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The University of North Carolina Press On the Swamp
Book SynopsisEnvironmental scientist Ryan Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of environmental changes. These stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights.
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University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Rutu Modan
Book SynopsisBest known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often defined only by news headlines. Her strong female protagonists stick out in a comics scene still too dominated by men, as she combines a mystery novelist's plotting with a memoirist's insights into psychology and trauma.The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets conducts a close reading of her work and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing upon archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli comics from its beginning as 1930s cheap children's stories, through the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and continues full force today.Based on new interviews with Modan (b. 1966) and other comics artists, Haworth indicates the key role of Actus Tragicus, the c
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University Press of Mississippi Folklore in Baltic History
Book SynopsisFolklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--together called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by Germany, and lastly by the USSR at the end of the Second World War. They regained freedom in 1991.The period under the rule of the USSR brought several changes to their societies and cultures. Individuals and institutions dealing with folklore--archives, university departments, and folklorists--came under special control, attack, and surveillance. Some of the pioneer folklorists escaped to other countries, but many others witnessed their institutions and the meaning of folklore studies transformed. The USSR did not stop folklore studies but led the field to new methods. In spite of all the pressure, folklore continued to be a matter of identity, and folksongs became the marching songs of crowds resisting Soviet contro
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University Press of Mississippi Dear Bob...
Book SynopsisFor five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) traveled the world performing before American and Allied troops and putting on morale-boosting USO shows. Dear Bob... tells the story of Hope's remarkable service to the fighting men and women of World War II.
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University Press of Mississippi Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
Book SynopsisContributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones WeickselFashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive.The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South's centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants.Contributors explor
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University Press of Mississippi The School Story
Book SynopsisThe School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson''s Speak and Faiza Guène''s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai''s autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire''s Push and films including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse bac
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Cornell University Press Sex Law and Sovereignty in French Algeria
Book SynopsisThis is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.â Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and SecularismDuring more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. In disconnecting Muslim law from property rights, French officials increasingly attached it to the bodies, beliefs, and personhood.Surkis argues that powerful affective attachments to the intimate life of the family and fantasies about Algerian women and the sexual prerogatives of Muslim men, supposedly codified in the practices of polygamy and child marriage, shaped French theories and regulatory practices of Muslim law in fundamental and lasting ways. Women''s legal status in particular came to represent the dense relationship between sex and sovereignty in the colony. This book also highlights the ways in which Algerians interacted with and responded to colonial law. Ultimately, this sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria elucidates how "the Muslim question" in France became—and remains—a question of sex.Trade ReviewSurkis combines her careful combing of case files with an equally painstaking review of legal texts, press reports and novels... This approach not only makes the work immensely readable, but also ensures its significant contribution across a number of fields, including histories of gender, law, empire, and emotions. * The Journal of North African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bodies of French Algerian Law 2. Polygamy, Public Order, and Property 3. Making the "Muslim Family" 4. Civilization, the Civil Code, and "Child Marriage" 5. Special Mœurs and Military Exceptions 6. Conversion, Mixed Marriage, and the Corporealization of Law 7. The Sexual Politics of Legal Reform 8. Colonial Literature and Customary Law Epilogue: Sex and the Centenary Bibliography
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Rise of Birds
Book SynopsisHis compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations-accompanied by spectacular illustrations-are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of the feathered dinosaurs, from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders.Trade ReviewChatterjee takes us to where long-hidden bird fossils dwell. His compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations-accompanied by spectacular illustrations-are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of 'the feathered dinosaurs,' from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders... A must have for anyone with a serious interest in fossil birds. Birdbooker Report A beautifully written and illustrated volume on the origin and evolution of birds. -- Michael Hutchins The Rostrum ... An easy read and can and should be read and understood by anyone interested in the subject. British Trust for OrnithologyTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1. Mesozoic Pompeii2. The Evolution of an Airframe3. The Origin of Birds4. Archaeopteryx5. Protoavis6. Basal Avialans7. Pygostylia8. Enantiornithes9. Ornithuromorphs10. The End- Cretaceous Mass Extinction11. The Avian Revolution Begins12. The Origin of Flight13. Eggs, Embryos, and Heterochrony14. Feathers and Footprints15. The Feeding Mechanism and Cranial Kinesis16. Birds and HumansBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Speculative Blackness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"André M. Carrington takes readers on a voyage that beautifully maps gendered and sexualized articulations of Blackness across different speculative genres and media... Speculative Blackness is a wonderful book that makes indispensable contributions to Black studies, literary studies, studies science fiction fan fiction and fandom, and Afrofuturism."—Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University"An excellent exploration of blackness in sci-fi."—PopMatters"This is required reading for those interested in popular culture’s role in constructing social identity."—CHOICE"Speculative Blackness convincingly persuades that speculative fiction is an ideal space to explore the boundaries of blackness, and to consider new ways of thinking about the way blackness as a category is constructed and produced."—Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society"Speculative Blackness makes an important contribution to ongoing conversations (both in the academy and in fan culture) about race and science fiction."—African American Review"A telling and thoughtful contribution to discussions of blackness in science fiction, fantasy, utopia, and horror important to cultural production across a variety of media, including fandom, television, film, comics, and literature."—Science Fiction Studies"This book is an intriguing examination of and hopeful outlook on the history of blackness and science fiction and a highly recommended read for scholars in film and race relations."—Film MattersTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Whiteness of Science Fiction and the Speculative Fiction of Blackness1. Josh Brandon’s Blues: Inventing the Black Fan2. Space Race Woman: Lieutenant Uhura beyond the Bridge3. The Immortal Storm: Permutations of Race in Marvel Comics4. Controversy and Crossover in Milestone Media’s Icon5. The Golden Ghetto and the Glittering Parentheses: The Once and Future Benjamin Sisko6. Dreaming in Color: Racial Revisions in Fan FictionCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Clang
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills’s new translation deserves the highest praise. They have rendered this most Joycean of Derrida’s works with an endless tact and feel for English—an immense feat. Clang renews Glas’s lease on life under this new name, where new readers can now encounter it. How fortunate they are!"—Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California
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University of Minnesota Press Elemental Ecocriticism Thinking with Earth Air
Book SynopsisDe-centering the human, the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.Trade Review"The mixture here is rich, exhilarat- ing, and while the processes of creating this collection were evidently equally so for the contributors, and while the result is illuminating and at times almost heady for the reader, it behoves us to bear in mind the toxic within such intoxication and seek a little grit amongst the mud."—Green LettersTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Eleven Principles of the ElementsJeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert1. Pyromena: Fire’s DoingAnne Harris2. PhlogistonSteve Mentz3. Airy SomethingValerie Allen4. The Sea AboveJeffrey Jerome Cohen5. Muddy ThinkingSharon O'Dair6. The Quintessence of WitChris Barrett7. Wet?Julian Yates8. Creeping Things: Spontaneous Generation and Material CreativityKarl Steel9. Earth’s ProspectsLowell DuckertLove and Strife: Response EssaysElementalityTimothy MortonElemental Relations at the EdgeCary WolfeElemental Love in the AnthropoceneStacy AlaimoCoda: Wandering Elements and Natures to ComeSerpil Oppermann and Serenella IovinoAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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Ohio University Press The Conscript A Novel of Libyas Anticolonial War
Book SynopsisEloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature.Trade Review“Gebreyesus Hailu does Africa great service in recounting an all but forgotten and therefore all the more reprehensible chapter in African colonial history. In the same spirit, Ghirmai Negash’s superb translation brings back to world literature an Eritrean literary jewel of global and timeless relevance.”“This translation from Tigrinya into English by Ghirmai Negash brings the slim, fascinating novel to a broad readership so that we might appreciate its value as a complex and moving reflection on Eritrean involvement in the Libyan anticolonial war. …The colonial encounter, as represented in Hailu’s novel, is messy and multifaceted, and this is, perhaps, the novel’s most important insight, one that could usefully be shared with students in African history or literature courses.” * Northeast African Studies *“A fine, nuanced translation.” * Themes in Modern African History and Culture: Festschrift for Tekeste Negash *“The Conscript gives the Tigrinya novel its early framing contour, as it shows sophistication and maturity in the depiction of the inner turmoil and real-life characteristics of its characters. It is a novel that grapples with issues of identity, self-agency, war, and the traumatic effects of (de)colonization on the human psyche. Read it and see for yourself how canonical novels like Things Fall Apart, Weep Not, Child, Houseboy, The Bluest Eye, are eerily prefigured in an early African-language novel.”“The Conscript is a harrowing journey into the experiences of an Eritrean man who, after being recruited into the Italian army, is forced to fight in its war to subjugate Libyans. This is a novel of great irony and power. Its translation into English is a gift to American readers.”“This work was written in the author’s native language and it was only recently translated into English. I love the style and the power of this novel. One can see Hailu’s theology training and grooming in the pastoral style of his writing. But, the tremors of Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and the Negritude Movement are inherent in this book too. I enjoyed reading this novel and being educated.” * Examiner.com *“Negash has mastery of the two languages (Tigrinya and English) and he has done tremendous job in giving an accurate translation of the original.” * Ethiopian Review *“(N)ow another monumental achievement by Negash has dawned: one that will rewrite African literary history of the 20th century. He has translated The Conscript, a novel written in Tigrinya by Ghebreyesus Hailu, initially in 1927, and first published in 1950. The novel is remarkable, and its translation is momentous.” * Warscapes.com *
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Ohio University Press Religion and Peace Global Perspectives and
Book SynopsisIf religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.Trade Review“This volume presents an original and erudite analysis of the influence of religious transnational actors, ideas, organizations on conflict resolution and peace. It pushes the boundaries of the field…. It is a must read for students of international relations and conflict resolution.” -- Jocelyne Cesari, author of We God's People: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in the World of Nations“[This] volume is what the areas of religion and peace needs most: a careful, honest, social scientific treatment that confronts ignorance and romanticization. The authors instead ask the hard and essential questions—when religious actors promote peace (and justice, and human rights) best, and when they are coopted, politicized, or steered awry by policies such as those of the U.S. government—and answer them through cases drawn from around the world and in settings where analysts are not accustomed to looking. The result is a well-integrated volume that makes the case for religion’s capacity to increase peace and justice precisely by subjecting this effort to close, sober scrutiny.” -- Daniel Philpott, author of Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation“Religion and Peace masterfully moves the conversation beyond the ‘religion can be good or bad’ paradigm that has run its course in theory as well as practice. The chapters highlight the enduring relevance of the legacies of colonialism on contemporary praxis of peace and justice' the need to engage dialogically and relationally in imagining religious and political ethics; the persistence of secularist and modernist assumptions in analytic approaches to understanding the relations between religion and exclusionary populisms; religion and governance in the African postcolonies; liberationist, autocratic, and strategic deployment of religiosity in maneuvering complex political terrains in the MENA region; the failure of religious leaders to deescalate violence produced in moments of national martyrs’ death and burial during The Troubles in Northern Ireland; the misguided scaffolding of the post 9.11 security discourse; religiously literate foreign-policy making; the intersections of indigeneity and humanitarianism; and many other fruitful and thought provoking sites of interrogation. The volume offers generative and fresh insights at a critical moment of reassessment of the religion and peace field upon its often-siloed pathways.” -- Atalia Omer, author of When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice"Combining perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, this volume offers a series of informed studies on religion, peace, and violence. From indigenous religions and peacebuilding to the perils of CVE programming in West Africa; from the Janus-faced nature of collectivist European Christianities to the roller coaster of U.S. foreign religion policy, contributors dive in to current debates with gusto, bringing their expertise to bear in the ongoing debate over what we mean when we say ‘religion,’ and what it entails for public life.” -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion and coeditor of At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion“Given the diverse international contexts covered in this volume, generalists as well as regional specialists will find this work important and compelling. Religion is increasingly seen as an important factor in peace studies, so scholars and students in this discipline will be interested. Those in religious studies will also find this a fascinating read and an important reference for their research.” -- Timothy J. White, editor of Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland“The role that religious traditions, ethics, and actors can play in promoting peace and justice is probably among the most important, yet underappreciated, issues in world politics today. A star-studded cast of emerging and established scholars with diverse backgrounds and perspectives tackles this topic in highly innovative and original ways. The volume compellingly explores the contributions that diverse world religions across multiple regions make towards sustainable peace, often in interaction with complex local dynamics, grassroots actors, and indigenous traditions. In a global order that may be moving beyond its post–Cold War liberal moment, this collection furthermore provides an insightful critical alternative to the ‘liberal peace’ paradigm.” -- Gregorio Bettiza, author of Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction. NUKHET A. SANDAL AND INGO TRAUSCHWEIZER Part I. Religion and Peace: Transnational Perspective 1. Peacebuilding, Humanitarianism, and the Place of Indigenous Religions (CECELIA LYNCH) 2. Religion, Governance, and Strategic Peace in Africa (JONATHAN C. AGENSKY) 3. Centering Interpretive and Devotional Networks as Sources of Positive Peace: South Asian Religious Traditions in Transnational Perspective (JEREMY A. RINKER) 4. The Resurrection of Socrates: The Miracle of Dialogue (AFRA JALABI) Part II. Islam and Peace: Snapshots, Challenges, and Possibilities 5. “Deliver Us from Evil”: Religion and the Problem of Political Violence and Peace (LOREN D. LYBARGER) 6. Religion, Security, and the United States’ “Countering Violent Extremism” Strategy in West Africa (BRANDON KENDHAMMER) 7. Peace Processes and Theologies of Resistance: The Case of the Democratic Islam Congress in Turkey (NUKHET A. SANDAL) Part III. Christianity and Peace: Snapshots, Challenges, and Possibilities 8. Protector of the Indians?: Christianity and the Indigenous People and Land of Latin America (AMY ERICA SMITH) 9. Paramilitary Funerals during the Northern Ireland “Troubles”: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (MARGARET M. SCULL) 10. Secularized and Instrumentalized?: Identitarian Christianities and Populist Politics in a Postsecular Europe (SLAVICA JAKELIC) Concluding Thoughts: Peacebuilding and Religious Engagement in Diplomacy (PETER MANDAVILLE) Contributors Index
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Ohio University Press Apartheids Leviathan
Book SynopsisBeginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa’s economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation’s mining, manufacturing, and power generation.Trade ReviewFaeeza Ballim's timely work successfully explains the durability of [electricity utility] Eskom, offers some sense of why the backlash against Eskom (including assassination attempts) is mounting, and offers historians valuable tools for analyzing the relationship between electric power infrastructures and the state. * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *A fascinating and timely study of South Africa’s state corporations—in particular its national electricity provider Eskom—and their relationship to the (post)apartheid state. Drawing on meticulous historical research, Ballim powerfully revises existing accounts of state power in South Africa and speaks to urgent questions of energy politics and democratization in the present. -- Antina von Schnitzler, author of Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after ApartheidThe inevitable intertwining of power supply, politics and the market has been well explored. Yet in policy debates, one continues to hear calls for the separation of the three parts of the assemblage. Ballim takes up the issue in South Africa and captivatingly shows how calls for disentanglement obscure better insights. -- Richard Rottenburg, University of the WitwatersrandThe trouble of a timely book is that one is tempted to demand proposals and solutions to the current crisis. Apartheid’s Leviathan is not that book and that is perhaps one of its greatest strengths. Faeeza Ballim’s careful exposition of archival documents and valuable insights from first-hand interviews add a human character offering a useful contribution demanding us to reflect on Eskom in its broader historical context. -- Brian Kamanzi * Africa Is a Country *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Reading Boyishly
Book SynopsisDrawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past.Trade Review“Reading Boyishly is as complete and mesmerizing a work of reflection on art, time, gender, and family (mothers anyhow) as I have ever seen. It is a remarkable and rare invitation to find ways to extend our nostalgia into a positive mode of being that does not close off the future at all but relocates it within desire.”—James R. Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence“From time to time a book comes along that totally changes the way we look at things in the humanities and does it less by manifestos than by quietly doing its work or singing its song in another voice. Anyone taking the time to look into Carol Mavor’s fabulous meditation on Edwardian culture and its discontents will not have to ponder such problems as the relation of history and literature, fact and fiction, the image and the text, reading and looking, past and present, and even nature and culture in abstract, theoretical ways. Carol Mavor has first dreamed what she has then deeply studied and then dreamed it again, for her readers. This book is performed rather than merely written. And it shows how to do a new kind of cultural historiography that renders most of the theoretical questions raised by postmodernism quite moot.”—Hayden White, University Professor of History of Consciousness, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University“It is rare for such an informative book to be so evocative, and indeed for such a wide-ranging book to be at once so subtle and so precise. Reading Boyishly allows mothers and sons to be as close as they are—as close as they somewhere know themselves to be; and allows that this relationship is an aesthetic education of astounding possibilities. Carol Mavor gives the idea of close reading a new genealogy. She has written a marvelous book.”—Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and author of Side Effects“A passionate study of nostalgic representations of the maternal in the artistic creations of five distinguished and famous—albeit boyish men. . . . Highly recommended for large and comprehensive literature collections, a good choice for public libraries, and essential for academic institutions.” * Library Journal *“One of the best-looking books of the year, an extended homage to the discreet typography of Barthes’ Camera Lucida (1980) and Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975).” -- Brian Dillon * Frieze *“All at once philosophical, historical, biographical, psychoanalytical, scholarly and ‘novelesque’, this is an absolute monster romp through the incredibly intricate tapestry of Oedipal desire, maternal attachment, and nostalgia. . . . This book is a pleasure to hold and savour. Headings and quotes float vertically down the page at the beginning of each chapter making for both tasteful design and intrigue. An asset to any library—though to what section it belongs could prove to be quite a conundrum—this informative, poignant, hedonistic and reflective book is one to devour.” -- Kathryn Adams * Leonardo Reviews *“I love Mavor’s book. I love even the way it looks and feels: a thick white block of fine paper, the text enhanced by different fonts, touches of sky-blue ink, and more than two hundred photographs. . . . [Reading Boyishly is] a feast of words and images intricately linked to each other like a cat’s cradle, constantly surprising, amusing, enlightening, and filling both eye and mind.” -- Lucy Rollin * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *“My book of the year is Reading Boyishly by Carol Mavor. I have never read a book like it. It's a musing, poetic work, a meditation on the boyhoods of Roland Barthes, JM Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and DW Winnicott. It sounds heavy and dry but my mind was set free to dance and flit by this thrilling mix of philosophy, photography, biography and much more. It touched something very deep in me about what it is to be a creative man.” -- Grayson Perry * The Guardian *“Nostalgia is intertwined with scholarship in this text as Mavor’s work is a (re)search for this emotion in literature, art, and especially photography. With hedonistic pleasure, she offers exegetical indulgences and connections she has made in a lifetime of poring over texts, films, photographs, and other aspects of literary and visual culture. . . . Mavor effortlessly and purposefully crosses disciplines in Reading Boyishly. . . .” -- William V. Ganis * Afterimage *“This is an enchanting homage to ‘four boyish men [writers J.M. Barrie and Marcel Proust, literary critic Roland Barthes, child analyst D.W. Winnicott] and one boy [photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue].’ It's also an embrace of what some have fretted about as an over-attachment to mothers.” -- Rebecca Wigod * Vancouver Sun *"It is a sigh of relief, this book, a defense of things that make us feel guilty: nostalgia, apron strings, the ‘good-enough mother,’ the lost mother, the nest, the childhood home, the beauty of boys at play. . . . Food and kissing, eating and not eating, boredom and tenderness—Mavor's is a style to be savored." -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times *"Sprightly, witty, distinctly unlabored, at times willfully unacademic. . . . Boys are potent now in Western cultures—arguably more so than ever. And, if Mavor has complicated our understanding of their appeal rather than clarified it, the effort is nevertheless to much interesting effect." -- Richard Canning * Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Anorectic Hedonism: A Reader’s Guide to Reading Boyishly; Novel or a Philosophical Study? Am I a Novelist? 1 1. My Book Has a Disease 23 2. Winnicott’s ABCs and String Boy 57 3. Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood and Home 77 4. Pulling Ribbons from Mouths: Roland Barthe’s Umbilical Referent 129 5. Nesting: The Boyish Labor of J.M. Barrie 163 6. Childhood Swallows: Lartigue, Proust, and a Little Wilde 253 7. Mouth Wide Open for Proust: “A Sort of Puberty of Sorrow” 315 8. Soufflé/Souffle 349 9. Kissing Time 367 10. Beautiful, Boring, and Blue: The Fullness of Proust’s Search and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 397 Conclusion. Boys: “To Think a Part of One’s Body” 433 Illustrations 441 Index 519
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Duke University Press African Rhythms
Book SynopsisAfrican Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.Trade Review“. . . Part memoir, part travelogue, part philosophical treatise. Mr. Weston is especially informative about how he briefly fled New York in his early 20s to escape the drug scene that was becoming endemic among young jazzmen, as well as about the making of classic albums like Uhuru Africa and Blue Moses." -- Will Friedwald * Wall Street Journal *“African Rhythms is perhaps the next truly wonderful jazz autobiography. It succeeds so fully not because of hyperbole or personality but because Weston—a pianist and composer criminally underappreciated even among serious jazz fans—has a unique musical story to tell. This story is highly recommended to jazz listeners, in large part, because it makes you want to dive back into one of the most gripping discographies in the music. . . . If you haven’t heard Weston’s music, really listened to it, then African Rhythms is the strongest possible incentive to tune in. Is there any higher praise for a book about music than that it got you to start listening?” -- Will Layman * PopMatters *“No one has done more to explore and celebrate the African roots of jazz than pianist/composer Randy Weston. Weston demonstrates a pride in his ancestry and culture that is both the primary source of his artistic inspiration and the central theme that suffuses this fascinating autobiography. . . . Weston refers to himself as ‘a storyteller through music’ rather than a jazz musician. He's unsurpassed as a goodwill ambassador.” -- Jay Trachtenberg * Austin Chronicle *“Now in his 80’s, Weston, in this book, sounds eternally optimistic and full of wonder about his life. He comes off as joyous and spiritual as his music. Reading this is enough to make you want to dig out whatever Weston CDs you might have and listen to them again with a greater understanding of what went into the music. This book is worthy of his expansive talents.” -- Jerome Wilson * Cadence *“Randy Weston is a monumental figure in contemporary jazz, a man whose creativity remains undimmed at the age of 83. He is a living link with the golden era of the 1950s and 60s, a time during which trailblazing musicians and revolutionary thinkers wholly energised African-American arts and politics. As this absolutely fascinating biography reveals, Weston. . . has lived a very full life that has seen him not only excel as a musician but also make hugely important cultural and political statements that had the intent and effect of uplifting blacks in America during a time of second class citizenship. A recurrent theme in the text is thus Weston’s focus on concrete initiatives to improve civil rights. . . . Essential reading for anybody interested in learning something of a great man as well as a great musician.” -- Kevin La Gendre * Jazzwise *“Randy Weston knows more about jazz and more about Africa than most of us. Hence this book—more musical, philosophical and spiritual, with a more personal voice than most jazz autobiographies—is loaded with knowledge and insights about both topics. . . . From Stearns to the Gnawa musician healers of Morocco, from poet Langston Hughes to Dizzy Gillespie, Weston’s fascinating journey is well worth the read.” -- George Kanzler * All About Jazz *“Weston has dedicated his life to spreading African music throughout the world and forging a bond with his identity as an African American musician. African Rhythms ably recounts his sometimes arduous journey to becoming a true cross-cultural ambassador.” -- Jon Ross * DownBeat *Table of ContentsArranger's Preface / Willard Jenkins xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. Origins 5 2. Growing Up in Brooklyn 18 3. The Scene Shifts to the Pacific 28 4. Postwar: Escaping the Panic 37 5. Post-Berkshires: Succumbing to the Irresistible Lure 55 6. Enter Melba Liston 70 7. Uhuru Afrika: Freedom Africa 82 8. Making the Pilgrimage 102 9. Touring the Motherland 114 10. Making a Home in Africa 135 11. Connecting with the Gnawa 171 12. Building a Life in Tangier: The African Rhythm Club 183 13. Festival Blues, Then Divine Intervention: Blue Moses 194 14. Post Morroco and the Ellington Connection 206 15. Compositions and Sessions 220 16. The African Rhythms Quintet 235 17. The African Queen 252 18. The Adventures of Randy Weston 262 19. Ancient Future 278 Conclusion: Randy Weston ... Philosophically Yours 299 Discography 305 Awards and Citations 323 Index 325
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Duke University Press The Soul of Anime
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios, Ian Condry focuses attention on the collective social energy that has made anime a global cultural phenomenon.Trade Review(Starred Review) “This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Japanese history, Japanese culture, anime, manga, and animation.” -- Sally Bryant * Library Journal *“It’s a pleasure to have Condry guide us through the complex and ultimately rewarding world of anime.” * Animation *“An anthropologist by training, Condry bases his arguments in part on fieldwork consisting of interviews with studio personnel and direct observation of working practices. One may question (as the author himself does) how representative these anecdotes are, but they stimulate numerous intriguing interpretations. . . . Condry writes thoughtfully and occasionally displays wry wit. His book contains much of value to scholars of Japanese popular culture.” -- Alexander Jacoby * TLS *“Condry is no armchair theorist – there can be few Westerners who’ve explored the industry as energetically as he has. . . . For readers who do like amassing anecdotes, The Soul of Anime offers oodles of them, often gained first-hand by the intrepid author, ploughing through the anime multiverse.” -- Andrew Osmond * Manga UK *“Get this if you’re interested in the depth of anime, the pioneers and renowned figures within the anime movement (yes, of course including Miyazaki), and significant anime milestones. . . . For the serious anime lover who wants to move from fan to expert . . . this is a must.” -- Gini Koch * It's Comic Book Day blog *"For students and teachers who wish to gain a full understanding of the inner workings of the world of anime and to do serious research of their own in this area, a careful reading of ... Condry's ... book is definitely a must." -- Michael McCaskey * Journal of Japanese Studies *“Superb critical, historical, and ethnographic study of the anime phenomenon; a model of cross-media analysis.” * Science Fiction Studies *“Part of the appeal of the book is the many popular assumptions about anime it disavows and the new information it provides. … In addition, his work underscores the fact that the production process has really only begun with an animation’s release: fans’ ‘consumption’ of animation is inherently productive as they draw existing characters into storylines of their own invention, compete to produce the best subtitles of their favorite shows, and do innumerable other creative things with animated worlds and characters that ultimately determine not only their success but also their global reach.” -- Elise Edwards * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Names ix Introduction. Who Makes Anime? 1 1. Collaborative Networks, Personal Futures 35 2. Characters and Worlds as Creative Platforms 54 3. Early Directions in Postwar Anime 85 4. When Anime Robots Became Real 112 5. Making a Cutting-Edge Anime Studio: The Value of the Gutter 135 6. Dark Energy: What Overseas Fans Reveal about the Copyright Wars 161 7. Love Revolution: Otaku Fans in Japan 185 Conclusion. Future Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Cultural Action 204 Acknowledgments 218 Notes 221 References 227 Index 237
