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Rutgers University Press Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and
Book SynopsisFinalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination. Trade Review"Forget Burial is well worth reading. The most successful parts of this book take the reader inside the kitchens, bedrooms, prisons, art galleries, and hospital waiting rooms where people laughed, fought, loved, and sometimes died together. Fink makes a strong case that the early years of the HIV epidemic provide models for living joyously and communally despite the myriad ways capitalist institutions leave individuals to fend for ourselves. In the process of “unburying” the stories of historically marginalized people, Fink rightly and eloquently depicts disability as a generative force."— H-Net “What histories inter as past, Forget Burial bears forth to account for our present. Extending caregiving as a method, the book examines how early HIV archival narrations of trans and disability activisms resurface in later novels, film/video, and online networks. Whether displaying and eroticizing disabilities, or inventing safer sex, these negotiated HIV interdependencies transform state violence and biomedical stigma into kinships for ‘body self-determination’ that brandish mutual care and institutional access through our unfolding crises.”— Jih-Fei Cheng, co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises "Marty Fink’s Forget Burial is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts – fiction, ‘zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories – analysis and archival uncovering, Fink’s work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. Forget Burial is both an act of superb scholarship and of love."— Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States for Young People "[A] creative and original study...this book offers historians both useful theoretical frameworks for thinking about HIV/AIDS, disability, and the role of mutual care as well as an exciting collection of sources to learn from."— Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Care Chapter 1: Silence = Undead: Vampires, HIV Kinship, and Communities of Care Chapter 2: Caregiving Collations and Gender Trash from Hell: Trans Women’s HIV Archives Chapter 3: Chosen Families: Rejection, Desire, and Archives of Care Chapter 4: The Gift of Dykes: Naming Desire in Rebecca Brown’s Narratives of Care Chapter 5: Queering Customs: Unburying Care in My Brother and ACE Conclusion: Forget Burial Acknowledgements Works Cited About the Author
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizations Evolving: Third Edition
Book SynopsisOrganizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory. Key features of the third edition include: A sophisticated analytic comparison of six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and their evolution An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management and entrepreneurship research Supplementary materials from academic journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an online companion Extensive case examples that illustrate key evolutionary processes Study questions designed for extended and reflective learning. Offering key insights and critical learning opportunities, this book is crucial reading for classes covering macro-organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations. Students of management studies and entrepreneurship, particularly those with a focus on organization theory, will also benefit from its interdisciplinary approach.Trade Review'Organizations Evolving is an instant classic. The go-to book for information about the future, as well as what s current in organizations studies. It follows Aldrich's pioneering work on entrepreneurship, with great cases, on-line supplements, and updates on digital technology and inequality. For the best primer on the study of organizations, Organizations Evolving is the clear winner.' --Paul M. Hirsch, Northwestern University, USOrganizations evolve and emerge. Aldrich, Ruef and Lippmann introduce a generic framework for understanding organizational and social change. The authors are in this third edition informatively and beautifully integrating evolving knowledge about organizations. The previous edition of Organizations Evolving was my favorite book about organization. This edition is even better.' --Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway'Organizations Evolving synthesizes in an excellent way the evolution of organizations, and clarifies the elegance of the evolutionary approach in using a few distinct concepts to explain broad and complex phenomena. In the third edition of the book, the authors have significantly updated the book, and made it more teaching friendly, which makes it a great textbook for understanding entrepreneurship and organizations.' --Hans Landström, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and Themes PART I AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 2. The Evolutionary Approach 3. How the Evolutionary Approach Relates to Other Approaches PART II CONCEPTUALIZING ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE 4. Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations 5. Organizational Boundaries 6. Organizational Forms PART III TRANSFORMATION AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND POPULATION LEVELS 7. Organizational Transformation 8. Organizations and Social Change PART IV POPULATION-LEVEL DYNAMICS 9. Emergence of New Populations of Organizations 10. Reproducing Populations: Foundings and Disbandings 11. Community Evolution References Index
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A Rabbit's Foot A RABBITâS FOOT ISSUE 10
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Vintage Publishing Thinking Machine
Book SynopsisThe riveting investigative account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's charismatic, uncompromising CEOIn March 2024, following the revelation that ChatGPT had trained on Nvidia's microchips, and twenty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant, Nvidia became the third most-valuable corporation on Earth. In The Thinking Machine, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by establishing a monopoly on AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer.Essential to Nvidia's meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI. Through unprecedented access to Huang, his friends, his investors, and his employees, Witt documents for the first time the company's epic rise and its iconoclastic CEO, who emerges as a compelling, single-minded, and ferocious leader, and now one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures.The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved from selling cheap, aftermarket circuit boards to hundred-million-dollar room-sized supercomputers. It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, in the process becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is about a revolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegade engineers who made it happen. And it's the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, which Huang has billed as the next industrial revolution, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books, generated on command.
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Lars Muller Publishers Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity
Book SynopsisJoy and Fear is a continuation of Otto Neurath’s 1939 book Modern Man in the Making. Joy and Fear questions how modernity, through its promises and its failures, continues to reshape mankind. The promises have been fulfilled, especially for people in the West: Hygiene, modern medicine and education have led to steep increases in health, life expectancy and literacy rates throughout the West. For large parts of the world’s population, however, these promises have not been fulfilled. For example, the current average life expectancy in Chad is equal to that of the United States in the 1920s, and at 52 is eight years below the retirement age there. The entire globe is unquestioningly and irreversibly involved in the modern project, but its benefits are very unevenly distributed. By depicting these asymmetries, Joy and Fear brings clarity to today’s modern world. The picto- grams and illustrations and their accompanying texts touch on global issues ranging from agriculture to warfare to the welfare state. The visual language makes complex issues immediately accessible. Holding the various themes together is a coherent narrative.
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Penguin Books Ltd Is It Ever Just Sex
Book SynopsisInsanely readable! I loved it' Slavoj ŽižekA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader''It was just sex.''It''s a familiar claim. But is it really possible?The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren''t just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany the highs of sexual excitement show us that much more is at stake.So, what are we really thinking about when we think about sex? And what are we really doing when we do it?As acclaimed psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues, with his trademark clarity, energy and wit, there is no such thing as ''just sex''. It is always about so much more than that - about phantasy, anxiety, guilt, revenge, violence, love - and Leader draws on his analyTrade ReviewSensitively written and full of insight * Sunday Times *The revered psychoanalyst has penned a thoughtful book about our everyday sexual lives – and why there is no such thing as “just sex”. With a convincing argument as to why it is so much more than that, this is a thoroughly engaging and ever-illuminating read * iNews *
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Oratia Media Cook Islands – Kūki 'Airani
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Opinions
Book SynopsisFrom beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s “Work Friend” columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights.Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics—politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more—with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent.
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Lushena Books 777 Hardcover
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BUP - Policy Press Meaningful Philanthropy
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Columbia University Press Risk Management in the Behavioral Health
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive handbook for mental health and social service providers on prevention of malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. Frederic G. Reamer provides in-depth discussion of common risk areas and steps practitioners can take to protect clients and themselves.Trade ReviewThis is a must-have text for all behavioral health professionals. In an increasingly litigious world, behavioral health professionals must be prepared to manage their practices in ways that ensure they are in compliance with licensure rules, ethics, and legally accepted standards. This book shows the way. -- Christine M. Heer, Seton Hall UniversityFrederic Reamer has become a household name in social work education and practice. In his inimitable style, Reamer provides mental health practitioners with the necessary tools for risk management. To avoid the hazards of our litigious society, this book should be required reading for all practitioners of mental health services. -- Stephen M. Marson, editor of the International Journal of Social Work Values and EthicsAs an attorney who defends mental health professionals before their licensing boards, I am putting this book on the top shelf of my resource library. It is scholarly yet practical, exhaustive but readable. It is destined to become the go-to guide for both behavioral health practitioners and scholars. -- David Barry, partner at Bowne Barry & BarryThis book provides a thoughtful discussion of legal risks facing behavioral health practitioners, including those associated with complex and emerging issues. Reamer’s synthesis of legal, ethical, and practice standards that apply to the profession and his practical frameworks to assess and mitigate risks across a variety of settings are essential. -- Caitlyn Silhan, partner at Waters Kraus & PaulThis book is an amazing resource for any lawyer who has a case relating to a behavioral health practitioner’s alleged malpractice. Reamer has a strong grasp of the ethics and practices of behavioral health, and he offers essential insight into presenting a case before a court or a licensing board because he knows so much about the law and litigation. -- Jamie M. Woolsey, partner at Sandefer & WoolseyIn this well-researched and well-written book, Reamer provides behavioral health practitioners with practical guidance on how to structure their policy and practice in a way that takes various legal and ethical risks into account. Reamer is truly a leading expert on risk management. -- Allan Barsky, Florida Atlantic UniversityRisk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions provides mental health students and practitioners an accessible and comprehensive set of practice standards in a manner that is not intimidating but yet maintains excellent depth and accuracy. -- Robert Madden, University of Saint JosephThe complex issues and ethical challenges identified in this book are not unique to social work—yet rather they are common elements of any behavioral health process and therapeutic relationship. All behavioral health professionals face these ethical issues in their practice and are at risk. This is an essential text for behavioral health professionals. -- Gisele Ferreto, University of MarylandTable of ContentsForeword, by Robert P. LandauPreface1. Professional Risk Management: An Overview2. Confidentiality and Privileged Communication3. The Delivery of Services4. Impaired Practitioners5. Supervision: Clients and Staff6. Consultation, Referral, Documentation, and Records7. Deception and Fraud8. Interruption and Termination of Service9. Responding to Lawsuits and Licensing-Board ComplaintsAppendix: Sample FormsNotesReferencesLegal CitationsIndex
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Octopus Publishing Group Unlearning Shame: How Rejecting Self-Blame
Book Synopsis'With the authentic voice I've grown to expect from Devon [...] This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. Stop doomscrolling and read this book. You'll feel better, I promise.' -Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling authorHow many times a day do you feel shame? Struggling to pay the bills; buying a top made in a sweatshop; reading the news and feeling - yet again - a powerlessness to the point of apathy? In today's self-blame culture, it often feels impossible not to carry shame about the choices we make and the values by which we live. When the political is so personal, and the personal is so political, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sense that we're not doing enough - maybe, even, that we're not enough. In this bold and transformative manifesto, social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism Dr Devon Price takes an in-depth look at shame and the role it plays in our lives. Systemic Shame traps us into fighting unwinnable battles and judging others for their failures. But it especially affects those who are already vulnerable because they're carrying shame from a difficult past or a complicated sense of self-esteem. This new, radically positive book shows us that there is no such thing as becoming "good enough" to be deserving of love; that we must claim acceptance for ourselves. Blending the latest social psychology, personal insights and empowering practical exercises, Unlearning Shame is a radical guide to overcoming self-blame and embracing a new culture - one where we take control of the choices we make and the future we create.Trade ReviewWith the authentic voice I've grown to expect from Devon, he raises an issue that could not be more timely. This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. Stop doomscrolling and read this book. You'll feel better, I promise. * Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling author *
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud
Book SynopsisAn accessible, analytical look at how influential female celebrities are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an 'acceptable' woman - a Stylist Book Club pick
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Random House USA Inc Tastes of Paradise Vintage A Social History of
Book SynopsisFrom the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
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University of California Press Unbearable Weight
Book SynopsisAnalyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more.Trade Review"This excellent study links the fear of women’s fat with a fear of women’s power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle." * New York Times *"Original, stimulating, and witty." * San Francisco Chronicle *Table of ContentsForeword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity Hunger as Ideology PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity Reading the Slender Body PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance Notes Index
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University of California Press The Cult of Information A NeoLuddite Treatise on
Book SynopsisReviews the disruptive role the computer has come to play in international finance and the way in which "edutainment" software and computer games degrade the literacy of children. This title examines the place of computer technology in our culture.
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University of California Press Black and Blue
Book SynopsisDoctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. This title provides a description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.Trade Review"[An] eye-opening work... It is a pioneering, systematic study of racial issues in medicine/health care... Highly recommended." -- A. Y. Lee, George Mason University Choice "The book comes at a perfect time... Black & Blue goes where previous studies have not... An unapologetic and systematic analysis." -- Bill Maxwell Tampa Bay Times "Black and Blue should be required reading for medical students and physicians. It is a passionate read." -- Kim Read, Reference and Instruction Librarian - Clark College SRRT Reviews/Tumblr.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Nature of Medical Racism: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism Introduction "Avoidance and Evasion" Judging How Physicians Behave Judging Physician Conduct: Privacy and the "Halo Effect" The Oral Tradition Physicians Share the Racial Attitudes of Their Fellow Citizens The Medical Liberals 2. Black Patients and White Doctors The African American Health Calamity: The Silence Medical Vulnerability and Racial Defamation How Do (White) Physicians Think About Race? Evidence of Medical Racism Resistance to the Critique of Racial Bias In Medicine Medical Liberalism and the Medical Literature The Physician's Private Sphere Playing Anthropologist From Racial Folklore to Racial Medicine 3. Medical Consequences of Racializing the Human Organism Racial Interpretations of Human Types and Traits Introduction Racial Interpretations of Black Infants and Children Racial Interpretations of the Black Elderly Racial Interpretations of the Black Athlete Racial Interpretations of Black Musical Aptitude Racial Interpretations of Losing Consciousness Racial Interpretations of the Nervous System Racial Interpretations of Pain Sensitivity Racial Interpretations of Heart Disease Racial Interpretations of Human Organs and Disorders Racial Interpretations of the Eyes Racial Interpretations of Black Skin Racial Interpretations of Human Teeth Racial Interpretations of "White" and "Black" Disorders Black "Hardiness" Physical Hardiness Emotional Hardiness Conclusion: How Human Organ Systems Acquire Racial Identities Racial Folklore In Medical Specialties A Century of Racial Pharmacology: From Racial Folklore to Racial Genetics The Role of Racial Folklore In Obstetrics and Gynecology During the Twentieth Century 4. Medical Apartheid, Internal Colonialism, and the Task of American Psychiatry Introduction "Africanizing" the Black Image American Psychiatry As Racial Medicine The Racial Primitive In American Psychiatry The Task of Black Psychiatry Colonial Medical Status 5. A Medical School Syllabus On Race Introduction The Doctor-Patient Relationship The Problem Patient Medical Authors' Aversion to Race Race and Medical Education: the Search For "Cultural Competence" Two official Versions of "Cultural Competence" Physicians' Beliefs About Racial Differences: A (Belated) Study A Medical Curriculum On Race Practical Advice For Physicians Social Class, Misdiagnoses, and Therapeutic Fatalism "Cultural Competence" As Knowledge of Stereotype Systems Raceless Humanism: "Medical Humanities" and the Evasion of Difference Medical Curriculum Change Is Possible: The Case of Abortion Training Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Book SynopsisThe French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his "thinking tools", which were used to uncover the workings of contemporary society. Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. Each chapter deals with an individual concept and is written to be of immediate use to the student with little or no previous knowledge of Bourdieu. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition: "This collection is highly admirable for its clarity and thoroughness, and should be of great interest to anthropologists and others who are new to, or familiar with, Bourdieu's oeuvre." – Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"The book manages that extraordinary feat of offering both accessible introductions to Bourdieu’s concepts that are 'good to think with’ whilst also offering a depth of analysis that will engage scholars already familiar with Bourdieu’s work. Whether a chapter says something new about familiar concepts like habitus, field, or capital, or it introduces less discussed concepts like conatus, the writing stretches the reader’s understanding of what sociological theory can be." – Arthur Frank, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction Michael Grenfell Part 1: Biography, Theory and Practice Introduction 1. Biography Michael Grenfell 2. Theory of Practice Derek Robbins Part 2: Field Theory: Beyond Subjectivity and Objectivity Introduction 3. Habitus Karl Maton 4. Field Pat Thomson Part 3: Field Mechanisms Introduction 5. Social Class Nick Crossley 6. Capital Rob Moore 7. Doxa Cécile Deer 8. Hysteresis Cheryl Hardy Part 4: Field Conclusions Introduction 9. Interest Michael Grenfell 10. Conatus Steve Fuller 11. Suffering/Symbolic Violence J. Daniel Schubert 12. Reflexivity Cécile Deer Part 5: Applications Introduction 13. Methodology Michael Grenfell 14. Social Space Cheryl Hardy 15. Politics Michael Grenfell Conclusion Michael Grenfell Chronology of Life and Work. Index
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Goose Lane Editions Ideas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ideas has regularly taken the intellectual temperature of the world." * Globe and Mail *"The Ideas series has become essential to Canadian intellecutal life. And here in print are gathered some of the best of the best. This is a volume to read and to cherish." -- David Frum
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Princeton University Press Talking Prices
Book SynopsisExamines the question of pricing contemporary art from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers, this book shows how art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Section on Economic Sociology of the American Sociological Association "The book is an excellent, readable and thorough analysis of how prices are set in the contemporary art market."--The Art Newspaper "[Talking Prices] provides an excellent analysis of the tension between art and commerce that characterizes the art world."--Stuart Plattner, American Anthropologist "Velthuis' essay is absorbing because it challenges our understanding of economics, culture, and society. Its narrative is stylish and refined; at times the discourse shows craftsmanship and attention to details, like a still-life of Pieter Claesz; at other times it is bold and sophisticated, like a painting of Karel Appel, or Kees Van Dongen. It is an essay definitely worth reading."--Calin Valsan, Journal of Cultural EconomicsTable of ContentsList of Tables and Graphs ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Architecture of the Art Market 21 Chapter 2: Exchanging Meaning 53 Chapter 3: Promoters versus Parasites 77 Chapter 4: Determinants of Prices 97 Chapter 5: The Art of Pricing 116 Chapter 6: Stories of Prices 132 Chapter 7: Symbolic Meanings of Prices 158 Chapter 8: Conclusion 179 Appendix A: Interview Questionnaire 191 Appendix B: Description of Interview Sample 194 Appendix C: Record Prices for Art 197 Appendix D: Multilevel Analysis of Prices for Art 199 Notes 209 Bibliography 237 Index 255
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HarperCollins Publishers The Rise
Book SynopsisAn inspiring book about what it means to be human as we struggle for mastery in our various spheres.Trade Review‘Sarah Lewis has assembled a rich trove of reflections not just on creativity but on the too-often ignored role that failure and surrender play in almost any ambitious undertaking. That counter-intuitive point of attack makes ‘The Rise’ a welcome departure from standard accounts of artistry and innovation’ Lewis Hyde, author of ‘The Gift’
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Lars Muller Publishers 100 Words for Water
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Using Research Instruments A Guide for Researchers Routledge Study Guides
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Harvard University Press Eves Herbs A History of Contraception and
Book SynopsisIn Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Riddle showed that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. Here, he explores why knowledge of these methods was lost in modern times.Trade ReviewEve's Herbs is a highly informative presentation of the history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents. -- Thomas Szasz * Washington Post *Riddle examines the use of plants as contraceptives, offering a fascinating view of the early knowledge of reproduction and attempts to regulate it. * Library Journal *This fine scholarly book expands on Riddle's previous work, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, to discover why and how women's extensive knowledge and use of plants, herbs, seeds, bark, and roots was lost after the 19th century...Highly recommended for students of the history of medicine at all levels. -- A. R. Davis * Choice *Riddle's work is a useful counterbalance to extreme skepticism about the pre-modern possibility of effective fertility control. -- Rebecca Flemming * Isis *John Riddle has established his reputation as a leading expert on ancient Greek pharmacology. In an earlier study, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, he argued that a much more reliable knowledge of oral contraceptives existed in the ancient and medieval worlds than had previously been thought. In this book, Riddle attempts a broader but partly overlapping study, a history of abortion and contraception in the Western tradition (Europe and the United States, with a glance at the Islamic World). More specifically, he challenges the common view that oral contraception was little practiced and largely ineffective until the 18th century...Riddle argues his case with learning and perspicacity. He draws widely on the specialist literature of a number of disciplines as he discusses, among other things, the theology of ensoulment of the fetus and the demographics of early modern Europe. -- Gary B. Ferngren * New England Journal of Medicine *Dr. Riddle demonstrates, as in his earlier Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, that knowledge about fertility control existed and women had access to it lost to them in modern times. Both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates will find these books important, instructive, and maybe prescriptive...A scholarly sleuth, Riddle permits historical texts to speak...Riddle integrates modern chemical, pharmacological, and medical confirmations that what the ancients said worked probably did. * Journal of the American Medical Association *Riddle is a tireless scholar and an engaging writer, and as his story moves along in chronological order, it begins to read like an official history. But at heart Eve's Herbs is just the opposite: a gathering of nervous confessions and forbidden secrets, committed to paper as proof of a hidden tradition. Like a covey of quail flushed from tall grass, these anguished facts burst from the page with startling life. -- Burkhard Bilger * The Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Roe v. Wade 1. A Woman's Secret 2. The Herbs Known to Ancients 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge 7. The Womb as Public Territory 8. Eve's Herbs in Modern America Epilogue Notes Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc SEX AT DAWN
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The University of Chicago Press Formations of Violence
Book SynopsisAn analysis of political violence based on the narratives provided by Northern Irish subjects.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AngloAmerica and its Discontents
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University of California Press Shadows of War Violence Power and International
Book SynopsisAn examination of the deep politics of war. It takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. It captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONS 1. Prologue 2. A Conversation in a Bar at the Front 3. Making Things Invisible PART TWO: WAR 4. Finding the Front Lines 5. Violence 6. Power PART THREE: SHADOWS 7. Entering the Shadows 8. A First Exploratory Definition of the Shadows 9. The Cultures of the Shadows: The Meat, Potatoes, Diamonds, and Guns of Daily Life PART FOUR: PEACE? 10. The Institutionalization of the Shadows: (Habits of War Mar Landscapes of Peace) 11. The Autobiography of a Man Called Peace 12. The Time of Not War Not Peace 13. Peace 14. The Problems with Peace PART FIVE: DANGEROUS PROFITS 15. Ironies in the Shadows: (Literally) Untold Profits and a Key Source of Development 16. Why Don't We Study the Shadows? 17. Epilogue: Two Sides of the Same Coin Postscript: The War of the Month Club--Iraq Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The Disability Studies Reader
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Readerâs tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.Trade ReviewIf legislation like the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 can be seen as major leaps forward in creating a legal and political climate of inclusion for the disabled, Lennard Davis' groundbreaking anthology The Disability Studies Reader may be seen as carrying that same spirit of progress into the academic and the world of cultural studies.Shmoop Editorial Team, http://www.shmoop.com/disability-studies/timeline.htmlThe fifth edition of Lennard Davis’ The Disability Studies Reader adds a range of new essays on topics from disability and work to disability and sexual abuse. It remains the gold standard to teach your introductory course on disability studies or as the perfect supplement to a medical humanities course to provide materials on disability and culture.Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of PsychiatryWhat is disability? What is disability studies? The first edition of The Disability Studies Reader played a foundational role in leading beginning students and advanced scholars to these questions. The newest edition of this canonical anthology, the best one yet, offers an ideal selection of texts through which to explore how both the field and the concept of disability itself are being reconsidered, resisted, extended and reclaimed.Susan Schweik, Professor of English, UC BerkeleyDisability experiences are diverse, nuanced and deeply political. As scholars, advocates and policy-makers, we need to think more and better – and this volume is the best place to start.Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research, University of East Anglia, UKThe Disability Studies Reader remains the indispensable volume for all scholars and students working in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. The new edition continues a solid tradition of providing readers with foundational essays in the field, even as it opens out onto the most exciting new work centering disability and social justice, insisting on the centrality of race to a critical disability studies, or locating disability in a global context.Robert McRuer, Professor of English at George Washington University, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and DisabilityThe Disability Studies Reader provides critical information for scholars of the field. The thoughtful essays in this text explore the ways in which disability intersects with law, technology, medicine, education, and the world of media. Lennard Davis guides readers through our disability history with fascinating insights and surprising information. This is an excellent book through which to understand disability in today’s increasingly interdependent world.Haben Girma, Global Accessibility LeaderTable of ContentsPART I. Historical Perspectives PART II. The Politics of Disability PART III. Stigma and Illness PART IV. Theorizing Disability PART V. Identities and Intersectionalities PART VI. Disability and Culture PART VII. Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
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The University of Chicago Press The Mangle of Practice Time Agency and Science
Book SynopsisThis text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account a number of factors.
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The University of Chicago Press The Seven Day Circle The History and Meaning of
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Velocity Press Synthesizer Evolution Modular Greats
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La Maison de Z Left Right
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Polity Press Hounded
Book SynopsisThe last decade has seen countless cases of women being fired, disciplined, protested or no-platformed for their views on sex and gender. Whether high-profile celebrities or previously unknown feminists, such women's vocal non-belief in gender identity' as a universal human condition bears a high social cost. These houndings' are often presented starkly, clinically, in headlines or fleeting social media moments, stripped of the true cost of holding such beliefs. But what is the reality behind the headlines and noise? What are the true consequences of holding and living with - such seemingly now-heretical thoughts?Houndedcharts the often hidden and unspoken harms women face for prioritising and defending sex-based language and rights. Outlining the often-bewildering array of tactics used by opponents against such women, as well as the resilience required to refuse to be silenced, Lindsay presents a compelling argument for recognition of the individual and social harms that are being
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Columbia University Press The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLee Boyd Malvo's chaotic life at the hands of 'caregivers' didn't make headlines until he pulled the trigger. Carmeta Albarus's detailed account-from extensive interviews with the boy who was groomed by a predator to murder-provides compelling insight into the mitigating circumstances of his story. -- Kathleen Carty, president of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work This is an extremely well written book that reads like a novel, but is based on true events. I strongly recommend every medical student, psychiatric resident, and fellow in forensic psychiatry read it to learn of the psychodynamics behind homicide and violent behavior and the details of developing a proper mental health defense. -- Robert L. Sadoff, clinical professor of forensic psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo offers the unabashed truth about children who face emotional and psychological scars resulting from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and other trauma by being left home by parents who immigrated overseas. -- Geneive Brown Metzger, former Consul General Jamaica in New York fascinating Publishers Weekly A good book for readers interested in criminal justice, psychology, and social work. Library Journal helps explain how a good kid turned bad enough to coldly kill one person after another...fascinating Atlantic The book can be illuminating, especially when Albarus describes what it was like to pierce Malvo's shield and help wrest his psyche from Muhammad. Newark Star Ledger The book makes no effort to exculpate the Jamaican-born Mr. Malvo, but traces his life in detail. -- Paul Koring Toronto Globe and Mail One of the more interesting aspects of the book is its lengthy excerpts from Malvo's writings, poetry and artwork, which reveal an introspective youth trying to make sense of his crimes. -- Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Named a Best 2012 Book About Justice - if you want a sense of the damage a broken life can create for innocent victims decades later, read this book. -- Andrew Cohen The AtlanticTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Nation in Fear-the Crime 1. A Father Lost: The Genesis of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Lee Boyd Malvo 2. A False Father Found: Malvo Meets John Muhammad 3. A False Father Rejected: Separating Malvo from Muhammad 4. A Forensic Mental Health Analysis of Lee Boyd Malvo by Jonathan Mack, Psy.D. Epilogue References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Capitalism A Sociological Perspective
Book SynopsisThe global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market, governments and societies are now calling for a retreat to a yet undefined new economic order.Trade Review"Fresh and well-written."Contemporary Sociology"Finally here is a book that makes brilliant sense out of globalization's multiple and often contradictory facets. With deep insight and sparkling illustrations, Centeno and Cohen offer a comprehensive overview of how global capitalism works: both its promise and threats. Read it to understand our past, present, and future economic worlds."Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University "This book shows the virtues of a historical/sociological interpretation of global capitalism, and as a bonus the writing is graceful and clear. Conflicting viewpoints are judiciously and succinctly evaluated. The extensive references to the literature are unobtrusive and impressive. Putting the current crisis into perspective, without reducing its urgency, is a singular achievement."Charles Perrow, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Boxes vi Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 Global Capitalism 11 2 Trade 38 3 Finance and Wealth 64 4 Marketing and Consumption 94 5 Governance 120 6 Inequality 146 7 Living with Limits 174 Conclusion 198 Notes 209 References 213 Index 232
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd For a New Critique of Political Economy
Book SynopsisThe catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx's project in the very different conditions of twenty-first century capitalism.Trade Review"Passionate, rigorous, and fundamental, this is a key part of Stiegler's urgent and vitally important diagnosis of our contemporary predicament." Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge "Stiegler's critique of political economy provides the theoretical resources to understand how technologies have reconstituted memory and subjectivity, renewing modes of domination and generating new forms of collectivity. In the midst of a crisis of Western neo-liberalism, this path-breaking book could not come at a more opportune time. Eat your heart out Slavoj ?i?ek!" Scott Lash, Goldsmiths, University of London "Stiegler's writings emerge as the real world antidote to the utopian and apocalyptic traces of post-politics in figures like the 'multitude,' 'biopolitics,' or ?i?ek's recent Christo-communist imaginary. He is one of the few contemporaries capable of addressing a new era whose epistemological mutations are just beginning to appear." Tom Cohen, State University of New York
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Atlantic Books Patriarchy Inc.
Book SynopsisPATRIARCHY INC. offers a razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work - who does what tasks in society, and what they get in return - is at the heart of social justice. Even today, the gender system brings about a gendered division of labour that is both cause and consequence of men's greater status and power. These dynamics limit what we can do and be, unfairly tip the scales when it comes to what we get in return, create gendered distortions of competence and productivity, and irrational resistance to reforms that would make our workplaces more productive and fairer. The effects seep well beyond workplaces, contributing to poverty, undermining health, putting pressure on family life and preserving females' second-class status, and causing real harm and injustice for both sexes.But progress in dismantling these arrangements is being stymied by two false visions that pervade mainstream debate and discussion.The business-case Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) approach offers us band-aid solutions, sold to powerful stakeholders with promises of enhanced profits and performance, while Different But Equal perspectives reassure that contemporary arrangements are fair, and reflect natural differences between the sexes.In response, Patriarchy Inc. offers perceptive and much-needed insight into persistent inequalities in who does what and who gets what, dispels the false visions of gender equality that distract us, and charts a path towards effective, common-sense reforms that will make workplaces and society fairer and freer for everyone.
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University of Nebraska Press Two Leggings
Book SynopsisTwo Leggings was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian. This title tells a poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life and attitudes, which Two Leggings saw ending with the last warfare rather than the death of the buffalo.Trade Review"Two Leggings . . . was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian . . . . This is the poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life and attitudes, which Two Leggings saw ending with the last warfare rather than the death of the buffalo."—Pacific Historian"This is the story of Two Leggings’ desire for fame, his rise as a warrior, and his efforts to achieve a spiritual vision. He takes us along on buffalo hunts, war parties against the Piegans, and horse stealing raids against the Piegans and Sioux. His obsession to become a chief and famous warrior drove him to repeated forays against enemy tribes for scalps and horses. He relates the religious relationship between vision fasts, medicine bundles, and a war raid’s outcome, sun dances in which performers pierced their breast muscles with wooden skewers, and wife stealing between rival warrior societies. . . . It is a remarkable story."—Chicago Tribune"This is a rare piece of Americana—a first-person account of the psychological, religious, and social life of a nineteenth century Indian. The dramatic recital is a real contribution to our native biography, history, and ethnology, and an important treatise in a fascinating but curiously neglected field."—Baltimore Sun
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Indiana University Press Socialist Heritage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe volume presents a nuanced analysis of material heritage and its strategic use during the socialist period in Romania's capital city Bucharest and its continued legacy today. What is refreshing in this book, apart from the careful documentation and wealth of archival sources consulted, is the fact that the author brought together sources from fields that are not seemingly directly connected to heritage studies. Grama gracefully moves across different areas through with her use of secondary sources, bringing together urban planning, political studies, economic and social analyses. Grama also brings together key anthropological research studies on Romania, both national and international. -- Cristina Clopot * International Journal of Heritage Studies *The strengths of this book are the breadth of the data sources, which have enabled the author to uncover in detail how change in a particular historic urban landscape is shaped by broader issues of power and identity (in both socialist and post-socialist contexts). Socialist Heritage will be of interest to postgraduate students and academic researchers in disciplines such as history, anthropology, human geography, urban studies and sociology. For anybody wanting to understand Bucharest's Old Town there is no better source available. Indeed, over the course of 25 years I have frequently wandered around the Old Town and found myself asking "why is it like this?". Now, after reading Socialist Heritage, I know. -- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *Grama does a brilliant job bringing this story to our attention and explaining why we should care about it. Her book deserves to be widely read. * Survival *An outstanding contribution in the field of anthropology of heritage. -- Dana Domsodi * Sociologia *Grama takes us through a journey of how the heritage discourse was first constructed and operationalized through archaeological, historiographic, and urban planning activities under state socialism, and then repurposed as well as contested after 1989, with results that show profound fissures in the ability to deploy "heritage" as a successful legitimating tool. . . . Overall, the book offers a vivid and provocative analysis of the politics of urban planning in Bucharest after World War II. The arc of the narrative highlights the huge gaps between policy makers and citizens who bear the brunt of these heritage entrepreneurs' ambitions for power and money. -- Maria Bucur * ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY *The book is beautifully written, and readers from different disciplinary backgrounds interested in topics as diverse as socialism and postsocialism, the materiality of the state and city, architecture and its political power, including the making of urban heritage, will find enough to enrich their own reflections. -- Antonela Capelle Pogacean * H-Urban *Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is a compelling exploration of heritage making as state-making through the lens of the postwar and postcommunist transformations of Bucharest's Old Town. . . . A theoretically dense but engagingly written book, Socialist Heritage is a must-read not only for specialists of (post)socialist Romania and eastern Europe, but also for students and researchers of nationalism, urbanization and heritage making, history (re)writing, the role of experts under socialism, postcommunist efforts of Europeanization, and privatization as gentrification, or ruination as commodification. -- Diana Georgescu * Slavic Review *This book is well-grounded in empirical data, especially archival (for the socialist period) and ethnographic (for both socialist and especially postsocialist circumstances)—the interpretation of the sources and the extracts from the documents and interlocutors' statements vividly reveal discourses of politics, experts and residents related to the Old Town's (re)making, and not just regarding the area's heritage. -- Srdjan Radovic * Comparative Southeast European Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tensed Urban Visions: Making Bucharest into a Socialist Capital2. Matters of State: Archaeology, Materiality, and State-Making 3. Time-Travelling Houses and Histories Made Invisible 4. Lipstick and Lined Pockets: Strategic Devaluation and Postsocialist Wealth 5. Displacements: Property, Privatization, and Precarity in a Europeanizing CityConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Princeton University Press Island of Shame
