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HUGHES, JAMES

Literature & Fiction

KNOPF

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C. V. Mosby Corp

Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad (National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century)

The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic society into a struggle that is its antithesis, jihad. Hughes locates Chechen nationalism within the wider movement for national self-determination that followed the collapse of the Soviet empire. When negotiations failed in the early 1990s, political violence was instrumentalized to consolidate opposing nationalist visions of state-building in Russia and Chechnya. The resistance in Chechnya also occurred in a regional context where Russian hegemony over the Caucasus, especially the resources of the Caspian basin, was in retreat, and in an international context of rising Islamic radicalism. Alongside Bosnia, Kashmir, and other conflicts, Chechnya became embedded in Osama Bin Laden's repertoire of jihadist rhetoric against the "West." It was not simply Russia's destruction of a nationalist option for Chechnya, or "Wahabbist" infiltration from without, that created the political space for Islamism. Rather, we must look also at how the conflict was fought. The lack of proportionality and discrimination in the use of violence, particularly by Russia, accelerated and intensified the Islamic radicalization and thereby transformed the nature of the conflict.
This nuanced and balanced study provides a much-needed antidote to the mythologizing of Chechen resistance before, and its demonization after, 9/11. The conflict in Chechnya involves one of the most contentious issues in contemporary international politics—how do we differentiate between the legitimate use of violence to resist imperialism, occupation, and misgovernment, and the use of terrorism against legitimate rule? This book sets out indispensable lessons for understanding conflicts involving the volatile combination of nationalist insurgency, jihad, and terrorism, most notably for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

History

Russia

University of Pennsylvania Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human - "posthuman" or "transhuman" - the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions.

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Basic Books

The relationship between altered states of consciousness and art is explored in a fascinating and daring new book the discusses meditative rituals, alcohol, drugs, and other "handles" on altered reality, tracing their influence on the work of William Faulkner, Samuel Coleridge, Jackson Pollock, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Little Richard, and many others.

Altered States: Creativity Under the Influence

Arts & Photography

Hughes, Jim

History & Criticism

Watson-Guptill Pubns

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Student Handbook: Desk Reference Volume 5

Reference

Southwestern

Jobs and People: New York City 1985

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The One-Volume Encyclopedia of Housing. Beginning with a detailed evaluation of the nation's housing inventory by Sternlieb and Hughes, this collection of research papers by the staff of the Center for Urban Policy Research provides the keys to the directions that housing in America will takeinthe1980's.  Topics covered include:  Emerging Demand, Supply and Market Interrelationships; The New Demography and Housing; Homeownership: Shelter vs. Investment; Rental Housing's Future; Governmental Policy Toward Condominium Conversion; The "Return-to-the-City" Movement; Central City Housing Opportunities and Limitations; Present and Future Parameters of Black Suburbanization and Homeownership; Environmental Regulations, Design Standards and Costs as a Prelude to Developing Governmental Policy; Rent Control and Its Impact on the Tax Base; Racial Attitudes Toward Housing Quality  This book is a must for policy decision makers, educators and everyone in the housing field who needs guidance in planning their future activities.

America's Housing: Prospects and Problems

Social Sciences

Population, jobs, and buying-power changes are the locomotives of development. The long-term trends that undergird them are just beginning to be revealed in demographic data. These trends are outlined here in an easily understood, essential book.  You need to know the numbers but also the down-to-earth meaning of the changes in age structure and household composition changes. The revolution in labor force and the economic environment impact every developer and planner. In this volume the data are assembled and uniquely linked to income levels, consumption patterns, housing, and urban and regional development, both in the present—and the future.  This book highlights the "dollars and sense" implications of the big trend lines. It utilizes both Census— and post-Census—material for the most up-to-date compendium of "Need to Know" in the market.

Demographic Trends and Economic Reality

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