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Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Bryan Caplan
The Case against Education
Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in EducationNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network November 20, 2018 Marshall Poe

Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We don’t, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for our buck as we should. According to Bryan Caplan, however, the American educational system–higher education in particular–is much, much worse. In The Case against Education: Why the Education... Read More
Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Eric D. Weitz
Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 20, 2018 Ryan Stackhouse

What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that gave us cultural touchstones spawn Nazism? In his new book Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton University Press, 2018), Eric D. Weitz challenges the belief that the fledgling democracy was doomed to fail. In... Read More
Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)
Steven Shaviro
Discognition

Repeater Books, 2016

NBN SeminarNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science FictionNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society November 20, 2018 Carla Nappi

Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is consciousness? How does subjective experience occur? Which entities are conscious? What is it like to be a bat, or a dog, a robot, a tree, a human being, a rock, a star, a neutrino? Discognition... Read More
James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump” (Harvard UP, 2018)
James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg
The Republican Reversal
Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 20, 2018 Brian Hamilton

It wasn’t always this way. From the Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership on natural resource conservation to Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ronald Reagan’s singing of the Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting chemicals, Republicans have a proud tradition of environmental stewardship. Why have they seemingly abandoned it? That question... Read More
Pedith Pui Chan, “The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Guohua in Republican Shanghai” (Brill, 2017)
Pedith Pui Chan
The Making of a Modern Art World
Institutionalization and Legitimization of Guohua in Republican Shanghai
Brill, 2017

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & Places November 20, 2018 Ricarda Brosch

The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Gouhua in Republican Shanghai (Brill, 2017) investigates the production and consumption of guohua (“national painting”) in Shanghai between 1929 and the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese war in 1937. Defining the art world as sociologically constructed, Pedith Chan’s systematically... Read More

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