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Oliver, Robert, and John Lauermann. Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59823-3.

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Calman, Stephanie. Confessions of a failed grown-up: Bad motherhood and beyond. Pan, 2008.

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Phillips, Kevin. Bad money: Reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism. Viking, 2008.

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Phillips, Kevin. Bad money: Reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism. Viking, 2008.

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Phillips, Kevin P. Bad money: Reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism. Viking, 2008.

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Why the third way failed: Economics, morality and the origins of the "Big Society". Policy Press, 2010.

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The big Sheppartonian: A life of Sir Andrew Fairley. Arcadia, 2015.

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Burchett, Dave. When bad Christians happen to good people: Where we have failed each other and how to reverse the damage. WaterBrook Press, 2011.

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Kaufman, George G. Post-resolution treatment of depositors at failed banks: Implications for the severity of banking crises, systemic risk, and too-big-to-fail. International Monetary Fund, Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department, 2001.

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Armey, Richard K. The freedom revolution: The new Republican House majority leader tells why big government failed, why freedom works, and how we will rebuild America. Regnery Pub., 1995.

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Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim, Florian Bien, Ulrich Schwalbe, and Heike Schweitzer, eds. Systemrisiko und Wirtschaftsordnung im Bankensektor: Zum Ende von Too Big To Fail. Nomos Verlag, 2018.

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Too big has failed: Learning from Midwest banks and credit unions : field hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, August 23, 2010 . U.S. G.P.O., 2010.

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United, States Congress House Committee on Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on General Oversight Investigations and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions. Small cities with big city problems: Field hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions of the the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, November 8, 1993. U.S. G.P.O., 1994.

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Praag, Philip, ed. Political Science and Changing Politics. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987487.

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Politics is about conflict, struggle, decision-making, power and influence. But not every conflict and not every situation in which power is exercised is widely regarded as politics. A football coach who decides to leave a player on the bench because he has given him a bit of lip, is exerting power, and there is conflict here, too. However, few people would consider this a political issue. The same applies to a mother who quarrels with her adolescent daughter about going to a house party, a schoolteacher who gives a student detention, and so on. But if we were to limit our understanding of politics to official decisions that are taken by governments, in parliaments or on municipal councils, we would fail to recognise the political meaning of trade unions, lobbyists, protest groups, corporations and other more-or-less organised groups that influence collective decision-making.
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Wilson, Keeley. Toward a New Alignment? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777199.003.0008.

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This chapter begins with the arrival of Nokia’s first non-Finnish CEO and his frank assessment of Nokia’s situation being akin to a man on a burning oil platform. It describes his strategy to form an alliance with Microsoft in a bid to create a third ecosystem to compete against Apple and Android. This strategy rapidly failed, leading to significant losses and the ultimate demise of Nokia’s phone business with its sale to Microsoft. The chapter also describes how, under new chairmanship, the board began to play a much stronger strategic role which resulted in the rebirth of Nokia as one of the world’s leading telecoms infrastructure players.
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Moore, William F., and Jane Ann Moore. Trusting Those Who Care for the Results, 1858. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038464.003.0006.

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This chapter suggests that Abraham Lincoln's failed senatorial bid in the 1858 elections allowed him to know who really cared about the results, and that they had come to trust him. In a March 8, 1958, letter to Owen Lovejoy, Lincoln ended with the statement “Let this be strictly confidential...I have some valued friends who would not like me any the better for writing it.” This cautionary tone is proof that Lincoln trusted Lovejoy enough to risk giving him candid information. After discussing Lovejoy's speech accepting his unanimous renomination to the U.S. Congress, this chapter considers Lovejoy and Lincoln's opinions on Negro equality. It also examines Lincoln's debates with Stephen A. Douglas in each of Illinois's seven congressional districts over the issue of slavery. Finally, it describes Lovejoy's victory in the 1858 elections and Lincoln's disagreement with the notion that he had made the wrong choice by keeping his principles and coming too close to Lovejoy.
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Confessions of a Failed Grown-up: Bad Motherhood & Beyond. Pan Macmillan, 2006.

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Banking Bad - How Corporate Greed and Broken Governance Failed Australia. ABC Books, 2019.

