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  • Springer Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa 18 Environment Policy

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  • Springer Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities Current Issues and Strategies 60 GeoJournal Library

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  • Springer Estonian Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

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  • Johns Hopkins University Press Black Children Their Roots Culture and Learning Styles

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  • Hopkins Fulfillment Service Tribe Race History Native Americans in Southern New England 17801880 125 The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

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    Book SynopsisShedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.Trade ReviewOutstanding work... The book is filled with gems... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Mandell has made a very valuable contribution to our understanding of Native American history in a period long overlooked. -- Jenny Pulsipher American Historical Review 2008 A carefully crafted, well-researched book... This review does not do justice to this rich account of the complex interactions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in the survival of native peoples. -- Thomas D. Hall Journal of American History 2009 Mandell's superb book on a long-neglected subject should affect the way the larger narrative of this era of American history is written. -- Rachel Wheeler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009 A wide-ranging, intricately argued, and thoroughly researched book. It is well written and historiographically significant, and Mandell's nineteen-page essay on the source materials a the end of the volume is a boon for scholars. Overall, Mandell has produced an outstanding addition to the field of American Indian history in New England. -- Christopher J. Bilodeau Journal of American Ethnic History 2009 Consummate and exemplary researcher, Daniel Mandell has once again filled some significant gaps in our collective knowledge on the history of New England Native Americans... Very useful to the growing number of historians of this genre for generations to come. It will be a catalyst for many vital discussions and hopefully provoke some very important new research and writing. -- George Price H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews 2009 This is a book that every scholar of Native Americans should own. The research is deep and thorough. The book makes excellent reading for a senior or honors class or a graduate class. The citations to sources are invaluable Connecticut History 2009 An impressive, timely and thoroughly researched piece of scholarship. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2009 Mandell carefully reconstructs what the historical records tell us about how these communities adapted to the environments of their non-Native neighbors and states while maintaining regional ties withother Native communities... His detailed recording of these tribes and individuals shows that they did not disappear but were ignored when they no longer fit the new paradigm of 'Indian' shared by most Americans. Massachusetts Historical Review 2010 An ambitious book. -- D. Elliotte Draegor Journal of Social History 2011 Reveals the complex and hitherto poorly understood internal dynamics at play within these communities... an innovative work of cultural history. New England Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Land and LaborTribal ReservesSmall CommunitiesWork off the ReservationIndian Reserves as Refuges2. Community and FamilyIndian Networks in the Early RepublicMarriages with "Foreigners & Strangers"Anglo-American Views of Indian IntermarriageIndian Views of Race and IntermarriageIntermarriage and Assimilation3. Authority and AutonomyGuardians ReappointedMashpee and Gideon HawleyThe Standing Order, Class, and IndiansGuardians and Tribal ChallengesThe Mashpee Revolt4. Reform and RenascenceMaintaining InstitutionsIndians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and ReformsIndians, State Governments, and Economic EnterpriseRenascence and Resistance5. Reality and ImageryIndians at MidcenturyEmployment and WorkwaysTribal Identity and PoliticsImages of IndiansLocal Histories6. Citizenship and TerminationRace and Civil RightsProposing TerminationRejecting TerminationCompelling TerminationEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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  • Stanford University Press The Pedagogical State

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    Book SynopsisThis ethnographic study of a local school system in Turkey illuminates the dynamic interplay between politics, society, and education.Trade Review"The Pedagogical State is an outstanding work of social science. It can be read with great benefit by students in comparative politics, political sociology, and politics and religion, and will also be of interest to senior comparativists." -- Perspectives on Politics"Sam Kaplan's account of the pedagogical project of the modern Turkish state is a wonderfully revealing example of the competition among different interest groups over the education of children. This is a thought-provoking book in the best sense." -- Ayhan Aktar, Marmara University, Istanbul * Turkey *"Part history, part political analysis, and part ethnography, Kaplan's book is a major contribution to understanding education in Turkey and will likely be of interest to those interested in education and the state more generally." -- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East"Topically, conceptually, and in terms of scholarly impact, Kaplan's book is a welcomed contribution to the anthropological study of education. Its major strengths are in framing education broadly in relation to communities, markets, families, and media, and in painting a theoretically informed and hence generalizeable picture of how education serves as site for imagining, casting, and ultimately reconfiguring ideas about politics and citizenship." -- Anthropology and Education Quarterly"This book will inform both scholarship and public policy debates about the role—or lack thereof—of schooling in generating contemporary political conflicts. Kaplan's thorough and skillful research demonstrates the pointlessness of secular/religious dichotomies, particularly in cases where such dichotomies have traditionally been a primary reference point." -- Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina * Charlotte *"This book is a must-read for anybody who tries to make head or tail of why Turkey as a Muslim country is almost unique in having consolidated its democracy and, more generally, why its experience with Islam has strengthened the hands of those who have challenged the clash of civilizations theory." -- Turkish StudiesTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xxxx Pronunciation of Turkish xxxx Preface xxxx 1. Educational Foundations 1 2. The State of Education 3. Nation and Faith 4. Nation and Market 5. Nation and Army 6. Educational Postfoundations Bibliography Index

