Daniel Berkeley Updike has been described as the most distinguished American printer. He was one of a handful of of the 20th century's most successful and influential book designers. The Well-Made Book is a collection of virtually all of Updike's writings on the art of the book. Much of this timeless material has been hard to find, and some appears here for the first time. Complete with index, annotations and an extensive new introduction.

During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era. Their choices proved to be of enormous consequence for the development of American foreign policy in the final decades ofthe twentieth century and beyond.In A Superpower Transformed, Daniel J. Sargent chronicles how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era. Drawing on many newly-released archival documents and interviews with key figures, including President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Sargent explores the collision of geopolitics and globalization that defined the decade. From the Nixon administration's efforts to stabilize a faltering Pax Americana; toHenry Kissinger's attempts to devise new strategies to manage or mitigate the consequences of economic globalization after the oil crisis of 1973-74; to the Carter administration's embrace of human rights promotion as a central task for foreign policy, Sargent explores the challenges that afflicted USpolicymakers in the 1970s, offering new insights into the complexities that emerged as the new forces of globalization and human rights transformed the United States as a superpower.A sweeping reinterpretation of a pivotal era, A Superpower Transformed is a must-read for anyone interested in U.S. foreign relations, American politics, globalization, economic policy, human rights, and contemporary American history.

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "the people" - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite. This book explores the intellectual origins of this influential doctrine and investigates its chief source in late medieval and early modern thought - thelegal science of Roman law.Long regarded the principal source for modern legal reasoning, Roman law had a profound impact on the major architects of popular sovereignty such as Francois Hotman, Jean Bodin, and Hugo Grotius. Adopting the juridical language of obligations, property, and personality as well as the classical model of the Roman constitution, these jurists crafted a uniform theory that located the right of sovereignty in the people at large as the legal owners of state authority. In recovering theorigins of popular sovereignty, the book demonstrates the importance of the Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.

Sensation & Perception, International Fifth Edition introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues.

This book, first published in 1987, offers a reconstruction of Berkeley's doctrine on notions by examining the implications of his repeated suggestion that there is a close relationship between his doctrine and his semantic theory. The study ties in with some of the most important topics in modern analytic philosophy, and casts important light on modern philosophical concerns as well as on Berkeley's thought.

Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and John Locke he is considered one of the fathers of British Empiricism. Berkeley is a clear, concise, and sympathetic introduction to George Berkeley's philosophy, and a thorough review of his most important texts. Daniel E. Flage explores his works on vision, metaphysics, morality, and economics in an attempt to develop a philosophically plausible interpretation of Berkeley's oeuvre as whole. Many scholars blur the rejection of material substance (immaterialism) with the claim that only minds and things dependent upon minds exist (idealism). However Flage shows how, by distinguishing idealism from immaterialism and arguing that Berkeley's account of what there is (metaphysics) is dependent upon what is known (epistemology), a careful and plausible philosophy emerges. The author sets out the implications of this valuable insight for Berkeley's moral and economic works, showing how they are a natural outgrowth of his metaphysics, casting new light on the appreciation of these and other lesser-known areas of Berkeley's thought. Daniel E. Flage's Berkeley presents the student and general reader with a clear and eminently readable introduction to Berkeley's works which also challenges standard interpretations of Berkeley's philosophy.

"Fuzzy logic" is a way to program computers so that they can mimic the imprecise way that humans make decisions. This technology allows for many innovative applications, including cars that virtually drive themselves, washing machines that pick the right wash cycles and water temperature automatically and air conditioning and heaters that adjust to the number of people in the room. This book traces the dramatic story of Lotfi Zadeh, an Iranian-American professor at Berkeley who began developing fuzzy logic more than 27 years ago, and his struggle and subsequent failure to sell his idea to the American academic and business communities.

For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but Kant's own. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Beatrice Longuenesse bring together some of the world's leading historians of philosophy to consider Kant in relation to these earlier thinkers. These original essays are grouped in pairs. A first essay discusses Kant's direct engagement with the philosophical thought of Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, while a second essay focuses more on the original ideas of these earlier philosophers, with reflections on Kant's reading from the point of view of a more direct interest in the earlier thinker in question. What emerges is a rich and complex picture of the debates that shaped the "transcendental turn" from early modern epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind to Kant's critical philosophy.The contributors, in addition to the editors, are Jean-Marie Beyssade, Lisa Downing, Dina Emundts, Don Garrett, Paul Guyer, Anja Jauernig, Wayne Waxman, and Kenneth P. Winkler.

