The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey

This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and in school curricula. The aim is to explain how these competing groups define schoolchildren's educational experiences and how mass schooling creates the contexts in which children make sense of knowledge, power, and social change.The Pedagogical State offers an ethnographic case study that draws out the cultural and political processes by which education is reconfigured around the interests and understandings of different sectors in contemporary Turkish society. Using a wide array of sources, the author shows how a school system articulates a moral order at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class. Exploring how this articulation plays itself out in a Turkish village provides a nuanced approach to the interplay of religious heritage, secularity, economic globalization, militarism, and identity politics in society at large.

History

Kaplan, Sam

Middle East

Stanford University Press

This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and in school curricula. The aim is to explain how these competing groups define schoolchildren's educational experiences and how mass schooling creates the contexts in which children make sense of knowledge, power, and social change. The Pedagogical State offers an ethnographic case study that draws out the cultural and political processes by which education is reconfigured around the interests and understandings of different sectors in contemporary Turkish society. Using a wide array of sources, the author shows how a school system articulates a moral order at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class. Exploring how this articulation plays itself out in a Turkish village provides a nuanced approach to the interplay of religious heritage, secularity, economic globalization, militarism, and identity politics in society at large.

Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage. This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the world, and how the U.S. and its allies can best address these challenges. Trade wars and U.S. presidents may come and go, but the fundamental dynamics of the U.S.-China relationship will remain in place for years to come. Challenging China is a popular current events explanation of how China has become more authoritarian and expansionist and what strategies the U.S. and its allies need to adopt to address this new China. Although delving into serious issues, Challenging China is written in an engaging way and probably the only book on China that references Dolly Parton, LeBron James and Bruce Springsteen. Topics addressed include: <ul> <li>The ongoing political crackdown in Hong Kong and heightened tensions with Taiwan</li> <li>The deteriorating human rights situation in China for normal Chinese as well as the Uyghur and Tibetan minorities</li> <li>Internal Chinese political and social dynamics and Xi Jinping's dominance of the party</li> <li>China's ongoing sense of anti-Western grievance and its new military assertiveness</li> <li>Increases in censorship and governmental control of dissent both off and online</li> <li>The effects of U.S. trade policy on China including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump's tariff wars, and the new U.S.-China Trade Agreement</li> <li>How and why U.S. responses up to now have been ineffectual and counter-productive</li> <li>Climate change policy and how cooperating with China can work if we want it to</li> <li>New strategies to convince China to modify its behavior while avoiding direct confrontation</li> <li>And much more!</li> </ul> The story of China's rise is a remarkable tale of economic success, but that alone has not and will not lead to political liberalization. This book shows how actively engaging China, while protecting our own interests, can in fact work to promote its liberalization. This includes a wide array of strategies including trade alliances with other countries, cooperating with China on climate change, protecting Taiwan and using human rights as a foreign policy tool. Author Sam Kaplan has worked on China policy and trade for over thirty years. Drawing upon his extensive experience, contacts and research, he proposes new ways of dealing with China in a smarter, more realistic way. There is reason to be optimistic that China can and will change if we apply the right strategies and have the will to implement them.

Challenging China: Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era

Business & Money

International

Tuttle+publishing

Trump once said, “I know words, I have the best words."
The Donald thinks he’s better than you. The Donald thinks his words are better than yours. If you think you have better words than The Donald, then this journal’s for you. If you think you can draw Trump-like creatures better than Donny himself, then this journal’s for you. And if you think teasing Donald Trump sounds like fun, then this book is DEFINITELY for you. Filled with hilarious writing prompts, side-splitting drawing activities, ridiculous Trump trivia, Trump quizzes, Trump quotes and more, Journal Trump’s Hate won’t get The Donald out of office any earlier, but it may make his presidency just a little bit more tolerable. So what do you say? Does The Donald have the best words? Or do you?

Journal Trumps Hate: Millions of hilarious activities to help get you through Trump's presidency

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tonkovich, Katie

Crafts & Hobbies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

You're already a superfan of The Office. You've rewatched the show multiple times, you know every prank Jim ever pulled on Dwight, and you have a favourite Michael Scott quote. But with this cookbook, you can take your love of all things Dunder Mifflin to the next level. Beet This is packed with old and hearty, Pennsylvania-inspired recipes that would earn Dwight K. Schrute's perfectenschlag stamp of approval.

Beet This: An Unofficial Schrute Farms Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Niles, Tyanni

Riegert, Keith

Cooking by Ingredient

Ulysses Press

At the end of the 19th century, brilliant inventor Professor Jonathan T. Buck, crafted a beautiful steam-powered airship for an expedition to South America's Amazon River Basin in search of a magnificent lost city, but the mission ended in disaster and they vanished. More than a century later, an expedition discovered this notebook: a riveting account that reveals not only just how Buck drew up the plans for his airship, but what fate befell the expedition. Part drawing guide, part historical saga, this book will transport readers to a world when steam power, gadgets, gases and gizmos took us into the skies.

Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook: The Lost Step-by-Step Schematic Drawings from the Pioneer of Steampunk Design

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

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