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Conventional Wisdom
Author | : Susan McClary |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520232082 |
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McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--Jacket.
Defying Conventional Wisdom
Author | : Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0802080898 |
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The first major study on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions in opposition to free trade that arose in Canada and spread across North America - it captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life.
Untruth
Author | : Robert J. Samuelson |
Publsiher | : AtRandom |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780679647157 |
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In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be "solved".The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, and the result is that the public is misled about what is wrong and how easily it can be made right. Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom. Included are columns arguing that campaign contributions have not corrupted politics, that the "service economy" is not turning America into a nation of hamburger flippers, and that the Internet isn't the most important invention since the printing press.
Cracking the China Conundrum
Author | : Yukon Huang |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-06-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780190630041 |
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China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses widely accepted yet misguided views in the analysis of China's economy. He examines arguments about the causes and effects of China's possible debt and property market bubbles, trade and investment relations with the Western world, the links between corruption and political liberalization in a growing economy and Beijing's more assertive foreign policies. Huang explains that such misconceptions arise in part because China's economic system is unprecedented in many ways-namely because it's driven by both the market and state- which complicates the task of designing accurate and adaptable analysis and research. Further, China's size, regional diversity, and uniquely decentralized administrative system poses difficulties for making generalizations and comparisons from micro to macro levels when trying to interpret China's economic state accurately. This book not only interprets the ideologies that experts continue building misguided theories upon, but also examines the contributing factors to this puzzle. Cracking the China Conundrum provides an enlightening and corrective viewpoint on several major economic and political foreign policy concerns currently shaping China's economic environment.
Second Thoughts
Author | : Janet M. Ruane,Karen A. Cerulo |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781483300016 |
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Co-authored by Karen A. Cerulo, the Eastern Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Lecturer for 2013-2014 Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? Is honesty the best policy? Are children our most precious commodity? Is education the great equalizer? Adages like these shape our social life. This Sixth Edition of Second Thoughts reviews several popular beliefs and notes how these conventional wisdoms cannot be taken at face value, but instead require careful second thoughts. This unique text encourages students to step back and sharpen their analytic focus with 25 essays that use social research to expose the gray areas of commonly held beliefs, revealing the complexity of social reality and sharpening students’ sociological vision.
Forging New Conventional Wisdom Beyond International Policing
Author | : Bryn Hughes,Charles T. Hunt,Jodie Curth-Bibb |
Publsiher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2013-01-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789004243224 |
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Forging New Conventional Wisdom Beyond International Policing: Learning from Complex, Political Realities provides an innovative perspective in the field by conceptualizing international policing as part of a much broader system of peace and capacity development initiatives. Authors Bryn Hughes, Charles T. Hunt, and Jodie Curth-Bibb provide a thorough analysis of the current problems in the field, and subsequently offer a convincing argument for a new, post-Weberian approach.
Conventional Wisdom Tales of a Blacklisted Fan Boy
Author | : James "Cheshire" Clayton |
Publsiher | : James Clayton |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2008-04-21 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781419695469 |
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Freaks, geeks, and chubby ninjas come together in this riotous romp across fifteen years of sci-fi and Anime conventions.
Conventional Wisdom
Author | : Susan McClary |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000-05-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520928083 |
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With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues.McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires--the blues, eighteenth-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap. As one of the most influential trailblazers in contemporary musical understanding, McClary once again moves beyond the borders of the "purely musical" into the larger world of history and society, and beyond the idea of a socially stratified core canon toward a musical pluralism. Those who know McClary only as a feminist writer will discover her many other sides, but not at the expense of gender issues, which are smoothly integrated into the general argument. In considering the need for a different way of telling the story of Western music, Conventional Wisdom bravely tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them.