authority

"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and death. Cultures notoriously differ as to the content of their rules, but there is no culture without rules. In this book, historian of science Lorraine Daston adopts a long term perspective for studying rules from diverse sources, including monastic orders, cookbooks, and mathematical algorithms. She argues that in the Western tradition most rules can be characterized as one of the following: tools of measurement and calculation, models or paradigms, or laws. Moreover, they exist on spectra from specific to general, flexible to rigid and the specific-to-general, and universal-to-particular. In investigating how rules work, how they don't work, how they've changed across time, and why exceptions are necessary, Daston paints a vivid picture of Western civilization from the antiquity to the present"--.

"A . . . look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. . . . Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize, to take women as seriously as men. In 'The Authority Gap', journalist Mary Ann Sieghart examines the wide-ranging implications of this critical gender bias. She explores its intersections with race and class biases and the measures we can take to bridge the gap"--Provided by publisher.

"Most of us tend to think that there are two kinds of people in world: those who have power, and those who don't. But in reality, says Stanford Business School professor Deborah Gruenfeld, we all have more power than we think. And success is not about how much power we have, but rather how we use it. It's often assumed that power flows to those with the highest rank, the loudest voice, or the most commanding presence in the room. But in fact, there exists a quieter, softer sort of power that's just as crucial to learn to wield as the forceful kind. In life just as on stage, sometimes the most powerful actor is the one in the supporting role rather than the lead"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power.

Explains what happened when Shays and over one thousand followers attempted to capture a Massachusetts arsenal and how this rebellion led to the formation of a new and stronger federal government.

The author, a psychotherapist and father of three, draws from his patients' and his own experiences to discuss the unique role of masculinity in parenting and provide guidance for fathers on such topics as authority, discipline, intimacy, and physical contact.

Addresses concerns important to all those struggling with issues of authority and equality in the church. The author is known for her work in feminist and liberation theologies.

A reprint of Stanley Milgram's exploration of how people will react to authority regardless of consequences, detailing his social experiment in which a teacher is told to administer electroshocks in progressively more painful degrees to a learner, who was actually an actor receiving no shocks.

Examines the American political structure and the home front during World War I, describing the government's attempts to instill duty and obligation into the people, the formation of the Selective Service, and the large number of conscientious objectors and antiwar radicals.

Chronicles the life of Stanley Milgram, focusing on his creation of the famous "Obedience Experiments" carried out at Yale in the 1960s and his development of the "six degrees of separation" concept.