Book SynopsisReveals the truth of how the United States conspired with Britain to forcibly expel Diego Garcia's indigenous people - the Chagossians - and deport them to slums in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where most live in dire poverty. This title chronicles the Chagossians' story as they struggle to survive in exile and fight to return to their homeland.Trade Review"[A] meticulously researched, coldly furious book that details precisely how London and Washington colluded in a scheme of population removal more redolent of the eighteenth or nineteenth century than the closing decades of the twentieth... [O]ne likes to think that if Barack Obama were somehow to stumble across a copy of David Vine's fine book, he would instantly realize that a great injustice has been done--one that could easily be put right."--Jonathan Freedland, New York Review of Books "This angry and angering book is well researched, compelling, and valuable to understanding and emerging US 'empire.'"--Choice "For Vine imperialism, military prerogative and racism have all combined to deny a people a home simply because they were in the way. His succinct style and controlled outrage make for a damning indictment."--Phil Chamberlain, Tribune "Island of Shame is not just a gut-wrenching account of how a tropical paradise of powder-white beaches and palm fronds was turned into a massive launch pad for America's military expansionist programme. A large chunk of the book is devoted to how the Chagossians came to build their complex but happy society in the islands and the resulting tragedy of their displacement. Above all, Vine is a top flight researcher... We owe Vine a great debt for shining his light on this island of horrors."--Latha Jishnu, Business Standard "David Vine's story of the Chagossians is an exemplary piece of both socially embedded reportage and investigative journalism, despite a tendency to indulge in the self-conscious idiom of academic ethnography and reflexive criticism of US 'imperialism.' At heart, however, he speaks truth to power. Power, though, is not listening."--Colin Murphy, Irish Times "David Vine ... has rendered high service by writing a thoroughly documented expose of the crime, which the world has ignored because one of its perpetrators is a superpower, the U.S., and its accomplice, the U.K."--A. G. Noorani, Frontline "Vine's important and timely book sheds welcome light on this dark chapter of U.S. military history, questioning the way our military operates and its impact on civilian populations."--Katherine McCaffrey, American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Foreword by Michael Tigar xi Abbreviations and Initialisms xvii A Note to the Reader xix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Ilois, The Islanders 20 Chapter 2. The Bases of Empire 41 Chapter 3. The Strategic Island Concept and a Changing of the Imperial Guard 56 Chapter 4."Exclusive Control" 72 Chapter 5."Maintaining the Fiction" 89 Chapter 6."Absolutely Must Go" 99 Chapter 7."On the Rack" 112 Chapter 8. Derasine: The Impoverishment of Expulsion 126 Chapter 9. Death and Double Discrimination 137 Chapter 10. Dying of Sagren 149 Chapter 11. Daring to Challenge 164 Chapter 12. The Right to Return and a Humanpolitik 180 Epilogue 197 My Thanks 199 Further Resources 203 Notes 205 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 249 Index 255
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Taylor & Francis Religion of the Semites
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Harvard University Press The Anatomy of Prejudices
Book SynopsisSurveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.Trade ReviewYoung-Bruehl argues that anti-Semitism, racism, sexism and homophobia differ in their internal logic (or illogic) and, more important, that they are deeply rooted in character structure and the unconscious. Accordingly, she finds the most convincing evidence about prejudices not in the questionnaires and projective tests favored by social scientists but in the writings of psychoanalysts, philosophers, novelists, critics and historians. Above all, she finds it in the writings of the victims of prejudice themselves...Her interpretations boast the familiar psychoanalytic virtues of richness, nuance and complexity: they probe to a psychological depth appropriate to the intensity and irrationality of the ideas in question...As an analysis of the sources of prejudice, The Anatomy of Prejudices is bold and profound. Along with Theodor Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, Gordon Allport's Nature of Prejudice and Gavin Langmuir's Toward a Definition of Antisemitism, it is one of the rare studies to explore this vexed topic with the conceptual ambition and passion it deserves. -- Paul Robinson * New York Times Book Review *Young-Bruehl is a perceptive observer. Her accounts of the preoccupations and qualities of psychological experiences that are revealed in different prejudices are useful and illuminating. -- Paul L. Wachtel * Washington Post Book World *No subject is of more importance than that of this book...[Young-Bruehl] wants us to concentrate on the plural of the word prejudice, as she does in her title; she wants us, thereby, to think of the different kinds of hate to be found among us, the different psychological roads traveled to those diverse animosities. Such a conceptual approach requires careful psychological distinctions, and to make them, the author calls upon her thorough, nuanced knowledge of psychoanalytic thinking. -- Robert Coles * Boston Globe *The Anatomy of Prejudices is a book of epic proportions that is sure to stimulate debate on many levels inside and outside the academy. It raises challenges to and for the social sciences, philosophy of culture, philosophy of science, studies of mind and of social development. And this is only the short list. Implications will be drawn concerning current warring groups and political agendas. Indeed, it is of such vast scope that it may invite discourse for some time to come. The goal of this ambitious study is to propose an alternative to theories of prejudice that are familiar from the social sciences...[which] tend to treat prejudice as itself a single, universal concept and to construct a general theory intended to apply to all forms of prejudice...The book exhibits the wide and deep erudition that its task demands. It critically surveys and analyzes the most influential psychological and social scientific theories that have shaped academic study and popular understanding of prejudice...The Anatomy of Prejudices is a striking achievement that may well alter profoundly the way we think of prejudices. If it provides insight into the phenomena of prejudices, it also may suggest ways of disabling or disarming them in the future. -- Rita Nolan * Washington Times *Although this theoretically daring volume may present difficulties to readers who are not familiar with psychoanalytical theory, by integrating classical psychoanalytical concepts into the current discussion of prejudice, Young-Bruehl's challenging work serves as a provocative corrective to the perceptual illusions and superficialities spawned by the customary social scientific approach. It's a book that is sure to have enormous implications for historians, war theorists, criminologists and other scholars interested in understanding the multiple facets of various kinds of prejudice...[She] provide[s] us with a brilliant new sense of the territory and allows us to ask new questions about different kinds of prejudices and their particularly virulent modern forms. -- Susan Osborn * San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle< *Elisabeth Young-Bruehl has written a bold and important book of comprehensive scope, and she has done so with historical and psychoanalytic sophistication. She addresses a topic of utmost concern to citizens of good will, and she treats this topic with full respect for its complexity. -- Jeffrey H. Golland * Psychoanalytic Books *For a psychoanalyst, one of the many felicitous consequences of reading Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's impressively panoramic study is being drawn into a reconsideration of the relationship between the terms 'clinical' and 'prejudicial'. This relationship is often thought tangential. But for Young-Bruehl, it is an intimate relationship. She thinks of individual psychopathologies and socially mediated hatreds as conceptually bound...[Young-Bruehl] presents the phenomena of racisms, sexisms, homophobias and anti-Semitism mainly through the use of historical and literary texts. Her reach is extensive and compelling. -- Donald Moss * The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis *Clearly written and accessible to general as well as scholarly readers, this is a major work in personality and culture that asserts the plurality rather than the unity of prejudice. The author...integrates psychoanalytic concepts with sociological and historical readings...Impressively erudite, [the author] knows 'how culture shapes the study of itself.' Young-Bruehl confronts a great and enduring scourge of humanity while enriching many fields. Along with new and challenging ideas, this book provides an indispensable survey of past scholarship. * Library Journal *Prejudice against another group is quite different from preference for one's own. Starting from this basic insight, Young-Bruehl develops a much needed inquiry of the ideologies of desire, where political theory meets psychoanalysis. -- Tzvetan Todorov, author of On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought
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Harvard University Press Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Book SynopsisThis book presents MacKinnon’s powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state.Trade ReviewLooking at the female and male halves of the world equally transforms everything—and Toward a Feminist Theory of the State makes that clear with scholarship, courage, and wit. By exposing and correcting the patriarchal values underlying nationalism and justice, Catharine MacKinnon causes an earthquake of thinking that rearranges every part of our intellectual landscape. This book is a ‘must read.’ -- Gloria SteinemThe single most important book in the new jurisprudence… It is, in my opinion, the only book in legal theory produced in the twentieth century which can rank with H. L. A. Hart’s The Concept of Law (1961). Both change the framework arid transform the paradigm of the theoretical debate. All discourse within the framework of liberal legal theory has had to place itself in relationship to the ideas and theories of Hart. All feminist legal theory, likewise, must place itself in reference to the writings of MacKinnon. Her work, however, is much more significant than that of Hart, because her perspective has the potential of social revolution. * Canadian Bar Review *[MacKinnon] convincingly links sexuality and violence. But what I value in this book is the leap of faith to a search for practical remedies for women’s situation. -- Naomi Black * Globe and Mail *Table of ContentsPreface Part One: Feminism and Marxism 1. The Problem of Marxism and Feminism 2. A Feminist Critique of Marx and Engels 3. A Marxist Critique of Feminism 4. Attempts at Synthesis Part Two: Method 5. Consciousness Raising 6. Method and Politics 7. Sexuality Part Three: The State 8. The Liberal State 9. Rape: On Coercion and Consent 10. Abortion: On Public and Private 11. Pornography: On Morality and Politics 12. Sex Equality: On Difference and Dominance 13. Toward Feminist Jurisprudence Notes Credits Index
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Harvard University Press The Epic Histories Buzandaran Patmutiwnk
Book SynopsisThe late fifth-century Epic Histories form the earliest historical work written in Armenian. Since no scholarly translation of this work into any Western language has been attempted for more than a century, the aim of this book is to fill this lacuna by complementing the translation of the original text with a Commentary and Appendices.
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iUniverse Apartheid South Africa An Insiders Overview of the Origin and Effects of Separate Development
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University of Minnesota Press Debt to Society Accounting for Life under
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Debt to Society provides an innovative and ambitious scholarly intervention across a wide swath of fields, with much fresh thinking and provocative reframing in every one. Miranda Joseph analyzes the diverse and conflicted neoliberal norm of entrepreneurial subjectivity, searching for and illuminating its possible breaking points." —Lisa Duggan, New York University"I’ve been distressed by the increasing focus on debt as a central instrument of social control. Miranda Joseph offers a much richer reading of how debt is embedded in a larger system of social control via accounting. But this is no screed against accounting—it is instead a guide to thinking about how we use statistics and other forms of abstraction, and how we might rethink the practice to produce a better world. I learned a lot from it." —Doug Henwood editor, Left Business ObserverTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Modes of Accounting 1. Accounting for Debt: Toward a Methodology of Critical Abstraction 2. Accounting for Justice: Beyond Liberal Calculations of Debt and Crime3. Accounting for Time: The Entrepreneurial Subject in Crisis4. Accounting for Gender: Norms and Pathologies of Personal Finance5. Accounting for Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value in the AcademyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dress Code
Book SynopsisA New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read“Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.”—The CutIn the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry—its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it matters—from Elle Magazine’s fashion features director.Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how we dress and how we present ourselves. Style offers clues about everything from class to which in-group we belong to. Bad Feminist for fashion, Dress Code takes aim at the institutions within the fashion industry while reminding us of the importance of dress and what it means for self-presentation. Everything—from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of women’s rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social group—can be tracked through clothing. Veronique Hyland examines thought-provoking questions such as: Why has the “French girl” persisted as our most undying archetype? What does “dressing for yourself” really mean for a woman? How should a female politician dress? Will gender-differentiated fashion go forever out of style? How has social media affected and warped our sense of self-presentation, and how are we styling ourselves expressly for it?Not everyone participates in painting, literature, or film. But there is no “opting out” of fashion. And yet, fashion is still seen as superficial and trivial, and only the finest of couture is considered as art. Hyland argues that fashion is a key that unlocks questions of power, sexuality, and class, taps into history, and sends signals to the world around us. Clothes means something—even if you’re “just” wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Trade Review“Controlling what you wear is a proxy for controlling what you do,” Hyland writes in this examination not only of fashion but also of sartorial life more generally. Hyland finds meaning in what we wear, whether in the nineteenth-century vogue for bloomers or in courtroom attire, which is chosen to convey its wearer’s respectability.” — New Yorker “Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.” — The Cut “Whether you realize it or not, every outfit you choose makes a statement, telling the world who you are and who you want to be. With a rich sense of history and firm grasp on the current culture, Véronique Hyland is your fashion trend translator. Her debut essay collection—wry, thoughtful, and always provocative—is a must read for anyone who cares about clothes…which is to say, everyone.” — Nina Garcia, ELLE Editor-in-Chief and Project Runway judge “This riveting, mind-expanding book made me see the world differently. I'll be thinking about Hyland's funny, incisive observations for years to come -- she has a way of putting things that makes the world snap into focus with its colors slightly sharper and brighter. You will not be able to stop talking about the things you learn from this book!” — Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes "Anyone who opts in to wearing clothes (and even those who opt out) should pay attention to this book." — Library Journal (starred review) "Véronique Hyland's tremendous essay collection is for fashionistas who like their frock talk served with politics." — Shelf Awareness, starred review
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