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Book SynopsisSurveys all of Robert Altman's major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Three Dream Films: Explorations of Female Identity 2. Experiments in Genre Revision 3. Large Canvases 4. Falling from Grace 5. In the Wilderness 6. Return to Form 7. Final Phase: More Large Canvases and Minor Works Coda Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs analyzed in this study, from its most familiar origins in Hollywood the road movie has become a global film practice, whether as a vehicle for exploring the relationship between various national contexts and American cinema, as a means of narrating different national and continental histories, or as a form of individual filmmaking expressionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Road Map for the Road Movie 1. Looking for America-Part One: The US Road Movie 2. Looking for America-Part Two: The Latin American Road Movie 3. The Automobile and the Auteur: Global Cinema and the Road Movie 4. From Parody to Post-Postmodernity: New Directions in the Road Movie Conclusion: Born to Be Wild, Again Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work. This book tells the story of its rise and fall and presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television.Trade ReviewIngmar Bergman's Face to Face seems to be one of those films that dwell in the shadows, as if patiently waiting to be found by a discerning eye. Enter Swedish critic and scholar Michael Tapper, who in throwing his sharp torchlight virtually revives this film, which for so long has remained a blind spot neglected by critics and scholarship alike. Most of all Tapper succeeds in delineating how Face to Face lends itself to a rich contextualization of the sort not generally found in mainstream Bergman studies, be it the sexual revolution of the 1970s, second-wave feminism, the growing importance of television as producer of feature film, or the (in)famous 'primal scream' therapy promoted by Henry Janov. Face to Face superbly mirrors the times in which it was made, yet is saturated with issues that remain relevant today. An added feature of this book is that it includes never before published material, for instance the director's diaries in the Ingmar Bergman Foundation Archive, which would otherwise not have seen the light of day. -- Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Prelude: The 1960sUnder FireCrisisPart II. Bergman Goes TVOut of the Ivory TowerMass-Market BergmanThe TV Medium and Bergman’s StylePart III. Bergman’s ModernismAttack of Second-Wave FeminismThe Strindberg-Ibsen-Bergman ConnectionPersona: War on IdealismThe Making of Ingmar BergmanOne Man, Four WomenPart IV. The Djursholm Trilogy Plus OneThe Lie: A Tragi-Comedy of BanalityScenes from a MarriageLife in the Beige LaneCries and Whispers: Into the Belly of the Idealism BeastPart V. Face to FaceTo the Orgasm and Beyond: Ingmar Bergman and the Sexual RevolutionArthur Janov Conquers Sweden – and BergmanWorkbook No. 29, Part I: Everything is a DreamTraum and TraumaWorkbook No. 29, Part II: Jenny the PsychiatristWorkbook No. 29, Part III: The Primal ScreamThe ScreenplayThe ProductionThe TV SeriesThe FilmOverture to the ReleaseReceptionA Success and a FailureCoda: The End of Art?ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAppetite for Innovation offers a backstage view of one of the world's most interesting restaurants, its remarkable laboratory, and the foundation that was created after Ferran Adrià made the unusual decision to close his hugely successful restaurant. M. Pilar Opazo was afforded unusually close access, and her insider account is rich and intriguing. The processual view of innovation is useful, as it highlights the many elements that are needed to be galvanized in support of an expansive vision. -- Walter W. Powell, Stanford UniversityOpazo gives us the inside story of elBulli, a restaurant whose climb to global influence mirrors the culture of today's innovation economy, and its charismatic chef Ferran Adrià, whose passion for creating a new cuisine is driven as much by science as by art. This book will fascinate all kinds of innovators and entrepreneurs—and those who want to understand how a creative organization works. -- Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban PlacesItself an exemplar of creativity and innovation, Appetite for Innovation opens elBulli to reveal the systematic structures and practices that brought world renown to a small restaurant in the mountains of Spain. A beautifully written, analytically sharp ethnography, Opazo's book is a must-read for organizations of all kinds, scholars, chefs, entrepreneurs, culture specialists, and foodies everywhere. -- Diane Vaughan, Columbia UniversityThe tendency when discussing the success of elBulli has been simply to proclaim the genius of chef Ferran Adrià, but Opazo shows that genius is not enough. To have an impact beyond a narrow coterie requires a disciplined and organized inventory of accomplishments and the ability to win over adherents. She thus reveals the infrastructure of success and the paradoxical relationship between willingness to destroy previous accomplishments and practices to push forward an unstable creativity. -- Paul Freedman, Yale UniversityInnovation? Creativity? Opazo poses the perennially vexatious question of their relationship. The answers that this illuminating study suggests bear both on the sociology of organizations and the organization of creativity. In an ethnographic investigation of Ferran Adriá's celebrated restaurant, Opazo brings to bear the sociologist's attention to social structure, the historian's understanding of archives, and the journalist's feel for the striking detail. Appetite for Innovation is as great a pleasure to read as it is profitable to contemplate. -- Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Columbia UniversityWorking at the creative intersection of organizational sociology, and sociology of knowledge and culture, Opazo provides a sharp framing of the routinization of innovation and charisma at elBulli, the highest ranked restaurant in the over-heated world of haute cuisine. In the process she pushes the ethnography of the commercial kitchen towards the study of scientific laboratories and art worlds, investigating their epistemic practices, organizational innovations and creative rhetorics. Appetite for Innovation is a terrific book to study and teach organizational innovation and field transformation. -- Krishnendu Ray, New York University, president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and author of The Ethnic RestaurateurOpazo has written a fascinating organizational and business analysis of the restaurant and, in the process, produced an insightful account of how a culture of innovation can be achieved and sustained. * Forbes.com *Opazo examines elBulli with a sharp sociological eye, creating a detailed case study in what she calls the 'production of innovation.' -- Theodore Kinni * strategy+business *Opazo's investigation will engage anyone interested in the intersection of business, creativity and organizational behaviour. -- Sarah Murdoch * The Toronto Star *Appetite for Innovation is a well-written, organizational study about the factory of innovation that elBulli was and the foundation it became; certainly a fascinating read for academics, innovators, and chefs alike. * Food, Culture, and Society *Lays bare the creative process in more detail than almost anything I've read and enriches the debate about where true creativity comes from. -- Brayden King * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Context and Vision2. From Chaos to Order: ElBulli's System of Continuous Innovation3. Diffusion and Institutionalization of Innovation4. The Bittersweet Taste of Relentless Innovation5. Cooking Up a New OrganizationConclusionNotesReferencesAppendixIndex

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Book SynopsisThe essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. This volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema.Trade ReviewThe long-awaited news flash foregrounded by The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia is that cinema studies has at last parted ways with moldy, genre-based epistemologies. The idea of film-thinking as a philosophia sui generis that opposes formalistic classifications has been there from the get-go-in the hearts and minds of groundbreaking film-heretics. Here we are finally offered a thoroughly researched and carefully thought-out contemplation of the primordial desires and wishful prospects of the art of filmmaking, a distinct form of human expression. This book heralds an advanced phase of maturation for cinema studies. Its straightforward willingness to destabilize its own epistemic, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions, generating authentic terms-of-being, perfectly matches the true spiritual and intellectual scope of the essay film as we know it-and, more critically, as we can never truly know its inherently unknowable stratum. The clarity of this book's statement provides a firm foundation for future revelations the essay film holds in store. -- Dan Geva, Haifa University, and documentary filmmaker This exciting collection promises to be an important milestone for ongoing debates and discussions about the emergent medium of interactive and nonlinear documentary. -- Matt Soar, Concordia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades Part I: The Essay Film as Dialogue 1. Essayism and Contemporary Film Narrative, by Timothy Corrigan 2. Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki and the Principle of Shot/Countershot, by Rick Warner 3. The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus, from Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) to Claire Denis (2004), by Martine Beugnet 4. Cinema-verite and Kino-pravda: Rouch, Vertov, and the Essay Form, by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth A. Papazian Part II: The Essay Film as Politics 5. Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini's Postcolonial Essay Films, by Luca Caminati 6. Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle and the Limits of the Essay Film, by Eric Zakim 7. A Woman with a Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman's Essay Films, by Anne Eakin Moss 8. 'What Does It Mean Today to Be a Communist?': Nanni Moretti's Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films, by Mauro Resmini Part III: The Essay Film as Utopia 9. Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence, by Laura U. Marks 10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillen Landrian's Subversive Strategy in Coffea Arabiga, by Ernesto Livon-Grosman 11. American Essays in How to Build a Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke, by Oliver Gaycken 12. 'to speak, to hold, to live by the image': Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency, by Luka Arsenjuk Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film, by Laura Rascaroli Index

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Book SynopsisKelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.Trade ReviewKelly Oliver's brilliant analysis of how young girls' path to womanhood is filled with beating, battery, abuse, and sexual assault is shocking and timely. Oliver's meticulously researched volume moves back and forth between myths and fairy tales linked to rape, contemporary films, television shows and ads featuring violence to girls, along with studying rape culture, and ambiguities of 'consent,' on college campuses. It is essential reading, showing that women may not have liberated themselves after all. -- E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction Corpse chic, mounted trophy, dead girl, tough girl-Kelly Oliver explores media representations of a new, empowered heroine in her compelling exploration of the dark side of the modern fairytale and its fascination with violence and rape. Oliver asks the reader to think seriously about the forces that drive rape culture and the eroticization of violence. A challenging, disturbing, and enlightening book. -- Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis In her detailed attention to contemporary films and social media, and in linking up today's violence against women with a long line of treasured fables and cultural archetypes, Kelly Oliver makes an important contribution to a discussion of great urgency. With eloquence and perspective, she not only exposes patterns of aggression against women but also shows the sometimes problematic ways in which women try to restore the balance. -- Molly Haskell, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies A must read for scholars and students. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Girls as Trophies 1. A Princess Is Being Beaten and Raped 2. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment 3. Girls as Predators and Prey Conclusion: The New Artemis, Title IX, and Taking Responsibility for Sexual Assault Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTracing the recurrent theme of regret from his stand-up comedy through classics like Annie Hall as well as less esteemed accomplishments, this volume argues that it is ultimately the shallowness of his protagonists' regret—their lack of deeply felt, sustained remorse—that defines Woody Allen’s view of human experience.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Regret and the Problem of Shallowness 2. Apprentice Works 3. The Relationship Films 4. The Murder Quartet 5. The Reflexive Films 6. Nostalgia 7. To Remedy Regret Postscript: Speculations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJohn Hoenig explores the path by which the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to America’s favorite vegetable. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstrating the persistence of diverse food cultures throughout modern America.Trade ReviewA well-written book that demonstrates that the story of industrial food may not be nearly as linear or as top-down as we have thought. -- James McWilliams, Texas State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Early American Tomato2. The Tomato on the Farm: Culinary and Agricultural Advancements, 1820–19003. A Tomato for All Seasons: The Development of the Twelve-Month Fresh and Processed Tomato Industries, 1880–19454. Consuming Tomatoes: Culinary Creativity and Expansion in the Age of Industrialization5. “A Poor Tomato Is Better Than No Tomato”: The Harvester and the Commodification of the Tomato6. Meet the Farmer or Become One: Challenging Commercial Food CultureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”Trade ReviewThis timely volume takes sharp aim at institutions that continue to marginalize the vulnerable, and, in doing so, it makes important advances for Studies in Transgression. Toward that end, an impressive roster of international contributors demonstrates the global implications of border—and social—control. -- Michael Welch, Rutgers University and University of Buenos AiresImmigration Policy in the Age of Punishment identifies the sharp edges of Western efforts to make life difficult for migrants. Importantly, it does so in part by doing what many books fail to do: expanding its gaze away from a narrow concern about the boundaries of nation-states. Reaching into fields as disparate as geography and sociology, these essays will begin to define the field of critical immigration enforcement studies. -- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Sturm College of Law, University of DenverThis innovative book captures the changing nature of global migration and immigration policies, critiquing and contextualizing them for readers. Theoretically rich, Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment is one of the more thorough efforts to draw important connections between mainstream aspects of U.S. criminal justice—such as hyper-incarceration and the self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling “tough on crime” approaches—and the criminalization of immigration. -- David Androff, Arizona State UniversityAn impressive collection of scholarship written by international experts on immigration policy. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David BrothertonI. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations2. Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Bolash-Goza3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An analysis of US Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip KretsedemasII. Producing Deportable Subjects8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh9. Banished Yet Un-Deported: The Constitution of a ‘Floating Population’ of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Boe10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París and Gabriel Pérez Duperou12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement,, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda MartinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is an essential introduction to biotechnology law for scientists and other nonattorneys with biotech backgrounds. Biotechnology Law is a clear, concise, and entirely practical primer on the topic, replete with straightforward, real-world examples to illustrate each key concept.Trade ReviewBrilliant inventors often create incredible products but struggle at the complex legal processes involved. In this educational read, patent lawyer Alan Morrison takes the reader through three main legal concepts encountered by every inventor: patent law, regulatory law, and contract law. The clear and succinct way Morrison describes these legal processes makes his book essential for every inventor, biotech company, and technology commercialization office, not only to understand the process but also to avoid making common costly mistakes. -- Jahanara Ali, director of the BioVenture eLab, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityThis is an up-to-date, well-organized volume on biotechnology law suitable for scientific and business audiences. Alan J. Morrison walks biotechnology scientists through the legal issues they will confront during the natural process of planning, researching, developing, testing, and protecting their inventions. -- Aaron Fellmeth, Dennis S. Karjala Professor of Law, Science, and Technology, Sandra Day O'Connor College of LawThis book provides an approachable overview of three complicated areas of law that are relevant to biotechnology: patent law, regulatory approval for drugs and biologics, and contract law. Aimed at scientists unfamiliar with the law and at others in the biotechnology industry, this book makes legal matters more accessible by using helpful examples and by covering the main points of the law without getting too bogged down in the details. -- W. Nicholson Price II, University of Michigan Law SchoolTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Patent Law1. The Patent as a Negative Right and the Claim as Its Business End2. Construing the Patent Claim3. The Patentable Invention4. The Patent Document’s Role in Supporting a Claimed Invention5. The Long Road to Getting a Patent6. Lengthening and Shortening a Patent’s Term7. Continuing-Application Practice and the Making of a Patent Family8. The Murky World of Inventorship9. Patent Infringement and Its Variations10. Defenses and Preemptive Challenges11. Patent Opinions12. The Patent Portfolio13. The Interplay Between Trade Secrets and PatentsSection II: Regulatory Law14. The Innovator Drug: From Development to Approval15. Generic Drugs16. BiosimilarsSection III: Contract Law17. The Contract: An Enforceable Promise18. Biotechnology AgreementsAcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingGlossary of Legal Acronyms and AbbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisLauren-Brooke Eisen blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, offering a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens.Trade ReviewLauren-Brooke Eisen illuminates the history of private prisons and their place in the current environment and the future of mass incarceration in America-which we are trying to minimize. She incorporates individual interviews with a collation of quantitative data to strike a balance between fine detail and the big picture of the complex and still-evolving discourse of private corrections; a vital discussion for the future of our criminal justice and immigration policies. -- Ernest Drucker, author of A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons2. How the Government Privatized3. Prisoners as Commodities4. The Prison Industrial Complex5. Private Prisons and the American Heartland6. The Prison Divestment Movement7. The Politics of Private Prisons8. Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers9. Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons10. Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons11. The Future of Private PrisonsConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisSarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Chromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation.Trade ReviewChromatic Modernity makes a brilliant contribution to the history of color in film. Focusing on the pivotal period of the 1920s, the book skillfully situates modernist cinema within a sweeping "chromatic revolution" that impacted everything from fashion and advertising to urban planning and interior design. In so doing, it shows conclusively why color matters to film history—and why cinema mattered to the chromatic culture of modernity. -- Michael Cowan, University of St AndrewsThis book differs from other studies of film color in its interdisciplinary approach. The authors have gone to great lengths to explore the cultural use of color outside of films and how that influenced and informed technical developments and audience tastes in cinema. I cannot think of a pair more qualified to analyze such overlooked cinema than Street and Yumibe. The convergence of these experts benefits their research and the text they have written. -- James Layton, coauthor of The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935Arguing against assumptions that intermediality decreases with the formation of the classical Hollywood system, Street and Yumibe assert that the twenties are, in fact, a key decade for cinematic engagement across art forms in the development of this heightened color consciousness. The focus on the transnational intellectual, aesthetic, and industrial cross influences between the United States and Europe and the historical synthesis of a large literature on the color revolution are two significant features of this book. -- Kirsten Moana Thompson, Seattle UniversityThis is a remarkable book. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Color Standards and the Industrial Field of Film2. Advertising, Fashion, and Color3. Synthetic Dreams: Expanded Spaces of Cinema4. Color in the Art and Avant-Garde of the 1920s5. Chromatic Hybridity6. Color and the Coming of Sound7. ConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the entwining histories and contexts that led to Ms. 45’s creation and helped establish its enduring legacy, particularly in terms of feminist cult film fandom, as well as the film’s status as one of the most important, influential, and powerful rape-revenge films ever made.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Mea Culpa 1. Prima facie - Towards Ms. 45 2. Locus delecti - Watching Ms. 45 3. Modus operandi - After Ms. 45 4. Post mortem - Beyond Ms. 45 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.Trade ReviewOverall, Judge Thy Neighbor is full of rich details and thoughtful observations on a phenomenon that sociologists pay little attention to, despite the prevalence of denunciation in the past and present. * American Journal of Sociology *An important illustration of how much we can learn from combining middle-range theory and comparisons within well contextualized historical case studies. Bergemann skillfully moves beyond the work of historians by forging theoretical connections between denunciation and different forms of social control across space and time. * Social Forces *A terrific book. It greatly improves our understanding of repressive structures and social conflict. It is also an excellent example of comparative thinking, with some very good data, providing fresh insight to historical cases on which a lot of ink has been spilled. * Contemporary Sociology *Social scientists neglect negative interpersonal ties. While lab experiments on the willing assumption of malevolent authority open a window on this topic, Bergemann is the first to examine betrayal and denunciation to the authorities in natural settings, and to theorize the common causes and patterns over the centuries. A fascinating opening into a dark side of human behavior. -- Mark Granovetter, Joan Butler Ford Professor, Stanford UniversityThe nastiest feature of living in oppressive regimes is the pressure to denounce other people. But Bergemann shows some surprising patterns. Regimes can be inundated with unreliable information and petty grievances, and some incentives have more costs than others. This history is highly relevant in today’s era of whistleblowers, snitching, and online accusations. -- Randall Collins, author of Interaction Ritual ChainsDenunciation is more pervasive than we think, yet remains poorly studied and understood. Using three case studies, Bergemann advances new hypotheses and helps shed light on this intriguing social phenomenon. -- Stathis N. Kalyvas, author of The Logic of Violence in Civil WarResearch on deviance typically focuses on those who violate prevailing norms. Bergemann turns the camera around: What if the real deviants are the accusers, not the accused? By applying alternative theoretical models to three historical cases, Bergemann identifies the viral strains in epidemics of denunciation, with stunning new insights. This exquisitely crafted study is a must-read not only for students of social control but for anyone who wonders if law enforcement should be crowdsourced. -- Michael Macy, Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell UniversityThere have been case studies of the Inquisition and lots of work on the Gestapo, but the explanations in all of those are ad hoc and make no effort to generalize beyond their single cases. Judge Thy Neighbor offers a theory that I expect will both transform future work on these and other cases of denunciations and influence broader social-science analyses of group dynamics, social movements, and microsocial relations. -- Richard Lachmann, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A Theory of Denunciation2. The Spanish Inquisition3. Romanov Russia4. Nazi Germany5. Denunciations: Present and FutureNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China in fifteen short stories and novel excerpts. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the genre.Trade ReviewA fascinating anthology of some of the contemporary stories coming out of China today . . . The stories represent just a slice of China’s science fiction community, but it’s an engrossing window into a fascinating body of work. -- Andrew Liptak * The Verge *These stories range from deeply philosophical speculative fiction to traditional tropes, like space battles and interstellar civilizations. Song and Huters’s introduction places the stories in the context of post-1989 political trends on the Mainland, and their footnotes make the volume accessible while also offering further avenues to interested readers (for example, texts on the history of the Warring States period or the poetry of Li Bai). -- Alexandra Marraccini * Times Literary Supplement *A definitive tour of some of the most influential landmarks of contemporary Chinese sf. Highly recommended. -- Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Grace of KingsScience fiction is the most important literary phenomenon in twenty-first-century China. In a culture dominated by realism of various brands throughout the twentieth century, the surge of science fiction in the new millennium bespeaks not only a literary renovation but also the changing political ethos and intellectual visions of China. From star wars to spacy odysseys, extraterrestrial encounters to cybernetic adventures, contemporary Chinese science fiction projects utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares, unspeakable taboos and undreamed-of marvels. The Reincarnated Giant features fifteen masterpieces from both China and the Sinophone world. It is a must read for anyone curious about the intriguing mythology of a rising China. -- David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityThe Reincarnated Giant is a unique contribution to the field of global science fiction, making available to English-language readers some of the most exciting and accomplished twenty-first-century sf by writers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. From the grotesque aesthetics of the title story to the sublime aesthetics of stories such as Liu’s “The Poetry Cloud,” this anthology provides a broad perspective on an increasingly significant body of sf story-telling for the twenty-first century. -- Veronica Hollinger, professor emerita, Trent University, and editor, Science Fiction StudiesThe volume is timely for the field of Chinese science fiction studies. The editors’ selection of specific texts for inclusion and Mingwei Song’s comprehensive introduction are an accurate survey of contemporary Chinese sf writing. These beautifully written and translated stories will capture the imagination of most readers. -- Hua Li, Montana State UniversityIn showcasing representative works of science fiction by authors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China, The Reincarnated Giant provides readers with a fascinating and multifaceted glimpse into China’s near (and not-so-near?) future(s). Thank you to the writers, translators, and editors for the existence of this work of scholarship and art. It is timely and timeless. It is stunning. It is necessary. -- Seo-young Chu, Queens CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Does Science Fiction Dream of a Chinese New Wave?, by Mingwei SongPart I: Other Realities1. Regenerated Bricks, by Han Song (translated by Theodore Huters)2. The Village Schoolteacher, by Liu Cixin (translated by Christopher Elford and Jiang Chenxin)3. Histories of Time: The Luster of Mute Porcelain (excerpts), by Dung Kai-cheung (translated and introduced by Carlos Rojas)4. The Dream Devourer (chapters 5–7), by Egoyan Zheng (translated by Cara Healey)5. The Demon-Enslaving Flask, by Xia Jia (translated by Linda Rui Feng)Part II: Other Us6. The Poetry Cloud, by Liu Cixin (translated by Chi-yin Ip and Cheuk Wong)7. “Science Fiction”: A Chapter of Daughter, by Lo Yi-chin (translated by Thomas Moran and Jingling Chen)8. Balin, by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu)9. The Radio Waves That Never Die, by La La (translated by Petula Parris-Huang)10. 1923: A Fantasy, by Zhao Haihong (translated by Nicky Harman and Pang Zhaoxia)Part III: Other Futures11. The Passengers and the Creator, by Han Song (translated by Nathaniel Isaacson)12. The Reincarnated Giant, by Wang Jinkang (translated by Carlos Rojas)13. The Rain Forest, by Chi Hui (translated by Jie Li)14. The Demon’s Head, by Fei Dao (translated by David Hull)15. Songs of Ancient Earth, by Bao Shu (translated by Adrian Thieret)NotesRecommended ReadingContributors

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Book SynopsisStefani Engelstein argues that the sibling paradigm shaped the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities such as race, religion, and gender. Integrating close readings with panoramic intellectual history, Sibling Action presents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge.Trade ReviewAs inviting, invigorating and stimulating an academic book as I have encountered. An astonishing read from the first page to the last. -- Adrian Daub, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sibling and ModernityPart I. Recuperating the Sibling1. Sibling LogicPart II. Fraternity and Revolution2. The Shadows of Fraternity3. Economizing Desire: The Sibling (in) LawPart III. Genealogical Sciences4. Living Languages: Comparative Philology and Evolution5. The East Comes Home: Race and ReligionEpilogue: Spawning DisciplinesNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book probes the production history, initial reception, aesthetics, and legacy of Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise in order to understand its place in the cult film canon. It explores early-1980s New York downtown culture and Jarmusch’s involvement in music, as well as reflecting on the film's status alongside Jarmusch’s subsequent output.Trade ReviewAn excellent, lucid account that maps the position of Stranger Than Paradise via a number of intersections between the realms of cult, art, independent, and punk-related cinema. Offers an accessible but substantial analysis of industrial, formal, and thematic dimensions of what remains an enduring indie classic. -- Geoff King, Brunel UniversityThis volume [is] the first book length study of an important and frequently taught art-cult movie. Arguing that Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise didn’t come to cult status in the usual way, the volume makes an important intervention in the way we define cult movies and assign cult status, and an intervention in the way we frame the entire “cult” discussion. -- Joan Hawkins, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Stranger Than Paradise, Video, Television, and I1. Production and Initial Reception2. Film Analysis3. Subsequent Reception4. Status as a Cult FilmNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Wes Anderson as Auteur—a History2. Wes Anderson: His Position in American Cinema and Culture3. Gender, Youth, and the Explorartion of Masculinity in Bottle Rocket4. “Sic Transit Gloria”: Transgressing the Boundaries of Adolescence in Rushmore5. The Interplay of Narrative Text, Language, and Film: Literary Influence and Intertextuality in The Royal Tenenbaums6. Opposition and Resolution: The Dissonance of Celebrity in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou7. Fragmentary Narratives/Incomplete Identities in The Darjeeling Limited8. Adaptation and Homage: The World of Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr. Fox9. Reconstitution of the “Family” and Construction of Normalized Gender in Moonrise Kingdom10. Literary Influence and Memory: Stefan Zweig and The Grand Budapest Hotel11. Wes Anderson’s Short Films and Commercial WorkConclusion: Memory and Narrative in the Works of Wes AndersonFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the legal and national-security debates that made torture an acceptable act of counterterrorism.Trade ReviewArsenault's book provides a much-needed historical context for the torture policy that emerged during the post-9/11 years. It is comprehensive, well researched, and, at the same time, digestible. -- Karen J. Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law School One of the most perplexing and disturbing outcomes of the 9/11 attacks and the rise of global terrorism was America's adoption of torture against captured suspected terrorists-so-called detainees. This outstanding book by Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault lays out-in a reliable, scholarly, and readable manner-how this overreach occurred, how it profoundly violated U.S. norms and devotion to human rights, and what might be done to ensure a more appropriate balance between security and liberty for the United States in the future. For my own teaching and research endeavors, I keep this important volume close at hand. -- Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor, University of Georgia This is a thoughtful and provoking account of how the United States abandoned its own-and the world's-legal and normative prohibitions against the use of torture. At its core are a compelling story about how once-cherished legal norms can unravel and the poignant observation that there is no single culprit but rather a system of actors-including top policy makers, their lawyers, and interrogators-aided by shifting public attitudes and cultural norms. -- Emilie Hafner-Burton, University of California, San Diego I recommend that you read this book. It will provoke thoughts within you, but it will also provide you a broader and deeper insight into human nature, regardless of where you lie on the line between assuring national security and upholding agreed-upon legal norms against torture. -- Sonu Chandiram Biz IndiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. Background 1. Introduction 2. History of POW Treatment in the United States: From the Revolutionary War to the Korean War 3. Modern POW Treatment in the United States: The Vietnam War, the Geneva Conventions, and the Pre-9/11 Era Part II. Evolution of Norms Around POW Treatment 4. POW Treatment and Lawyers 5. POW Treatment and Policy Makers 6. POW Treatment and Interrogators Part III. Conclusion 7. Implications and Recommendations Appendix A: Who's Who Appendix B: Timeline of Major Events Appendix C: Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPrison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: After the Crime is Over 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs 2. Women's Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex puns, rhymes, and neologisms. Language rather than plot motivates the story-the novel is often compared to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake-and time, characters, and death all prove unstable. The one constant is the Russian landscape.Trade ReviewA masterful feat. Boguslawski has created a discourse, or literary style, that captures Sokolov's at once folksy and fanciful, verbally playful, punning speech and is remarkably faithful to the subtleties of Sokolov's language. -- Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf, delivered in Alexander Boguslawski's masterful translation, comprises a daring act of immersion into the depths of language that results in semantic spasms of the great Russian literary body. The highly experimental novel, which unquestionably belongs to the highest literary ranks, announces the twilight of the novelistic tradition, but already eagerly awaits its imminent dawn. -- Nariman Skakov, Stanford University Sokolov is one of those rare novelists whose primary concern is the praise and exploration of a language rather than the development of a position. In this, he is in the line of Gogol, Lermontov, Nabokov. -- David Remnick, Washington Post One of the great living Russian writers. Flavorwire Intricate and rewarding-a Russian Finnegans Wake. Vanity Fair One feels the caliber and creativity of the original. This is a riot of language, invaluable for scholars and fascinating to the curious. Publishers Weekly A bold, lyrical English version of this challenging work, where plot, character and chronology dissolve in the flood of Sokolov's rich prose and poetry, evoking an-often frozen-landscape. -- Phoebe Taplin Russia Beyond the HeadlinesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Discords Beyond the Itil 2. The Trapper's Tale 3. Notes of a Binging Hunter 4. Dzyndzyrela's Discords Beyond the Itil 5. The Trapper's Tale or Pictures from an Exhibition 6. Accordin to Ilya Petrikeich 7. Notes of a Hunter 8. Discords Beyond the Itil 9. Pictures from an Exhibition 10. Dzynzyrella's 11. Again the Notes 12. Discords Beyond the Itil 13. Pictures from an Exhibition 14. Accordin to Ilya Petrikeich 15. The Binger's Journal 16. The Trapper's Tale 17. The Last Remarks 18. The Note, Sent in a Separate Bottle Annotations

