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The tribunals of the 1990s ended immunity for heads of state who commit atrocities.

Pages 2 through 5 state what the book is about, its objectives, the historical significance of the story, and my role in it. Allow me to stitch together some of...

All the Missing Souls

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The card index, not the book, is the direct precursor of the computer.

A book is usually not considered a machine—though it is common to use paper as one of the book’s core elements and a machine to print its pages. If you open...

Paper Machines

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The card index, not the book, is the direct precursor of the computer.

Today, on just about every desk there is a gray box emitting a range of wires. Eighty years ago, this data processing box was less conspicuous, non-electronic, and made from...

Paper Machines

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The card index, not the book, is the direct precursor of the computer.

Paper Machines outlines the story of the card index in manifold ways: as a library catalogue, as a collection for thinkers, and as a tool for office efficiency. And yet...

Paper Machines

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Today's hyperpluralism is the unintended long-term product of the Reformation's doctrinal deadlock, which the modern settlement institutionalized rather than solved.

The book challenges common assumptions about historical explanation and method, the nature of the Reformation, the making of the modern world, and the character of contemporary life in North America...

The Unintended Reformation

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Today's hyperpluralism is the unintended long-term product of the Reformation's doctrinal deadlock, which the modern settlement institutionalized rather than solved.

Although I make no claims to comprehensiveness, The Unintended Reformation is an ambitious book: It seeks to explain the historical formation of some of the dominant beliefs, assumptions, practices, and...

The Unintended Reformation

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Today's clash of irreconcilable values is the unintended legacy of the Reformation.

The Unintended Reformation is a wide-ranging revisionist history that concerns the present as much as the past. It argues that in central respects, North American and European life in the...

The Unintended Reformation

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Ordinary early Americans, not legislators, made the legal culture, because even the illiterate and enslaved knew the common law.

What also ties the chapters together and makes a coherent narrative of six disparate stories is the widespread knowledge of and reliance on legal principles that had stood the test...

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

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Ordinary early Americans, not legislators, made the legal culture, because even the illiterate and enslaved knew the common law.

Having sorted this out in my own mind, I admit that I play favorites with the various chapters. If the name-calling Dutch in chapter one are the most amusing characters, and...

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

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Ordinary early Americans, not legislators, made the legal culture.

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores combines people, history, and law. The book is composed of six stories about early Americans and how brushes with the law affected everyday life. If the...

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

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Women found it easier to rule Europe's old kingdoms after 1300 than to lead its modern republics.

My favorite passage comes at the end of the first chapter (pages 23-25), comparing and contrasting the forms of doppelgänger used by three women, many centuries and thousands of miles...

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

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Women found it easier to rule Europe's old kingdoms after 1300 than to lead its modern republics.

I have tried to make this investigation extremely wide. The rarity of documented female rulers in large, well-organized states makes it necessary to find them wherever one can, and as...

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

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Roman lawyers made rules fit the world while saying otherwise, and legal fictions are that operation in the open.

That’s a very hard question to answer! It’s tempting to direct your browsing reader to, say, the middle section of Chapter 3, pages 46-56, because the argument there gets at...

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

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Roman lawyers made rules fit the world while saying otherwise, and legal fictions are that operation in the open.

The book falls into two parts, the first with two chapters, and the second with three. The first part concentrates on legal thought, the second on the interaction between specific...

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

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Roman law worked by making rules fit the world while claiming to do the opposite.

The book attempts to keep its feet firmly planted in two different worlds. On the one hand, it is a work of history. Moreover, it is a work of history...

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

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Socialist ideology did not cause Stalinist violence, whose techniques came from a European repertoire of modern state practice.

No discussion of Soviet social intervention would be complete without an examination of state violence. Indeed state violence, and the Gulag in particular, is frequently regarded as emblematic of the...

Cultivating the Masses

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Socialist ideology did not cause Stalinist violence.

