princeton university press apr 2025 (34 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century If so, what makes a good one In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutschthe former director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the worldpays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predictsperhaps audaciouslya future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutsch's arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsingsince, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection.In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment that enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond politics to encompass a compelling philosophy of life as well. In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, offers a ric.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This unique book provides inspiring insights into the ideas and personality of Richard Feynman. These thoughtfully chosen quotations capture the genuine Feynman, giving a broader view of his character, ideas, and charm than most other biographical material that has been published. The book will be interesting to a wide audience and I expect to reread it with pleasure in the future.'--Danny Hillis, cofounder of Applied Minds and author of 'The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe. In Humboldt's Shadow tells the story of the G.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Tsai, C. C. (illustrator). Neuware - 'A graphic adaptation of the talks and ideas of Confucian philosopher Mencius'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the late seventeenth century, the bookseller John Dunton began soliciting anonymous questions for a new broadsheet periodical, The Athenian Mercury, that he hoped would provide entertainment and discussion fodder for patrons of London's many coffeehouses. These questions, dutifully answered by Dunton and his two collaborators, covered a wide range of topics, from the Bible to medicine and law. But shortly after the periodical launched, Dunton began to receive many questions about personal relationships, particularly about courtship, marriage, and sex. In this book, Mary Beth Norton presents a broad selection of these personal inquiries from The Athenian Mercury, a group of questions and answers that constitute the first known personal advice column. Through these entertaining exchanges, organized by theme, contemporary readers gain a unique glimpse into some of the social and romantic conventions and personal preoccupations of the day. The book includes an introduction that provides historical context about the Mercury, as well as about legal and social conventions of the time, and a list of further reading'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the author of Calculus Simplified, an accessible, personalized approach to Calculus 2Second-semester calculus is rich with insights into the nature of infinity and the very foundations of geometry, but students can become overwhelmed as they struggle to synthesize the range of material covered in class. Oscar Fernandez provides a 'Goldilocks approach' to learning the mathematics of integration, infinite sequences and series, and their applications-the right depth of insights, the right level of detail, and the freedom to customize your student experience. Learning calculus should be an empowering voyage, not a daunting task. Calculus 2 Simplified gives you the flexibility to choose your calculus adventure, and the right support to help you master the subject.Provides an accessible, user-friendly introduction to second-semester college calculusThe unique customizable approach enables students to begin first with integration (traditional) or with sequences and series (easier)Chapters are organized into mini lessons that focus first on developing the intuition behind calculus, then on conceptual and computational masteryFeatures more than 170 solved examples that guide your learning and more than 400 exercises, with answers, that help assess your understandingIncludes optional chapter appendixesComes with supporting materials online, including video tutorials and interactive graphs'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A comprehensive biography of . . . one of the most acclaimed poets of her generation and a face of American feminism."New York TimesA major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (19292012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of forceful, uncompromising prose as well as poetry. In doing so, she emerged as an architect and exemplar of the feminist movement, breaking ranks to denounce the male-dominated literary establishment and paving the way for women writers to take their places in the cultural mainstream. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Rich's correspondence and in-depth interviews with many people who knew her, Hilary Holladay provides a vividly detailed, full-dimensional portrait of a woman whose work and life continue to challenge and inspire new generations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of Islamic thought. Its founder, Mu ammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, taught that most professed Muslims were polytheists due to their veneration of Islamic saints at tombs and gravesites. He preached that true Muslims, those who worship God alone, must show hatred and enmity toward these polytheists and fight them in jihad. Cole Bunzel tells the story of Wahhabism from its emergence in the 1740s to its taming and coopting by the modern Saudi state in the 1920s, and shows how its legacy endures in the ideologies of al-Qa ida and the Islamic State. Drawing on a wealth of primary source materials, Bunzel traces the origins of Wahhabi doctrine to the religious thought of medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyya and examines its development through several generations of Wahhabi scholars. While widely seen as heretical and schismatic, the movement nonetheless flourished in central Arabia, spreading