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Robert Higgs
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society

2004 y.
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Description: What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In `Against Leviathan`, economist and historian Robert Higgs offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power. This book combines an economist`s analytical scrutiny, an historian`s respect for the facts, and a refusal to accept the standard excuses and cruelties of government officialdom. Topics include such programs as Social Security, the paternalism of the FDA and the War on Drugs, the nature of political leadership, civil liberties and the conduct of the national surveillance state, and governmental responses to a continuing stream of `crises,` including domestic economic busts and foreign wars both hot and cold. `Against Leviathan` is a thorough and penetrating critique, and a significant contribution in this current time of crisis and unchecked expansion of government power. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0945999968
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Eavan Boland
Against Love Poetry: Poems

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionA collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their essential witness, and not their destroyer. A New York Times Notable Book and a Newsday Favorite Book of 2001. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0393324249
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Martin Parker
Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism

— y.
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ISBN: 0745629261
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Anonymous
Against Ratzinger

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1583227660
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Ackerman A, Alan L. Ackerman, Martin Puchner
Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Performance Interventions)

2007 y.
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Description: `Against Theatre`, now available in paperback, shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama, from Oscar Wilde through Bertolt Brecht to Jean Genet, shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre, in which Pablo Picasso and Zora Neale Hurston, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Eisenstein invented the theatre anew. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0230537456
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J. M. Bernstein
Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism And the Meaning of Painting

2006 y.
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Description: The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Lessing, Kant, Schiller, and Schlegel to Adorno and Stanley Cavell. It discusses in detail competing accounts of modernism: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Yves-Alain Bois, Theirry de Duve, and Arthur Danto, and it discusses several painters and artists in detail: Pieter de Hooch, Jackson Pollack, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, and Chaim Soutine. Its central thesis is that modernist painting exemplifies a form of rationality that is an alternative to the instrumental rationality of enlightened modernity. Modernist paintings exemplify how nature and the sociality of meaning can be reconciled. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0804748950
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David G. Roskies
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture

1999 y.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Description: This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings. [detailed...]

ISBN: 081560615X
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Jeffrey W. Hargis
Against the Christians: The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic (Patristic Studies)

2001 y.
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Description: Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics` objection to Christian exclusivism as its starting point. The evolution of the polemic, from a rhetoric of radical distinction to one of `rhetorical assimilation,` reveals a sophisticated attempt to expose contradictions and inconsistencies within Christianity while at the same time reflecting the process of fusion between Christianity and the culture of late antiquity. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0820457418
Book size: —; Page extent: 184.

 

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Don Messerschmidt
Against the Current: The Life of Lain Singh Bangdel, Writer, Painter And Art Historian Of Napal (Asian Portraits)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 9745240524
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Brink Lindsey
Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism

— y.
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Description: Acclaim for Against the Dead Hand `Informed, lively, and challenging, Brink Lindseys book illuminates the tough road ahead in the fight for free markets and against the dead hand of the past. I have benefited greatly from reading this book and so can everyone who cares about freedom.` —George P. Shultz, Former U.S. Secretary of State `There are few higher callings than exposing the antiglobalization movement for what it really is: an enemy not just of clear thinking but also of economic progress. Brink Lindsey rises to this task manfully. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, he shows that, far from being complete, the current wave of globalization has just begun. And to charges that globalization is responsible for the problems of much of the developing world, he explains that the real blame lies with years of failed experiments with big government and closed borders. Read this book if you want to understand the most important debate of our time.`… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471442771
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Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications (Law, Justice and Power)

2009 y.
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Description: This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse.The contributors consider the current developments within the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Commission and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and engage with the emergence of regional norms promoting collective restriction and renunciation of the punishment. They investigate perspectives and questions for retentionist countries, focusing on the United States, China, Korea and Taiwan, and reveal the iniquities of contemporary capital judicial systems. Emphasis is placed on the issues of transparency of municipal jurisdictions, the jurisprudence on the `death row phenomenon` and the changing nature of public opinion. The volume surveys and critiques the arguments used to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0754674134
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Leonard J. Fein
Against the Dying of the Light: A Father`s Journey Through Loss