The Russian Revolution seemed to promise human liberation and equality. But instead it produced a Stalinist dictatorship, with extreme interventionism and unprecedented state violence. Why did a government purportedly dedicated...

Cultivating the Masses

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Socialist ideology did not cause Stalinist violence, whose techniques came from a European repertoire of modern state practice.

The Stalinist regime was among the most repressive and violent in all human history. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions....

Cultivating the Masses

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The euro coins' split between common and national faces now shows in Europe's politics.

After European leaders agreed to create the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the late 1990s, the European Council in Brussels established a competition among graphic artists to design the new...

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A constitutional crisis over the presidency will be settled by political posture, not by the best legal analysis.

I think that the six scenarios in my book are all compelling and dramatic. I hope that they draw the reader in, and inspire him or her to delve into...

Constitutional Cliffhangers

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Normalization of the right is the term that I develop to capture the twin phenomena of the electoral surge of the European right and the mainstreaming of nationalist ideas and...

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A constitutional crisis over the presidency will be settled by political posture, not by the best legal analysis.

This book came from a combination of two streams. The first is my interest in constitutional oddities. When I was a law student, we were discussing presidential pardons and I asked...

Constitutional Cliffhangers

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A crisis over the presidency will be settled by political strength, not legal analysis.

Constitutional Cliffhangers is about six situations in which the Constitution’s provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents are seriously vulnerable. Each chapter starts out with a fictional scenario that dramatizes one...

Constitutional Cliffhangers

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What won the twentieth century was not capitalism but a market economy with protections for the disadvantaged.

This book is about adopting a longer-term perspective to understand the world we live in. In the 1800s a handful of countries, initially in western Europe and lands settled by Europeans,...

The Age of Equality

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What won the twentieth century was a hybrid, the market economy plus government intervention to protect the disadvantaged.

The first three pages of the Preface set the scene. If you are in a bookstore that allows more leisurely browsing the thirteen-page Introduction sets out the principal arguments—this is...

The Age of Equality

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What won the twentieth century was a hybrid, the market economy plus government intervention to protect the disadvantaged.

The Age of Equality is aimed as a counterweight to the short-term perspective of media discussion of economic affairs. I am constantly struck by the gap between what we teach students...

The Age of Equality

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Disease eradication should be a rare exception in international health, not a standing ambition.

One of the strange things about eradication is how it repeatedly arises, phoenix-like, from its setbacks. Fred Lowe Soper paradoxically embraced the cause of disease eradication in the 1930s, just as...

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Disease eradication should be a rare exception in international health.

In this regard, it is instructive to look at the difference between Soper and Donald A. Henderson. Soper died in 1977, before the last case of smallpox was identified and...

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The militarized existential state is the only ground on which equality, liberty and the rule of law can stand.

I think that the reader interested in the pressing contemporary problem of emergency power and its excesses would find the introductory chapter most interesting. There I identify the longer history...

States of War

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The militarized existential state is the only ground on which equality, liberty and the rule of law can stand.

Although I was trained as a historian I have always been interested in thinking about how contemporary problems animate historical work, and how historical understanding might address our own world. This...

States of War

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Constitutional order grows out of the logic of state survival, not against it.

States of War examines an age-old conflict within constitutional legal states—to what extent can political authorities violate the law in times of crisis, emergency, or war? This question has haunted modern...

States of War

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Belzoni's achievements in Egypt have been ignored because he was a foreign circus strongman rather than a scholar.

Opening my book to pages 64 and 65, you will sit beside Belzoni as he drew the tumbled wonders of Karnak. It is a safe bet that having done so,...

BELZONI

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Belzoni's achievements in Egypt have been ignored because he was a foreign circus strongman rather than a scholar.

One might wonder why a twenty-first century reader should want to delve into a biography of someone so distant and so out of tune with the modern world. At one level...

BELZONI

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Belzoni's achievements in Egypt were ignored because he was a circus strongman, not a scholar.

