Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, tele...
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How did “democracy” go from a pejorative label for mob rule to the widely shared ideal of enlightened self-rule? How has it evolved as an idea and a set of practices? How have t...
How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records took on...
Singers, teachers, coaches, and conductors will appreciate French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide for its thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie. Of...
Singers, teachers, coaches, and conductors will appreciate French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide for its thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie. Of...
Cracks in the Ivory Tower
Jason Brennan; Phillip Magness · ISBN 9780197608272
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti nidottu
Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest stu...
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united...
Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder
Jason Pack · ISBN 9780197631317
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
We no longer inhabit a world governed by international coordination, a unified NATO bloc, or an American hegemon. Traditionally, the decline of one empire leads to a restoration...
The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront
Jason Warner · ISBN 9780197639320
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate's de...
Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective
Jason S. Spicer · ISBN 9780197665077
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti sidottu
Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scien...
Roman Virtue in the Early Christian Thought of Lactantius
Jason M. Gehrke · ISBN 9780197667750
Julkaistu 2025 Kieli englanti sidottu
Known since the Renaissance as the "Christian Cicero," Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apologist, and theologian at the court...
Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies
Jason Gainous; Rongbin Han; Andrew W. MacDonald; Kevin M. Wagner · ISBN 9780197680384
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti sidottu
Does the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitudes and behavior of citizens?...
Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies
Jason Gainous; Rongbin Han; Andrew W. MacDonald; Kevin M. Wagner · ISBN 9780197680391
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti nidottu
Does the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitudes and behavior of citizens?...
Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short and pushed Republican and Democratic leaders toward withdrawal...
Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short and pushed Republican and Democratic leaders toward withdrawal...
Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, ex...
This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 193655. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and t...
This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and...
What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad question...
Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology
Jason Scully · ISBN 9780198803584
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti sidottu
Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jaso...