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This book addresses the question ‘Do beings exist on planets beyond our Solar System with whom we could engage in meaningful exchange?’ To approach this issue we can break it down as follows: Four basic questions about life and language beyond Earth 1) Is there any life beyond Earth? 2) Is there intelligent life beyond […]
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In the classic 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one scene sees King Arthur debate with two self-proclaimed anarcho-syndicalist peasants, who outline a complex democratic system of decision making which contrasts with Arthur’s claim to power as King through the gift of Excalibur. The scene is clearly played for laughs, placing contemporaneous political debates […]
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Representation in the United States has always been a risky proposition. In principle, congressional lawmakers have strong incentives to collaborate on the creation of policies that constituents demand, even as they check and balance each other and the president. Ultimately the public interest is served through the fair and timely channeling of group pressures through […]
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Writing a new edition is always challenging, as there is always exciting new scholarship to incorporate and completely new directions and sub-fields to include. And then deciding what to cut, so the book does not become an unwieldy doorstop… The most important change I’ve made in the third edition of Early Modern Europe is to […]
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How do young people learn and embody moral values in multireligious societies? How do Christian and Muslim schools establish and reproduce social inequalities? In my book I argue that faith-oriented schools play an important role not only in negotiating but also producing and reifying socio-religious differences in contemporary, pluralistic societies. My anthropological study focuses on […]
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At first glance, the economy of a city, a country, and the entire world, seems to be something too complicated to understand, and even more so to predict. The purchase of a pair of sneakers in a sports store in San Antonio triggers a series of processes that begin with a stock replacement order at […]
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Whose work, in your field, has inspired you most? Though much of my scholarship is historically grounded, I was not trained as a historian. I admire historians who can put archival texts into conversation with one another, while reading against the grain, especially of the colonial archive. The late Liberian historian Clarence E Zamba Liberty […]
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New research on how management practitioners come to use management knowledge in the different relevant contexts of their working lives permits us to better understand the impact of major crises, such as COVID-19, on the broader flow of management knowledge. Exploring these implications is of particular importance given that management knowledge – and management ideas […]
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