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Denham, Bill. Public education / big government: Failed American paradigms for over thirty years. Evansville Bindery, Inc, 1996.

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Robert, Oliver, and John Lauermann. Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space: Lasting Legacies? Palgrave Pivot, 2018.

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Robert, Oliver, and John Lauermann. Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space: Lasting Legacies? Palgrave Pivot, 2017.

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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. Viking Adult, 2008.

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Why The Third Way Failed Economics Morality And The Origins Of The Big Society. Policy Press, 2010.

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When Bad Christians Happen to Good People: Where We Have Failed Each Other and How to Reverse the Damage. WaterBrook Press, 2002.

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When Bad Christians Happen to Good People: Where We Have Failed Each Other and How to Reverse the Damage. Waterbrook Press, 2011.

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Lebovic, James H. Planning to Fail. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190935320.001.0001.

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The US wars in Vietnam (1965–1973), Iraq (2003–2011), and Afghanistan (2001–present) stand out for their endurance, resource investment, human cost, and common decisional failings. Despite its planning, the United States failed to meet its early objectives in every one of these conflicts. A profound myopia at four stages of intervention helps explain why the United States fought; chose to increase, decrease, or end its involvement in the conflicts; encountered a progressively reduced set of options; and ultimately settled for suboptimal results. US leaders were effectively planning to fail, whatever their hopes and thoughts at the time. American decision makers struggled less than they should have when conditions permitted good choices, and then struggled more than could matter when conditions left them with only bad choices. American policy makers allowed these wars to sap available capabilities, push US forces to the breaking point, and exhaust public support. They finally settled for terms of departure that they or their predecessors would have rejected at the start of these conflicts.
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de Melo-Martín, Inmaculada, and Kristen Intemann. Bad-Faith Dissent. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869229.003.0003.

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This chapter explores whether the presence of bad-faith motive is a reliable criterion to identify normatively inappropriate dissent (NID). Rather than appropriate epistemic motives to help advance scientific knowledge, bad-faith motives involve some other objectionable goal: to confuse the public, stall policies that the dissenters dislike, promote particular ideological views, or safeguard profits. This chapter evaluates various ways to explain why bad-faith motives could result in dissent that fails to promote or that impedes scientific progress and it assesses their plausibility. It concludes that in spite of the intuitive appeal of attending to motivations, they cannot serve as a criterion to reliably identify NID.
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Simon, Gleeson, and Guynn Randall. Part I Elements of Bank Resolution Regimes, 3 Bank Resolution and Bank Groups. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199698011.003.0003.

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This chapter looks at how the structure of bank groups is factored into the resolution process. In analysing the resolution of banks and other legal entities, a focus on the legal entities alone is a form of false consciousness. Instead, the focus needs to be on resolving the overall financial enterprise of which the bank is a part. By focusing on resolving groups instead of individual legal entities, financial regulatory authorities around the world have developed the single-point-of-entry (SPE) resolution strategy, which has been widely accepted as the most promising solution to the too-big-to-fail problem. When applied to a banking group with a holding company at the top and operating subsidiaries at the bottom, only the top-tier holding company would be put into a bankruptcy or resolution proceeding. The holding company’s assets would then be used to recapitalize the operating subsidiaries, perhaps pursuant to secured capital contribution agreements, and keep them out of their own insolvency or resolution proceedings. The recapitalized group would then be stabilized and its residual value distributed to the failed holding company's stakeholders in satisfaction of their claims.
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Ferlie, Ewan, Sue Dopson, Chris Bennett, Michael D. Fischer, Jean Ledger, and Gerry McGivern. English public management reform after 2010. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777212.003.0004.

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This chapter characterizes the overall strategy of public services reform apparent in England after the global financial crisis of 2008 and during the period of the UK’s Coalition government 2010–15. It argues that what can be termed a ‘proto narrative’ of reform, orientated around so-called ‘Big Society’ ideas, emerged around 2010. However, we argue it was trumped in the end by Treasury-led and New Public Management-friendly austerity discourse. The concrete example is taken of the health policy to form new clinical commissioning groups in the primary care sector. They were presented as a mechanism which could promote professional engagement in commissioning. However, they were soon subjected to top-down performance management pressures and systems, including strong attempts to prevent financial deficits from emerging at a local level, which eroded bottom-up and professionally driven innovation. We conclude that the Big Society proto reform narrative failed to consolidate itself.
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Armey, Dick. The Freedom Revolution: The New Republican House Majority Leader Tells Why Big Goverment Failed, Why Freedom Works, and How We Will REbuild America. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1995.

