Your Britain : Media and the Making of the Labour Party (9780674050020)

In the early twentieth century, new mass media-popular newspapers, radio, film-exploded at the same time that millions of Britons received the vote in the franchise expansions of 1918 and 1928. The growing centrality of the commercial media to democratic life quickly became evident as organizations of all stripes saw its potential to reach new voters. The new media presented both an exciting opportunity and a significant challenge to the new Labour Party.

Laura Beers traces Labour's rise as a movement for working-class men to its transformation into a national party that won a landslide victory in 1945. Key to its success was a skillful media strategy designed to win over a broad, diverse coalition of supporters. Though some in the movement harbored reservations about a socialist party making use of the "capitalist" commercial media, others advocated using the media to hammer home the message that Labour represented not only its traditional base but also women, office workers, and professionals. Labour's national leadership played a pivotal role in the effective use of popular journalism, the BBC, and film to communicate its message to the public. In the process Labour transformed not only its own national profile but also the political process in general.

New Labour's electoral success of the late twentieth century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This insightful book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.

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• Format Hardback | 272 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 235 x 24.64mm | 548.85g
• Publication date 31 May 2010
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 22 halftones, 1 table
• ISBN10 0674050029
• ISBN13 9780674050020

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The Black Box Society : The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (9780674970847)

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior--silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so--and to set limits on how big data affects our lives.

Hidden algorithms can make (or ruin) reputations, decide the destiny of entrepreneurs, or even devastate an entire economy. Shrouded in secrecy and complexity, decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms were long assumed to be neutral and technical. But leaks, whistleblowers, and legal disputes have shed new light on automated judgment. Self-serving and reckless behavior is surprisingly common, and easy to hide in code protected by legal and real secrecy. Even after billions of dollars of fines have been levied, underfunded regulators may have only scratched the surface of this troubling behavior.

Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on others.

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• Format Paperback | 320 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 231 x 20mm | 454g
• Publication date 01 Sep 2016
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• Illustrations note 2 tables, 1 figure
• ISBN10 0674970845
• ISBN13 9780674970847
• Bestsellers rank 29,621

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Selected Writings: 1913-1926 v. 1 (9780674945852)

Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with symbolic logic or epistemology.

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• Format Hardback | 528 pages
• Dimensions 162 x 235 x 31.75mm | 871g
• Publication date 31 Dec 1996
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674945859
• ISBN13 9780674945852
• Bestsellers rank 2,398,081

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Supreme Injustice : Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court (9780674051218)

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War--Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story--upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life.

Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his lifetime--a fact that biographers have ignored. Justice Story never owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet on the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed many of his own slaves, he zealously and consistently opposed black freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no Constitutional rights and that slave owners could move slaves into the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks.

Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three major justices from America's founding ideals and embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.

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• Format Hardback | 236 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 25.4mm | 408.23g
• Publication date 26 Jan 2018
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674051211
• ISBN13 9780674051218
• Bestsellers rank 2,449,863

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North Korean Nuclear Operationality : Regional Security and Nonproliferation (9781421410944)

Despite near-universal opposition to North Korea's moves to acquire nuclear weapons, Pyongyang is determined to succeed. It is only a matter of time before the North Koreans are able to combine their extant nuclear weapons capabilities with a viable delivery system. The threat multiplies in light of the North Koreans having already demonstrated the willingness and ability to sell nuclear technology, materials, and know-how to other nuclear aspirants. In North Korean Nuclear Operationality, Gregory J. Moore asks leading experts in Asian and security studies to consider the international consequences of a North Korea with operational nuclear weapons.

How will South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia react, and does it mean an arms race in the region is inevitable? How should the United States handle the situation, both diplomatically and strategically? North Korea has already destabilized the nuclear nonproliferation regime by being the only country ever to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and then openly test nuclear weapons. What are the repercussions for the nonproliferation regime of a successful North Korean move to nuclear weapons operationality?

