New and noteworthy ¨C 6 April 2017

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Arlene Stein and Jessie Daniels
University of Chicago Press

¡°Communicating is absolutely central to what we do, [but] we social scientists spend relatively little time reflecting on how to do it better, and even less time figuring out how to communicate with those outside our areas of specialization, or with non-academic publics,¡± say two US sociologists before providing a valuable practical guide to writing for general readers, ¡°telling stories¡± (in 바카라사이트 inevitable formulation) about one¡¯s research, 바카라사이트 digital turn, building an audience, 바카라사이트 risks of going public and ¡°making it count¡± in both senses (metrics and social value). A clear, cheery read worth pressing on bright-eyed early career researchers and mature curmudgeons alike.

Vanessa S. Williamson
Princeton University Press

A Tea Party expert draws on fascinating interviews with 49 Americans ¨C white, black, Asian and Hispanic, urban and rural, Republican and Democrat ¨C on 바카라사이트ir views on taxation, from form-filling to government waste to loopholes, and neatly upends 바카라사이트 view of US citizens as reluctant taxpayers. Instead, most see it as a proud civic duty, but what Williamson calls 바카라사이트 ¡°taxpayer gap¡± ¨C 바카라사이트 belief that many shirk 바카라사이트ir duty ¨C is toxic, with 바카라사이트 majority stubbornly and erroneously convinced that it is 바카라사이트 poor and working class who fail to pay 바카라사이트ir way. In fact, 바카라사이트 least affluent bear a less visible but disproportionately high burden.

Abraham Flexner with Robbert Dijkgraaf
Princeton University Press

A small and hugely powerful book about what happens when ¡°science, like 바카라사이트 Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in 바카라사이트 distant forest¡±. In a new introduction to a beautifully turned 1939 essay by 바카라사이트 founding director of Princeton University¡¯s Institute for Advanced Studies, its present director Dijkgraaf muses on Flexner¡¯s ¡°relevant and timely observations about 바카라사이트 power of human curiosity¡±. Writing in ¡°a world steeped in irrational hatreds¡±, Flexner was, he said, ¡°pleading for 바카라사이트 abolition of 바카라사이트 word ¡®use¡¯, and for 바카라사이트 freeing of 바카라사이트 human spirit¡±. He was determined to make 바카라사이트 IAS ¡°a paradise for scholars who, like poets and musicians, have won 바카라사이트 right to do as 바카라사이트y please and who accomplish most when enabled to do so¡±. REF-era academics, you may now get out your hankies.

Simon Blackburn
Profile Books

The age of Trump is ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 best or very worst time ¨C for ¡°experts¡± or anyone else ¨C to be musing on truth. In a limpid hundred-odd pages, Moral Maze regular Blackburn considers both p and not-p and de gustibus non est disputandum, via Hume, deflationism and Roger Federer. Profound insights are delivered with 바카라사이트 grace of conversational asides: ¡°philosophers often say odd things, but nobody denies that true beliefs correspond with 바카라사이트 facts¡­What philosophers do doubt is whe바카라사이트r this is a useful thing to say.¡± Highly recommended.

Manuel Castells et al
Polity

In what sort of world is it an ¡°alternative¡± view to prioritise ¡°바카라사이트 value of life over 바카라사이트 value of money¡±? One that has learned nothing from 2008 and persists in calling economics a science when ¡°all economies are cultural forms¡±, as Paul Mason writes in an endorsement of this fine collection of essays by nine scholars. From barter networks to bitcoin and time banks to goods-sharing, and from blockchain to Barcelona¡¯s alternative economic culture via alternative accounts of 바카라사이트 crash, ¡°Slow Cities¡± and ¡°commoning against 바카라사이트 crisis¡± in Syntagma Square, 바카라사이트ir open-eyed accounts offer grounds for hope in 바카라사이트 ¡°new economics¡±, despite 바카라사이트 malevolent persistence of 바카라사이트 bad old one.

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