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Gray White, Deborah. Guns and Motherhood. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040900.003.0007.

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This chapter shows how the Million Mom March helped parents, especially mothers, heal from the loss of a loved one to gun violence. It compares past maternalist movements to this one and shows the uneasy coexistence of feminism and maternalism. It explores how suburban mothers who were mostly white and urban mothers who were mostly black and Hispanic, came to believe that American society was sick, that all mothers were the antidote, and that together they could get gun control adopted and stop gun violence. While demonstrating the possibilities for coalition this chapter argues that the color-blind approach failed against the National Rifle Association, which evoked images negligent mothers, over-indulgent mothers, bad black mothers and criminal black beast rapists to defeat the anti- gun crusaders.
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Scott, Peter. America’s Route to a Mass Market in Radio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783817.003.0005.

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The introduction of entertainment radio in the United States was a spectacular success, with far-reaching economic and social impacts. However, as with many new technology booms, most of the leading early radio equipment manufacturers failed to maintain their positions as key players in the market over the long term. This chapter charts the early growth of the American radio manufacturing sector, the importance of intensive marketing, and strong downstream value chains to developing and sustaining successful brands, and the reasons why—with one exception—the dominant set makers of the 1930s were not the big names of the 1920s. It also discusses the development of US marketing techniques that were to prove important to the marketing of radio in Britain, together with others—such as door-to-door selling—that were less appropriate for British conditions.
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GOVERNMENT, US. Small cities with big city problems: Field hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial ... Congress, first session, November 8, 1993. For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994.

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Akyüz, Yilmaz. Policy Response in Advanced Economies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797173.003.0001.

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The world economy is in a bad shape, largely because of misguided policies in the United States and Europe in response to the crisis. The crisis is taking too long to resolve, leading to unnecessary losses of income and jobs. Recovery has been sluggish and unbalanced between labour and capital, and between industry and finance. This is mainly because governments have been unwilling to remove the debt overhang through timely, orderly, and comprehensive restructuring, and fiscal policy has acted to restrain recovery, resulting in excessive reliance on unconventional monetary policy. The ultra-easy monetary policy has led to speculation and asset bubbles and created a global debt trap rather than stimulating consumption and productive investment. This policy approach has not only failed to boost growth, but also aggravated global systemic problems, including financial fragility in both advanced and developing economies, and inequality, underconsumption and structural demand gap.
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Simon, Gleeson, and Guynn Randall. Part II The US Resolution Regime, 5 Fundamentals of Resolution Authority. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199698011.003.0005.

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This chapter looks at the history and fundamental elements of resolution authority as it has been developed and used in the United States. The goal of resolution authority in the United States has been to deal with failed banks and other financial institutions in a manner that stems runs, avoids contagion and preserves critical operations, the same goal as deposit guarantee schemes. First introduced in the United States in 1933 as part of the deposit insurance programme for banks, resolution authority was originally little more than the method by which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation honoured its obligations to insured depositors before evolving to its current state. Resolution authority, as conceived in the United States, has two principal components—the core resolution powers and the claims process. The core resolution powers consist of the authority to quickly separate the assets and viable parts of a failed bank's business (the good bank) from its capital structure liabilities (the bad bank), so that its critical operations are preserved and runs and contagion are avoided. It is virtually always completed in the United States over a weekend commonly known as resolution weekend. The claims process involves determining the validity and amount of the claims of individual holders of capital structure liabilities in accordance with ordinary principles of due process and distributing the residual value of the good bank to such holders in satisfaction of their claims. The claims process typically takes at least six to nine months to be completed in order to comply with ordinary principles of due process for potential claimants.
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Al-Rasheed, Madawi. The Son King. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558140.001.0001.

