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Hate Speech, Pornography, and Radical Attacks on Free Speech Doctrine
<p>Does American free speech doctrine discriminate against women and minorities? In Hate Speech, Pornography, and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine, James Weinstein carefully examines the charge that in interpreting the First Amendment as protecting hate speech and pornography while allowin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Long Detour: The History And Future Of The American Left
The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and of the continuing relevance of socialist principles today. Historian and journalist James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist and one-time Communist, takes readers from the movement's early years... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times
<P>In These Times, the national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion, has provided groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement, the environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities, and the media for twenty-five years. Filled with new writing commissioned specially for this anniv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (Critical Life Studies)
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)
How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults&’ assumptions, they are not simply &“addicted&” to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America (Cambridge Latin American Studies #112)
Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and mad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action
Ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing public goods such as satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, and low levels of crime. Coethnicity reports the results of a landmark study that aimed to find out why diversity has this coo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix__________A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and effici... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix__________A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and effici... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021