Thoughts out of Season (Complete)
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1465515216
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Remarks on Knowledge, and on its use and abuse
Author: Joseph JONES (Perpetual Curate of Repton.)
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Uses and Abuses of History
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 184765200X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while suppressing others of equal importance. History is often hijacked through suppression, manipulation, and, sometimes, even outright deception. MacMillan's book is packed full of examples of the abuses of history. In response, she urges us to treat the past with care and respect.
Confronting Child Sexual Abuse
Author: Anne M. Nurse
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1643150324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces shape our views of victims and offenders, while also providing an in-depth look at prevention efforts and current research. Sociologist Anne Nurse has synthesized studies spanning the fields of psychology, sociology, communications, criminology, and political science to produce this nuanced, accessible, and up-to-date account. Topics include the prevalence of abuse, the impact of abuse on victims and families, offender characteristics, abuse in institutions, and the efficacy of treatments. Written for people who care for kids, for students considering careers in criminal justice or human services, and for anyone seeking information about this devastating issue, Nurse’s book offers new public policy ideas as well as practical suggestions on how to engage in prevention work. Interactive links to studies, videos, and podcasts connect readers to further resources.
A War for the Soul of America
Author: Andrew Hartman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-04-26
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 022662207X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “unrivaled” history of America’s divided politics, now in a fully updated edition that examines the rise of Trump—and what comes next (New Republic). When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman’s history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of how they came to define American politics at the close of the twentieth century. But it also garnered attention for Hartman’s declaration that the culture wars were over—and that the left had won. In the wake of Trump’s rise, driven by an aggressive fanning of those culture war flames, Hartman has brought A War for the Soul of America fully up to date, detailing the ways in which Trump’s success, while undeniable, represents the last gasp of culture war politics—and how the reaction he has elicited can show us early signs of the very different politics to come. “As a guide to the late twentieth-century culture wars, Hartman is unrivalled . . . . Incisive portraits of individual players in the culture wars dramas . . . . Reading Hartman sometimes feels like debriefing with friends after a raucous night out, an experience punctuated by laughter, head-scratching, and moments of regret for the excesses involved.” —New Republic
Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke
Author: Marcello Pennacchio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-07-23
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0199708479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and incense. This illustrated global compendium documents and describes approximately 2,000 global uses for over 1,400 plant species. The Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke is accessibly written and provides a wealth of information on human uses for smoke. Divided into nine main categories of use, the compendium lists plant-derived smoke's medicinal, historical, ceremonial, ritual and recreational uses. Plant use in the production of incense and to preserve and flavor foods and beverages is also included. Each entry includes full binomial names and family, an identification of the person who named the plant, as well as numerous references to other scholarly texts. Of particular interest will be plants such as Tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum), Boswellia spp (frankincense), and Datura stramonium (smoked as a treatment for asthma all over the world), all of which are described in great detail.
The Birth of the Archive
Author: Markus Friedrich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-02-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0472130684
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Development Centre Studies Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Author: Oman Charles P.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-07-26
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 926402686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparisons and in tracking changes in individual countries.
Polling UnPacked
Author: Mark Pack
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2022-05-13
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1789145686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a political-polling expert, an eye-opening—and hilarious—look at the origins of polls and how they have been used and abused ever since. Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do we tell the good from the bad? And in light of recent polling disasters, can we trust them at all? Polling UnPacked gives us the full story, from the first rudimentary polls in the nineteenth century, through attempts by politicians to ban polling in the twentieth century, to the very latest techniques and controversies from the last few years. Equal parts enlightening and hilarious, the book requires no prior knowledge of polling or statistics to understand. But even hardened pollsters will find much to enjoy, from how polling has been used to help plan military invasions to why an exhausted interviewer was accidentally instrumental in inventing exit polls. Written by a former political pollster and the creator of Britain’s foremost polling-intention database, Polling UnPacked reveals which opinion polls to trust, which to ignore, and which, frankly, to laugh at. It will change the way we see political coverage forever.
Knowledge, Politics and the History of Education
Author: Jesper Eckhardt Larsen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 3825815617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe humanities and social science disciplines are increasingly expected to prove their relevance faced with the politics of knowledge in the knowledge economy. This tendency is investigated in this book regarding the discipline of the history of education in America and Europe.
