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1Public Intellectuals

An Endangered Species?

By Amitai Etzioni and Alyssa Bowditch

Investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a range of commentaries and studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of public intellectuals, and probes the question of how their voices can be effective in the social, academic and political climates. "Public Intellectuals An Endangered Species!" investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals, and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates

“Public Intellectuals” Metadata:

• Title: Public Intellectuals
• Authors: Amitai EtzioniAlyssa Bowditch
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 294
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publish Date: 2006-02-14
• Genres: Biography & Autobiography

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• Google Books ID: Fs1X2iC9NQUC
• ISBN-13: 9780742542556
• ISBN-10: 0742542556
• All ISBNs: 0742542556 - 9780742542556

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2Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong

Anthropologists Talk Back

By Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson

This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world.

“Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong” Metadata:

• Title: ➤  Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong
• Authors: Catherine BestemanHugh Gusterson
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 291
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Publish Date: 2005-01-17
• Genres: History

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• Google Books ID: TbkwDwAAQBAJ
• ISBN-13: 9780520243569
• ISBN-10: 0520243560
• All ISBNs: 9780520243569 - 0520243560

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3Children of Victory

Young Specialists and the Evolution of Soviet Society

By David Ruffley

Born after 1940 and finishing higher education between 1965 and 1982, a generation of Russia's best, brightest, and most privileged came of age in the Brezhnev era. Using recently declassified archival material to uncover bother personal and professional beliefs, this study explores the formative experiences of this group, who now hold key positions in all parts of the government and society. Comparison of these official documents with letters, petitions, and complaints published in the Soviet press provides new insight into the dynamic interaction between the Brezhnev regime and Soviet times. Confined by the Brezhnev regime's parameters and stability, young Soviet specialists developed an ethos that focused personally upon humanism and individualism, and professionally upon dignity and autonomy. Censored and manipulated, they came to hold a complex system of beliefs, frustrations, and expectations that stood in stark contrast to many of the ideals of the Soviet Union. Ruffley analyzes the ethos of this generation via the prism of domination-resistance studies to offer unique insight into a generation largely ignored by conventional historical inquiry.

4Public Intellectuals

A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue

By Richard A. Posner

In this timely book which has a new Preface and Epilogue, Posner charts the decline of the public intellectual, a venerable institution that includes worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. 2 line illustrations.

“Public Intellectuals” Metadata:

• Title: Public Intellectuals
• Author: Richard A. Posner
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 465
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publish Date: 2003-10-30
• Genres: Biography & Autobiography

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• Google Books ID: 8tIpEAAAQBAJ
• ISBN-13: 9780674012462
• ISBN-10: 0674012461
• All ISBNs: 9780674012462 - 0674012461

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In this timely book which has a new Preface and Epilogue, Posner charts the decline of the public intellectual, a venerable institution that includes worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. 2 line illustrations.

6FDA's Walking Encyclopedias

Public Affairs Specialists

By Betsy Adams and John Henkel

In this timely book which has a new Preface and Epilogue, Posner charts the decline of the public intellectual, a venerable institution that includes worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. 2 line illustrations.

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• Title: FDA's Walking Encyclopedias
• Authors: Betsy AdamsJohn Henkel
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 4
• Genres: Public relations

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• Google Books ID: T5-TZ2DLKf0C

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7Working Relationally in and across Practices

A Cultural-Historical Approach to Collaboration

By Anne Edwards

This book shows ideas from cross-professional collaborators that offer resources for professional and research practices.

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• Title: ➤  Working Relationally in and across Practices
• Author: Anne Edwards
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 337
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publish Date: 2017-01-26
• Genres: Business & Economics

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• Google Books ID: PrWSDQAAQBAJ
• ISBN-13: 9781107110373
• ISBN-10: 1107110378
• All ISBNs: 9781107110373 - 1107110378

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8Confronting the Experts

Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts

By Brian Martin

Confronting the Experts brings together six personal case histories of challenges to establishment experts. The authors tell why they questioned conventional wisdom, what methods they used, how they dealt with the experts' response, and what lessons they learned. Because the book shows how powerful groups can get their way by gaining the support of intellectual authorities and also how these authorities can be challenged, it provides insights into the issues of power, dissent, and social change. Included are Sharon Beder's research on sewage and how it helped to undermine the credibility of the Sydney Water Board; Mark Diesendorf's scientific and social critique of fluoridation; Edward Herman's exposition of the flaws in the establishment perspective on terrorism; Harold Hillman's questioning of the validity of standard methods used in biology, such as subcellular fractionation and electron microscopy; Michael Mallory and Gordon Moran's challenge to the orthodox interpretation of a famous painting in Siena, Italy; and Dhirendra Sharma's confrontation with India's nuclear establishment.