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The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by regime operatives shocked the international community and tarnished the reputation of the young, reformist Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. This book situates the murder in the context of the duality of reform and repression and challenges common wisdom about the inevitability of the latter. The author dismisses defunct views about the inescapable ‘Oriental Despotism’ as the only pathway to genuine reform in the country. Focusing on the prince’s divisive domestic, social and economic reforms, the author argues that the current wave of unprecedented repression is a function of the prince consolidating his power outside of the traditional consensus of royal family members and influential Saudi groups. But the divisive populist nationalism bin Salman has adopted, together with repressing the diverse critical voices of religious scholars, feminists and professionals, has failed to silence a vibrant young Saudi society and an articulate and connected youth cohort. Due to its repression, Saudi Arabia is now producing asylum seekers and refugees who seek safe havens abroad to pursue their quest for freedom, equality and dignity. While the regime continues to pursue them abroad and punish their families at home, exiled activists are determined to continue the struggle against one of the most repressive monarchies in the Arab world.
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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. The Last Flicker (Pallam Raju’s Stint). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0017.

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This chapter describes how the UPA Government had reached the terminal stage when Pallam Raju assumed charge as Minister, MHRD, and how in spite of heavy odds made the best of a bad job, and attempted to salvage the failed reform agenda of Sibal as much as he could by quietly getting UGC to issue regulations. It outlines the report of the Madhava Menon Committee on Open and Distance Education Learning (ODC), and the action taken on that report. It also describes the crisis created by the Supreme Court judgment in Association of Management of Private Colleges (April 2013) virtually divesting the AICTE of power to regulate tertiary technical education. It describes the historic importance of the launch of the RMSA and RUSA, and emphasizes the imperative of the Central Government played a directional role and extending financial support for meet in transcendent national challenges such as improving quality and learning achievement at all areas and stages of education, universalizing secondary education, development of skills and competencies of all types, and rejuvenating the moribund state universities.
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Winkler, Kevin. Control. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199336791.003.0012.

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This chapter describes how Bob Fosse’s successes during the previous decade allowed him even greater control over his projects in the 1980s. Star 80, his film about the murder of a Playboy Playmate, which he wrote and directed, was a failure both critically and commercially. Its subject matter was grisly, and Fosse’s straightforward presentation offered no resolutions or bromides. When he returned to Broadway, it was with Big Deal, written, directed, and choreographed by him, with a score made up of 1930s standards. Big Deal was the purest distillation of Fosse’s theatrical vision, but its slim story was at odds with its dark production design, and it suffered from a shortage of showstopping dances. Big Deal was the first Bob Fosse show to fail on Broadway. Now that he had achieved complete control, Fosse appeared to have lost his sense of timing; for once, he seemed out of step with audiences and critics.
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Barnhurst, Kevin G. Realism Could Rekindle Hope. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040184.003.0021.

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This chapter considers the question of whether there is hope for mainstream news. One source of optimism is that news practitioners have managed to hold on through a century of tough transitions, a tenacity that also makes news an apt case study of current transformations. Another is that news organizations have been creative. Despite the usual view that legacy media fail to innovate, concrete evidence shows their contributions to the digital boom. But the main cause for hope may spring from the contradictions of news, which seem to have stymied the lofty strain of twentieth-century modernism without rejecting the down-to-earth strain from nineteenth-century realism. The modernist focus on big-picture explanations from big-name practitioners at big-time media undermines the enduring cultural idea that news provides many small encounters with the human condition. The realist reporting of what happens to the little guy at places nearby has remained an attraction for audiences online and on mobile social media, and a factor pushing government and political action.
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Benatar, David. Quality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633813.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the quality of human life. It is argued that the quality of even the best human lives is poor, and that matters are worse for the vast bulk of humanity. Many people deny this, but it is argued that most people’s quality-of-life assessments are not to be trusted. This is because of a number of well-demonstrated psychological traits characteristic of most humans: optimism bias, adaptation to altered levels of objective wellbeing, and comparison with others in determining the quality of one’s own life. Evidence is then provided to show just how bad the quality of life is. Various optimistic secular “theodicies” are then considered. These theodicies attempt to reconcile the vast amount of bad in human lives with the claim that life is good. It is argued that these theodicies fail.
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Townsend, Sylvia. Bumpy Road. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496804143.001.0001.