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Book SynopsisIn Assessing Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal and colleagues marshal years of research to present a comprehensive definition of empathy, one that links neuroscientific evidence to human service practiceTrade ReviewA thorough review of what we presently know about empathy and its importance in human life, culminating in an illuminating study. -- Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Segal and her coauthors have carefully and thoroughly deconstructed the elements of empathy examined by neuroscientific research in order to construct an innovative theory of social empathy. They make a significant contribution to the development of the social work profession, and this timely book will be relevant to a large audience beyond social work and other helping professions. -- Sarah Garlington, Ohio University I found this book to be deeply engaging and an urgent contemporary revisiting of a concept that is fundamental to interpersonal communication and therapeutic relationships. The authors brilliantly integrate transdisciplinary knowledge and perspectives from physiology, psychology, and the neurosciences to enhance the reader's understanding of "empathy." -- Paula Allen-Meares, chancellor emerita, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Assessing Empathy will be an invaluable multidisciplinary resource for students and scholars alike. It not only offers a comprehensive review of the concept of empathy, but also summarizes important research findings from human neuroscience, developmental psychology, social work, ethology, and other social science disciplines that bear on our understanding of how empathy is acquired, and the critical functions it serves in both social and interpersonal contexts. -- Jerrold R. Brandell, Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Wayne State University School of Social Work How do we enhance people's capacity to care about others? This volume beautifully integrates the current state of knowledge regarding empathy from neurobiological, psychological, bio-social and social justice perspectives, and offers both the rationale and the tools to begin answering that important question. -- Jacky Thomas, California State University San MarcosTable of Contents1. What Is Empathy? 2. The Building Blocks of Empathy 3. Why Is Empathy Important? 4. Why Is Empathy So Difficult to Achieve? 5. Linking Interpersonal and Social Empathy 6. Tools for Measuring and Assessing Empathy Appendix A. Research and Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Empathy and Social Empathy Appendix B. Empathy Assessment Index Appendix C. Social Empathy Index Appendix D. Interpersonal and Social Empathy Index Appendix E. Spanish Translation of the Empathy Assessment Index, the Social Empathy Index, and the Interpersonal and Social Empathy Index, by David Becerra and Maria del Rosario Silva Arciniega References Index

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Book SynopsisHunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. He examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world.Trade ReviewHollywood’s Dirtiest Secret injects the field of environmental media studies (and just plain media studies) with an exciting toolkit and a renewed sense of energy. -- Joshua Schulze, Dept of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan * New Review of Film and Television Studies *In Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (2019), Hunter Vaughan takes a vibrant and interdisciplinary look into the environmental impact of producing, advertising, watching, distributing, and buying films. -- Cassice Last, University of St Andrews * Frames Cinema Journal *Showcase[s] an important issue with writing that is accessible and engaging. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Written with passion and commitment, [this book] holds a mirror to the society in redefining the boundaries of entertainment, as if the environment matters. -- Sudhirendar Sharma * Outlook: The Fully Loaded Magazine *Hunter Vaughan's forensic accounting uncovers Hollywood's secretly unpaid debts to the environment, demonstrating ecocriticism's power to connect political economy to movies' themes and styles, for analysis and for future makers. More than compelling: entertaining and inspiring. -- Sean Cubitt, author of Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital TechnologiesHollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an important new book that exposes the hidden environmental costs of how we make, watch, and dispose of movies. Well-researched and written in an accessible style, it is a thought-provoking alternative history of Hollywood, delving into the disconnect between our enjoyment of screen culture and concern for its environmental impact. It will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of fields including cultural studies, communication, social science, and environmental studies. -- Alison Anderson, author of Media, Environment and the Network SocietyIn Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural studies more broadly. -- Adrian Ivakhiv, author of Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, NatureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Big Picture1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental MediaConclusion: An Element of HopeNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. He examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world.Trade ReviewHollywood’s Dirtiest Secret injects the field of environmental media studies (and just plain media studies) with an exciting toolkit and a renewed sense of energy. -- Joshua Schulze, Dept of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan * New Review of Film and Television Studies *In Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (2019), Hunter Vaughan takes a vibrant and interdisciplinary look into the environmental impact of producing, advertising, watching, distributing, and buying films. -- Cassice Last, University of St Andrews * Frames Cinema Journal *Showcase[s] an important issue with writing that is accessible and engaging. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Written with passion and commitment, [this book] holds a mirror to the society in redefining the boundaries of entertainment, as if the environment matters. -- Sudhirendar Sharma * Outlook: The Fully Loaded Magazine *Hunter Vaughan's forensic accounting uncovers Hollywood's secretly unpaid debts to the environment, demonstrating ecocriticism's power to connect political economy to movies' themes and styles, for analysis and for future makers. More than compelling: entertaining and inspiring. -- Sean Cubitt, author of Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital TechnologiesHollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an important new book that exposes the hidden environmental costs of how we make, watch, and dispose of movies. Well-researched and written in an accessible style, it is a thought-provoking alternative history of Hollywood, delving into the disconnect between our enjoyment of screen culture and concern for its environmental impact. It will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of fields including cultural studies, communication, social science, and environmental studies. -- Alison Anderson, author of Media, Environment and the Network SocietyIn Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural studies more broadly. -- Adrian Ivakhiv, author of Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, NatureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Big Picture1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental MediaConclusion: An Element of HopeNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisEvan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.Trade ReviewIn On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them. -- Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates and former commissioner of the New York City Department of TransportationThis social history of the transformation of New York’s relationship to cycling is elegantly researched, gracefully written, and nearly as delightful as the bicycle itself. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsTwo hundred years ago, the first riding machines that resembled what would become bicycles began pouring into Manhattan, and New York City would never be the same again. On Bicycles is brilliantly researched, noting the battles against local government, sexism, the automobile, and the railways, as the bicycle fought its way to become more popular today than ever before. Vive le vélo! -- Phil Liggett MBE, "The Voice of Cycling"Witty and wise, engaged and engaging, surprising, fun and fabulous—I’m running out of adjectives to describe Evan Friss’s wondrous new book. Move over Amsterdam: New York City is a bicycling city too, though with fits and starts, grunts and guffaws, and more than a handful of bike haters (some in high places). A great way to learn about the history of the city that never sleeps—and has never stopped arguing about its bicycles and bicyclists. -- David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, CUNY Graduate CenterA fresh and personalized perspective on what the bicycle has meant to New Yorkers over the years. -- David Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The HistoryA superb history of New York’s cycling cultures over the last two centuries, On Bicycles surveys the evolution of the bicycle in the city from urban menace and medium of feminist liberation to weekend joyride and mainstay of the transportation network. Written with verve and precision, it reads like a long glide down Broadway with the wind at your back, catching green light after green light. -- Samuel Zipp, author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New YorkAn essential contribution to multiple fields—New York history, transportation history, urban history, and planning history—this compelling and fascinating story takes you along with ease, artfully offering a barrage of digestible information, including previously unknown morsels. Even the most well-read New Yorkers, cyclists, and urban historians will find something new here. -- Owen Gutfreund, Hunter CollegeA thoughtful, entertaining look at an essential form of transportation in New York City. * Publishers Weekly *[An] absorbing new book... -- Ginia Bellafante * New York Times *On Bicycles is a joyful read and a welcome retreat from stodgy, jargon-filled historical treatments . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. * New York Almanac *What we should take away from this illuminating history is that the bicycle has endured. Indeed, a new golden age may be on the horizon. * Journal of Cultural Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Rough Start2. Up and Down3. Moses4. The Ban5. BloombergEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRoberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.Trade ReviewFacebook Society arrives at the moment when the idea that 'Facebook is us' is front page news. Just in time, Roberto Simanowski gives us a theory as to how it is that Facebook produces the very subjects who cannot feel shortchanged by what it offers. But he delivers more. Here is the crucial test of the philosophy of history and Frankfurt School critical theory brought to bear on the phenomenon defining the sociality of our time. -- Jane M. Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?Facebook Society is a wonderfully rich and deeply thought extended essay on a symptomatic social medium of our day. With his focus on autobiography, friendship, memory, and narrative Simanowski outlines ways in which digital media have the power to change human perception and social relations. A broad historical, literary, and critical perspective on social media such as Simanowski’s is very much needed both in the humanities and in the social sciences. -- Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of AmnesiaWho says Facebook can only lead to a flattening of intellectual life and political discourse? In a series of intriguing readings, Simanowski offers a compelling assessment of Zuckerberg’s empire without capitulating before its celebration of ceaseless connectivity and frenzied interaction. Whether it draws on Schopenhauer, Kracauer, or Nancy, Facebook Society brilliantly exemplifies why thought and theory remain essential to gauge the impact of social media on our imagination, our sense of self and community, and our ability to engage the past as a medium to shape different futures. -- Lutz Koepnick, author of On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the ContemporaryFrom Pascal to Butler, Goethe to Baudrillard, Facebook Society offers a rich philosophical engagement with one of the most important platforms of our time. Simanowski's skillful text demonstrates how the mundane nature of Facebook includes a long media ecology of issues which bind us to others as communities and through friendship while defining what we are as subjects. This book offers coordinates to nothing less than the transformation of this political field. -- Jussi Parikka, author of Digital Contagions and A Geology of MediaVery readable book, I am sure that you will find it very captivating and absolutely informative. I just can tell you that I read it in a few hours. Highly recommended. -- Anna Maria Polidori, freelance journalist * Storie, racconti, recensioni Blog by Anna Maria Polidori *Table of ContentsPreface1. Stranger Friends2. Automatic Autobiography3. Digital NationAfterwordEpilogue to the English EditionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDanger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years. This study examines its status as a comic-book movie, traces its production and initial reception in Italy, France, the U.S., and the UK, and its cult afterlife as both a pop-art classic and campy "bad film."Trade ReviewPacked with information, facts, figures, speculation, analysis, and cultural connections. * All Classical Portland *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Diabolik, chi sei?1. From fumetto nero to ‘wild and kooky cape-opera’: Production, promotion, initial reception2. ‘Uh-oh – it’s getting groovy!’: The cult afterlife of Danger: Diabolik3. Fantômas all’italiana: Analysis4. Genius of Crime: The place of the filmNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJames Overholser approaches cognitive therapy through the interactive dialogues of Socrates, aiming to reduce the gap between theory and practice. Clinicians and students will appreciate the flexibility and creativity that underlie effective psychotherapy sessions when guided by the Socratic method as an innovative approach to self-exploration.Trade ReviewAs core strategic interventions in cognitive behavioral therapy, Socratic methods of dialogue and questioning are often neglected or poorly understood philosophically and historically. Overholser beautifully and clearly describes how valuable the Socratic method is for enhancing the therapeutic relationship. This is a must read volume for any mental health professional. -- Aaron T. Beck, University of PennsylvaniaI have long followed James Overholser's work on the use of the Socratic method in psychotherapy. I have always wondered why he had not written a book on the subject. Now he has and it is well worth the wait. It should be read, digested, and acted upon by all therapists. -- Windy Dryden, Goldsmiths University of LondonOverholser provides foundational conceptual knowledge of Socratic methods, which is often missing in purely technical descriptions of the procedure. He artfully combines this theoretical material with very practical clinical guidelines for scaffolding Socratic dialogues. This is a complex, intricate subject presented in an extraordinarily accessible manner. -- Robert Friedberg, Palo Alto UniversityThis is a stimulating, creative statement and guide for all manner of psychotherapists: psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and students . . . A must-read for clinicians at any stage in their training or career. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction to the Socratic Method2. Psychotherapy as Therapy of the Mind3. Integrating Science and Practice . . . and Philosophy?4. Systematic Questioning: If You Do Not Know, Just Ask5. Inductive Reasoning: Learning from Personal Experiences6. Universal Definitions: What Do You Mean by That?7. Socratic Ignorance: Accepting What You Do Not Really Know8. Guided Discovery: Searching Together as a Team9. Self-Improvement: Helping Clients to Grow and Mature10. A Focus on Virtue Ethics in Psychotherapy11. Wisdom: Can You See the Big Picture?12. Courage: Are You Brave Enough to Be Yourself?13. Moderation: Learning to Tame Your Desires14. Justice: Is It Possible to Be Fair to Everyone?15. Piety: Do Spiritual Beliefs Have a Place in Psychotherapy?16. Psychotherapy from a Socratic View17. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here?ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisE. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution.Trade ReviewA unique scholarly approach to the subject that is sure to be influential and highly regarded. -- Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Stanford University An excellent text that throws new light on where religious ideas come from. -- Patrick McNamara, Boston University School of MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Brain, Home of the GodsPart 1. The Making of the Gods1. Homo habilis: A Smarter Self2. Homo erectus: An Aware Self3. Archaic Homo sapiens (Neandertals): An Empathic Self4. Early Homo sapiens: An Introspective Self5. Modern Homo sapiens: A Temporal SelfPart 2. The Emergence of the Gods6. Ancestors and Agriculture: A Spiritual Self7. Governments and Gods: A Theistic Self8. Other Theories of the Origins Of GodsAppendix A: The Evolution of the BrainAppendix B: Dreams as Proof of the Existence of a Spirit World and Land of the DeadNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisJonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias, to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism, undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the difficult task of promoting racial justice.Trade ReviewRace on the Brain offers a provocative examination of contemporary discussions of race, racism, and law. Kahn carefully assesses the scientific framework of implicit bias, highlighting its laudable intent and aspirations while revealing hidden challenges. This is a thoughtful and timely contribution that will surely enrich ongoing conversations on race and human cognition and their socio-legal significance. -- Osagie K. Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the BlindTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Implicit Bias—the Limits to Science as a Tool of Racial Justice1. Defining and Measuring Implicit Bias2. The Uptake of Implicit Social Cognition by the Legal Academy3. Accepting Conservative Frames: Time, Color Blindness, Diversity, and Intent4. Behavioral Realism in Action5. Deracinating the Legal Subject6. Obscuring Power7. Recreational Antiracism and the Power of Positive Nudging8. Seeking a Technical Fix to Racism9. Biologizing Racism: The Ultimate Technical FixConclusion: Contesting the Common Sense of RacismNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality. He features the powerful voices and insights of black youth in Chicago and their parents and communities.Trade ReviewVoisin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) has written a robust and captivating book detailing the impacts of neighborhood violence on the lives of impoverished black youth . . . The book is excellent in its overview of the problems at hand and the ways to address them . . . Highly recommended. -- J. A. Beicken, Rocky Mountain College * Choice *Based on years of study, Dexter Voisin has written an unusually thoughtful, sensitive, and astute meditation on violence—what it means, how it comes about, how it affects people, and how the media choose to write about it. The book’s critical yet sober stance means the author’s clear and unmistakable sense of urgency is coupled with a subtle, sophisticated sense of the many-faceted consequences of violence. A consistently enlightening work. -- Mario L. Small, author of Someone to Talk ToVoisin powerfully shows that the violence that Chicago’s black youth experience is rooted in the nation as a whole. He untangles these complex systems and offers clear and effective solutions. This book will be illuminating for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners alike. -- Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the CityDexter Voisin writes with conviction, clarity, and conscience in connecting the dots between big ideas (racism, violence, resilience) and daily life through his personal story and those of the folks he has interviewed. America the Beautiful and Violent will help you understand how African American youth can not only survive, but thrive. -- Lois Takahashi, University of Southern CaliforniaMost discussions of violence focus on its horrors and have the tendency to portray perpetrators in a stereotypical manner. This book, on the other hand, has the potential to deepen our understanding of violence and shed light on solutions. -- Pedro Noguera, University of California, Los AngelesTable of Contents1. The Beginning2. The Tale of Two Americas3. Not All Violence Is the Same: Race- and Place-Based Violence4. The Road to Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Violence5. The Scars of Violence6. When Violence and Sex Are Entangled7. Living and Parenting in the Presence of