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Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/Film actress and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that \u0022spread the power of swing across the world like Wildfire.\u0022 A dance contest winner by 14, Norma Miller became a member of Herbert White's Lindy Hoppers and a celebrated Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hop champion. Swingin' at the Savoy chronicles a significant period in American cultural history and race relations, as it glorifies the home of the Lindy Hop and he birthplace of memorable dance hall fads. Miller shares fascinating anecdotes about her youthful encounters with many of the greatest jazz legends in music history, including Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, and even boxer Joe Louis. Readers will experience the legend of the celebrated Harlem ballroom and the phenomenal Swing generation that changed music and dance history forever.

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More and more of us are discovering how easy it is to create a tasty homemade soup using one of these new appliances. The soups can often be ready in just 30-40 minutes. Here Norma Miller extends the range of recipes included in your instruction booklet to provide a wonderful selection of simple but delicious recipes. You'll soon realize that your soup maker is indispensable.Hints and tips to get the best from your soup makerTasty recipes, quick and easy to makeAdapt your own traditional recipes to your new soup makerThis book contains nearly 100 tasty recipes, all personally tried and tested in the latest soup makers by Norma Miller. Traditional favourites, such as Mulligatawny Soup, Creamy Tomato and Basil Soup, Pea and Ham Soup, and Corn Chowder are here, plus some exciting new contemporary recipes, including Prawn and Saffron Soup with Noodles, Thai Chicken and Red Chilli Soup, and even Chilled Cherry and Almond Soup.

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In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York.

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In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

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In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

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The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy There is no finality to the public policy process. Although it’s often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even policies believed to be stable can change or drift in unexpected directions. The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees Americans’ privacy rights, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks set off one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes instituted by the National Security Agency led to widespread warrantless surveillance, a drift in public policy that led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretapping the American people. Much of the research in recent decades ignores the impact of large-scale, slow-moving, secular forces in political, social, and economic environments on public policy. In Policy Drift, Norma Riccucci sheds light on how institutional forces collectively contributed to major change in three key areas of U.S. policy (privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy) without any new policy explicitly being written. Formal levers of change—U.S. Supreme Court decisions; inaction by Congress; Presidential executive orders—stimulated by social, political or economic forces, organized permutations which ultimately shaped and defined contemporary public policy. Invariably, implementations of new policies are embedded within a political landscape. Political actors, motivated by social and economic factors, may explicitly employ strategies to shift the direction of existing public polices or derail them altogether. Some segments of the population will benefit from this process, while others will not; thus, “policy drifts” carry significant consequences for social and economic change. A comprehensive account of inadvertent changes to privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy, Policy Drift demonstrates how unanticipated levers of change can modify the status quo in public policy.

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While medical science has made great progress in the area of neonatology, this is the first time that such an intense study has been made of the mother's and father's internal world during the first four months of their baby's life. It also explains the baby's situation and the effects on staff. Most important are the implications of handling the parents of premature infants in a way that will counter the trauma they have suffered and give their child a better start in life.

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El presente trabajo aborda el estudio de un concreto supuesto de responsabilidad expresamente previsto en elCódigo Civil español, en el art. 1908.3 : los daños causados por la caída de árboles, que no había recibido mucha atención por nuestra doctrian, pese a ser un supuesto de responsabilidad con sustantividad y autonomía propia y ser una norma especial respecto a la regla general del art. 1902. El estudio contempla también la obligación impuesta al propietario del árbol de prevenir su caída, arrancándolo y retirándolo si amenaza caerse, como dispone el art.390 C.C., que siendo un límite al derecho de propiedad y de naturaleza preventiva, y no una norma de responsabilidad por el daño ya producido, sin duda, conecta con ésta si el árbol efectivamente se cae.

