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Book A Dubious Past

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  • Author : Elliot Y. Neaman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520921917
  • Pages : 549 pages

Download or read book A Dubious Past written by Elliot Y. Neaman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life. From the time he burst onto the literary scene with The Storms of Steel in the early 1920s until he reached Olympian age in a reunited Germany, Jünger's writings on a vast range of topics generated scores of controversies. In old age he became a cultural celebrity whose long life mirrored the tragic twists and turns of Germany's most difficult century. Elliot Neaman's study reflects an impressive investigation of published and unpublished material, including letters, interviews, and other media. Through his analysis of Jünger's work and its reception over the years, he addresses central questions of German intellectual life, such as the postwar radical conservative interpretation of the Holocaust, divided memory, German identity, left and right critiques of civilization, and the political allegiances of the German and European political right. A Dubious Past reconceptualizes intellectual fascism as a sophisticated critique of liberal humanism and Marxism, one that should be seen as coherent and—for a surprising number of contemporary intellectuals—all too attractive.

Book A Dubious Past

Download or read book A Dubious Past written by Elliot Yale Neaman and published by University of California Presson Demand. This book was released on 1999 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dubious Past deepens our understanding of a talented and troubling writer. An important and most valuable study, this book contains a great deal of new material and much trenchant interpretation. Neaman explores uncharted territory in German and European intellectual history and makes an important contribution to ongoing efforts to map its continuities and discontinuities before and after 1945."--Jeffrey Herf, Ohio University

Book Quacks and Con Artists

Download or read book Quacks and Con Artists written by John Farndon and published by Hungry Tomato ®. This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dubious history of doctors"--Cover.

Book A Dubious Past

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  • Author : Eliot Yale Neaman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Dubious Past written by Eliot Yale Neaman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rich Media  Poor Democracy

Download or read book Rich Media Poor Democracy written by Robert W. McChesney and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky). What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the concentration of media power and the resultant “hypercommercialization of media” has only intensified. Robert McChesney lays out his vision for what a truly democratic society might look like, offering compelling suggestions for how the media can be reformed as part of a broader program of democratic renewal. Rich Media, Poor Democracy remains as vital and insightful as ever and continues to serve as an important resource for researchers, students, and anyone who has a stake in the transformation of our digital commons. This new edition includes a major new preface by McChesney, where he offers both a history of the transformation in media since the book first appeared; a sweeping account of the organized efforts to reform the media system; and the ongoing threats to our democracy as journalism has continued its sharp decline. “Those who want to know about the relationship of media and democracy must read this book.” —Neil Postman “If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book.” —Bill Moyers

Book Stat Spotting

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  • Author : Joel Best
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2013-09-14
  • ISBN : 0520279980
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Stat Spotting written by Joel Best and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition updates benchmarks, includes a new chapter on rhetoric, updated a few examples, and thoroughly updated the bibliography.

Book The Abuse of Man

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  • Author : Wolfgang Weyers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book The Abuse of Man written by Wolfgang Weyers and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunately, as Weyers notes, these issues came about because "for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries unethical experiments on humans were performed with hardly any resistance." He details a shameful list ranging from injections of potentially fatal drugs into orphans and the mentally ill during the 19th century to experiments on children performed well into the 1960s. Richly illustrated with photographs of the many doctors who were involved in dubious experiments, the book is a virtual "murderer's row" of horror. What remains most shocking are Weyers's many examples of unethical physicians who got away scot-free, such as those involved in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study as well as the defendants at the lesser-known "second" Nuremberg Trial-the "Doctors' Trial" of 20 physicians who had participated in medical experiments during World War II.

Book The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

Download or read book The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer is sucked into a couple’s hostile divorce in this mystery with “a stellar ending” from the original detective series that inspired the HBO show (Kirkus Reviews). Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they’d gotten in Mexico is actually finalized. But when Garvin’s former spouse is struck down by a killer, Mason’s client becomes the chief suspect. Fortunately, the attorney “comes up with dazzling answers” to the mystery . . . (The New York Times). This whodunit is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. DON’T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER’S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS

Book Dubious

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  • Author : Charmaine Pauls
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-07-11
  • ISBN : 9781548821500
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Dubious written by Charmaine Pauls and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repulsiveness personified, that's me. I own a mirror, and I'm not afraid to look in it. What you see on the surface is a reflection of what runs under my skin. I'm a loan shark. Breaking people is in my blood. The Haynes's were supposed to be a straightforward job. Go in and pull the trigger twice. One bullet for Charlie, one for his sister. But when I saw Valentina, I wanted her. Only, in our world, those who owe us don't get second chances. No way in hell will my mother let her live. So I devised a plan to keep her.It's depraved.It's immoral.It's dubious.It's perfect.Just like her.(DUBIOUS is the first full-length novel in a two-part duet and ends on a cliffhanger. The second book, CONSENT, will be available on 14 November 2017. This is a dark romance with a criminal anti-hero and forced seduction. Reader discretion is advised.)

