Browse Items (153 total)

'Disaster capitalism', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2003-; 2005; 2007; 2007-10-1; 21st century; Capitalism; Civil Defence; Civil defense; Contracting out; Disasters; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; George W. (George Walker) Bush; Globalization; Hurricane Katrina; Iraq War; Klein, Naomi; Military; Privatization; S; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social sciences

'Saint Walburga and the miracle of the ship (detail)', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-10-1; Disasters; Miracles; Pictorial works; Religion; Religious aspects; Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir; Saint; Shipwrecks; Social sciences; Walburga

'5. Science', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2007; 2007-6-1; 21st century; George W. (George Walker) Bush; Global warming; Government policy; Mooney, Chris; Officials and employees; Political science; Politics and government; Science and state; Selection and appointment; Social sciences; United States

'Like Cutting a Cow', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-6-7; Anthropology; Colin Murray; Kuper, Adam; Medicine; Medicine Murders; Peter Sanders; Social sciences

'The Devil�s Accountant', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-3-31; MacFarquhar, Larissa; MIT; Noam Chomsky; Politics; Science; Social sciences

'Memoria ex machina', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-12-1; 21st century; Autobiographical memory; Fisher, Marshall; Social sciences; Sociological aspects; Sociology; Technology; Technology and children; United States

'Hour town', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-11-1; 21st century; Economics; Ithaca; Local currency; Money; New York (State); Social sciences; Wallace, Mark

'Brave new McWorld', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-5-1; 21st century; Mc (Prefix); McDonald�s Corporation; Social sciences; Sociology; Trademarks; United States

'Where the bee sucks', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-1-1; 21st century; British Columbia; Economic policy; Economics; Environmentalism; Hippies; Nickson, Elizabeth; Saltspring Island; Saltspring Island (B.C.); Social life and customs; Social sciences; Witches

'The Fierce Anthropologist', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000; 2000-10-9; 2000s; Anthropology; damage; ethnography; measles; Napoleon Chagnon; Popular Science; Science; Social sciences; Tierney, Patrick; Yanomami

'Amuna achamba (The husband addicted to marijuana)', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-9-1; 2000s; Africa; African; Anthropology; Costume; Curran, Douglas; Masks; Pictorial works; Social sciences

'Kapoli (To stand up from hoeing)', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-9-1; 2000s; Africa; African; Anthropology; Costume; Curran, Douglas; Masks; Pictorial works; Social sciences

'To the dot-com station', Harpers

Tags: 1979-; 2000; 2000-5-1; 2000s; Book reviews; Books; Charles Leadbeater; Demos (Research institute); Economics; Frank, Thomas; Geoff Mulgan; Great Britain; Ian Hargreaves; Kimberly Seltzer; Mark Leonard; Politics and government; Reviews; Social sciences; Tom Bentley

'The coming age', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-4-1; 2000s; Barzun, Jacques; Social prediction; Social sciences; Sociology

'The universe is so big the white man confines me to my reservation', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-1-1; 2000s; Anthropology; Canada; Indian painting; Indian reservations; Landscape; Pictorial works; Social sciences; Yuxwelupton, Lawrence Paul

'It�s globalicious! Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-10-1; Book reviews; Books; Capitalism; Economics; Frank, Thomas; International economic relations; Lester C. Thurow; Reviews; Social sciences; Thomas Friedman

'My countryside, then and now', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-8-1; Country life; Cowley, Malcolm; Malcolm Cowley; Pennsylvania; Rural conditions; Rural-urban migration; Social change; Social sciences; Sociology; United States

'When Eyesight is Fully Industrialised', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-10-16; Braque; Kerrigan, John; Matisse; Mike Collins; Paul Virilio; Social sciences; Sociology of Technology; Speed; War technology

'The Cruel Hoax of Development', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-6-3; Adrain Adams; Anthropology; Davidson, Basil; Jaabe So; Paul Richard; Rainforest; Rivers; Social sciences

'Star-Gazing', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-12-12; Anthropology; John North; Science; Shippey, Tom; Social sciences

'Seen but not heard', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993-; 1995; 1995-7-1; Criminology; Lapham, Lewis H.; Okla.; Oklahoma City; Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing; Politics and government; Press and politics; Social sciences; United States

'The gospel according to Prum', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; American influences; Anthropology; Bourne, Will; Cargo cults; Civilization; John Prum Movement (Vanuatu); Social life and customs; Social sciences; Tanna (Vanuatuan people); vanuatu

'Margaret Mead�s big night out', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; Anthropology; Body language; Courtship; Flirting; Moore, Monica M.; Sexual behavior; Social sciences; United States; Women

'The dismal science lightens up', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Alan S. Blinder; Economics; Economists; Herbert Stein; Jagdish N. Bhagwati; Pictorial works; Portraits; Social sciences; Trading cards; United States

'Where the mobile homes roam', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-3-1; Demography; Mobile homes; Social sciences; United States

'Five Tools for Going Forward', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-7-23; Dennis Meadows; Donella Meadows; Jogen Randers; Limits to growth; Seabright, Paul; Social sciences; sustainable development

'Pavlov gets with the program', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-5-1; Borovoy, Konstantin; Capitalists and financiers; Employment; Financial institutions; Pavlov, V. S. (Valentin Sergeevich); Politicians; Russia (Federation); Social sciences; Sociology; Treisman, Deborah

'The unified theory of everything', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-3-1; Business cycles; Cycles; Economics; Social sciences

'Rituals of the Full Moon', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-2-27; Chris Knight; Humphrey, Caroline; Medicine; Mesntruation; Origins of culture; Social Anthropology; Social sciences

'The Meaning of Mngwotngwotiki', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-1; Anthropology; Korn, Eric; Mathematics; Science; Social sciences; Thomas Krump