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The market economy attends well to some dimensions of human life and does not even see others. It is sensitive to those values pertaining to what can be bought and sold but is blind to others that cannot be turned into commodities, such as the integrity of the natural world and the quality of human relationships. The market registers the costs and benefits to transactors acting as social atoms but is impervious to the costs of tearing apart the larger wholes-families, communities, the biosphere-that are vital to the quality of our lives.In The Illusion of Choice, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the market system unfolds according to a logic of its own, shaping everything within its domain-the landscape, social institutions, even human values-to serve its own inherent purposes. This understanding helps illuminate what has been most troubling to generations of Americans struggling to create a more humane society, and provides the conceptual tools by which we can become less the instruments of our powerful systems and more the masters of our destiny.Here is a powerful critique of the market, not couched in the Marxist economics of surplus value and exploitation, but drawing upon mainstream economics to shows how we all have a stake in making change. Schmookler sets out a program to help us humanize the market, not by overthrowing it but be correcting its biases, not by revolution but by strengthening the democratic process. Perhaps we can now add the most important choice to the abundance of choices the market provides us: the choice of developing into the kind of society we really want to be.

History as Apocalypse is a reenactment of the history of the Western consciousness from the Homeric and Biblica revolutions through Finnegans Wake. This occurs through a historical, literary, and theological analysis of the Christian epic tradition. While attention is focused primarily upon Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce, the Classical and Biblical foundations of the Christian epic are explored with the intention of discovering an organic unity in the evolution of the Western consciousness. Our primary epics are identified as revolutionary breakthroughs, not only as transformations of consciousness but also records of social revolutions. The Christian epic is both a consequence and a primary embodiment of the decisive historical revolutions, revolutions culminating with the ending of our historical evolution.

Red November, Black November is a study of the culture of the I. W. W. movement at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes the Wobblies' use of cultural expressions such as songs, poems, and cartoons as a means of educating and unifying workers, and as weapons in the struggle against the repressive social conditions of industrial development. The book emphasizes the important role played by immigrant activists, Wobbly artists, and intellectuals, offering a fascinating portrait of the complexity of pre-World War I labor radicalism.

This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography.Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living.Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.

Foreword by Robert McAfee Brown Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Maria da Silva Miguel 2. Salomé Costa 3. Edilson da Silva 4. Goreth Barradas 5. Toinha Lima Barros 6. Lori Altmann 7. Frei Betto 8. Silvia Regina de Lima Silva 9. Carlos Mesters 10. Tereza Cavalcanti 11. Clodovis Boff 12. Leonardo Boff 13. Rubem Alves 14. Ivone Gebara 15. Bishop José Maria Pires 16. Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga Afterword by Robert McAfee Brown "The People is Poet" by Maria Miguel Appendix I Appendix II

"In January of 2020, Logan Center Exhibitions presented a suite of newly commissioned works across photography, sculpture, and sound by visual artist Harold Mendez. Building on his process-based approach, Mendez uses Pre-Columbian ritual and memorial artifacts as a point of departure, evoking their function as both signifiers for and extensions of the human body. Transforming his material through a sequence of processes that include various imaging techniques such as digital scanning and three-dimensional printing, the artist's project speaks to the poetic connection between material matter, site, and memory. The accompanying publication for the exhibition-the first substantial monograph dedicated to his work-will be developed in close collaboration with the artist. Published by Logan Center Exhibitions, the publication features a foreword by director and curator Yesomi Umolu; a major contextualizing essay by scholar and curator Candice Hopkins; an interview with the artist; and a text by poet J. Michael Martinez. The resulting 124-page monograph will also include installation images from the exhibition at Logan Center Gallery"--

More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with the impassioned efforts of the students to ignite political awareness throughout society. Feenberg and Freedman select documents, graffiti, brochures, and posters from the movement and use them as testaments to a very different and exciting time. Their commentary, informed by the subsequent development of French culture and politics, offers useful background information and historical context for what may be the last great revolutionary challenge to the capitalist system.