Minority Report

Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487514273

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The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine. This volume engages scholars from Ukraine, Russia, and North America, and includes translated and accessible contributions by scholars from the Ukrainian-German Institute of Dnipropetrovsk State University. Minority Report is divided into four sections: New Approaches to Mennonite History; Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited; Mennonite Identities in Diaspora; and Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron. An appendix is included which recounts for the first time the emergence of Mennonite public history in southern Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The volume’s contributors reveal that far from being isolated from the larger society, Mennonites played an integral role in shaping the entire region. Minority Report successfully places Mennonite history within the recent historiographical insights offered by Ukrainian and Russian scholars and significantly enriches our understanding of minority relations in Soviet Ukraine.

Author : John D. Griffin,Brian Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226308692

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Minority Report by John D. Griffin,Brian Newman Pdf

Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, Minority Report shows that congressional decisions and federal policy tend to mirror the preferences of whites as a group and as individuals better than the preferences of either minority group, even after accounting for income disparities. This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors’ multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue’s level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral turnout can affect how well government action reflects the views of each person or group. Sure to be controversial, Minority Report ultimately goes beyond statistical analyses to address the root question of what equal representation really means.

Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307830906

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Minority Report by H.L. Mencken Pdf

In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a stroke. He soon recovered his physical vigor, but writing was for him a thing of the past. Some months before his death, in going through some papers that he was putting in order for deposit in his beloved Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, his long-time secretary discovered these Notebooks. Mencken meant to publish them, as he makes clear in the preface, which also describes them better than I can. Suffice it to say that here is one more generous sampling of the old Mencken battling fearlessly for the freedom and dignity of the individual and for the general decencies of life and attacking all that seems fundamentally hostile to man: government, organized religion, professional philosophers, and pedagogues above all. It shows his restless and inquiring mind ranging over many of the problems that beset all of us who ever take time out to think, all in his unmatchable style, which, however much it crackles, has the supreme virtue—which Henry always found in his own great model, Thomas Henry Huxley—that of never leaving you in doubt of its meaning. Read the preface and note that this book is precisely what its title suggests; it consists of hundreds of notes—some only a few lines in length, some running to several pages, all reflecting a rigorous and exhilarating mind and personality. It may be a long time before another like him crosses our path.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : 0575074787

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Minority Report by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to 'Minority Report' this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding sf master, three of which have been made into feature films.

Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575098282

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Minority Report by Philip K Dick Pdf

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to MINORITY REPORT this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding SF master, three of which have been made into feature films.

Author : William T. Lynch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786612380

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Minority Report by William T. Lynch Pdf

In Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, ‘precogs’, who are imaginary individuals capable of seeing the future are relied upon to stop crime, with a consensus report synthesized from two of three precogs. When the protaganist is indicted for a future murder, he suspects a conspiracy and seeks out the “minority report,” detailing the suppressed testimony of the third precog. Science works a lot like this science fiction story. Contrary to the view that scientists in a field all share the same “paradigm,” as Thomas Kuhn famously argued, scientists support different, and competing, research programs. Statements of scientific consensus need to be actively synthesized from the work of different scientists. Not all scientific work will be equally credited by science as a whole. While this system works well enough for most purposes, it is possible for minority views to fail to get the hearing that they deserve. This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in science and technology studies and examining numerous case studies.

Author : Saba Mahmood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691153285

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Religious Difference in a Secular Age by Saba Mahmood Pdf

How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.

Author : Missouri Bar Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Bar associations
ISBN : UCAL:B4121754

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Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Missouri Bar Association by Missouri Bar Association Pdf

List of members in each volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Presidents
ISBN : MINN:31951002482587P

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Official Report of the Proceedings of the ... Republican National Convention Held in by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015077090796

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Reports of Proceedings ... by Boston (Mass.). City Council Pdf

Author : American Transit Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electric railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015023126249

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Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association by American Transit Association Pdf

List of individual members in 1906-13.

Author : Carl R. Trueman
Publisher : Mentor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 1845503171

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Minority Report by Carl R. Trueman Pdf

Theological essays are dusty, humourless affairs aren't they? Well, they don't have to be! This is the second collection of essays by Carl Trueman. His first collection was received with the enthusiasm. This time Chick Lit, Adolf Eichman, the i-pod, Francis J. Beckwith, the Blues, Watership Down, American Idol, Nietzsche, zen-calvinism, Augustine and ferrets(!) all get a mention. If you want to inform your mind and chuckle at the same time - Carl's your man!

Author : Utah. Constitutional Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Constitutional conventions
ISBN : NYPL:33433082138391

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Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention by Utah. Constitutional Convention Pdf

Author : Ron Paul,Lewis E. Lehrman,United States Gold Commission
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Currency question
ISBN : 9780932790316

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The Case for Gold by Ron Paul,Lewis E. Lehrman,United States Gold Commission Pdf

Author : Alex Tizon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780544232853

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Big Little Man by Alex Tizon Pdf

“Alex Tizon fearlessly penetrates the core of not just what it means to be male and Asian in America, but what it means to be human anywhere.”—Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author Shame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height, he turned outward. (“I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me.”) Tizon illuminates his youthful search for Asian men who had no place in his American history books or classrooms. And he tracks what he experienced as seismic change: the rise of powerful, dynamic Asian men like Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang, actor Ken Watanabe, and NBA starter Jeremy Lin. Included in this new edition of Big Little Man is Alex Tizon’s “My Family’s Slave”—2017’s best-read digital article. Published only weeks after Tizon’s death in 2017, it delivers a provocative, haunting, and ultimately redemptive coda. “A ruthlessly honest personal story and a devastating critique of contemporary American culture.”—The Seattle Times “Part candid memoir, part incisive cultural study, Big Little Man addresses—and explodes—the stereotypes of Asian manhood. Alex Tizon writes with acumen and courage, and the result is a book at once illuminating and, yes, liberating.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl “This personal narrative of self-education and growth will engage any reader captivated by the sources of American, and Asian-American, manhood—its multitude of inheritances and prospects.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune