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Book SynopsisThe stirring account of French journalist Jean Rolin's stay with the Christian minority in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Gaza in 2002 and 2003. Beautifully written and providing a unique view into the lives of a Christian minority trapped between the dominant Islamic and Jewish populations.

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Book SynopsisIna Bertrand is Principal Fellow in Cinema Studies, Melbourne University, Australia.Peter Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.Table of Contents1. Of Elephants, Definitions and Models: The Context of Media Research 2. Getting Started PART I: RESEARCH ON AUDIENCES 3. Researching Audiences 4. Gathering Data on Audiences 5. Audience Research Analysis and Interpretation PART II: RESEARCH ON INSTITUTIONS 6. Researching Media Institutions 7. Gathering Data on Institutions 8. Institutional Research Analysis and Interpretation PART III: RESEARCH ON TEXTS 9. Researching Texts 10. Gathering and Analysing Textual Data 11. Interpretation of Textual Data 12. Reaching Conclusions, Evaluating the Research, Writing the Report.

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Book SynopsisThe Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter, painter and photographer Devi Prasad. Apart from the making of his personal history and his times, it leads us to why the act of making (art) itself takes on such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life. This, the author explains, derives directly from his absorption of Gandhi's philosophy that looked at the act of making or doing as an ethical ideal, and further back to the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the ideology of Swadeshi' and on the milieu of Santiniketan.This book examines his art along with his role in political activism which, although garnered on Indian soil made him crisscross national borders and assume an important role in the international arena of war resistance. Devi Prasad graduated from Tagore's Santiniketan in 1944 when he joined the Hindustani Talimi Sangh (which proTable of Contents1. On the Exhibition's design 2. Creating the Sensibility of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Santiniketan and the Arts and Crafts Movement 3. Making a Gandhian Utopia: Art, Design and Pedagogy at Sevagram 4. With an Essay: A Theory of Education for Peace Krishna Kumar 5. A Peaceful World is a Creative World: England and the War Resisters' International 6. With an Essay: A Pacifist Experiment: Devi Prasad's Years with WRI in London Bob Overy 7. Coming Full Circle. Appendices: Select Writings of Devi Prasad: On Art the Basis of Education, On a New Society, On Tagore's Philosophy of Education, On Tagore and Education, On Gandhi's Satyagraha, On Child Education, On Child Art, On Peace Education, On War Resistance, On the Indian Potter, On Peace, Education and Creativity. A Bibliography of Devi Prasad's Writings. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhile there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its own hybrid, inflected, and heterogeneous terms. Celebrating the plurality and audacity inherent in its subject, Fashion Statements presents insightful, playful, and accessible essays on the philosophy of fashion.Trade Review"To think about 'what we wear' may seem to be a waste of time to some, yet it cannot be denied that we seem to live in an epoch where living is more and more defined by the fashionable. Fashion Statements offers the reader a number of innovative and thoughtful investigations and provocations, stimulating a re-thinking of what exactly the 'fashionable' means. The diverse and talented authors of these writings shed a fascinating variety of lights upon the subject - Foucault and Westwood, denim and despair, the glory and the subjection of the naked and the dressed, just to mention a few. Open up this book to any page and you will find an original reflection on fashion and its power to signify, obfuscate, imprison, swindle, protect, seduce, delight, and foil. These essays are testimony to the fact that if philosophers, critics, and cultural observateurs are to truly live up to their respective tasks, not one of them could keep their title without examining the question of the fashionable. Fashion Statements shows that philosophy can and should do a thinking of the trend 'itself'. Herein is found more than a few replies to the question Quentin Crisp put to Calvin Klein: 'What does it all mean?'" - Kevin R. MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy, The Fashion Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsJust Looks; R.Scapp & B.Seitz New Look You Cannes Come In Here Dressed Like That: A True Story in Two Shoes; E.Norris The Head Monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on Fashion; D.Krell Tech Savvy: Technology as the New Fashion Statement; A.Chin Fashion Statements: Communication and Culture; M.Barnard Fleshing It Out: The Tyranny of the ALine Skirt; bell hooks Osh Kosh B'Gosh; M.O' Donoghue Is Clothing Art?; J.Weinstein Fashion Advice from the Anti-Christ; L.Hartunian Puro High Life; M.Rojas Irony killed by the Ironic T-shirt and the True Religion of the American Jean; A.O' Neil Jackie O., Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Chanel; E.Fridland & A.Porter The Hat's the Thing; J.Wagner 'Pod Peeps: Why The iPod And Other Gadgets Are Fashion Staples In The 'Hood; L.D.Johnson Dressed to Kill, Or: Women's Right to Bare Arms; K.Oliver The Naked Truth of Anti-Fashion Philosophy; N.Pappas Vivienne Westwood: Keeping Critique Alive; S.Murphy Fashion at a Glance; E.S.Casey Retro Look Plato's Greater Hippias; A.A.Anderson , translator

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Book SynopsisSocial Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.Trade Review“Françoise Král’s Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner … . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded.” (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction; Angela Smith 2. 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism And The 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies In Crossfit, Leslie Heywood 3. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying And Banter In Early Twenty-First Century Make-Over Television, Angela Smith 4. Boredom And Reinvention For The Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs, Jennifer Anyan 5. 'In Full View': Involuntary Porn And The Post-Feminist Rhetoric Of Choice, Anne Burns 6. Miranda And Miranda: Comedy, Femininity And Performance, Rosie White 7. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii In Japanese Girls' Culture, Makiko Iseri 8. Strange Case Of Woman's Vanishing Agency And Other Neo Victorian Tales Of Obfuscation And Effacement, Karen Sturgeon-DodsworthTable of Contents1. Introduction; Angela Smith 2. 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism And The 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies In Crossfit, Leslie Heywood 3. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying And Banter In Early Twenty-First Century Make-Over Television, Angela Smith 4. Boredom And Reinvention For The Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs, Jennifer Anyan 5. 'In Full View': Involuntary Porn And The Post-Feminist Rhetoric Of Choice, Anne Burns 6. Miranda And Miranda: Comedy, Femininity And Performance, Rosie White 7. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii In Japanese Girls' Culture, Makiko Iseri 8. Strange Case Of Woman's Vanishing Agency And Other Neo Victorian Tales Of Obfuscation And Effacement, Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth

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Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal complex space' or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.Trade ReviewFashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari Transformations and Translations 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata 2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely 3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling Stages and Places 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen 5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson 6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine 7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square Models and Poses 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis 9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti 10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg 11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHenry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018) and Against The Terror of Neoliberalism (2008) and On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Trade ReviewGiroux clearly demarcates many of the compounding crises that produced and exacerbated the pandemic, and as such is useful for thinkers beyond education. Educators and educational theorists can take the solutions that Giroux gestures towards and apply them to local contexts, provided they heed his call for mass solidarity as the precondition for a better future ... Giroux’s Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy invites us to consider the complex historical circumstances that frame the present, creating analytical lenses to help us see more clearly – and hopefully make a world more filled with love and understanding. * International Journal of Human Rights Education *[It is] an important warning of the fragility of democracy and how the inequities created by neoliberalism can quickly slide into fascism and the erosion of civil liberties. ... Race, Politics and Pandemic Pedagogy is essential to us understanding how this happened and how critical education and historical consciousness are urgently needed to support transformative learning and human agency. * Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review *Henry Giroux is one of the very few trusted critical commentators whose voice is both focused and unerring in highlighting the social injustice and systemic racism of US politics and its effects in education. Over many years he has demonstrated his keenness of insight, power of observation and critical approach, to document the troubled modern history of the U.S. In Race, Politics and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis, Giroux, acknowledging a time of extreme danger and crisis, surveys ‘pandemic landscapes’ of increased militarisation of education and public life during Covid-19, when populist rule has led to US-styled neo-Fascism based on the slogan of ‘law and order’. Giroux shows how the pandemic has heightened health disparities and existing inequalities, further divided the population, and led to an economic collapse that threatens the lives and livelihood of Black people, both impoverishing and disempowering them. It is from these roots of racial injustice and the scourge of neoliberal capitalism in the time of Covid-19 that Giroux examines the hopeful new forces for education and political change that can lead to a more compassionate, just and equitable society. This is vintage Giroux – compelling reading that pictures the US on a knife-edge as it enters the final chapter of an historic U.S. presidential election. * Michael A. Peters, Distinguished Professor of Education, Beijing Normal University, China *In Race, Politics and Pandemic Pedagogy, Henry A. Giroux breaks new ground theoretically and pedagogically in making education central to politics while making clear how the struggle over matters of agency, values, ethics, and identity are crucial to reclaiming any viable notion of democracy. * Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Professor of English and Philosophy, University of Houston, Victoria, USA *Giroux combines a passionate call for a humane conscience, an astute analysis of the relations among the multiple contemporary crises, and a critical understanding of pedagogy as a political practice. His work stands out from the chaos of voices that claim to diagnose the present and offer a way out. * Lawrence Grossberg, Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, Unviersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA *Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy is trenchant and illuminating, offering not only an essential analysis of our times but also a vision of a real path forward. Giroux brings us new language to confront the current crises, and urges us to not only face our immediate catastrophes, but to activate our broader imaginations. What kind of society do we want? What stories will we engage to guide our actions? At a time of desperation and quick-fix reforms, Giroux's bold, long-reaching inquiries provide a crucial intervention -- and a call for all of us to dream bigger. * Maya Schenwar, Editor-in-Chief of Truthout and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name *Henry Giroux is the most astute social critic of our era. Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy is the flashlight we need to navigate these dark times. Covid-19, Giroux reminds us, was ushered in on the wings of neoliberalism. The bloodletting of global capitalism rendered us vulnerable while enabling corporations to profit at the expense of human life. Yes, the pandemic is a portal, but as Giroux shows us it is also a terrain of struggle and school to rehearse the critical, democratic practices our increasingly fascist state seeks to suppress. Pandemic pedagogy prepares us for an anti-fascist praxis. Hold this flashlight like your life depended on it. * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy brilliantly demonstrates how the current moment of pandemic is rooted in a deeper crisis of white supremacy, fascism, neo-liberal capitalism, and the incessant attack on the public good. But, as always, Giroux doesn’t merely offer searing critical analysis. Instead, he shows how an engagement with critical pedagogy can stimulate the radical imagination, creating space for new critiques, new forms of resistance, and new social possibilities. This book is a political and intellectual balm. * Marc Lamont Hill, author of We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility *Table of ContentsPreface: State of Crisis Acknowledgements Section I Pandemic Landscapes 1. Pandemic Politics and Pedagogy in the Age of the Coronavirus 2. Militarized Pandemics and the Language of War Section II Populism and the Crisis of Education 3. The Ugly Terror of a Fascist Abyss and the Politics of Depoliticization 4. The Populist Pandemic and the Plague of Thoughtlessness Section III The Promise of History 5. Reading History Against Fascism in the Age of Trump 6. Law and Disorder in the Age of Organized Forgetting Section IV Thinking Beyond Plagues 7. The Plague of Inequality in the Age of Pandemics 8. Conclusion: Thinking Beyond a Covid-19 World Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEncounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting.With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology, and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century, while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches.Trade ReviewAn impressive collection of some of the most talented scholars in French and European Studies. The authors formulate a concept of “encountering” as alternatively a “falling into place” and as a “convergence” – concepts that get to the heart of what good criticism does, namely to “take the risk of meeting anew.” Encounters with God, encounters with eighteenth-century women writers, encounters with music and the visual arts, encounters with others – the range of topics and first-rate scholarship attests to Christie McDonald’s enduring influence and inspiration on literary and cultural studies. * Patrick M. Bray, Associate Professor of French, University College London, UK *Written in honor of Christie McDonald, whose work has analyzed encounters from Rousseau to Proust to Derrida, the fascinating essays in this collection do much more than celebrate a remarkable career; they theorize the concept of the encounter, which lies at the heart of the creative process and at the very foundation of what we do as critics and scholars. * Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, Yale University, USA *The reader will find in this book not only a marvelous catalogue of encounters in and with a variety of cultural productions and their rich contexts, but also a thick, interactive map of human encounters, anchored by nodal points both intellectual and affective. * Lia Nicole Brozgal, Associate Professor, European Languages and Transcultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Encountering the Divine: On the Cognition of God in Early French Christian Humanism, Jacob Vance, New England Conservatory, USA 2. Event and Invention: Reading Montaigne and Rousseau Through Deleuze, Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA 3. Encountering Venture: Dissonance, Deceit, Autobiography, Pierre Saint-Amand, Yale University, USA 4. Colonial Encounters of “La Belle et la Bête”, Kylie Sago, Harvard University, USA 5. Missed Connections: Literary History and Saint-Aubin’s Le Danger des liaisons, Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Amherst College, USA 6. Rejected Encounters with Women Writers: The Case of Les Pensées errantes, Caleb Shelburne, Harvard University, USA 7. Encountering Women Writers and their Texts: Louise de Keralio’s Pioneering Anthology, Vicki Mistacco, Wellesley College, USA 8. Châtelet, Lavoisier, Charrière: Negotiating the Borderlands of the Republic of Letters, Ian Van Wye, Independent Scholar 9. Women’s Fictions and Translations in Support of Enlightenment Values, Monique Moser-Verrey, Université de Montréal, Canada 10. Stowe meets Thomas: What is Literary Property? Gary Wihl, Washington University, USA 11. Form Encounters Sense: the Semiological Dimensions of Wagnerian Anti-Semitism, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Université de Montréal, Canada 12. “Un autre moi-même”: Between the Self and the Other in Proust’s Correspondence, François Proulx, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 13. Ekphrasing as Encounter: “Try Say” with Georges Didi-Huberman and Hélène Cixous, Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal, Canada 14. Caring for Encounters, Verena Conley, Harvard University, USA 15. Private Lives, Public History: Encountering the Filmmaker István Szabó, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University, USA 16. Creation and Re-creation Across Cultures and Disciplines: Tahitian Encounters from Bougainville to Gauguin and Beyond, Christie McDonald, Harvard University, USA

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Book SynopsisA tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called ''The AIDS Crisis''. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid ''90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These game-changing drugs now enable many people living with HIV to lead a healthy, regular life, but how has this dramatic shift impacted the representation of gay men and HIV in popular culture?Positive Images is the first detailed examination of how the relationship between gay men and HIV has transformed in the past two decades. From Queer as Folk to Chemsex, The Line of Beauty to The Normal Heart, Dion Kagan examines literature, film, TV, documentaries and news coverage from across the English-speaking world to unearth the socio-cultural foundations underpinning this ''post-crisis'' period. His analyses provide acute insights into the fraught legacies of the AIDS Crisis and its continued Trade ReviewPositive Images should be commended for the way it astutely locates the ongoing and unresolved political consequences of the AIDS epidemic in the singularities of the moving image. Not only does Kagan give us insight into a mode of popular media production working to discipline our contact with queer histories of this crisis – the most destructive example of institutionally sanctioned homophobia in the recent history of the US, UK, and Australia – but he also expertly shows the particular capaciousness of using cinema as a tool for thinking through – and evidencing – such discursive regulation. * Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies *In this landmark study of the representation of gay men in contemporary popular culture, Dion Kagan shows how the panicked response to AIDS during the 1980s continues to haunt “post-crisis” gay life, unsettling its normalisation by resuscitating the association of homosexuality with death and disease. In a series of carefully elaborated case studies drawn from the mainstream media and informed by feminist and queer theory, Kagan traces the transformation of HIV/AIDS into a signifier of social and sexual backwardness that conflicts with the normative aspirations of neoliberal gay identities. -- Robert J. Corber, William R. Kenan Jr, Professor in American Institutions and Values, Trinity College, Connecticut, USAIn this erudite analysis of representations of Western gay life in “postcrisis” times, Dion Kagan re-activates the critical energies of early HIV cultural analysis for contemporary queer theory to ask what a “positive image” of gay life could possibly be in the current polarised environment that lurches between “progressive” attachments to clean, upstanding, respectable, sexless marrying types and the sensationalised monsters of chemsex, barebacking, HIV-positive sex and sex addiction, each of which emerge as figures of a “retrograde” sexuality we “should have grown out of by now” that effectively serve to “re-crisis” the present. Generous and expansive in its critical engagements, while sparkling throughout with astute and perceptive readings, Positive Images is a remarkable feat of intergenerational queer kinship that introduces an exciting new voice in sexuality scholarship. -- Kane Race, Associate Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Foreword Introduction: Crisis/Post-Crisis 1. Gay Redemption: Domestication and Disavowal in the Gay 90s 2. Positive Men Are from Mars, Negative Men Are from Venus: Sero-Melodrama in Queer As Folk 3. Crisis Re-Runs: Barebacking, Chemsex and Post-Crisis Sex Panic 4. AIDS Heritage in The Line of Beauty 5. AIDS Retrovisions: Dallas Buyers Club and The Normal Heart Conclusion: Feeling Generational Notes Bibliography Film and Television References Index

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Book SynopsisStudies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors.Trade Review"This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens." -James Barry, Deakin University

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Book SynopsisINTRODUCING 25 REAL-LIFE STORIES THAT REVEAL THE RULES FOR WORKING SUCCESSFULLY ACROSS CULTURESThere is no excuse for cultural ignorance in the 21st century. The greatest factor affecting the success or failure of a global business is understanding the cultural differences that lie hidden, like minefields, in day-to-day work. Recognize and manage these cultural differences, and you accelerate your success; ignore them and they will undermine your global performance.Business Beyond Borders explains culture through the real-life stories of the author, resonating and bringing the cultural challenges inherent in global work to life. From negotiating with Bedouins in the Libyan Sahara, to managing a team of Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro, from out-running an earthquake during a keynote presentation in Mexico City, to losing a government handler in Beijing, each of the stories illustrates a critical cultural issue that global managers need to understand today.With a summary of the golden global rules that everyone working in the global 21st century needs to know, Business Beyond Borders is a celebration of what makes all of us around the world-all so different- simultaneously all the same.

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Book SynopsisKhamr: The Makings of a Waterslams is a true story that maps the author’s experience of living with an alcoholic father and the direct conflict of having to perform a Muslim life that taught him that nearly everything he called home was forbidden. A detailed account from his childhood to early adulthood, Khan lays bare the experience of living

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Book SynopsisThe (Dis)information Age challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies. The widespread acceptance of ideas about the socially transformative power of these technologies demands a close and critical interrogation. The technologies of the information revolution, often perceived as harbingers of social transformation, may more appropriately be viewed as tools, capable of positive and negative uses. This book encourages a more rational and even skeptical approach to the claims of the information revolution and demonstrates that, despite a wealth of information, ignorance persists and even thrives. As the volume of information available to us increases, our ability to process and evaluate that information diminishes, rendering us, at times, less informed. Despite the assumed globalization potential of new information technologies, users of global media such as the World Wide Web and Facebook tend to cluster locally around their own communitiTrade Review«In this interesting and well-written book Shaheed Nick Mohammed does a masterful job of illustrating the effects of communications technology on global society using sources from scientific research to pop culture. This informative and entertaining work examines how media technology has been used to spread ignorance instead of knowledge, from unchecked bigotry to misinformation on climate change and autism. The ubiquitous influence and power of media technology makes this essential reading, especially for students of communication, sociology, and political science.» (Matt Evans, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Penn State University) «Highlighting the irony of an Information Age in which falsehoods, superstition, and ignorance are now easier to disseminate, Shaheed Nick Mohammed makes a wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the ill-effects of communications technology and a media culture which is unfettered by the rigor of reason and the filter of empiricism.» (Kevin Baldeosingh, Author of ‘The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar’) «Dr. Mohammed brings a deep and thoughtful analysis to something that surrounds us all – but for which we have few reference points – the information explosion. A must-read for any critical thinker who is trying to understand our mass mediated environment.» (Alex Gill, CEO of Mendicant Group, Author of ‘AIM: Achieve, Inspire, Make a Difference’)

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Book SynopsisIs the France of 2015 still French in the same way or to the same degree as the France of 1985? Where do the most significant challenges to Frenchness now lie? These are among the issues addressed by contributors to this volume, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches including politics, literature, film and sport.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is one of the first to explore the everyday lives, political engagements and social practices of Scotland s Muslim communities. Themes include: education, health and well-being; sexuality, gender and age; integration, multiculturalism and citizenship; and heritage, media and representation.

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Book SynopsisThough Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained in anecdote and song. This study describes the ambitious moral-intellectual programme to reintegrate the artist in society at the heart of all of his endeavors.

