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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Debating civilisations

        Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

        by Jeremy C. A. Smith

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        The playboy and James Bond

        007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine

        by Claire Hines

        This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery's definitive Bond as he was promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections that developed between Bond and Playboy magazine within a historical framework, the book offers new insights into these related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        The playboy and James Bond

        007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine

        by Claire Hines

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        The playboy and James Bond

        007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine

        by Claire Hines

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        The playboy and James Bond

        007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine

        by Claire Hines

        This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery's definitive Bond as he was promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections that developed between Bond and Playboy magazine within a historical framework, the book offers new insights into these related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Debating civilisations

        Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

        by Jeremy C. A. Smith

        Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Debating civilisations

        Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

        by Jeremy C. A. Smith

        Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        The contract of mutual indifference

        New edition with an introduction by Oliver Kamm

        by Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        The contract of mutual indifference

        New edition with an introduction by Oliver Kamm

        by Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        The contract of mutual indifference

        New edition with an introduction by Oliver Kamm

        by Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm

        'The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley, and I was reading a book about the death camp Sobibor... The particular, not very appropriate, conjunction involved for me in this train journey... had the effect of fixing my thoughts on one of the more dreadful features of human coexistence, when in the shape of a simple five-word phrase the idea occurred to me.' The contract of mutual indifference. In this book Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. In a bold and powerful synthesis of memorial, literary record, historical reflection and political theory, he focuses on the figure of the bystander - the bystander to the destruction of the Jaws of Europe and the bystander to more recent atrocity - to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. Geras argues that the tragedy of European Jewry. so widely pondered by historians, social scientists, psychologists, theologians and others, has not yet found its proper reflection within political philosophy. Attempting to fill the gap, he adapts an old idea from within that tradition of enquiry, the idea of the social contract, to the task of thinking about the triangular relation between perpetrators, victims and bystanders, and draws on sombre conclusion from it. Geras goes on to ask how far this conclusion may be offset by the hypothesis of a universal duty to bring aid. The contract of mutual indifference is an original and challenging work, aimed at the complacent abstraction of much contemporary theory-building. It is supplemented by three shorter essays on the implications of the Jewish catastrophe for conceptions of human nature and progress and for certain types of Marxist explanation.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        The contract of mutual indifference

        New edition with an introduction by Oliver Kamm

        by Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm

        'The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley, and I was reading a book about the death camp Sobibor... The particular, not very appropriate, conjunction involved for me in this train journey... had the effect of fixing my thoughts on one of the more dreadful features of human coexistence, when in the shape of a simple five-word phrase the idea occurred to me.' The contract of mutual indifference. In this book Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. In a bold and powerful synthesis of memorial, literary record, historical reflection and political theory, he focuses on the figure of the bystander - the bystander to the destruction of the Jaws of Europe and the bystander to more recent atrocity - to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. Geras argues that the tragedy of European Jewry. so widely pondered by historians, social scientists, psychologists, theologians and others, has not yet found its proper reflection within political philosophy. Attempting to fill the gap, he adapts an old idea from within that tradition of enquiry, the idea of the social contract, to the task of thinking about the triangular relation between perpetrators, victims and bystanders, and draws on sombre conclusion from it. Geras goes on to ask how far this conclusion may be offset by the hypothesis of a universal duty to bring aid. The contract of mutual indifference is an original and challenging work, aimed at the complacent abstraction of much contemporary theory-building. It is supplemented by three shorter essays on the implications of the Jewish catastrophe for conceptions of human nature and progress and for certain types of Marxist explanation.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        The ethics of researching the far right

        Critical approaches and reflections

        by Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune, Meghan Tinsley, Aurelien Mondon

        At a time when far, radical, and extreme-right politics are becoming increasingly mainstream globally - sometimes with deadly consequences - research in these fields is essential to understand the most effective ways to combat these dangerous ideologies. Yet engaging with texts and movements that do physical and verbal violence raises a number of urgent ethical issues. Until recently, this has remained understudied, as scholarship on the far right rarely delves explicitly and critically into the ethics of research. This book seeks to remedy this significant gap in an otherwise extensive and growing literature. Originating from a workshop series in 2020, in which an international group of academics at various career stages shared the ethical challenges and best practices they had developed in their research, this edited collection draws together insights from these ongoing conversations, offering urgent critical reflections on key ethical issues.

