From Marx To Warner

Author : Jacek Tittenbrun
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527509412

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From Marx to Warner by Jacek Tittenbrun Pdf

The book offers an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. This critique is underpinned by a single, coherent analytic framework organised around the notion of ownership. This original approach allows the book to offer alternative treatments of the issues dealt with by the thinkers discussed here. The central argument here is that there are only two classical theories of social class, namely those developed by Marx and Weber, and this clear systematisation of the main attributes of approaches to class and stratification makes it possible to see that many theories traditionally considered as class ones refer, in fact, to social stratification.

Author : Leonard Reissman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136241918

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Class in American Society by Leonard Reissman Pdf

This is Volume II of twenty-one in a collection of Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1960, this book is about the place of class and its synonyms, status, prestige, and power, in the structure of American society. A dominant theme of the book is that classes do exist even though individuals are not chained to these social positions with unequivocal finality.

Author : Heather Love
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674736412

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Feeling Backward by Heather Love Pdf

Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects.

Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416536031

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The Groucho Letters by Groucho Marx Pdf

Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, The Groucho Letters exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private insights into show biz, politics, business, and, of course, his illustrious personal life. Included are Marx's conversations with such noted personalities as E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair Cooke, Harry Truman, Irving Berlin, and S. J. Perelman. To Confidential Magazine Gentlemen: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription. Sincerely, Groucho Marx

Author : Fred Warner Neal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:7720302

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Decentralized Communism in Action by Fred Warner Neal Pdf

Author : Cathryn McConaghy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820478776

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Provocations by Cathryn McConaghy Pdf

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Author : Jason Mazzone
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804779159

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Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law by Jason Mazzone Pdf

Intellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformed—but not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching by publishers, producers, artists, and others who abuse intellectual property law by claiming stronger rights than the law actually gives them. From copyfraud—like phony copyright notices attached to the U.S. Constitution—to lawsuits designed to prevent people from poking fun at Barbie, from controversies over digital sampling in hip-hop to Major League Baseball's ubiquitous restriction on sharing any "accounts and descriptions of this game," overreaching claims of intellectual property rights are everywhere. Overreaching interferes with legitimate uses and reproduction of a wide variety of works, imposes enormous social and economic costs, and ultimately undermines creative endeavors. As this book reveals, the solution is not to change the scope or content of intellectual property rights, but to create mechanisms to prevent people asserting rights beyond those they legitimately possess. While there are many other books on intellectual property, this is the first to examine overreaching as a distinct problem and to show how to solve it. Jason Mazzone makes a series of timely proposals by which government, organizations, and ordinary people can stand up to creators and content providers when they seek to grab more than the law gives them.

Author : Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385315937

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Letters of the Century by Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler Pdf

"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years. Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's "generation gap" letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money... In these pages, our century's most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heart-breaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server... "Letters," write Grunwald and Adler, "give history a voice." Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.

Author : Clifton D. Bryant,Dennis L. Peck
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452265193

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21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook by Clifton D. Bryant,Dennis L. Peck Pdf

21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook provides a concise forum through which the vast array of knowledge accumulated, particularly during the past three decades, can be organized into a single definitive resource. The two volumes of this Reference Handbook focus on the corpus of knowledge garnered in traditional areas of sociological inquiry, as well as document the general orientation of the newer and currently emerging areas of sociological inquiry.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0393240169

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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts Pdf

His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, “Which one are you?” This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.

Author : Joseph A. Boone,Michael Cadden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321948

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Engendering Men by Joseph A. Boone,Michael Cadden Pdf

Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics. In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work – on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts – is opening up new avenues in criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory.

Author : Benedict Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351571005

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Copyright Law by Benedict Atkinson Pdf

This volume shows how, since 1950, the growth of copyright regulation has followed, and enabled, the extraordinary economic growth of the entertainment, broadcasting, software and communications industries. It reproduces articles written by an extensive list of leading thinkers. US scholars represented in readings include James Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Pamela Samuelson, Mark Lemley, Alfred Yen, Julie Cohen, Peter Jaszi and Eben Moglen. Leading non-US contributors include Alan Story, Brian Fitzgerald and Peter Drahos. These and other authors explain copyright origins, the development of the law, the theory of enclosure, international trends, recent developments, and current and future directions. Today, the copyright system is often portrayed as an engine of growth, and effective regulation as a predictor of economic development. However, critics see dangers in the expansion of intellectual property rights. The articles in this volume focus principally on the digital age, examining how copyright regulation is likely to affect goals of dissemination and access.

Author : D. Vaver
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Copyright
ISBN : 0415330912

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Intellectual Property Rights by D. Vaver Pdf

Author : Randall Collins,Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317262176

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Conflict Sociology by Randall Collins,Stephen K. Sanderson Pdf

This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core chapters and added discussions on Collins's and others' work in recent years. An afterword summarizes Collins's latest forays into microsociological theorizing and attempts to demonstrate how his newer microsociology and older macrosociology are connected.

Author : Arthur Marx,Robert Fisher
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573670501

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Groucho by Arthur Marx,Robert Fisher Pdf

This inspired bio musical about The One and Only begins with Groucho as an old man doing his famous Carnegie Hall show. It then goes back to the beginnings of the Marx Brothers and their struggles to make it in vaudeville, their rise to stardom and their eventual break up. All classic Groucho songs are included. One actor plays Groucho, another plays Chico and Harpo, and one actress plays all the wives, girlfriends and Margaret Dumont. A hit in New York, across the U.S. and in London, this show will delight Marx Brothers fans and the as yet uninitiated.