Author: Deborah Bird Rose File Type: pdf Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it mattersand to whom. **

Author: Michael Richard Thomas Dumper File Type: pdf The first work to offer 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage of ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africafrom their founding to the presenthighlighting each citys cultural, social, political, and economic significance. Coverage of 100 ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa 19 academic contributors from this region as well as from Europe and the United States Annotated timeline locating cities within their historical and imperial contexts 44 illustrations including the Venetian fortifications of Nicosia, the ziggurat in Ur, and the Silk Market in Cairo 8 maps including an overview map of all the cities listed in the book and sub-regional maps to clarify their location **From Booklist The editors state in the preface that cities need to be brought back into the discussion of the region they term the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, because cities are the networks and links between the many current and historical cultures of the region. This encyclopedia offers entries on 100 cities, most of them from Morocco east to Iran and Turkey south to the Horn of Africa. Some cities from outside the defined region, such as Nicosia, Samarkand, and Zanzibar, are included because they are edge cities, where culture from the MENA region has interacted with other cultures in the world. Historic cities were chosen for inclusion to give definition to the cultures that built the MENA region as well as to look into urbanization from prior times. The articles on Byblos, Ugarit, and other historic cities are all excellent summaries of what is known about early urbanization and make the book fascinating reading. Some spellings are different than generally seen, Mahdinah (Medina) and Makkah(Mecca) being the most obvious examples. Each article starts out with a brief general description of the city and concludes with a list of further reading for anyone who would like more in-depth information. A glossary of frequently used terms helps with Turkic and Arabic words. Other features include a time line of dynastic and imperial ages, black-and-white illustrations, and a selection of maps. Inclusion in the text is not necessarily a measure of the critical importance of a city, according to the introduction. American readers may be unacquainted with the history or even the location of Hims (Syria) or Sfax (Tunisia), but other cities, such as Baghdad, Cairo, and Dubai, will be familiar. This volume will be a good addition to any academic or large public library so patrons can learn more about the history and current issues affecting the MENA region. Steve Stratton American Library Association. lt Review This volume will be a good addition to any academic or large public library so patrons can learn more about the history and current issues affecting the MENA region. - Booklist Recommended. All levels. - Choice Cities of the Middle East and North Africa is a truly unique and fascinating resource for historical, socioeconomic, and cultural information on the major cities of the North African and Arab worlds. . . . [this work] is best suited for large public, college, and research libraries. It is highly recommended for these collections. - Reference & User Services Quarterly Cities of the Middle East and North Africa A Historical Encyclopedia is a top pick for the high school to college-level collection where courses in Middle Eastern or North Africa ar given. - Midwest Book Review For academic libraries that support programs on the Islamic world and especially on the Middle East and Africa, this will be a welcome addition to their reference collections. - Reference & User Services Quarterly

Author: Nikolas Kompridis File Type: epub The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we must now speak of an aesthetic turn?? in political thought. But what does it mean and what makes it an aesthetic turn? Why now? This diverse and path-breaking collection of essays answers these questions, provoking new ways to think about the possibilities and debilities of democratic politics. Beginning from the premise that politics is already aesthetic in principle,?? the contributions to The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought from some of the worlds leading political theorists and philosophers, disclose a distinct set of political problems the aesthetic problems of modern politics. The aesthetic turn in political thought not only recognizes that these problems are different in kind from the standard problems of politics, it also recognizes that they call for a different kind of theorizing ? a theorizing that is itself aesthetic. A major contribution to contemporary theoretical debates, The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought will be essential reading to anyone interested in the interdisciplinary crossroads of aesthetic and politics. **htmlReview This is an excellent and wide-ranging collection of essays on political theory through a broadly aesthetic approach that is, an approach that seeks to reintegrate political thought and action with their accompanying senses, emotions and intuitions. James Tully, Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought is an excellent introduction to one of the most important developments in contemporary political theory, with several of the essays charting new theoretical territory. Morton Schoolman, Professor, State University of New York at Albany, USA and author of Reason and Horror Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality About the Author Nikolas Kompridis is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Critique and Disclosure Critical Theory between Past and Future (2006) and Philosophical Romanticism (2006).html

Author: Simon Kuznets File Type: pdf Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, famous as the founder of modern empirical economics, pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet, until now, his most important work on the subject was unpublished. This second collection of previously unavailable material issued by Transaction brings to the public, for the first time, the most important economic work written on Jewish migration since that of Werner Sombart a century ago.This volume of Kuznets work includes three main essays. The first, titled Immigration and the Foreign Born, was Kuznets first work on immigration and discusses the impact of the general foreign born on the U.S. Kuznets and his co-author, Ernest Rubin, offer the essay as a quantitative antidote to the misinformation that led many Jews to support the restrictions ending Jewish migration in the 1920s. The second, Israels Economic Development, discusses the impact of mass immigration and other factors on Israeli productivity, providing in English for the first time one of the first detailed studies of the economic development of the state of Israel. The final essay, on Immigration of Russian Jews to the United States, is the most famous of Kuznets writings and provides a clear view, backed by a seminal paper that launched the contemporary social scientific study of Jewry. It discusses the details of the labor force, skills, and general structure of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the U.S.ReviewNobel laureate Simon Kuznets (1901-85) was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, noted for developing the concepts and methods used to calculate important macroeconomic measurements like GNP. He was also a pathbreaking economic historian who emphasized the roles of culture, institutions, and context in understanding economic growth and development--always a cautious empiricist in explaining economic trends and rejecting Malthusian pessimism about the impact of population growth The highlight of the volumes is the 40-page introduction, Simon Kuznets, Cautious Empiricist of the Eastern European Jewish Diaspora by E. Glen Weyl (Univ. of Chicago), which is especially valuable because so little has been published on this towering figure Recommended.R. M. Whaples, Choice (Review of both Jewish Economies Volume 1 and 2)About the AuthorSimon Kuznets (1901-1985) won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1971. His contributions to the field include the Kuznets Curve, which revolutionized the field of developmental economics.E. Glen Weyl is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a recurrent visiting researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics.Stephanie Lo is an investment analyst at DC Energy Locaated in Vienna, Virginia. Previously, she was research assistant at the Harvard Society of Fellows.