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  • Cultural Appropriation

    by Peter Balint, Patti T. Lenard ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one’s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Respecting Toleration

    Traditional Liberalism and Contemporary Diversity

    by Peter Balint ...
    The question of toleration matters more than ever. The politics of the twenty-first century is replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing number of thinkers and practitioners have argued against toleration. Some believe that liberal democracies are better served by different principles, such as respect of, or recognition for, people's ways of life ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Wicked Environmental Problems

    Managing Uncertainty and Conflict

    by Peter J. Balint, Ronald E. Stewart, Anand Desai, Lawrence C. Walters ...
    "Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural resource management and over the prioritization of economic and conservation goals more ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Ultrasonography of the Hand in Rheumatology

    Edited by Peter Vince Balint, Peter Mandl ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is an essential guide for rheumatologists using ultrasound to study musculoskeletal structures and diagnose rheumatic diseases of the hand. A fundamental understanding of anatomy is key to identifying and interpreting pathological findings on imaging. This book provides comprehensive knowledge about both gross anatomy and, more importantly, comparative imaging anatomy, as depicted by ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Debating Multiculturalism

    Should There be Minority Rights?

    by Patti Tamara Lenard, Peter Balint ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    Multiculturalism has become a political touchstone in many countries around the world. While many of those on the right oppose it, and many of those on the left embrace it, things are not this simple. For those who defend them, multicultural policies are generally seen as key to the fair and successful integration of minorities, many of whom are immigrants, into diverse democratic societies. For ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms

    Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits

    by Raymond A. Zilinskas, Peter J. Balint ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms: Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the environmental, economic, and regulatory implications of advances in marine biotechnology. The book has been specifically designed to bridge the gap between the rapidly advancing marine biotechnology industry and the government agencies that are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Life Cycles of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency

    1970 - 2035

    by James K. Conant, Peter J. Balint ...
    In 1970, due to increasing public concern about the environment, a dramatic series of bipartisan actions were taken to expand the national government's efforts to control pollutants. In that year, the Congress and President Nixon established two key federal agencies to address the nation's growing environmental problems: the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Environmental Protection ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Brave New Hungary

    Mapping the "System of National Cooperation"

    by Balazs Trencsenyi, Gábor Egry, Zsolt Enyedi, Gábor Halmai, Miklós Haraszti, Stephen Holmes, Ferenc Laczó, Bálint Magyar, Attila Melegh, Péter Mihályi0, Virág Molnár1, Jan-Werner Müller2, Dorottya Szikra3, Renáta Uitz4, Balázs Váradi5, János Köllo6, Radoslaw Markowski7, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács8, Dr Silvia Marton0 ...
    Brave New Hungaryfocuses on the rise of a “brave new” anti-liberal regime led by Viktor Orbán who made a decisive contribution to the transformation of a poorly managed liberal democracy to a well-organized authoritarian rule bordering on autocracy during the past decade. Emerging capitalism in post-1989 Hungary that once took pride in winning the Eastern European race for catching up with the ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Globalization:A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred Steger ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for 2009, to include developments in global politics, the ... Read more

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  • Hadzic's Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Anatomy for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia, Third Edition

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  • Whiteshift

    Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

    by Eric Kaufmann ...
    "This ambitious and provocative work . . . delves into white anxiety about the demographic decline of white populations in Western nations" ( Publishers Weekly)."Whiteshift" is defined as the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities. In this dada-driven study, political scientist Eric Kaufmann explores how these demographic ... Read more

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