      • Mind, Body, Spirit
        June 2015

        Awakening Leadership

        Embracing Mindfulness, Your Life’s Purpose, and the Leader You Were Born to Be

        by Horner, Christine

        Human advancement requires the realization that each one of us has an essential role to fulfill to lead humanity into a new era of true equality and prosperity. In Awakening Leadership, Horner describes how mindfulness connects us to the Unified Field of Creation, opening the door to our infinite potential and our life’s purpose. If Earth’s prime directive is oneness, its universal guiding principle is sustainability. In the New Leadership Blueprint, sustainability becomes the all-inclusive compass that redefines morality, values, the way we care for one another and the planet. Transcending boundaries, Awakening Leadership is an illuminating “human” guide that will inspire you to immediately begin living your life on purpose toward building a better world. It’s your time to thrive! www.ChristineHorner.com. www.AwakeningLeader.org

      • History: specific events & topics
        October 2019

        Jews in the Ottoman State until the End of the Nineteenth Century

        by Ahmet Hikmet Eroğlu (Prof.), Ahmed Abdullah Negm (Prof.)

        Muslims have never treated Jews in a racial manner and the Ottoman State was not an exception. When Europe had expelled Jews after the establishment of the Inquisition, they had only two options: either Christianization or emigration. The main emigration was to the Ottoman State after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, and from Portugal in 1496. Jews spread throughout the Ottoman State, participated in its practical life, played important roles in trade and handicrafts, and were allowed to apply their religious laws, as rabbis were considering the proceedings that arise among them. However, Jews had a very negative impact on the state’s economy. The inflation that began in the sixteenth century was due to their nipping off bits of coins’ edges, which led to a decrease in soldiers’ purchasing power, causing at times the Janissary and Sipahis mutinies and harming the system of the state and society. This book discusses the Jewish immigration to the Ottoman State, its causes, consequences, and impacts on the Ottoman Palace and society, as well as the social history of Jews under the Ottoman rule.

      • Applied ecology

        Is that Fish in Your Tomato?

        The Fact and Fiction of GM Foods

        by Rebecca Nesbit

        What is genetic modification? What does it truly mean for us and the world around us? What are the risks and benefits? And, what’s more, how does it even work? Is that Fish in your Tomato? is a beacon through the noise. The quintessential, scientifically-informed guide to understanding the subject. Rebecca Nesbit has appeared on David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies, BBC Breakfast, BBC Newsround, Sky News, the Great Butterfly Adventure, BBC Weather, BBC Radio 4 Today and Virgin Radio, among others. She speaks globally about GM, conservation and science communication.

      • Sociology & anthropology
        July 2021

        Conviction

        The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain

        by Oliver Rollins

        Biological explanations for violence have existed for centuries, as has criticism of this kind of deterministic science, haunted by a long history of horrific abuse and its influence over the theories of eugenics used by Hitler and the Nazi Party. Yet, this program has endured because of, and not despite, its notorious legacy. Today's scientists are well beyond the simplicity of the nature versus nurture debate. Instead, they assert that scientific progress has led to a belief in nature and nurture, biological and social, a stance that allows this science to supposedly avoid the pitfalls of the past. In Conviction, Oliver Rollins cautions against this optimism, arguing that the way these categories are imagined ignores a dangerous link between history and the present. The late 1980s ushered in a wave of techno-scientific advancements in the genetic and brain sciences. Rollins focuses on an often-ignored strand of research, the neuroscience of violence, which he argues became a key player in the larger conversation about the biological origins of criminal, violent behavior. Using powerful technologies, neuroscientists have rationalized an idea of the violent brain—or a brain that bears the marks of predisposition towards "dangerousness." Drawing on extensive analysis of neurobiological research, interviews with neuroscientists, and participant observation, Rollins finds that this idea of the brain is ill-equipped to deal with the complexities and contradictions of the social world, much less the ethical implications of informing treatment based on such simplified definitions. Rollins warns of the potentially devastating effects of a science that promises to "predict" criminals before the crime is committed, in a world whose understanding of violence is already influenced by prejudice and inequality.

      • Social issues & processes
        November 2020

        Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens (Rape. Aspects of a Crime)

        Nautilus Flugschrift

        by Mithu M. Sanyal

        Why do we speak and think about rape in the way that we do? Cultural critic MithuSanyal has written the first comprehensive analysis of the crime that shapes society'sattitudes towards gender, race and vulnerability.What exactly is rape culture? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? Whyis it so hard to think of men as victims of rape?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Mein Kampf

        by Ari Volovich

        Mein Kampf, a novel written by the Mexican-Jew Ari Volovich where he recounts the steps through his life without apparent meaning: “humor, if it is black or an intelligent game, makes the writer someone who cannot yet be tamed. Against social taming and in favor of uncomfortable laughter, Ari Volovich gave Moho his recent novel: Mein Kampf (Mi lucha). Volovich is a storyteller who describes the world around him with resignation and reluctance, malice and out-of-the-box humor. He is averse to brutal nationalisms and traditions turning extremism. Sarcasm, already illustrated from the title, and mockery aimed at the hypocrisy of communal, family and class progress are constant in this novel." Guillermo Fadanelli

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