2004 y.
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Description: Amazon.comLeonard Fein struggled with some of the deepest and most difficult questions of faith while mourning the death of his daughter Nomi, who suffered a heart attack at age 30. `I understood from the start that the act of writing was a way both to keep her alive and to accept the fact of her death. And I needed to do both,` he explains in the first paragraph of Against the Dying of the Light . Fein, a veteran Jewish social activist, teacher (at M.I.T. and Harvard), and writer, recognized in his daughter`s early childhood that she was `among the most interesting people I`d ever known.` In case you missed the point of that statement, he reiterates: ``People,` not `kids.`` Among the most striking things about this book is Fein`s ability tosee his daughter as a whole person--empathic, intelligent, and generous, and yet sometimes haughty and defensive. The first part of this book is a memoir, describing his relationship with Nomi. The second part is a meditation on the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1580231977
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Dee Caffari
Against the Flow: The Inspiring Story of a Teacher Turned Record-Breaking Yachtswoman

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0713685336
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Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

1998 y.
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Description: A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller `Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism`. —The New York Times `An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book`. —The Wall Street Journal `A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it`. —Business Week `Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read`. —The Economist `[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world.` —Worth `No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement`. —Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers `With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-471-29563-9
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George Weigel
Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0824524489
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Joel M. Stern, Irwin Ross, John S. Shiely, Joel M. Stern, Irwin Ross
Against the Grain: How to Succeed in Business by Peddling Heresy

— y.
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Description: Praise for Against the Grain `Joel Stern has done at least as much for the world?s shareholders as any CEO you can name. Now more people will see how, through this inspiring story of intellectual courage.` ?Geoff Colvin Senior Editor at Large, Fortune magazine Co-Anchor, Wall Street Week with Fortune `Against the Grain is a wonderful way to make the acquaintance of an interesting financial entrepreneur, and at the same time get a brief, authoritative exposure tothe theory and practice of corporate finance.` ?Irving Kristol Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute `Against the Grain celebrates Joel Stern?s life and loves, his beliefs?and his Thirty Years? War against accounting fictions that abet shady managers and divert honest ones from creating wealth. It?s wise, radical, instructive, and entertaining in the telling, and Stern?s financial principles resonate more strongly than ever in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471216003
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Lee Siegel
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

2008 y.
Publisher: Spiegel &, Grau
Description: From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his `drive-by brilliance` and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as `one of the country`s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics` comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another, if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It`s become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn`t just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days, it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways with which we haven`t yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and by-products - such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the `bourgeois bohemian` - have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385522657
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James Dyson
Against the Odds: An Autobiography

— y.
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Description: The inspiring autobiography of James Dyson, the countrys leading entrepreneur and inventor, and how he succeeded against all the odds. Dyson`s freewheeling account of his struggles, failures and successes is interspersed with his insights on how to turnan inspired idea into a household name. Also includes an updated chapter that reveals the details of the latest TOP SECRET Dyson appliance. Against the Odds will inspire engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs and appeal to readers around the world. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587991705
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Bruce Muirhead
Against the Odds: The Public Life &, Times of Louis Rasminsky

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ISBN: 0802006299
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Leslie Trotter Zwingli, Lt. Colonel Elmer John Trotter (Ret)
Against the Odds

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1438986327
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Richard Serrano
Against the Postcolonial: Francophone Writers at the Ends of the French Empire (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra)

2006 y.
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Description: Against the Postcolonial is at once a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, and Mali) and an interrogation of the relevance of postcolonial theory, criticism and studies to these writers. The authors are necessarily placed against the background of postcolonial studies, but since they have radically different backgrounds, histories, and careers, Serrano argues against the relevance of a homogenizing critical practice most interested in replicating itself. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0739120298
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Alex Callinicos
Against the Third Way: An Anti-Capitalist Critique

