Scientific American Magazine.July 2006
Scientific American is a popular-sciencemagazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.
Scientific American (informally abbreviated to "
SciAm") had a monthly circulation of roughly 555,000 US and 90,000 international as of December 2005.[1] It is a well-respected publication despite not being a peer-reviewedscientific journal, such as
Nature; rather, it is a forum where scientific theories and discoveries are explained to a wider audience. In the past scientists interested in fields outside their own areas of expertise made up the magazine's target audience. Now, however, the publication is aimed at educated general readers who are interested in scientific issues. The magazine
American Scientist covers similar ground but at a level more suitable for the professional science audience, similar to the older style of Scientific American
The Underground History of American Education
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research and a half-million dollar investment, The Oxford Village Press
and a tax-exempt foundation dedicated to school reform, The Odysseus
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The transcendentalist, while voicing his ecstasy over life, has put himself on record as not wishing to do anything more than once. For him God has enough new experiences, so that repetition is unnecessary. He dislikes routine. "Everything," Emerson says, "admonishes us how needlessly long life is," that is, if we walk with heroes and do not repeat. Let a machine add figures while the soul moves on. He dislikes seeing any part of a universe that he does not use. Shakespeare seemed to him to have lived a thousand years as the guest of a great universe in which most of us never pass beyond the antechamber.
Hillbilly A Cultural History Of An American Icon
Cultural historians have focused considerable attention in recent years
on the construction of whiteness as a key to ascribing social and
economic status in American society over time. Now Anthony Harkins
extends the discussion of the politics of racial identity to a
long-disparaged group within, but somehow not of, the dominant white
culture—the hillbilly. A mythic caricature representing backwardness
and degeneracy, the hillbilly image offered one of the most persistent
and pervasive representations of American otherness in the twentieth
century. Harkins traces the icon from its origins in the nineteenth
century to its recent manifestations in movies and television, but he
concentrates his analysis on the rise of hillbilly stereotypes in the
popular culture of the 1930s and 1940s, especially in the
commercialization of country music and in graphic cartoon images such
as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner.
The American Language Of Rights
Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history
(the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in
order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each
of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and
political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as
grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices,
than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political
philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of
rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the
impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union)
on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a
major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to
scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law,
and American history.
• Combines history, law, political theory and philosophy of language
• Defends the language of rights, in part using a new examination of totalitarianism
• Written by a Supreme Court clerk and ex-Rhodes scholar