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Featuring historic photos of the Chicano Movement in San Antonio and a new introduction, this is the 30th-anniversary edition of Carmen Tafolla’s first solo poetry collection. Having filled a cultural and linguistic void in 1983, when it was first published, this compilation showcases the poet's creation of a literary language from the natural Spanish and English code-switching of the barrios of San Antonio. Banned in Arizona along with many other multicultural books, this work celebrates bilingual and bicultural diversity and the power of individual imagination while simultaneously examining social inequities. Many poems from this book have been widely anthologized throughout the past three decades.

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This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet under‑translated) Mexican cultural critic. Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist situates the urgencies of social movements as they developed in real time. The essays span from 1973 to 2008 and analyze the role of women in a patriarchal culture from pre‑Colombian times to the present. This critical edition offers extensive annotation and cultural background to understand the cogent, but particularly Mexican, arguments that MonsivÁis makes, many of which are extremely relevant in today's political economy in the U.S. and the world.

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This work narrates the journey of a famous science fiction novelist, Martin Gibson, to one of the most prosperous extraterrestrial colonies, where the most famous scientists are managing to change the appearance of Mars to make it habitable. However, what was supposed to be a pleasure trip soon turns into a complicated web of political and scientific interests that traps Martin and confronts him with an unpleasant evidence: relations between Earth and Mars are not as placid as they seem.

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The approach known as Diversity Management, is about managing the increasing diversity of issues that confront us. It is a response to the ever growing number of approaches ? more models, more methodologies and more theories ? developed to tackle those issues. Diversity Management addresses this new issue to be confronted ? how to choose between the models, methodologies and theories. The book, Diversity Management: Triple Loop Learning, will provide a strong intellectual contribution to the now widely debated issue of managing diversity. It carefully blends theory and practice in order to provide substance to the debate on diversity management in the social and systems sciences. The focus on triple loop learning increases the fullness of learning about the diversity of issues and dilemmas faced. It brings together three main learning centres in one overall awareness so that the process is more reflexive and those involved can operate more intelligently and responsibly. Diversity Management: Triple Loop Learning is thoroughly illustrated with case studies and shows theoreticians and interventionists how they can operate with a consciousness that is more than the sum of its parts.

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En esta obra, Vicente, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre la Ley Orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código Penal, al objeto de favorecer el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Como bien es sabido, esta norma tiene un papel muy destacado en la multitud de programas oficiales de diversas Oposiciones de ámbito estatal, autonómico y local y, en consecuencia, sin su dominio absoluto se hace prácticamente imposible superar los mismos.

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This book focuses on state of the art technologies to produce microbiologically safe foods for our global dinner table. Each chapter summarizes the most recent scientific advances, particularly with respect to food processing, pre- and post-harvest food safety, quality control, and regulatory information. The book begins with a general discussion of microbial hazards and their public health ramifications. It then moves on to survey the production processes of different food types, including dairy, eggs, beef, poultry, and fruits and vegetables, pinpointing potential sources of human foodborne diseases. The authors address the growing market in processed foods as well novel interventions such as innovative food packaging and technologies to reduce spoilage organisms and prolong shelf life. Each chapter also describes the ormal flora of raw product, spoilage issues, pathogens of concern, sources of contamination, factors that influence survival and growth of pathogens and spoilage organisms, indicator microorganisms, approaches to maintaining product quailty and reducing harmful microbial populations, microbial standards for end-product testing, conventional microbiological and molecular methods, and regulatory issues. Other important topics include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), predictive microbiology, emerging foodborne pathogens, good agricultural and manufacturing processes, avian influenza, and bioterrorism.

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This is the Student Solutions Manual to accompany Engineering Statistics, 5th Edition. Montgomery, Runger, and Hubele's Engineering Statistics, 5th Edition provides modern coverage of engineering statistics by focusing on how statistical tools are integrated into the engineering problem-solving process. All major aspects of engineering statistics are covered, including descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, statistical test and confidence intervals for one and two samples, building regression models, designing and analyzing engineering experiments, and statistical process control. This edition features new introductions, revised content to help students better understand ANOVA, new examples to help calculate probability and approximately 80 new exercises.

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Hombre de vasta cultura y de amplia formación filosófica, Horacio se convirtió ya en vida en uno de los autores más importantes de la poesía latina y, de hecho, su influencia en la literatura posterior no ha cesado jamás. Este volumen completa la publicación de toda su obra en la Biblioteca Clásica Gredos recogiendo su poesía hexamétrica. En primer lugar, sus Sátiras, género plenamente romano que Horacio refinó y enriqueció. En ellas, trata temas sobre todo éticos con el fin de ayudar a la gente, de una manera benévola e irónica, a ser más felices. Pero también aborda asuntos literarios. Le siguen las Epístolas, prolongación del mismo género, pero su forma ligeramente epistolar es novedosa en el género. Culmina el volumen la más larga de sus epístolas, conocida como Arte Poética, testamento literario horaciano, que durante siglos se consideró norma de la poesía en toda la literatura europea. Publicado originalmente en la BCG con el número 373, este volumen presenta

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In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture—books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. The contributors to this award-winning collection pen interdisciplinary essays that examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups. The essays link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications and also explore the role print materials play in constructing historical events like the Titanic disaster. Contributors: Lynne M. Adrian, Steven Biel, James P. Danky, Elizabeth Davey, Michael Fultz, Jacqueline Goldsby, Norma Fay Green, Violet Johnson, Elizabeth McHenry, Christine Pawley, Yumei Sun, and Rudolph J. Vecoli

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En esta obra, Vicente Valera, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre la LRJSP (Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre) al objeto de favorecer el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Como bien sabrás, esta norma tiene un destacado papel en la totalidad de programas oficiales de ámbito administrativo y, en consecuencia, su dominio es imprescindible para superar los mismos. La obra continúa la senda iniciada por Vicente Valera y la Editorial Tecnos en septiembre de 2016 y se añade al resto de obras realizadas hasta la fecha en "versión Martina": LPAC, La Consti, el TREBEP, el Código Penal e incluso a Los Esquemas de Martina sobre la Constitución Española. Especialmente útil para la preparación de oposiciones y para el mundo universitario.

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El Memento Grupos Consolidados 2024-2025 realiza, en un solo volumen, un análisis exhaustivo del régimen fiscal y contable de los grupos de empresas.En él se detallan, punto por punto, todos y cada uno de los aspectos con trascendencia fiscal, y se introducen las variantes e hipótesis que pueden evaluarse a la hora de adoptar decisiones empresariales.Lejos de aportarte una simple transcripción de la norma, realiza un análisis eminentemente práctico de cada caso concreto, aportando soluciones fundamentadas con ejemplos ilustrativos y con numerosas referencias jurisprudenciales y de doctrina administrativa de aplicación, que te ayudarán a interpretar y aplicar correctamente la normativa en vigor.La nueva edición del Memento Grupos Consolidados es una herramienta rigurosamente actualizada con todas las novedades normativas ocurridas desde la publicación de la edición anterior.Todo ello con las ventajas de la sistemática Memento: garantía de rigor técnico y rapidez de consulta.

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El 16 de marzo de 2019 fue publicada la Ley 5/2019, de 15 de marzo, reguladora de los contratos de crédito inmobiliario, norma que supone un antes y un después en la contratación de préstamos hipotecarios por parte de los consumidores, así como en las reglas de protección al deudor en caso de sobreendeudamiento.Se analiza el impacto de la Ley 5/2019 en los casos de insolvencia que se den a partir de su entrada en vigor, y se lleva a cabo una revisión y puesta al día de los múltiples mecanismos de defensa que asisten al consumidor (mecanismos de Segunda oportunidad, el Código de Buenas Prácticas, causas de oposición en el procedimiento ejecutivo, etc.).Del mismo modo, las últimas sentencias dictadas en materia de gastos hipotecarios, cláusulas de vencimiento anticipado, etc. y el incremento del número de concursos de personas físicas (este tipo de procedimientos ha aumentado en un 232% entre 2015 y 2018) también han propiciado la necesidad de actualizar los referidos mecanismos

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Como último Sith vivo, Darth Bane promulgó una nueva y dura directriz: la Regla de dos. Decidido a poner en práctica esta norma, Darth Bane cree haber encontrado a la aprendiz perfecta. Zannah, aunque es muy joven, posee un vínculo instintivo con el lado oscuro a la altura del de Darth Bane. Bajo la tutela de este, se convertirá en un factor esencial en su plan para destruir a los Jedi y dominar la galaxia.Pero hay alguien dispuesto a detener a Darth Bane: Johun Othone, el padawan del Maestro Jedi Lord Hoth, muerto a manos de Bane en las Guerras Sith. Aunque el resto de Jedi se burlan de él, Johun está convencido de que aún sobrevive algún Sith. Pero ni siquiera él podrá prever los nuevos y asombrosos conocimientos y poderes que Darth Bane descubre gracias a sus visiones inducidas por la Fuerza un poder que lo cambiará de maneras que jamás habría podido imaginar.Título original: Darth Bane Rule of Two.

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El Plan General de Contabilidad de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PGC pymes) se aprobó por el Real Decreto 1515/2007, de 16 de noviembre, como desarrollo de la disposición final primera de la Ley 16/2007, de 4 de julio, de reforma y adaptación de la legislación mercantil en materia contable, para su armonización internacional con base en la normativa de la Unión Europea.;Desde la entrada en vigor el 1 de enero de 2008 del PGC pymes, la mayoría de las empresas españolas pueden elaborar una información financiera comparable e interpretable en España, la Unión Europea y en todo el ámbito geográfico de aplicación de las NIIF, con lo que se consigue un alto nivel de internacionalización de las empresas, que facilita tanto el incremento de los intercambios comerciales como la facilidad de financiación de los nuevos proyectos de inversión.;Este Plan de pymes constituye una norma complementaria al PGC, aunque debe utilizarse como cuerpo completo para todas aquellas empresas que - cumplan los re

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El Memento IRPF es la referencia de consulta esencial para encontrar de forma muy rápida todas las respuestas sobre el impuesto que afecta de forma directa a la mayoría de las familias españolas, a los empresarios individuales y, por supuesto, a los asesores fiscales.A diferencia de otras obras, lejos de ofrecer un simple comentario sobre la norma, el Memento realiza un estudio eminentemente práctico, clarificador e ilustrado con ejemplos, de todos los pasos a seguir hasta hallar la cuota a liquidar, mostrando en cada caso concreto las pautas a tener en cuenta para evitar pagar más impuesto que el debido.Una obra imprescindible para quien necesita una referencia de consulta que vaya más allá de simples pautas para rellenar el modelo oficial, sino para quienes quieren dominar y gestionar con eficacia el impuesto, defender sus declaraciones y estar al día de todas las novedades normativas.el impuesto, defender sus declaraciones y estar al día de todas las novedades normativas

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El Memento Urbanismo 2024 es la obra de consulta más directa y eficaz, pues ofrece al instante soluciones concretas sobre todas las materias relacionadas con el urbanismo y la ordenación del territorio. Encontrarás en un solo volumen, estructurada, clarificada y totalmente actualizada, toda la dispersa normativa aplicable en esta materia.En el Memento se aborda tanto la normativa estatal como la dictada por cada una de las comunidades autónomas, haciéndose especial hincapié en el encaje de la legislación autonómica con la legislación estatal del suelo, así como en los procesos de reforma de aquella para adaptarse a esta.Cuando la ocasión lo requiere, lo que sucede frecuentemente, atendida la fecha de la reforma de que se trate, el estudio del régimen aplicable se analiza por comparativa entre la norma anterior y la vigente, con expresión de diferencias de tratamiento y fechas relevantes de aplicación.Se incorpora, además, la última jurisprudencia relativa a las instituciones y

