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The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist : The Story of Töhötöm Nagy.
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ISBN: 9789633867198 Year: 2023 Publisher: Budapest : Central European University Press,

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"The life of Töhötöm Nagy (1908-1979), Jesuit, Mason, and secret service agent, offers fascinating insights into interwar Hungary, the Catholic Church and Vatican diplomacy, Freemasonry, and the activities of communist state security service.As a young Jesuit Nagy was one of the leaders of a successful Catholic youth movement in interwar Hungary. After World War II he played an important role acting as an intermediary between the Vatican, the Red Army, and the Hungarian Catholic Church. After being sent to South America, he was attracted by liberation theology, but left the Society of Jesus, joined the Freemasons, and did social and philanthropic work in the slums of Buenos Aires. However, in the late 1960s he agreed to work for the Hungarian state security service in return for his repatriation. This latter period is reconstructed from the files of the Historical Archives of State Security in Budapest. Éva Petrás writes with empathy but with a sense of distance of the courage and restless energy of her subject. Her discussion of the limits of free choice and Nagy's intense struggle to live a meaningful life make this biography breathtaking"--


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Untimely moderns : how twentieth-century architecture reimagined the past
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ISBN: 9780300263954 0300263953 Year: 2023 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture. Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. These thinkers sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms “untimely,” emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture.


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Exponential inequalities : equality law in times of crisis
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ISBN: 019197594X 0192873016 0192873008 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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This edited volume addresses the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It seeks to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this. Drawing together international experts, the book takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.


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Indirect criminalisation : the true limits of criminal punishment
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ISBN: 1509941444 1509941452 1509941460 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : London : Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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This book presents the first detailed study of 'indirect criminalisation' (the legal treatment of antisocial behaviour through civil preventative measures such as the ASBO) in England and Wales. Since the late 20th century many Western jurisdictions introduced a range of civil preventive measures in order to prevent and deal with various types of criminality. Although the stated objective of these interventions is the prevention of crime, their implementation can result in the imposition of restrictions akin to criminal punishment leading to the indirect criminalisation of certain kinds of behaviour. Through the adoption of an interdisciplinary approach which combines criminal law theory and empirical criminology, this book engages with the phenomenon of indirect criminalisation using the legal framework on anti-social behaviour in England and Wales as a case study. It engages with central questions within legal theory: - what are the normative challenges posed by indirect criminalisation and mechanisms for distinguishing criminal from non-criminal rules? - how can such questions be tested and applied empirically? - has the ASBO's successor been operating as de facto criminal measure?.


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English universities in crisis : markets without competition
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ISBN: 1529202264 1529202272 1529202256 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,

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Student fees have saddled graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing. This timely and challenging analysis gives robust new policy proposals to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.


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Against youth violence : a social harm perspective
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ISBN: 1529214084 1529214092 1529214076 152921405X Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,

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Youth violence dominates headlines and politicians' attention and many organisations invest considerable resources in an attempt to reduce it. This book examines how inequality and social harms drive such violence and highlights key future goals for policymakers, researchers and practitioners.


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Journal of philosophy of education : the official journal of Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
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ISSN: 14679752 03098249 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Journal of Philosophy of Education' publishes articles representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. The journal aims to promote rigorous thinking on educational matters and to identify and criticise the ideological forces shaping education. Ethical, political, aesthetic and epistemological dimensions of educational theory are amongst those covered.


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Hunger pains : life inside foodbank Britain
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ISBN: 1447329139 1447329120 1447329112 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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In the years since the UK Government embarked on its harsh austerity programme, food poverty has become a major issue, and food banks have been forced into a major role in the lives of countless citizens. This book is built on hundreds of hours of interviews with the people who rely on food banks today, as well as with the volunteers who keep them running on tight budgets and in difficult conditions.


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Back to the future of socialism
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ISBN: 1447321707 1447321677 1322497362 1447321669 1447321685 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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What's gone wrong with capitalism, and how should governments respond? Did big government or big banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulation for the common good? Anthony Crosland's 'The Future of Socialism' provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain, drawing on over fifty years of experience in politics, revisits this classic text and presents a stimulating political prospectus for today.

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