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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

9 reviews
Pierre Bourdieu

Harvard University Press, 2007

A Must Read!
This is a fantastic explication of how social class prearranges our tastes and interests. I disagree with the reader who thinks that it is not applicable to American society--to the contrary. It is true that American culture is not so obviously stratified in the exact same ways as French culture (of the 1960s, I would add, when Bourdieu collected his data). Also, in American culture there is ...

Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)

2 reviews
Immanuel Kant

Dover Publications, 2003

A foundation stone of modern philosophy
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered one of the giants of philosophy, of his age or any other. It is largely this book that provides the foundation of this assessment. Whether one loves Kant or hates him (philosophically, that is), one cannot really ignore him; even when one isn't directly dealing with Kantian ideas, chances are great that Kant is made an impact. Kant was a professor of ...

Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

43 reviews
Karl Marx

Penguin Classics, 1992

Doors of Perception
If : - Your mum has taught you lots of valuable things (eat your vegetables, be nice to old people and little dogs, don't be late to school, keep a clean nose) but she was never really able to explain why you had to WORK for a living - instead of, you know, just living; - Your teachers packed your head full with all kinds of useful knowledge (about prepositions and adverbs, mineralogy and ...

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and ...

67 reviews
Kevin MacDonald

1st Books Library, 2002

Connect the dots...
Professor MacDonald has written an important book that will connect the dots of numerous seemingly unrelated bits of information. As I listen to the news' pundits try to make sense of New York's govenor Eliot Spitzer's attempt to give illegal aliens driver licenses, I could only think: read this book and it will be crystal clear.

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

127 reviews
Tim Weiner

Doubleday, 2007

CIA Insight
I've followed the CIA and the many missteps for some time. Weiner gives us a comprehensive report on the machinations of the CIA - some successes, many failures. He details the personalities of many of the characters that inhabited the agency, some weird souls indeed. The extensive note section ( 170 pages) supports the depth of his research. His account differs from some other reports, ...

Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism

6 reviews
Ibn Warraq

Prometheus Books, 2007

An excellent defense of Western Civilization
This is a fine book by "Ibn Warraq." Rather than merely point out a few errors in Ed Said's "Orientalism," it launches into a full-scale defense of the West. In my opinion, Ed Said was not the first human being to write an untruth, merely the first to put so many untruths in print. And while "Orientalism" is indeed ghastly garbage, one has to wonder about those on university campuses and ...

Vice Dos and Don'ts: 10 Years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques

10 reviews
Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, ...

Grand Central Publishing, 2004

like taking a $@#! on heroin
(That's a quote from somewhere in the book) I haven't stopped laughing since I picked up this book and now I also can't stop finding Do's and Don'ts all over the streets of Chicago. I'll be giving this book out to unsuspecting friends for Xmas this year.

Updated & Expanded 2006 Edition of the World Is Flat

5 reviews
Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006

Whether you like it or not, globalism will affect you
While you were sleeping, the world woke up. Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat" is an eye opener. You will learn of entrepreneurs and opportunists throughout the world in India, China, Eastern Europe and other "Third World" locales, who are planning to eat your lunch! Friedman's premise is the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of Internet technology has developed a flattened world, ...

The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization

10 reviews
Nancy Burns, Susan Grove

Saunders, 2004

A "know why" and know "how to" conduct research
This text is required for my doctoral level quantitative research course. I have been busy actively learning (actual data analysis & critique). For the first time I feel that research can become a reality. It's too bad this text did not cross my path 10 years ago as the beginning point for previous research courses. The text is not a difficult read. The excerpts from actual research and visuals ...

Critique of Pure Reason

37 reviews
Immanuel Kant

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The Issue of Translation
Because of the very negative reviews of the Guyer/Wood translation on this page, I have been conflicted in determining which edition of Kant's first critique I should purchase. I recently saw the Max Muller translation re-released by Penguin, and was tempted to purchase that based on the recommendation by one of the reviewers here. Before I made a decision, however, I still wanted to do more ...

