Автор: Nichols Tom Название: Death of Expertise ISBN: 0190469412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190469412 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3325.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the anti-vaccination movement to citizen blogging to uninformed attacks on GMOs, the nation has witnessed a surge in intellectual egalitarianism. While increased access to information undoubtedly brings some societal benefits, the leap to enlightenment that millions of lightly educated people believe they make after scouring WebMD or Wikipedia undermines established sources of knowledge.
Автор: Couldry, Nick Название: Why voice matters ISBN: 1848606621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848606623 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 6651.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An impassioned manifesto for how `voice` might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, communication and cultural studies
Автор: Garsten Название: Market Matters ISBN: 1403917574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403917577 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the age of globalization, people employ markets to solve problems, create capital, achieve political objectives, question economic processes and delineate moral values. This title examines cultural processes in modern markets, based on case studies from around the world.
Автор: Young Cristobal Название: Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight ISBN: 1503603806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503603806 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3010.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a palpable concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away, taking their wealth with them. Many assume that the importance of location to a person's success is at an all-time low. Cristobal Young, however, makes the surprising argument that location is very important to the world's richest people. Frequently, he says, place has a great deal to do with how they make their millions.
In The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight, Young examines a trove of data on millionaires and billionaires—confidential tax returns, Forbes lists, and census records—and distills down surprising insights. While economic elites have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. For the rich, ongoing economic potential is tied to the place where they become successful—often where they are powerful insiders—and that success ultimately diminishes both the incentive and desire to migrate.
This important book debunks a powerful idea that has driven fiscal policy for years, and in doing so it clears the way for a new era. Millionaire taxes, Young argues, could give states the funds to pay for infrastructure, education, and other social programs to attract a group of people who are much more mobile—the younger generation.
Автор: Middeke Название: Theory Matters ISBN: 1137474270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137474278 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended?
Grouping its chapters into rubrics of metatheory, cultural theory, critical theory and textual theory, the collection demonstrates that the practice of “doing theory” has neither lost its vitality nor can it be in any way dispensable. Current directions covered include the renewed interest in phenomenology, the increased acknowledgement of the importance of media history for all cultural practices and formations, complexity studies, new narratology, literary ethics, cultural ecology, and an intensified interest in textual as well as cultural matter.
Автор: Bunce Pauline Название: Why English? ISBN: 1783095849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783095841 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13093.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, this book explores how the English language industry threatens the diversity of languages and cultures in the modern world. It reveals how the dominance of English is being confronted and calls for greater efforts to ensure the maintenance of linguistic and cultural diversity.
Автор: Peg Zeglin Brand Название: Beauty Matters ISBN: 0253213754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253213754 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification—beauty matters—to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.
Описание: Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.
Автор: Grant, Patrick Название: Dialogue in the digital age ISBN: 0367688069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367688066 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped by dialogue. It looks athow dialogue connects the personal, political and religious dimensions of human experience and how literacy is being eroded by advances in digital technology
Автор: M. Faletra Название: Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination ISBN: 1349482854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349482856 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh.
Автор: Nelson Название: Gender and RiskTaking ISBN: 1138284033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138284036 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender differences, with a number claiming to find fundamental gender differences regarding risk-taking, altruism, and competition. In particular, the idea that "women are more risk-averse than men" has become accepted as a truism. But is it true? And what are its causes and consequences?
Gender and Risk Taking makes three contributions. First, it asks whether the belief that men and women have distinct risk preferences is backed up by high quality empirical evidence. The answer turns out to be "no." This leads to a second question: Why, then, does so much of the literature claim to find evidence of "difference"? This, it will be shown, can be attributed to biases arising from too-easy categorical thinking, widespread stereotyping, and a tendency to prefer results that are publishable and that fit one's prior beliefs. Third, the book explores the economic implications of the conventional association of risk-taking with masculinity and risk-aversion with femininity. Not only fairness in employment, but also the health of the financial sector and national responses to climate change, this book argues, are being compromised.
This volume will be eye-opening for anyone interested in gender, decision-making, cognition, and/or risk, especially in areas relating to employment, finance, management, or public policy.
Автор: Couldry N Название: Why Voice Matters ISBN: 1848606613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848606616 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 21542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An impassioned manifesto for how `voice` might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, communication and cultural studies
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