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The Crowood Press Ltd Garden Design
Book SynopsisThis book offers a breakdown of the process involved in creating a garden, from making an initial assessment of the site's possibilities to applying design principles and choosing plants and landscaping materials. It is aimed at readers who have no previous knowledge of garden-making but will also be of value to professionals entering the trade.Trade ReviewInspiration, ideas and a thorough breakdown of how to create a garden The Garden
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Gill The Irish Grannys Pocket Recipe Book
Book SynopsisEnjoy the best of Irish granny's classic recipes.This pocket-sized cookery book includes all the classic Irish dishes, from Boxty to Barm Brack. There are breakfasts, soups, starters, breads, cakes and biscuits, main dishes, preserves and drinks and a special section on Christmas favourites.Every recipe is illustrated with a full-colour photograph, with easy-to-follow text.
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The Crowood Press Ltd Contemporary British Studio Pottery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book takes on the debate around what makes ceramics an art form and how it has developed. The ‘vessel’, it seems, is a contentious word in ceramics. The book has noted, debates surrounding the validity of the term reveal ‘tensions about the relative value of the pot, the vessel and the object, and the status between the useful and the useless in the art world. The debate as to whether ceramics should be regarded as ‘art’ or ‘craft’ . A very thoughtful read. -- Paul Bailey, Emerging Potters Magazine Oct-Dec 23 * Emerging Potters Magazine Oct-Dec 23 *
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The Crowood Press Collecting Wine
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Pluto Press Crisis and Control
Book SynopsisAn activist's guide to understanding the militarisation of the policing of protest.Trade Review'A welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded, Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of policing' -- James Sheptycki, Professor of Criminology, York University'Sheds light on the economic and political roots of police brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this is what our 'democracy' looks like' -- Francis Dupuis-Déri, professor of political science, Université du Québec à Montréal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social, and political profiling in the public space.'An engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%' -- William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria'A hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the changing forms of protest policing' -- Willem de Lint, professor of criminal justice, Flinders University'Shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and operates' -- John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty'A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate means of protecting democracy' -- Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister'A powerful dissection of the ways that the policing of protests have been transformed over the last decade' -- The BulletTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. Policing Waves of Protest 1995–2013 3. To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices 4. Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control 5. Officers Under Attack: The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray and Police Identity 6. Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector and Integration 7. Protest as Threat 8. Urine-Filled Supersoakers 9. Crisis and Control Notes References Index
£999.99
Pluto Press (UK) Who Do We Trust
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Pluto Press Hamas
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Pomegranate Communications Inc,US The Utter Zoo An Alphabet
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Pomegranate Communications Inc,US Claude Monet Water Lilies 1000Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
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John Wiley & Sons Class Ethnicity and Social Inequality
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Baker Publishing Group His Needs Her Needs Participants Guide Building
Book SynopsisThe popular and bestselling marriage book that has changed millions of couples' lives is now the inspiration for a powerful video curriculum for your church or small group. Six sessions.
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John Wiley & Sons Hegel Marx and the Laughing Matter of Spirit
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University of Pennsylvania Press In My Mothers House
Book SynopsisThis book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility.Trade Review"Through a series of deeply moving narratives, Thiranagama analyzes the multiplicity of Tamil identifications in Jaffna and brings stories of Muslims back into academic understandings of the war. Thiranagama has written a fantastic and fascinating first book." * Journal of Asian Studies *"As an anthropologist, Thiranagama is interested in how uncontrollable eruptions of violence dislocate people's lives. . . . [In My Mother's House] leaves a profound sense of the victims' unfathomable losses." * Foreign Affairs *"The ethnographic In My Mother's House . . . places Sri Lanka's conflict in its right time-frame, bringing back into the discussion the history before 2009, and how the violence that people experienced over three decades changed lives and society forever." * The Hindu *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration Foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere Introduction 1. Growing Up at War: Self Formation, Individuality, and the LTTE 2. The House of Secrets: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheritance 3. From Muslims to Northern Muslims: Ethnicity, Eviction, and Displacement 4. Becoming of This Place? Northern Muslim Futures After Eviction 5. The Generation of Militancy: Generation, Gender, and Self-Transformation 6. Conclusions from Tamil Colombo List of Abbreviations Notes References Index Acknowledgments
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Syracuse University Press Fine Meshwork
Book SynopsisSince the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In this book Dan O'Brien investigates these shared concerns of the two authors.Trade ReviewExceptional, original . . . O’Brien takes on a fascinating topic about which very little has been written and, in so doing, makes a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of books in the emergent field of Irish-Jewish studies. O'Brien's Fine Meshwork interlaces intricately the works, lives and preoccupations of two (variously) misunderstood contemporary writers so as to ask questions that go beyond considerations of nation and biography. O'Brien's carefully and playfully written study, with its bold thesis of flirtatious intertextuality, will do much to advance their cause, while offering new and exciting frameworks against which to consider Irish and Jewish-American literature both as separate entities and in relation to transnational and transatlantic studies.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Great Starvation Experiment Ancel Keys and
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University of Minnesota Press The Anthrobscene
Book SynopsisCritiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
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John Wiley & Sons The Rhetoric of Fascism
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American Mathematical Society Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary
Book SynopsisThe work of Joseph Fels Ritt and Ellis Kolchin in differential algebra paved the way for exciting new applications in constructive symbolic computation, differential Galois theory, the model theory of fields, and Diophantine geometry. This book assembles Kolchin's mathematical papers.Table of ContentsPicard-Vessiot theory of partial differential fields The notion of dimension in the theory of algebraic differential equations Part I. The Papers of Ellis Kolchin: On certain ideals of differential polynomials On the basis theorem for infinite systems of differential polynomials On the exponents of differential ideals On the basis theorem for differential systems Extensions of differential fields. I Extensions of differential fields. II Algebraic matric groups The Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations Extensions of differential fields. III Algebraic matric groups and the Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations On certain concepts in the theory of algebraic matric groups Existence theorems connected with the Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations Algebraic groups and differential equations Two proofs of a theorem on algebraic groups Picard-Vessiot theory of partial differential fields Galois theory of differential fields Differential fields and group varieties (First lecture) Differential fields and group varieties (Second lecture) On the Galois theory of differential fields Algebraic groups and the Galois theory of differential fields Rational approximation to the solutions of algebraic differential equations Existence of invariant bases Abelian extensions of differential fields Le theoreme de la base finie pour les polynomes differentiels The notion of dimension in the theory of algebraic differential equations Singular solutions of algebraic differential equations and a lemma of Arnold Shapiro Some problems in differential algebra Algebraic groups and algebraic dependence Differential polynomials and strongly normal extensions Constrained extensions of differential fields Differential equations in a projective space and linear dependence over a projective variety Differential algebraic groups Differential algebraic structures On universal extensions of differential fields Differential algebraic groups A problem on differential polynomials Painleve transcendent Part II. Commentary: Algebraic groups and Galois theory in the work of Ellis R. Kolchin by A. Borel Direct and inverse problems in differential Galois theory by M. F. Singer Les corps differentiellement clos, compagnons de route de la theorie des modeles by B. Poizat Differential algebraic geometry and differential algebraic groups: From algebraic differential equation to Diophantine geometry by A. Buium and P. J. Cassidy.
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Duke University Press Pedagogies of Crossing Meditations on Feminism
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and raceTrade Review“Pedagogies of Crossing is a tour de force. M. Jacqui Alexander addresses the conditions that make multiculturalism possible and powerfully shows us that those conditions are ultimately ethical and spiritual. Beautifully written and deeply moving, this book shows us how we need an ethic of translation if we are to be able to engage in classroom teaching so that both students and teachers can grapple with the politics of our complex, globalized world. Pedagogies of Crossing is a must read for anyone in women’s studies, anthropology, political science, English, comparative literature, or sociology.”—Drucilla Cornell, author of Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and Political Struggles“In Pedagogies of Crossing, M. Jacqui Alexander ventures an archaeology of the heart to cross over to the ‘other side’ of knowing, returning the sacred to the classroom. Here the ‘altar of the secular gods of postmodernity’ is finally dismantled and we are urged the freedom to think before and beyond them. I am indebted to this sister-scholar-in-arms.” —Cherríe Moraga, coeditor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color“[A] comprehensive, extensive exploration of Alexander’s journey through migration stories (including her own), through academe, the academy and teaching, and through African and Caribbean colonized identities and sexualized politics. Her collection contributes a great deal to the feminist examination of the need to remember, to communicate the experiences of women of colour, including the spiritual survival of women of colour by finding room for the inclusion the Sacred and sacred experiences, as she steps away from the secularized view of experience and power that post-modernism has brought about.” -- Laure E. Lafrance * Atlantis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Transnational Erotics: State, Capital, and the Decolonization of Desire 1. Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas 21 2. Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism 66 Part II: Maps of Empire, Old and New 3. Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice 91 4. Anatomy of a Mobilization 117 5. Transnationalism, Sexuality, and the State: Modernity's Traditions at the Height of Empire 181 Part III. Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession 6. Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves 725 7. Pedagogies of the Sacred: Making the Invisible Tangible 287 Notes 333 Bibliography 373 Index 395