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  • The Ancient Art of Tea

    Tuttle Publishing The Ancient Art of Tea

    Book SynopsisThe Ancient Art of Tea is a delightful look at the philosophy, history, and culture of tea in China.The health benefits of tea, from green teas to white, oolong and black teas, are well known in our world today. How to create the perfect, healthy cup of tea is a process few people genuinely understand, making The Ancient Art of Tea a needed guide for tea lovers. Making a perfect cup of tea is a dynamic process that requires the right environment, clear spring water, a suitable fire to boil water, skill in steeping tea, and deep understanding of tea connoisseurship.From a variety of ancient tea books comes a broader perspective and deeper insight into the topics that surround the tea drinking experience. The ancient Chinese held tea and the various types of tea in high regard for its medicinal and rejuvenating properties. They prized the teas that grew high in the mountains, in crags and crevices in the rocks. They believed that tea was best Trade Review"This is a beautifully designed, affordable gift item for people with a love of history, ritual, and tea. […] It's a perfect anecdote for an over-digitalized, multi-tasking world." --New Age Retailer"It is my hope that this book will encourage others in the West to pick up where the ancients and the author left off and go out and search for sources of sweet water here in North America. … It is time for us to pick up the mantle and spread the word, Tea." --Dr. Eric Messersmith, Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University"This is not a practical book about how to prepare tea in modern times, but a book about the development of tea culture. The book is aimed at people who love tea. Not only drinking tea but the artful process of making it." --Chinese Hacks blog

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  • Henry Holt & Company Inc The Bill McKibben Reader Pieces from an Active Life

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  • Henry Holt & Company Inc Pornified How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives Our Relationships and Our Families

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    Book SynopsisArgues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families. This work exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film.

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  • John Wiley & Sons No Duty to Retreat

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    Book SynopsisWhen faced with a deadly threat, Americans have the right to stand their ground and fight - that is, they have no duty to retreat. This study of violence and American values examines violence not only on the American frontier and in American society at large, but in American jurisprudence as well.

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  • MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma How America Lost Its Mind

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    Book SynopsisAmericans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact. In this book, Thomas Patterson explains the rise of a world of ""alternative facts"" and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.Trade ReviewHow America Lost Its Mind is clearly a book Thomas E. Patterson wishes he did not have to write, but one that needed to be written. From time to time, scholarship should be alarmist. This book is the response of a reasoned, thinking person to a cultural and political calamity that he and many others saw unfolding in slow motion."" - Keith Gaddie, coauthor of The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act

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  • Penguin Random House LLC My Sister Guard Your Veil My Brother Guard Your Eyes

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  • Beacon Press Counterrevolution and Revolt

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    Book SynopsisIn this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth. The future revolution will be characterized by its enlarged scope, for not only the economic and political structure, not only class relatoins, but also humanity's relation to nature (both human and external nature) tend toward radical transformation. For the author, the liberation of nature is the connecting thread between the economic-political and the cultural revolution, between changing the world and personal emancipation.

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  • The Great Transformation

    Beacon Press The Great Transformation

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  • Beacon Press Culture and Truth Remaking of Social Analysis

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    Book SynopsisExposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static cultures and detached observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and subjectivity.

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  • Penguin Random House LLC The Elementary Structures of Kinship

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  • Penguin Random House LLC Social Darwinism in American Thought

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  • Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Modern Temper American Culture and Society in the 1920s

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  • Extremism in America

    MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Extremism in America

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    Book SynopsisProvides a sweeping overview and assessment of the various brands of bigotry, prejudice, zealotry, dogmatism, and partisanship found in the United States, including the extreme right, the antiglobalization movement, Black Nationalism, Chicano separatism, militant Islam, Jewish extremism, eco-extremism, the radical antiabortion movement, and extremist terrorism.

