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Against Our Will is credited by some with changing public outlooks and attitudes about rape. [3] It is cited as having influenced changes in law regarding rape, such as state criminal codes that required a corroborating witness to a rape, and that permitted a defendant's lawyer to introduce evidence in court regarding a victim's prior sexual history. [3]
The book talks about the increasing challenges he saw in the U.S., such as inequality, economic conflicts, decaying of social values and commodification. [3] He also praised the strengths of the U.S., such as its modernity, [ 4 ] and peaceful transitions of power , [ 5 ] and was described by The Economist as "seeing the weaknesses in America's ...
In Bookmarks November/December 2004 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) from based on critic reviews with the critical summary saying, "In the end, Plot Against America is an "epic, unforeseen and unexpected" (San Francisco Chronicle)—just like history". [6]
Against Method contains many verbatim excerpts from Feyerabend's earlier papers including "Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism", "How to be a Good Empiricist: A Plea for Tolerance in Matters Epistemological", and "Problems of Empiricism, Part I." Because of this, Feyerabend claims that "[Against Method] is not a book, it is a collage."
The book focused much of its criticism on President George W. Bush, charging that he failed to take sufficient action to protect the country in the elevated-threat period before the September 11 attacks and for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Clarke feels greatly hampered the War on Terrorism.
Against the Law is a 1955 book by Peter Wildeblood. It is an account of the "Montagu case" — the trial of Wildeblood, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Edward Montagu, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, for homosexual offences — and Wildeblood's subsequent prison sentence. Wildeblood was one of the first men in the UK to publicly declare his homosexuality.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. [1]
Against Interpretation (often published as Against Interpretation and Other Essays) is a 1966 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including " Notes on 'Camp' ", "On Style" and the eponymous essay "Against Interpretation."