£18.89
Duke University Press Professing Selves
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable 'true' transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the 'true' homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials—which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being—grew out of Iran''s particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who Trade Review"Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Najmabadi challenges the lumping of transsexuals and homosexuals as identical human rights issues, and argues that poorly targeted universalistic campaigns can damage the conditions of life for the people they are intended to help. She works refreshingly at the level of real lives, jurists, and psychiatrists."—Michael M. J. Fischer, author of Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry"In this important, timely, and erudite work, Afsaneh Najmabadi brings her nuanced understanding of multiple discourses and institutions in Iran to bear on the recent and remarkable visibility of transsexuality in that country. Professing Selves is likely to have a wide-ranging appeal—to historians, Middle East specialists, sexuality and gender scholars, and social scientists interested in issues of state formation and biopolitics. It will be the definitive text on its topic for a long time to come."—Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History"In her theoretically sophisticated book, historian Najmabadi investigates the political and cultural evolution of Iranian attitudes toward 'sexual deviancy and sexual disorder,' beginning in the 1930s. . . .Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- A. Rassam * Choice *"A fascinating book that... challenges the Western media’s depiction of transsexuality and sex reassignment surgery as coercive while ignoring the vibrant reform movement and history of progressive activism in Iran." -- Nancy Gallagher * Middle East Media and Book Reviews *“Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi has written a nuanced ethnography of the transition of the Iranian state and public sphere from one type (jins) to another. Building on Joan Scott’s (1986) observation that gender is a useful category for historical analysis, Najmabadi goes beyond showing that sex and sexuality are also useful categories for historical analysis to suggest that somatic-constitutional transformation can be as well. … Najmabadi is an excellent guide through this world of nonconforming confirmers of the core gender categories of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” -- Leila Hudson * TSQ *“Here we find that nuanced and adept reading of power, subjectivity, submission, and subversion—this time of lived, contemporary cultural practices—that we have grown to expect from a scholar of her caliber.” -- Roshanak Kheshti * GLQ *“ Afsaneh Najmabadi’s new book Professing Selves is a great start to understanding how gender and sexuality work within Iran. It makes the point that geography, history, culture, and on-going macro- and microsocial processes are crucial to understanding transsexuality and same-sex desire…. This is a work that speaks to the historical and cultural relativity of social meanings and practices—the importance of the local and specific.” -- Darryl B. Hill * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Entering the Scene 15 2. "Before" Transexuality 38 3. Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities 75 4. "Around" 1979: Gay Tehran? 120 5. Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith 163 6. Changing the Terms: Playing "Snakes and Ladders" with the State 202 7. Living Patterns, Narrative Styles 231 8. Professing Selves: Sexual/Gender Proficiencies 275 Glossary of Persian Terms and Acronyms 303 Notes 305 Works Cited 373 Index 389
£84.15
Duke University Press Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
Book SynopsisExamines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.Trade Review"Hagar Kotef has written an insightful, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging book that brings a fresh theoretical perspective on the intersections between borders, mobility and liberalism.... Movement and the Ordering of Freedom makes an impressive contribution to a literature spanning Border Studies, Mobility and Migration Studies, and a range of interdisciplinary efforts to come to terms with the spatial and architectural dimensions of power and governmentality.... I suspect this important work will be much cited as one that brings fresh historical perspective to the political stakes of human mobility and liberal governmental regimes." -- Anne McNevin * Migration Studies *“This is not only a well researched and written book, it is also informed by a political-ethical commitment against injustice…. This provides a fascinating (re)reading of liberalism which is pursued through an intriguing twofold analysis: one focusing on the enactment of the regulation of movement in Israel and Palestine; the second exploring a genealogy of liberalism and mobility through the work of Hobbes, Locke, Mill (as well as William Blackstone and Hannah Arendt). This somewhat unorthodox approach to structuring a political theory text is one of the highlights of the book and opens it up to multiple audiences.” -- Joe Turner * Review of Politics *“It’s a book written with both verve and the depth of close, careful reading; with an intellectual suppleness and playfulness and the utter seriousness of a conviction in the political relevance of theory; but more importantly a book that, even, or especially, when it delves into history, strikes with nothing less than the urgency of the present.” -- Nasser Abourahme * Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World *"... Kotef ’s book offers a nuanced critique of liberalism, exploring it as a political ideology articulated in terms of freedom and movement. Most important, the book’s readings of settler colonialism in America and in Israel persuasively demonstrate that the colonial condition is not, and never has been, either geographically or theoretically external to liberalism. On the contrary, colonialism, as the book makes clear, is the foundational archive of liberalism." -- Gil Hochberg * GLQ *"[O]riginal, concise, well written and well argued and certainly makes a new contribution to the fields of migration and mobility studies. . . . [It will] certainly be of interest to postgraduate students and professionals across the social sciences and humanities who are concerned with migration, mobility, identity, Israel/Palestine, political subjectivity and the liberal state—a thought-provoking read and one which comes highly recommended." -- Lucy Mayblin * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"Movement and the Ordering of Freedom offers a conceptually rich contribution that seeks to consider how mobility and movement might be conceived as central to the emergence of liberal models of governance. Kotef’s text is a lucid and well-researched account of the historical context through which ‘the liberal subject was formed in the image of moderation.'" -- Jonathan Darling * Progress in Human Geography *"Kotef presents us with a rich and multi-faced contribution to contemporary theories on movement, migration, and border security." -- Nanda Oudejans * Perspectives on Politics *"Hagar Kotef’s enquiry into ‘the politics of motion’ is timely, excellently written and surely a must read for researchers not just of surveillance/control societies and of Israel-Palestine (the book’s regional focus), but more broadly for scholars in cultural politics." -- Marcelo Svirsky * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine / Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir 27 2. An Interlude: A Tale of Two Roads—On Freedom and Movement 52 3. The Fence That "Ill Deserves the Name of Confinement": Locomotion and the Liberal Body 61 4. The Problem of "Excessive" Movement 87 5. The "Substance and Meaning of All Things Political": On Other Bodies 112 Conclusion 136 Notes 141 Bibliography 203 Index 217
£22.49
Duke University Press Tourist Distractions Traveling and Feeling in
Book SynopsisIn Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present.Trade Review"Choe productively establishes a discussion that is relational rather than focused on bounded national contexts. She does terrific work in tying together solid and eminently useful historical context information and on-site research with close readings and more speculative, very insightful discussion. It is a balance that is difficult to achieve, but one that is especially rare in the study of popular culture from Korea." -- Alexander Zahlten * Journal of Asian Studies *"Choe’s work is highly readable, inspiring, and absorbing. Tourist Distractions also promises to be productive in the classroom. It will attract and distract hallyu fans in Korean studies and researchers with interests in tourism studies, visual and cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and film studies." -- Barbara Wall * Social History *"Although an impressive amount of scholarship on Hallyu cinema has been published in the last decade, the transnational affect of Hallyu cinema through re-contextualizing it as audience emotions, tensions, and transnational self-reflections has not been the focus of critical attention. Tourist Distractions fills this void in Korean film studies with a persuasive voice by establishing the transnational linkages of Hallyu to Japan, China, and North Korea since the early inception of the Hallyu boom." -- Yongwoo Lee * Pacific Affairs *“This is a multilayered and elegant model, albeit one still under construction, that certainly suggests a much more contextually rich way to interpret the significant works of the Korean Wave; for that contribution alone Choe’s book should be considered a must-read.” -- Kyu Hyun Kim * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"Enriching the oeuvre of Korean film scholarship with its theoretical rigor, Tourist Distractions fills a critical gap in Hallyu studies by placing it in productive dialogue with Korean studies, tourism studies, film studies, cultural studies, and visual/cultural anthropology." -- Haerin Shin * Journal of Korean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Distracted Attractions 1 Part I. Intimacy 1. Feeling Together: Pornography and Travel in Kazoku Cinema and Asako in Ruby Shoes 31 2. Affective Sites: Hur Jin-ho's April Snow and One Fine Spring Day 59 Part II. Amity 3. Provisional Feelings: The Making of Musa 89 4. Affective Palimpsests: Sudden Showers from Hwang Sun-won's "Sonagi" to Kwak Jae-yong and Andrew Lau's Daisy 112 Part III. Remembrance 5. Postmemory DMZ: Joint Security Area, Yesterday, and 2009 Lost Memories 143 6. Transient Monuments: Commemmorating and Memorializing in Taegukgi Korean War Film Tourism 166 Conclusion. K-hallyu: The Commodity Speaks in Kang Chul-woo's Romantic Island, Bae Yong-joon's A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty, So Ji-sub's Road, and Choi Ji-woo's if 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241
£76.50
Duke University Press Domestication Gone Wild Politics and Practices