Everyday Dangers8. Joining the Broken Pieces: Practice and Policy Solutions and Systems Integration9. Making a Difference: Rebuilding the VillageNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMonsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. With images from the original scroll paintings, it illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture.Trade ReviewThis volume offers translations of exciting, important Japanese tales that traverse the other worlds of monstrous and animal beings. From hungry ghosts to flesh-eating demons, the characters here are not just the oft-sung heroes of history or familiar gods of religious traditions—they are part of narratives that serve as imaginative touchstones of the medieval Japanese. Illustrations of key scenes, drawn from well-preserved scrolls and booklets, breathe further life into the stories, and an authoritative introduction puts the tales as a genre in their literary and artistic contexts. Each story is a polished gem, with generous notes to bring the social, spiritual, and material culture of medieval Japan into view. -- Linda Chance, University of PennsylvaniaAs leading scholars in their fields, Kimbrough and Shirane provide a well-organized, extensively illustrated work that will appeal to general readers and students alike. -- Joshua Mostow, University of British ColumbiaA timely collection. . . . Beyond the mysteries and intrigue found in each story, the tales are also endearing and hopeful. As a student of both art history and literature, I found the collection an exciting and illuminating read. -- Zeny May Dy Recidoro * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *This volume provides a clear window into medieval Japanese culture and world view. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Haruo ShiraneMonsters, Warriors, and Journeys to Other WorldsHaseo and the Gambling Stranger (Haseo sōshi)The Tale of the Dirt Spider (Tsuchigumo zōshi)The Demon Shuten Dōji (Shuten Dōji)The Demon of Ibuki (Ibuki Dōji)The Tale of Tawara Tōda (Tawara Tōda monogatari)The Origins of Hashidate (Hashidate no honji (Bontenkoku)The Palace of the Tengu (Tengu no dairi)Yoshitsune’s Island-Hopping (Onzōshi shima-watari)The Tale of Amewakahiko (Amewakahiko sōshi)The Origins of the Suwa Deity (Suwa no honji)Buddhist TalesThe Tale of the Fuji Cave (Fuji no hitoana sōshi)Isozaki (Isozaki)The Tale of the Handcart Priest (Kuruma-zō sōshi)Origins of the Statue of Kannon as a Boy (Chigo Kannon engi)Little Atsumori (Ko-Atsumori)The Crone Fleece (Ubakawa)Interspecies AffairsThe Tale of the Mouse (Nezumi no sōshi)The Chrysanthemum Spirit (Kiku no sei monogatari [Kazashi no himegimi])The Tale of Tamamizu (Tamamizu monogatari)The Tale of a Wild Goose (Kari no sōshi)The Stingfish (Okoze)Lady Tamamo (Tamamo no mae sōshi)The Tale of the Clam (Hamaguri no sōshi)The War of the Twelve Animals (Jūnirui kassen emaki)The Sparrow’s Buddhist Awakening (Suzume no hosshin)English-Language Secondary SourcesPermissions

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Book SynopsisParkash Chander argues that we can make progress on the climate-change impasse through incorporating the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework generates.Trade ReviewWritten exceptionally clearly, this book lays out a novel theory of cooperative games and coalition formation as it applies to environmental problems—and in the process makes significant progress in reconciling cooperative and noncooperative game theory. -- Benjamin Ho, Vassar CollegeClimate change is an extraordinarily challenging problem, partly because of its global commons nature. For this reason, game theory can bring valuable insights to considerations of alternative public policies, as well as to international negotiations among the countries of the world. In Game Theory and Climate Change, Parkash Chander adds in significant ways to the relevant scholarly literature at the interface of climate change, economics, and game theory. -- Robert N. Stavins, Harvard UniversityIn this important and timely book, Chander, a leading environmental economist and game theorist, systematically develops a set of game-theoretic solutions to the grand challenge of global climate change. He convincingly demonstrates the value of integrating insights from both cooperative and noncooperative games, and the importance of side payments in improving international climate agreements. He advances important solution concepts such as subgame perfect agreements and incorporates important real-world features, such as heterogeneity across nations. I strongly recommend the book to researchers as well as practitioners interested in international climate negotiations. -- Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State UniversityThe book will interest PhD students and game-theory experts. Recommended. * Choice *This is a timely book, interpreting climate change negotiations in terms of game theoryconcepts. The content of the book is based on a stream of papers published by theauthor over more than 20 years. The book is aimed at economists who use finely craftedmathematical models to explore possible solutions to complex social and environmentalproblems. The extensive bibliography will be helpful to any newcomer in the fieldof environmental economics. -- Alain B. Haurie * MathSciNet *Work like Chander's is important precisely because it creates tools we can use to imagine the distance between our world and one in which powerful actors have committed to a response to climate change. * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPreface1. Purpose and Scope2. The Basic Framework3. Rationale for Cooperation4. The Core of a Strategic Game5. Environmental Games6. Coalition Formation Games7. Dynamic Environmental Games8. Limits to Climate Change9. The Journey from Kyoto to Paris10. International Trade and Climate ChangeConclusionReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Raimi gives a balanced and accessible view of oil and gas development, clearly and thoroughly explaining the key issues surrounding the shale revolution. The Fracking Debate provides the evidence and context that have so frequently been missing from discussion of the future of oil and gas production.Trade ReviewIn this fair and unbiased book, filled with firsthand accounts and written in a gritty style appropriate for the topic at hand, Raimi explores the technology, the regulation, and the socioeconomic outcomes of shale energy development. Holistic in its range and robust in its depth, The Fracking Debate provides a nuanced but accessible understanding of the shale revolution. -- Thomas B. Murphy, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. What Is Fracking?3. Does Fracking Contaminate Water?4. Will Fracking Make Me Sick?5. Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?6. Is There Any Regulation on Fracking?7. Is Fracking Good or Bad for Climate Change?8. Will Fracking Make the United States Energy Independent?9. Is Fracking Good for the Economy?10. Will Fracking Spread Around the World?11. Do People Living Near Fracking Love It or Hate It?12. What’s Next?NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDaniel Raimi gives a balanced and accessible view of oil and gas development, clearly and thoroughly explaining the key issues surrounding the shale revolution. The Fracking Debate provides the evidence and context that have so frequently been missing from discussion of the future of oil and gas production.Trade ReviewIn this fair and unbiased book, filled with firsthand accounts and written in a gritty style appropriate for the topic at hand, Raimi explores the technology, the regulation, and the socioeconomic outcomes of shale energy development. Holistic in its range and robust in its depth, The Fracking Debate provides a nuanced but accessible understanding of the shale revolution. -- Thomas B. Murphy, director, Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and ResearchThe Fracking Debate cuts through the thicket of questions and viewpoints surrounding the shale revolution with balanced evidence and insight delivered through engaging stories. It’s a refreshing ride—refreshing because you get the clear sense you are learning with the author as he seeks the truth about the shale boom. -- Richard Newell, president and CEO, Resources for the FutureRaimi’s book offers the most balanced, honest, and comprehensive account of fracking available, telling the story from all sides. Readers will appreciate the personal accounts from Raimi’s travels to far-flung oil fields coupled with in-depth yet accessible analysis of the science, regulations, and politics of the U.S. oil and gas boom. -- Hannah Wiseman, Florida State University College of LawDepending on who’s saying it, ‘fracking’ signifies either a blessing or curse. In truth, it’s both. Raimi methodically explores the risks and rewards of a technical revolution that has made the United States the largest producer of oil and gas in the world once again. A thoughtful and accessible look at a highly contentious and generally misunderstood subject. -- Mark S. Brownstein, Environmental Defense FundThe Fracking Debate is the most user-friendly resource on the key policy questions around hydraulic fracturing I have come across. Raimi tackles all of the hot-button topics surrounding fracking—including whether fracking contaminates water or contributes to climate change—concisely and in plain language easily accessible to lay persons. The Fracking Debate belongs on the bookshelf of every local elected official and state legislator who is grappling with hydraulic fracturing. -- Matthew Lepore, director, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation CommissionA deft, fair analysis that clarifies the issues for both the general public and concerned policy makers. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *At a time when everything from an otherwise unremarkable scientific report to a seemingly innocuous news item can be subject to intense scrutiny and mistrust, The Fracking Debate, a balanced guide to the contentious discussion on fracking, is a welcome resource. * Science *[Raimi] brings a distinctively objective approach to the text, taking care to accurately represent all positions on the issue. . . . Will serve quite well in the classroom; for advanced courses in exploration geology or petroleum engineering, the text will be a valuable supplement to technical texts, providing excellent material for discussion. * Choice *A well-rounded refresher and a fine primer for anybody new to the debate, or for those simply seeking more information. * Natural Gas Intelligence Shale Daily *Read it. Rarely do books about essentially technical energy matters marshal arcane data and peer-reviewed research so digestibly. * Petroleum Economist *A worthy addition to the literature. * Civil Engineering *If you can’t make oilfield visits a part of your next vacation, reading Raimi’s book, The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution, is the next best thing. Part of the Center on Global Energy Policy Series, The Fracking Debate can be regarded as the definitive book about fracking and the impact of the shale revolution—a revolution that has allowed U.S. natural gas production to reach all-time highs and reinvigorated domestic oil production. -- Jason Zasky * Failure Magazine *Thumbs up for a masterful book on a highly polarizing topics that resonates around our industry. . . . This is an excellent bookand a highly recommended read. * Leading Edge *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. What Is Fracking?3. Does Fracking Contaminate Water?4. Will Fracking Make Me Sick?5. Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?6. Is There Any Regulation on Fracking?7. Is Fracking Good or Bad for Climate Change?8. Will Fracking Make the United States Energy Independent?9. Is Fracking Good for the Economy?10. Will Fracking Spread Around the World?11. Do People Living Near Fracking Love It or Hate It?12. What’s Next?NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume considers this acclaimed director's entire oeuvre, analyzing themes such as identity, family, and masculinity and DiCillo's distinctive and influential film style. Detailed chapters on each of DiCillo's films offer a candid look at both the American independent film industry and the Hollywood studio system.Trade ReviewA candid and behind-the-scenes look at DiCillo's Hollywood, independent, fictional, and documentary filmmaking...essential reading for anyone who is interested in the intricacies of on-location film production, film festivals, distribution practices, acting, and performance. -- Sarah Sitwell, University of UtahThe book now functions not only as a portrait of a life in the pictures, but as a frank examination of several periods of American cinema and the attendant complexities of its industry. * The Irish Times *This volume by Irish author and Film Studies lecturer / education consultant Wayne Byrne is an extremely well-written, intelligent, enthralling addition to the Directors’ Cuts series published by Wallflower Press and a must-read for any cineaste or film student... Byrne’s book is an interesting in-depth look at all of DiCillo’s eight independent films (seven of which premiered at Sundance) the agony and the ecstasy of birthing them, as well as an honest, insider’s view into the independent film industry and the machinations of the Hollywood system. -- Christine Bode * Scully Love Promo *Funny, moving, entertaining and insightful, Include Me Out is a truly riveting account of one man's incredible dedication to his art. -- Paul Nolan * Hot Press *[The Cinema of Tom DiCillo] is informal and informative. It is dense, factual and rich in primary sourced research, as befits a scholarly milieu, yet it is written in such a style as to be accessible to anybody with an interest in film culture or film history. Those with ambitions to direct their own films should find it an especially illuminating read. * Books Ireland Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroduction1. The Language of Dream: Deciphering DiCillo2. Johnny Suede (1991)3. Living in Oblivion (1995)4. Box of Moonlight (1996)5. The Real Blonde (1997)6. Double Whammy (2001)7. Delirious (2006)8. When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors (2009)9. Down in Shadowland (2014)NotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. It offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.Trade ReviewRescuing Retirement is an explicit call to action aimed directly at those with the greatest stake in the problem-the millions of workers, employers, and policy makers whose lives will be affected by the actions (or inaction) of today's stakeholders. -- Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas CityTable of ContentsForeword, by Timothy GeithnerAcknowledgments1. Society’s Retirement Crisis2. How We Got Here: America’s Broken Retirement System3. Six Key Problems: The Consequences of a Broken Retirement System4. Rescuing Retirement: A Four-Pronged Solution5. Case Studies: Similar Plans in Action6. Why Not Just Expand Social Security?: Americans Need a Universal Pension System 7. Growing Support from the American People and a Mandate for Congress8. The Employer's Stake in Retirement Reform 9. ConclusionQuestions and Answers on the Guaranteed Retirement AccountAppendix A: The Cost of a Principal Protection GuaranteeAppendix B: GRAs Versus Other Policy SolutionsAppendix C: Looking at Retirement Coverage Across the CountryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMichel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment.Trade ReviewAn original and useful model for the audiovisual analysis of film. * Production Expert *Updated and expanded, with additional material from recent film production, the 2019 edition of Audio-Vision will soon take its place as a valuable textbook for those interested in literary research and practice of cinematic soundtrack. -- Dr. Nick Poulakis * CINEJ Cinema Journal *Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best books I have ever read, Audio-Vision’s reprinting is a cause for great celebration. After a quarter of a century, it remains the first port of call for scholars and students of audiovisual culture, offering a cornucopia of theories that conceptualize sound's relationship with the moving image. Never less than enthralling, its acuity has not been dulled by more recent theory and scholarship. -- K. J. Donnelly, author of Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound FilmWhen Audio-Vision first appeared in 1994, it became a lifeline for the burgeoning field of sound/media studies, providing a veritable roadmap to a discourse just beginning to crystallize. The second edition is no less momentous; Chion seamlessly brings current cinematic offerings into his theoretical purview, showing that his understanding of the filmic soundspace is as insightful to historians, theorists, and students as ever. A fundamental text for soundtrack studies. -- Daniel Goldmark, author of Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood CartoonMichel Chion’s work is a thrilling exploration of film sound in all its forms: real and symbolic, technical and conceptual, dimensional and suggestive. He gives us all the tools we need for describing what films allow us to hear. Chion’s many neologisms are like notes that can reverberate infinitely for every filmgoer, and through innumerable films. This revised edition of Audio-Vision is a new benchmark for any film scholar. -- Elsie Walker, author of Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film TheoryTable of ContentsForeword (1994), by Walter MurchPrefacePart I. The Audiovisual Contract1. Projections of Sound on Image2. The Three Listening Modes3. Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations4. The Audiovisual Scene5. The Real and the Rendered6. Phantom Audio-Vision; or, The Audio-DivisualPart II. Beyond Sounds and Images7. Sound Film Worthy of the Name8. Toward an Audio-Logo-Visual Poetics9. An Introduction to Audiovisual AnalysisGlossaryChronology: Landmarks of the Sound FilmNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUlysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce’s masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers? Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us see the novel’s basic building blocks in a significantly new light.Trade ReviewNumbers in literature often have magical or secret meanings, but this remarkable book also shows us other, quite startling modes of literary counting, giving us the pleasure we find only in the best critical readings: we are surprised and we wonder what to do with our surprise. -- Michael Wood, author of Literature and the Taste of KnowledgeUlysses by Numbers is a winningly idiosyncratic piece of literary criticism, one that is both very much of its moment in many respects, and in a few others defiantly peculiar. Bulson has delivered a timely, restlessly inventive book that challenges the increasingly hostile polarization within literary studies about the use of quantitative evidence. It is a provocative call for, and demonstration of, a delirious, even enchanted kind of quantitative reading. -- Nicholas Dames, author of The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian FictionUlysses by Numbers is an intricate, dazzling account of how numbers mattered to Joyce. Written with engaging lucidity and wit, this highly original book explores the numerical unconsciousness of Ulysses through close analyses of style, characters, word counts, readerships, and compositional history. Bulson’s work is a permanent contribution to Joyce studies and essential reading both for Joyceans and for modernists more broadly. -- Katherine Mullin, author of James Joyce, Sexuality, and Social PurityNearly a century after it was first published, Ulysses still stands as the apotheosis of high modernism and a revolutionary moment in the history of western literature. But can the daring literary experiment be deconstructed like a complex mathematical equation? This intriguing book makes a convincing case that, yes, it is possible. * Irish Independent *This is undoubtedly an important contribution in Joyce studies. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents0verture1ntroduction: Ulysses by NumbersNo. 1. Making Style Count No. 2. Words in ProgressNo. 3. One or How Many?No. 4. GIS JoyceNo. 5. Dating Ulysses3pilogue. Miscounts, Missed CountsNotes Index

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