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Written by Steve Striffler Edition: 2005 Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: October 27, 2005
Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about [...]
Chicken The Dangerous Transformation of Americas Favorite Food Yale Agrarian Studies - Steve Striffler
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The Cookiepedia: Mixing Baking And Reinventing The Classics - Stacy Adimando
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Written by Stacy Adimando Format(s): EPUB TXT Language: English
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Trendy cupcakes may come and go, but cookies are a timeless treat! If you miss the days when snacks were simple and handmade, you’ll love this homespun encyclopedia of cookies. Full of hand-drawn illustrations, gorgeous photographs, and easy how-tos, The Cookiepedia features updated recipes [...]
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The Real North Korea Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia - Andrei Lankov
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Written by Andrei Lankov Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts [...]
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Rethinking Liberal Equality From a Utopian Point of View - Andrew Levine
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Written by Andrew Levine Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: October 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0801435439 | ISBN-13: 978-0801435430 | Edition: 1
For more than a quarter century, academic political philosophy has been dominated by strains of liberal theory shaped decisively by John Rawls’s seminal investigations of distributive justice and political legitimacy. By intervening [...]
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The General Will Rousseau, Marx, Communism - Andrew Levine
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Written by Andrew Levine Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: May 15, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0521062284 | ISBN-13: 978-0521062282 | Edition: 1
This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx’s notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the [...]
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Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia - Andrzej Walicki
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Written by Andrzej Walicki Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: September 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0804731640 | ISBN-13: 978-0804731645 | Edition: 1
The aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels’s theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its [...]
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Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (The Real Utopias Project) (v. 4) - Archon Fung
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Written by Archon Fung Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: March 17, 2003 | ISBN-10: 1859844669 | ISBN-13: 978-1859844663
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, [...]
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For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America - John Curl (2009)
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Written by John Curl (2009) Format(s): PDF Language: English
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory. With an expansive sweep [...]
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Drop City - T.C. Boyle
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It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure [...]
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Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture - Chelsea Cain
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Written by Chelsea Cain Format(s): PDF Language: English
Tofu casseroles, communes, clothing-optional kindergarten, antiwar protests - these are just a few of the hallmarks of a counterculture childhood. What became of kids who had been denied meat, exposed to free love, and given nouns for names? In Wild Child, daughters of the [...]
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America’s Communal Utopias - Donald E. Pitzer
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Written by Donald E. Pitzer Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: May 12, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0807846090 | ISBN-13: 978-0807846094 | Edition: First Edition
From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America’s communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American [...]
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Utopias in American history - Jyotsna Sreenivasan
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Written by Jyotsna Sreenivasan Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: October 24, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1598840525 | ISBN-13: 978-1598840520 | Edition: 1
With this volume, a fascinating, yet often overlooked, part of the American story is brought to the forefront. In Utopias in American History, independent scholar Jyotsna Sreenivasan makes the case that [...]
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The New Latin American Left Utopia Reborn - Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez, Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
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Written by Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez, Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: October 20, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0745326773 | ISBN-13: 978-0745326771 0
It was widely predicted that the end of the Cold War would lead to a prolonged period of US-friendly neo-liberal hegemony in Latin America. In fact, the left has re-emerged [...]
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Dreams of Peace and Freedom Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century - Jay Winter
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Written by Jay Winter Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform [...]
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Communal Utopias and the American Experience Religious Communities, 1732-2000 - Robert P. Sutton
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Written by Robert P. Sutton Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: February 28, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0275975533 | ISBN-13: 978-0275975531
This important study begins with America’s first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will [...]
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The Rise and Fall of Synanon A California Utopia - Rod Janzen
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Written by Rod Janzen Format(s): PDF Language: English
Chuck Dederich–a former Alcoholics Anonymous member who coined the phrase “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”–established Synanon as an innovative drug rehabilitation center near the Santa Monica beach in 1958. Synanon evolved quickly into an experimental commune and “religion” that [...]
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The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America 1900-1960 - Timothy Miller
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Written by Timothy Miller Format(s): PDF Language: English
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The first volume of a two-volume study of intentional communities in the US during the 20th century. Miller (religious studies, U. of Kansas belies the assertion that the period was virtually devoid of communes. After reviewing older groups that were operating until the turn of [...]
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The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias - Virginia W. Friesen, Virginia Lyons Friesen
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Written by Virginia W. Friesen, Virginia Lyons Friesen Format(s): PDF Language: English
What is utopia? Why are communes created? Where are they, and what do they promote? From the Shakers and the Mormons to the Raelians and the Hutterites, the quest for a perfect society has been a human endeavor since the [...]
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Never Will We Forget - Oral Histories Of World War II - Marilyn Culpepper
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Written by Marilyn Culpepper Format(s): PDF TXT Language: English
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Never Will We Forget deals with the most enduring and moving side of World War II, the personal side. These are the stories of some 400 men and women, who, though they experienced the war in wildly different ways, were all profoundly affected by [...]
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Peace Treaties And International Law in European History - Randall Lesaffer
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Written by Randall Lesaffer Format(s): PDF TXT Language: English
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In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. An important place is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and [...]
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