Author: Alex Kimbell
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: divide, unbridgeable
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1899293191
ISBN-13: 9781899293193
Author: Albert Borgmann
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: divide, postmodern, crossing
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0226066274
ISBN-13: 9780226066271
In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society’s ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated vision of what this new era, at its best, has in store. "[This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."--Joseph Coates, The Chicago Tribune
Author: Edward William Brooke
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: life, divide, bridging
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0813539056
ISBN-13: 9780813539058
"Read about Ed Brooke-who in a just world, would have been President-and see the kindness, wisdom and courage the country missed. Join his friends and constituents who are inspired and enlarged by knowing him."-Gloria Steinem, cofounder Ms. Magazine and National Women’s Political Caucus "Senator Brooke’s story shows the kind of effective, authentic leadership our nation hungers for today. He broke through lines of race, creed, and class to unite Americans in the pursuit of justice and defeated the Radical Right at critical moments in our history-sometimes single-ha
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: divide, unite, minds, extremes, going
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-05-13
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0195378016
ISBN-13: 9780195378016
Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals an abundance of evidence that shows that when like-minded people talk to one another, they ten
Author: Kishore Mahbubani
Publisher: Steerforth
Keywords: east, west, divide, understanding, think, asians
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-01-09
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 158642033X
ISBN-13: 9781586420338
KISHORE MAHBUBANI has been hailed as "an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations" (The Economist), a "Max Weber of the new ’Confucian ethic’" (Washington Post), and "a prototype twenty-first century leader" (Time). A must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary Asia, this collection of provocative essays is certain to challenge the way you think. Asia’s societies were more culturally and economically advanced than Europe’s at the end of the first millennium. And yet by the nineteenth century the West had leaped so far ahea
Author: Sarwar A. Kashmeri
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cl
Keywords: divide, iraq, europe, america
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0275993019
ISBN-13: 9780275993016
American foreign policy toward Europe is merrily rolling along the path of least resistance, in the belief that there is nothing really amiss with the European-American relationship that multilateralism will not fix. Not true, argues Kashmeri. The alliance is dead, cannot be fixed, and must be renegotiated. It has not grown to accommodate Europe’s emergence as a major power. A kind of United States of Europe, with foreign priorities different from those of the United States, has arrived at America’s doorstep. But America is still forging foreign policy for Europe using Cold War rea
Author: Professor Jan A G M van Dijk
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: society, information, inequality, divide, deepening
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 141290403X
ISBN-13: 9781412904032
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which to analyze and approach the issue. Where most books on the digital divide only describe and analyze the issue, Jan van Dijk presents 26 policy perspectives and instruments designed to close the divide itself.
