The post-industrial utopians

Frankel, Boris

in association with B. Blackwell

This book examines the role of intellectuals in modern and post-modern contexts. It argues that as the concept of verity has become increasingly contingent, the role of the intellectual has become interpretive rather than legislative. Bauman assesses the implications of this change for today's culture.

Legislators and interpreters: On modernity, post-modernity, and intellectuals

Politics & Social Sciences

Zygmunt Bauman

Philosophy

Governing the economy: The politics of state intervention in Britain and France (Europe and the international order)

For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Britain's economic problems and develops a striking new argument about the sources of decline. It goes on to analyze the evolution of economicpolicy in postwar Britain from the development of Keynesianism to the rise of monetarism under Margaret Thatcher. France, by contrast, experienced an economic miracle in the postwar period. Hall argues that the French state transformed itself and then its society through an extensive system ofstate intervention. In the recent period, however, the French system has encountered many difficulties, and the book locates their sources in the complex interaction between state and society in France culminating in the socialist experiment of Francois Mitterrand. Through his insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall develops a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.

Business & Money

Hall, Peter A.

Economics

Children and television: A semiotic approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This is a book about the journey of ideas among Italian women.  Based on interviews, participant observation, and the writings produced by women in five different settings, Judith Adler Hellman traces the movement of feminism throughout Italy, from Turin and Milan, the great industrial cities of the North, to Reggio Emilia in the "red belt" of central Italy, to Verona in the deeply religious Northeast, and finally, to Caserta in the South.  Following the development of Italian feminism from its origins in the turn-of-the-century Socialist Party into the 1980s, the author has gathered rich, first-hand accounts of participants that indicate the various ways that feminist thinking was received and reformulated by Italian women.  In cities both large and small, cosmopolitan and provincial, Catholic and communist or socialist in their traditions, we see the impact of ideas, and the ways in which those ideas transformed and were, in turn, transformed by women acting within the constraints of their particular local social and political conditions.  Hellman concludes with a broad analysis of the impact of feminism on the lives of the women she came to know, and on Italian society and politics as a whole.

Journeys among women: Feminism in five Italian cities (Europe and the international order)

HELLMAN, Judith Adler

Women's Studies

The conquest of water: The advent of health in the Industrial Age

Engineering & Transportation

Goubert, Jean-Pierre

Engineering

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