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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Euny Hong (Author)A revised edition of this celebrated cultural history features a new afterword and three new chapters focusing on the global K-pop phenomenon BTS, as well as the Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the hit Netflix series Squid Game.In this fresh, funny, and insightful cultural history, Euny Hong recounts how South Korea vaulted itself into the twenty-first century, becoming a global leader in business, technology, education, and pop cultur...

Four Stars in the Night Sky: A Multiple Case Psychobiography Exploring the Lives and Careers of Bert Williams, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sa

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Report copyright infringementby E. Short (Author)Psychobiography has the potential to reveal the complexity of individuals' lives. Psychobiographies of well-known individuals have focused, with a few exceptions, primarily on analyses of the lives of well known White males, whose profiles and accomplishments have certainly been worthy of such attention. The availability of psychobiographies, however, of well known People of Color in history and contemporary contexts is quite limited. Additiona...

Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty

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Report copyright infringementby Scott MacMillan (Author)Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. As the founder of BRAC, his work had a profound impact on the lives of millions. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committ...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederik Byrn K?hlert (Author)Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown's life and career, highlighting his role in the evolving comics landscape and tracing his journey from self-publishing minicomics on the streets of Toronto to creating award-winning graphic novels. Characterized by often minimalis...

Worst of Mothers...Best of Moms: Rescuing Children-Healing Adults

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Report copyright infringementby Robert J. Day (Author)Born to an unwed, teenage mother, his childhood of poverty, neglect and unspeakable abuse included more than 35 homes before his unlikely graduation from high school. Today, as CEO of Patrick Henry Family Services, Robert Day's life work is dedicated to keeping children safe and families strong. 'Worst of Mothers...Best of Moms', is a moving and inspirational story of hope and restoration, and provides a new perspective on the sovereignty ...

The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self

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Report copyright infringementby Dale Scott (Author), Rob Neyer (Author), Billy Bean (Foreword by)Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players. Scott has enough stories about his career o...

Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America's Suburbs

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Garland (Author)For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories expose the cruel realities of segregation, racial income gaps, and poverty that lie hidden behind suburban white picket fences. As Garland travels from Los Angeles to El Salvador and back ...

Performing New Orleans: Rethinking Resilience in Art and Everyday Life

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Andrews (Author), Patrick Duggan (Author), Joycelyn Reynolds (Foreword by)Performing New Orleans examines the value of arts and culture in managing complex urban challenges, offering new perspectives on how artistic and everyday performances can be pivotal modes of practicing resilience. Through an exploration of understudied forms of performance in New Orleans, Stuart Andrews and Patrick Duggan highlight the centrality of the city's arts ecosystems as a...

Ukrainian Vignettes: Essays on a Culture at War

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Report copyright infringementby Mitja Velikonja (Author)Ukraine at war in a unique chronicle that examines expressions of the Ukrainian people on the street, in graffiti, murals, and quotidian life.On his travels to wartime Ukraine, where even the feeling of relaxation is dangerous, Mitja Velikonja observed thousands of images of the culture of war in what he saw on the street and everyday life, from bakeries, road signs, billboards and murals, to unsanctioned graffiti. This street iconograph...

Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Alhadeff (Author)This book examines Théodore Géricault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa. Author BiographyAlbert Alhadeff is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Colorado Boulder. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.6 x 6.7 IN Illus...

Bear with Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Horowitz (Author)From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquitous, appearing in advertisements, as logos for sports teams, and as central characters in children's books, cartoons, movies, and video games. In Bear With Me, Daniel Horowitz presents a vibrant history of the pedestrian and celebrity bea...

Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

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Report copyright infringementby Nasser Rabbat (Editor), Hashim Sarkis (Foreword by), Pascal Menoret (Editor)A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral process In 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violence to suppress the protests, so that what began as pro-democracy protests eventually morphed into a civil war with heavy outside intervention. Today, the Assad regime has fallen, but l...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Andres (Editor), Yasminah Beebeejaun (Editor), Yvonne Rydin (Editor)Author BiographyLauren Andres is Professor of Planning and Urban Transformations and Director of Research at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK. Yasminah Beebeejaun is Professor of Urban Politics and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK. Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett S...

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothea Olkowski (Author)Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics, as well as in society at large. In Deleuze's philosophy of difference, she discovers the source of a new ontology of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Meskell (Author)Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading Eu...

My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

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Report copyright infringementby Alisse Waterston (Author)* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Book Award 2016 *"My father was born into war," begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston's intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-century social history. This is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, languages, generations--and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Flint (Author)The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky is a biography written by Timothy Flint. The book tells the story of Daniel Boone, a legendary American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who played a key role in the westward expansion of the United States. The book chronicles Boone's life from his birth in Pennsylvania in 1734, through his early years as a hunter and trapper in the Appalachian Mountains, to his famo...

After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist

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Report copyright infringementby Clifford Geertz (Author)"Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, will suffice, because in forty years more ha...

Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity - Hardcover

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by Ruth Whippman (Author)Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment. "Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner, emotional-labor abstainer, non-wiper of kitchen counters. Trying to raise good sons suddenly felt like a hopeless task." As the...

When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

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Report copyright infringementby Graydon Carter (Author), James Fox (With)From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter's memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture When Graydon Carter was offered the editorship of Vanity Fair in 1992, he knew he faced an uphill battle--how to make the esteemed and long-established magazine his own. Not only was he confronted with a staff that he perceived to ...

King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanne Theoharis (Author)A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. "Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career." --Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memor...

Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It

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Report copyright infringementby Mallory McMorrow (Author)In this urgent expansion of her viral speech, Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow details her unlikely journey into politics with a front-row seat to democracy at its breaking point--then outlines the tangible, proven steps that anyone can take to build community, fight for what's right, and create real, lasting change. Mallory McMorrow knows what it's like to feel hopeless. She knew the work of legislating wouldn't be easy, but she hadn...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Hood (Author)From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival "Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders."--Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet...

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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Report copyright infringementby Hanif Abdurraqib (Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "powerful" (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."--Steve James, director of Hoop DreamsONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vulture, Chicago Pu...

A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanne Carstensen (Author)Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. On October 28, 2015, a boat meant for only a few dozen passengers capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hundreds of refugees, forced in desperation onto the overloaded boat manned by armed smugglers, were tossed into a roiling sea. The resulting loss ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Hood (Author)The ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot, interrogating the "good girl" archetype and the price one pays to embody it In the thick of winter 2020, when so many books were buried beneath the catastrophe of the COVID-19 news cycle, one unlikely debut seemed to cut through the noise. Jamie Hood's How to Be a Good Girl was an inventive and hybrid work of self-making, mingling diary entries, poetry, literary critic...

The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online and Offline

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Report copyright infringementby Lachrista Greco (Author)The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline is a raw, deeply personal, and sharply insightful journey through the intersections of digital activism, feminism, and the relentless pursuit of belonging. Lachrista Greco, the powerhouse behind Guerrilla Feminism, takes readers on an unflinching exploration of her life online and off, weaving together memoir and cultural critique.From the creation of groundbreaking digi...

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Report copyright infringementby Pardis Mahdavi (Author)In Riding, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding and the falling, failing, and joy it brings. At once a history of Caspian horses, an exploration of Mahdavi's Iranian-American identity and family history, and a consideration of the capacity for self-reflection and self-compassion through human-animal relationships, Riding offers a roadmap for learning to live in harmony with the self and the e...

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Report copyright infringementby Alberto Hemi Rosario (Author) Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 10, 2025

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