Giovanni Batista Belzoni was a towering figure at the beginning of archaeology in Egypt, not for his recognized talents but for his 6’6” height. Nearly 200 years later he is still...

BELZONI

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The Newcastle plague of 1636 killed almost half the population and did not dissolve its society.

Your browsing reader might be attracted by the striking cover of the book, which shows a dying man making his will, while a friend leans forward at his bedside, looking...

Ralph Tailor’s Summer

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The Newcastle plague of 1636 killed almost half the population but did not dissolve its society.

In researching and writing this book I did not set out to test any particular theory or promote any particular historical interpretation. The project began with the accidental discovery of...

Ralph Tailor’s Summer

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The Newcastle plague of 1636 killed almost half the population and did not dissolve its society.

This book is a study of the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the plague epidemic of the summer of 1636, which killed almost half the population. It is also about...

Ralph Tailor’s Summer

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In the 21st century, national governments are too small to provide the kind of public goods (international? transnational? global?) that are necessary to make things work, opening the way for...

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My Rutgers-Newark colleague Frank Fischer sent me a couple of articles from the New York Times issue of November 14, 2011. They are about the bitterness of the current generation...

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Dreaming and waking stand on equal footing.

I do not think I can privilege one part of the book over another, but the Preface would be sufficient to draw the reader into the book, since it gives...

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream

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Dreaming and waking stand on equal footing, and the sensory world is the dream one must awaken from.

To elucidate the oneiric phenomenon, I have applied theoretical models from psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary theory, and neuroscience to a vast array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts. In my judgment,...

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream

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Dreaming and waking stand on equal footing, and the sensory world is the dream one must awaken from.

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream grapples with the allusive and elusive place dreaming occupies in the panorama of human experience. Drawing on a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, I...

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream

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People resist science not for lack of evidence but because its truths never come as stories.

Unfortunately, we are all suckers for a good story—a narrative that strings events into a plot with characters driven by motives. If information doesn’t come in story form, we have...

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People resist science because its truths never arrive as stories, and religion almost always does.

Why have the obvious answers to life’s relentless questions been hard to recognize even by many atheists? The most serious obstacle to accepting science’s answers to the persistent questions is one...

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Countries that prosecute human rights abusers subsequently show better human rights records, so prosecutions deter rather than destabilize.

I would hope your “just browsing” readers would read the introduction first. In the first seven pages they will encounter both the main puzzle of the book, and the personal...

The Justice Cascade

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Countries that prosecute human rights abusers subsequently show better human rights records, so prosecutions deter rather than destabilize.

The first source of the justice cascade was the post-World War II trials in Nuremburg, where Nazi officials were held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. These well-publicized...

The Justice Cascade

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Prosecuting human rights abusers deters abuse rather than destabilizing countries.

The Justice Cascadeprovides an overview and an evaluation of one of the most important changes in global politics: the rise of individual criminal accountability for human rights violations. In it,...

The Justice Cascade

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Koxinga's drilled troops advanced in lockstep while the Dutch, inventors of European drill, scattered and ran.

The book begins with an execution. Frederik Coyet, the leader of the Dutch colony that Koxinga captured, has been blamed for the lost colony, even though it wasn’t his fault....

Lost Colony

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Koxinga's drilled troops advanced in lockstep while the Dutch, inventors of European drill, scattered and ran.

Forget technology and weather for now. I want to spend some of my few allotted words talking about something else: China’s much neglected military tradition. Western scholars—like the famous Victor Davis...

Lost Colony

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There was no Western monopoly on disciplined mass warfare.

In 1997, Jared Diamond published his wonderful book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, which asked why it was that some societies become rich and powerful and others don’t. His explanation was geographical—it...

Lost Colony

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The relationship between violence and feelings about government has often tracked separately by race in this country. In the last five decades, the black homicide rate peaked between 1971 and...

