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Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies philosopher and cinematic bottom feeder Matthew Strohl enthusiastically defends a fondness for disreputable films. Combining philosophy of art with film criticism Strohl flips conventional notions of good and bad on their heads and makes the case that the ultimate value of a work of art lies in what it can add to our lives. By this measure some of the worst movies ever made are also among the best. Through detailed discussions of films such as Troll 2 The Room Batman & Robin Twilight Ninja III: The Domination and a significant portion of Nicolas Cage’s filmography Strohl argues that so-called bad movies are the ones that break the rules of the art form without the aura of artistic seriousness that surrounds the avant-garde. These movies may not win any awards but they offer rich opportunities for creative engagement and enable the formation of lively fan communities and they can be a key ingredient in a fulfilling aesthetic life. Key Features: Written in a humorous approachable style appealing to readers with no background in philosophy. Elaborates the rewards of loving bad movies such as forming unlikely social bonds and developing refinement without narrowness. Discusses a wide range of beloved bad movies including Plan 9 from Outer Space The Core Battlefield Earth and Freddy Got Fingered. Contains the most extensive discussion of Nicolas Cage ever included in a philosophy book. | Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

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Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

If we are kind people we care about others including others who tend to hurt themselves. We all have friends or family members who have potential but squander or even ruin their lives from things like drug abuse unwise spending decisions or poor dietary habits. Concern for others often motivates us to endorse laws or private interventions meant to keep people from harming themselves even if that’s what they want to do in the moment. However it is far from clear that such paternalistic measures are on net benign and they tend to violate an understanding that we should let adults make their own decisions. In this little book William Glod argues that it’s OK to allow people to make bad choices. It’s OK even if those choices risk causing a lot of harm. Most defenders of paternalism agree that some bad choices are not harmful enough to require laws to stop them. However Glod goes further. He argues that some people might want – and deserve – the freedom to make truly bad choices because such freedom is the only way they can act responsibly. He also argues that some bad choices may not even be bad even if we can't know with confidence a person's true desires. In addition the book explores choices that are bad because they might impose high monetary costs on others arguing that mandatory insurance may be a better solution than eliminating the choice. Finally it explores the potential pitfalls of paternalistic laws and policies – and how unintended costly consequences can sabotage the most well-intended plans. Key Features Introduces key concepts for understanding paternalism and freedom of choice for undergraduates and general readers Discusses how many of our preferences are not easily understood by others and shows how assumptions of what our true preferences can often backfire Explores ways in which people may want the freedom to make mistakes Examines the unintended consequences and associated problems of many paternalistic laws and regulations | Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

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Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

This book first published in 1983 offers a new explanation for the poor performance of British manufacturing since 1950. Rather than invoke orthodox economic theory or general social factors the book analyses four national conditions – enterprise control over the labour process; market structure and the composition of demand; the relation of manufacturing enterprise to financial institutions like banks and stock exchanges; and the relation of manufacturing enterprise to government. | Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

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Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on evaluations doing no harm tackling bad and doing good. Divided into four parts a diverse group of subject experts present a practical look at ethics utilizing practical experience to analyze how ethics have been applied in evaluations and how new approaches can shape the future of ethics. The chapters collectively create a common understanding of the potential role of ethics to infuse policy decisions and stakeholder initiatives with evaluations that provide better insight and potential solutions for problems going beyond what works to what needs to be done and what would help. The methodological scope ranges from working in contexts of fragility conflict and violence to participatory and decolonized approaches including the ethical imperatives posed by global crises such as climate change inequity and exploitative international relations. Ethics for Evaluation presents evaluators commissioners of evaluation policymakers and practitioners with inspiration for an ethical perspective on how evaluation can contribute towards solving problems. It presents a solid foundation for inclusive terminology and ethics guidance that would be the heart of a global exercise in professionalization of ethical evaluation practice. | Ethics for Evaluation Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”

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Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

Deep and lasting learning results when we teach human brains in ways responsive to how they’re structured and how they function which is not how we imagine they work or wish they would work. This book proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn. Spence maintains that teaching cannot and should not be aimed at transferring knowledge from teacher brains into student brains. In his words: “Decades of experience have made perfectly clear that this approach frustrates teachers bores students and results in minimal learning. ”This is a book that challenges—it will poke and prod your thinking. The author writes near the end of Chapter 4 “I wanted to write a book that asked real questions and explored possible answers. I am not concerned that you agree with my answers or ideas but I fervently hope the questions I’m raising will lead you to questions about habitual teaching practices and the resulting failure of students to learn. ” | Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

