The Impossible Community (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)

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The Impossible Community confronts a critical moment when social and ecological catastrophe loom, the Left seems unable to articulate a response, and the Right is monopolizing public debates. This book offers a reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution. It argues that a free and just social order requires a radical transformation of the modes of domination exercised through social ideology and institutional structures. Communitarian anarchism unites a universalist concern for social and ecological justice while recognizing the integrity and individuality of the person. In fact, anarchist principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation can already be seen in various contexts, from the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina to social movements in India.This work offers both a theoretical framework and concrete case studies to show how contemporary anarchist practice continues a long tradition of successfully synthetizing personal and communal liberation. This significant contribution will appeal not only to students in anarchism and political theory, but also to activists and anyone interested in making the world a better place.

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John Clark delves into civilization's systems and unearths a new paradigm for how we humans could restructure our perspectives and begin to appreciate each other and our earth more intently than we have yet been able to do.

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HOMOSEXUALITY IN FRENCH HISTORY AND

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Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism!

Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de Montaigne to pride parades in contemporary Paris. This groundbreaking book documents the ways homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined. </br></br>During these centuries, homosexuality has been stigmatized as a sin, crime, or disease, and denounced as a threat to social order and national identity. Yet the rhetoric of condemnation has always co-existed with the reality of toleration. This groundbreaking collection analyzes the ways in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes and anxieties about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. </br></br>Homosexuality in French History and Culture offers historical and literary studies based on a wide variety of sources, including:

• novels, plays, and poetry
  
• gossip and satires
  
• police reports
  
• medical texts
  
• travel literature
  
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• memoirs</br></br>Homosexuality in French History and Culture combines fresh, creative re-interpretation of familiar texts with exciting new explorations of neglected historical episodes and cultures. It is a landmark of meticulous scholarship and rigorous theoretical analysis, and a vital resource for scholars of queer theory, French history and culture, and literary criticism.

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On the cultural front, the French and we don't understand each other too well. Their nation has the gall to pick which wars it gets involved in, which American pop celebrities to lionize (Jerry Lewis?), and which supposedly marginalized groups to treat in a matter-of-fact fashion. Professor Henry Higgins' snide remark "The French don't care what you DO, actually, as long as you pronounce it properly," hints at a tolerance for today's more value-free environment in previously "controversial" areas of ground-breaking historical and cultural research. Not to imply that the Fifth Republic is Nirvana for free speech, but at least Over There learned people can address a topic like homosexuality without first having to dash over the hot coals of bigotry and obfuscation so regularly, and dismayingly, laid down by self-appointed pundits, journalists, and other critics dispatched by the knee-jerk radical right. That last, no-holds-barred quality is what makes possible HOMOSEXUALITY IN FRENCH CULTURE, a compendium of readable, even entertaining articles that focus on a particular kind of gay or lesbian community at particular times during the French historical experience. All the way from France's early nationhood to the present. Does this mean that the populace was way cool about homosex in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries? No, of course not. But the concept of a citizen's duty versus a private life sticks better in France than here. French (homo)sexual life is enough like ours to be a mirror, and enough unlike ours to be a window. Many of this situations dealt with here have to do with accommodating what we would call sexual hypocrisy--but it's the Monty Python, "Wink, wink, say no more" type of hypocrisy. For example, Parisian male prostitutes of the late 19th Century had no recourse to health screening. Their desire: neither decriminalization nor unionization, but a plea for the same kind of semi-legal recognition (including mandatory doctor visits) that their distaff pros enjoyed! Probably the tipping point between labeling this approach "cynical" or "pragmatic" lies somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Not out and proud, but at least a demand for equal rights and rough justice. The articles in this book are well-written in layman-friendly. At this point it's safe to say that the book was first written as an academic journal before the publisher realized its commercial potential. Except for the concluding article, which uses deconstructionist literary theory and along with it, that tedious, jargon-filled prose associated with the discipline, there is next to nothing of the schoolhouse about HOMOSEXUALITY IN FRENCH HISTORY AND CULTURE. A highly recommended book, if just to ask, "How would the USA have handled that problem? Would we have seen it as a problem? How have different cultures acknowledged (or ignored) their gayness?"PS: James Baldwin's later biographical writings give poignance to the difference in American and French sociocultural perspectives. In the 1950s, this celebrated author was viewed in New York City as a "Negro" and treated badly if at all in Manhattan's best hotel, but in Paris he was a respected cultural figure: a civilized nation does not treat an artist poorly... Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you?�Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment�Comment

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Essentials of Managing Treasury (Essentials Series)

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ESSENTIALS OF MANAGING TREASURY

Treasury is the financial hub of an organization-a hub with many spokes. This concise reference describes each functional area within treasury and includes guidelines for best practices and revelant technologies. With tips and techniques, it provides a practical overview of treasury and its relationship to every part of an organization.

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Finding History: Research Methods and Resources for Students and Scholars

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In today’s world of modern research methods, the irony is that even though more materials are readily available now than ever before, this proliferation of sources has actually made the process more difficult for the novice researcher. In addition, today s professors expect high-quality sources to be used in students undergraduate research precisely because so much information is available; however, without instruction, many students are not even aware of the standard history sources that they should be using routinely for history research projects. Finding History is a practical and modern guide to research for history projects, helping to sort through the available resources and technology for students, scholars, and librarians.

Finding History includes practical, step-by-step instructions for discovering historical evidence using library catalogs, databases, and websites. It simplifies and clarifies the research process so that students new to the experience may locate appropriate research material with the same skill as seasoned historians. This book addresses the information literacy skills defined by the American Library Association and the American Historical Association, which include

• recognizing the need for scholarly historical information;
• defining and identifying the need for primary, secondary, and tertiary sources;
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Including search samples and tables, Finding History is a valuable resource for anyone wanting to ensure their research draws from the best available sources and those needing instruction in locating, obtaining, evaluating, and using scholarly sources efficiently, directly, and ethically.

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"Finding History" is a first-rate guide to library research. After decades of poking around in libraries, I found much that was familiar in these pages, but not all by any means. I soon came to the conclusion that I would pass the book along to my grandchildren after they entered college. The book is most appropriate for history majors, but it can usefully help students with any major.

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Tanak: A Theological And Critical Introduction To The Jewish Bible

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� Biblical theology � is no longer a strictly Christian enterprise. Sweeney structures his theology of Tanak around themes of Jewish life: the constitution of the nation Israel in relation to God; the disruption of that ideal (the Prophets); the reconstitution of the nation around the Second Temple (the Writings).

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the book is very very helpful that I bought both the book and the kindle edition. money is well spent. out of all the OT textbooks I have, nothing beats this well-respected Hebrew Bible scholar.

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Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality

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First published in 1952, W.R.D. Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality re-oriented psychoanalysis by centering human development on the infant's innate need for relationships, describing the process of splitting and the internal dynamic relationship between ego and object. His elegant theory is still a vital framework of psychoanalytic theory and practice, infant research, group relations and family therapy.
This classic collection of papers, available for the first time in paperback, has a new introduction by David Scharff and Elinor Fairbairn Birtles which sets Fairbairn's highly original work in context, provides an overview of object relations theory, and traces modern developments, launched by Fairbairn's discoveries.

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I admired the author's courage to question Freud's theory. Fairbairn's new understanding of human nature was revolutionary then and is still valid now. Some descriptions of endopsychic structure seemed to me a little bit complicated but the idea was presented with precision and grace and accompanied by clinical examples. Some methaphors show the author's deep knowledge of philosophy and religion.

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