Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and, if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Wa…
Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly hold the beliefs they do. A few self-reflective people might even wonder about their own political beliefs after such an argument. This book is about the reasons that people have, and could have, for political beliefs: the evidence they might draw on, the psychological sources of t…
In the municipal election of 1968, the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 per cent of the vote and 78 per cent of the seats on Liverpool City Council. Moreover, they had run Liverpool’s municipal government for 86 of the previous 100 years. In 1972 they lost control of the council. In 1983 they lost their last two MPs, and in 1998 they lost their final counci…
At a time in history when humanity has placed its trust in education to take on any challenge in the world and has, as a result, made massive investments in education, education leaves much to be desired. Whether in terms of supplying access for all in institutions of education, ensuring quality education for all, ensuring equity or equality in education or succeeding in ac…
his book vehemently disagrees with Stein and Lang’s contention that there had been no combat mission since Korea. It examines Canada’s con-tribution to the 1999 Kosovo air war authorized by the Liberal govern-ment of Jean Chrétien, for which a dedicated campaign medal was struck, and for which Battle Honours were awarded to the 441 and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadrons …
Worrying about what would become the central concerns addressed in Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19, feminism and the Global Frontline of care set in March 2020. Thinking about writing what became this book began on March 13,2020. That was the date of Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, "the world's largest universal multilateral international organization". i…
Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short Introduction, Leslie Holmes looks the history of corruption across the millen…
Beside Inventory, the title of the book refers to Analytics. Thisis nowadays a concept that has been inflated with a plethora ofmeanings, so that it becomes difficult to understand exactly whateach of us means when we refer to it. The Cambridge Dictionary11Cambridge Dictionary,https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/analytics?q=Analyticsdefines Analytics as “a process in which a c…
In the twenty-first century, a new water discourse is emerging, carried by the humanities. It focuses on cultural changes, such as an emphasis on gender and race differentiations in water relations, ways water features in urban design, and decolonial analyses of water practices. It is deeply informed by new materialist and posthumanist attention to the acti…
This is the longest of any discussion of the subject. The leading militarytheorists always have known that an entire war or single military opera?tions do not take place in sandboxes, but in the field of battle. Since theNapoleonic Wars, the social conditions of war, Clausewitz called it will,have repeatedly being discussed, taking into account the influence of natu?ral factors on warfare, terr…