The Anatomy of Power
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780552124683
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Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780552124683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the many sources and instruments of power, and explains how power is utilized by organizations and businesses and in economics and political and military life.
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-09
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 1139450700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. His work has had a major impact in sociology, history, political science, international relations and other social science disciplines. His main work, The Sources of Social Power, of which two of three volumes have been completed, provides an all-encompassing account of the history of power from the beginnings of stratified societies to present day. Recently he has published two major works, Fascists and The Dark Side of Democracy. Yet unlike other contemporary social thinkers, Mann's work has not, until now, been systematically and critically assessed. This volume assembles a group of distinguished scholars to take stock, both of Mann's overall method and of his account of particular periods and historical cases. It also contains Mann's reply where he answers his critics and forcefully restates his position. This is a unique and provocative study for scholars and students alike.
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Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published:
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 1610164946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMurray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic, an exhibit A in how he came to wear that designation proudly. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys civilization, and threatens all lives and property and social well being. This gives a succinct account of Rothbard’s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. In applying this view to American history, Rothbard makes use of the work of John C. Calhoun How can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. Court intellectuals play a key role here, and Rothbard cites as an example of ideological mystification the work of the influential legal theorist Charles Black, Jr., on the way the Supreme Court has become a revered institution.
Author: Michael Hutchison
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brain revolution of today--the technological knowledge of what goes on in the brain--is as tradition-shattering as was the sexual revolution of the 60's. Hutchison deals with both revolutions and the research into the link between sexual desire and neurochemicals, and the interdependence of sex and power.
Author: Richard Calland
Publisher: Struik Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781868729036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid, up-to-date picture of how power works in the new South Africa and who really makes the decisions
Author: Chinweizu
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebekah Delsol
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-22
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1137336102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public. It explores the history and development of these powers, assesses their effectiveness in tackling crime and their impact on public trust and confidence as well as on-going attempts at regulation and reform.
Author: Perry Link
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0674071158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language shapes thought, or vice versa. Perry Link’s inquiry into the workings of Chinese reveals convergences and divergences with English, most strikingly in the area of conceptual metaphor. Different spatial metaphors for consciousness, for instance, mean that English speakers wake up while speakers of Chinese wake across. Other underlying metaphors in the two languages are similar, lending support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain. The distinction between daily-life language and official language has been unusually significant in contemporary China, and Link explores how ordinary citizens learn to play language games, artfully wielding officialese to advance their interests or defend themselves from others. Particularly provocative is Link’s consideration of how Indo-European languages, with their preference for abstract nouns, generate philosophical puzzles that Chinese, with its preference for verbs, avoids. The mind-body problem that has plagued Western culture may be fundamentally less problematic for speakers of Chinese.
Author: Ninsin, Kwame A.
Publisher: Freedom Publications
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9988281439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Corrupt Elites is a simple and straight-forward narrative in which explains the incidence of corruption or the rise of corruption within successive historical conjunctures in the Ghana. Some of the questions raised and answered in the study relate to how the Ghanaian precolonial, colonial and post-colonial states and their mutually interrelated political processes affected the production and distribution of wealth. In particular, how political decisions and interests of the political elites influenced the location of economic activities and the distribution of the costs and benefits of these activities. An explanation is given as to why corruption has festered in the Ghanaian polity and recrudesced from the 1990s with such devastating social, economic and political effect. The purpose of this essay is to substantiate the assumptions underpinning the narrative with concrete historical evidence.