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Duke University Press The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Book SynopsisWalter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalismTrade Review“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” - EC, The Latin American Review of Books“Such a rich and ambitious book, apparently unafraid of taking risks, will prove controversial for it messes with many a wasp’s nest. The Darker Side of Western Modernity is recommended reading for those in search of a challenge rather than a confirmation.” - Sara Castro-Klaren, Modern Language Notes“...the book is elegantly written, even poetic or lyrical at times...I have always appreciated Mignolo’s ability to refine and rework his ideas, and this book seems to be the best example of such evolutionary thinking yet.” - Darrel Allan Wanzer, Cultural Studies“The Darker Side of Western Modernity is a significant, visionary, and hopeful text. More than just revealing the logic and strategy at work in the ‘darker side of Western modernity,’ this book makes evident and gives life to decolonial delinking and thought. Walter D. Mignolo’s eye is toward emergent processes and projects of political-epistemic resistance, disobedience, and transformation that give sustenance, reason, and concretion to the prospect and anticipation of other possible worlds. Through these processes and projects, Mignolo remaps the order of knowing, reading, and doing, while also indicating paths and perspectives for significantly different communal futures.”—Catherine E. Walsh, Director, Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador“Walter D. Mignolo is one of our leading theorists of coloniality/modernity and decolonial thinking. With this superb book, the third in an ‘unintended trilogy’ exploring the nature and limits of modern social thought, Mignolo continues his ambition to ‘break the Western code’ embodied in its rhetoric of modernity and logic of coloniality. This volume brings to light a darker side of the project of modernity, the oppressive relations that were at its heart, and offers decolonial options for the building of communal futures different from our pasts. It is necessary reading for all those interested in the emancipatory potential of social theory for dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century.”—Gurminder K. Bhambra, author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” * Latin American Review of Books *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1 Part One 1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27 Part Two 2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77 3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118 Part Three 4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149 5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's Geography 181 Part Four 6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213 7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252 Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295 Notes 337 Bibliography 365 Index 389
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Duke University Press The Migrant Image
Book SynopsisThe Migrant Image offers a sophisticated analysis of how refugee and exiled artists imagine a globalized world where borders are shifting, populations are forcibly removed from their homelands, and the gap separating the rich from the poor is growing.Trade Review“The Migrant Image is an important reflection on a form of art practice marked by the ‘posts’ of postmodern critique and a political commitment to oppose prepackaged discourses of crisis, austerity, and futile resistance. In a timely way, Demos shows the two are compatible. The Migrant Image will stimulate fascinating debates in the academic, artistic, and documentary spheres. In triangulating among these camps Demos brings down the barriers separating them.” -- Alex Fattal * Public Books *“Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.” -- Ryan Wong * Hyperallergic *“T. J. Demos’s The Migrant Image is the most comprehensive and in-depth scholarly investigation of the effects that globalization has had on contemporary artistic practice over the past three decades. The scope of Demos’s investigation is impressive, most notably in his unpacking and explication of key terms in global art discourse that have proven problematic, and at times elusive. The effects of globalization on creative and intellectual practices in the arts has been a controversial subject that has eluded easy consensus – and Demos skilfully brings a much needed legibility to a discussion that is as divisive as it is complex.” -- Derek Conrad Murray * Third Text *“Demos’s deft criticism means that he is able to bring together a broad range of artwork and argue very persuasively in each case for its effectiveness. . . . His authorial voice rings crystal clear throughout the analysis of this range and mix of artistic practice.” -- James Day * Art History *"Framing contemporary artworks dealing with the theme of migration within the twenty-first century context of 'crisis globalization,' Demos engages with a growing and interdisciplinary body of scholarship on neoliberalism and uneven development. The book’s main intervention, however, is within the subfield of global contemporary art history, where it will serve as a very useful text for students, researchers, critics, and curators concerned with the relationship between art and politics in the post–September 11 era." -- Tammer Salah El-Sheikh * Arab Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Check-In: A Prelude xiii Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1 Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization 21 1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen's Western Deep 33 2. "Sabotaging the Future": The Essay-Films of the Otolith Group 54 3. Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images 74 Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90 Departure B. Life Full of Holes 95 4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103 5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124 6. The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum 144 Transit: Going Offshore 160 Departure C. Zones of Conflict 169 7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177 8. Video's Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara Chronicle 201 9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign 221 Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 305 Index 323
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Duke University Press Tony Allen An Autobiography of the Master
Book SynopsisTony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.Trade Review“There’s a sentence in the introduction where Veal, a Yale professor, uses the phrase ‘indigenization of jazz drumming’, but don’t let that put you off. The academic is present primarily to transcribe and edit, while Allen reflects on 50 years at the coalface. . . One of the great sidemen, Allen here cuts mercilessly through the bullshit.” -- David Hutcheon * Mojo *“Allen bring us his inspirational biography. Written together with Michael Veal, author of Fela Kuti’s biography, this is the most accessible Afrobeat book of them all. . . . Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of West-African popular music.” * AfrobeatMusic.net *“Tony Allen is a fascinating insider’s view of how a musician and a musical style developed over time. Allen is a compelling storyteller and sharp observer whose memories bring forth a stream of ideas, anecdotes, humor, and life lessons that add up to an insightful auto-ethnography. Well-organized and concise, the book flows as a story of one of the most important West African musicians of the past 50 years, a narrative of creativity in post-colonial African popular music, and sound advice on how to have a long and productive career in music.” -- Thomas Brett * Popular Music and Society *“This master drummer’s account is enriched by unstinting critical appraisal, whether evaluating Fela’s most loved recordings or his own subsequent solo efforts. Tony Allen, ever restless, retains the enthusiasm of an absolute beginner, tempered with a survivor’s wisdom. His life obviously a work in progress, one anticipates music yet to come and the stories that surface in its wake.” -- Richard Henderson * The Wire *“[D]rummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat is a cause for celebration. . . . Most importantly, the book is a hell of a lot of fun to read, although Allen's first-hand accounts of his struggles with shamanistic bandleader and Nigeria's adopted ‘black president’ Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will piss off any musician who has had to fight to get paid for playing a gig." -- Chris Becker * All About Jazz *“After decades of being underpaid and underappreciated for his contributions with Kuti and beyond, it’s satisfying to see Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat in print. Drummers, fans of African music, and lovers of music more generally will find a lot to love in this book.” -- Zachary Stockill * Popmatters *"There is much to enjoy from his account of growing up and becoming part of 'swinging Lagos' pre 1978, before it was unsafe to venture out at night. The part describing his musical influences and relationship with Fela Kuti is illuminating. Tony, one of the originators of Afrobeat, still plays to sellout crowds in his seventies . . . demonstrating that age is just a number. Allen's autobiography is a gem." * The Voice *“Anyone who knows their Afrobeat will tell you how pivotal the kit drummer Tony Allen was to the genre’s development. Indeed, as . . . Michael Veal points out in this important, deftly crafted book, the pairing of Allen and the late great Fela Anikulapo Kuti could be likened to partnerships between such jazz supernovas as Coltrane and Elvin Jones; Miles and Philly Joe Jones; Ornette and Billy Higgins.” -- Jane Cornwel * Jazzwise *“This is not a slice of dry academia, what we get in this incredibly fruitful collaboration is 160 pages of rich revealing narrative that is so engrossing that I missed my stop on the tube. . . . Basically, I couldn’t put the book down and it had me sifting through the records to provide a soundtrack to the narrative.” -- Paul Brad * Ancient to Future *“This is a much needed, truly fascinating book. . . . Allen spins the tale of his life, and of the evolution of one of the great popular musical styles of the 20th century, like the great storyteller he is. It’s a narrative filled with tasty anecdotes and twinkling details, which just add to its momentum. You can almost see the wry smile on his face as he challenges you to make up his own mind . . . Allen’s totally absorbing narrative was edited and shaped by Michael E. Veal. . . . In his introduction he treats us to an unbeatably succinct, lucidly accurate contextual analysis of Allen as a ‘Yoruba modernist’. He also gets to grips with how the Allen technique works. . . . This is highly readable and highly recommended.” -- Max Reinhardt * Songlines *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Michael E. Veal 1 1. Right in the Center of Lagos 21 2. Highlife Time 36 3. The Sky was the Limit 47 4. God's Own Country 68 5. Swinging Like Hell! 85 6. Everything Scatter 108 7. Progress 128 8. When One Road Closes . . . 146 9. Paris Blues 162 10. No End to Business 175 Selected References 187 Index 193
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Duke University Press Emergent Ecologies