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The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read sort code write and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography grounded theory discourse and narrative analysis. Along the trail she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly comic book style Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. | The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

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Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility. We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve it from medical professionals public health experts and the diet-exercise-wellness industry. The idea that health is about wellness and not just preventing illness becomes increasingly widespread as we find out how various modifiable behaviors such as smoking or our diets impact our health. In a critical examination of health we find that alongside the move toward wellness as a state that the individual is responsible to in part produce there is a roll-back of public programs. This book explores how this good health imperative is not as apolitical as one might assume. The more the individual is the locus of health the less structural and historical issues that create health disparities are considered. Feminist Existentialism Biopolitics and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health’s charts the impact of the increasing shift to a model of individual responsibility for one’s health. It will benefit readers who are interested to think critically about normalization to produce healthy bodies. In addition this book will benefit readers who understand the value of personal health but are wary of the ways in which health can be used as a tool to discriminate and fuel inequalities in health care access. This volume is primarily of interest to academics students public health and medical professionals and readers who are interested in critically examining health from philosophical perspective in order to understand how we can celebrate the value of healthy behavior without reinforcing discrimination. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty. The work employs a distinctive diplomatic perspective on international relations and argues that the experience of conducting diplomacy gives rise to a set of priorities: first the peaceful resolution of disputes; second the avoidance of unwanted conflict; and third the minimization of the intensity of violent conflict where it has become unavoidable. It argues that changes in the international system require a shift in priorities from the diplomacy of problem-solving by building institutionalized cooperation to the diplomacy of managing relationships between people. Divided into three sections the first examines what is meant when we talk about diplomacy why we need diplomats and the operations of the modern diplomatic system of states. The second discusses the three bads about which people generally worry: bad leaders bad media and bad followers. The idea of bad is considered in terms of the moral character professional competence and the consequences of what people do for us. The final section discusses diplomacy and bad diplomats reviewing what people can do to help themselves and the professionals be good diplomats. This book is intended as a primary text for courses in international diplomacy and as a supplementary text for courses on contemporary issues in international relations. | Diplomacy in the 21st Century A Brief Introduction

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Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Most books on public key infrastructure (PKI) seem to focus on asymmetric cryptography X. 509 certificates certificate authority (CA) hierarchies or certificate policy (CP) and certificate practice statements. While algorithms certificates and theoretical policy are all excellent discussions the real-world issues for operating a commercial or private CA can be overwhelming. Security without Obscurity: A Guide to PKI Operations provides a no-nonsense approach and realistic guide to operating a PKI system. In addition to discussions on PKI best practices the book supplies warnings against bad PKI practices. Scattered throughout the book are anonymous case studies identifying both good and bad practices. The highlighted bad practices based on real-world scenarios from the authors’ experiences illustrate how bad things are often done with good intentions but cause bigger problems than the original one being solved. This book offers readers the opportunity to benefit from the authors’ more than 50 years of combined experience in developing PKI-related policies standards practices procedures and audits as well as designing and operating various commercial and private PKI systems. | Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

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Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in epistemic bad faith in light of what psychology tells us. After all the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting ego-threatening thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e. g. reasons for our moral judgments of others (Haidt 2001) and even mundane reasons for buying one pair of stockings over another! (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) However reflection on one’s thoughts requires knowing what those thoughts are in the first place. So if ignorance is the norm why attempt self-reflection? The activity would just display naivety about psychology. Yet while respecting all the data this book argues that remarkably we are sometimes infallible in our self-discerning judgments. Even so infallibility does not imply indubitability and there is no Cartesian ambition to provide a foundation for empirical knowledge. The point is rather to explain how self-reflection as a rational activity is possible. | Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

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Masculinity Goes to School

Masculinity Goes to School

Originally published in 1998. This book offers a balanced overview of the issues surrounding boys and education. It looks beyond the often hysterical debate in the popular media to analyse what is happening with boys in the school system and how this can be understood. The authors argue that popular constructions of masculinity affect boys in all parts of their lives: in families peer groups and work cultures – at home at school at work and at leisure. Offering insight into key issues such as literacy sport bad behaviour sexuality race and ethnicity and popular culture this book also looks at programs and approaches to working with boys which have been successful. | Masculinity Goes to School

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Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

