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The Drive for Dollars - Jeffrey R. Brown - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Drive for Dollars - Jeffrey R. Brown - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st.American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of U.S. urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about. The authors chronicle how the ways that we both raise and spend transportation revenue have shaped our transportation system and the lives of those who use it, from the era before the automobile to the present day. They focus on how the development of one revolutionary type of road--the freeway--was inextricably intertwined with money. With the nation''s transportation finance system at a crossroads today, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportation in the future. The authors draw on these lessons to offer ways forward to pay for transportation more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, and increase environmental sustainability and urban livability.

DKK 697.00
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Pen and Ink Witchcraft - Colin G. Calloway - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Pen and Ink Witchcraft - Colin G. Calloway - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties seem like well-ordered steps on the path of dispossession and empire. The reality was far more complicated.In Pen and Ink Witchcraft, eminent Native American historian Colin G. Calloway narrates the history of diplomacy between North American Indians and their imperial adversaries, particularly the United States. Treaties were cultural encounters and human dramas, each with its cast of characters and conflicting agendas. Many treaties, he notes, involved not land, but trade, friendship, and the resolution of disputes. Far from all being one-sided, they were negotiated on the Indians'' cultural and geographical terrain. When the Mohawks welcomed Dutch traders in the early 1600s, they sealed a treaty of friendship with a wampum belt with parallel rows of purple beads, representing the parties traveling side-by-side, as equals, on the same river. But the American republic increasingly turned treaty-making into a tool of encroachment on Indian territory. Calloway traces this process by focusing on the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1768), New Echota (1835), and Medicine Lodge (1867), in addition to such events as the Peace of Montreal in 1701 and the treaties of Fort Laramie (1851 and 1868). His analysis demonstrates that native leaders were hardly dupes. The records of negotiations, he writes, show that "Indians frequently matched their colonizing counterparts in diplomatic savvy and tried, literally, to hold their ground." Each treaty has its own story, Calloway writes, but together they tell a rich and complicated tale of moments in American history when civilizations collided.

DKK 395.00
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Sweatshops on Wheels - Michael H. Belzer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sweatshops on Wheels - Michael H. Belzer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 1977 the US government began to loosen regulations on the tightly controlled trucking industry, expecting that increased competition would drive down companies'' shipping costs. In this provocative new book Michael H. Belzer takes a close look at trucking deregulation, discussing its effects on the industry in particular and the unintended consequences of deregulation in general. He makes the case that government still has a role to play in ameliorating the hardship caused by competition while retaining its benefits.

DKK 435.00
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Beginnings Count - David J. Rothman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beginnings Count - David J. Rothman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of the recent unsuccessful drive for health care reform, many people have been asking themselves what brought about the failure of this as well as past attempts to make health care accessible to all Americans. The author of this original exploration of U.S. health policy supplies an answer that is bound to raise some eyebrows. After a careful analysis of the history and issues of health care, David Rothman concludes that it is the average employed, insured "middle class"--the vaguely defined majority of American citizens--who deny health care to the poor. The author advances his argument through the examination of two distinctive characteristics of American health care and the intricate links between them: the ubiquitous presence of technology in medicine, and the fact that the U.S. lacks a national health insurance program. Technology bears the heaviest responsibility for the costliness of American medicine. Rothman traces the histories of the "iron lung" and kidney dialysis machines in order to provide vivid evidence for his claim that the American middle class is fascinated by technology and is willing to pay the price to see the most recent advances in physics, biology, and biomedical engineering incorporated immediately in medical care. On the other hand, the lack of a universal health insurance program in the U.S. is rooted in the fact that, starting in the 1930''s, government health policy has been a reflection of the needs and concerns of the middle class. Playing up to middle class sensibilities, the American presidents, Senate and Congress based their policy upon the private rather than the public sector, whenever possible. They encouraged the purchase of insurance based on the laws of the marketplace, not provided by the government. Private health insurance and high-tech medicine came with a hefty price, with the end result that about 40 million Americans could not afford medical care and were left to fend for themselves. The author investigates the moral values underpinning these decisions, and goes to the bottom of the problem of why the United States remain the only developed country which continually proves unable to provide adequate health care to all its citizens.