This is a special international edition of an established title widely used by colleges and universities throughout the world. Pearson Education International published this special edition for the benefit of students outside the United States and Canada.. ABOUT THE AUTHORS FIGURE 0.1 Authors of Microeconomics The authors, back again for a new edition, reflect on their years of successful textbook collaboration. Pindyck is on the right and Rubinfeld on the left. Revising a textbook every three or four years takes considerable work.. Pindyck asked, "Why bother? The last edition was clearly written and stu dents loved it." "Don't be silly," replied Rubinfield. "Remember what our publisher said the old edition was getting stale, and we need some new and jazzy examples." "I guess that makes sense," replied Pindyck, "but do you think it has anything to do with the used book market?" Rubinfield paused. "Could be, but remember that 7 is our lucky number." Robert S. Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor of Economics and Finance in the Sloan School of Management at M.IT Daniel L. Rubinfeld is the Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkely, and Visiting Professor of Law at NYU. Both received their Ph.D's from M.I.T., Pindyck in 1971 and Rubinfeld in 1972. Professor Pindyck's research and writing have covered a variety of topics in microeconomics, including the effects of uncertainty on firm behavior and market structure, the determinants of market power, the behavior of natural resource, commodity, and financial markets, and criteria for investment decisions. Professor Rubinfeld, who served as chief economist at the Department of Justice in 1997 and 1998, is the author of a variety of arti cles relating to antitrust, competition policy, law and economics, law and sta- tistics, and public economics. Pindyck and Rubinfeld are also co-authors of Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts, another best-selling textbook that may yet be turned into a feature film. Always looking for ways to earn some extra spending money, the two author recently enrolled as human subjects in a double-blind test of a new hair restora tion medication. Rubinfeld strongly suspects that he is being given the placebo This is probably more than you want to know about these authors, but for further information, see their websites: http://web.mit.edu/rpindyck www.and http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd

Modernisme med sjel og poesi Daniel B-H Liebermann var født i 1930 og døde i 2015. Han vokste opp i Middletown og senere bodde familien noen få steinkast fra Albert Einsteins hus i Princeton. Han fortalte gjerne om når han som beskjeden tenåring sammen med sin mor hadde lunsj med Albert Einstein. I perioden 1956-58 arbeidet han hos Frank Lloyd Wright i Taliesin West i Arizona. Begge deler har hatt betydelig innflytelse på hans tenkning om arkitektur. Han var et viktig bindeledd for utviklingen av modernismen innen arkitektur fra midten av 1950-tallet og fram til han døde i 2015. Liebermann hadde et spesielt forhold til Norge, hvor han bodde i årene 1967-1975. Han underviste ved NTH høsten 1967 og våren 1968. Selv mener han at han har hentet mye inspirasjon fra norske og nordiske arkitekter som Knut Knutsen, Wenche Selmer, Alvar Aalto og Reima Pietelä. Han var en genuin humanistisk modernist, og allerede på slutten av 1950-tallet viste han interesse for tema som; klima, økologi, energiøkonomisering, og gjenbruk, som er svært aktuelle tema for dagens arkitekter, landskapsarkitekter, og designere. Når han tegnet prototypen Pine II, som eget hus i Marin Valley like nord for San Francisco på slutten av 1950-tallet, var det omfattende gjenbruk av tre, tegl, og et toalett i rustfritt stål fra et fengsel. Under norgesoppholdet arbeidet han også nyskapende med plast, og da spesielt med epoxy. Dette resulterte i oppgaver som bord, stoler og lamper på flere norskeide cruiseskip. Utdanning Johns Hopkins University Harvard University University of Colorado Boulder Taliesin Fellowship Arizona, Frank Lloyd Wright Praksis Liebermann drev stort sett egen praksis fra slutten av 1950 tallet, og i hovedsak med utgangspunkt i Berkeley, California. Han prosjekterte lite i perioden han bodde i Europa fra 1966 til midten av 1970-tallet.

Discover the universe's last unknowns-here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and SlowThis is a little book of profound questions (only questions!)-unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. In The Last Unknowns, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, asks "a mind-blowing gathering of innovative thinkers" (Booklist): "What is `The Last Question,' your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?"Featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND * Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist RICHARD THALER * Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKER * religion scholar ELAINE PAGELS * author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI * Booker Prize-winning novelist IAN McEWAN * neuroscientist SAM HARRIS * philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT * MIT theorist SHERRY TURKLE * decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTER * The Coddling of the American Mind author JONATHAN HAIDT * Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZEK * UC Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNICK * philosopher REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN * New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER * MIT cosmologist MAX TEGMARK * Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND * "Marginal Revolution" economist TYLER COWEN * Anatomy of Love author HELEN FISHER * Noble Prize-winning NASA physicist JOHN C. MATHER * psychologist JUDITH RICH HARRIS * Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON * musician BRIAN ENO * environmental scientist JENNIFER JACQUET * Duke economist DAN ARIELY * Oxford philosopher A. C. GRAYLING * Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL * anthropologist MARY CATHERINE BATESON * Emotional Intelligence author DANIEL GOLEMAN * Harvard genticist GEORGE CHURCH * Blueprint author NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS * Stanford political scientist MARGARET LEVI * economist ALAN S. BLINDER * publisher TIM O'REILLY * theoretical cosmologist JANNA LEVIN * Serpentine Gallery owner HANS ULRICH OBRIST * Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY * Cambridge astrophysicist MARTIN REES, and more than 200 others.

The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole - now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.Contains: Blood - but not as much as you might imagineSweat - and the prisons no longer provide soapTears - because prison has created a mental health crisisHumanity - and how to stop the institution destroying itFeaturing contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby.`Essential reading' Will Self`We're in the justice dark ages and Cattermole's great book switches on the lights'Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London`It has the potential to change a lot of people's lives for the better'Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors'

"Curse of the BlackGold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta "takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights activists, and University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Watts, this book traces the 50-year history of Nigeria's oil interests and the resulting environmental degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region. <br>Now one of the major suppliers of U.S. oil, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. Set against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil, "Curse of the Black Gold" is the first book to document the consequences of a half-century of oil exploration and production in one of the world's foremost centers of biodiversity. This book exposes the reality of oil's impact and the absence of sustainable development in its wake, providing a compelling pictorial history of one of the world's great deltaic areas. Accompanied by powerful writing by some of the most prominent public intellectuals and critics in contemporary Nigeria, Kashi's photographs capture local leaders, armed militants, oil workers, and nameless villagers, all of whose fates are inextricably linked. His exclusive coverage bears witness to the ongoing struggles of local communities, illustrating the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. <br>The publication of "Curse of the Black Gold" occurs at a moment of worldwide concern over dependency on petroleum, dubbed by "New York Times "journalist Thomas Friedman as "the resource curse." Much has been written about the drama of the search for oil--Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" and Ryszard Kapuscinski's "Shah of Shahs" are two of the most widely lauded--but there has been no serious examination of the relations between oil, environment, and community in a particular oil-producing region. "Curse of the Black Gold" is a landmark work of historic significance.

-Hot Topic: In the age of disruptive businesses like Uber and Air BnB gaining market share over more traditional companies, books on disruption, innovation, and organizational survival are more in-demand than ever. Best-selling titles include The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Perseus, 2016; 23k units Bookscan), Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore (HarperCollins, 2014; 40k units Bookscan), and The Road to Reinvention by Josh Linkner (Wiley, 2014; 21k units Bookscan).-Robust speaking schedule: Marcia Daszko has delivered over 600 speeches on leadership and organizational success and has also served as a panel moderator, expert panelist, and executive workshop facilitator. She will work to ensure that book sales and signings are included as a regular part of her speaking curriculum.-Extensive Client List: Daszko has worked with more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. Her clients include IBM, Google, the Pentagon, Dow Chemical, Pepsi, Boeing, and Apple. Daszko will integrate the book into her work with current and future clients.- Established media contacts: Daszko has contributed chapters, articles, and newsletters on leadership transformation to hundreds of media outlets. As an expert in her field, she has been interviewed by over 500 radio and print journalists, and appeared on programs such as Broadcast News Corporation's Pick of the Week with Terry Bradshaw. Daszko will leverage her extensive media contacts to promote and drive sales of the book.- Higher Ed crossover: Daszko has delivered graduate management classes and been a guest lecturer at universities across the nation, including U-C Berkeley and Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, Fordham University, San Jose State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin.-Title is Already Getting High Praise: Daniel Pink says "Full of counterintuitive advice, Pivot, Disrupt, Transform will shake up your thinking about what it takes to be a leader. Use its self-assessments to find your place in the journey. Use its tools to reroute your path to success."

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs - financial, psychological, and social - have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building wealth among historically disadvantaged groups.This timely volume reexamines the goals, risks, and rewards of homeownershipin the wake of the housing bubble and subprime lending crisis. Housing, real estate, and finance experts explore the role of government in supporting homeownership, deliberate how homeownership can be made more sustainable, and discuss howbest to balance affordability, access, and risk, particularly for minorities and low income families.Contributors: Eric S. Belsky (JCHS); Raphael W. Bostic (University of Southern California, USA); Mark Calabria (Cato Institute, USA); Kaloma Cardwell (University of California,Berkeley, USA); Mark Cole (Hope LoanPort); J. Michael Collins (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA); Marsha J. Courchane (Charles River Associates); Andrew Davidson (AndrewDavidson and Co.); Christopher E. Herbert (JCHS); Leonard C. Kiefer (Freddie Mac); Alex Levin (Andrew Davidson and Co.); Adam J. Levitin (Georgetown University Law Center, USA); Mark R. Lindblad (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Jeffrey Lubell (Abt Associates); Patricia A. McCoy (University of Connecticut School of Law, USA); Daniel T. McCue (JCHS); Jennifer H. Molinsky (JCHS); Stephanie Moulton (Ohio State University, USA); John A. Powell (University of California-Berkeley, USA); Roberto G.Quercia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Janneke H. Ratcliffe (University of North Carolina, USA); Carolina Reid (University of California-Berkeley, USA); William M. Rohe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Rocio Sanchez-Moyano (JCHS); Susan Wachter (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Peter M. Zorn (Freddie Mac).

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. It covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpose technology; the relationships between AI, growth, jobs, and inequality; regulatory responses to changes brought on by AI; and the effects of AI on the way economic research is conducted. It explores the economic influence of machine learning, the branch of computational statistics that has driven much of the recent excitement around AI, as well as the economic impact of robotics and automation and the potential economic consequences of a still-hypothetical artificial general intelligence. The volume provides frameworks for understanding the economic impact of AI and identifies a number of open research questions. Contributors: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Philippe Aghion, Coll ge de France Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto Susan Athey, Stanford University James Bessen, Boston University School of Law Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management Colin F. Camerer, California Institute of Technology Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University Tyler Cowen, George Mason University Jason Furman, Harvard Kennedy School Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto Joshua Gans, University of Toronto Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland Benjamin F. Jones, Northwestern University Charles I. Jones, Stanford University Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University Anton Korinek, Johns Hopkins University Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Hong Luo, Harvard Business School John McHale, National University of Ireland Paul R. Milgrom, Stanford University Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrea Prat, Columbia Business School Manav Raj, New York University Pascual Restrepo, Boston University Daniel Rock, MIT Sloan School of Management Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University Robert Seamans, New York University Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan Joseph E. Stiglitz. Columbia University Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Matt Taddy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley

In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker's banana skirt and William Howard Taft's underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.Contributors: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University; Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago; Nick Cullather, Indiana University; Brian DeLay, University of California-Berkeley; Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University; Mary A. Renda, Mount Holyoke College; Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University; Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University; Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University; Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University

I oktober 2009 höll Tony Judt ett föredrag­ om välfärdssamhällets och social­demo­kratins framtid som åhörarna aldrig kommer att glömma. Det som gjorde intryck var inte bara det ange­lägna ämnet och talarens glöd, utan också ­omständigheterna. Den tidigare så fysiskt vitale historikern­ satt nämligen i rullstol, förlamad från halsen och nedåt och med en stor andningsapparat för ansiktet.Gensvaret var enormt och efteråt uppmanades Tony Judt att utveckla det han sagt till en bok. Från sin sjukbädd dikterade han sedan boken Illa far landet, en passionerad uppgörelse med det som enligt honom är kännetecknande för vår tid: ­materialismen och egennyttan, den okritiska beundran av marknaden, dyrkan av den privata sektorn, föraktet för den offentliga sektorn, de växande klyftorna mellan rika och fattiga, de falska föreställningarna om en gränslös tillväxt.Men Illa far landet är också en nutidshistorisk lektion och ett konstruktivt förslag på vad som bör göras för att lösa de stora problem våra länder brottas med. Med sin skepsis mot identitetspolitik och enfrågerörelser,­ och med sin tro på ­kollektivt tänkande och en utvidgad roll för staten i ­samhällets organisering, utmanar Tony Judt ­före­ställningar till både vänster och höger.OM FÖRFATTARENTony Judt (1948-2010) föddes i London och utbildades vid King's College i Cambridge och École Normale Supérieure i Paris. Han undervisade vid Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley och New York University, där han ledde Remarque Institute, ett centrum för Europa-studier som grundades av honom. Under sin levnad utgav Tony Judt tretton böcker, bland annat Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 som nominerades till Pulitzerpriset. Han medverkade regelbundet i New York Review of Books, London Review of Books och New York Times. År 2007 belönades han med Hannah Arendt Prize och år 2009 med Orwell Prize. 2011 utgav Karneval även Tony Judts memoarbok Minneshärbärget.FRÅN MOTTAGANDET I SVERIGE"En rasande uppgörelse med en ekonomistisk samtid, men också med en socialdemokrati som förlorat kraft, röst och självförtroende - Illa far landet­ är en sällsynt skarp beskrivning av vår samtid. Den gör också något så ovanligt och uppfordrande som att föreslå att samhället skulle kunna se annorlunda ut." Marika Lindgren Åsbrink i Tiden"Jag stryker under, viker hörn, sätter utropstecken och läser högt för omgivningen. Det var länge sen jag kände mig så upplyft av en så svidande samhällskritik som den som serveras av Tony Judt." Liv Beckström i ­Kommunalarbetaren"Boken är rena citatsamlingen. Men allra starkast är uppfordran att åter börja tala om andra värden än de ekonomiska, för att på så sätt påminna om vad Staten var bra för. Det är som om det förflutna talar genom Judt, för att för­bereda oss på att ta itu med fram­tiden igen." John Swedenmark i LO-Tidningen"Illa far landet blev genast omdiskuterad bland Europas vilsna socialdemokrater. Men bör läsas av alla. Hans civilisationskritik är härlig; skarpa formuleringar, historisk kunskap och ett eftertryckligt försvar för grå, kompromissökande social­demokrati; för Väst­europas lyckliga decennier, som råkar sammanfalla med hans eget liv och minnes­arbetet i nattmörkret, men nu på väg att förskingras och upp­lösas i 'individualitetens stoft och damm'. Illa far landet är en varning att inte glömma." Per Wirtén i Expressen"Judt lyckas göra socialdemokratins historia oväntat underhållande, delvis för att han är en fantastisk satiriker. Dagens allra mest hopplösa social­demokrater och nyliberaler har försett honom med först­klassigt stoff. De breda och djupa kunskaperna om efterkrigs­tidens historia imponerar." Ola Wihlke i Dalarnas Tidning"Styrkan ligger i det historiska siktdjupet. Man får syn på hur kollektivt handlande för det gemensamma bästa, inte hysteriska privatiseringar, vitaliserar och stabili­serar skakiga klassamhällen. Och hur snabbt framsteg kan raseras och tanken somna in. Jag hoppas att Illa far landet blir läst och diskuterad långt utanför den krympande social­demokratins krets. Gärna av tokliberaler, terrorister och bank­direktörer." Jan Eklund i DN"Judt har, tror jag, en poäng när han hävdar att vi nu måste börja intressera oss för staten igen. Vad ska den göra? Och vad ska den inte göra? Som liberal är jag rent principiellt mest intresserad av den senare frågan. Men jag kan inte släppa Judts frågor­ kring konsekvenserna av en alltför naken stat: Vad händer med ett samhälle där staten bara förknippas med över­vakning, repression och brandkårsutryckningar för att lösa ut ­banker som hamnat på gäld­stugan?" Per Svensson i Sydsvenskan"Socialdemokratin lyckades ska­pa­ ett anständigt samhälle, men i dag tycks inte ens social­demokraterna själva minnas vad de en gång tog sig för. Judt är historikern vars sista uppgift var att försöka få oss att minnas ett unikt samhällsbygge medan det vittrar sönder. Kanske kan Illa far landet bli den teoretiska grundtext som vänstersocial­demokraterna alltid tycks ha saknat?" Daniel Suhonen i Aftonbladet"Ett bra sätt att medvetandegöra sig om vad alliansregeringen håller på med är att läsa Tony Judts bok Illa far landet ... Sådana som Reagan och Thatcher (och Fredrik Reinfeldt) förväxlar frihet att tjäna pengar med frihet, vilket leder till ojämlikhet, fattigdom och cynism. Dessa politiker, skriver han, 'känner stolthet över att vara tillräckligt hårda för att tillfoga andra smärta'. En bra beskrivning av dagens allians-regering! Jag skäms för dem, men själva är de stolta över plågor de åsamkat de mest utsatta." Maria-Pia Boëthius i ETC

This massive new edition of See This Sound consists of two parts: the first, "Compendium," offers comprehensive scholarship on the relationship between images and sounds, exploring historical examples of multimedia art from Busby Berkeley and Oskar Fischinger to John Cage, Jordan Belson, Tony Conrad and Brian Eno, as well as strategies of montage, mapping and synesthetic effects. The second part, "Essays," offers in-depth studies on the historical development and theoretical framework of audiovisual culture, looking at image-sound relationships in popular culture, media aesthetics, pop music and "the musicalization of the visual arts in the twentieth century." As such, it offers an ambitious and definitive survey of the past and future of image-sound art.