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In meticulous detail, the book describes the filming, release, and influence of the 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop. In 1970 the urbane producer Michael Laughlin asked the hippy filmmaker Monte Hellman to direct a script called Two-Lane Blacktop. The cult author Rudy Wurlitzer rewrote the script, the story of two scruffy hot rodders who pick up a girl hitchhiker and race their classic ’55 Chevy against a rich guy’s “factory –made hot rod,” a ’70 GTO Judge. In three of the four lead roles Hellman cast nonactors – the rock stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, and the director’s girlfriend, Laurie Bird. Hellman made an existentialist car-racing movie; nobody wins or even finishes the race, the protagonists are doomed to drive around endlessly. The film was slow-paced, the rock stars didn’t sing (and barely spoke), the movie had little music, and Hellman ignored other traditional crowd-pleasing conventions. When he resisted studio pressure to make the movie more conventional and commercial, it flopped at the box office. Universal failed to release the film on video, making it scarce and sought-after, and three of the four lead actors – Wilson Bird and Warren Oates, had untimely deaths, conferring mystique on the film. Many years after its release, the film gained wide acclaim, was released by the prestigious Criterion Collection and was preserved in the National Film Registry. In the book, the directors Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and others tell how the movie influenced their work. Although Two-Lane Blacktop was a harbinger of the demise of New Hollywood films, brought about by the financial costs to Hollywood studios that allowed auteur directors to make non-commercial movies, had Hellman caved in to pressure to make the movie commercial, it would not have become a classic.
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Blockley, David. 6. Resilience. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199671939.003.0006.

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What are the risks? How big are they? ‘Resilience’ considers some central questions faced by structural engineers. Structures are safety critical—when they fail people may be killed—but no human activity is risk free, so how safe is safe enough? Scientific knowledge is necessary but not sufficient. Many assessments and assumptions have to be made about what may happen in the future. Risks can be predicted and controlled, but by their very nature the answers are partial because of system and human uncertainties. Systems-thinking provides a common language for hard and soft systems and examines how the most promising way of re-integrating those professions fragmented by specialisms.
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Doody, Colleen. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037276.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to explore the beginnings of post-World War II popular conservatism, particularly the glue that held this disparate movement together: anti-Communism. Building upon recent scholarship on conservatism, the book brings their insights to bear on the debate on the nature of early Cold War domestic politics. It argues that the key elements of twentieth-century conservatism—antipathy toward big government, embrace of religious traditionalism, celebration of laissez-faire capitalism, and militant anti-Communism—arose during the 1940s and 1950s out of opposition to the legacy of the New Deal and its modernizing, centralizing, and secularizing ethos. The book examines a specific urban center, Detroit, and grounds its conception of politics in the daily decisions of a wide variety of individuals rather than on the actions of political elites.
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Thomason, Krista K. Naked. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190843274.001.0001.

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Moral philosophers have long argued that shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps people realize when they fail to be the kinds of people they aspire to be. According to these arguments, people feel shame when they fail to live up to the norms, standards, and ideals that are valued as part of a virtuous life. But lurking in the shadows is the dark side of shame. People might feel shame when they fail to live up to their values, but they also feel shame about sex, nudity, being ugly, fat, stupid, or low-class. What is worse, people often respond to shame with violence and self-destruction. This book argues for a unified account of shame that embraces shame’s dark side. Rather than try to explain away the troubling cases as irrational or misguided, it presents an account of shame that makes sense of both its good and bad side. Shame is the experience of a tension between two aspects of one’s self: one’s self-conception and one’s identity. People are liable to feelings of shame because they are not always who they take themselves to be. Shame is a valuable moral emotion, and even though it has a dark side, people would not be better off without it.
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Benatar, David. Suicide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633813.003.0007.

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This chapter examines suicide as one response to the human predicament. It is argued that while suicide can bring relief from appalling quality of life, it is not a cost-free exit from the human predicament. Even when it is the least bad option, it nonetheless involves annihilation. Moreover, it fails to address the problem of meaninglessness at any level. Indeed, it often (even though not always) exacerbates that problem by limiting the sorts of meaning that are sometimes attainable. Various arguments supporting a categorical opposition to suicide are examined and rejected. These include arguments that suicide amounts to murder, that it is irrational, unnatural, and cowardly. The interests of others sometimes do but sometimes do not render suicide wrong. The finality of death makes suicide a momentous decision, but it does not always make suicide wrong. The conditions under which suicide is and is not a reasonable option are discussed.
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Rouse, Carolyn. Evidence of What? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465285.003.0010.

