In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines theidea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics,philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonaghhighlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes andreverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices.She places literary works within social, political and culturalcontexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns,slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces atrajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates onthe New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke,Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, andThomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the hauntingpersistence of the notion of child murder within British culture ina volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholarsalike.

The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essaysin British history, written by one of the world's leadinghistorians of political thought and published over the past threedecades. Its purpose is to present British history as that ofseveral nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from - animperial state. The commentary presents this history as that of anarchipelago, expanding across oceans to the Antipodes. Both NewZealand history and the author's New Zealand heritage inform thisvision, presenting British history as oceanic and global,complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation ofthat history as European. Professor Pocock's interpretation ofBritish history has been hugely influential in recent years, makingThe Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historiansof Britain and the world.

The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most PopularSongs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years ofMusi Beginning with Bill Haley His Comets’ seminal “Rock Aroundthe Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Pokerface,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the mostcomplete chart information on every artist and song to hitBillboard’s Top 40 pop singles chart all the way back to 1955.Inside, you’ll find all of the biggest-selling, most-played hitsfor the past six decades. Each alphabetized artist entry includesbiographical info, the date their single reached the Top 40, thesong’s highest position, and the number of weeks on the charts, aswell as the original record label and catalog number. Othersections—such as “Record Holders,” “Top Artists by Decade,” and “#1Singles 1955-2009”—make The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits thehandiest and most indispensable music reference for recordcollectors, trivia enthusiasts, industry professionals and popmu

'Gender' is used to classify humans and to explain theirbehaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. Buthow useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To whatdegree does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shiftsin familial structures and demography? How should gender beconceived in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, andwhat is gender's function in the design and pursuit of politicalobjectives? In this volume a collection of international expertsfrom the fields of political philosophy, political theory,sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionarypsychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender bothas a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning thetransformation of society. Each contributor considers how gendermight be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of(often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness forthe future.

In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially aconservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapidmoral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of aliberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years. Thebook shows how, during the 1950s, a traditionalist moral frameworkwas beginning to give way to a less authoritarian approach to moralissues as demonstrated by a more relaxed style of child-rearing,the rising status of women both inside and outside the home, theincreasing reluctance of Americans to regard alcoholism as a sin,loosening sexual attitudes, the increasing influence of modernpsychology, and, correspondingly, the declining influence ofreligion in the personal lives of most Americans.

Goran Palm – a well-known Swedish writer and poet – went to workincognito in one of the factories of LM Ericsson. He did this toobtain a better understanding of the life of the manual worker in alarge factory, and to gain from that understanding a more maturepolitical view. Going into a factory and joining a particular workgroup enabled the author to see beyond the monolithic idea of theworking class and to know and appreciate his fellow workers asindividuals. The writing is more literary than scientific, thelanguage is concrete, and portraits, satire and dialogue are mixedto provide a full and lively picture into which the development ofPalm's ideas is inserted. His particular concern is the worker'stendency to regard work as a depressing overture to the leisuretime constantly in his thoughts. This is what Palm means by TheFlight from Work.

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