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Book SynopsisWhat sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? 'Drivetime' seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000).

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Book SynopsisDrawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.

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Book SynopsisTina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up the increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law and gender relations and new movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp. She looks in particular at contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure and desire.Trade Review"Sikka's tour de force highlights two points that are critical to our current moment of reckoning with sexual wrongdoing and sexual dissatisfaction: that consent" is far from simple, and that perhaps the most valuable lesson of the #MeToo phenomenon, ironically, lies in rejecting the criminal law as an appropriate framework for regulating sex."" -Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law School

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Book SynopsisExposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.Trade Review"A wonderfully wide-ranging collection of essays, critical and yet hopeful, presenting a compelling cultural map of the 'New Turkey' and in so doing making a significant contribution to the globalisation of Turkish cultural studies." -Dr. John Storey, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

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Book SynopsisIn them, Kolst examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.Trade Review"The monograph by P l Kolst is solid and high-quality scientific research that will be useful to social and political scientists." -Georgi Asatryan

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Book SynopsisPaul C. Jasen is a Lecturer in Music and Communication Studies at Carleton University, Canada.Trade ReviewThere's much here that gives a compelling and productive slant on one of the most contested areas of contemporary audio culture. * The Wire *Low End Theory is a fascinating study ... An interesting and thoughtful addition to the greater discussion of sound materiality, and will serve as excellent graduate level reading for ethnomusicologists, folklorists and anthropologists alike. * Dancecult *Low End Theory is an extremely broad-ranging book that refreshingly challenges the divisions between the humanities and sciences in terms of our understanding of sound, stretching this understanding from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary base. The core chapters represent a tour de force analysis of sound, body and experience that is both exhilarating and challenging. The reader will feel that they are racing through a stimulating sonic haze picking up wonderful nuggets of sonic knowledge on the way. * Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of Sussex, UK *A pioneering study of the murky world of bass that enlists speculative concepts to reveal the vibrational practices at work in ritual, science and in the underbelly of pop. Low End Theory contributes to a growing literature which recognises, tracks and encourages the perpetual reconstruction the sonic body. * Steve Goodman, Independent Scholar, UK, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (2010) and Founder of record label Hyperdub *We live in a world of vibrations. Sound envelops us, moves us, caresses or assaults us—especially in the lower frequencies that we cannot hear directly. In Low End Theory, Paul Jasen provides us with an ontology of bass. He works through the many ways—natural, social, and technological—that subsonic frequencies haunt us, affect us, and change us. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA *“…a rewarding read…By now widely travelled and well-thumbed, my copy of Low End Theory obviously affected me more than many other books I have recently read… * Oliver Seibt, Musicae Scientiae *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Elements of a Myth-Science 1. The Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit Sonorous Relations Tales and Strategies Myth-Science in the Vibratory Milieu 2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters Spectres of the Manmade Unknown Infrasound Unhomed Boo! (toward an operative reality) The Hum ‘And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all...’ Blinkered Science We still do not know what a sonic body can do... 3. Numinous Strategies Learning to Play the Sonic Body The Nervous Piano Numinous Instruments Religious Audiogenesis Numinous Sound Design Playing the Resonances Tellurian Organs The Organ-Church Assemblage The Arcanum: An Ambulant Myth-Science The Nervous Organ Baroque Affect Engineering The Gothic Assemblage: Applied Synaesthetics 4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts Cymatic Arts Documentary Practices A Speculative Turn Perceptual Abstraction Transversal Strategies Incipient Dance Sonic Architectures Dance With the Speaker ‘A people of oscillators’ 5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults The Lab The Science Bass Science Dubplates and Mastering Engineering the Vibratorium Affects and Affectations Entering the Rhythmachine Three Physio-Logics Jungle (1994) Dubstep (2005) Footwork (2009) Conclusion: Where next? Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine. In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms. At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in Trade ReviewThis little gem should be required reading included in all medical schools as a reference for lessons in empathy for first- and last-year medical students, and for anyone who watches and is wary of the changes that are taking place in healthcare. Five stars. * Manhattan Book Review *Sweetly composed … As much a tribute to the legacy of his pediatrician father as it is an examination of the healing arts … Bomback covers a lot of territory in this small volume … It's a quick and understandable read that offers doorways to many other avenues worthy of deeper exploration. * PopMatters *With intelligence and humor, Andrew Bomback shows how human beings cope with issues of power and vulnerability. Doctor is an insightful read for anyone who's been on either end of the stethoscope. * Amy Fusselman, author of Idiophone (2018) and The Pharmacist's Mate (2001) *A disarming, candid, precise meditation on the inescapable role that 'complication' or 'luck'—otherwise known as 'fate'—plays in the life of any doctor or patient or, indeed, any human. * David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (2008) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Fourth Wall 2. My Favorite Types of Patients 3. I Have Good News and Bad News 4. You Get Better Because We Are Better 5. Doctors at Home 6. Texters and Emailers and Tweeters 7. What Are Their Names? 