Author: Federico Vercellone File Type: pdf Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world of art with the world of everyday life, painting soup cans and soda bottles. In this book, Federico Vercellone provides an account of the decline of beauty as a Platonic ideal from early German Romanticism to the twentieth century. He traces this intellectual trajectory from Goethe, Dilthey, and Nietzsche, through modernism and the avant-garde movement, to the work of Adorno and Heidegger. Rather than the death or destruction of beauty, Vercellone argues instead that beauty in the twentieth century came back to live in reality and everyday life. He suggests this is a new edition of the classical ideal rather than an abandonment of it, and further makes the case for the ecological significance of this orientation and outlook.

Author: Eric Rasmusen File Type: pdf Written in a crisp and approachable style, Games and Information uses simple modeling techniques and straightforward explanations to provide students with an understanding of game theory and information economics. ullWritten for introductory courses seeking a little rigor. llThe 4th edition brings the material fully up-to-date and includes new end-of-chapter problems and classroom projects, as well as a math appendix. llAccompanied by a comprehensive website featuring solutions to problems and teaching notes. lulReviewPraise for the 3rd editionRasmusens Games and Information provides wonderful coverage of the basics of game theory and information economics. His consistent style of presenting the theoretical structures lucidly unifies his tests wide and well-chosen range of applications. I wish that all my students could take a course based on this book, and envy them the opportunity.Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, University of Texas at AustinThis is a terrific book bringing together two strands in the recent literature on economic theory, namely game theory and the economics of asymmetric information. The style is brisk, the arguments are rigorous and it seems to be pitched at exactly the right level.Partha Dasgupta, University of CambridgeBook DescriptionThe first edition of Games and Information was published in 1989, when the topic of game theory was just starting to come to the attention of mainstream economists. Fifteen years later, interest in game theory has exploded, as have the number of textbooks written to introduce this material to students. Now entering its fourth edition, Rasmusens book continues to hold its place as a relevant, advanced-level introduction to this fast-moving field. Written in a crisp and approachable style, Games and Information uses simple modeling techniques and straightforward explanations to provide students with an understanding of game theory and information economics. The fourth edition brings this material totally up-to-date, and includes new end-of-chapter problems and classroom games, a math appendix, and is accompanied by a comprehensive website featuring solutions to problems and teaching notes. With its emphasis on applications of game theory and information economics to a vast array of disciplines, Games and Information, 4e will prove an indispensible tool for undergraduates studying advanced microeconomics as well as for graduate students in economics, business, mathematics and political science. Praise for the 3rd edition Rasmusens Games and Information provides a wonderful coverage of the basics of game theory and information economics. His consistent style of presenting the theoretical structures lucidly unifies his texts wide and well-chosen range of applications. I wish that all my students could take a course based on this book, and envy them the opportunity. Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, University of Texas at Austin ldquoThis is a terrific book bringing together two strands in the recent literature on economic theory, namely game theory and the economics of asymmetric information. The style is brisk, the arguments are rigorous and it seems to be pitched at exactly the right level.rdquo Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

Author: Harvey Markowitz File Type: pdf When Andrew Jacksons removal policy failed to solve the Indian problem, the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Nineteenth-century Catholic and Protestant reformers eagerly founded reservation missions and boarding schools, hoping to civilize and Christianize their supposedly savage charges. In telling the story of the Saint Francis Indian Mission on the Sicangu Lakota Rosebud Reservation, Converting the Rosebud illuminates the complexities of federal Indian reform, Catholic mission policy, and pre- and post-reservation Lakota culture. Author Harvey Markowitz frames the history of the Saint Francis Mission within a broader narrative of the battles waged on a national level between the Catholic Church and the Protestant organizations that often opposed its agenda for American Indian conversion and education. He then juxtaposes these battles with the federal governments relentless attempts to conquer and colonize the Lakota tribes through warfare and diplomacy, culminating in the transformation of the Sicangu Lakotas from a sovereign people into wards of the government designated as the Rosebud Sioux. Markowitz follows the unpredictable twists in the relationships between the Jesuit priests and Franciscan sisters stationed at Saint Francis and their two missionary partnersthe United States Indian Office, whose assimilationist goals the missionaries fully shared, and the Sicangus themselves, who selectively adopted and adapted those elements of Catholicism and Euro-American culture that they found meaningful and useful. Tracing the mission from its 1886 founding in present-day South Dakota to the 1916 fire that reduced it to ashes, Converting the Rosebud unveils the complex church-state network that guided conversion efforts on the Rosebud Reservation. Markowitz also reveals the extent to which the Sicangus responded to those effortsand, in doing so, created a distinct understanding of Catholicism centered on traditional Lakota concepts of sacred power. **Review Harvey Markowitzs exploration of the dramatic encounter between Christians and indigenous people in Sioux country is a model of ethnohistorical scholarship. Rooted in a deep understanding of the two traditions that crossed paths on the Rosebud more than a century ago, Converting the Rosebud is a fresh and stunning work that teaches us a great deal about faith, culture change, and the rich religious history of America.Frederick E. Hoxie, editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History This book on the St. Francis Indian Mission on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation makes a valuable contribution to Lakota studies and comparative religion. Harvey Markowitz is especially insightful about how Lakotas shaped the Catholic mission project according to their material needs and spiritual beliefs.Jeffrey Ostler, author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills The Struggle for Sacred Ground

Author: Mike Martin File Type: pdf An Intimate War tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghani- stan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses - the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the Taliban, and the post-2001 nation-building era. Yet, as experienced by local inhabitants, the Helmand conflict is a perennial one, involving the same individuals, families and groups, and driven by the same arguments over land, water and power. This book - based on both military and re- search experience in Helmand and 150 inter- views in Pashto - offers a very different view of Helmand from those in the media. It demonstrates how outsiders have most often misunderstood the ongoing struggle in Helmand and how, in doing so, they have exacerbated the conflict, perpetuated it and made it more violent - precisely the opposite of what was intended when their interventions were launched. Mike Martins oral history of Helmand under- scores the absolute imperative of understanding the highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal conflict in much of the third world. **