Given the importance of these issues and the lack of transparency surrounding North Korean politics, North Korean Nuclear Operationality offers critical and timely insight. A foreword by Graham T. Allison, founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, sets the stage for a rigorous look at the threats North Korea poses to regional security and the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

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• Format Hardback | 320 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 26mm | 567g
• Publication date 31 Jan 2014
• Publisher JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Baltimore, MD, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 6 Graphs
• ISBN10 142141094X
• ISBN13 9781421410944
• Bestsellers rank 1,585,530

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Works: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XIV-XV v. 10 (9780674995383)

Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. In the troubles which followed he made his peace with Vespasian. Present at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, he received favours from these two as emperors and from Domitian and assumed their family name Flavius. He died after 97.

As a historical source Josephus is invaluable. His major works are: History of the Jewish War, in seven books, from 170 BCE to his own time, first written in Aramaic but translated by himself into the Greek we now have; and Jewish Antiquities, in twenty books, from the creation of the world to 66 CE. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the works of Josephus also includes the autobiographical Life and his treatise Against Apion.

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• Format Hardback | 494 pages
• Dimensions 115 x 170 x 22.35mm | 320g
• Publication date 23 Oct 1998
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Imprint LOEB
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0674995384
• ISBN13 9780674995383
• Bestsellers rank 436,709

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Harvard University (9781568982809)

The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of two American campuses distinguished by landmark buildings-Harvard revealing stories of ivy-clad historic buildings and Cincinnati showcasing its major contemporary works of art, architecture, and landscape. One of the most prestigious universities in the world, Harvard is steeped in tradition and famous for its unique American Colonial campus which dates back to 1636. It features pre-Revolutionary, colonial, and classical buildings as well as more recent designs by Jose Luis Sert, LeCorbusier, and Walter Gropius.

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• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 160 x 254 x 23mm | 880g
• Publication date 10 Dec 2001
• Publisher PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 130 colour illustrations
• ISBN10 1568982801
• ISBN13 9781568982809

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The Boatman : Henry David Thoreau's River Years (9780674545090)

The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he himself--a land surveyor by trade--was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, lawyers, builders, landowners, and elected officials who were his clients. Robert Thorson tells a compelling story of intellectual growth, as Thoreau moved from anger, to lament, to acceptance of the way humans had changed the river he cherished more than Walden Pond.

In his twenties, Thoreau had contemplated industrial sabotage against a downstream factory dam. By the mid-1850s he realized that humans and an "imperfect" nature were inseparable. His beliefs and scientific understanding of the river would be challenged again when he was hired in 1859 as a technical consultant for the River Meadow Association, in America's first statewide case for dam removal--a veritable class-action suit of more than five hundred petitioners that pitted local farmers against industrialists. Thorson offers the most complete account to date of this "flowage controversy," including Thoreau's behind-the-scenes investigations and the political corruption that eventually carried the day.

In the years after the publication of Walden (1854), the river boatman's joy in the natural world was undiminished by the prospect of environmental change. Increasingly, he sought out for solace and pleasure those river sites most dramatically altered by human invention and intervention--for better and worse.

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• Format Hardback | 296 pages
• Dimensions 15 x 23 x 30.48mm | 657.71g
• Publication date 02 May 2017
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674545095
• ISBN13 9780674545090
• Bestsellers rank 1,546,397

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The Iliad: v. 2 (9780674995802)

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for noble Trojans, and for Achilles himself. The poet gives us compelling characterizations of his protagonists as well as a remarkable study of the heroic code in antiquity.

The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad. These have been published in the Loeb Classical Library for three quarters of a century, the Greek text facing a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. William F. Wyatt now brings the Loeb's Iliad up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is written for today's readers.

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• Format Hardback | 660 pages
• Dimensions 114 x 178 x 30.23mm | 450g
• Publication date 01 Jul 1999
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Imprint LOEB
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition Statement 2nd Revised edition
• ISBN10 0674995805
• ISBN13 9780674995802
• Bestsellers rank 77,400

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Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece (9780674237360)

Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history-when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.

This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.

