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  • Moral Energy in America

    From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb

    by Rebecca K. Wright ...
    Series series Energy Humanities
    How a distinctly American way of thinking about energy shaped US culture and society from the Progressive Era to the atomic bomb.In Moral Energy in America, Rebecca K. Wright offers an illuminating exploration of how the concept of energy shaped American thought, culture, and politics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This essential history traces how politicians, sociologists, ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

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  • Social Darwinism in American Thought

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Darwin Day in America

    How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

    by John G. West ...
    At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal ... Read more

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  • Bettering Humanomics

    A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science

    by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...
    Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science.Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • American Intellectual History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Darwin Effect

    Its Influence on Nazism, Eugenics, Racism, Communism, Capitalism & Sexism

    by Dr. Jerry Bergman ...
    Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, an imprisoned doctor in the Auschwitz camp, wrote that Nazi doctors hoped studying twins would solve the problem of faster reproduction of superior races. Nazis hoped to have each German mother bear as many twins as possible.What Darwin influenced went far beyond the Nazi death camps:Shocking political, social, and scientific legacies of Darwin and his familyDisturbing ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Working Knowledge

    Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn

    by Joel Isaac ...
    Isaac explores how influential thinkers in the mid-twentieth century understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. He places special emphasis on the practical, local manifestations of their complex theoretical ideas, particularly the institutional milieu of Harvard University. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Risk: A Study Of Its Origins, History And Politics

    by Matthias Beck, Beth Kewell ...
    Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural and intellectual trends relating to the understanding and analysis of risks. Risk: A Study of its ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Class, Race, and Marxism

    by David Roediger ...
    Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New Math

    A Political History

    by Christopher J. Phillips ...
    An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 1960s, the new math was a curricular answer to Cold War fears of American intellectual inadequacy. In the age of Sputnik and increasingly sophisticated ... Read more

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  • C Wright Mills An American Utopia

    by Irving Lewis Horowitz ...
    A biography of legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills, author of The Power Elite and White Collar, among other works,by eminent sociologist Irving L. Horowitz.Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a famed sociologist, social commentator and critic. Noted for his anti-authoritarian, flamboyant character and radical ideas, he has been described as an ‘American Utopian’ – committed to social change, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD