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Haus Publishing Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in
Book SynopsisIn 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In2019, appalled not only by the result of the Brexit referendum but by the ugliness it exposed in our politics and wider society, he became a citizen of Germany,the country that had persecuted his grandparents 80 years earlier. How had it come to this? Through the story of his family and their migration, Citizens of Everywhere explores identity and belonging in the wake of Brexit and the coronavirus. In doing so,it laments Britain's tragic slide from an open, pluralist haven to a country whose prejudices have led it to turn its back on the European project and engage in an ill-fated, isolationist struggle against an ever more interconnected world. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, our increasingly layered identities are more complex than ever. The reactionary retreat away frompluralism and towards a nationalistic worldview is perhaps an inevitableresponse - and one that the political class seemed all too ready to exploit,without regard for the consequences. Gumbel's short book will speak to many as he describes how the Britain he knew and loved, that welcomed his ancestors so readily, has taken a wrong turn at the worst possible moment.Trade Review'The thinking person's commuting read' - The Independent;
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And Other Stories Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown
Book SynopsisAs Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs of the eternal human desire to communicate, even as face-to-face contact became impossible. When restrictions temporarily eased, writer James Attlee began ringing doorbells in his hometown of Oxford. On doorsteps and park benches, on council estates and amid genteel terraces, he recorded the voices of those briefly emerging from isolation, winning the trust of rainbow painters and anti-vaxxers, a Covid nurse, an LGBTQ+ artist, a VE Day celebrator, Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as frontline workers in a bakery and a supermarket. Their words, Attlee's pithy observations and sixteen pages of his photographs make Under the Rainbow a unique record of an extraordinary year, and a tribute to creativity and resilience in desperate times.Trade Review‘A unique book that is a travel guide of sorts, and a fascinating collection of reflections and revelations, with Attlee’s fine mind pulling it together, Under The Rainbow is a brilliant read.’ Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine----'Attlee's form of attention shows us a sensitive way of caring and relating and recognising the lives of others: by attending to messages, gestures, signals in the surrounding streets, by inviting neighbours' stories and explanations, he has assembled a searching portrait of the time of Covid.' Marina Warner ----'Under the Rainbow refracts the pandemic into a prism of colours, revealing it not just as a public health crisis but as one that touches issues from racial injustice to the climate emergency. Beyond the statistics and political statements, Attlee helps us make sense of living through the shared moments of a global catastrophe.' Roman Krznaric ----'Attlee captures an intense moment of national self-reckoning by letting those who speak to him from their doorsteps really speak. The result is a carefully curated form of polyphony, sometimes interjected with personal support, but more often with real sympathy, that carries him back to reflections upon poetry and art.' Sally Bayley ----'Full of warmth, wit and eloquence, and a rare, refreshing combination of modesty and conviction, Under the Rainbow is a supple investigation of familiar symbols. I loved the careful anthropological questioning of the complex world on our doorsteps.' Alexandra Harris ----'Attlee's intrepid enquiring sympathetically explores the anxieties and hopes of summer 2020.' Patrick Keiller ----'Observant, enquiring, contemplative, James Attlee has carried out a deft investigation of a city in lockdown. I love the way he listens to people, thinks about what they've said, and lets it lead him to some relevant allusion or philosophical notion.' Tim Pears ---- Praise for James Attlee's Isolarion ----'Unique and very special.' Geoff Dyer, The Guardian ----'A new Oxford that no guidebook has yet captured.' New York Times
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September Publishing Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In
Book SynopsisEncounterism is a joyous immersion into the everyday pleasure and shared humanity we stand to lose in an increasingly digital world. Andy Field explores both different kinds of and different venues for human encounters, from the hairdressers to the cinema, from nightclubs to eateries, shops staffed by people and free-form urban parks; these are the everyday yet invaluable spaces that allow for human encounters that enrich our lives. Field writes with tenderness and wit - born out of twenty years as a performance artist creating scenarios in which people are encouraged to see and interact with each other afresh. In Encounterism he not only examines how we physically encounter both strangers and friends - in all our human grace and awkwardness - but builds to a manifesto for the importance of real-world interaction. A rousing reminder that our cities, our residential and work places, must still allow for the possibility of spontaneity and shared, in-person joy.
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Divided Publishing Artificial Gut Feeling
Book SynopsisZett's singular voice appears in many guises, advancing an insistent series of auto-fictions addressing dominance, resistance, artificial feelings and the physicality of language.
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Divided Publishing Iasi, Stage Of Recovery
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Divided Publishing Self-portrait
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Common Notions Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis
Book SynopsisWe are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crises, longstanding, are ongoing. In Hope Against Hope, the Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation between climate change and capitalism and calls for the expansion of our conceptual toolbox to organize within and against ecological crisis characterized by deepening inequality, rising far-right movements, and—relatedly—more frequent and devastating disasters. While much of environmentalist and leftist discourse in this political moment remain oriented toward horizons that repeat and renew racist, anti-migrant, nationalist, and capitalist assumptions, Out of the Woods charts a revolutionary course adequate to our times. At the center of the renewed political orientation Hope Against Hope expounds is an abolitionist approach to border imperialism, reactionary ecology, and state violence that underpins many green solutions and modes of understanding nature. It reminds us of the frequent moments and movements of solidarity emerging in the ruins all around us. Their stunning conclusion to the disarray of politics in our seemingly end times is the urgency of creating what Out of the Woods calls “disaster communism”—the collective power to transform our future political horizons from the ruins and establish a climate future based in common life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. BORDERS Introduction: Disaster Migration On Climate/Borders/Survival/Care/Struggle: Two Members of Out of the Woods in Conversation with BASE Magazine Refuges and Death-Worlds Infrastructure Against Borders A Hostile Environment II. NATURES Introduction: Cyborg Ecology The Dangers of Reactionary Ecology Lies of the Land: Against and Beyond Völkisch Environmentalism The Political Economy of Hunger Contemporary Agriculture: Climate, Capital, and Cyborg Agroecology James O’Connor’s Second Contradiction of Capitalism Murray Bookchin’s Liberatory Technics Organizing Nature in the Midst of Crisis: Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life III. FUTURES Introduction: Toward a Regenerative Utopianism The Future is Kids’ Stuff Cthulhu Plays No Role for Me Postcapitalist Ecology: A Comment on Inventing the Future IV. STRATEGIES Introduction: Organizing Amidst Crisis Blockadia and Capitalism: Naomi Klein vs. Naomi Klein Climate Populism and the People’s Climate March Après moi le déluge! Fossil Fuel Abolitionism and the Carbon Bubble Disaster Communism: The Uses of Disaster Bibliography Index
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Thornapple Press In It Together and The Monster Under the Bed
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Perspectiva Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows
Book SynopsisThis book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' - rationality, individuality, equality and secularity - are considered as sources of suffering: technocracy, broken politics and 'moral acrimony'. Freedom lies not in accepting or rejecting these views, but in seeing where they've become dogmas, feeding cultural addiction to certainty and control. Liam Kavanagh is an embodied cognitive scientist, deeply influenced by Zen, who directs research at Life Itself, a community of people for a wiser, weller world. Past work in development economics convinced him that recognising and unlearning ideology is the most important step towards imagining futures worth creating. He helps create opportunities for this by organising residential learning communities, dialogues between Science and Zen, and contemplative activist groups.Trade Review‘In this important and timely book, dense with insight, Liam succeeds where many others have failed, to not only accurately diagnose the root causes of the brokenness that so many of us intuit at the heart of Western scientific materialism, but to indicate the path towards a remedy. Courageously and compassionately teasing apart the roots of our attachments to reason, individuality and equality – notions we would often prefer to take as read, so painful are they to explore – Liam skilfully navigates the reefs and shoals of our reactivity, creating a space for real understanding and a new turning of the wheel of cultural evolution. In this work, Liam models the solution he proposes, by drawing in equal measure on wisdom arising from his own direct, first person meditative investigation, balanced by intellectual rigour and a thorough grasp of developments in neuroscience, psychology and the history and philosophy of science’ -- Brother Phap Linh, Dharma Teacher, Plum Village Zen Monastery‘This is a brave and important book for our time, a time when we direly need to find the wisdom to overcome such identities and divisions, and find each other, freely and together’ -- Professor Rupert Read, former UK national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and author of Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy
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Perspectiva The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility
Book SynopsisEveryone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking up' - to the realities of climate crisis, social breakdown, and personal agency - which implicates us all. In the internet era, no one escapes the global revolution of learning, connecting and mobilising and its entangled consequences. This reality demands a political response. But our current politics - led by squabbling parties and their exhausted ideologies - are clearly broken and dysfunctional. Only 2% of the UK electorate think it's worth the time or money to join a political party. How do we put the full spectrum of a consciously awakening humanity at the heart of society, economy and politics? As social bonds fray and the planet burns, a politics of 'waking up' is more urgently required than ever. Informed by decades of public advocacy, transformative work with both local and global communities, as well as her lifelong commitment to inner wisdom, The Politics of Waking Up lays out Adnan's practical, beautiful and urgent ways to redesign politics for an era of people power. Drawing on her years of political entrepreneurship as co-initiator of The Alternative UK, Adnan shares a compelling vision of a 'fractal' politics with an emphasis on new patterns of behaviour and viable prototypes of social progress that can be copied and replicated everywhere. She presents a coherent and radical alternative to our current socio-political turbulence. One that is there for the taking.
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Hachette Livre - BNF L'Escrime. Fleuret
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Fernand Nathan Civilisation progressive de la francophonie:
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Palgrave Macmillan Bioethics in Environmental and Social
Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- Part I. Integral Approach to Bio-ethics and Its Applications.- 2 Belmont Report and the European Convention on Bioethics.- 3 Aristotle, Aquinas, and Integral Bioethics.- 4 Edmund Pellegrino’s Proposition of Patient-Centered Virtue Ethics.- 5 Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Surrogacy: Gain for One, Loss for None?.- 6 The future of abortion in the Republic of Croatia.- 7 Gender Refugees and Sex Reassignment Surgery: Medical Tourism from Japan to Thailand.- 8 Using traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine approaches amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Results of a database search of the literature.- Part II. Applications of (Bio)ethics to Business and Society.- 9 Era of Mass Production of Evil.- 10 The Role of Global Stakeholder Involvement in Fostering Ethical and Sustainable Development.- 11 Green Consumer Ethics and Values – Which role does the media play in presenting and shaping individual opinions of ethics and sustainability?.- 12 Ethical determinants of consumer behavior and responsible marketing practice.- Part III. Environmental Sustainability: Economic and Social Applications.- 13 Catholic Ecology and the Contribution of the Franciscan Tradition to Integral Ecology.- 14 Environmental Sustainability in Times of Economic Crises: Ethical and Macroeconomic Dimensions.- 15 Results of empirical research.- 16 A traditional facilitator of ethics and sustainability.- 17 Religious tourism and protection of environment: World youth day 2023 and Encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ - Case study.- 18 Medical and social risks of health tourism.- Part IV Conclusions.- 19 Conclusion.
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Lars Muller Publishers Cleaning
Book SynopsisCleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and how we interact with and domesticate our environment. This book explores the concept of cleaning in all its various aspects and illustrates each cleaning method, thus expanding our conception of an activity that is such a big part of our daily lives. From a child sorting its toys, to the meticulous work of a clockmaker and an impressive deep-clean of a ship, each process is treated with the same gentle fascination. Short texts add a semi-poetic dimension. The portable book format invites readers to take this publication out into the world with them as they look at everyday processes with fresh eyes. Flipping through the pages of Cleaning is as enlightening as it is entertaining.
£24.00
Mdpi AG AI and the Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great
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Mdpi AG Flood Risk Governance for More Resilience
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Taschen GmbH Today meets Yesterday
Book SynopsisLeading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Reissued in four languages, Today meets Yesterday deploys vivid pictogram pairings to explore the transformations, and the challenges, of our ever-evolving world. Liu has made her name with a combination of graphic precision and incisive observation of behavior patterns. In Today meets Yesterday, her eye for tastes and trends takes ambitious scope, juxtaposing past with present to explore fundamental shifts in society. Along the way, we encounter the tussle between competing ideologies, historic and current global dangers, our interaction with the environment, and the wholesale impact of technology on our ways of living, learning, and loving, from online retail to the rise of the “smombie.” With an eye on everything from geopolitics to concentration spans, Liu’s panorama incorporates the details of daily experience as much as the momentous happenings in history. Through Facebook, food waste, collectivism, and much more, Today meets Yesterday casts the familiar situation in a crisp and discerning light, bringing fresh awareness, as well as some ironies, to who we are and where we came from.Trade Review“Yang Liu has a way of turning our most nuanced social behavior into starkly honest illustrations… [Today meets Yesterday] shows with bold simplicity how our devices have affected every aspect of our lives.” * fastcodesign.com *“…Liu’s outlook blends the details of daily experience with the most important happenings in human history.” * Designboom.com *
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China Intercontinental Press Pu-erh Tea - Appreciating Chinese Tea series
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China Intercontinental Press Oolong Tea - Appreciating Chinese Tea series
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China Intercontinental Press Chinese Gardens
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£26.96
EnClave-ele Cultura en el mundo hispanohablante: Libro A2/B1
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£31.56
EnClave-ele Cultura en Espana (Nueva edicion): Libro B1-B2 +
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Alma Edizioni Davvero italiano: Libro
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Edizioni Edilingua srlu Collana cultura italiana
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£24.95
HarperCollins India Culture: 50 Insights from Mythology
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HarperCollins Publishers India Naaga
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. An English Made in India: How a Foreign Language