— y.
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Description: The Third Way is the political philosophy of Tony Blair and New Labour in Britain, Bill Clinton in the United States, and Gerhard Schroder in Germany. Defended most forcefully by Anthony Giddens, it claims to offer a strategy for renewing the Centre Left that avoids the free-market liberalism of the New Right and the state socialism of the Old Left. In Against the Third Way Alex Callinicos develops a fundamental critique of this philosophy. He argues that Third Way governments have continued the neoliberal policies of their conservative predecessors. They have promoted the interests of the multinational corporations, privatized areas where Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher dared not go, and allowed social and economic inequality to continue growing. Callinicos also attacks the theoretical underpinnings of the Third Way. He challenges the idea that the `knowledge economy` is freeing us from the contradictions of capitalism, denies that New Labour has coherent… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0745626750
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Rachel Druten
Against the Tide: A Romance Grows Out of the Ashes of World War II (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Romance Series)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1410404218
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Ismail Kadare
Agamemnon`s Daughter: A Novella and Stories

2006 y.
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Description: In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young worker for the Albanian state-controlled media agency narrates the story of his ill-fated love for the daughter of a high-ranking official. When he witness the ghostly image of Agamemnon-the Ancient Greek king who sacrificed his own daughter for reasons of State-on the reviewing stand during a May Day celebration, he begins to suspect the full catastrophe of his devotion. Also included are `The Blinding Order,` a parable of the Ottoman Empire about the uses of terror in authoritarian regimes, and `The Great Wall,` a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the Tamerlane. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559707887
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Bret Hawthorne
Agatha Christie`s Devon

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1841148563
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Kerry Segrave
Age Discrimination by Employers

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Description: In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, `Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced years is too apt to be given to old-fashioned ways of doing things, and open to suspicion of having the unforgivable fault, in modern business, of slowness.` Age discrimination has existed throughout the 20th century, sometimes in the public eye and sometimes not. This book examines the problem as it relates to the employment sector in the United States throughout the century: how the issue has been treated by the media, what is the extent of age bias, how older workers were viewed, the reasons and rationales presented by business enterprises for their refusal to hire older workers, and the responses of governments to the problem. Some foreign data are used for comparison purposes, age bias exists in all industrial societies, regardless of the type of government a country provides for itself [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786410108
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Raymond F. Gregory
Age Discrimination in the American Workplace: Old at a Young Age

— y.
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Description: A study of a variety of discriminatory practices confronting older workers in the current American workplaces, and the approaches these workers use to fight back. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0813529069
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John Macnicol
Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis

2006 y.
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Description: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialized societies. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the U.S. since the 1930s. It critically analyzes the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government`s initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521612608
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Eric Shanower
Age Of Bronze Volume 2: Sacrifice (Age of Bronze)

2005 y.
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Description: While Trojan prince Paris returns to Troy with Helen, the Achaean fleet mistakenly attacks Mysia, then is scattered by a storm. High King Agamemnon gathers the army again, but for the fleet to sail, the gods require the life of Agamemnon`s eldest daughter, Iphigenia. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1582403996
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Beverly Goldberg
Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce

— y.
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Description: We Americans have always thought of ourselves as a young country -- brash, innovative, full of vigor. However, the uncomfortable truth is that America is getting older. The nation`s median age was twenty-five in the 1960s, but today more than half ofus are over thirty-five. By the middle of the next century, there will be more Americans in their seventies than in their teens. This demographic shift will transform all aspects of our society, but nowhere will its effects be more evident than in America`s workplaces. In ten years, the massive baby-boom generation will begin to reach retirement age, but few companies have paid attention to the fact that there are not enough younger workers to replace them. The challenge to corporate America, as Beverly Goldberg argues in Age Works, is to reinvent the workplace to make it better fit the needs of all employees, especially the older workers it must retain in order to thrive. The task will not be easy. The waves of downsizing,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743242610
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Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for the DSM-V

2007 y.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Description: Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research to fill these gaps, Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force and its disorder-specific workgroups, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas. Here, 47 experts present findings in three previously neglected areas of psychiatric research: significant gender differences in prevalence, symptom profiles, and risk factors for mental disorders, including neurodevelopmental, neurophysiological, and environmental factors that cut across diagnostic categories, mental disorders in infancy and early childhood, including psychopathology, PTSD, reactive attachment disorder, autism, and mood, anxiety, sleep, feeding, and behavior disorders, and mental disorders in the elderly (e.g., dementia and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0890422958
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