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Debt's Grip - Robert M. Lawless - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt's Grip - Robert M. Lawless - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt’s Grip tells the story of financial struggle in the United States. Drawing on original data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a landmark long-term study, the authors use the words of bankruptcy filers themselves to shed light on their battles to keep their homes and their cars, pay for healthcare and higher education, care for their children, find adequate employment, retire, negotiate with debt collectors, and confront discrimination in lending. Laying bare the consequences of risk privatization, this book makes a powerful case for why the United States must confront the structural inequities that cause so many—especially Black families, women, and the elderly—to struggle in today’s economy.

DKK 820.00
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The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Karen Engle - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Karen Engle - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual violence in conflict would become such a prominent issue. Engle reveals that as feminists from around the world began to pay an enormous amount of attention to sexual violence in conflict, they often did so at the cost of attention to other issues, including the anti-militarism of the women's peace movement; critiques of economic maldistribution, imperialism, and cultural essentialism by feminists from the global South; and the sex-positive positions of many feminists involved in debates about sex work and pornography. The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict offers a detailed examination of how these feminist commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. Engle's analysis reinvigorates vital debates about feminist goals and priorities, and spurs readers to question much of today's common sense about the causes, effects, and proper responses to sexual violence in conflict.

DKK 1059.00
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The Cold War Past and Present - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Cold War Past and Present - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America. Following the uneasy wartime alliance, Russia’s tightening grip on Eastern Europe and the Berlin Blockade ushered in the first of the ‘cold wars’, with different leaders down the decades bring thaws and frosts, all excellently examined here by a team of leading writers in the field.

DKK 1092.00
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Reason and Reality - Nicholas Rescher - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Reason and Reality - Nicholas Rescher - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Reason and Reality expounds a pragmatic metaphysics that offers a new approach to this subject''s traditional objective of providing us with a secure cognitive grip on the nature of reality. The characteristic nature of this metaphysical approach lies in its commitment to the idea that the requisite security is best and most reliably provided by functional considerations of pragmatic efficacy service the aims and purposes of rational inquiry and effective communication.

DKK 936.00
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Uva's Rigging Guide for Studio and Location - Michael Uva - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Uva's Rigging Guide for Studio and Location - Michael Uva - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Readers of Mike Uva''s GRIP BOOK who are interested in more detailed information on the work of the grip department will welcome his new rigging manual, clearly detailing all the ways to mount cameras and lights both on a set as well as on location. The book covers the latest truss systems, rigging equipment and portable stages, as well as lifts, boom arms and camera mounts for every type of moving vehicle. The book is not limited to equipment specifications, however; Uva offers tips and tricks throughout in order to make the process of setting up and shooting safer and more efficient. Grips often need to invent makeshift solutions in a short time, and Uva shares many such devices developed over his years in the film and TV industry. This book will help grips and key grips move on to the bigger feature projects and commercials that require this equipment. It will also be useful for directors of photography and producers in pre-planning the required equipment for specific shots.

DKK 791.00
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Kchlya - Yuri Tynianov - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Kchlya - Yuri Tynianov - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin’s school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

DKK 1050.00
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Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies - Maria Popova - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies - Maria Popova - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Why are independent courts rarely found in emerging democracies? This book moves beyond familiar obstacles, such as an inhospitable legal legacy and formal institutions that expose judges to political pressure. It proposes a strategic pressure theory, which claims that in emerging democracies, political competition eggs on rather than restrains power-hungry politicians. Incumbents who are losing their grip on power try to use the courts to hang on, which leads to the politicization of justice. The analysis uses four original datasets, containing 1,000 decisions by Russian and Ukrainian lower courts from 1998 to 2004. The main finding is that justice is politicized in both countries, but in the more competitive regime (Ukraine) incumbents leaned more forcefully on the courts and obtained more favorable rulings.

DKK 948.00
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The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994 - Kazuaki Nagatomi - Bog - Springer Verlag, Singapore - Plusbog.dk

The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994 - Kazuaki Nagatomi - Bog - Springer Verlag, Singapore - Plusbog.dk

This research explores one of the baffling mysteries in contemporary non-Western democracies. The conversion to a mixed system of the first-past-the-post system and proportional representation for the Japanese House of Representatives in 1994 has not realised the widely spread desire for recurrent changes of government, as the Liberal Democratic Party have maintained their grip. Dr Nagatomi monitors Japanese politics with the theories and methodologies of electoral geography. From a comparative perspective, the operation of the electoral system can mostly be explained by the geographical distributions of party supports, the arrangements of electoral constituencies and the candidacies of parties. Packed with a volume of the analyses unpublished elsewhere, this book will offer food for thought to political scientists, Asian watchers and broadly comparative researchers.

