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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The righteous mind The righteous mind Jonathan Haidt A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists." OL16568840W
Blessed Blessed Kate Bowler How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and… OL16805671W
Dialogues on cultural studies Dialogues on cultural studies Fengzhen Wang,Shaobo Xie "Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang pose a wide-ranging set of questions to a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that dis… OL18955776W
A conflict of visions A conflict of visions Thomas Sowell Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts which endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. This book maintains that the enduring politica… OL1935795W
Yellow peril! Yellow peril! John Kuo Wei Tchen,Dylan Yeats "The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture--indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading … OL19663969W
Hamas Hamas W.R.F. Kortenoeven Geschiedenis en gedachtegoed van de Palestijnse, islamitische militante organisatie die zich gewapenderhand verzet tegen Israël. OL24829287W
La sociedad del espectáculo La sociedad del espectáculo Donald Nicholson-Smith,Guy Debord,Guy Debord,Ron. Adams Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the pres… OL3160238W
The Roots of Nazi Psychology The Roots of Nazi Psychology Jay Y. Gonen Was Hitler a moral aberration or a man of his people? This topic has been hotly argued in recent years, and now Jay Gonen brings new answers to the debate using a psychohistorical perspective, conten… OL50183W
The Nazi Conscience The Nazi Conscience Claudia Koonz The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic communi… OL5265263W
Exits from the labyrinth Exits from the labyrinth Claudio Lomnitz-Adler "Scholarly contribution to the understanding of national culture. First part studies cultural production and ideology in Morelos and in the Huasteca Potosina. Second part focuses on history of legiti… OL822976W