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The Confirmation Mess

Carter, Stephen L
The Confirmation Mess
The author of the provocative books The Culture of Disbelief and Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby sheds new light on the process that has manufactured such public fiascoes as the Clarence Thomas hearings and the Lani Guinier travesty. "A lesson in the perils of the reforming spirit".-- Commentary.

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The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefec...

Baxter, James C.
The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture
Credit for the swift unification of Japan following the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate is usually given to the national leaders who instigated the coup and formed the new Meiji government. But is brilliant leadership at the top sufficient to explain how regional separatist tendencies and loyalties to the old lords were overcome in the formation of a nationally unified state? On the contrary, argues James C. Baxter. Though plans were ...

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Breaking Barriers

Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos
Breaking Barriers
Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits, commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, frequently ignoring the laws designed to control their mobility, in this study, Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that this system of travel regulations prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a "culture of mo...

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Life in Fragments

Bauman, Zygmunt (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
Life in Fragments
Life in Fragments" is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman's acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993). Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social theory, Postmodern Ethics subverted the pieties of subversion which rule the postmodern imagination, arguing for an ethic of being with the Other, beyond the fashionable imperative of anything goes or the deconstruction of identity through differ...

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An Innocent in Ireland

McFadden, David
An Innocent in Ireland
When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a 1930 title by travel writer H. V. Morton, he plans to follow the same route, to try to determine how things have changed and how they have remained the same.This he proceeds to do - at least at first. But soon he is wandering more and more erratically around the country, poking into a...

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Journey of the Adopted Self

Lifton, Betty Jean
Journey of the Adopted Self
The author of the "adoptees'" bible--Lost and Found--explores for the first time the inner psychological world of adopted people and shows how their search for biological roots can be a journey towards wholeness.

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