The Capability Approach

The Capability Approach 

By: Flavio Comim, Mozaffar Qizilbash and Sabina Alkire 

Amartya Sen’s capability approach has generated remarkable interest in recent years. This volume brings together a selection of papers initially presented at an international conference on the capability approach (CA) held at St Edmund’s College, Cambridgein 2001. This conference marked an important turning point in research on the capability approach. It brought together many young scholars who were interested in the approach as well as others who had been working on it for some time. The conference was initially motivated by issues relating to the usefulness of the approach in the particular contexts of poverty and injustice. However, conference papers covered a wide range of topics relating to concepts, measurement and other applications. In this volume, the papers are categorised in terms of these broad and overlapping areas.  [download]

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The Family Values Movement

The Family Values Movement 

By: Samuel Willard Crompton 

Everything changed between 1940 and 2000. Nothing changed between 1940 and 2000. Each of these statements is at least half right. Change, or the lack of change, depends on perspective, which is largely influenced by one’s generation: the time, place, and situation into which one is born and reared. Let’s examine what American family life was like in the 1940s, a time preserved for us by an artist’s paintbrush. the homecoming Born in 1894, Norman Rockwell was 51 when he painted The Homecoming, which became the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in late May 1945. In the painting, clothes hang on a line, and neighborhood children frolic in a tree. Mother stands on the stoop, her arms open wide. Father looks up from his carpentry, a grin spreading across his handsome, though weather-beaten, face. Brother leaps from the porch, his long legs working like pistons. [download]

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The Dead Janitors Club

The Dead Janitors Club 

By: Jeff Klima 

I WALK INTO THE LOBBY of a shockingly splendid hotel, and the wheel on the cash register in my mind is clicking audibly upward. I anticipate leaving this place a few thousand dollars richer than when I walked in. So many factors are at play here; I am chomping at the bit, trying to discern them all. French doors gilded with a gold overlay breeze open effortlessly before me, working off unseen sensors and a pneumatic arm. Caucasian employees stare pleasantly at me from behind the counter. From a financial standpoint, this is a good thing. White people are terrified of death. An overabundance of detachment and safety in our culture has resulted in “whitey” becoming a benign collective of soft-shelled whiners, people who understand pain only in terms of there not being three-ply toilet paper on sale at the supermarket closest to their condo. [download]  

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex 

By: Dr. Judy Kuriansky 

You’re about to embark on a wonderful journey! Would you like to feel more intense excitement than ever before? Experience more love for yourself and others than you ever imagined possible? Have the best sex ever truly, because it’s not just sex; it’s much more? If you answered yes, get ready to be transformed, to feel freer, and more enthusiastic about yourself and your life. I can make these promises to you because I know it’s possible and because I have seen inspiring transformations happen to men and women of all ages, young and old, when embarking on the exciting journey you can make in this book. In this part, I’ll introduce you to the ancient arts of lovemaking that started in the Eastern parts of the world thousands of years ago but that were lost over the centuries until now when we in Americaare reviving them. [download]

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Television, Power, and The Public in Russia

Television, Power, and The Public in Russia 

By: Ellen Mickiewicz 

When almost an entire population depends on television for its news, and its political leaders accord almost miraculous powers to the medium, and gobble one commercial channel after another, wouldn’t those political leaders want anxiously to know what viewers make of the news? Isn’t viewer-processing as vital to their strategy as message-creation? In today’s Russiathese are vital questions, on which careers and huge resources can ride and, strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is ‘‘no.’’ The other side of the television screen the one where the viewers are arrayed is invisible. Agreement with the message is assumed. Hence, the question: what if the ‘‘reception’’ on the other side of the screen was actually confounding and contradicting the leaders’ assumptions every day, and bywhat method are viewers able to do thus? [download]

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With Seduction in Mind

With Seduction in Mind

By: Laura Lee Guhrke

London, May 1896 DaisyMerrickwas unemployed. Such a circumstance wasn’t unusual Daisy had been in that particular pickle many times before. Some people, including her sister, were inclined to see her ever-changing job situation as her own fault, but to Daisy’s mind that opinion was most unfair. Today was a perfect example.Bristling with indignation, she marched out of the offices of Pettigrew and Finch, where she had just been informed by the matron in charge of typists that her services would no longer be required. And no, Matron had added upon her inquiry, they could not see clear to providing her with a letter of character. Given her shameless conduct, no favorable reference would be possible. “My shameless conduct?” she muttered, pausing on the sidewalk to search for a passing omnibus amid the traffic that clogged Threadneedle Street. “Mr. Pettigrew is the one who should be ashamed!” [download]

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