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  • Rutgers University Press Public Places Private Journeys Ethnography Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze

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    Book SynopsisThis work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the ""tourist gaze"" to view particular locales in a predetermined way.Table of Contents Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist FOUNDATIONS Defining the Tourist Gaze Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative Corporeal Geographies: E.M. Forster on Film Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels BEYOND FILM Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism

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  • Rutgers University Press Surgery Junkies Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture

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    Book SynopsisExamines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. This book brings fresh perspectives to the promotion of extreme makeovers on television, the medicalization of surgery addiction, the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.Trade ReviewSurgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *Surgery Junkies...offers tremendous details about various consumers of plastic surgery. An interesting and comprehensive read. * Metapsychology *Victoria Pitts-Taylor offers a fascinating journey into the exigencies of perceived excess in Surgery Junkies. Pitts-taylor structures the book into many useful sections. It is smart and compelling and can be read with equal rigor by undergraduate and graduate students [and has] crossover appeal to a more popular audience. * Women's Studies Quarterly *Whether analyzing Extreme Makeover, 'Body Dismorphic Disorder,' or her own rhinoplasty, Pitts-Taylor makes difficult theoretical concepts clear-and clearly relevant to our lives. -- Susan Bordo * author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body *Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, *Table of ContentsVisible pathology and cosmetic wellness Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates The medicalization of surgery addiction The surgery junkie as legal subject The self and the limits of interiority

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  • MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Exhibiting Religion Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions 19511893 Studies in Religion Culture Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions 18511893

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    Book SynopsisA chronicle of the emergence and development of religion as a field of intellectual inquiry, this volume is an extensive survey of world's fairs from the inaugural Great Exhibition in London to the Chicago Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions.Trade ReviewExhibiting Religion is authoritative and will eagerly be read by all those interested in the relationship between the concept of religion and the geopolitics of modernity. This book is significantly different from virtually all treatments of such events as the World's Parliament, since the norm among contemporary scholars is to celebrate it uncritically rather than thoroughly historicize it, as John Burris has very nicely done. - Russel T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, author of Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia ""John Burris's perspective brings a mass of information into a new focus, which allows him to build a frequently compelling argument about the broad cultural role industrial and cultural exhibitions played in the second half of the nineteenth century in the West."" - Gary Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City, author of Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian CaptivityTable of ContentsInternational expositions in historical context; Britain's Great Exhibition - ideology materialized; social evolutionism and international expositions - a cultural history; exhibitionism, American style; exhibiting religion at Chicago's Columbian Exposition. Conclusion - a parliament for the world's religions?.

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  • Black Fascisms African American Literature and

    MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Black Fascisms African American Literature and

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    Book SynopsisAddresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture.Trade ReviewBlack Fascisms bravely goes against the grain of much received opinion about the main currents in modern African American literature and intellectual history; it has a good story to tell, and it tells it well and convincingly. - Eric Sundquist, UCLA, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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  • The Language of Flowers  A History

    MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Language of Flowers A History

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    Book SynopsisTraces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures.

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  • MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language

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  • Ohio State University Press Discovering Romanian

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  • Wayne State University Press New Latin American Cinema Theory Practices and Transcontinental Articulations Vol one Contemporary Film and Television Series Theories Approaches to Film and Media Series

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    Book SynopsisThis volume (first of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement, its national and continental implications (diasporic/exilic experience), and the writings of pioneer film-makers.

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  • Wayne State University Press Peripheral Visions The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series

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    Book SynopsisThe eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.

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  • Wayne State University Press Aby Warburg and Antisemitism Political Perspectives on Images and Culture Kritik German Literary Theory Cultural Studies Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series

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    Book SynopsisLooks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

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  • Wayne State University Press In Babels Shadow Language Philology and Nation in Nineteenthcentury Germany Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Language and the Nation in NineteenthCentury Germany

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    Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. This book situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture.

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  • LUP - University of Georgia Press Nature and Madness

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    Book SynopsisThrough much of history, humanity's relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence - while enjoying and appreciating the forces of nature, we have also sought to plunder, alter and control them. The author of this study uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis.

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  • LUP - University of Georgia Press Cultural Theory and Popular Culture An Introduction

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    Book SynopsisIn this new edition of his widely adopted Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture.

