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Dialogue and Isodemocracy: An Essay on the Social Conditions of Good Talk

Michael Mayerfeld Bell
- 01 Nov 2001 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 3, pp 281-298
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This paper found that a magazine like Fortune could hardly be expected to approve of a writer who penned passages like the following: "One Dimensional Man" and "One-dimensional man".
Abstract
I don’t know why, but a few months ago I found myself reading Herbert Marcuse, the ‘improbable guru’ of the 1960s, as Fortune, the popular US business magazine, labeled him at the time. Fortune found him improbable on two counts. First, his age: Marcuse in the 1960s was himself in his sixties, leading the decade of those in their twenties who said they trusted no one in their thirties, or above—except Marcuse and his paradigm-shattering One Dimensional Man. Second, his philosophy: a magazine like Fortune could hardly be expected, though, to approve of a writer who penned passages like the following:

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An Essay on Liberation

TL;DR: From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability as mentioned in this paper. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers should have reading habit for books.
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Evaluating Sustainability and Democracy in the Development of Industrial Port Cities: Some Italian Cases

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the environmental assessment of pollutant activities in the main industrial port cities of Southern Italy is presented, with the aim of underlining the difficulty of environmental assessment tools as a major support for planning processes, when social conflicts arise.
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Between the Rivers: A Socio-Historical Account of Hegemony and Heritage

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the experiences of the Between the Rivers people, who, since the eighteenth century, lived on an inland peninsula formed by the Cumberland, Tennessee and Ohio Rivers in far western Kentucky and extending into Tennessee.
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In the River: A Socio-Historical Account of Dialogue and Diaspora

TL;DR: In this article, the authors give encouragement to David Nickell and the Between the Rivers community by offering an account of good relations between a government natural resource land management agency and local people: Canada's St. Lawrence Islands National Park and the people of the Thousand Islands, focusing on Grenadier Island.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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I and Thou

TL;DR: Kaufmann, a distinguished writer and philosopher in his own right who was close to Martin Buber, has retranslated the work at the request of Buber's family.
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The spread of the obesity epidemic in the United States, 1991-1998.

TL;DR: Obesity continues to increase rapidly in the United States, and strategies and programs for weight maintenance as well as weight reduction must become a higher public health priority.