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Trust in government is a powerful cause of low murder rates.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in December 2009 that the murder rate fell by 10 percent in the United States during the first six months of 2009. That was...

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Without karma, rebirth and nirvana, Buddhism remains a serious philosophy for secular people.

The “Introduction” is a paean, a song in praise of comparative philosophy. Some think that studying ancient wisdom traditions involves anachronism and ethnocentrism. One talks across too much time and one...

The Bodhisattva’s Brain

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Subtract karma, rebirth and nirvana from Buddhism and a serious philosophy remains, fit for secularists.

In 2000, I was part of a small team of philosophers and Buddhist adepts invited to spend a few days in Dharamsala, India talking with the 14th Dalai Lama about...

The Bodhisattva’s Brain

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Subtract karma, rebirth and nirvana from Buddhism and a serious philosophy remains, fit for secularists.

Many secular humanists are attracted to Buddhism because there is no creator God and thus it seems “spiritual but not religious.” In addition, there is much hype about the good...

The Bodhisattva’s Brain

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Turning around the worst schools cannot substantially raise the graduation rate, only redefining high school success can.

The first chapter of the book is only 19 pages—but it provides a useful introduction the topic and complete overview of the book.The chapter first documents the magnitude of the...

Dropping Out

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Raising graduation rates requires redefining high school success, not turning around the worst schools.

The book is related to and draws on a wide range of theories and research in education and related social science fields, including economics, sociology, demography, political science, and criminology....

Dropping Out

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Turning around the worst schools cannot substantially raise the graduation rate, only redefining high school success can.

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges facing the US educational system: high school dropouts. The problem has been labeled by some, including President Obama, as a national crisis. The...

Dropping Out

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Hollywood's oriental style structures films that appear to have nothing to do with Asia or race at all.

My favorite pages in the book are pages 58 to 64, the subheading titled “Imaging the Future” in which I describe how Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner and...

Yellow Future

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Hollywood's oriental style shapes films that seem to have nothing to do with Asia.

I started writing this book in a period when the political position of Asian Americans seemed to be oscillating between appearing either as threats to middle America or tokens of...

Yellow Future

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Hollywood's oriental style structures films that appear to have nothing to do with Asia or race at all.

My book examines how and why East Asia is so often associated with technology and futurity in contemporary Hollywood film. Examples I discuss include the dystopic cities of Blade Runner,...

Yellow Future

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Women's routes into terrorism vary by organization, and a group that must coerce its women is a weak one.

The first section takes into an actual suicide bomb attack by a woman in Moscow in March of 2010. I intended to provide the reader with what it feels like...

Bombshell

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A terrorist group that must coerce its women is a weak group.

The book relates to the changing nature of terrorism and how different groups are either being forced or recruited into these deadly organizations. I address several underlying theories about the nature...

Bombshell

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Women's routes into terrorism vary by organization, and a group that must coerce its women is a weak one.

In my book Bombshell: Women and Terrorism I examine the changing nature of terrorism. The face of terrorism is changing—and it is now often a woman’s face. No longer can we expect...

Bombshell

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A suit like Iron Man's could only work wired directly into the user's brain and spinal cord.

I think I would like your browsing reader to come across “Chapter 4. Multitasking and the Metal Man: How Much Can Iron Man’s Mind Manage?” This chapter is important because...

Inventing Iron Man

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A suit like Iron Man's would have to be wired directly into the brain and spinal cord.

Using the Iron Man suit (if it existed) would require a technological interface bridging the gap between our nervous systems and devices like computers and robots. Let’s say that was...

Inventing Iron Man

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A suit like Iron Man's could only work wired directly into the user's brain and spinal cord.

Inventing Iron Man is a kind of sequel to my earlier book Becoming Batman. That book was about asking how far can our biology take us toward the performance of...

Inventing Iron Man

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Climate change is a by-product we did not intend, so attacking it with more ingenuity is a fateful error.

