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Globalization, Hegemony and Power

Antisystemic Movements and the Global System

By: Thomas Reifer

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Globalization, Hegemony and Power

Antisystemic Movements and the Global System

By: Thomas Reifer

This book explores the closely related dynamics of globalization, hegemony and resistance movements in the modern world. Complimented by dramatic explorations of the new trans-border resistance movements, from the contemporary labor movement to the resurgence of nationalism, this book moves beyond the traditional focus on cycles of rise and decline of great powers to asses the pressing questions at the intersection of contemporary globalizations and hegemonic rise, decline and resurgence of civilizations. Moreover, the book provides a compelling analysis of the role of contemporary globalization in the resurgence of Islamic activism across the globe and the challenges this poses for traditional theories of modernity and global social movements. Contributors: Immanuel Wallerstein, Joachim Rennstich, William Robinson, Jeffrey Kentor, AMy Holmes, Kathleen Schwartzman, Edna Bonacich, Terry Boswell, Paul M. Lubeck & Thomas Reifer, Lauren Langman & Douglas Morris.

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Routledge

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1317258843

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Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

By: Thomas Reifer

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Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

By: Thomas Reifer

Despite prognostications of the "end of history," the 21st century has posed new challenges and a host of global crises. This book takes up the current global economic crisis in relation to new and changing dynamics of territory, authority, and rights in today's global system. The authors explore long simmering conflicts in comparative perspective, including settler colonialism in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. They discuss indigenous struggles against environmental land grabs and related destruction of indigenous lands by the US nuclear weapons complex. The book uniquely considers the sacred in the context of the global system, including struggles of Latina/o farm workers in the U.S. for social justice and for change in the Catholic Church. Other chapters examine questions of civilizations and identity in the contemporary global system, as well as the role of world-regions.

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201

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Routledge

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131725905X

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The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

A Dialectical Fairy Tale

By: Carlton D. Floyd,Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

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The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

A Dialectical Fairy Tale

By: Carlton D. Floyd,Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically sustainable foundations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793634122

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The Torturer in the Mirror

By: Ramsey Clark,Thomas Ehrlich Reifer,Haifa Zangana

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The Torturer in the Mirror

By: Ramsey Clark,Thomas Ehrlich Reifer,Haifa Zangana

Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"—became the US's justification for engaging in torture. The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers accountable.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609803159

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9781609803155

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Resistance and Revitalization

By: Thomas D. Hall,James V. Fenelon

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Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Resistance and Revitalization

By: Thomas D. Hall,James V. Fenelon

The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples have been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship to their origin lands and community. The authors link their analyses to current understandings of the evolution of globalization.

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Routledge

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1317257618

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The Chinese Computer

A Global History of the Information Age

By: Thomas S. Mullaney

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The Chinese Computer

A Global History of the Information Age

By: Thomas S. Mullaney

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that the key to this seemingly impossible riddle has given rise to a new epoch in the history of writing—a form of writing he calls “hypography.” Based on fifteen years of research, this pathbreaking history of the Chinese language charts the beginnings of electronic Chinese technology in the wake of World War II up through to its many iterations in the present day. Mullaney takes the reader back through the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology, showing the development of electronic Chinese input methods—software programs that enable Chinese characters to be produced using alphanumeric symbols—and the profound impact they have had on the way Chinese is written. Along the way, Mullaney introduces a cast of brilliant and eccentric personalities drawn from the ranks of IBM, MIT, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Taiwanese military, and the highest rungs of mainland Chinese establishment, to name a few, and the unexpected roles they played in developing Chinese language computing. Finally, he shows how China and the non-Western world—because of the hypographic technologies they had to invent in order to join the personal computing revolution—“saved” the Western computer from its deep biases, enabling it to achieve a meaningful presence in markets outside of the Americas and Europe. An eminently engaging and artfully told history, The Chinese Computer is a must-read for anyone interested in how culture informs computing and how computing, in turn, shapes culture.

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MIT Press

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0262047519

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9780262047517

Tanks of the Second World War

By: Thomas Anderson

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Tanks of the Second World War

By: Thomas Anderson

This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, France, Russia and the USA) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Thomas Anderson, an expert on the history of the Second World War, offers an in-depth volume detailing the vehicles, their use in battle and relevant technical specifications. This comprehensive survey is full of authentic eyewitness accounts as well as being profusely illustrated with many photographs having never been published before.

