finances, an assessment of financial insecurity's prevalence across the nation, and a description of how American households have declined into their present precarious economic situation over the last three decades. The author's analysis then looks at how European countries pursue policies that make these essentials highly accessible and postulates that the socialization of these essentials in other countries has helped to solidify household finances and maintain living standards. The work uniquely focuses on the plight of the middle class in America to provide relevant, useful information to help as many readers as possible to better understand and improve their own financial situations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440832226

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9781440832222

David Bergelson

From Modernism to Socialist Realism. Proceedings of the 6th Mendel Friedman Conference

By: Joseph Sherman

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David Bergelson

From Modernism to Socialist Realism. Proceedings of the 6th Mendel Friedman Conference

By: Joseph Sherman

Among the finest prose stylists in Yiddish literature, David Bergelson (1884-1952) was caught up in many of the twentieth century's most defining events. In 1909 he emerged as a pioneer of modernist prose, observing the slow decay of the Tsarist empire. In 1917 he welcomed the Revolution, but the bloodshed of the ensuing Civil War and the dogmatism of the Bolsheviks drove him to emigration. For more than a decade (1921-1934), he lived in Weimar Germany, travelling extensively in Europe and the United States. Shocked by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, disheartened by the decline of Yiddish culture in the West, and inspired by Soviet promises to create a Jewish republic, Bergelson became a Communist sympathiser and moved towards socialist realism. Returning to the Soviet Union after Hitler's rise to power, Bergelson flourished in a state-sponsored cultural environment in which his work was widely read both in Yiddish and in Russian translation. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Bergelson became a prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, writing extensively about the Holocaust. In the paranoia of the Cold War years, the Stalinist regime accused him of anti-Soviet activities and, after a secret military trial he was executed on 12 August 1952, his 68th birthday. For years, critics have argued that Bergelson produced his best work before the Revolution, and afterwards largely wrote Communist propaganda. David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism challenges this view by examining Bergelson's entire oeuvre. The book argues that Bergelson continually reinvented himself as a writer, experimenting with style and narrative technique even under the most severe restrictions of Party dogma. With contributions from an international team of Bergelson experts, the volume offers a full-length biography, the first complete bibliography of Bergelson's work, translations of two of his most influential programmatic articles, and a range of essays dealing with all periods of the writer's life. With the contributions: Joseph Sherman- David Bergelson (1884-1952): A Biography Lev Bergelson- Memories of My Father: The Early Years (1918-1934) Daniela Mantovan- Language and Style in Nokh alemen (1913): Bergelson's Debt to Flaubert Kerstin Hoge- For Children and Adults Alike: Reading Bergelson's 'Children's Stories' (1914-1919) as Narratives of Identity Formation Seth L. Wolitz- Yoysef Shor (1922): Between Two Worlds Sasha Senderovich- In Search of Readership: Bergelson Among the Refugees (1928) Mikhail Krutikov- Narrating the Revolution: From 'Tsugvintn' (1922) to Mides-hadin (1929) Ellen Kellman- Uneasy Patronage: Bergelson's Years at Forverts (1922-1926) Gennady Estraikh- David Bergelson in and on America (1929-1949) Ber Boris Kotlerman- 'Why I am in Favour of Birobidzhan': Bergelson's Fateful Decision (1932) Harriet Murav- Memory and Monument in Baym Dnyepr (1932-1940) David Shneer- From Mourning to Vengeance: Bergelson's Holocaust Journalism (1941-1945) Jeffrey Veidlinger- 'Du lebst, mayn folk': Bergelson's Play Prints Ruveni in Historical Context (1944-1947) Joseph Sherman- 'Jewish Nationalism' in Bergelson's Last Book (1947) Roberta Saltzman- A Bibliography of David Bergelson's Work in Yiddish and English David Bergelson- Appendix A. Belles-lettres and the Social Order (1919) David Bergelson- Appendix B. Three Centres (Characteristics) (1926)

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Routledge

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1351195212

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9781351195218

Culture in History

Production, Consumption and Values in Historical Perspective

By: Joseph Melling

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Culture in History

Production, Consumption and Values in Historical Perspective

By: Joseph Melling

This volume of interdisciplinary essays brings together leading academics from the fields of history, economic history, politics and sociology to review and take forward a series of debates on the role of culture in social explanation. The book is aimed at those involved in cultural studies, but is particularly concerned with the relationship between the economic and the cultural. The contributors suggest that the boundaries of production and consumption are themselves cultural constructs, formed by changing conceptions of economic and cultural explanation, but offer very different approaches to resolving the problems created by this.

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University of Exeter Press

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0859893804

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9780859893800

Worlds in Transition

Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet

By: Joseph Camilleri,Jim Falk

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Worlds in Transition

Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet

By: Joseph Camilleri,Jim Falk

We are living through a unique moment of transition, marked by a frenetic cycle of invention, construction, consumption and destruction. However, there is more to this transition than globalization, argue the authors of this unique and penetrating study. In their highly innovative approach, they set this transition against a broader evolutionary canvas, with the emphasis on the evolution of governance. The book's detailed analysis of five strategic sectors (economy, environment, health, information and security) points to an intricate and rapidly evolving interplay of geopolitical, cultural an.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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085793080X

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9780857930804

A Captive of the Dawn

The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952)

By: Joseph Sherman

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A Captive of the Dawn

The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952)

By: Joseph Sherman

Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe's most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from the Kiev literary tradition, Markish always went his own way in a literary career spanning four decades and embracing almost

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Routledge

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1351578162

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9781351578165

Psychology

By: Stephen F. Davis,Joseph J. Palladino

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Psychology

By: Stephen F. Davis,Joseph J. Palladino

This text examines: the range of applications of psychological research; treatment of the hows and whys of research methods and examination; and historical background developed within the coverage of topics such as the function of neurons, the development of phobias and the concept of stress.

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002327851X

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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi

By: Joseph Davis

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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi

By: Joseph Davis

Here is a major rabbinic figure, author of the famed Tosafot yom tov, whose life spanned several countries and an important transitional period in the history of European Jewry—a time of social and economic development, intellectual ferment, wars and pogroms. Davis narrates Heller's life in its individuality and detail, places him in the context of his time, and shows his vision of Judaism, of the world around him, and of the events he lived through.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821284

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9781909821286

Social Work and Social Welfare

An Introduction

By: W. Joseph Heffernan,Guy Shuttlesworth,Rosalie Ambrosino

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Social Work and Social Welfare

An Introduction

By: W. Joseph Heffernan,Guy Shuttlesworth,Rosalie Ambrosino

Underscoring the belief that approaches to social welfare have changed over the decades, while the needs to which the social work profession respond remain much the same, the authors offer a text that helps students develop a frame of reference to understand social welfare and an approach to address social issues which will serve them well in times of committment and retrenchment.

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Brooks Cole

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0314067159

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9780314067159

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Global Capitalism

Global Capitalism

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE

Financial Crisis in American Households

Financial Crisis in American Households

David Bergelson

David Bergelson

Culture in History

Culture in History

Worlds in Transition

Worlds in Transition

A Captive of the Dawn

A Captive of the Dawn

Psychology

Psychology

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Social Work and Social Welfare

Social Work and Social Welfare

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