After much delay, there is in my own country widespread acknowledgement that global warming is real and human-caused. That is a welcome development. Still, to admit that we have engineered...

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

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Climate change is a by-product we did not intend, so attacking it with more ingenuity is a fateful error.

It is perhaps already trite, these days, to observe that we live in a world chiefly defined by interdependencies. But it wasn’t always so. Until the “age of ecology,” ushered in...

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

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The gravest environmental threats are unintended by-products, not problems to be beaten by ingenuity.

Sustainability is all the rage these days. It is espoused by government agencies from the local to the national, by international bodies, and by proliferating citizens’ groups and non-governmental organizations....

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

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Pop art is the last chapter of Baudelaire's painting of modern life, not a break with it.

I would be happy for the reader to land anywhere in the book; it is written to engage him or her at any point. But any reader might as well begin...

The First Pop Age

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Pop is the last chapter of Baudelaire's painting of modern life rather than a break with it.

Pop art puts painting under pressure—mostly in order to register the effects of consumer culture at large (glossy magazine ads, iconic movie images, blurry television screens, and so on)—but even...

The First Pop Age

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Pop is the last chapter of Baudelaire's painting of modern life rather than a break with it.

The First Pop Age takes up these matters above all: how Pop art folds painting and photography into one another; how, in doing so, it combines the effect of immediacy...

The First Pop Age

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Poor nations can adapt to climate change because growth is the adaptation, and compounding gives them time.

I can certainly imagine that parts of Bangladesh will flood and sea level rise may submerge parts of the nation. But I would be surprised if such dramatic changes could...

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For poor nations, economic growth is itself the adaptation to climate change.

My critics have “granted me” the point that developed free market cities have the ability and the capacity to cope with many aspects of climate change. But they have countered...

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Disease eradication is a utopian ideal, not an ordinary public health goal.

I think I would like your “browsing reader” to first open the book at p. 12, and read through to p. 17—to get a quick introduction to Fred Lowe Soper,...

Eradication

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Treating eradication as an ordinary public health goal is what defeats it.

I took up the topic of eradication in the aftermath of 9/11, when after the anthrax scare, the idea of bioterrorism entered political discourse. Smallpox was suddenly being talked about because,...

Eradication

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Treating eradication as an ordinary public health goal is what defeats it.

Eradication tells the story of modern efforts to rid the world of diseases completely. I use the term “eradication” in the book in its modern, precise, public health sense. Eradication...

Eradication

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Education exists to help us live with the past without being dominated by it.

I would hope that a casual reader would see the essays on hysteria and photography in the first section, and then the essays on photography and historical consciousness in the...

Memory, Trauma, and History

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Education exists to help us live with the past without being dominated by it.

Memory Trauma and History intersects with the history of medicine, with trauma studies and psychoanalysis, with questions concerning postmodernism and politics, and with issues concerning photography and historical consciousness. The final...

Memory, Trauma, and History

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Education exists to help us live with the past without being dominated by it.

Memory, Trauma and History is comprised of essays that fall into five overlapping subject areas: history and memory; psychoanalysis and trauma; postmodernism, scholarship, and cultural politics; photography and representation; and...

Memory, Trauma, and History

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Religion, sensual experience and art are the West's three escapes from history, and none is superior to the others.

Although I insist that no particular way of making meaning is superior to the other—they are after all cultural constructs—I am most fond of the last chapter and the conclusion.In...

The Terror of History

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Religion, sensual experience and art are the West's three escapes from history, and none is superior to the others.

This book is mostly inspired by almost forty years of teaching, by experiencing a loss of faith in my 20s and my understanding of the whole sweep of western history...

The Terror of History

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Religion, sensual experience and art are the West's three escapes from history.

This book is, first and foremost, a reflection on the human condition and on the manner in which we attempt to explain the world and make meaning of our lives....

The Terror of History

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Nabokov is a maximalist, and readers who halt at modernist irony miss what makes him write.