What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason

7 reviews
Hubert L. Dreyfus

The MIT Press, 1992

A response to Jeffrey Shallit.
Mr. Shallit compares the critique of cognitive science by Professor Dreyfus to 'creation science'. He remarks that Dreyfus is not a computer scientist. This is true. But many 'cognitive scientists' aren't either, cognitive science being an interdisciplinary pursuit engaging philosophers, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, anthropologists and sociologists. It is unfortunate that Dreyfus ...

Dos & Don'ts 2: 13 Years of Vice Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques
Gavin McInnes

Vice Books, 2008

"Nice purple track pants you fat bitch" is how Vice describes an infant out for a daily stroll with her parents. The girl is a DON'T even though she had nothing to do with dressing herself and luckily, will never be the wiser. Next, we have a potato chip logo that features Humpty Dumpty leaning on a counter. The caption says, "Dude is just chilling. He's unflappable. You could be like, `Humpty, what if nobody shows up to our party?' and he'd be ...

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

5 reviews
Karl Marx

Penguin Classics, 1993

Critical Reading
Unlike many other works, the Grundrisse exposes in more obvious ways Marx's dialectical thought. The Introduction should really be read as a great antidote to the 1859 Preface to a Critique of Political Economy, which gave us the base-superstructure analogy. The weakest link in Marx's though may very well be found there. The Grundrisse Introduction starts from the point of view of class ...

Critique of the Power of Judgment (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)

4 reviews
Immanuel Kant

Cambridge University Press, 2001

A fine edition
The placement of the First Introduction at the beginning of the book is very useful, providing a different feel as to the nature of the work as a whole. The relative of lack of [bracketed] comments compared to the Pluhar edition is also a plus.

Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers-An Illustrated History

3 reviews
Martin Popoff

Ecw Press, 2007

Highly readable chronicling of Priest's 35-year history
"Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers" is a very good chronicling of the band's 35-year history by Martin Popoff. The book is 380 pages and full of colored photos and illustrations of band members, album covers, magazine covers, etc. Popoff devotes 25 chapters to tell Priest's story, one chapter per each official studio & live album, as well as chapters devoted to "the early years" and all ...

Really Good Logos Explained: Top Design Professionals Critique 500 Logos and Explain What Makes Them Work

2 reviews
Margo Chase, Rian Hughes, ...

Rockport Publishers, 2008

Speechless.
[I should start with the fact that I have a logo in this book.] Excited and nervous at the same time, I flipped through to find that the book was pretty much as advertised -- critiques and analysis by 4 top creative minds on some 500 great logos! However, it seems that the book may have been rushed to it's completion. Not all the logos are critiqued by all 4 authors. And there's no ...

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

1 review
Jurgen Habermas

Beacon Press, 1985

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2
This is the second volume of the two that constitute "The Theory of Communicative Action" (the first volume subtitle is "Reason and the Rationalization of Society"). The first volume was published in English in 1984, while the second volume appeared in 1987. The two volumes are not independent books and should be read as a single book. See review of the two volumes in "The Theory of ...

The Critique Handbook

5 reviews
Kendall Buster, Paula Crawford

Prentice Hall, 2006

A terrific book!
What a fantastic idea! How is it that something as essential and ubiquitous as the studio critique had not been examined in this way before? This book takes on the task brilliantly. "The Critique Handbook" is a wonderful mixture of how-to manual, theoretical analysis, irreverent debunker and basic gameplan. The authors' analysis of how to make the best use of the critique applies both to those ...

Will Catholics Be Left Behind: A Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers (Modern Apologetics ...

20 reviews
Carl E. Olson

Ignatius Press, 2003

The Rapture is "Left Behind"
"Did you know we are living in the last days?" About five minutes before I started reading this book, I wouldn't know how to answer this question. What exactly are the last days or the end times? You can take a tour of a Christian bookstore and you will not find a shortage of "prophecy" books about the ominous "end times" relating to the "signs" we must keep our eyes on, for it can be any ...

Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With ...
Immanuel Kant

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This new, revised edition of Kant's Prolegomena, the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly through careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments (including famous sections of the Schematism and Analogies), and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The ...

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