8. Highly Attentive Medicine 9. It’s Complicated 10. And It Will Last Forever 11. The Business of Medicine 12. A Diagnosis (Something to Do) 13. Everything You Say Is Important to Me 14. Harp Lies 15. The Longer You Stay, the Longer You Stay 16. The Future Is Already Here 17. History and Physical 18. Don’t Worry Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortalityand also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literatureone that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay seriTrade ReviewIn this expansive volume, Shonna Milliken Humphrey traces the history of gin, exploring the ways it’s been imbibed and the other uses it’s had throughout human history — some of which may surprise you. * Inside Hook *The book is far from a staid account – strange history, trivia, recipes and anecdotes abound, and Humphrey weaves autobiographical episodes throughout, making for an engaging read. * Portland Press Herald *I loved this book even more than I love gin, which is saying a lot. William Blake found a world in a grain of sand, but here Shonna Milliken Humphrey finds the whole universe in a juniper berry. By turns erudite and hilarious, thoughtful and provocative, Shonna shows us the history of the spirit, and—at times—her own heart. One of the most delightful books I’ve ever read. * Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author of Good Boy and She's Not There *This book is written in a light and fun way. Humphrey does a good job of giving you a quick overview to the history of gin, its origins, and evolution ... as a quick intro, and potential stocking filler this book works well. * Irish Tech News *This riveting little pocket-sized book about gin provides excellent rumination for the festive season. * The Australian Women's Weekly *Table of Contents1. Gin and Juice: An Introduction 2. A Potent Three-Letter Etymology 3. The Basics: Juniper 4. The Basics: Distillation 5. Class and Type 6. The Great Style Divide 7. Dutch Courage and the British Navy 8. The British Gin Craze 9. Ice Harvest, American Style 10. Gincidents 11. Portraiture and Visuals 12. Lyrics and Verse 13. Film and Literature 14. Ginaissance Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witnessas if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices? Signature addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride's body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms. The signature's history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens. Part cultural chronicle, part travelogue, Signature pursues the identifying marks made by peTrade ReviewThis is a true ‘essay film’ of a book, with multiple associative bridges flying out from its topic, into the air of pure insight. I’m thrilled to add my name to its covers. * Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude *Table of Contents1. The Dotted Line 2. S for Signature a. Real Fake b. On the Shores of Syros 3. Autograph Collecting a. “To Adam, from Big Daddy” b. A Victorian State of Mind c. Reading Character d. Criminal Signatures e. Autograph Fever 4. The Origins of Signature a. To Astuvansalmi b. There is Nothing Funny about Elk c. The Self, Extended d. Cave Signatures e. Seals and Signets 5. Signing the Body a. I Am You b. Erotic Inscription c. Autographic Skin 6 Digital Signatures, Signaling Digits a. Signing Machines i. Typewriter ii. Film iii. Gramophone b. Fingerprinting c. Electronic Signatures 7 Paw Prints & Ice Cores a. Doctrine of Signatures b. Animal Tracks c. Epigenetic Signatures d. Ice Cores Epilogue Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious. Birds don't express hope. They express themselves. But this tension between the versions of nature that lodge in our minds and the realities that surround us is the central theme of Bird. This is no field guide. It's something far more unusual and idiosyncratic, balancing science with story, anatomy with metaphor, habitat with history. Anderson illuminates the dark underbelly of our bird fetish and offers a fresh, alternative vision of one of nature's most beloved objects.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewAnderson follows the trail of fallen tail feathers across the grid, articulating his findings with an undeniable personal touch, and a philosophical sting that leaves you wondering, ‘what made us fall so deeply in love with birds? Why did it stick? What is beauty?’ among other considerations. Anderson is the lead explorer in a journey that, for many, is long overdue. Before we know it, the journey extends farther than bird-watching and observation, and we are left looking at nature with the absence of our human goggles. * 433 Magazine *“In his engaging writing style, Anderson skillfully introduces the reader to the spectacular world of birds…” * San Francisco Book Review *From tiny corpses to obsessive scientists, hot sauce on the Gulf and tears in the Hall of Asian Animals, Bird is at once a quirky natural history and a personal journey, one that says as much about humanity as about the feathered creatures we have eaten, shot, studied, extincted, protected, and, sometimes, watched. As I write these words, science tells us North American bird populations have declined by a third. Reading this book is one of the steps we can take toward giving birds back to the air that belongs, first, to them. * Christopher Cokinos, Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona, USA, and author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (2009) and Bodies, of the Holocene (2013) *Table of Contents1 Put a Bird on It 2 The Hater’s Guide to Birds 3 The Buoy Bird 4 The Hater’s Guide to Birds 5 What a Name Can Do 6 The Hater’s Guide to Birds 7 There Never Was a Bird Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Lewis - world famous lecturer on intercultural issues and best-selling author of WHEN CULTURES COLLIDE - has collected 50 unique, critical cross-cultural incidents during his encounters in 135 countries around the globe. Some of these anecdotes are humorous, some are poignant, some are mysterious - all are insightful snapshots of the complex tapestry of cross-cultural business. If you're dining with a Finn, negotiating with the Japanese or attempting to climb a mountain with a team of diffident Italians, you need this book."Historically, 'cultural encounters' have often created wars and split people. In this precious little gem of a book, Richard shows how beautifully cultural barriers can be overcome when people meet face-to-face. How we, despite different outlooks, can build bridges across cultural gaps with mindful, respectful and humorous approaches. The stories, told in a vibrant and captivating voice, ranging from thought provoking and insightful to adventurous and hilarious, are a delightful read. The charming characters of broad cultural variety bring the whole world into your hands, making hearts bond over a jolly good laugh.And frankly, - what can be better?"Marit Imeland Gjesme, Founder of CultureCatch®, intercultural training consultancy

