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A Well-Paid Slave
By Brad Snyder. 2006
After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting…
off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood’s decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, his influence on sports history puts him in a league with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. .Am I a Jew? Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man's Search for Himself
By Theodore Ross. 2012
What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City…
to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the New Testament, sang in the choir, and even took Communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish? Seeking an answer, Ross traveled around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Ross tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judaism. Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion. .World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific: The Case of Solomon Islands (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies)
By Stephanie Clair Price. 2018
This book explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the legal protection of World Heritage sites in the Pacific Islands.…
It argues that the small Pacific representation on the World Heritage List is in part due to a lack of strong legal frameworks for heritage conservation, putting such sites under threat. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the nomination, listing and protection of the Solomon Island World Heritage Site, it examines the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Pacific context. It explores how the international community’s broadening interpretation of the notion of ‘outstanding universal value’ has increased the potential for Pacific heritage to be classified as ‘World Heritage’. This book also analyses the protection regime established by the Convention, and the World Heritage Committee’s approach to heritage conservation, identifying challenges associated with the protection of Pacific Island heritage.Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
By Thomas Henry Huxley.
No Need of Sympathy
By Fleda Brown. 2013
No Need of Sympathy is an exceptionally wide-ranging poetry collection, touching on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and the natures…
of poetry and reality. These poems, the eighth collection by Fleda Brown, ask huge questions; they zero in like a microscope on what's here, at hand. They are spoken with humility, great humor, curiosity, and a deep love of living.Chinese Sketches
By Herbert A. Giles.
Melanesian Odysseys
By Lisette Josephides. 2010
In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of…
interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection.Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
By Marquis De Nadaillac, Nancy Bell.
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
By Charles Dudley Warner.
Colonial Farms
By Verna Fisher. 2011
What kinds of food were grown on colonial farms? Did the colonists have farm animals? Why did farm life vary…
from one area of the country to another? How did colonial farms compare to farms of the Native Americans? Find out the answers to these questions and more.The Last Speakers
By K. David Harrison. 2010
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around…
the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration.Crisis Of The State
By Bruce Kapferer, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. 2012
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in…
situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social - whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.Pagan Tribes of Borneo
By Charles Hose, William Mcdougall.
Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
By Douglas Rushkoff. 1996
The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture…
is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.The Future of the Colored Race in America
By William Aikman.
Mediating Europe
By Bridgette Wessels, Jackie Harrison. 2012
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding…
the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European Project. This timely volume addresses the little understood relationship between old and new media, communications policy at the European level, issues of regulation and competition within the EU, the role of the European Parliament in media policymaking, and the questions emerging about the sustainability of traditional public service broadcasting. To understand the concrete significance of these debates two contributions address specific practical areas, i.e. the potential of online environments and specific developments in European media contexts, such as channel strategies, web-related services, iDTV and community networks. Consequently, Mediating Europe provides an original and important contribution to understanding the role of the media in shaping a European public sphere.European Kinship In The Age Of Biotechnology
By Jeanette Edwards, Carles Salazar. 2012
Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this…
interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and 'belonging' in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are 'genes' and 'blood' interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a 'geneticization' of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of 'nature' and of what is 'natural'. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate
By Ann E. Cudd, Nancy Holmstrom. 2011
Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and…
Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues, including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they examine how these and other issues relate to women and how effectively to analyze what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's interests'. Each author also responds to the opposing arguments, providing a thorough debate of the topics covered. The resulting volume will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, women's studies and global affairs.The Return of the Gift
By Harry Liebersohn. 2011
This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal…
gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
By Cornel West. 2009
New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America s most provocative and admired…
public intellectuals Whether in the classroom the streets the prisons or the church Dr West s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades Yet as he points out in this new memoir I ve never taken the time to focus on the inner dynamics of the dark precincts of my soul That is until now Brother West is like its author brilliant unapologetic full of passion yet cool This poignant memoir traces West s transformation from a schoolyard Robin Hood into a progressive cultural icon From his youthful investigation of the death shudder to why he embraced his calling of teaching over preaching from his three marriages and his two precious children to his near-fatal bout with prostate cancer West illuminates what it means to live as an aspiring bluesman in a world of ideas and a jazzman in the life of the mind Woven together with the fibers of his lifelong commitment to the prophetic Christian tradition that began in Sacramento s Shiloh Baptist Church Brother West is a tale of a man courageous enough to be fully human living and loving out loud