Download or read book meritoKrazia written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oggi tutti parlano di "meritocrazia", giornali, televisioni, radio, tutto voluto dai politici per giustificare una forma di macelleria sociale. Si tratta forse di un trucco per trasformare una democrazia imperfetta in regime? Leggete e lo scoprirete. Un libro impietoso e feroce che vi aprirà gli occhi...

Download or read book STORIE DI FORMAGGIO ovvero IL FORMAGGIO NELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA Antologia di grandi autori dal medioevo al novecento written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il formaggio: un alimento che accompagna la nostra vita da millenni. Nutriente, gustoso, piacevole, tutti ne conosciamo l'utilizzo. Come è nato il formaggio? Dalle origini ad oggi, acqua sotto i ponti ne è passata davvero tanta. Ciò nonostante, scopriamo con sorpresa che molte varietà di formaggio sono rimaste inalterate o quasi dall'età imperiale romana. Ovvio che fior di scrittori e poeti si sono sbizzarriti a citarlo nelle loro opere. Questa antologia ci dà una panoramica casuale (gli autori non sono sistemati in modo organico, ma in modo casuale, come una manciata di parmigiano sugli spaghetti): non troverete un elenco ordinato, tutto è una sorpresa, come il piatto di un grande chef che non ci svela la sua ricetta, così non troverete l'indice! Il tutto per una gustosa ricerca culturale della letteratura italiana senza precedenti che spazia dal medioevo al primo novecento. Buona lettura e (perché no?), buon appetito...

Download or read book I PAPI I PONTEFICI E LE PROFEZIE PAPALI DI MALACHIA DA CELESTINO II A FRANCESCO Storia e curiosit written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quante volte abbiamo sentito parlare delle profezie papali di Malachia? Esse vengono rispolverate ogni volta che si deve eleggere un nuovo pontefice, a maggior ragione in questa occasione, nel 2013, in cui la Chiesa cattolica sente l'approssimarsi di una sfida epocale. Tutti i papi della lista di Malachia dal medioevo all'ultimo. Un libro ricco di curiosità e di storia. ATTENZIONE! I Papi citati nel libro sono solo i Papi presenti nelle profezie di Malachia, e quindi non tutti.

Download or read book SCRITTORE FAI DA TE guida all autopubblicazione written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book TRE STORIE ITALIANE DI FANTASCIENZA Settembrini Nievo Salgari written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SETTEMBRINI, NIEVO, SALGARI Che cosa hanno in comune tra loro questi tre autori italiani del XIX secolo? Tutti e tre hanno scritto fantascienza: Settembrini come traduttore di Luciano di Samosata, Nievo con un trattato di storia del futuro, Salgari con una curiosa visione del 2000. Si crede generalmente che i racconti fantastici siano monopolio della modernita, ma cio e errato. In questo libro ci limiteremo a tre grandi del XIX secolo: Salgari, Nievo e Settembrini, quest'ultimo nella sua opera di traduttore.

Download or read book STORIE DI CAFFE ovvero il caff nella letteratura italiana written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Meritocracy Myth written by Stephen J. McNamee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy—that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as family background, social connections, luck, market conditions, unequal educational opportunities, and discrimination. The fourth edition has been revised and streamlined throughout. It features new material on the current economic and political climate; the reasons behind the increasing levels of inequality in the United States and globally; how economic, social, and cultural factors shaped Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence, and more. The fourth edition includes a new chapter on marriage and mobility that examines how patterns in marriage tend to increase the concentration of wealth and pass on nonmerit advantages to children, furthering trends toward social inequality. A compelling book on an often-overlooked topic, The Meritocracy Myth is ideal for introducing students to this provocative topic while sparking discussion and reflection.

Download or read book The Meritocracy Myth written by Stephen J. McNamee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy_that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. Fully revised and updated throughout, the second edition includes compelling new case studies, such as the impact of social and cultural capital in the cases of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and new material on current topics such as the impact of the financial and credit crisis, intergenerational mobility, and the impact of racism and sexism. The Meritocracy Myth examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of non-merit factors such as social status, race, heritage, and wealth on meritocracy. A compelling book on an often-overlooked topic, the first edition was highly regarded and proved a useful examination of this classic American ideal.

Download or read book The Meritocracy Trap written by Daniel Markovits and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.