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This chapter interrogates an important vogue in the field of African development. Evidence-based approaches to health care, which are being used increasingly, fail to take into account social and cultural factors affecting individuals' health. Bed nets and vaccines are helpful in reducing malaria-related mortality rates in African countries, but nature and culture are indivisible in health and wellness. Malaria and sickle cell anemia are most commonly analyzed using evidence-based approaches, like many medical issues, although there are numerous social factors to be taken into account in their spread among African populations as well as methods of prevention and treatment. Comparative effectiveness research is thus an upgrade from evidence-based research that can be applied to examine the relationship between health and race and behavior.
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Brown, Jessica. The Knowledge View of Justification and Excuse. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801771.003.0004.

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This chapter criticizes the conception of evidence to which the infallibilist is committed—a factive conception of evidence on which knowledge is sufficient for evidence. As is well known, this view has the counterintuitive result that certain pairs of subjects who are intuitively equally justified, e.g. a person and a BIV, are not equally justified. Defenders of this view of evidence have attempted to reply to this objection by distinguishing whether a belief is justified from whether the subject is blameless or excused for holding it. They endorse the knowledge view of justification according to which a belief is justified if and only if it meets the fundamental norm of belief which they take to be knowledge. This chapter argues against the knowledge view of justification that it has difficulty explaining the propositional and graded senses of justification. It also argues that the knowledge view of justification fails to provide an adequate account of blameless belief.
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Kroenig, Matthew. Strategic Stability. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190849184.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the relationship between nuclear superiority and strategic stability. Many nuclear deterrence theorists and policy advocates have argued for decades that nuclear superiority has a glaring downside: it increases the risk of nuclear war. This chapter analyzes this question in detail and finds that this conventional wisdom is incorrect. It argues that nuclear superiority likely contributes to greater levels of strategic stability. Moreover, it maintains that traditional arguments about strategic stability fail to differentiate between good instability, that which favors US interests, and bad instability, which works to the disadvantage of Washington and its allies. When this distinction is taken into account, we see that US superiority enhances positive instability and dampens negative instability. In short, strategic stability should be listed among the benefits, not the possible costs, of an American nuclear advantage.
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Cantor, Paul A. Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177304.001.0001.

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What is the American dream, and why has it proven so elusive for many people? By examining popular culture’s portrayal of the dark side of the American dream, this book seeks to answer these questions. Only when we see people fail in their pursuit of the American dream do we begin to understand its limitations and its inner contradictions. This book explores five representative examples of the American dream gone awry: (1) Huckleberry Finn; (2) the films of W. C. Fields; (3) the Godfather films;(4) Breaking Bad; and (5) The Walking Dead (and other “end-of-the-world” narratives). As these cases suggest, America, as the fresh-start nation, always threatens to become the land of the false start. America gives its people the freedom to reinvent themselves, but that easily turns into a license to imposture. The American ideal of the self-made man is shadowed by the specter of the con man, and the line between legitimate business and criminal activity sometimes becomes hard to draw clearly. Although the American dream is to achieve success in both family and business, the Godfather films and Breaking Bad show these goals tragically at odds. With its Hollywood endings, American popular culture is often thought to be naively optimistic; this book demonstrates that film and television creators have been capable of raising thoughtful questions about the validity and viability of the American dream, thus deepening our understanding of America itself.
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Ivanhoe, Philip J. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840518.003.0008.

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The primary claim of this study is that when we come to understand the true nature of what we are as individuals and as a species, we cannot fail to acknowledge our connections and interdependencies with the rest of the world, and this can, does, and should incline us toward greater care for other people, creatures, and things. The conclusion warns us about some potentially bad forms of oneness and recalls earlier arguments showing how such mistaken conceptions violate established imperatives to present metaphysically, psychologically, and socially plausible views that can serve as the basis for integrated, sustainable, and happy lives in community with others. The new conceptions of oneness this study recommends differ from traditional view in being open-ended ideals; we can find support for such ideals in the world, but we can and must continue to build and innovate upon them.
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