The first ethnography devoted to the practice of gambling as its core subject, Gambling Life considers the stakes of social action in one community on the island of Crete. Backgammon cafés, card clubs, and hidden gambling rooms in the city of Chania provide the context for Thomas M. Malaby to examine the ways in which people confront uncertainty in their lives. He shows how the dynamics of gambling -- risk, fate, uncertainty, and luck -- are reflected in other aspects of gamblers' lives from courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity. By moving beyond risk and fate as unexamined analytical categories, Malaby presents a new model for research concerning indeterminacy, seeing it as arising from stochastic, performative, and other sources. Gambling Life questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences.
In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The term was adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered to be consequences of something else. Depending on the system, they may be considered to be either uncreated and eternal, or considered to be the product of some other entity.
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Public Policy And The Dead Hand: The Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, Sixth Series is a book written by Lewis M. Simes. The book is a collection of lectures given by the author on the topic of public policy and the influence of the ""dead hand"" on policymaking. The term ""dead hand"" refers to the influence of past decisions and institutions on current policy decisions. The book is divided into six chapters, each of which explores a different aspect of public policy and the dead hand. The first chapter provides an overview of the concept of the dead hand and its impact on policymaking. The second chapter looks at the role of institutions in shaping public policy and the challenges of reforming these institutions. The third chapter focuses on the role of the judiciary in shaping public policy and the impact of judicial decisions on policymaking. The fourth chapter examines the role of interest groups in shaping public policy and the challenges of balancing their interests with the public interest. The fifth chapter looks at the role of experts in shaping public policy and the challenges of ensuring that their expertise is used effectively. The final chapter provides a summary of the book's main arguments and offers recommendations for policymakers and scholars interested in addressing the challenges posed by the dead hand.Overall, Public Policy And The Dead Hand: The Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, Sixth Series offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the challenges facing policymakers in the United States and the impact of past decisions and institutions on current policy decisions. The book is recommended for policymakers, scholars, and anyone interested in the intersection of public policy and institutional reform.Five Lectures Delivered At The University Of Michigan February 7, 8, 9, 14, And 15, 1955.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
