basic books okt 2023 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system"A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition." Michelle Alexander, author ofThe New Jim Crow Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But asTorn Apartuncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnarea majority ofBlack children,puttingtheir families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families andplacedin foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,Torn Apartargues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.Finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for Current Interest.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age "Engaging [and] ambitious" (TheWashington Post) The history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of?incident.?In?The?Library, historians Andrew?Pettegree?and Arthur der?Weduwen?introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the?rise?and fall of?literary?tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in pursuit of rare manuscripts.?In doing so, they reveal that while?collections themselves are fragile, often falling into ruin?within a few decades, the idea of the library has been remarkably resilient?as each generation makesand remakesthe?institution anew.? "The Library proves that truth is more intriguing than fiction?Full of charismatic individuals and astonishing facts."?The Times (London).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An award-winning historian's "searing' (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave tradeand its role in the making of America Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these menwho trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep Southwere essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A "panoramic and thought-provoking" (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a?diverse?empire that?straddled East and West? TheOttoman Empirehaslongbeendepictedasthe?Islamic, Asian?antithesis of the?Christian, European West.But the reality was starkly different:theOttomans'multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligiousdomainreached deep intoEurope'sheart.?Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves asthe new Romans.Recountingthe Ottomans'remarkable risefrom a?frontier principalityto a world empire,historian Marc DavidBaertraces theirdebts totheir Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage.The Ottomans pioneeredreligioustoleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples.But in the nineteenth century, theyembraced exclusivity, leading toethnic cleansing,genocide, and theempire's demiseafterthe First World War.? The Ottomans?vividlyrevealsthe dynasty's full history and its enduring impactonEurope and the world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better understand power and politics today. The White House, after all, is a courtwith intrigue and conflict rivaling those on the Globe's stageas is an army, a business, or a university. And each court is full of driven characters, in all their ambition, cruelty, and humanity. Henry V's inspiring speeches reframe John F. Kennedy's appeal, Richard III's wantonness illuminates Vladimir Putin's brutality, and The Tempest's grace offers a window into the presidency of George Washington. An original and incisive perspective, The Hollow Crown shows how Shakespeare's works transform our understanding of the leaders who, for good or ill, make and rule our world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A zoologist's "compelling and often hilarious" (Science) look at the queens of the animal kingdom Somewhere in the ocean, an orca matriarch leads her pod to better hunting grounds. At the same time, a male clownfish, alone after the death of his mate, changes sex. All the while, humans battle over sex and gender: One side argues evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool and shouldn't matter at all. In Bitch, zoologist Lucy Cooke rewrites the science of evolution and sex, showing how a band of pioneering, feminist biologists have uncovered the dizzying diversity created by evolution. In their work, Cooke finds a new understanding of what being female can mean and how evolution itself can work. Never before in history has being female been so scrutinized. Rising to meet the moment, Bitch is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary scientific manifesto with a new perspective on the female animal that is much more inclusive, true to life, and fun.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people's, to build a more just world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In [this book], historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by uncovering the forgotten lives of entomologist Margaretta Hare Morris and botanist Elizabeth Morris--sister scientists whose essential contributions to their respective fields, and to the professionalization of science as a whole, have been largely erased'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the Gilded Age to the first Red Scare of 1919-1920, the American anarchist movement clashed with some of the nation's most powerful institutions and individuals. Anarchists never comprised more than a small minority the labor movement. Their vision of a world without states, borders, laws, organized religion, or private property proved far too radical for even the most open-minded liberals of their day-particularly when some anarchists advocated terrorist violence. By the turn of the twentieth century, in the face of this challenge to American values and political traditions, American leaders chose to suspend those very values to destroy the anarchist movement. They vilified anarchism as an 'alien' contagion, launched an unprecedented buildup of government surveillance, called for draconian restrictions on free speech, and used immigration laws to expel non-citizen anarchists from the nation. This decades-long 'war on anarchy' in turn inspired the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement, grounded in Constitutional freedoms of speech and due process. Seeking to defend anarchist thinkers who denounced the liberal idea of the rule of law, this movement breathed new life into the Bill of Rights and spurred debates about the proper limits of government power that continue today. In American Anarchy, award-winning historian Michael Willrich weaves the gripping tale of these anarchists, their allies, and their enemies, showing how they together transformed the United States. Willrich vividly recaptures the radical political world of early twentieth-century New York City-the nation's chief port of arrival for new immigrants and its preeminent financial and industrial center. New York was home to the infamous Russian-Jewish anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and their social network of Eastern European and Italian immigrant radicals, who championed industrial democracy, demanded reproductive freedom for women, and fought for free speech. From the start, their alien status and spectacles of protest made the anarchists targets for government officials. But when anarchists took a stand against the First World War and celebrated the Russian Revolution, the war against anarchy took on a new ferocity. To fight back, Goldman, Berkman, and their colleagues called on lawyers like the young Harry Weinberger, a night-school-educated attorney from the Lower East Side who found his calling defending radicals in criminal trials, Ellis Island deportation hearings, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, and whose work laid the groundwork for the American Civil Liberties Union. By taking the anarchists seriously as flawed but principled political actors, American Anarchy unlocks one of the great puzzles of modern U.S. history, revealing how a powerful national government and a robust conception of individual liberty emerged at the very same moment in the early twentieth century.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the sixth century CE the East Roman (or 'Byzantine') Emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change. From his capital of Constantinople, he directed armies to re-conquer territories that had been lost to Roman control in the fifth century, while also taking on the neighboring superpower of Persia. Most histories of Justinian's reign focus on these military exploits, and on the unprecedented persecution of religious and sexual minorities that earned him the epithet 'Demon King.' In Justinian Cambridge historian Peter Sarris argues that the emperor's achievements were more fundamental and diverse. Justinian oversaw the formalization of Roman law, creating a body of law that survived into the Middle Ages and, to this day, forms the basis of legal systems across much of Europe. Through his energetic reform program, and his energetic self-glorification, Justinian redefined what it meant to rule, providing a model of active statecraft to which future Byzantine and Holy Roman emperors, medieval kings, and even Muslim caliphs and Ottoman sultans, would aspire. And yet, in recasting Roman society as an 'Orthodox Republic,' one in which his vision of the true Christian faith would prevail, Justinian laid the foundations for the exclusions and persecutions that characterized Medieval Christendom. Drawing on the latest scholarship, Justinian provides a panoramic history of the emperor's life and reign, shining new light on both the context of Justinian's program of imperial renewal and his true priorities. Justinian aimed to restore the majesty of the Roman Empire and the power of the emperor, whom he believed to be appointed by God. The same religious and moral agenda that earned him his reputation as a demonic tyrant also inspired him to seek to improve the lot of humbler members of Roman society, and especially of women, on behalf of whom his wife, the Empress Theodora, lobbied him persistently. The book also examines the vast impersonal forces that threatened to shake Justinian's empire to its very foundations, including a dramatic period of climate change and, most devastatingly of all, bubonic plague, which wiped out, by some estimates, half the population of Constantinople. Justinian provides a radical reassessment of an emperor's legacy and achievement. Even as Justinian sought to recapture Rome's past greatness, he paved the way for what would follow'.