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Book SynopsisThe captivating account of a young female television producer’s adventures bringing Sesame Street to post-communist Russia. In the early 1990s, communism had collapsed and Russia was finally awakening, economically and culturally. The timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children across the country, introducing them to Western liberal values, capitalism, and concepts such as diversity and inclusion. No one had any idea just how challenging this would prove to be. In Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping drama to life. Rogoff, a young American television producer fluent in Russian, was chosen to lead a crew of American and Russian artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers to create the Russian adaptation. During the four-year production, against the backdrop of bombings and the assassination of her Russian broadcast partners, Rogoff remained determined to bring humor, entertainment, and democracy to Russian children. With a sharp wit and compassion for her Russian colleagues, Rogoff observes how cultural clashes colored nearly every aspect of the production, from the show’s educational framework to scriptwriting to the new Slavic Muppets themselves, often pitting Sesame Street’s Western values against five centuries of Russian thought. In spite of the challenges, the show would go on to become a major hit, airing for over a decade.Muppets in Moscow reveals all the amazing, elaborate, behind-the-scenes action and work that goes into the making of a beloved children’s television show—from creating the Muppets and determining their distinct “personalities” to hiring the actors and creating the set—all while ensuring that Russian culture is respected and represented. More than just a story of a children’s show, this book explores Russia’s people, their culture, and their relationship with the West that remains relevant even today.

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Book SynopsisCanada is a funny place with funny people and an even funnier system of government, according to this fictional humorist with a penchant for social engineering. In fact, he believes that the ability of Canadians to laugh at themselves is one reason their country could lead the planet in creating the first democratic, post-ethnic, internationalist style of nationalism.

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Book SynopsisThe origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on.Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution -- from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.

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Book SynopsisA notable historian examines one of the most remarkable cases of female genital mutilation ever to be prosecuted.

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