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When the Bough Breaks - Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Performed Literature - Betsy Bowden - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline - Tony Waters - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline - Tony Waters - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber believed that discipline underpins modern rationalized society. For Weber, modern discipline is the quality that gives a population the capacity to coordinate action across vast expanses. But modern discipline also requires individuals to shape their very psychobiological being to fit the larger socioeconomic system, be it a military unit, factory, bureaucracy, or other unit of modern society. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline explores how Weber developed his ideas using examples from Ancient Egypt to the modern world and asks how his description of a habitus of discipline informs understanding of modernity not just in Europe but in places that continue to befuddle well-educated and well-paid modern economists, strategists, and politicians in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar/Burma. These are the areas that, as Weber would have said, are still governed by traditional authority rather than the legal- disciplined habitus of rational authority brought by the modernizing outsiders. This book challenges development economists, foreign service officers, government officials, administrators, and development workers to rethink modern discipline and the costs that modern legal-rational rule imposes on traditional societies. By doing so, this book goes beyond standard prescriptions for good governance, free markets, and property rights, which underpin modern development planning.To describe modern discipline, Tony Waters also draws on more the contemporary work of Karl Polanyi, James Scott, Goran Hyden, Teodor Shanin, and James Ferguson, among others. Each describes how and why independent peasantries ignored and even resisted the blandishments and trinkets proffered by development bureaucracies to sell their traditional rights in the modern marketplace. Waters agrees with them about farmer resilience, but he takes the argument a step further by pointing out that Weber was proposing a general theory of a disciplined modernity, not one focused on just a particular society.

DKK 240.00
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The Price of Survival - Irene Levin Berman - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Indian Revolts in Northern New Spain - Roberto Mario Salmon - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Freedom's Mercenaries - Moises Enrique Rodriguez - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Freedom's Mercenaries - Moises Enrique Rodriguez - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

My Years in the Early Peace Corps - Sonja Krause Goodwin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Alternative Paradigms - Ahmet Davutoglu - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus and the Death, Burial, and Translation of Moses in Judaic Tradition - Roger David Aus - Bog - University

"I Sure Wish this Dam Thing Was Over" - Christopher C. Meyers - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A 'Yankee' in the 'Texas Army' - Dennis A. Connole - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A 'Yankee' in the 'Texas Army' - Dennis A. Connole - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Metaphysics of Infinity - Ion Soteropoulos - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Metaphysics of Infinity - Ion Soteropoulos - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages. The reason is the paradox or contradiction associated with motion. One fundamental contradiction is the conflict between the finite body and the infinite divisibility of the unit distance ab. Indeed, how is it possible to move from a to b if we must first pass through an infinite series of sub-distances in one instant? How can we traverse an unlimited series—a series without limit—yet reach its limit? Because the heart of the problem is the conflict between the finite and the infinite, its solution depends on reconciling this contradiction and transforming this reconciliation into the founding principle of motion. Having accomplished these two things, this work investigates the sweeping consequences they have regarding the geometric form of the physical universe, the Aristotelian ontology of the physical body, the nature of our finite brain, the finite analytic paradigm of empirical science and the meaning of our technological acceleration. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in the logical mechanics of the physical universe, the hidden powers of our finite brain, and the utility of robots in the future. Although some of the presentation requires the understanding of elementary mathematical equations, the argument is conducted at the deepest level: that of principles. This approach enables readers to follow the book’s reasoning without technical training on the subject.For more information, please visit the author’s website: apeironcentre.orgPlease visit the Apeiron Centre Youtube channel here.

DKK 547.00
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The Educational Service Agency - Robert E. Stephens - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Educational Service Agency - Robert E. Stephens - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Education service agencies (ESAs), the middle echelon in the P-12 education structure, serve local school districts and their children in 42 states. Since these agencies work directly with local school districts and their students, they are largely invisible to the general public and, incredibly, not a small number of legislators. Yet ESAs are responsible for the direct or indirect expenditure of billions of dollars and are perhaps the main vehicle for training in-service teachers, administrators, and other staff members throughout the country. In addition, they provide technical assistance for a wide range of management areas such as finance, food service, transportation, purchasing, and technology. This highly researched, well-referenced book, the first ever to document the work of service agencies in America, begins with four chapters that summarize the history and development of service agencies into current times and catalogue the different financing and governance structures under which they function. Three chapters are devoted to descriptions of programs and services offered for students, whether they have special interests or needs. Another chapter deals with ESAs as the lynch pin for partnerships with community agencies, businesses, and other levels of government. The book concludes with two chapters about the growing insistence on accountability for ESAs and a final chapter projects three scenarios about the possible future roles of ESAs in the American education system.

DKK 538.00
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Select Legal Topics - Andrew J. Schatkin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Select Legal Topics - Andrew J. Schatkin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Select Legal Topics is a compendium of legal journal articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in the fields of criminal law, evidence, civil procedure, family law, labor and employment law, civil rights, tort law, and federal procedure. For example, the reprinted criminal law articles include analyses of suppression motions and the requirement that the criminal defendant be afforded a speedy trial. The section on evidence includes articles that analyze polygraph and DNA evidence. The civil procedures articles consider the requirement of filing a notice of claim when a municipality is the subject of a lawsuit, and developments in trial by jury. Articles covering family law consider artificial insemination and paternity, as well as child abuse and child negligence. The labor and employment articles include analyses of discrimination in the workplace and trial by jury. The civil rights articles mainly consider the Civil Rights Statute 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983. The articles focusing on tort law include analyses of loss of consortium, the intentional infliction of mental distress, and baseball liability. Finally, the federal procedure articles consider eminent domain, pretrial orders, the finality requirement in federal appeals, and an analysis of rules 15 and 16 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. This book will serve to inform laymen, students, lawyers, law professors, and perhaps, the judiciary, of ideas and developments in these fields of law.

DKK 795.00
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