Book In Dubious Battle

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  • Author : John Steinbeck
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-05-30
  • ISBN : 1101118660
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book In Dubious Battle written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence, now a major motion picture starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Selena Gomez, and Zach Braff A Penguin Classic At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance metamorphoses into blind fanaticism. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who find himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book A Dubious Expediency

Download or read book A Dubious Expediency written by Gail Heriot and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will consist of seven or more essays, critical in different ways of racial "diversity" preferences in American higher education. Unlike many more conventional books on the subject, which are essentially apologies for racial reverse discrimination, this volume forthrightly exposes the corrosive effects of identity politics on college and university life.

Book An Introduction to Book History

Download or read book An Introduction to Book History written by David Finkelstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to books and print culture which examines the move from the spoken word to written texts, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in an electronic age.

Book Dubious History

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  • Author : P. H. Denson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789081653121
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dubious History written by P. H. Denson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dubious Conceptions

Download or read book Dubious Conceptions written by Kristin Luker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the way popular attitudes came to demonize young mothers and examines the profound social and economic changes that have influenced debate on the issue, especially since the 1970s. --From publisher description.

Book A Dubious Science

Download or read book A Dubious Science written by Elizabeth M. Sage and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dubious Science tells the story of nineteenth-century French political economy, an academic discipline that aspired to the status and authority of a «hard» science alongside such disciplines as physics and chemistry. It chronicles political economists' encounter with «the social question» - all those unexpected social consequences of nineteenth-century industrialization - which offered concrete evidence that industrial capitalism showed few signs of guaranteeing happiness and economic success to all productive members of society. The social question forced economists to admit that their theoretical assumptions were not working in practice the way they were supposed to in theory and to confront the possibility that their science might be less certain than they had believed. This book explores the relationship between the unexpected socio-economic realities of an industrializing society and the disciplinary formation and self-protection of an aspiring human science, and it links political economy's aspirations to governmentality, that peculiarly modern type of power explored by Michel Foucault. Like other «dubious» human sciences during the nineteenth century, French political economy was embroiled in a network of interventionist strategies, administered both from inside and outside the state, designed to produce docile bodies, obedient souls, and a content and productive population. A Dubious Science should prove valuable in courses on economic thought and its history; the history of the human sciences; the history and sociology of the professions; as well as the broader history of European industrialization and its consequences.

Book Too High  Too Far  Too Soon

Download or read book Too High Too Far Too Soon written by Simon Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too High, Too Far, Too Soon is the humorous, tragic and searingly honest memoir of a man who survived childhood tragedy, Catholic boarding school and chronic drug addiction. Simon Mason graphically details his experience of teenage angst in a tatty seaside town before he ran away to London and then onwards to the crack-infested streets of LA. He recounts his numerous decadent adventures at Glastonbury Festival and the notoriety that came during his stint as personal chemist to the biggest bands of the '90s, before he himself descended into a helpless period of heroin addiction. After several incidents of petty crime stemming from his drug problem, Simon launched numerous failed attempts to become a bona fide rock 'n' roll star and even more failed attempts to get clean, finally being ‘rescued’ by Banksy from a stolen camper van, covered in blood in the Spanish countryside. Too High, Too Far, Too Soon is a rock 'n' roll memoir with a difference, written by a man who lived the life and attained the drug habits of the most extreme rock stars, yet whose attempts to break through to the big time always eluded him.

Book A Dubious Secret

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  • Author : Gerald Kubicki
  • Publisher : Gerald J Kubicki
  • Release : 2011-07-15
  • ISBN : 146099194X
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book A Dubious Secret written by Gerald Kubicki and published by Gerald J Kubicki. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colton Banyon wants to forget his past. There were scary things there and now he suddenly is getting hints that his past has not forgot him. The ringing in his ears is just a prelude of a more disturbing future. He had to deal with ghosts, curses, Aryans, obsessed women, and the government in a past mystery. He soon discovers that they all are back and they want him to solve another mystery. He also discovers that he has found a "soulmate" and sets about bringing her close to him. Together they are asked to find the owner of a book. But this is no ordinary book. It is the #2 copy of Mein Kampf, the infamous ranting of the fascist Hitler. The owner and the book have not been heard from in over sixty years, but suddenly the book is found in the jungles of Mindano and the search for the owner is on. The trail leads them from ancient China to a storm ravaged Mobile, a cruise and eventually to Florida. All the while, they are chased, followed and lead by unseen forces. You see, there are secrets in the book that could change history. Some want to stop the secrets, and some want to implement the secrets.