DKK 986.00
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The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994 - Kazuaki Nagatomi - Bog - Springer Verlag, Singapore - Plusbog.dk

The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994 - Kazuaki Nagatomi - Bog - Springer Verlag, Singapore - Plusbog.dk

This research explores one of the baffling mysteries in contemporary non-Western democracies. The conversion to a mixed system of the first-past-the-post system and proportional representation for the Japanese House of Representatives in 1994 has not realised the widely spread desire for recurrent changes of government, as the Liberal Democratic Party have maintained their grip. Dr Nagatomi monitors Japanese politics with the theories and methodologies of electoral geography. From a comparative perspective, the operation of the electoral system can mostly be explained by the geographical distributions of party supports, the arrangements of electoral constituencies and the candidacies of parties. Packed with a volume of the analyses unpublished elsewhere, this book will offer food for thought to political scientists, Asian watchers and broadly comparative researchers.

DKK 986.00
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The Principles of Corporate Sentencing in EU Law - Vanessa Franssen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Principles of Corporate Sentencing in EU Law - Vanessa Franssen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

This unique book provides a comprehensive account of the principles governing corporate sentencing in EU law. The EU is strengthening its grip on national criminal law in its fight against corporate crime, and the punishment of corporations features prominently among its concerns. However its current efforts to approximate Member States’ criminal laws are weakened by the diversity of national sentencing rules and a thorough analysis of corporate sentencing is lacking both at the level of the EU and in most national systems.In this important book Vanessa Franssen draws on comparative scholarship of Member State legal systems as well as EU law, and makes practical suggestions for corporate sentencing goals that should be pursued by the EU. The book addresses academics, judges, practising lawyers, civil servants and anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating topic of EU law.

DKK 1113.00
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Towards Anti-policing - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Towards Anti-policing - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Police are becoming ever more militarized and routinely commit transgressive acts of intimidation, coercion, and violence. Cognizant of the dangers that policing poses to the general public, the sheer number of violations in the contemporary moment, and the fact that brutality has been an intrinsic part of policing since its origin, Towards Anti-policing: Prefiguring Possibilities beyond the Thin Blue Line establishes that communities should be ever vigilant of the potential for abuse and harassment. Offering a diagnostic global perspective on police brutality, this edited collection raises critical questions about whether policing is needed at all and what underlying purpose it actually serves. In this post-pandemic era, where the grip of authoritarianism has only tightened, Towards Anti-policing positions radical grassroots activism as a first line of critical defiance against the ‘Fear Terror Paradigm’ of policing logics and the pervasive brutality that this form of community control represents.

DKK 901.00
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Hard Target - Marcus Noland - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hard Target - Marcus Noland - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role of economic incentives in the bargaining around the country''s nuclear program. Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland draw on an array of evidence to show the reluctance of the North Korean leadership to weaken its grip on foreign economic activity. They argue that inducements have limited effect on the regime, and instead urge policymakers to think in terms of gradual strategies. Hard Target connects economic statecraft to the marketization process to understand North Korea and addresses a larger debate over the merits and demerits of "engagement" with adversaries.

DKK 959.00
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Global Feminist Ethics - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Global Feminist Ethics - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). It includes papers by philosophers offering cutting-edge feminist perspectives on ethical issues of global and transnational significance. Feminist approaches to global issues address a great many questions that grip people who are not philosophers, nor even necessarily feminists. These questions include: What are the obligations of global citizenship? How must our concepts of caring, and of human rights, be modified or expanded when applied in a global context? What approach to peacekeeping, if any, underwrites effective peacekeeping missions? Who counts as poor, and who does not? What emotions can motivate sustained, ethical, and effective political action? The topics covered herein-from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women''s paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism-are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world.

DKK 980.00
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Elements of Mathematical Methods for Physics - Francis E. Mensah - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Elements of Mathematical Methods for Physics - Francis E. Mensah - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Elements of Mathematical Methods for Physics provides students with an approachable and innovative introduction to key concepts of mathematical physics, accompanied by clear and concise explanations, relevant real-world examples and problems that help them to master the fundamentals of mathematical physics. The topics are presented at a basic level, for students lacking a prior mathematical background. This book is designed to be covered in two semesters, presenting 18 chapters on topics varying from differential equations, matrix algebra and tensor analysis to Fourier transform, including special functions and dynamical systems. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of physics and engineering as well as professionals will gain a better grip of the basics and a deeper insight into and appreciation for mathematical methods for physics. Key Features: • Reviews and presents the basic math skills needed at the undergraduate level. • Chapters accompanied by examples and end-of-chapter problems to enhance understanding. • Introduces dynamical systems and includes a chapter on Hilbert Space

DKK 825.00
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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII - Peter Bennett - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII - Peter Bennett - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII''s grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as ''sounding liturgy'' contribute to the wider discourse on absolutism and ''the arts'' in early modern France? Taking the scholarship of the so-called ''ceremonialists'' as a point of departure, Peter Bennett engages with Weber''s seminal formulation of power to consider the contexts in which liturgy, music and ceremonial legitimated the power of a king almost continuously engaged in religious conflict. Numerous musical settings show that David, the psalmist, musician, king and agent of the Holy Spirit, provided the most enduring model of kingship; but in the final decade of his life, as Louis dedicated the Kingdom to the Virgin Mary, the model of ''Christ the King'' became even more potent – a model reflected in a flowering of musical publication and famous paintings by Vouet and Champaigne.

