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  • No Direction Home

    The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

    by Natasha Zaretsky ...
    Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another.Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Applying Jewish Ethics

    Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition

    by Jennifer A. Thompson, Andrea Lehner, Lena Sclove, Melissa Weininger, Natasha Zaretsky, Leah Kalmanson, Naomi Scheman, Allison B. Wolf ...
    Series series New Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics
    Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely underrepresented Jewish ethical perspectives. The chapters explain and apply Jewish ethical ideas to contemporary issues connected to racial justice, immigration, gender justice, queer identity, and economic and environmental justice in ways ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Acts of Repair

    Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

    by Natasha Zaretsky ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Radiation Nation

    Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

    by Natasha Zaretsky ...
    On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of what happened that day and in the months and years that followed, as local residents tried to make sense of the emergency. The near-meltdown occurred at a pivotal moment when the New Deal coalition was unraveling, trust in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Radiation Nation

    Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

    by Natasha Zaretsky ...
    On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of what happened that day and in the months and years that followed, as local residents tried to make sense of the emergency. The near-meltdown occurred at a pivotal moment when the New Deal coalition was unraveling, trust in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality.Is the w... ... Read more

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cruel Modernity

    by Jean Franco ...
    In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the ... Read more

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  • Merchants of Doubt

    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War

    Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina

    by Federico Finchelstein ...
    Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
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