Book SynopsisIn An English Made in India, the author delves into the various aspects of Indian English asingua franca, colonial bequest, theanguage of the elite and those who aspire to elite status. She explores the Englishanguage''s earliest influences on Indiananguages (and vice versa), the evolution of Indian English after independence and the way theanguage is spoken today. She talks to people from different parts of the country to create a colourful portrait of the ways in which the Englishanguage has influenced different segments of Indian society. The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the English used by aarge percentage of Indians; the growing importance of Indian English in a world of many Englishes; the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King''s English and those who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English; the effect of the IT boom on global English; and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards aanguage introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE FOURTH LION: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR GOPALKRISHNA
Book SynopsisGopalkrishna Gandhi has been an administrator, diplomat, author, and public intellectual of distinction for over four decades. His writings have spanned diverse genres, showcasing both his deep scholarship as well as a profound engagement with issues of politics, history,iterature, and culture. He is respected not only for his statesmanship, but also admired as an exemplar of a fading ideal of our republic, one that placed ethics and the pursuit of the common good at the core of our publicife. The Fourthion, a festschrift in honour of Gopalkrishna Gandhi, consists of twenty-six essays contributed by individuals drawn from various walks ofife and from across the globe. Organized into thematic sectionsLiterature and Culture, History, Environment, Politics and Public Affairs, and Memoirsthe essays speak to concerns, interests and sensibilities that animate ourives.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US: The Indian Woman’s
Book SynopsisSavitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others have, since the nineteenth century, fought for and won equal rights for Indian women in a variety of areasuniversal suffrage, inheritance and property rights, equal remuneration, prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace, and others. Pioneering feminists believed that due to these hard-won rights, their daughters and granddaughters would have the opportunity to have rewarding careers, participate in the social and political growth of the country, gain economic independence, and become equal partners in their marriages. On paper, it would appear that theot of Indian women in the twenty-first century has vastly improved but, in reality, the demands of capitalism and the persistence of patriarchal attitudes have meant that they continue toeadives that are hard and unequal, especially when compared to their male counterparts. Indian women are among the most overworked in the worldthey spend on average 299 minutes on housework and 134 minutes on caregiving per day, shouldering 82 per cent of domestic duties. They are burdened with work from such a young age that many are forced to drop out of schools,eave theabour force, and give up dreams of financial independence. For those who have the privilege of choosing to have a career, the only way they can make this viable is by doing the double shift'': women are expected to do most of the housework, childcare, and caregiving, whether they have jobs or not. While these problems apply to all women across the country, those in India''s middle class face an altogether unique challenge because middle-class families have mastered the art of simulating an environment of empowerment in their homes.ies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman''s Burden takes a closeook at the gender inequality that forms the bedrock of India''s middle classthis forces women try and be superwomen'' while ignoring the deleterious effects on their mental and physical health. Using available data and anecdotal evidence from the realives of Indian women across the country, journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick asks if, in our patriarchal society, the assertion that women can have it all'' comes at too high a price.
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Juggernaut Publication To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID
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Edilingua Pantelis Marin L'Italia e cultura: Arte
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
Book SynopsisThis open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: ending the romance of academic flying.- Chapter 2: The carbon footprint of travelling to international academic conferences and options to minimise it.- Chapter 3: The end of flying: coronavirus confinement, academic (im)mobilities and me.- Chapter 4: The absent presence of aeromobility: a case of australian academic air travel practices and university policy.- Chapter 5: How environmentally sustainable is the internationalisation of higher education? a view from australia.- Chapter 6: Who gets to fly?.- Chapter 7: Exceptionalism and evasion: how scholars reason about air travel.- Chapter 8: Academic aeromobility in the global periphery.- Chapter 9: The virus and the elephant in the room: knowledge, emotions and a pandemic – drivers to reducing flying in academia.- Chapter 10: Decarbonising academia’s flyout culture.- Chapter 11: Aeromobilities and academic work.- Chapter 12: Means and meanings of research collaboration in the face of a suffering earth: a landscape of questions.- Chapter 13: Academic air travel cultures: a framework for reducing academic flying.
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Hong Kong University Press Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism
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Haymarket Books Their End Is Our Beginning
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Relationality
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Liberties Journal Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
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Pitchstone Publishing Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to
Book SynopsisThis is a book about ideas. Specifically, this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas, and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race, gender, and identity today. Have you heard someone refer to language as literal violence, or say that science is sexist? Or declare that being obese is healthy, or that there is no such thing as biological sex? Or that valuing hard work, individualism, and even punctuality is evidence of white supremacy? Or that only certain people—depending on their race, gender, or identity—should be allowed to wear certain clothes or hairstyles, cook certain foods, write certain characters, or play certain roles? If so, then you’ve encountered these ideas. As this reader-friendly adaptation of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Cynical Theories explains, however, the truth is that many of these ideas are recent inventions, are not grounded in scientific fact, and do not account for the sheer complexity of social reality and human experience. In fact, these beliefs often deny and even undermine the very principles on which liberal democratic societies are built—the very ideas that have allowed for unprecedented human progress, lifted standards of living across the world, and given us the opportunity and right to consider and debate these ideas in the first place! Ultimately, this is a book about what it truly means to have a just and equal society—and how best to get there.Cynical Theories is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, it is being translated into more than fifteen languages.
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Great Plains Publications Ltd Overcome: Stories of Women Who Grew Up In The
Book SynopsisAbandonment, loss, endless transitions, self-reliance, continued persistence, and fierce beauty all coexist in this compelling collection of stories of ten women who journey from victims of the child welfare system to survivors, and beyond. These women face endless challenges, oppression, and trauma but discover their power through: creativity, advocacy, self-awareness, education, motherhood, and extreme empathy. They decipher their personal stories looking back through the lens of their lived experience to contribute to changing the narratives of how people who grew up in the child welfare system see themselves, and how society sees them. These stories create compassion and understanding, breaking down biases. They also illustrate the direct and multi-faceted relationships between residential schools, the breakdown of Indigenous families, the perpetuated systemic racism of the child welfare system, and oppression through other societal systems. Many of these women are the voices of those who could have been murdered and missing Indigenous women or girls but have lived to tell their stories.Trade Review"ThIS collection of 10 womens stories is not an easy read, but it is a necessary one." - Winnipeg Free Press
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Transcript Verlag Medialities
Book SynopsisCultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials. This is why the concept of mediality can be used to stress the performative character of all culture, whose multiplicity of techniques conversely interacts with the mediality in question. The contributors focus on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.
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ibidem The Arts of War Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia
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Xpatial Occassion DINING TABLES OF INDONESIA
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Kult Books Les yeux fermÃs
Book SynopsisLes yeux fermés explores how the human body can engage in a therapeutic healing process, as well as the role of performative photography in this journey. The few anonymous protagonists of the book are followed on a quest through a changing Mediterranean landscape, interacting with their surroundings. By engaging in rituals and performative actions, the body taps into external energies to fortify its inner strength. The journey culminates in Greece's Stefanos volcano, symbolising a new boundary to cross. The active volcano represents both danger and a lost paternal figure. Eliot Nasrallah, a French-Lebanese artist based in Paris, initiated the project after experiencing the loss of a place of personal significance, as a result of the loss of a loved one. The deliberately underexposed photographs create a visual language connected to broad themes of memory, absence and loss.
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L'Artiere To Be
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Daken Press LLC GETTING IN NYC Club Flyers from the Gay 1990s
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MIT Press The Screwball Asses
Book SynopsisA foundational work of queer theory.First published anonymously in the notorious Three Billion Perverts issue of Félix Guattari''s journal Recherches?banned by French authorities upon its release in 1973?The Screwball Asses was erroneously attributed to Guy Hocquenghem when it was first published in English in 2009. This second edition of that translation, with a new preface by Hocquenghem biographer Antoine Idier that clarifies the different theoretical positions within France?s Front Homosexuel d?Action Révolutionaire, returns the text to its true author: writer, journalist, and activist Christian Maurel.In this dramatic treatise on erotic desire, Maurel takes on the militant delusions and internal contradictions of the gay-liberation movement. He vivisects not only the stifled mores of bourgeois capitalism, but also the phallocratic concessions of so-called homophiles and, ultimately, the very act of speaking desire. Rejecting any ?pure theory? of homosexuality that would figure its ?otherness? as revolutionary, Maurel contends that the ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process. It is only when nondesire and the desire of desire are enacted simultaneously through speech and body that homosexuality can finally be sublimated under the true act of ?making love.? There are thousands of sexes on earth, according to Maurel, but only one sexual desire. The Screwball Asses is a revelatory disquisition.
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MIT Press Counting Feminicide
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