Download or read book Justice and the Meritocratic State written by Thomas Mulligan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve. Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic justice—meritocracy—which rests upon a desert principle and is distinctive from existing work in two ways. First, meritocracy is grounded in empirical research on how human beings think, intuitively, about justice. Research in social psychology and experimental economics reveals that people simply don’t think that social goods should be distributed equally, nor do they dismiss the idea of social justice. Across ideological and cultural lines, people believe that rewards should reflect merit. Second, the book discusses hot-button political issues and makes concrete policy recommendations. These issues include anti-meritocratic bias against women and racial minorities and the United States’ widening economic inequality. Justice and the Meritocratic State offers a new theory of justice and provides solutions to our most vexing social and economic problems. It will be of keen interest to philosophers, economists, and political theorists.

Download or read book The Rise of the Meritocracy written by Michael Young and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future Meritocracy

Download or read book Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy written by James Hankins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi—the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli—who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance. At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school of social reformers concluded that the best way to revitalize corrupt institutions was to promote an ambitious new form of political meritocracy aimed at nurturing virtuous citizens and political leaders. The greatest thinker in this tradition of virtue politics was Francesco Patrizi of Siena, a humanist philosopher whose writings were once as famous as Machiavelli’s. Patrizi wrote two major works: On Founding Republics, addressing the enduring question of how to reconcile republican liberty with the principle of merit; and On Kingship and the Education of Kings, which lays out a detailed program of education designed to instill the qualities necessary for political leadership—above all, practical wisdom and sound character. The first full-length study of Patrizi’s life and thought in any language, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy argues that Patrizi is a thinker with profound lessons for our time. A pioneering advocate of universal literacy who believed urban planning could help shape civic values, he concluded that limiting the political power of the wealthy, protecting the poor from debt slavery, and reducing the political independence of the clergy were essential to a functioning society. These ideas were radical in his day. Far more than an exemplar of his time, Patrizi deserves to rank alongside the great political thinkers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Jean Bodin.

Download or read book The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades written by Jacob Ghazarian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study bridges the history of the Crusades with the history of Armenian nationalism and Christianity. To the Crusaders, Armenian Christians presented the only reliable allies in Anatolia and Asia Minor, and were pivotal in the founding of the Crusader principalities of Edessa, Antioch, Jerusalem and Tripoli. The Anatolian kingdom of Cilicia was founded by the Roupenian dynasty (mid 10th to late 11th century), and grew under the collective rule of the Hetumian dynasty (late 12th to mid 14th century). After confrontations with Byzantium, the Seljuks and the Mongols, the Second Crusade led to the crowning of the first Cilician king despite opposition from Byzantium. Following the Third Crusade, power shifted in Cilicia to the Lusignans of Cyprus (mid to late 14th century), culminating in the final collapse of the kingdom at the hands of the Egyptian Mamluks.

Download or read book The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy written by Reuven Amitai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mongol Empire was founded by Chinggis Khan in the early thirteenth century. Within the span of two generations it embraced most of Asia. It left a lasting impact on this area and its people, which was often far from negative! The volume offers fresh perspectives on the Mongol Empire and its legacy. Various authors approach the matter from a variety of views, including political, military, social, cultural and intellectual. In doing so, they shed a new light on the Mongol Empire. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Download or read book Merit written by Joseph F. Kett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this provocative and engaging book. Merit's history, he contends, is best understood within the context of its often conflicting interaction with the other ideals of the Founding, equal rights and government by consent. Merit implies difference; equality suggests sameness. By sanctioning selection of those lower down by those higher up, merit potentially conflicts with the republican ideal that citizens consent to the decisions that affect their lives. In Merit, which traces the history of its subject over three centuries, Kett asserts that Americans have reconciled merit with other principles of the Founding in ways that have shaped their distinctive approach to the grading of public schools, report cards, the forging of workplace hierarchies, employee rating forms, merit systems in government, the selection of officers for the armed forces, and standardized testing for intelligence, character, and vocational interests. Today, the concept of merit is most commonly associated with measures by which it is quantified. Viewing their merit as an element of their selfhood-essential merit-members of the Founding generation showed no interest in quantitative measurements. Rather, they equated merit with an inner quality that accounted for their achievements and that was best measured by their reputations among their peers. In a republic based on equal rights and consent of the people, however, it became important to establish that merit-based rewards were within the grasp of ordinary Americans. In response, Americans embraced institutional merit in the form of procedures focused on drawing small distinctions among average people. They also developed a penchant for increasing the number of winners in competitions-what Kett calls "selection in" rather than "selection out"-in order to satisfy popular aspirations. Kett argues that values rooted in the Founding of the republic continue to influence Americans' approach to controversies, including those surrounding affirmative action, which involve the ideal of merit.

Download or read book The History of the Mongol Conquests written by J. J. Saunders and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By far the best modern narrative account of the most extensive land empire in the history of the world."—David Morgan, author of The Mongols

Download or read book Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness written by Khen Lampert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.