DKK 773.00
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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China - Jr Thaxton - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China - Jr Thaxton - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book documents how China''s rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China''s socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao''s authoritarian plan for a full-throttle realization of communism – a plan that engendered an unprecedented disaster for rural families. Based on his study of a rural village''s memories of the famine, Thaxton argues that these memories persisted long after the events of the famine and shaped rural resistance to the socialist state, both before and after the post-Mao era of reform.

DKK 865.00
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Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.

DKK 1088.00
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Apocalypse without God - Ben Jones - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Apocalypse without God - Ben Jones - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Apocalypse, it seems, is everywhere. Preachers with vast followings proclaim the world''s end. Apocalyptic fears grip even the nonreligious amid climate change, pandemics, and threats of nuclear war. As these ideas pervade popular discourse, grasping their logic remains elusive. Ben Jones argues that we can gain insight into apocalyptic thought through secular thinkers. He starts with a puzzle: Why would secular thinkers draw on Christian apocalyptic beliefs – often dismissed as bizarre – to interpret politics? The apocalyptic tradition proves appealing in part because it theorizes a relation between crisis and utopia. Apocalyptic thought points to crisis as the vehicle to bring the previously impossible within reach, offering resources for navigating challenges in ideal theory, which involves imagining the best, most just society. By examining apocalyptic thought''s appeal and risks, this study arrives at new insights on the limits of utopian hope. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

DKK 773.00
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Do Not Provoke Providence - Yosef Salmon - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Do Not Provoke Providence - Yosef Salmon - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah, and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. The discussion follows historical events in both philosophy and everyday life. It explores the anti-Zionist sphere and also discusses the attitudes toward the conflict of religion and nationalism in the world of Religious Zionism. The dispute between advocates of a religious concept of the community and proponents of a secular nation revolved primarily around perceptions of the ideal relationship between the religious and national entities. One group sought to make religion a tool of the nation; the other sought to make the nation a tool of religion.

DKK 967.00
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Anatomy of a Dictatorship - Mary Fulbrook - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Anatomy of a Dictatorship - Mary Fulbrook - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Founded on the ruins of Hitler''s defeated Third Reich, and lacking any intrinsic legitimacy, the German Democratic Republic nevertheless became the most stable and successful state in the Soviet bloc. Yet in the ''gentle revolution'' of 1989 it collapsed with startling speed. How can this extraordinary story of political stability followed by sudden implosion be explained? With the opening of the East German archives, it is at last possible to look inside the apparently impregnable dictatorship. Mary Fulbrook provides a compelling interpretation of structures of power and patterns of popular opinion within the GDR. This absorbing study explores the ways in which the tentacles of the all-pervading state captured East German society in the grip of the Stasi, party, and mass organizations, and analyses the emergence in the 1980s of oppositional cultures under the ambivalent shelter of a Protestant Church which had come to terms with the communist state. In combining careful archival research with broader theoretical and historical interpretation, Anatomy of a Dictatorship makes a major contribution to debates on recent German history and the character of contemporary Germany.

DKK 841.00
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Debating Democracy's Discontent - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Debating Democracy's Discontent - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this timely and provocative volume, some of the world''s leading political and constitutional theorists come together to debate Michael Sandel''s celebrated thesis that the United States is in the the grip of a flawed public philosophy - "procedural liberalism". Beginning with an original stage-setting introduction by Ronald Beiner, and ending with a reply by Michael Sandel, Sandel''s liberal and feminist critics square off with his communitarian and civic republican sympathizers in a lively and wide-ranging discussion spanning constitutional law, culture, and political economy. Practical, topical issues of immigration, gay marriage, federalism, adoption, abortion, corporate speech, militias, and economic disparity are debated alongside theories of civic virtue, citizenship, identity, and community. Not only does this volume provide the most comprehensive and insightful critique of Sandel''s Democracy''s Discontent to date - it also makes a very significant, substantive contribution to contemporary political and legal philosophy in its own right. It will prove essential reading for all those interested in the future of American politics, law, and public philosophy.

DKK 1143.00
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