Book SynopsisIn Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.Trade Review"Amid widespread environmental destruction, with radical changes taking place in ecosystems throughout the Americas, where can we find hope? Emergent Ecologies takes readers on an adventure through the Americas stopping over in ecosystems, laboratories, art exhibits, forests, and more in Panama, New York, Maine, Florida, Costa Rica to tell a story about the practices of worldmaking by ants, frogs, fungi, and other ontological amphibians. This is an exuberant and sensitively-written multispecies ethnography that is also a pleasure to read." -- Carla Nappi * New Books in Science, Technology and Society *"With an activist’s ardor, Kirksey urges us to acknowledge that ecology’s current emphasis on preservation is futile. Our desire to conserve ecosystems, he insists, will be constantly thwarted. Instead, he argues for an active and pragmatic project of future making. For Kirksey, the project is urgent. It must begin now." -- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen * Public Books *"More than ever before, fear drives the modern world. This book makes for a modern, sometimes terrifying, and a somewhat deep read. It is recommended for those interested in the 'new world' and its history. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals." -- F. Huettmann * Choice *"Innovative, thoroughly researched, and well written – a labour of love. It is best at its most specific, when Kirksey’s infectious curiosity and freewheeling fieldwork reveal surprising connections across biological theory, political economy, and cultural history." -- Ashley Carse * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Parallax 8 2. Ontological Amphibians 17 3. Hope in the Reverted Zone 36 4. Happiness and Glass 52 5. Bubbles 72 6. Xenoecologies 86 7. Becoming Wild 105 8. Multispecies Families 134 9. Parasites of Capitalism 163 10. Possible Futures 190 Conclusion 217 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 227 Bibliography 269 Index 291
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Duke University Press The Right to Maim
Book SynopsisJasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israel's occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies and populations.Trade Review"Puar’s book-length intervention in Disability/Queer Studies could not have come at a better time, and is a great example of scholarship that poses difficult, necessary questions for the future of Disability Studies." -- Anna Hamilton * Global Comment *"The Right to Maim proves a passionate and thought-provoking critique of the ways in which the state inscribes its power and social control upon the body. . . . An extraordinarily courageous and timely contribution to a radical struggle for global justice." -- Sarah Rogers * Al Jadid *"Jasbir Puar’s work in The Right to Maim is crucial to understanding not only that the nature of settler colonialism is genocidal but also how that genocidal nature operates." -- Fred Moten * Social Text *"Building on the analytics she advanced in Terrorist Assemblages, Jasbir Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability." -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui * Social Text *"Draws fascinating empirical and theoretical connections. . . . The Right to Maim has much to contribute to major debates occurring within and across disability studies, geographies of sexuality, feminist theory, and critical race studies. Puar charts new territory for feminist geographies." -- Eden Kinkaid * Gender, Place & Culture *"Puar provides a scathing and politically important critique. . . . A compelling and important analysis." -- Liat Ben-Moshe * Women's Studies Quarterly *"Challenges the reader with a rigorous analysis. . . . A very engaging text that insists on a shared commitment for justice in Palestine and a responsibility within disability studies to consider far beyond the exceptional." -- Joshua Falek * Cultural Studies *"Jasbir Puar’s work, bringing together disability studies, queer theory, Foucauldian biopolitics and settler colonial studies . . . reveals the centrality of the phenomena of debility, disability and capacity for understanding contemporary politics there. . . . The Right to Maim is a great gift to future scholars who should find in the book rich inspiration for further work. A fascinating intellectual agenda has been demarcated, and a prescient window into the politics of the colonisation of Palestine has been opened here." -- James Eastwood * Radical Philosophy *"Hugely rewarding. . . . An important book for scholars and students rethinking disability and capacity, but also for those studying Israel’s racialized permanent war against the Palestinians." -- Ronit Lentin * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Social theorists, social justice organizers, and indeed all anthropologists, would do well to read this book. The Right to Maim should also be read in social science courses that consider identity politics in America. As a kind of social experiment, it would be entertaining for someone as myopically unaware of the social inequality Puar is discussing, and the ways in which identity is formed outside of White Patriarchal Male Perspectives—like Jordan Peterson—to read this book." -- Dina Omar * Somatosphere *"[This] book is groundbreaking— nay, field-cracking— and will likely be read, reviewed, and engaged with vigor in the multifarious subfields for whom it bears implications." -- Allison L. Rowland * Journal of Medical Humanities *"The Right to Maim is a groundbreaking work. . . . I wish this book was longer. By the end of the text I was craving more, which is the highest praise I can think to give to a book. While some of the more theory-laden moments in the book threaten to distract from the content, especially when Deleuzian concepts are invoked, it never becomes overwhelming and the text itself remains a brief but brilliant work that I recommend highly." -- Jack Leff * Somatechnics *Table of ContentsPreface: Hands Up, Don't Shoot! ix Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: The Cost of Getting Better 1 1. Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled 33 2. Crip Nationalism: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism 63 3. Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Palestine/Israel 95 4. "Will Not Let Die": Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine 127 Postscript: Treatment without Checkpoints 155 Notes 163 Bibliography 223 Index 261
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Watson-Guptill Publications Drawing Dynamic Hands
Book SynopsisA reference work for artists providing a system for visualizing the hand in an infinite number of positions from a multitude of angles. Drawings show anatomical structures, actions, functions, movement and foreshortening.
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Fordham University Press Nostalgia When Are We Ever at Home
Book SynopsisThrough a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language.Trade Review"A rich and moving account of home and homelessness by one of the most important and distinctively original French thinkers of our time." -- -Simon Critchley The New School for Social Research "[La Nostalgie is] an erudite work in which [Cassin] incites us to make good use of this ambiguous, delightful and sometimes dangerous feeling." -L'Express "This precise and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nostalgia (well served by the translation) is throughout, like all of Barbara Cassin's work, a meditation on languages in their plurality and their equivalence, and on translation. When we fully understand that we do not speak the logos and when we authentically experience that our language is just 'one language among others,' then we are ready to philosophize otherwise, to philosophize between languages, or, in Cassin's words, to 'philosophize in tongues.'" -- - from Souleymane Bachir Diagne's forewordTable of ContentsForeword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne Translator's Note Of Corsican Hospitality Odysseus and the Day of Return Aeneas: From Nostalgia to Exile Arendt: To Have One's Language for a Homeland Notes
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Haynes Publishing Group Sheep Manual The Complete StepbyStep Guide to
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John Libbey & Co Reel Change A History of British Cinema from the
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University of Chicago Press Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery from
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Pomegranate Lawren S. Harris 2026 Wall Calendar
Book SynopsisSchooled in French Impressionism and filled with national pride, a small community of artists came together in 1920 to form the Group of Seven, whose objective was to produce distinctly Canadian imagery. The impetus for this association was Lawren S. Harris, who firmly believed in the need for a national art movement. Harris painted the Canadian landscape with enthusiasm, capturing the majesty of its wilderness and its inherent spirituality.
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WW Norton & Co Eight Bears
Book SynopsisA global exploration of the eight remaining species of bearsand the dangers they faceTrade Review"A family album of the remaining varieties of bear... As Dickie shows, bears are in deep trouble, and her book is a compelling attempt to see through their eyes. " -- Edward Posnett - The Guardian"This book is not just a bear encyclopedia. Dickie wants to ask what it means to conserve a species, and in some cases how much conservation is ‘enough’." -- Katrina Gulliver - The Spectator"Wonderfully eye-opening and compelling" -- Christopher Hart - Daily Mail"Eight Bears explores the wonder and friction that characterise the relationship between bruins and people... Gloria Dickie travels around the world, bringing readers on a riveting and unique sort of bear hunt. " -- The Economist"In this insightful, absorbing book, Gloria Dickie not only introduces us to the eight remaining species of bears themselves but deftly connects the plight of each species to a much larger story: the story of our ancient, fraught, irreplaceable relationship with these astonishing animals." -- Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts"At once heartbreaking and hopeful, steeped in science and rich in poetry, Eight Bears is an intrepid investigation into the harms we’ve inflicted upon bears—and proof that we still have the power to save our ursine brethren." -- Ben Goldfarb, award-winning author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter"Gloria Dickie's fascinating book shows how far bears are embedded in our mythology and landscape. " -- The Oldie
£23.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Rebels Scholars Explorers
Book SynopsisUnearthing the amazing hidden stories of women who changed paleontology forever. For centuries, women have played key roles in defining and developing the field of vertebrate paleontology. Yet very little is known about these important paleontologists, and the true impacts of their contributions have remained obscure. In Rebels, Scholars, Explorers, Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner celebrate the history of women bone hunters, delving into their fascinating lives and work. At the same time, they explore how the discipline has shaped our understanding of the history of life on Earth. Berta and Turner begin by presenting readers with a review of the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a science, emphasizing the contributions of women to research topics and employment. This is followed by brief biographical sketches and explanations of early discoveries by women around the world over the past 200 years, including those who who held roles as researchers, educators, curators, artists,Trade Review[Rebels, Scholars, Explorers] should certainly be of interest to that increasingly large audience from all backgrounds, eager to learn about women in the sciences . . . a must for any young female interested in going into the earth sciences academically and even professionally, even if that is not VP.—Deposits MagazineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOne. IntroductionHistory of vertebrate paleontology as a scienceTwo. Early Discoveries and Collection of Fossil Vertebrates, 18th to Mid-19th CenturyEarly discoveries and recognition of fossil vertebratesThree. Women in Vertebrate Paleontology, Late 19th to Early 20th CenturyTaking their place in the professional worldFour. Women in the Early Modern Years of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mid-20th Century (1940–1975)Gaining ground and the beginnings of the Society of Vertebrate PaleontologyFive. Women in Vertebrate Paleontology, Late 20th to Early 21st Century (1976 to the Present)Coming of ageSix. Artists, Preparators, Technicians, Collections Managers, and Outreach EducatorsBehind the scenes: "Invisible" but essential womenSeven. Challenges and OpportunitiesWomen in STEM, geosciences, and paleontologyAPPENDIXES1. Excerpts from Women VPs' Responses to Oral Interviews2. Excerpts from Women VPs' Responses to Written Interviews3. Excerpts from Male Mentors' Responses to Written Questions4. Examples of Taxa Named for and by WomenAbbreviationsLiterature CitedBibliographic Sources and Further ReadingIndex
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Crossway Books Keep in Step with the Spirit
Book SynopsisKeep in Step with the Spirit by late theologian J. I. Packer is a helpful guide to the Holy Spirit that is both conversational in tone and comprehensive in scope, revealing who the Spirit is and howhe is active in the lives of believers.
£17.84
Crossway Books Rediscovering Holiness
Book SynopsisIn this repackaged edition of Rediscovering Holiness, Packer explores the central role holiness plays in God's plan of salvation for the renewal of the church, calling on Christians to shun sin, strive to be more like Christ, be pure, and fear God.
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Crossway Books Gentle and Lowly
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Crossway Books ESV Journaling Bible TruTone Paris Sky Emblem
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SPCK - Crossway The Biggest Story Advent 25 LifttheFlap Devotions for Families
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Union Square & Co. The Prophet
Book SynopsisThis edition of Gibran's collection of 26 poetic essays on life features a bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging. Gibran's poetry provides timeless spiritual wisdom on a range of subjects, including love and marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, crime and punishment, pain, friendship, time, pleasure, beauty, religion and death.
£12.34
Peter Pauper Press Inc,US ROSE GARDEN LG ADDR BK
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Human Kinetics Publishers Creative Dance for All Ages
Book Synopsis This second edition of the classic text directs dance teachers through what they need to know to teach creative dance from pre-K through adult levels in a variety of settings. It includes a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, editable forms, and teacher strategies created by master teacher Anne Green Gilbert. Table of ContentsPart I Fundamentals of Teaching Creative DanceChapter 1 Introduction to Creative Dance Chapter 2 Planning and Teaching Your Creative Dance Class Chapter 3 Developing Your Teaching Skills Chapter 4 Warming Up, Teaching Concepts, and Cooling DownChapter 5 Locomotor and Nonlocomotor Movements Part II Concepts and Sample Lesson PlansChapter 6 Place Self-Space and General Space Chapter 7 Level High, Middle, Low Chapter 8 Size Big, Medium, Little, Far Reach, Mid-Reach, Near Reach Chapter 9 Direction Forward, Backward, Right Side, Left Side, Up, Down Chapter 10 Pathway Straight, Curved, Zigzag Chapter 11 Focus Single Focus, Multi-Focus Chapter 12 Speed Slow, Medium, Fast Chapter 13 Rhythm Pulse, Breath, Pattern, Grouping Chapter 14 Energy Smooth (Sustained), Sharp (Sudden) Chapter 15 Weight Strong, Light Chapter 16 Flow Free, Bound Chapter 17 Body Parts Head, Arms, Hand, Pelvis, Spine, Trunk, Legs, Feet Chapter 18 Body Shapes Curved, Straight, Angular, Twisted, Symmetrical, Asymmetrical Chapter 19 Relationships Over, Under, Around, Through Chapter 20 Balance On Balance, Off Balance Chapter 21 Specialized Lesson Plans
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The University of North Carolina Press Stonewalls Prussian Mapmaker
Book SynopsisPrussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston and Jubal Early. Hinrichs's detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shed new light on mapmaking as a tool of war.Trade ReviewEducated, dedicated, articulate, and headstrong, [Oscar Hinrichs] left behind a record of his wartime experiences well worth reading." - Army History"Williams has brought [Hinrichs] back to life through his vivid writings." - Civil War Times"A treasure trove of detailed observation and candid insight." - The Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia"An indispensable source for studying the Army of Northern Virginia from the Peninsula campaign until the end of the war." - The Civil War Monitor
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Orion Publishing Co Call the Midwife A Labour of Love
Book SynopsisAn intimate and engrossing celebration of the first ten years of the beloved TV series Call the Midwife.Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew. Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love is a moving journey through the iconic series and features personal reflections, photos of fan-favourite moments, and anecdotes and insights from co-stars, producers, technical crew, and guests.Each chapter, spanning each of the ten years of Call the Midwife - set from 1957-1966 - takes a deep dive into the themes, locations, fun times and technical challenges from each season. Author Stephen McGann, who plays the indefatigable Dr Turner, intersperses personal interviews with key cast and crew about their feelings, thoughts, and memories of filming key moments of the drama.MUST-HAVE FOR ALL FANS: From Trixie''s mod outfits to the Buckle''s courtship to Sister Monica Julienne''s wise words, fans
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University of Texas Press The Nutshell Technique
Book SynopsisPresenting a proven technique for screenwriting centered on a character’s flaws and strengths, an expert screenwriting coach shows writers exactly how to construct screenplays that tell compelling, satisfying stories.Trade ReviewA clever, fresh way of analyzing structure. I've added The Nutshell Technique to my own writing toolbox. * Creative Screenwriting magazine *A Top 10 Book of the Year. A go-to guide for anyone with a story to write. * Austin Chronicle *The Nutshell Technique offers ideas that will grow in resonance with each movie you watch. . . a comprehensive method of categorizing movies that you might consider your favorites can now be applied. * Free Press Houston *Table of Contents A Note on the Text Foreword by Patrick Wright Acknowledgments Part 1. The Problem with 99% of Screenplays Chapter 1. The Problem Chapter 2. The Solution Part 2. The Nutshell Technique Process Chapter 3. How to Use This Book Chapter 4. Protagonist Chapter 5. Set-Up Want: Part 1 Chapter 6. Point of No Return Chapter 7. Set-Up Want: Part 2 Chapter 8. Catch Chapter 9. Flaw Chapter 10. Crisis Chapter 11. Triumph Chapter 12. Climactic Choice Chapter 13. Final Step Chapter 14. Strength Part 3. Advanced Application of the Nutshell Technique Chapter 15. Nonlinear Screenplays Chapter 16. Using a "Secret Protagonist" to Structure a Nonconventional Story Part 4: Film Nutshells Annie Hall Argo August: Osage County Being John Malkovich The Big Lebowski The Bourne Identity Braveheart Casablanca Chinatown Collateral Crimes and Misdemeanors Dallas Buyers Club Frozen The Godfather Groundhog Day Juno Little Miss Sunshine The Matrix Memento North Country Pulp Fiction Silver Linings Playbook The Sixth Sense The Social Network Sunset Blvd. Titanic Tootsie Up in the Air The Usual Suspects Witness Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Supersex Sexuality Fantasy and the Superhero
Book Synopsis2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and film
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MU - University of Texas Press Chuco Punk Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Book Synopsis2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara López dives into the rebellious sonic history of the city, drawing on more than seventy interviews with punks, as well as unarchived flyers, photos, and other punk memorabilia. Connecting the scene to El Paso's own history as a borderland, a site of segregation, and a city with a long lineage of cultural and musical resistance, López throws readers into the heat of backyard punx shows, the chaos of riots in derelict mechanic shops, and the thrill of skateboarding on the roofs of local middle schools. She reveals how, in this predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene, women forged their own space, sound, and community. Covering the first roots of Chuco punk in the late 1970s through the early 2000s, López moves beyond the breakout bands to shed light on how the scene influenced not only the contours of sound and El Paso but the entire topography of punk rock.
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Duke University Press Somatic States
Book SynopsisFranck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders.
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New York University Press Policing Not Protecting Families
Book SynopsisControlling, surveilling, and punishing poor families through the child welfare systemIn a typical year, one in five US children have some interaction with the child welfare system. Countless other families, particularly those who struggle to care for their children due to poverty or economic insecurity, fear child welfare system involvement. Though imagined as a system that protects children from caregivers' maltreatment, contributors to Policing Not Protecting Families argue that the child welfare system polices and punishes poor parents who are unable to meet white, middle class parenting standards due to structural inequalities. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, sociology, law, and social work, this collection is the first to critically examine the child welfare system's role in governing poor, disproportionately Black and Native families. It shows that the child welfare system is a key site of poverty governance, or state control and management of poor families. Chap
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John Wiley & Sons Humanitarianism from Below Faith Welfare and the
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