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The Social Construction of What?
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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality Is it a person An object An idea A theory Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores..
The Sources of Economic Growth
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Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Investments in physical and human capital contribute to growth largely as handmaidens to technological advance. Technological advance needs to be understood as an evolutionary process, depending much more o..
The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welf...
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As their woefully backward economy continues to crumble, much of the Soviet population remains indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the idea of reform. This phenomenon, so different from the Solidarity movement in Poland or the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, has been explained in terms of..
The Soviet Union and Social Science Theory (Russia...
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Book by Hough, Jerry F. Author: Hough, Jerry F. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674829808 ISBN-13: 9780674829800..
The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by th...
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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit barg..
The Struggle for Auto Safety
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Combining superb investigative reporting with incisive analysis, Jerry Mashaw and David Harfst provide a compelling account of the attempt to regulate auto safety in America. Their penetrating look inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spans two decades and reveals the co..
The Success of Open Source
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Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most..
The Success of Open Source
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Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of “open source” code, that is, code that is freely distributed as opposed to being kept secret by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most s..
The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism...
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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have ..
The Theory of Epistemic Rationality
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Book by Foley, Richard Author: Foley, Richard Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674882768 ISBN-13: 9780674882768..
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequali...
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In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of soci..
The Trouble with Blame: Victims, Perpetrators, and...
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Blame society. Blame a bad upbringing. Blame the circumstances. Blame the victim--she may even blame herself. But what about the perpetrator When the blame is all assigned, will anyone be left to take responsibility This powerful book takes up the disturbing topic of victimization and blame as a pa..
The Trouble with Science
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In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science"--our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes--may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better a..
The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century ...
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In 1767, two “princes” of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors and so began t..
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The...
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The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) Includes record set. Author: Bernstein, Leonard Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674920007 ISBN-13: 9780674920002..
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The...
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The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein’s musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein’s most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: “Nobody anywhere presents this material so ..
The Union War
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Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War-by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brill..
The United States and the Andean Republics: Peru, ...
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Analyzing the political culture of the Andean republics of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador and of the United States, Fredrick Pike finds in their relationships deep divergencies in values and goals. Andeans, he shows, have traditionally viewed with suspicion the tenets associated with liberal democracy, ..
The United States and the Far East Crisis of 1933-...
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Book by Borg, Dorothy Author: Borg, Dorothy Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674928059 ISBN-13: 9780674928053..
The United States and the Southern Cone: Argentina...
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Book by Whitaker, Arthur P. Author: Whitaker, Arthur P. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674928415 ISBN-13: 9780674928411..
The University in Ruins
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It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a new age dawning for the University, the renaissance of higher education under way Or is the U..
The Unnatural Nature of Science: Why Science Does ...
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How is it that nobody except maybe scientists sees science for what it is In this entertaining and provocative book, Lewis Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a sci..
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
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The shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future: This was the firm conclusion of a top-secret CIA analysis issued in October 1978. One hundred days later the shah--despite his massive military, fearsome security police, and superpower support was overth..
The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consc...
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Book by Nash, Gary B. Author: Nash, Gary B. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674930576 ISBN-13: 9780674930575..
The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politic...
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In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel use this bizarre incident and its colorful cast of actors to view broader is..