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Book Graham Wallas and the Great Society

Download or read book Graham Wallas and the Great Society written by Terence H. Qualter and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-06-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to prove that Wallas was more appalled and frightened by the anti-intellectualism of the twentieth-century than by the naive over-intellectualism of the nineteenth. Attacking unreal assumptions about the role of reason, he sought not to deny men the capacity to think, but to show them how to do so more clearly in order to improve the human condition.

Book The Great Society

Download or read book The Great Society written by Graham Wallas and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vicente Ximenes  LBJ s Great Society  and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric

Download or read book Vicente Ximenes LBJ s Great Society and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric written by Michelle Hall Kells and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three presidential administrations, joining Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and later emerging as one of the highest-ranking appointees in Johnson’s administration. Ximenes succeeded largely because he could adapt his rhetoric for different audiences in his speeches and writings. Michelle Hall Kells elucidates Ximenes’s achievements through a rhetorical history of his career as an activist. Kells draws on Ximenes’s extensive archive of speeches, reports, articles, and oral interviews to present the activist’s rhetorical history. After a discussion of Ximenes’s early life, the author focuses on his career as an activist, examining Ximenes’s leadership in several key civil rights events, including the historic 1967 White House Cabinet Committee Hearings on Mexican American Affairs. Also highlighted is his role in advancing Mexican Americans and Latinos from social marginalization to greater representation in national politics. This book shows us a remarkable man who dedicated the majority of his life to public service, using rhetoric to mobilize activists for change to secure civil rights advances for his fellow Mexican Americans.

Book Human Nature in Politics

Download or read book Human Nature in Politics written by Graham Wallas and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1920 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take it out with the corner of his handkerchief, I generally close the eye as soon as the handkerchief comes near, and always feel a strong impulse to do so. Nobody supposes that I close my eye because, after due consideration, I think it my interest to do so.

Book The Big Society Debate

Download or read book The Big Society Debate written by Armine Ishkanian and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron placed the "Big Society" at the heart of his efforts to rebuild Britain's "broken society". The essays in this volume probe the historical origins of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both historical and contemporary evidence. They raise profound questions about the provenance of the "Big Society" and its relevance to contemporary social concerns. They should be of interest to anyone who cares about the past, present or future of British social policy.' Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK'There is nothing new about the notion of a Big Society. This book combines historical scholarship, international research and grassroots experience to shine a critical spotlight on the rhetoric behind the coalition government's big idea.' Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth, UK'Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's fascinating book provides important insights into the way political elites use slogans and imagery to sway public opinion on social policy issues. This highly original work will be a major scholarly resource for years to come.' James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, USThe expert contributors to this detailed yet concise book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big Society Agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it poses for policymakers and practitioners.The book is divided into two sections, history and policy, which together provide readers with a historically grounded, internationally informed, and multidisciplinary analysis of the Big Society policies. The introduction and conclusion tie the strands together, providing a coherent analysis of the key issues in both sections. Various chapters in this study examine the limitations and consider the challenges involved in translating the ideas of the Big Society agenda into practice.By drawing on international examples, from developed and developing countries in order to analyse and discuss Big Society policies, this book will prove invaluable for students, academics and policymakers.

Book Our Social Heritage

Download or read book Our Social Heritage written by Graham Wallas and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Thought

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  • Author : Graham Wallas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-03
  • ISBN : 9781910146323
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Art of Thought written by Graham Wallas and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first in time I shall call Preparation, the stage during which the problem was 'investigated ... in all directions'; the second is the stage during which he was not consciously thinking about the problem, which I shall call Incubation; the third, consisting of the appearance of the 'happy idea' together with the psychological events which immediately preceded and accompanied that appearance, I shall call Illumination. And I shall add a fourth stage, of Verification ..." Solis Press are pleased to be able to republish Wallas' seminal book on creativity that had sadly been out of print for many years. Graham Wallas (1858-1932) was a social psychologist and educationalist who helped found the London School of Economics. This edition is based on the first edition of 1926 and has been completely reset in fresh type. "Wallas plainly is courgageous, tolerant, keenly observant, and widely experienced in social matters." The Sewanee Review

Book Progressive Foreign Policy

Download or read book Progressive Foreign Policy written by David Held and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in association with the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics"--Page 4 of cover.

Book Spectator COTF YRL1

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 730 pages

Download or read book Spectator COTF YRL1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The South African Bookman

Download or read book The South African Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Book Published Essays

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  • Author : Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780826214423
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Published Essays written by Eric Voegelin and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, immigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings. In some thirty-four volumes the Collected Works will include the monumental, never-before-published History of Political Ideas; important published essays not previously collected in book form or published only in German; previously unpublished essays; selected correspondence; translations of seven books, four of them never before available in English; and the five-volume Order and History.

Book Traces of Modernism

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  • Author : Monica Cioli
  • Publisher : Campus Verlag
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 3593510308
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Traces of Modernism written by Monica Cioli and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Krise der Moderne und der auf sie antwortende Modernismus markieren den Übergang vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Im Ersten Weltkrieg und den sich an ihn anschließenden Revolutionen manifestierten sie sich auf dramatische Weise. Dieses Buch geht den Beziehungen zwischen den neuen sozialen und politischen Entwürfen dieser Zeit - Planungsdenken, Neuer Mensch, totaler Staat - und den künstlerisch-intellektuellen Avantgarden nach, vom italienischen Futurismus über das Bauhaus bis hin zu deren sowjetischen Pendants. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Maschine, die zum Schlüsselbegriff des Modernismus wurde.

Book Ideas Are Weapons

Download or read book Ideas Are Weapons written by Max Lerner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Structure

Download or read book Social Structure written by Henry A. Mess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1942, during the Second World War and a time of great social and economic upheaval, Henry A. Mess endeavours to give a succinct account of the main elements in social structure and of their interrelations. He offers discussions on such broad topics as human nature, the role institutions play in society, and warfare as a universal feature of societies. This title is a short and accessible introduction to sociology and will be of value to students interested in the subject.

Book White House Ghosts

Download or read book White House Ghosts written by Robert Schlesinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of the relationships between modern presidents and their speechwriters also offers insight into the agendas behind some of history's most famous addresses, in an account that traces the careers of such figures as Ted Sorensen, Peggy Noonan, and William Safire. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Book Global Civil Society

Download or read book Global Civil Society written by John Keane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life. Keane's reflections are pitted against the widespread feeling that the world is both too complex and too violent to deserve serious reflection. His account borrows from various scholarly disciplines, including political science and international relations, to challenge the silence and confusion within much of contemporary literature on globalisation and global governance. Against fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', the defence of global civil society mounted here implies the need for new democratic ways of living.