W.E.B. Du Bois bol vizionársky mysliteľ a spisovateľ, ktorý sa hlboko zaoberal právami a postavením Afroameričanov. Jeho spisy, ako napríklad vplyvné dielo „The Souls of Black Folk“, vyzývali k sebavedomému postoju a presadzovaniu rasovej spravodlivosti. Du Bois bol kľúčovou postavou v organizovaní bojov za občianske práva a zakladal vplyvné literárne a politické hnutia. Jeho práca často skúmala zložitosti identity, rasy a slobody v americkej spoločnosti, čím ovplyvnil generácie intelektuálov a aktivistov.
Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works.
With Souls of Black Folk (first published in 1903), W.E.B. Du Bois famously set forth his analysis of the folk culture, including religious folk culture, that would be the basis for future progress. In doing so, he pleaded for education and a new sensibility. But he made clear that the promise of these would not come 'from the outside'.
The humble soybean is the world's most grown and most traded oilseed. But it is also a poorly understood crop that is often viewed in extreme terms as a superfood or poison. Christine M. Du Bois reveals its hugely significant role in human history, as she traces the story of soy from its domestication in ancient Asia to the promise and perils it offers in the twenty-first century. This illuminating book travels across the globe and includes a vast cast of fascinating figures who applaud, experiment with or despise soy, from Neolithic villagers, Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers and Nazi strategists, to George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, Monsanto, Greenpeace, landless peasants, petroleum refiners and countless others. The story covers the impact of soy on international conflicts, its role in large-scale meat production and disaster relief, its troubling ecological impacts and the nutritional controversies swirling around soy today. It describes its genetic modification, the scandals and pirates involved in the international trade in soybeans and the use of soy as an intriguing renewable fuel. Featuring compelling historical and contemporary photographs, The Story of Soy reveals the importance of soy throughout history, and why it should never be underestimated.
"Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge" explores the logical aspects of fuzzy sets and their applications in knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning. The book features contributions from experts, organized into four sections covering many-valued logics, algebraic foundations, approximate reasoning, and fuzzy knowledge representation. Ideal for scholars and graduate students in related fields.