This book examines the creative strategies narrative characteristics industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama. Exemplified by shows like HBO’s The Sopranos AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad Showtime’s Dexter and Netflix’s Stranger Things complex serials are distinguished by their conceptual originality narrative complexity transgressive lead characters and serial allure. As a drama form that continues to expand and diversify in today’s television HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale provide further examples. Dunleavy investigates the strategies that underpin the innovations influence and success of complex serial drama giving students and scholars a nuanced understanding of this contemporary TV form. | Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television

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Good Practice Guide Fees

Good Practice Guide Fees

Architects are finding the procurement landscape increasingly complex and competitive. This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects professional services contracts how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills. It also includes information on how to monitor and manage fees and the resources required to deliver projects managing change in the scope of the project and related services where to add value and to highlight risk areas that may impact on sustaining the business. Case studies explain good and bad practice to illustrate effective fee management drawn from the authors’ direct experience as practitioners and investigating client complaints. | Good Practice Guide Fees

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Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin’s proposal is applauded criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society. Samir Amin a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition died on August 12 2018. Just before his death he published along with close allies a call for ‘workers and the people’ to establish a ‘fifth international’ to coordinate support for progressive movements. Amin an Egyptian economist was an intrepid intellectual and organizer of popular movements whose scholar activism provided inspiration to the global justice movement. The essays in this volume are by other prominent scholar activists who praise critique and reconfigure Amin’s proposal in order to help humanity confront the contemporary crisis of global capitalism and move toward a more egalitarian global society. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Globalizations. | Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

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Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is always and everywhere bad. But might suffering also be good? If so in what ways might suffering have positive as well as negative value? This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering pain and valence as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering morality and rationality. Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics Value and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind philosophy of psychology cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain. | Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

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Offense and Offensiveness A Philosophical Account

Offense and Offensiveness A Philosophical Account

This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive others are supposed to listen. Why? What is it for something to be offensive? Likewise it’s supposed to matter if someone claims to have been offended. Is this correct? In this book Andrew Sneddon argues that we should think of offense as a moralized bad feeling. He explains offensiveness in terms of symbolic value. We tend to give claims of both offense and offensiveness more credence than they deserve. While it is in principle possible for there to be genuine moral problems of offense and offensiveness we should expect such problems to be rare. Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account will be of interest to scholars and students working in moral philosophy and moral psychology. | Offense and Offensiveness A Philosophical Account

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This Happened Here Amerikaners Neoliberals and the Trumping of America

This Happened Here Amerikaners Neoliberals and the Trumping of America

This book examines the Trump phenomenon and presidency as fascist. Fascism here connotes not generically bad politics or a consolidated political-economic regime (Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany) but a set of political movement and ideological traits understood within the context of the neoliberal-capitalist era. While Trump’s election defeat is a respite the nation is far from out of the neofascist woods. Defeating the menace will require political and societal restructuring far beyond what is imagined by Democrats. This argument is developed across seven chapters that recount Trump’s assault on the 2020 election specifically define the meaning of fascism as it is used in this book demonstrate the neofascist nature of the Trump presidency engage intellectual class Trumpism-fascism-denial analyze the Trump base root Trumpism in a longstanding and indeed founding American white nationalism examine why Trump rose to power when he did and suggest paths for fascism-proofing the USA. | This Happened Here Amerikaners Neoliberals and the Trumping of America

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Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

This book explores how polarised interpretations of America’s past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism sexism and exploitation. Additionally these Protestants disagree over how the past influences present injustice and equality. The 2020 killing of George Floyd forced these rival histories into the open. Rowley proposes that recovering a complex view of the past confessing the bad and embracing the good might help Americans have a shared memory that can bridge polarisation and work to secure justice and equality. An accessible and timely book this is essential reading for those concerned with the vexed relationship of religion and politics in the United States including students and scholars in the fields of Protestantism history political science religious studies and sociology. | Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

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Rape Myths the Bible and #MeToo

Rape Myths the Bible and #MeToo

Biblical studies is increasingly interdisciplinary and frequently focuses on how the Bible is read received and represented in the contemporary world including in politics news media and popular culture. Rape Myths the Bible and #MeToo illustrates this with particular and critical assessment of #MeToo and its rapid and global impact. Rape myths – in particular the myth that rape victims are complicit in the violence they encounter which consequently renders sexual violence ‘not so bad’ – are examined both with regard to current backlash to #MeToo and to biblical texts that undermine the violence perpetrated by rape. This includes aggressive media attacks on the accusers of powerful men as well as depictions of biblical rape victims such as Dinah (Genesis 34) Bathsheba and Tamar (2 Samuel 11–13). Biblical studies channels and expresses wider cultural and political manifestations. This exemplifies that the influence of ancient texts is abiding and the study of the past cutting edge.