[I recount the story of a shirtless Nabokov catching butterflies in the mountains of Utah in 1943 and responding only slowly to John Downey, a student stopped beside the coal...

Stalking Nabokov

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Nabokov is a maximalist, and readers who halt at modernist irony miss what makes him write.

Nabokov looms as one of the giants of recent literature. But his breadth fascinates as much as his height: his stretching between modernism and postmodernism, Europe and America, Russian and...

Stalking Nabokov

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Nabokov is a maximalist, not an ironist who stops at irony.

Stalking Nabokovfocuses always on Vladimir Nabokov and occasionally also on me in persistent pursuit, wielding a variety of nets, in different seasons and terrains, panting with effort while he flutters...

Stalking Nabokov

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Nihilism is true, because science cannot justify the morality nearly everyone accepts, and it is harmless.

It doesn’t matter what part of The Atheist’s Guide I may want people to open up first, it’s a safe bet browsers will go right to chapters 5 and 6:...

The Atheist's Guide to Reality

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Nihilism is true, because science cannot justify the morality nearly everyone accepts, and it is harmless.

If science made you an atheist, you are ready for serious scientific answers to the rest of life’s persistent questions. Here is a list of most of these questions and their...

The Atheist's Guide to Reality

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Nihilism is true, but it is harmless.

Most people think of atheism as one big negative. But there is much more to atheism than knockdown arguments that there is no God. There is the whole rest of the...

The Atheist's Guide to Reality

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Some conditions arise from a core psychobiological dysfunction, scarcely affected by cultural context. For example, Western sufferers of panic disorder misinterpret bodily sensations, such as skipped heartbeats, as signs of...

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Culture reaches into mental disorders to sharply different depths.

The standard view of medicine holds that observant clinicians discover diseases in nature. Accordingly, psychiatrists are no different from other doctors. They, too, discern forms of pathology arising from dysfunctions...

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Habitat set aside for endangered species is not a cost to the economy but capital.

When the Endangered Species Act was passed, in 1973, traditional economics, which looked to self-interest and endless growth as the predominant drivers of the economy, was pretty much the only...

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The civil RICO intervention in the Teamsters worked, and government intervention for union democracy makes a stronger union.

Because the book presents an historical case study of U.S. v. IBT, it would best be approached chronologically. The Timeline (pages xix—xxi in the book) is a thumbnail overview of the...

Breaking the Devil’s Pact

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The government's long intervention in the Teamsters worked, severing the union from the Mafia.

Throughout my career, my specialty has been criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminology. My interest in labor racketeering began in the mid 1980s when I served as a consultant for...

Breaking the Devil’s Pact

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The civil RICO intervention in the Teamsters worked, and government intervention for union democracy makes a stronger union.

Breaking the Devil’s Pact is a case study of the 22+ years of effort on part of federal prosecutors, federal judges and court-appointed monitors to purge organized crime influence...

Breaking the Devil’s Pact

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Buying meat, eggs and dairy from small pastured farms is animal-centered even though the animals are killed.

I expect the most controversial aspect of this book may be my acceptance of local, pastured, small farm meat.Part of the reason animal advocacy is so marginalized in American culture...

Loving Animals

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Buying meat, eggs and dairy from small pastured farms is animal-centered even though the animals are killed.

I have spent my career studying the theories and practices of social movements, such as feminism and lgbt liberation. In every case, transformation in the emotional realm has been critical....

Loving Animals

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Animal advocacy should start from the emotional bonds people already have with animals, not from rights.

Animal exploitation is rampant in American culture today. In factory farms, shelters, zoos, puppy mills, science labs, and many other sites, animals are often treated as senseless commodities. Loving Animals...

Loving Animals

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Dodd-Frank does not permit the safe resolution of a distressed systemically important financial institution.

It has been strongly asserted by some regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, that the Dodd-Frank Act now permits the safe resolution of any systemically important financial institution that...

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