A World Made Safe for Differences

A World Made Safe for Differences
Author: Christopher Shannon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780847690572

The first prince is destined to lead the kingdom, be the strong and just ruler, to have the adoration of the kingdom at his feet.The second prince is destined to be the scholar, the genius, the adviser, the manager of the kingdom, the essential cog that keeps the clock turning.The third prince is destined to be the hero, the fighter, the soldier, destined to conquer lands and fight off evil whilst keeping his morals and honour. But what about the fourth prince? He does not have any titles or stories but does he have a tale to tell too?When Fin fins out some shocking news from his father, a set of events occur that change everything for the young prince and his friends.

What Will I Be

What Will I Be
Author: Philip M. Gentry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190299606

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation. At the heart of these changes during the early Cold War were the rise of the concept of identity and a reformulation of the country's political life. A revolution in music was taking place at the same time-a tumult of new musical styles and institutions that would lead to everything from the birth of rock 'n' roll to the new downtown experimental music scene. Together, these new cultural and musical trends came to define the era. In the search for new social affinities and modes of self-fashioning, music provided just the right tool. What Shall I Be follows the concept of identity as it developed alongside new post-war music making. Author Philip M. Gentry travels through four very different musical scenes: the R&B world of doo-wop pioneers the Orioles, the early film musicals of Doris Day, Asian American cabaret in San Francisco, and John Cage's infamous 4'33". The lives of musicians, composers, critics, and fans reveal how individuals negotiated the social changes sweeping the country in the initial days of the Cold War. As we are again swept up in a time of significant transformation, these early strategies help to inform the political and musical narratives of today.

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Author: Ruth Benedict
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2006-01-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0547525141

“One of the best books ever about Japanese society . . . [A] thoughtful, nuanced study of the Japanese character.”—U.S. News & World Report “A classic book because of its intellectual and stylistic lucidity . . . Benedict was a writer of great humanity and generosity of spirit.”—from the foreword by Ian Buruma Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II–era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our societies differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs. “A classic of Japanese cultural studies . . . With considerable sensitivity, she managed both to stress the differences in Japanese society of which American policy makers needed to be aware and to debunk the stereotype of the Japanese as hopelessly rigid and incapable of change.”—The New York Times “An absorbing account of Japanese culture . . . almost novel-like readability.”—The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Figures in the Carpet

Figures in the Carpet
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2007-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802863116

Figures in the Carpet presents a stellar roster of first-rate historians dealing seriously with a perennially important subject. The case studies and more theoretical accounts in this book amount to an unusually perceptive assessment of how "the person' has been viewed in American history.

America's Game(s)

America's Game(s)
Author: Benjamin Eastman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136802630

This book considers how to locate America in the sporting world and howAmerican Sport should reflect the vast networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic body as well as the influx of talent coming from abroad.

Freedom Not Yet

Freedom Not Yet
Author: Kenneth Surin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2009-12-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822391600

The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present socioeconomic circumstances. The marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation and change at the level of the political must occur in order to achieve this liberation, and for this endeavor marxist theory and philosophy are indispensable. In Freedom Not Yet, Surin analyzes the nature of our current global economic system, particularly with regard to the plight of less developed countries, and he discusses the possibilities of creating new political subjects necessary to establish and sustain a liberated world. Surin begins by examining the current regime of accumulation—the global domination of financial markets over traditional industrial economies—which is used as an instrument for the subordination and dependency of poorer nations. He then moves to the constitution of subjectivity, or the way humans are produced as social beings, which he casts as the key arena in which struggles against dispossession occur. Surin critically engages with the major philosophical positions that have been posed as models of liberation, including Derrida’s notion of reciprocity between a subject and its other, a reinvigorated militancy in political reorientation based on the thinking of Badiou and Zizek, the nomad politics of Deleuze and Guattari, and the politics of the multitude suggested by Hardt and Negri. Finally, Surin specifies the material conditions needed for liberation from the economic, political, and social failures of our current system. Seeking to illuminate a route to a better life for the world’s poorer populations, Surin investigates the philosophical possibilities for a marxist or neo-marxist concept of liberation from capitalist exploitation and the regimes of power that support it.

America's Geisha Ally

America's Geisha Ally
Author: Naoko Shibusawa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674057473

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. But how was the American public made to accept an alliance with Japan so soon after the "Japs" had been demonized as subhuman, bucktoothed apes with Coke-bottle glasses? In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war. While General MacArthur's Occupation Forces pursued our nation's strategic goals in Japan, liberal American politicians, journalists, and filmmakers pursued an equally essential, though long-unrecognized, goal: the dissemination of a new and palatable image of the Japanese among the American public. With extensive research, from Occupation memoirs to military records, from court documents to Hollywood films, and from charity initiatives to newspaper and magazine articles, Shibusawa demonstrates how the evil enemy was rendered as a feminized, submissive nation, as an immature youth that needed America's benevolent hand to guide it toward democracy. Interestingly, Shibusawa reveals how this obsession with race, gender, and maturity reflected America's own anxieties about race relations and equity between the sexes in the postwar world. America's Geisha Ally is an exploration of how belligerents reconcile themselves in the wake of war, but also offers insight into how a new superpower adjusts to its role as the world's preeminent force.

Animal Studies

Animal Studies
Author: Paul Waldau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199827036

The field requires both learning and unlearning to develop forms of critical thinking that are scientifically informed and ethically sensitive.

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict
Author: Virginia Heyer Young
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803249195

Benedict's work, in fact, anticipated trends in anthropology in the decades to come by projecting a framework of individuals not only shaped by their culture but also using their culture for personal or collective objectives."--BOOK JACKET.