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  • LUP - University of Georgia Press The Spirit of Roman Law

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    Book SynopsisDiscusses about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the Roman law. This book presents the issues and problems that faced the Roman legal intelligentsia.Trade ReviewA masterful work by a modern master of Roman law and its tradition in the West. - Journal of Legal Education ""Watson's writing and thought are clear and striking. He makes obvious things always known but never seen in focus."" - International and Comparative Law Quarterly

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  • The Book in Japan

    University of Hawai'i Press The Book in Japan

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    Book SynopsisThis monograph covers every major aspect of the book in traditional Japan: its place in Japanese history; books as material objects; manuscript cultures; printing; the Edo period book trade; authors and readers; and importation and exportation.

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cosmopolis Ii Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century Mongrel Cities of the TwentyFirst Century

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    Book SynopsisThis text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St.Louis.Trade ReviewCongratulations to Leonie Sandercock on being awarded the 2005 Dale Prize, awarded each year by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University for excellence in a common field of urban and regional planning."Cosmopolis II captures the radical mood of the early 21st century and turns it into a positive project about living in multi-cultural cities. It will appeal to all those struggling with and studying contemporary cities. Beautifully written, clear, authoritative, and enhanced with evocative imagery, the book brings together new ideas, new literature, new cases and new arguments. It is likely to become a core text in the literature on cities and planning very quickly. No other book achieves the synthesis provided here."--Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle"The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come"--Robert Beauregard, New School for Social Research, New York"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory."--Edward Soja, Planning, UCLA"An extraordinarily comprehensive investigation."--Blueprint"Sandercock's pervasive commitment and sensitive imagination provide a valuable inspiration to all those concerned with the quality of cities and their governance."--Urban Studies"A book of passion and conviction about how cities are and what they might become. It is a challenge to all those whose professions are bound up with shaping the world's urban future."--CityTable of ContentsPart One Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents; Modernist Cities and Planning; Rewriting Planning History; Who Knows? -Exploring Planning's Knowledges. Part Two Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project; Mongrel Cities - How Can We Live Together?; Home, Nation and Stranger - Fear in the City; There is No Hiding Place - Integrating Immigrants. Part Three Towards a New Planning Imagination: Transfomative Planning Practices; How and Why Cities Change; The Power of Story Planning; City Songlines.

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hlne Cixous Live Theory Live Theory S

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    Book SynopsisThis volume provides a clear and informative introduction to one of the most important and influential European writers working today. It includes exploration of Cixous' theory of feminine writing, an interview discussing her influences and inspirations, and her thoughts on the nature of writing.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Feminine Writing; 3. Fiction and Theatre; 4. Poetic Theory; 5. Cixous on Others: Others on Cixous; 6. Cixous Live; 7. Conclusion

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Way of Love

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    Book SynopsisIf Western philosophy has claimed to be a love of wisdom, it has forgotten to become a wisdom of love. Asking the question: How can we love each other? Irigaray presents an exploration of desire and the human heart.Trade Review'Irigaray's work is always dazzling, surprising and unexpected. No other thinker of Irigaray's generation has her range, insight and originality. No other thinker has managed to illuminate the challenge and the mystery that the other, the other of sexual difference, brings to all encounters, and to all knowledges. In The Way of Love Irigaray opens up philosophy to the mystery of sexual difference, a mystery inscribed in but covered over in all of Western thought.' Elizabeth GroszTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sharing of the Word; 3. Being With the Other; 4. Thanks to Difference; 5. Rebuilding the World

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transductions Bodies And Machines At Speed Continuum Collection Series

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    Book SynopsisPart of the "Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory" series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented?Trade Review"Mackenzie seeks to pinpoint the relationship between conceptions of technology and technology as a physical and temporal process. Although Mackenzie's philosophical exploration of transductions of the living and nonliving addresses broad subject matter, the underlying concepts are analyzed with precision." Summing Up: Recommended. -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Radical contingency and the materializations of technology; 2. From stone to radiation: the depth and speed of technical embodiments; 3. The technicity of time: 1.00 oscillations/sec to 9,192,631,770 Hz; 4. Infrastructure and individuation: speed and delay in Stelarc's Ping Body'; 5. Losing time at the PlayStation: realtime and the 'whatever' body; 6. Life, collectives and the pre-vital technicity of biotechnology Conclusion.

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Persephones Girdle

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Dance Between Two Cultures

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Exile and Cultural Hegemony

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Ideologies of Hispanism

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