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Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

The quest to evolve bibliographic control to an equal or greater standing within the current information environment is on-going. As information organizers we are working in a time where information and communication technology (ICT) has pushed our status quo to its limits and where innovation often needs the pressure of do or die in order to get started. The year 2010 was designated as the Year of Cataloging Research and we made progress on studying the challenges facing metadata and information organization practices. However one year of research is merely a drop in the bucket especially given the results of the Resource and Description and Access (RDA) National Test and the Library of Congress’ decision to investigate the possibility of transitioning the MARC21 format. This book addresses how information professionals can create a functional environment in which we move beyond just representing information resources and into an environment that both represents and connects at a deeper level. Most importantly it offers insight on transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness by reassessing our purpose re-charting our efforts reasserting our expertise in the areas that information organizer have traditionally claimed but are losing due to stagnation and lack of vision. This book was published as a double special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata. | Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45. Ho was the father of his nation a major protagonist in the Cold War and anti-colonial struggle and the promoter of a distinctive Vietnamese form of communism. This biography charts his life from his early years and education in Europe to his establishment of the revolutionary pro-communist movement the Viet Minh and his subsequent rise to power. Placing important emphasis on his role as a military organizer while stressing his preference for diplomatic solutions this book contains detailed analysis of the complex talks with France and failure to prevent the Franco-Viet Minh war in 1946. It also follows Ho’s complex relationships with America China France and Russia and explores the Vietnam War and his legacy. In addition to providing extensive coverage of the 1954 Geneva Conference the rivalry between Ho and First Secretary Le Duan and the 1968 Tet Offensive Ho Chi Minh is also the first English-language biography of Ho to pay close attention to his attitude to women and their role within the communist party. It is the perfect introduction for students of Vietnamese history and twentieth-century history more broadly.

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The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made but teachers and school leaders are being held back by specious beliefs false oppositions and the limited thinking of orthodoxy. Drawing on recent experience in England North America and Australasia but applicable round the world The Future of Teaching clears away this logjam of bad science and slack thinking and frees up the stream of much-needed innovation. This timely book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’ and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name. | The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

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Children and Television

Children and Television

Does violence on TV lead to violent behaviour? How does screen time impact child development? What is the effect of advertising on a child’s behaviour? Twenty years after the publication of the first edition of Children and Television these issues remain as pertinent as ever. In the new Classic Edition of this core textbook Gunter and Gunter present research evidence into the effects of television on children and their responses to it. This comprehensive work examines a wide range of issues including children’s knowledge of television and how it impacts social roles aggressive behaviour advertising health orientation and both good and bad behaviour and concludes that children are sophisticated viewers and control television far more than it controls them. The Classic Edition includes a new preface to the current context of the book exploring the emergence of new TV channels enhanced home recording capacity archiving and streaming services replacing traditional forms of viewing with non-linear viewing and their impact on children. This book is essential reading for postgraduate and undergraduate students taking courses on child development and family studies.

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Ministry of Morale Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II

Ministry of Morale Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II

This book first published in 1979 is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information responsible for the maintenance of public morale. How was it that British morale remained high yet the department responsible was so bad? This book examines the domestic work of the Ministry and offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of both government and people during the war. It answers key questions: How did a government department assess and set about maintaining morale? How did it handle the social and political questions associated with morale – post-war social reform press freedom and censorship the nature of the Soviet regime? How sound in fact was civilian morale on the basis of the secret Wartime Intelligence reports then available? One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the Ministry’s constant internal debate on how its responsibilities should best be carried out. It is a key work of research on the political psychological and mass communications problems facing a society at war. | Ministry of Morale Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II

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Soldiers as Statesmen

Soldiers as Statesmen

‘The Duke is a soldier – a bad education for a statesmen in a free country’. Sir Walter Scott’s fear of the political soldier has long been part of Western political life. Yet although many countries would have preferred to keep the military out of politics few have been successful. Originally published in 1976 this book examines the careers of five distinguished twentieth century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg Byng Franco Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state. Each was a professional soldier who found himself drawn into the political arena. Each of these essays illuminates one aspect of the range of political sociological and historical issues which now surround the interrelationship of civil and military. At a time when the tensions of democracy both internally and externally impose increasing pressure on the role of the military in society it is important to study the history of soldiers-as-statesmen. | Soldiers as Statesmen

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