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• Format Hardback | 384 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 203 x 25.4mm | 498.95g
• Publication date 31 May 2019
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674237366
• ISBN13 9780674237360
• Bestsellers rank 656,197

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A World of Insects : The Harvard University Press Reader (9780674046191)

As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects' experience of the world is radically different from ours. Air to them is as viscous as water to us. The predicament of size, along with the dizzying diversity of insects and their status as arguably the most successful organisms on earth, have inspired passion and eloquence in some of the world's most innovative scientists. A World of Insects showcases classic works on insect behavior, physiology, and ecology published over half a century by Harvard University Press.

James Costa, Vincent Dethier, Thomas Eisner, Lee Goff, Bernd Heinrich, Bert Hoelldobler, Kenneth Roeder, Andrew Ross, Thomas Seeley, Karl von Frisch, Gilbert Waldbauer, E. O. Wilson, and Mark Winston-each writer, in his unique voice, paints a close-up portrait of the ways insects explore their environment, outmaneuver their enemies, mate, and care for kin.

Selected by two world-class entomologists, these essays offer compelling descriptions of insect cooperation and warfare, the search for ancient insect DNA in amber, and the energy economics of hot-blooded insects. They also discuss the impact-for good and ill-of insects on our food supply, their role in crime scene investigation, and the popular fascination with pheromones, killer bees, and fire ants. Each entry begins with commentary on the authors, their topics, and the latest research in the field.

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• Format Paperback | 416 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 235 x 24.38mm | 625.96g
• Publication date 16 Apr 2012
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement New
• Illustrations note 12 halftones, 31 line illustrations, 1 table
• ISBN10 0674046196
• ISBN13 9780674046191
• Bestsellers rank 707,608

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Consciousness and the Novel : Connected Essays (9780674013773)

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge here explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in light of recent investigations in the sciences.

How does the novel represent consciousness? And how has this changed over time? In a series of interconnected essays, Lodge pursues these questions down various paths: How does the novel's method compare with that of other creative media such as film? How does the consciousness (and unconscious) of the creative writer do its work? And how can criticism infer the nature of this process through formal analysis? In essays on Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Henry James, John Updike, and Philip Roth, and in reflections on his own practice as a novelist, Lodge is able to bring to light--and to engaging life--the technical, intellectual, and sometimes simply mysterious working of the creative mind.

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• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 127 x 202 x 24.13mm | 381g
• Publication date 15 Apr 2004
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note none
• ISBN10 0674013778
• ISBN13 9780674013773
• Bestsellers rank 349,822

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Letters to Atticus: v. 2 (9780674995727)

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except, perhaps, his brother. These letters, in this four-volume series, also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

When the correspondence begins in November 68 BCE the 38-year-old Cicero is a notable figure in Rome: a brilliant lawyer and orator, who has achieved primacy at the Roman bar and a political career that would culminate in the Consulship in 63. Over the next twenty-four years--to November 44, a year before he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony--Cicero wrote frequently to his friend and confidant, sharing news and discussing affairs of business and state. It is to this corpus of over 400 letters that we owe most of our information about Cicero's literary activity. And taken as a whole the letters provide a first-hand account of social and political life in Rome.

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• Format Paperback | 350 pages
• Dimensions 115 x 170 x 22.86mm | 240g
• Publication date 30 Apr 1999
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Imprint LOEB
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New edition
• ISBN10 0674995724
• ISBN13 9780674995727
• Bestsellers rank 73,489

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Cicero: v. 1 : Letters to Friends (9780674995888)

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history. The 435 letters collected here represent Cicero's correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of 20 years, from 62 B.C., when Cicero's political career was at its peak, to 43 B.C., the year he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs. They range widely in substance and style, from official dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently debated. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes, brings together D. R.
Shackleton Bailey's standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin. This authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Cicero's Letters to Atticus, also translated by Shackleton Bailey.

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• Format Hardback | 544 pages
• Dimensions 115 x 168 x 25mm | 365g
• Publication date 30 Jul 2001
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Imprint LOEB
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674995880
• ISBN13 9780674995888
• Bestsellers rank 277,773

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De Officiis (9780674990333)

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

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• Format Hardback | 442 pages
• Dimensions 154 x 257 x 23.88mm | 300g
• Publication date 01 Jul 1989
• Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Imprint LOEB
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0674990331
• ISBN13 9780674990333
• Bestsellers rank 168,676

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