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Una novella de reivindicació feminista per l?autora d?El temps de les cireres.El món de les dones, amb totes les seves contradiccions, renúncies i esperances, és el que descriu L?hora violeta, la novella més emblemàtica del feminisme de Montserrat Roig. Amb delicada precisió, trena la vida de tres dones i els seus respectius fracassos enfront dels homes. La Norma s?adona que ha perdut la confiança en la seva parella, la Natàlia oculta la seva inseguretat darrere una capa de fredor, i l?Agnès té un marit que la culpa de tots els problemes relacionats amb la família.Però el que per a molts seria un fracàs vital, per a elles és una represa, esperançada, de la consciència de viure nous temps i nous camins. I aquest moment de represa esdevé, per a cadascuna, l?hora violeta, l?hora tombant, de destí incert, en què han de trobar una sortida en un món creat a la mida dels homes. Des de la maduresa, totes tres arribaran a entendre que han de mirar el món sense el filt

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Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi’s comics, and “Baghdad Blogger” Salam Pax’s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.

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The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war “[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature “Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs’s guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H-bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety-six U.S. nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibakusha. Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems. Robert A. Jacobs re-envisions the history of the Cold War as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds against populations powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies. His comprehensive account necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.

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"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack Kerouac "Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most."--John Ashbery Poems (1962--1997) gathers thirty-five years of Robert Lax's work, rarely published and largely composed in solitude on the island of Patmos. Compiled and edited by the poet's former assistant John Beer, this selection reflects--through meditative sequences in striking vertical columns--Lax's rigorous attention to the world around him and his relentless aspiration to new ways of writing. love & death are blood & bone love & death are bread & stone love & death are rose & thorn (love & death are sheep & shorn) Robert Lax (1915--2000) published dozens of volumes of poetry and prose with small presses and worked as an editor for the New Yorker, Jubilee, and PAX. From 1962 to the end of his life, he made his home in the Greek islands. John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. For two years in the late 1990s, he served as literary assistant to Robert Lax. He currently lives and teaches in Oregon.

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A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, and literary theory to analyze an unusual mix of Chicana texts through the concept of space. Beginning with nineteenth-century short stories and essays and concluding with contemporary fiction, this book reveals how Chicana literature offers a valuable theoretics of space.The history of the American Southwest in large part entails the transformation of lived, embodied space into zones of police surveillance, warehouse districts, highway interchanges, and shopping malls—a movement that Chicana writers have contested from its inception. Brady examines this long-standing engagement with space, first in the work of early newspaper essayists and fiction writers who opposed Anglo characterizations of Northern Sonora that were highly detrimental to Mexican Americans, and then in the work of authors who explore border crossing. Through the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Cherríe Moraga, Terri de la Peña, Norma Cantú, Monserrat Fontes, Gloria Anzaldúa, and others, Brady shows how categories such as race, gender, and sexuality are spatially enacted and created—and made to appear natural and unyielding. In a spatial critique of the war on drugs, she reveals how scale—the process by which space is divided, organized, and categorized—has become a crucial tool in the management and policing of the narcotics economy.