DKK 417.00
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The Gun and the Pen - Keith Gandal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Gun and the Pen - Keith Gandal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Gandal contends that The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury were all written by men who were greatly influenced by their shared frustration of not serving in the American military''s colossal war effort. At the same time, these same authors also observed, among other startling developments, the Army''s first egalitarian treatment of ethnic or hyphenated-Americans in regard to officer selection. The Great War mobilization shaped large-scale shifts in American life, including the meritocratic assignment of recruits to military rank based on intelligence testing, rather than Anglo-social and family background; an unprecedented military propaganda campaign aimed at fighting venereal disease and the redefinition of masculinity as chaste, chivalrous and athletic; the incarceration of tens of thousands of prostitutes as well as "promiscuous" women in an effort to police American female sexual behavior; and a dramatic but failed effort to ban sexual contact between American troops and French prostitutes. Mobilization Fiction involves a fundamental rethinking of these three novels, as well as other modernist postwar prose of the 1920s and 30s, in view of this essential history of the Great War mobilization.

DKK 717.00
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The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade - Bog - Paperback

The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade - Bog - Paperback

The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade presents the most up-to-date review of scholarship in this field. Building on an understanding of the economic interests that drive international trade, political scientists integrate theories of domestic society, domestic institutions, and international organizations to further our understanding of this vital force of globalization. This volume both surveys established theory andshowcases cutting-edge research.

DKK 578.95
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Personalized Law - Different Rules for Different People - Bog af Omri (Leo Herzel Professor of Law Ben-Shahar - Hardback

Personalized Law - Different Rules for Different People - Bog af Omri (Leo Herzel Professor of Law Ben-Shahar - Hardback

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. \Personalized Law\ - rules that vary person by person - will change that. Individual tailoring becomes increasingly possible as technology and data combine and law and regulation could similiarly be applied based on personalised, subjective, criteria. Better drivers would be free to drive faster, more vulnerable consumers wouldreceive stronger warranties and protections, age restrictions..

DKK 471.95
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Beneath the American Renaissance - David S. Reynolds - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beneath the American Renaissance - David S. Reynolds - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "impressively informed and heroic" and in The Economist as "richly suggestive," the award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen''s American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition, the volume includes a new foreword by prominent historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book''s impact and influence. An exquisite jewel of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance is certain to find an appreciative new readership in those interested in the genesis of America''s most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.

DKK 389.00
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Pilgrims Until We Die - Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku - Bog af Ian (Professor Emeritus Reader - Paperback

Pilgrims Until We Die - Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku - Bog af Ian (Professor Emeritus Reader - Paperback

Pilgrims Until We Die examines the Shikoku pilgrimage a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, which takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that continues in the present era, both by pilgrims on foot and by others in cars. Some spend decades walking the pilgrimage, while others drive it repeatedly,completing hundreds of pilgrimage circuits...

DKK 402.95
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The Education Debate - Bog af David (Professor of Public Policy Kirp - Hardback

The Education Debate - Bog af David (Professor of Public Policy Kirp - Hardback

In The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know®, David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide a balanced and accessible overview of the key policy and practice issues in pre k-12 education today. They expose the fault lines of the major debates and focus on equity of resources and opportunities and the tensions between market and bureaucratic mechanisms to drive school improvement. The Education Debate is a primer for concerned parents,educational policymakers and administrators, and undergraduate..

DKK 545.95
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Healing for the Soul - Braxton D. (assistant Professor Shelley - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Healing for the Soul - Braxton D. (assistant Professor Shelley - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the special, and the vamp. Through its combination of reiteration and intensification, the vamp turns song lyrics into something more potent. While many musical traditions use vamps to fill space, or occupy time in preparation for another, more important event, in gospel, vamps are the main event. Why is the vamp so central to the black gospel tradition? What work-musical, cultural, and spiritual-does the gospel vamp do? And what does the vamp reveal about the transformative power of black gospel more broadly? This book explores the vamp''s essential place in black gospel song, arguing that these climactic musical cycles turn worship services into transcendent events. A defining feature of contemporary gospel, the vamp links individual performances to their generic contexts. An exemplar of African American musical practice, the vamp connects gospel songs to a venerable lineage of black sacred expression. As it generates emotive and physical intensity, the vamp helps believers access an embodied experience of the invisible, moving between this world and another in their musical practice of faith. The vamp, then, is a musical, cultural, and religious interface, which gives vent to a system of belief, performance, and reception that author Braxton D. Shelley calls the Gospel Imagination. In the Gospel Imagination, the vamp offers proof that musical sound can turn spiritual power into a physical reality-a divine presence in human bodies.

DKK 483.00
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