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  • HeBIS  (13)
  • Best, Joel  (7)
  • Ake, David Andrew  (3)
  • Boag, Peter  (3)
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (13)
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  • 1
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    American Nightmares : Social Problems in an Anxious World (2017)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520968905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09730000000002
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    Keywords: Soziale Probleme ; Unsicherheit ; USA
    Abstract: In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream--to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement--recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting--or are on the verge of getting--worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes--still the largest chunk of most people's net worth--may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems--and our anxiety about them--are socially constructed.
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    Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians and ctivists (2012)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520953512 , 0520953517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers
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    Jazz/not jazz : the music and its boundaries (2012)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520951352 , 9780520951358
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 301 pages)
    Series Statement: Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
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    DDC: 781.65
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    LS 48200
    Keywords: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz ; Jazz ; Jazz History and criticism ; Jazz ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Jazz
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , What is jazz? What is gained--and what is lost--when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today , Chapter 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography -- Chapter 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo -- Chapter 3. The Humor of Jazz -- Chapter 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community -- Chapter 5. Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just ... Jazz -- Chapter 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook -- Chapter 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre -- Chapter 8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship -- Chapter 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz -- Chapter 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education -- Chapter 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education -- Chapter 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies
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    Everyone's a winner : life in our congratulatory culture (2011)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520948488 , 0520948483
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 199 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Everyone's a winner
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Social status United States ; Equality United States ; Motivation (Psychology) United States ; Social status ; Equality ; Motivation (Psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Equality ; Manners and customs ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Social conditions ; Social status ; United States Social life and customs ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; United States Social conditions ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians--of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA--Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from "Academy Award winner!" to "Best Neighborhood Pizza!" In Everyone's a Winner, Joel Best-- acclaimed author of Damned Lies and Statistics and many other books--shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. With humor and insight, Best argues that st
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    Re-dressing America's frontier past (2011)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520949959 , 0520949951 , 9780520270626 , 0520270622
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (257 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanities E-book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boag, Peter G Re-dressing America's frontier past
    DDC: 306.778097809034
    Keywords: Transvestites History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Gender identity History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Homosexuality History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Gender identity History 19th century ; Homosexuality History 19th century ; Cross-dressers History 19th century ; Social Science United States, West ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; Gender identity ; Homosexuality ; Cross-dressers ; History ; West United States ; Electronic books History ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing--for both men and women--was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased?
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    Jazz Matters : Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop (2010)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520266889 , 9780520947399 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 211 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520947399
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 781.65
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    LS 48100
    Keywords: Jazz ; Musikphilosophie
    Abstract: What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940s jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He u...
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    Flavor of the Month : Why Smart People Fall for Fads (2006)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520932357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments-novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease. Some of these trends prove to be lasting innovations, but others-after absorbing extraordinary amounts of time and money-are abandoned and forgotten, soon to be replaced by other new schemes. In this pithy, intriguing, and often humorous book, Joel Best-author of the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics-explores the range of institutional fads, analyzes the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle-emerging, surging, and purging. Deconstructing the ways that this system plays into our notions of reinvention, progress, and perfectibility, Flavors of the Month examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.
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    Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads (2006)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520932357 , 0520932358 , 1423745523 , 9781423745525 , 1598759264 , 9781598759266
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 201 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Flavor of the month
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Fads Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads ; Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Modeverschijnselen ; Innovatiediffusie ; Instituties ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions
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    More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520930025 , 0520930029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 200 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel More damned lies and statistics
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social indicators ; Social problems ; Statistical methods ; Sociology ; Statistical methods ; Missbrauch ; Sozialstatistik ; Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek ; Statistieken ; Kritiek (algemeen) ; Sociale problemen ; Problemy społeczne ; metody statystyczne ; Socjologia ; metody statystyczne ; Wskaźniki rozwoju społecznego ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the
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    More Damned Lies and Statistics : How Numbers Confuse Public Issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520930025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.38
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    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don't deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and...
    Abstract: very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count-in more ways than one.
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    Same-Sex Affairs : Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520930698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.76620979
    Abstract: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order. Boag draws on police logs, court records, and newspaper accounts to create a vivid picture of the lives of these men and youths--their sexual practices, cultural networks, cross-class relations, variations in rural and urban experiences, and ethnic and racial influences.
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    Same-sex affairs : constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520930698 , 052093069X , 0585456305 , 9780585456300
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 321 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Same-sex affairs
    DDC: 306.766209795
    Keywords: Male homosexuality History ; Northwest, Pacific ; Migrant labor Sexual behavior ; History ; Northwest, Pacific ; Gay men History ; Northwest, Pacific ; Gay men History ; Oregon ; Portland ; Male homosexuality History ; Migrant labor Sexual behavior ; History ; Gay men History ; Gay men History ; Gay men History ; Gay men History ; Male homosexuality History ; Migrant labor Sexual behavior ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Gay men ; Male homosexuality ; History ; Electronic books ; Pacific Northwest ; Oregon ; Portland ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order. Boag draws on police logs, court records, and newspaper accounts to create a vivid picture of the lives of these men and youths--their sexual practices, cultural networks, cross-class relations, variations in rural and urban experiences, and ethnic and racial influences
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    Jazz cultures (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780520926967 , 052092696X , 0585465886 , 9780585465883 , 0520228871 , 9780520228870 , 0520228898 , 9780520228894 , 159734690X , 9781597346900 , 1282758934 , 9781282758933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 781.65
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    LS 48200
    Keywords: Jazz ; USA
    Abstract: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Writing as a professional pianist and composer, the author looks at evolving meanings, values, and ideals--as well as the sounds--that musicians, audiences, and critics carry to and from the various activities they call jazz. Among the compelling topics he discusses is the "visuality" of music: the relationship between performance demeanor and musical meaning. Focusing on pianists Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Ake investigates the ways in which musicians' postures and attitudes influence perceptions of them as profound and serious artists. In another essay, Ake examines the musical values and ideals promulgated by college jazz education programs through a consideration of saxophonist John Coltrane. He also discusses the concept of the jazz "standard" in the 1990s and the differing sense of tradition implied in recent recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell. Jazz cultures shows how jazz history has not consisted simply of a smoothly evolving series of musical styles, but rather an array of individuals and communities engaging with disparate--and oftentimes conflicting--actions, ideals, and attitudes.
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