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What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first collection of this scope, Mapping Multiculturalism offers cogent critiques of the term and its uses by leading scholars in sociology, history, literary criticism, popular culture studies, ethnic studies, and critical legal studies. The contributors look at current uses of the rubric “multicultural” and offer groundbreaking analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events, and intellectual trends. Featuring essays by authors, activists, artists, and theoreticians, Mapping Multiculturalism represents the entire range of multicultural studies today through essays that demarcate the cutting edge of contemporary cultural politics. Contributors: Norma Alarcón, U of California, Berkeley; Richard P. Appelbaum, U of California, Santa Barbara; Edna Bonacich, U of California, Riverside; Wendy Brown, U of California, Santa Cruz; Darryl B. Dickson-Carr, Florida State U; Antonia I. Castañeda, U of Texas, Austin; Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, U of California, Davis; Jon Cruz, U of California, Santa Barbara; Angela Y. Davis, U of California, Santa Cruz; Steve Fagin, U of California, San Diego; Rosa Linda Fregoso, U of California, Davis; Neil Gotanda, Western State U; M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero, San Francisco State U; Ramón Gutiérrez, U of California, San Diego; Cynthia Hamilton, U of Rhode Island; George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego; Lisa Lowe, U of California, San Diego; Wahneema Lubiano, Princeton U; Michael Omi, U of California, Berkeley; Lourdes Portillo; Cedric Jo Robinson, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tricia Rose, New York U; Gregg Scott; Paul Smith, George Mason U; Renee Tajima; Patricia Zavella, U of California, Santa Cruz. Avery F. Gordon teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Christopher Newfield teaches English, also at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now." So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu uses his personal journey of identity exploration and discovery of his diverse roots to illuminate the journeys of others. Throughout the book, his reflections are interspersed among portraits of persons of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their efforts to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I? Here we meet Norma, raised in postwar Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American serviceman, who struggled to make sense of her ethnic heritage and national belonging. Wei Ming, born in Australia and raised in the San Francisco of the 1970s and 1980s, grapples as well with issues of identity, in her case both ethnic and sexual. We also encounter Rudy, a "Mexipino"; Marshall, a "Jewish, adopted Korean"; Mitzi, a "Blackinawan"; and other extraordinary people who find how connecting to all parts of themselves also connects them to others. With its attention on people who have been regarded as "half" this or "half" that throughout their lives, these stories make vivid the process of becoming whole.

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"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now." So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu uses his personal journey of identity exploration and discovery of his diverse roots to illuminate the journeys of others. Throughout the book, his reflections are interspersed among portraits of persons of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their efforts to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I? Here we meet Norma, raised in postwar Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American serviceman, who struggled to make sense of her ethnic heritage and national belonging. Wei Ming, born in Australia and raised in the San Francisco of the 1970s and 1980s, grapples as well with issues of identity, in her case both ethnic and sexual. We also encounter Rudy, a "Mexipino"; Marshall, a "Jewish, adopted Korean"; Mitzi, a "Blackinawan"; and other extraordinary people who find how connecting to all parts of themselves also connects them to others. With its attention on people who have been regarded as "half" this or "half" that throughout their lives, these stories make vivid the process of becoming whole.

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HANDBOOK OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT, THIRD EDITION The practice of public human resource management has evolved significantly in recent years due to increased outsourcing, privatization, and the diminution of public employee rights. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic reference Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government offers authoritative, state-of-the-art information for public administrators and human resource professionals. The third edition features contributions from noted experts in the field, including Donald E. Klingner, Mary E. Guy, Jonathan P. West, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Montgomery Van Wart, J. J. Steven Ott, Norma M. Riccucci, and many more. Praise for the Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government "This third edition of the Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and general readers in need of concise summaries of up-to-date, cutting-edge, public personnel administration research. No other handbook on the market more concisely, more comprehensively, more clearly synthesizes this vast, rapidly changing field that remains so vital to effective government performance." —RICHARD STILLMAN, editor-in-chief, Public Administration Review "The Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government comprehensively and seamlessly blends theory and practice. The result is a clear road map that can finally make HR a key player in helping the government meet the unprecedented challenges facing our nation, our states, and our communities." —BOB LAVIGNA, vice president, Research, Partnership for Public Service, Washington, DC "With each successive edition, Condrey's Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government becomes a more essential tool for graduate students who wish to improve their understanding of this field. Condrey's own expertise has enabled him to take contributions from leading experts in the field and shape them into a reader that is comprehensive, engaging, and authoritative." —DONALD E. KLINGNER, University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; former president, American Society for Public Administration; and fellow, National Academy of Public Administration

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