across the peninsula under the political authority of the Al Su ud dynasty until the invading Egyptian army crushed it in 1818. The militant Wahhabi ethos, however, persisted well into the early twentieth century, when the Saudi kingdom used Wahhabism to bolster its legitimacy. This incisive history is the definitive account of a militant Islamic movement founded on enmity toward non-Wahhabi Muslims and that is still with us today in the violent doctrines of Sunni jihadis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The evolution of American retailing practices to developments in Europe from the late 19th century to the present'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic valueand how it can be strengthenedDo any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics Should we In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy itself and the growing sense among many that politics is only about powernot truth. In this book, Michael Patrick Lynch argues that truth not only canbut mustmatter in politics. He shows why truth is an essential democratic valuea value we need to sustain our democratic way of lifeand how it can be strengthened.Despite evidence that people are rarely motivated by truth when it comes to politics, On Truth in Politics argues that this isn't inevitable. Accessibly written and rigorously argued, it draws on the American pragmatist tradition to develop an original theory of the nature and value of truth in the messy world of politics. Contrary to the belief of many, political beliefs can be true or false. But if democracy is to continue to be a space of reason and not just an arena of power, we must build a better infrastructure of knowledge, including stronger schools and media, and renew our commitment to science and history.A vital and timely book, On Truth in Politics makes an original case for why democracy cannot survive without truth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book uncovers the ways natural selection leads to imperfection in humans and the implications of this for our understanding of how evolution works and human biology and health. The simplest version of evolution frames it as a gradual process that leads to constant improvement. This view holds that natural selection drives toward 'perfection.' Mutations in an organism's genome either harm or help its ability to reproduce; harmful ones don't last while beneficial ones are passed on and spread throughout a population. As Laurence Hurst argues in this book, the reality is far more complicated. This is particularly true for humans at the level of our DNA. Why, for example do we need so many sperm to fertilize one egg Or why do we have a high rate of genetic disease And why does much of our DNA appear to be pointless These imperfections do not make sense when we assume that evolution is a constantly improving process, yet the more scientists study our genome the more they see things that look like imperfections. How, then, are they explained After carefully introducing readers to what he means by perfection and imperfection and providing basic information about DNA, Hurst provides evidence for why the human genome retains imperfections. He argues that our small populations, high mutation rates, and mode of reproduction leave us vulnerable to all sorts of problems. In dissecting the evolution of our imperfection, Hurst illuminates what scientists are learning about the human genome and why it seems to cause so many issues despite our success as a species. Finally, despite what we might call our 'rotten lot,' evolutionarily speaking, we have our big brains and medicine to combat genetic disease and, at the end of the book, Hurst reviews what scientists are learning about curing genetically based diseases'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to 'Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,' ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States. The Jewish South tells their stories, and those of their descendants and coreligionists who followed, providing the first narrative history of southern Jews'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy Coyle makes the case for a new framework, one that takes into consideration current economic realities.Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. They are essential for guiding better economic policies; they involve questions of freedom, justice, life, and death. Governments use statistics that affect people's lives in ways large and small. The metrics for economic growth were developed when a lack of physical rather than natural capital was the binding constraint on growth, intangible value was less important, and the pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply. Today's challenges are different. Growth in living standards in rich economies has slowed, despite remarkable innovation, particularly in digital technologies. As a result, politics is contentious and democracy strained.Coyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail. Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An enthralling tour of the world's rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues tells the stories of the world's rare and vanishing languages, revealing how each is a living testament to human resilience, adaptability, and the perennial quest for identity.Taking readers on a captivating journey of discovery, Lorna Gibb explores the histories of languages under threat or already extinct as well as those in resurgence, shedding light on their origins, development, and distinctive voices. She travels the globefrom Australia and Finland to India, the Canary Islands, Namibia, Scotland, and Paraguayshowing how these languages are not mere words and syntax but keepers of diverse worldviews, sites of ethnic conflict, and a means for finding surprising commonalities. Readers learn the basics of how various language systems workwith vowels and consonants, whistles and clicks, tonal inflections, or hand signsand how this kaleidoscope of self-expression carries vital information about our planet, indigenous cultures and tradition, and the history and evolution of humankind.Rare Tongues is essential reading for anyone concerned about the preservation of endangered languages and an eloquent and disarmingly personal meditation on why the world's linguistic heritage is so fundamental to our shared experienceand why its loss should worry us all.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'With more than 160,000 named species, moths are a familiar sight to most of us, flickering around lights, pollinating wildflowers about meadows and gardens, and as unwelcome visitors to our woolens. They come in a variety of colors, from earthy greens and browns to gorgeous patterns of infinite variety, and range in size from enormous atlas moths to tiny leafmining moths. Moths of the World is an essential guide to this astonishing group of insects, highlighting their remarkable diversity, miraculous metamorphoses, marvelous caterpillars, and much more.'--Provided by publisher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance. In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabortion activists against 'taxpayer funded abortions,' and a diverse group of people who promote taxpaying as a moral good. Though taxpaying is often portrayed as dull and technical, exposure to collective rituals, civic education, propaganda, and protest transforms the practice for many Americans into either a sacred rite of citizenship or a profane threat to what they hold dear. These sacred and profane meanings can apply to the act of taxpaying itself or to the specific uses of tax dollars. Despite intense disagreement about these meanings, politically diverse Americans engaged in both taxpaying and tax resistance valorize the individual taxpayer and 'my tax dollars.' Braunstein explores the profound implications of this meaning making for tax consent, the legitimacy of the tax system, and citizens' broader understandings of their political relationships. Going beyond the usual focus on tax policy, Braunstein's innovative view of taxation through the lens of cultural sociology shows how citizens in value-diverse societies coalesce around shared visions of the sacred and fears of the profane'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West. In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government's treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his visceral pictures of the Confederate dead at Antietam, posed six federal peace commissioners with a young Native girl wrapped in a blanket. The hand-labeled prints carefully name each of the men, but the girl is never identified. As The Girl in the Middle goes in search of her, it draws readers into the entangled lives of the photographer and his subjects. Martha A. Sandweiss paints a riveting portrait of the turbulent age of Reconstruction and westward expansion. She follows Gardner from his birthplace in Scotland to the American frontier, as his dreams of a utopian future across the Atlantic fall to pieces. She recounts the lives of William S. Harney, a slave-owning Union general who earned the Lakota name 'Woman Killer,' and Samuel F. Tappan, an abolitionist who led the investigation into the Sand Creek massacre. And she identifies Sophie Mousseau, the girl in Gardner's photograph, whose life swerved in unexpected directions as American settlers pushed into Indian Country and the federal government confined Native peoples to reservations.Spinning a spellbinding historical tale from a single enigmatic image, The Girl in the Middle reveals how the American nation grappled with what kind of country it would be as it expanded westward in the aftermath of the Civil War'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheries With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and poetics of seeking wonder. In so doing, she centers women's influence on the preservation and dissemination of oral traditions, bringing work that was once relegated to the margins into dialogue with work long regarded as canonical.After mapping sidelined, marginalized, and forgotten women folklorists, Sottilotta narrows the focus onto four writers and collectors who were inspired by Italian and Irish insular contexts: Laura Gonzenbach, who collected Sicilian wonder tales; Grazia Deledda, who wrote Sardinian ethnographic sketches, legends, and fairy tales; Jane Wilde, who published anthologies of Irish folklore; and Augusta Gregory, who collected traditional narratives in the west of Ireland. Situated within an ongoing process of rediscovery of lesser-known collectors, tellers, and tales in the European tradition, Sottilotta relocates these figures within a broader transcultural framework.Throughout, Sottilotta emphasizes the role of women as crucial intermediaries between different cultural groupsin particular, between the world of the "folk" and the world of scholarly folklore studies. Unearthing rare archival material and reading these writings from the perspective of gender, Sottilotta sheds light on the identity dynamics that animated the cultural phenomenon of collecting folk and fairy tales in this era.