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Dalton ConleyPublication Details
Book1st edPantheon Books2009Links
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Threshold : The Crisis Of Western Culture
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Thom HartmannPublication Details
BookViking2009Description
An urgent look at our world?s looming crises and what we must do to avert them In Threshold, writer and Air America host Thom Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of our planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic, and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CB245 .H324 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Women And Social Reform In Modern India : A Reader
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edited by Sumit Sarkar & Tanika SarkarPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2008Description
Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ1743 .W59 2008 AVAILABLE
The Concrete Dragon : China’s Urban Revolution And What It Means For The World
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Thomas J. CampanellaPublication Details
Book1st edPrinceton Architectural Press2008Description
The scale of this urban revolution is breathtaking: China is now home to the largest malls on earth, the biggest airport, many of the planet?s tallest buildings and longest bridges, the biggest gated community, the largest bowling alley, and even the world?s largest skateboard park. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT384.C6 C36 2008 AVAILABLE
Creating Market Socialism : How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class And Status In China
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Carolyn L. HsuPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2007Links
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By analyzing the shared stories about status and class, jobs and careers, aspirations and hopes that circulate among Harbiners from all walks of life, Hsu reveals the logic underlying the emerging stratification system. Harbiners collectively agreed that “intellectuals” (scientists, educators, and professionals) were the most respected within the new social order, because they contributed the most to Chinese society, whether that contribution was understood in terms of traditional morality, socialist service, or technological and economic progress. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN733.5 .H825 2007 AVAILABLE
Theory U : Leading From The Future As It Emerges : The Social Technology Of Presencing
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C. Otto ScharmerPublication Details
BookSociety for Organizational Learning2007Description
First introduced in Presence, the U methodology of leading profound change is expanded and deepened in Theory U. By moving through the “U” process we learn to connect to our essential Self in the realm of presencing - a term coined by Scharmer that combines the present with sensing. Theory U explores a new territory of scientific research and personal leadership, one that is grounded in real life experience and shared practices. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM831 .S33 2007 AVAILABLE
Banquet At Delmonico’s : How Evolution Conquered Gilded Age America
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Barry WerthPublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2009Description
As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. In late 1882, most of the main figures who brought about and popularized these developments gathered at Delmonico?s, New York?s most venerable restaurant, in an exclusive farewell dinner to honor Spencer and to toast the social applications of the theory of evolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM631 .W47 2009 AVAILABLE
The Hip Hop Wars : What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters
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Tricia RosePublication Details
BookBasicCivitas2008Description
The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN59.2 .R68 2008 DUE 12-05-09
Counterculture Kaleidoscope : Musical And Cultural Perspectives On Late Sixties San Francisco
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Nadya ZimmermanPublication Details
BookUniversity of Michigan Press2008Links
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In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties San Francisco counterculture movement, Counterculture Kaleidoscope takes a close look at the cultural and musical practices of that era. “Astute and accessible, Counterculture Kaleidoscope provides thought-provoking insights into the historical, cultural and social context of the San Francisco counter-culture and its music scene, including discussions of Vietnam and student protest, the Haight-Ashbury Diggers, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Altamont, and Charlie Manson. —Sheila Whiteley, author of The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture and Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Gender “The hippie counterculture has never garnered the scholarly attention accorded the new left and the black freedom struggle. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F869.S36 H357 2008 AVAILABLE
America Between The Wars : From 11/9 To 9/11 : The Misunderstood Years Between The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Start Of The War On Terror
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Derek Chollet and James GoldgeierPublication Details
Book1st edBBS PublicAffairs2008Description
In America Between The Wars, Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier examine how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Wall on 11/9 and the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11 shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E839.5 .C475 2008 AVAILABLE
A New Green History Of The World : The Environment And The Collapse Of Great Civilizations
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Clive PontingPublication Details
BookRev. edPenguin Books2007Links
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Clive Ponting?s original and provocative history of human civilization?now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilizations and the causes of their fall. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GF75 .P66 2007 DUE 11-30-09
The Liberal Hour : Washington And The Politics Of Change In The 1960s
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G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert WeisbrotPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
A vibrant and revelatory history of the liberal moment of the 1960s, one which argues that Washington was not simply a target of reform but was, in fact, the era?s most effective engine of change In most accounts of the 1960s, Washington is portrayed as a target of reform?a reluctant group of politicians coaxed into accepting the radical spirit the day demanded. With elegant and accessible prose, The Liberal Hour casts one of the most dramatic periods in American history in a new light, revealing that for all that has been written about the more attention-grabbing protest movements, the most powerful engine of change in that tumultuous decade was Washington itself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E841 .M223 2008 AVAILABLE
Diverse Communities : The Problem With Social Capital
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Barbara ArneilPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2006Links
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Arneil suggests that the changes in American civil society in the last half century are not so much the result of generational change or television as the unleashing of powerful economic, social and cultural forces that, despite leading to division and distrust within American society, also contributed to greater justice for women and cultural minorities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM708 .A76 2006 AVAILABLE
Distracted : The Erosion Of Attention And The Coming Dark Age
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Maggie Jackson ; foreword by Bill McKibbenPublication Details
BookPrometheus Books2008Description
In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. It’s simultaneously an original expos (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .J26 2008 AVAILABLE
24/7 : How Cell Phones And The Internet Change The Way We Live, Work, And Play
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Jarice HansonPublication Details
BookPraeger2007Links
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Just as the automobile radically changed people’s lives at the beginning of the 20th century, so too has the revolution in online services (including blogging, podcasting, videogaming, shopping, and social networking) and cell-phone use changed our lives at the turn of the 21st century. Whereas the automobile allowed people for the first time to work in cities and live comfortably in the suburbs, extending the long commute beyond the limits previously circumscribed by public transportation, the Internet and cell phone allow us to interact with others from around the world–or a few hundred miles–from where we work or live, giving rise to the telecommuting phenomenon and allowing us to stay in touch with friends and families in the new virtual environment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HE9713 .H365 2007 AVAILABLE
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