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Pen and Sword

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1473859328

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Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction

By: Alfredo Andia,Thomas Spiegelhalter

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Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction

By: Alfredo Andia,Thomas Spiegelhalter

Automation, a mixture of algorithms, robots, software, and avatars, is transforming all types of jobs and industries. This book responds to one critical question for the design and construction industry: “how are architects, engineers, and contractors using information technology to further automate their practices?” Addressing the use of new digital technologies, particularly parametric automation for design and construction in the building industry, this book looks at how technologically advanced architectural and engineering practices are semi-automating their design processes by using sophisticated algorithms to transform their workflows. The book also documents a set of firms that are further advancing automation by using pre-fabrication, modularization, and custom designs via robotics.

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Artech House

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1608076946

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9781608076949

Tegg's Handbook for Emigrants

By: Thomas Tegg

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Tegg's Handbook for Emigrants

By: Thomas Tegg

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385142849

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The Contemporary Caribbean

By: Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway

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The Contemporary Caribbean

By: Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway

This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as slavery, the plantation system and plantocracy are explored in order to explain the contemporary nature of, and challenges faced by, the Caribbean. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with: the foundations of the Caribbean, rural and urban bases of the contemporary Caribbean, and global restructuring and the Caribbean: industry, tourism and politics.

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Routledge

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1317875990

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9781317875994

Freedom and Ground

A Study of Schelling's Treatise on Freedom

By: Mark J. Thomas

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Freedom and Ground

A Study of Schelling's Treatise on Freedom

By: Mark J. Thomas

This book is a new interpretation of Schelling's path-breaking 1809 treatise on freedom, the last major work published during his lifetime. The treatise is at the heart of the current Schelling renaissance—indeed, Heidegger calls it "one of the most profound works of German, thus of Western, philosophy." It is also one of the most demanding and complex texts in German Idealism. By tracing the problem of ground through Schelling's treatise, Mark J. Thomas provides a unified reading of the text, while unlocking the meaning of its most challenging passages through clear, detailed analysis. He shows how Schelling's implicit distinction between senses of ground is the key to his project of constructing a system that can satisfy reason while accommodating objects that seem to defy rational explanation—including evil, the origins of nature, and absolute freedom. This allows Schelling to unite reason and mystery, providing a rich model for philosophizing about freedom and evil today.

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State University of New York Press

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1438493010

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Building on Solid Ground

Authentic Values and How to Attain Them

By: Thomas D. Williams

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Building on Solid Ground

Authentic Values and How to Attain Them

By: Thomas D. Williams

This book issues an invitation for us to build our lives on bedrock, to search for truth, even when it is hard to find, rather than give in to the temptation of a superficial utilitarianism that ignores life's most important questions.nk you. --Ricky Van Sheltonvingly to life.h man reach Danzig with Jewish children without being apprehended?eir lives.ess, a better friend.

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Saint Pauls/Alba House

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0818907495

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9780818907494

The Encyclopedia of Herbs

A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance

By: Thomas DeBaggio,Arthur O. Tucker

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The Encyclopedia of Herbs

A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance

By: Thomas DeBaggio,Arthur O. Tucker

This meticulously researched compendium provides every aspect of growing, identifying, harvesting, preserving, and using more than 500 species of herbs. Thorough profiles provide a plant's botanical name and family, whether it is an annual or perennial, its height, hardiness, light requirements, water consumption, required soil type, and pH. The often fascinating history of the plant, the chemistry of its essential oils, and its culinary, landscape, and craft uses are also included, as is advice on how to propagate. For the first edition of their work, both authors received The Gertrude B. Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature from the Herb Society of America. This new edition adds important species and includes updated nomenclature.

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Timber Press

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1604691344

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Book's by Thomas Reifer

Globalization, Hegemony and Power

Globalization, Hegemony and Power

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

The Torturer in the Mirror

The Torturer in the Mirror

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

The Chinese Computer

The Chinese Computer

Tanks of the Second World War

Tanks of the Second World War

Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction

Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction

Tegg's Handbook for Emigrants

Tegg's Handbook for Emigrants

The Contemporary Caribbean

The Contemporary Caribbean

Freedom and Ground

Freedom and Ground

Building on Solid Ground

Building on Solid Ground

The Encyclopedia of Herbs

The Encyclopedia of Herbs

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