1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708223103321

Titolo

Passengers with disabilities, air carriers' disability-training programs and the Department of Transportation's oversight / / Gerald L. Dillingham, Ph.D

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (6, 26 pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

Air travel - Officials and employees - Training of - Evaluation

Disabilities - United States

People with disabilities - Transportation - Management - Evaluation

People with disabilities - Travel - Management - Evaluation

Air travel - Management - Evaluation

Airports - Management - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"GAO-17-541 R."

"May 31, 2017."

Includes briefing slides.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825848403321

Autore

Gottfried Paul

Titolo

Revisions and dissents : essays / / Paul E. Gottfried

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dekalb, [Illinois] : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-5749-0

1-60909-217-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Conservatism

Liberalism

Right and left (Political science)

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Reminiscences -- Robert Nisbet : conservative sociologist -- Defining right and left -- The problem of historical connections -- Liberal democracy as a God term -- Origins of the state -- Reexamining the conservative legacy -- Whig history revisited -- The European Union election, 2014 -- The English Constitution reconsidered -- Redefining classes -- Did Mussolini have a Pope? -- Heidegger and Strauss : a comparative study -- Explaining Trump.

Sommario/riassunto

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements. With subjects as varied as Robert Nisbet, Whig history, the European Union election of 2014, and Donald Trump, the essays are tied together by their strenuous confrontation with historians and journalists whose claims about the past no longer receive critical scrutiny. According to Gottfried, successful writers on historical topics take advantage of political orthodoxy and/or widespread ignorance to present questionable platitudes as self-evident historical judgments. New research ceases to be of importance in determining accepted interpretations. What



remains decisive, Gottfried maintains, is whether the favored view fits the political and emotional needs of what he calls "verbalizing elites." In this highly politicized age, Gottfried argues, it is necessary to re-examine these prevalent interpretations of the past. He does so in this engaging volume, which will appeal to general readers interested in political and intellectual history.