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A new intellectual history of the idea of the revolution in the Western world, from the Greeks to the present'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine at the turn of the common era. The Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small group of literate Jewish men who devoted their lives to the interpretation and teaching of their sacred ancestral texts. In this groundbreaking study, Krista Dalton shows that these early rabbis were not an insular specialist group but embedded in a landscape of Jewish piety. Drawing on the writings of rabbis in Roman Palestine from from the second through fifth centuries CE, Dalton illuminates the significance of social relationships in the production of rabbinic expertise. She traces the social interactions-everyday instances of mutual exchange, from dinner parties to tithes and patronages-that fostered the perception of rabbis as experts.Dalton shows how the knowledge derived from the rabbis' technical skills was validated and recognized by others. Rabbis socialized and noshed with neighbors and offered advice and legal favors to friends. In exchange for their expert judgments, they received invitations, donations, appointments, and recognition. She argues that their status as Torah experts did not arise by virtue of being scholars but from their ability to persuade others that their mobilization of Jewish cultural resources was beneficial. Dalton describes the relational processes that made rabbinic expertise possible as well as the accompanying tensions; social interactions shaped the rabbis' domain of knowledge while also imposing expectations of reciprocity that had to be managed. Dalton's authoritative analysis demonstrates that a focus on friendship and exchange provides a fuller understanding of how rabbis claimed and defended their distinct expertise'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic book that established the principles and methods of modern intelligence analysisWith the outbreak of the Second World War, historian Sherman Kent left his classroom at Yale to join the Office of Strategic Servicesthe forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agencywhere he adapted scholarly methods to the rigors and unique challenges of producing actionable intelligence in support of the war effort. In this remarkable book, Kent draws on the lessons he learned in wartime to lay the foundations for postwar security. He presents the doctrine and practices of intelligence analysis and explains why they are vital to national survival. Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy shows how intelligence activities and their consequences extend far beyond military considerations and are as essential to keeping the peace as they are to winning the war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In this book, Meredith Martin presents a historical account of prosodic criticism and, through the example of her own research path, argues for new scholarly practices in literary studies and the humanities more broadly. Challenging the common scholarly practice of emphasizing one critical narrative, one pathway through history or one author's reading, the book traces three arcs: the effects of the major shift in the late twentieth century from print-based to digital resources in scholarship with the emergence of the World Wide Web; Martin's experience as a scholar who coordinated a digital project about the history of the study of poetry, which led to the creation of the Princeton Prosody Archive and the founding of Princeton's Center for Digital Humanities (CDH); and the mix of computational and aesthetic elements in the study of prosody, including the study of versification and meter, in the broader context of English literary study as a discipline. Across these three arcs, Martin argues that scholars must take seriously the idea of digital media as mediation, through which textual forms are transformed into data and delivered to us via data structures, and that our reading of historical texts in digital forms must reckon with these mediations. She also demonstrates the connection between the intellectual labor of studying prosody-or any historical object-and the intellectual labor of fostering a collaborative research process. 'This is a book,' she writes, 'about the shifting grounds of knowledge production in the digital age, and how we might situate ourselves amid these shifts by returning to, of all things, poetry.''.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There was no shortage of great Russian prose written during the twentieth century, much of it inevitably representing a period of revolution, war, penal servitude, and political collapse; but the distinction and prestige of poetry never waned in Russia, a country in which poetry has been regarded as the premier source of creative inventiveness and psychological and emotional truth. Despite the huge challenges posed by the Soviet system, poetry found a route to talk about the interior life and explore individual consciousness, and through linguistic means to present a different, defamiliarized take on the world. And the form has flourished in the post-Soviet era. In this new anthology, editors Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky aim to demonstrate that poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first century is the jewel in the crown of Russian literature. Out of each of the thirty-four works here included a personal view of the world emerges, but this collection as a whole conveys a bigger picture about a Russian poetic tradition that is both national and international, playful and existential, historical and contemporary. Each poem is reproduced in the original Russian and presented in translation. An explanatory essay introduces each poet and offers a close reading of the poem, with specific consideration of form, language, and questions of translation. The introduction provides an overview of the Russian tradition and explores how the history of its poetry is also an image of this complex and fascinating country. Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky aim to demonstrate that Russian poetry has been unstintingly responsive and illuminatingly vital even at the darkest historical times. Whatever the context, whether one of Socialist Realism or Glasnost', and whatever the mode of publication, whether official or clandestine in samizdat, Russian poetry has exhibited a remarkable resourcefulness'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative introduction to the essential features of étale cohomologyA. Grothendieck's work on algebraic geometry is one of the most important mathematical achievements of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s, he and M. Artin introduced étale cohomology to extend the methods of sheaf-theoretic cohomology from complex varieties to more general schemes. This work found many applications, not only in algebraic geometry but also in several different branches of number theory and in the representation theory of finite and p-adic groups. In this classic book, James Milne provides an invaluable introduction to étale cohomology, covering the essential features of the theory.Milne begins with a review of the basic properties of flat and étale morphisms and the algebraic fundamental group. He then turns to the basic theory of étale sheaves and elementary étale cohomology, followed by an application of the cohomology to the study of the Brauer group. After a detailed analysis of the cohomology of curves and surfaces, Milne proves the fundamental theorems in étale cohomologythose of base change, purity, Poincaré duality, and the Lefschetz trace formulaand applies these theorems to show the rationality of some very general L-series.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book reappraises women's contribution to the field of folklore and fairy-tale studies in Italy and Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by exploring their role as preservers of oral traditions and as crucial intermediaries between different cultural groups. The book begins by introducing the transnational dimension of the nineteenth-century European folk revivals and identifies key female writers, collectors, and compilers of folklore and fairy tales in Italy and Ireland. The author then focuses on four women writers and folklore collectors who worked in these countries: Laura Gonzenbach (1842-1878), author of Sicilianische Mèarchen (1870), a collection of Sicilian oral tales later translated into German and English; Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), whose Sardinian ethnographic sketches, legends, and fairy tales circulated in late nineteenth-century Italian and Sardinian journals; Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896), who published Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland (1887) and Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland (1890); and Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), who collected traditional Irish narratives from County Mayo, County Galway, and the Aran Islands, and published collections including Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920). In the author's words, 'this book is a three-fold act of recovery of the lives and works of nineteenth-century female collectors and compilers who undertook these efforts, of their forgotten informants, and of the tales and traditions they bequeathed to them, so that their voices can finally speak from the shadows and emerge from the invisibility they were relegated to.''.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance. In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabortion activists against 'taxpayer funded abortions,' and a diverse group of people who promote taxpaying as a moral good. Though taxpaying is often portrayed as dull and technical, exposure to collective rituals, civic education, propaganda, and protest transforms the practice for many Americans into either a sacred rite of citizenship or a profane threat to what they hold dear. These sacred and profane meanings can apply to the act of taxpaying itself or to the specific uses of tax dollars. Despite intense disagreement about these meanings, politically diverse Americans engaged in both taxpaying and tax resistance valorize the individual taxpayer and 'my tax dollars.'Braunstein explores the profound implications of this meaning making for tax consent, the legitimacy of the tax system, and citizens' broader understandings of their political relationships. Going beyond the usual focus on tax policy, Braunstein's innovative view of taxation through the lens of cultural sociology shows how citizens in value-diverse societies coalesce around shared visions of the sacred and fears of the profane'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic book that established the principles and methods of modern intelligence analysisWith the outbreak of the Second World War, historian Sherman Kent left his classroom at Yale to join the Office of Strategic Servicesthe forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agencywhere he adapted scholarly methods to the rigors and unique challenges of producing actionable intelligence in support of the war effort. In this remarkable book, Kent draws on the lessons he learned in wartime to lay the foundations for postwar security. He presents the doctrine and practices of intelligence analysis and explains why they are vital to national survival. Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy shows how intelligence activities and their consequences extend far beyond military considerations and are as essential to keeping the peace as they are to winning the war.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonThe 533 documents in this volume include revealing material on Jefferson's health. He is limited to a liquid diet for weeks due to an abscess under his jaw. Although daily horseback rides take him '3. or 4. to 8. or 10. miles without fatigue,' he cannot walk 'further than my garden.' He has lost only one tooth due to age and is glad not to need 'teeth of porcelain.'Due to debility, Jefferson's only serious occupation is the effort to open the University of Virginia. Francis W. Gilmer travels to Great Britain to recruit professors and buy 'a library and apparatus.' Jefferson is determined to hire only faculty of 'the first grade of science.' The Rotunda is still unfinished but fit for use 'until funds may occur to compleat it.'Jefferson predicts that a plan to send freed African Americans to Africa will fail. He observes that 'barbarism' is in decline and 'will in time I trust disappear from the earth.' To another correspondent he defends 'the principles which have guided my public life,' but adds that, when altered circumstances make changes of principle beneficial, 'then let such changes take place, and the means yield to the end.'.