Book SynopsisDomestication Gone Wild offers a revisionary exploration of domestication as a narrative, ideal, and practice that reveals how our relations with animals and plants are intertwined with the politics of human difference.Trade Review"Highly recommended for students and researchers interested in human/nonhuman relationships. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- E. N. Anderson * Choice *"Not only this collection’s varied perspectives, but also its emerging questions, form a welcome contribution to the study of human/non-human relationships in our troubled times of extractivism and anthropogenic climate change." -- Juan Javier Rivera Andía * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Naming the Beast—Exploring the Otherwise / Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Heather Anne Swanson, and Gro B. Ween 1 Part I. Intimate Encounters: Domestication from Within 1. Breeding with Birds of Prey: Intimate Encounters / Sara Asu Schroer 33 2. Pigs and Spirits in Ifugao: A Cosmological Decentering of Domestication / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme 50 3. Dog Ears and Tails: Different Relational Ways of Being with Canines in Aboriginal Australia and Mongolia / Natasha Fijn 72 4. Farm Animals in a Welfare State: Commercial Pigs in Denmark / Inger Anneberg and Mette Vaarst 94 5. Ducks into Houses: Domestication and Its Margins / Marianne Elisabeth Lien 117 Part II. Beyond the Farm: Domestication as World-Making 6. Domestication Gone Wild: Pacific Salmon and the Disruption of the Domus / Heather Anne Swanson 141 7. Natural Goods on the Fruit Frontier: Cultivating Apples in Norway / Frida Hastrup 159 8. Domestication of Air, Scent, and Disease / Rune Flikke 176 9. How the Salmon Found Its Way Home: Science, State Ownership, and the Domestication of Wild Fish / Gro B. Ween and Heather Anne Swanson 196 10. Wilderness through Domestication: Trout, Colonialism, and Capitalism in South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 215 Provocation. Nine Provocations for the Study of Domestication / Anna Tsing 231 Contributors 252 Index 255
£18.89
Fordham University Press S252ssen Is Now Free of Jews World War II The
Book SynopsisOffers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from Sussen-a village in southern GermanyTrade Review"A decade of archival research, the collection of oral testimonies, and various personal encounters in Germany and beyond eventually provide the stage for this study which merges local, public, and personal history. All of this work allows Schmidt to paint a detailed picture of rural Jewish life in Sussen before, during, and after Nazism." -- Martin Kalb, Northern Arizona University -German Studies Review "Offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from this region, their long family histories, their engagements in commerce, industry and civic life before 1933, their fate under the Nazis, and their scattered stories after the Holocaust. In this sense this book offers a kind of micro-history of Jews in Germany before, during and after the Holocaust. It is a kind of Yiskor or Memory book for the Jewish communities of this region and especially Sussen. With new and little known material, this book brings new insight into the life of rural Jews in Germany, both through original historical scholarship, interviews, and an engagement with sources only available in German." -- -Laura Levitt Temple University "Sussen is Now Free of Jews features an enormous amount of original research and illustrates the inherent importance of talking about Landjudentum (village Jewry) to an English reading audience. Schmidt's ability to combine archival material, memoir literature, interviews and personal recollections is both impressive and moving." -- -Alan T. Levenson University of Oklahoma
£55.80
Fordham University Press The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Book SynopsisHeinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of Heinz von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them.Trade Review"Heinz Von Foerster spent most of his career seeking to understand cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. He came to a new understanding of knowledge which led to a new epistemology. What this book reveals is that after retiring from the University of Illinois, von Foerster reinterpreted his earlier professional training in physics and the sciences generally from the new perspective. The conversational structure and style of the book brilliantly gives von Foerster the opportunity to retell the story of creation by referring to all of the various branches of natural science, but with the additional insight of the new epistemology. This is a remarkable achievement which will delight any serious student of the natural sciences or of scientific writing. The scholarship that went into the conversation that the book records, both the questions and the answers, is impressive. The ideas here will be of particular interest to ambitious younger scientists looking for new lines of research." -- -Stuart Umpleby George Washington University "I know of no other such a broad and coherent statement of Foerster's essential thinking." -- -Ranulph Glanville Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Cybernetics, The Bartlett, University College London, UKTable of ContentsA Fore-word by the Series Editor An Author's Fore-words Fore-wards with Two Editors Fore-taste of an Author with Two Editors 1. First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines 2. Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics 3. Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity 4. Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols 5. Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling 6. Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures 7. Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest Epilogue in Heaven ... Translators' Notes Notes
£25.64
Fordham University Press Mutant Neoliberalism Market Rule and Political
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures—including the rise of far-right forces—will challenge, support, or extend the reach of market rule around the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism | 1 William Callison and Zachary Manfredi 1. Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail | 39 Wendy Brown 2. The Market’s People: Milton Friedman and the Making of Neoliberal Populism | 61 Sören Brandes 3. Neoliberals against Europe | 89 Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe 4. Anti-Austerity on the Far Right | 112 Melinda Cooper 5. Disposing of the Discredited: A European Project | 146 Michel Feher 6. Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot | 177 Julia Elyachar 7. Sexing Homo OEconomicus: Finding Masculinity at Work | 196 Leslie Salzinger 8. Feminist Theory Redux: Neoliberalism’s Public-Private Divide | 215 Megan Moodie and Lisa Rofel 9. “Innovation” Discourse and the Neoliberal University: Top Ten Reasons to Abolish Disruptive Innovation | 244 Christopher Newfield 10. Absolute Capitalism | 269 Étienne Balibar List of Contributors | 291 Index | 295
£27.90
Fordham University Press Eunice Hunton Carter A Lifelong Fight for Social
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. Heirs to the Struggle | 7 2. Free But Not Equal | 29 3. One Vision in Her Eye, One Cry in Her Soul | 49 4. The Business of Reaching New Heights | 67 5. From Squash Racquet to Racket Squasher | 80 6. “I Must Save My Sister” | 97 7. Getting Lucky: The People v. Charles Luciano | 112 8. “Making History for the Race” | 129 9. “A Prelude to Greater Tasks” | 143 10. The Aftermath | 161 Acknowledgments | 169 Notes | 171 Bibliography | 191 Index | 195 Photographs follow page 86
£28.49
Fordham University Press Concrete Utopianism
Book SynopsisThrough a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism | 1 I. Refiguring Politics 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) | 17 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism | 35 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism | 62 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy | 86 Intermezzo 5. Solidarity | 109 6. Anticipation | 122 II. Unthinking History 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness | 139 8. Dialectic of Past and Future | 157 9. It’s Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison’s Dialectics of Invisibility | 191 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant’s Poetics of Nonhistory | 221 III. Anticipating Futures 11. The World We Wish to See | 263 Acknowledgments | 291 Notes | 295 Index | 363
£26.59
Jewish Publication Society The Commentators Bible Genesis The Rubin JPS
Book SynopsisThe biblical commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With the publication of this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated for lay readers.Trade Review"[The Commentators' Bible: Genesis brings] to life the voices of medieval Bible commentators in a contemporary English translation annotated for lay readers."—Lynn Garrett, Publishers Weekly"The Commentators' Bible series is to be commended for offering lay readers an opportunity to experience the world of medieval Torah commentary."—Rabbi Rachel Esserman, Reporter Group“The [Commentators’ Bible] volumes have been given a layout and a binding that are simply a delight. They are printed with a clear script. The layout . . . is simple, allows quick reference, and invites the reader to join the centuries-long dialogue on the texts of Torah. As Carasik puts it: ‘The page is set up as a conversation among the commentators, in which the reader is encouraged to join.’”—Bulletin for Biblical Research “Anyone who is unfamiliar with medieval commentary, or who is unable to study the commentators in the original Hebrew, will find The Commentators’ Bible a worthy addition to his or her bookshelves. Carasik has done a real service making this material available.”—The Reporter“The JPS Commentators’ Bible is one of the most useful resources I have in my library. It opens the door to the wisdom of the classic commentators to Jewish students of all levels of Hebrew fluency. The translations are fluid and accessible, and this important work represents an invaluable invitation to join the centuries-long conversation of Torah commentary and interpretation.”—Rabbi Dan Levin, Temple Beth El, Boca Raton, Florida "Each page in The Commentators' Bible: Genesis: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot contains from one to several verses from the book of Genesis, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators. Also included is a glossary of terms, a list of names used in the text, notes on source texts, a special topics list, and resources for further study. This is in large-format volume and is designed for easy navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Sforno, Gersonides, and Hizkuni, among others."—Reviews by Amos LassenTable of ContentsConventions and Abbreviations Frequently Asked Questions What’s on the Page? Text Translations Questions Major Commentators Editor’s Annotations Additional Commentators Principles of the Translation Acknowledgments The Commentators’ Introductions The Commentators’ Bible Genesis Glossary Names Mentioned in the Text Source Texts Special Topics Peshat and Derash Medieval Jewish Philosophy Nahmanides’ Mysticism Biblical Hebrew Resources for Further Study Other English Translations
£62.90
Haynes Publishing Group Triumph Herald Owners Workshop Manual
Book SynopsisHerald Saloon, Coupe, Estate, Convertible and Van. Petrol: 1.0 litre (948cc), 1.1 litre (1147cc) & 1.3 litre (1296cc).
£29.60
Haynes Publishing Group Ford Focus Petrol Diesel 11 14 Haynes Repair
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Haynes Publishing Group Renault Clio Petrol Diesel 0509
Book SynopsisHatchback. Petrol: 1.2 litre (1149cc), 1.4 litre (1390cc) and 1.6 litre (1598cc), inc. turbo Turbo-Diesel: 1.5 litre (1461cc). Exclusions:Does NOT cover Estate/Sport Tourer, Campus, Renaultsport 197, semi-automatic transmission or âfaceliftedâ model range introduced May 2009. Does NOT cover 2.0 litre petrol engines.
£25.50
Seagull Books London Ltd Twilight of Torment Melancholy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ms. Miano's essential premise is that a profound 'subterranean wound' was inflicted by colonialism, and that collective injury has continued through falsely enforced social hierarchies and self-immolating psychic resentments . . . The incantatory quality of the writing conjures this heightened, almost religiously attentive feeling, creating a sense of mystical potential even as the story itself dwells in suffering." * The Wall Street Journal *
£17.09
Haynes Publishing Group Honda CB750 Single Overhead Cam Motorcycle
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:Honda CB750K, 1969-1978; Honda CB750F, 1975-1978; Honda CB750A, 1976-1978;
£33.75
Haynes Publishing Group Honda 100350cc OHC Singles Motorcycle 19691982
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Johns Hopkins University Press Writing History Writing Trauma
Book SynopsisThis updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.Table of ContentsPreface 2004Preface to the First Edition1. Writing History, Writing Trauma2. Trauma, Absence, Loss3. Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim's Voice4. Prepetrators and Victims: The Goldhagen Debate and Beyond5. Interview for Yad Vashem (June 9, 1998)6. Conclusion: Writing (about) TraumaIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Medievalism and the Ideologies of the
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no onewith the exception of a few obscure antiquarianswas seriously interested in the Middle Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to medieval studies in France and altered their orientation, removing them from the realm of legal and ecclesiastical dispute and bringing them into a new framework of general history. Concentrating his investigation of Enlightenment medievalists on the most influential of them, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Gossman describes Sainte-Palaye's social and intellectual milieu and follows him in his relations with scholars and philosophes in France and abroad. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Walpole, Muratori, and Herder are some of the figures whose paths crossed that of Sainte-Palaye. Far from being opposed to philosophie, tTable of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviations Frequently Used in NotesPart I: An Eighteenth-Century Scholar and His WorldChapter 1. Background and EducationChapter 2. A Diplomatic CareerChapter 3. Interllectual Societies, Salons, and FriendsChapter 4. Scholars of the robe and philosophesChapter 5. Amateur of the Arts and Royal AcadmicianPart II. New Approaches to Medieval StudiesPart III. Works of Medieval ScholarshipChapter 1. LanguageChapter 2. The Publication of Documents Relative to French HistoryChapter 3. Catalogues of Manuscripts Relative to Medieval History: The Notices de manuscitsChapter 4. Problems and Methods of Editing Medieval TextsChapter 5. Study of the Chronicle Sources of Medieval HistoryChapter 6. Studey of the LIterary Sources of Medieval HistoryChapter 7. The Questions of the Publication of Medieval TestsChapter 8. The Dictionnaire des antiquitesChapter 9. The Memoires sur l'ancienne chevaleria and the Memoires historiques sur la chasseChapter 10. The Historie litteraire des troubadoursPart IV: Conclusion: Medievalism and EnlightenmentChapter 1. The Contribution of Sainte-Palaye to the Thought of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Discussion of Medievalism in the EnlightenmentChapter 2. The Place of Sainte-Palaye's Word in the History of Historiography and of Historical ScholarshipAppendicesIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press In the Land of Marvels
Book SynopsisHow a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account of his philosophical battle with his Italian counterparts, discrediting them as misguided devotees of the marvelous. Paola Bertucci's In the Land of Marvels brilliantly reveals the mysteries of Nollet's journey, uncovering a subterranean world of secretive and ambitious intelligence gathering masked as scientific inquiry. The advent of electricity was a pivotal phenomenon not only in the history of physical experimentation, but also in the cultivation of popular scientific interest. Nollet's journey was supposedly inspired by the need to investigate, and subsequently report on, claims of the use of electrifiTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Silk and SecretsChapter 2. Electricity, Enlightenment, and DeceptionChapter 3. Fabricated ControversyChapter 4. Natural Marvels, Instruments, and Stereotypes ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Failing Our Future
Book SynopsisAn indictment of the grading system in American schools and collegesand a blueprint for how we can change it.One of the most urgent and long-standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. Eyler, who runs the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, illustrates how grades interfere with students'' intrinsic motivation and perpetuate the idea that school is a place for competition rather than discovery. Grades force students to focus on rewards and distract them from exploring ideas or pursuing interests beyond what they''ll be tested on. In fact, grades significantly impede the learning process. They are also significantly affecting children''s physical, emotional, and psychological well-be
£20.70
MX - APA Publishing Reproductive Trauma
Book SynopsisThis second edition gives mental health professionals the tools they need to treat patients who suffer from infertility or pregnancy loss, as well as new guidance for processing their own reproductive traumas. Prospective parents who experience infertility or pregnancy loss deal with a host of physical and psychological consequences. For many individuals and couples experiencing reproductive trauma, their ideal future has fallen apart, leaving them bereft and hopeless. Author Janet Jaffe demonstrates how helping professionals can work with patients amp rsquo reproductive stories to help them grieve, cope, and healwhile underscoring how clinicians amp rsquo own reproductive stories impact their lives and their therapeutic work. With updates in research and new, more diverse case examples, this edition has been expanded to offer a more holistic understanding of reproductive trauma, including coverage of LGBTQ parents and their unique needs and experiences. It also reviews advances in reproductive technology and their ethical implications-including cryopreservation, third-party reproduction, and genetic testing-as well as how social and cultural factors influence parents amp rsquo reproductive stories.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Blue Juice
Book SynopsisHow veterinarians and pet owners manage companion animal euthanasiaTrade Review"This book may be found useful by clinical veterinarians and by their clients as well. Veterinarians may find some comfort in knowing that their concerns are shared by many other members of their profession and may learn of different alternative options to deal with these issues. Pet owners will similarly benefit by gaining a better appreciation of the complexity of these issues and of the perspective of the veterinarians. In the end, one can hope that this improved understanding of the issues related to companion animal euthanasia by all parties involved will result in a benefit to the animals, and that will be everybody's gain." - Animal Welfare, May 2013 "[T]his book [offers] detailed insight into the professional and private tensions experienced by practicing vets during the course of their work, but primarily when they perform euthanasia on animals. The author draws expertly from her rich data set, helping us learn a great deal about the nature of this complex occasion. [The book] helps us to understand the ethical and moral complexity of animal euthanasia, how vets undertake this work, and cope with the emotional consequences, for all involved. The rich and insightful nature of the account give[s] us confidence that the author has made significant in-roads into understanding this difficult and complex practice, from the point of view of those undertaking it." - Symbolic Interaction "Morris effectively describes the complexity, frustration, confusion, emotionality, and inconsistency encountered daily by veterinarians who must make decisions about ending the lives of their patients... Blue Juice appears to be the most thorough and accurately depicted work surrounding euthanasia and the effect of euthanasia-related practice issues on veterinary practitioners... Morris's work is an effective and eloquent description of the reality of the conundrum of euthanasia in veterinary medicine... She addresses well the extreme efforts by veterinarians to provide compassionate and professional care for both patients and clients. Morris's observations are compelling, insightful, and artfully articulated. Her book should be required reading for every veterinary student, every veterinary educator, every veterinary curriculum committee, and all veterinary medical education accreditation organizations." - Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, April 2013 "Morris skillfully analyzes...aspects of veterinary euthanasia. In doing so, she sheds light on issues salient for the fields of work and occupations, the sociology of emotions, and, perhaps most significantly, death and dying. Moreover, the book enhances the research on dramaturgy and constitutes an important addition to the growing literature on human/animal relations... Blue Juice brims with insights about the complexity, conflict, and satisfaction associated with not only protecting life but also dispensing death. One of the strengths of the book comes through Morris' analysis of how veterinarians navigate the dual role of healer of animals and provider of services to clients... Another of the book's strengths is its analysis of emotions... Blue Juice is a thoroughly researched, clearly written, well-organized book. It offers a rich ethnographic analysis of euthanasia in veterinary medicine while reflecting on implications that extend far beyond that domain." - Contemporary Sociology "Blue Juice is a valuable and novel investigation of an act which is so commonplace to veterinarians that having someone from a completely different sphere evaluating what we do is a really useful piece of work. Thank you Dr. Morris." - Anthrozoos, June 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine; 1 - Negotiating Death: Managing Disagreement with Pet Owners; 2 - Creating a "Good" Death: The Dramaturgy of Veterinary Euthanasia; 3 - Strange Intimacy: Managing Pet Owners' Emotions; 4 - Learning to Euthanize: Death and the Novice Veterinarian; 5 - Coping with Euthanasia: Emotion-Management Strategies; Conclusion: Animals as Property and Patients References; Methods Appendix; Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Book SynopsisGeorge Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updTrade Review"Lipsitz’s 20th-anniversary reissue has only shown how prescient and important this book was from first press.... Weaving together literary references, scientific studies, and court cases, and using well-known contemporary events like Hurricane Katrina, police killings of young African-American men, the Charleston massacre, and many historical events that may be lesser known, he illustrates how white fear and failure are the sources for the development of ethnonationalism. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice
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Temple University Press,U.S. Modern Migrations Black Interrogations
Book SynopsisModern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the “unasked question of blackness” in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration—compelled by force or suggestion, from the transatlantic African slave trade to the Great Migration and the current refugee crisis—has been structured to reinforce white supremacy. Focusing on antiblackness in immigration and examining restrictions on freedom of movement and on settling alike, chapters address how Black im/mobility operates and how it can be distinguished from that of the migrant and the colonial settler, as well as from the transgressive mobilities of Indigenous populations. Looking at blackness, borders and border practices, and displacement, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations investigates racialized boundaries that determine immigration policy, citizenship, legality, and iTrade Review“In modernity, from the transatlantic slave trade to today, the ‘migration’ of Black people is incommensurable with that of others. As Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations argues and demonstrates, reckoning with antiblackness and Blackness fundamentally destabilizes conventional histories, categories, meanings, and politics. Wide-ranging yet penetrating, the book’s theoretical, empirical, and literary analyses pose a bracing challenge to all academics, policymakers, and activists concerned with mobility.”—Moon-Kie Jung, Coeditor of Antiblackness and author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present“The editors and contributors to this volume give migration studies a much-needed shake-up. Theoretically rich and analytically tight, its wide-ranging chapters probe and expose the unacknowledged extent to which antiblackness shapes the way we think and talk about the movement of people. Rather than just implicating the usual suspects, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations calls on well-meaning humanitarians—scholars, activists, and the like—to wipe the smudge of antiblackness from our lens. This is a bold and important book.”—Jamie Longazel, Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College, affiliated faculty in the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and coeditor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple)
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University of Toronto Press Medieval Towns
Book SynopsisThis exciting new collection of documents from across Europe gives a fresh perspective and sharp taste of everyday life in a medieval town. The sources range from the standard chronicles and charters to the less often viewed accounts of marriage disputes, urban women, families, the environment, the dangers of town life, and civic ritual. Deliberately wide-ranging, these sources acknowledge the contributions of other disciplines—such as archaeology, architecture, demography, law, and environmental studies—to our understanding of urban life in the Middle Ages. Towns from Spain to Germany to Russia are covered, while the focus is on the more urbanized regions of medieval Europe, particularly Italy, the Low Countries, France, and England. In all, 150 primary sources are included, 35 of which are translated for this volume from Latin, Old French, Anglo-Norman, Franco-Venetian, medieval Danish, and other languages. Trade ReviewIf you teach a course on medieval towns, you will want to assign it. If you have students interested in projects connected with medieval cities, you will want to recommend it. And if you simply want to learn more about the lives of townspeople in the Middle Ages, you will want to pick it up and browse through it. But be forewarned; once you start reading, you may find that the range and vitality of the material in this volume makes it difficult to put down. -- The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsChronological Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Introduction I. The Early Middle Ages 1. The Grandeur of Rome 2. The Roman Baths 3. The Humble Townspeople: Graffiti and Election Notices on the Walls of Pompeii 4. The Impact of the "Barbarian Invasions" on Fifth-Century Towns 5. Gregory of Tours's Ode to Dijon in the Sixth Century 6. Toll Exemptions in French Towns 7. The Raids of the Northmen 8. The Magyar Raids 9. The Creation of Bruges 10. Otto I Grants a Market in Bremen to the Archbishop of Hamburg, 965 11. The Origins of the Saxon Towns 12. The Customs and Rents of Hereford According to Domesday Book, 1086 13. Grant of Privileges to the Castilians, Mozarabs, and Franks of Toledo, 1086-1118 14. German Colonization in the East 15. Archaeological Excavations in Tenth-Century York II. Communes, Government, and External Relations 16. The People of Cologne Rebel Against Their Archbishop, 1074 17. The Formation of a Commune at Laon, 1116 18. The Customs of Lorris, 1155 19. The Lombard Communes As Viewed by a German Bishop 20. Royal Charters Granted to Dublin, 1192-1229 21. L beck Is Made an Imperial City, 1226 22. The German Emperor Annuls All City Charters, 1231-32 23. Election of the Podest , Consuls, and Officials of Volterra, 1224 24. The Magnates and the Rise of the Popolo and Guilds in Florence, 1207-1328 25. The Greater versus the Lesser Citizens in Bristol, 1316 26. "Mother" Towns: Breslau Adopts the Charter of Magdeburg, 1261 27. "Daughter" Towns: The Citizens of Culm Seek Advice from the City Rulers of Magdeburg, 1338 28. Brunswick Extends Civic Rule to Its Suburbs, 1269 29. Florence Expands Its Contado, 1202-89 30. The Struggle between the Guelfs and Ghibellines 31. The Establishment of the Rhine League and of Its Peace, 1254 32. Decrees of the Hanseatic League, 1260-64 33. The Cinque Ports Confederation 34. Parliamentary Summons to English Boroughs, 1295 35. The Pope and City Politics in Siena, Fifteenth Century III. Urban Society and Social Conflict 36. Charter to the Non-Noble Knights of Burgos, 1256 37. Tower Fellowships and Factionalism in Florence 38. Factionalism and the Concerns of an Exile, 1312 39. Commercial Status, Wealth, and Political Office in Medieval Exeter 40. The Political Fortunes of a Florentine Merchant 41. The Distribution of Wealth in Two Towns 42. A Bondman Seeks Refuge in an English Town, 1237-38 43. Grievances of the Common Folk of Dublin, 1316-18 44. A Day in the Life of a Carpenter 45. A Londoner's Household Goods, 1337 46. Domestic Slaves 47. The Revolt of the Commons in London, 1194 48. The Risings in Ghent and Bruges Against the Patricians, 1301-02 49. The Demands of the Ciompi in Florence, 1378 IV. The Urban Economy 50. Market Regulations in Muslim Seville 51. The Champagne Fair Towns 52. Tolls at Southampton, c.1300 53. Regulations on the Sale of Meat and Fish in Beverley, 1365-1409 54. Shopping in the London Markets 55. Letter from the Genoa Branch to the Home Office of the Datini Company, 1393 56. Restoring Prosperity to the Port Town of Bordeaux, c.1465 57. Regulation of Trade by a Merchant Guild, 1257-73 58. Craft Guild Regulations: The Shearers of Arras, 1236 59. Regulations of the Guild of Skinners in Copenhagen 60. Guild Apprenticeships 61. Dispute Between the Master Saddlers of London and Their Journeymen, 1396 62. The Bakers of Coventry Strike, 1484 63. Guild Rivalry in Florence, 1425 V. Urban Finance, Jurisdictions, and Justice 64. Accounts of the City of Siena 65. The Town Accounts of Leicester, 1377-78 66. Tax Declarations in Florence for the Catasto of 1427 67. Winchester Pleads for Tax Relief because of Urban Decline, 1452 68. The Jurisdiction of the Wardmotes of London 69. Proceedings in the Courts of Nottingham, 1395-96 70. The Cost of Recovering a Debt in Marseille, 1331 71. Feud and Vendetta: The Private Pursuit of Justice in Pistoia 72. Urban Punishments 73. The Dublin Prison, 1486 VI. Marriage and Family 74. The Del Bene Marriage Negotiations in Florence, 1381 75. Marriage in the Merchant Class 76. Contracting Marriage in York and Paris 77. Women, Family Relations, and Inheritance in Aragon 78. Women, Family Relations, and Inheritance in Magdeburg and Breslau 79. Wives at the Tavern 80. Childhood Deaths in London 81. Family and Household in Manosque, 1418-26 82. A Comfortable Retirement for the Wealthy 83. Caring for the Aged in Medieval Exeter 84. Family and Households: A Demographic Perspective VII. Women 85. Proper Behavior for a Young Townswoman 86. Women and Gossip 87. Women and Fashion 88. Singlewomen in Coventry, 1492-95 89. Women in the Parisian Craft Guilds, c.1270 90. Limits on Employing Women as Weavers in Bristol, 1461 91. Advice on Hiring Maidservants, c.1393 92. Female Servants and Prostitution VIII. Religion, Piety, and Charity 93. The Bishop of Speyer Gives the Jews of the City a Charter, 1084 94. Restrictions on Jewish Communities in English Towns 95. Persecution of the Jews in Strasbourg and German Towns, 1349 96. Problems among the Clergy of Rouen Cathedral, 1248 97. The Beguines of Ghent, 1328 98. The Good Canon of Cologne 99. A Popular Franciscan Preacher in Paris, 1429 100. Lay Piety and Reform: Peter Waldo of Lyons 101. The Processions of the Flagellants, 1349 102. The Religious Fraternity of St. Katharine at Norwich, 1389 103. The Accounts of the Churchwardens in Canterbury, 1485-86 104. Religion, Morality, and Politics: Savonarola's Influence over the Florentines 105. A Maison-Dieu in Pontoise, c.1265 106. The Distribution of Alms in Florence, 1356 107. Charitable Bequests in Siena, 1300-25 IX. Education 108. The Cost of Schooling, 1394-95 109. Niccolo Machiavelli as a Young Student 110. Privileges Granted to Masters and Students at the University of Paris 111. Town/Gown Controversies in Oxford and Paris 112. A Student Riot at Oxford, 1388-89 113. Wooing Masters and Students from Paris to the New University of Toulouse, 1229 114. Contract between the Town of Vercelli and the Students at Padua, c.1228 115. The Foundation of the University of Heidelberg, 1386 116. A Scholar in Paris X. Entertainment and Civic Ritual 117. Sports in London 118. The Start of the Secular Stage, Exeter, 1348 119. Order of the Pageants of the Corpus Christi Plays in York, 1415 120. Trouble Behind the Scenes in York, 1420 121. Feast and Festival in Venice 122. The Feast Day of St. John the Baptist in Florence 123. A Wake in Oxford, 1306 124. Processions for Peace in Paris, 1412 125. Mayoral Elections in England XI. The Dangers of Urban Life 126. Fires in Novgorod 127. Famine Mortality in Bruges and Ypres, 1316 128. Discrimination Against the Poor in Siena During the Famine of 1329 129. The Black Death in Florence, 1348 130. The Plague in Edinburgh, 1498-99 131. The Urban Militia of a Spanish Frontier Town: Cuenca, 1190 132. Parma at War 133. The Siege of Calais, 1346-47 134. Crime Prevention in London 135. Criminal Courts and Punishment in Marseille, 1406-07 136. The Road to Ruin in Dijon, 1492 XII. The Urban Environment 137. Air Pollution in Southwark, 1307 138. Regulations for London's Streets, 1297 139. Garbage Removal in English Towns, 1385 140. The Water Supply of Dublin 141. The Sounds of the City: Bells, Horns, and Town Criers 142. London Bridge, 1404 143. The Town Rents of Edinburgh, 1457 144. Building Regulations in London, 1189 145. The Rise and Fall of Urban Towers in Italian Towns 146. Building Contracts for a Tavern and House, 1342 147. A Merchant's House in King's Lynn 148. Clothing and Head-gear 149. Medieval Fast Food 150. Meat Consumption XIII. The Idealized City 151. A Description of London, c.1173 152. In Praise of Milan's Townscape, 1288 153. The Evils of the Big City Maps Index of Topics Index of Towns Index of Town Officials Sources
