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The Secret Defector

A Novel

By: Clancy Sigal

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DIVDIVA passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelist/divDIV Clancy Sigal’s fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the native culture by plunging into its dark corners. Amid the upheavals, he lands a job at Vogue, consorting with models like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, and commences a passionate affair with Rose O’Malley, a brilliant writer loosely based on Sigal’s real-life lover Doris Lessing./divDIV Set in the swinging London of the fifties and sixties, The Secret Defector is a portrait of an American on the loose striving to define himself against an alien yet oddly familiar culture. Sigal’s frequent themes of the working class, the counterculture, and Marxism are in evidence, as is his self-deprecating wit. This quasi-autobiographical novel takes Clancy’s trademark energy to confront the decline of the left and the rise of feminism./divDIV/div/div

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Open Road Media

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1480437069

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9781480437067

Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

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Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? Those are not only the wrong questions—they’re the wrong premises, argue philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath and historian Michael C. Johanek in Making Up Our Mind. Market-driven school choices aren’t new. They predate the republic, and for generations parents have chosen to educate their children through an evolving mix of publicly supported, private, charitable, and entrepreneurial enterprises. The question is not whether to have school choice. It is how we will regulate who has which choices in our mixed market for schooling—and what we, as a nation, hope to accomplish with that mix of choices. Looking beyond the simplistic divide between those who oppose government intervention and those who support public education, the authors make the case for a structured landscape of choice in schooling, one that protects the interests of children and of society, while also identifying key shared values on which a broadly acceptable policy could rest.

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191

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University of Chicago Press

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022661977X

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9780226619774

The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending

By: Leon V. Sigal

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The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending

By: Leon V. Sigal

A behind-the-scenes look at the environment for defense policy and budgeting—in Congress, the news media, and the defense industry—reveals that the appearance of stability is deceiving. Pressures are building for change. Defense spending has leveled off at about $265 billion a year in outlays. Current commitments to preserve the existing force while purchasing new weaponry are creating significant budget issues which must be addressed. This book probes beneath the surface to show how the political base for defense spending is eroding. The economic benefits of defense spending and of foreign military sales are increasingly concentrated. A few well-placed members are now the main beneficiaries of add-ons to the budget. At the same time, mergers and acquisitions have left the defense industrial base largely intact, with new weapons filling every production line. Yet it will take sharp increases in the defense budget to fund these new weapons, increases that may not be politically viable. A provocative analysis by some of the leading scholars and researchers involved with defense and foreign policy issues, this will be of great interest to experts as well as general readers.

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240

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313028621

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9780313028625

Minority Women and Western Media

Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

By: Leticia Anderson,Sigal Barak-Brandes,Debora Freud,Kathomi Gatwiri,Zahra Jafari,Khulekani Madlela,Beris Artan Özoran,Ilgar Seyidov

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Minority Women and Western Media

Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices

By: Leticia Anderson,Sigal Barak-Brandes,Debora Freud,Kathomi Gatwiri,Zahra Jafari,Khulekani Madlela,Beris Artan Özoran,Ilgar Seyidov

Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498599869

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9781498599863

Hemingway Lives!

Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today

By: Clancy Sigal

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Hemingway Lives!

Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today

By: Clancy Sigal

With the release of a flurry of feature and TV films about his life and work, and the publication of new books looking at his correspondence, his boat and even his favorite cocktails, Ernest Hemingway is once again center stage of contemporary culture. There’s something about Papa that makes any retirement to the wings only fleeting. Now, in this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, Clancy Sigal, himself a National Book Award runner-up, presents a persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today. Sigal breaks new ground in celebrating Hemingway’s passionate and unapologetic political partisanship, his stunningly concise, no-frills writing style, and an attitude to sex and sexuality much more nuanced than he is traditionally credited with. Simply for the pleasure provided by a consummate story teller, Hemingway is as much a must-read author as ever. Though Hemingway Lives! will provide plenty that’s new for those already familiar with Papa’s oeuvre, including substantial forays into his political commitments, the women in his life, and the astonishing range of his short stories, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work. Those venturing into Hemingway’s writing for the first time will find in Sigal an inspirational and erudite guide.

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188

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OR Books

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1939293189

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9781939293183

Shades of Public Finance

More Insider Stories of the Municipal Bonds That Built America

By: Richard Land Sigal

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Shades of Public Finance

More Insider Stories of the Municipal Bonds That Built America

By: Richard Land Sigal

Shades of Public Finance lifts the curtain on aspects of American civil and financial underpinnings that most people know little about. Local water treatment systems, state university campuses, roads, parks and many other features of our cities and states have been built with local control and local decision-making because imaginative figures like Richard Sigal found ways to turn community assets into cash through bonds. Sigal explains in clear language how bonds are structured, who gets rich, who gets stuck and how politics impacts bond financing. Sigal highlights the frightening prospect of centralized, federal control of local communities' infrastructure and growth because municipal bankruptcy has become an acceptable strategy in difficult financial times, despite workable options that preserve local creditworthiness.

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Dudley Court Press, LLC

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1940013623

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9781940013626

Free Speech on Campus

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath

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Free Speech on Campus

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath

From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off against one another, assuming contrary positions on the limits of thought and expression, respect for differences, the boundaries of toleration, and protection from harm. In Free Speech on Campus, political philosopher Sigal Ben-Porath examines the current state of the arguments, using real-world examples to explore the contexts in which conflicts erupt, as well as to assess the place of identity politics and concern with safety and dignity within them. She offers a useful framework for thinking about free-speech controversies both inside and outside the college classroom, shifting the focus away from disputes about legality and harm and toward democracy and inclusion. Ben-Porath provides readers with strategies to de-escalate tensions and negotiate highly charged debates surrounding trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speech that verges on hate. Everyone with a stake in campus controversies—professors, students, administrators, and informed members of the wider public—will find something valuable in Ben-Porath's illuminating discussion of these crucially important issues.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812294920

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9780812294927

Book's by Sigal Lisa

The Secret Defector

The Secret Defector

Making Up Our Mind

Making Up Our Mind

The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending

The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending

Minority Women and Western Media

Minority Women and Western Media

Hemingway Lives!

Hemingway Lives!

Shades of Public Finance

Shades of Public Finance

Free Speech on Campus

Free Speech on Campus

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