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University of Toronto Press Apocalypse Delayed
Book SynopsisSince 1876, Jehovah’s Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Charles T. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ’s church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy the nations and establish his kingdom on earth. The first prophecy was not fulfilled, but the outbreak of the First World War lent some credibility to the second. Ever since that time, Jehovah’s Witnesses have been predicting that the world would end “shortly.” Their numbers have grown to many millions in over two hundred countries. They distribute a billion pieces of literature annually, and continue to anticipate the end of the world.For almost thirty years, M. James Penton’s Apocalypse Delayed has been the definitive scholarly study of this religious movement. As a former member of the sect, Penton offers a comprehensive overview of the Jehovah's Witnesses. His book is divided iTrade Review"A well-written, clear and fascinating study." -- James A. Beverley Toronto Journal of Theology "All in all, this is an excellent book and required reading for those interested in Jehovah's Witnesses. Penton's special perspective provides a scholarly inside look at a fascinating and persistent example of modern millenarianism." -- Timothy P. Weber American Historical Review 'This is not a vindictive slamming of the Witness organization by a raving ex-member, but a carefully written, well-documented critical analysis by a scholar with the special insight that only a former insider could give.' -- Dwayne Janke Lethbridge Herald 'M. James Penton offers us one of the few comprehensive accounts of a sectarian tradition that remains an enigma to scholars of modern religion.' -- Robert C. Fuller The Journal of Religion 'Penton, a fourth generation Witness with an impeccable academic background, sets forth a detailed and damning outline of the movement and, in particular, those who run the world wide organization.' -- Grant MacGillivray Halifax Daily News 'Highly recommended.' -- D.S. Azzolina Choice Magazine - vol 53:01:2015 "Penton's unique position - a well-travelled, fourth-generation member who served in various capacities - makes him a reliable informant. He aptly gives insight into major doctrines, past and recent prophetic speculation, the authority structure of the Witness organization, and the harshness of the total ban upon those who attempt open discussion of any differing exegetical view." Christianity TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: History 1. The Doctrinal Background of a New American Religious Movement 2. Charles Russell and the Bible Student Movement 3. The Creation of a Theocracy 4. The Era of Global Expansion 5. Prophetic Failure and Reaction 6. From Dynamic Growth to Organizational Stagnation 7. Relations with the World Part Two: Concepts and Doctrine 8. Bases of Doctrinal Authority 9. Major Doctrines Part Three: Organization and Community 10. Organizational Structure 11. The Witness Community Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries
Book SynopsisMyths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific are in fact powerful, pervasive forces. In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard conceptualizes myths as vessels of sacred values that transcend the division between primitive and modern. Myths represent key elements of collective imaginaries, past and present. In all societies there are values and beliefs that hold sway over most of the population. Whether they come from religion, political institutions, or other sources, they enjoy exalted status and go largely unchallenged. These myths have the power to bring societies together as well as pull them apart. Yet the study of myth has been largely neglected by sociologists and other social scientists. Bouchard navigaTrade Review"…Social Myths is an intriguing and potentially valuable analysis of cultural development." -- Scott Duchesne * Canadian Literature 236 2018 *"By the early 1990s, Gérard Bouchard had become one of the few prolific authors who always deserved close reading. The wonderful translation of his latest book will further increase his reputation for rigorous thinking, wide-ranging reading, and engaging writing." -- Chad Gaffield, University of Ottawa * The Canadian Historical Review, vol 99 4, December 2018 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Myths and Collective Imaginaries Chapter 2 - What is a social myth? Chapter 3 - The Mythification Process Chapter 4 - The Conditions for the Effectiveness of Myth Chapter 5 - Social Myths: A Pyramidal Structure General Conclusion Bibliography Notes
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Bristol University Press Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
Book SynopsisThis unique book provides an insider's view of the seminal inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder. This paperback edition includes analysis of hitherto inaccessible transcripts which show how the Inquiry was undermined and a new Afterword by the author.Trade Review"It is apt and timely that Dr Stone should reveal detail from the (only now available) transcript evidence, modulated through his own cool, scientific and humanely liberal interpretation of this important event. " Dr Bryn Caless, Senior Lecturer in Policing , Canterbury Christ Church University"Going through the Inquiry was a reminder of the pain of losing my son: it was difficult but one I had to sit through. The Inquiry filled in the gaps of what happened the night my son was murdered. The Inquiry also showed me the depth of racism and corruption that existed in the Metropolitan Police Service." Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE"Insights into the private considerations of the Stephen Lawrence Murder Inquiry will provide clarity and better understanding about how the combination of prejudice, poor leadership, unaccountable decision-making and abuse of power contribute to institutional discriminatory outcomes." Lord Ouseley of Peckham RyeTable of ContentsIntroduction; Why there was an inquiry; The Inquiry and how I came to be an Adviser on the panel; Cancellations and reinstatements; The Commissioner takes the stand; Searching for the files of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry; Defining ‘institutional racism’ and the challenge to ‘double jeopardy’; Unprofessional policing and timid leadership; Final reflections ; Afterword.
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Bristol University Press The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology
Book SynopsisThis compact, focused guide is perfect for students and others new to the field of gerontology. Features include further reading for each chapter, a glossary of key terms, and tables that provide easy reference points.Trade Review“Unique and bold, it is a serious consideration for anyone teaching an interdisciplinary introduction to gerontology course. Indeed, I will be sharing it with colleagues at my university.” The Gerontologist“It is an informative, thought-provoking overview of key issues in the field of ageing and gerontology, which draws on a range of disciplines and standpoints. Students and those new to the field will find this a lucid, easy to read exposition of ageing and gerontology. This work is a welcomed addition to the field. It is very well written and organised.” Population Ageing"This compact, focused guide is perfect for students and others new to the field of gerontology." Thomas Cole, The University of Texas"An outstanding, invaluable guide to research in gerontology. The range of areas covered is hugely impressive." Chris Phillipson, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsContents; Preface; Age and Aging; Gerontology: A Historical Overview; Myths and Common Assumptions About Aging; Health and Functional Abilities in Later Life; Rethinking Family and Family Structures; Death, Grief, Loss and Loneliness; Social Location and Place; Financing Old Age; Narrative and Creativity; Glossary.
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Bristol University Press Creative Research Methods in Education
Book SynopsisCo-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. It illustrates how using creative methods, such as poetic inquiry, theatre and animation, can support learning and illuminate participation and engagement.Table of ContentsIntroduction Research Design Context-Setting Data Gathering Using Two Dimensional and Technological Methods – Research With Children and Young People Data Gathering Using Three Dimensional and Online Methods – Research With Adults Data Analysis Writing/Reporting Presentation Dissemination Where to Next With Creative Research Methods
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University of Texas Press Controlling Desires
Book SynopsisNow with new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings, Controlling Desires is the essential classroom and general introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world.Table of Contents Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Homer, Hesiod, and Greek Lyric Poetry 3. Sexual Roles and Sexual Rules in Classical Athens 4. Sexuality in Greek Comedy 5. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Greece 6. Philosophical Sex 7. Greek Pots and Greek Sex 8. Love and Sex in Hellenistic Poetry 9. Rome and Roman Sex 10. Roman Comic Sex 11. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Rome 12. Roman Poetry about Love and Sex 13. Excursus: Lesbians in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 14. Roman Sex on the Walls and in Gardens: Artifacts and Images 15. Imperial Sex: Nero and Seneca 16. Sex in Satire and Invective Poetry 17. Epilogue Appendix 1. Timeline of Greek History and Culture Appendix 2. Timeline of Roman History and Culture Notes Further Readings Index
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