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Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek (Editor)Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and interdisciplinary, providing both text-book style introductory and concluding chapters written by the editor. The text includes eight original contributor chapters on key topics and written in a variety of writing styles, discussion questions, additional resources, and more. Coverage includes: - Foundations for studyi...

Prostitutes and Their Rescuers: Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution - Paperback

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by Lilian Mathieu (Author)Few sociological subjects excite so much passion - and fantasies - as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes' practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and...

Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South - Paperback

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by Anita Hammer (Volume Editor), Immanuel Ness (Volume Editor)Global Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed ...

History Through Narratives of Education in Africa: Social Histories in Times of Colonization and Post Independence (1920s - 1970s) - Paperback

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by Ellen Vea Rosnes (Volume Editor), Pierre Giudi (Volume Editor), Jean-Luc Martineau (Volume Editor)Who were the actors involved in colonial and post-independence education in Africa? This book on the history of education in Africa gives a special attention to narratives of marginalized voices. With this original approach and cases from ten countries involving four colonial powers it constitutes a dynamic and rich contribution to the field. The authors have searched for narratives of educati...

The Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations - Paperback

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by Zenonas Norkus (Author)'The revolutions of 1989' remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-communist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revoluti...

What Is Edible?: A Journey Through the World of Food Taboos and Food Cultures - Paperback

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by Adel P. Den Hartog (Author)Adel den Hartog shows how complex the food choices of humans have been for millenia. Those who wonder why we eat what we eat, will find out practicalities, such as availability of products, transportation and costs, but also physiological, cultural, geological, and psychological factors matter. Den Hartog points out the importance of access to food for individuals and groups, and the influence of their socio-economical position. Can someone be convinced to eat so...

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by Mariya Omelicheva (Author), Brittnee Carter (Author)What motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of historically contingent ideas in donors' decisions. Drawing on the theoretical insights of the critical geopolitics tradition, it advances and tests explanations for aid-related decisions on a novel global dataset of COVID-19 aid. Rigorously theorized, meticulously researched, ...

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities - Paperback

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by Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Author), Miriam Ben-Rafael (Author)This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism - each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernacular...

Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora - Hardcover

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by Ute Fendler (Volume Editor), Marie-Anne Kohl (Volume Editor), Gilbert Shang Ndi (Volume Editor)The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks - including literature, visual arts, film and performances - as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relati...

State and Local Society in Third Century South China: Administrative Documents Excavated at Zoumalou, Hunan - Hardcover

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by Brian Lander (Author), Ling Wenchao (Author), Xin Wen (Author)In 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance, and economy of third century central China. Although Wu was one of the famous Three Kingdoms, its administrative history was poorly known until these documents we...

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by Yunshin Hong (Author), Robert Ricketts (Editor), Robert Ricketts (Translator)Okinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 "military comfort stations" from 1941-45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the Japanese army manipulated comfort stations to isolate local communities, facilitate "spy hunts," and foster a fear of rape...

Journalism 'a Peacekeeping Agent' at the Time of Conflict - Paperback

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by Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu (Volume Editor), Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli (Volume Editor)Journalism 'a Peacekeeping Agent' at the Time of Conflict' offers various perspectives to the question 'Could journalism play a role as a peacekeeping agent in many contexts of conflict?' with the contribution of academics from different countries. The book deals with media's current issues through different aspects by presenting comparative studies on peace journalism, such as investigative journalism, media ...

Structural Power-Dependence and Social Negotiation in Exchange Networks: A Research Program in Progress - Hardcover

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by John Stolte (Author)What are key causes and effects of structural inequality across many social, economic, and psychological situations of life? Power-dependence/exchange theory and relevant data are used in this book to help answer this complicated question. Crucial dimensions of interpersonal behavior, social symbolic communication, and individual social psychology are explored in the context of exchange network and group dynamics. Developed across the past 60 years, the research program...

Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Mental Health: Challenges and Culturally Sensitive Practice - Hardcover

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by Alean Al-Krenawi (Author)This innovative book provides a thorough and compassionate examination of the lives of Syrian refugees in Jordan, as well as their families. It will equip mental health professionals with the necessary skills to effectively intervene when working with this vulnerable population. What distinguishes this book is its emphasis on the unique challenges that arise from the relationship between Jordanian locals and Syrian refugees, as well as how mental health practitione...

Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-As-Theology: A Rhythm That Connects Our Hearts with God - Paperback

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by Martina Bjkander (Author)Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological and ritual significance of worship for pentecostal spirituality has been sparse, not least in Africa. Combining rich theoretical and theological insight with an in-depth case study of worship practices in Nairobi, Kenya, this interdisciplinary s...

Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin - Paperback

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by Sylvain Beck (Volume Editor)Why are some people free to move around the world while others are constrained for crossing borders? This book challenges this crucial injustice that creates inequalities in the face of global issues such as climate change, wars, diseases and other local risk factors. The main theme of this collective work is to consider the representation of human displacement as a moral barrier between expatriates and migrants, with the former being seen as 'unproblematic' and...

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: A Human View - Hardcover

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by Jos Frantzen (Author)Current textbooks provide a strong bio-medical view on epidemics. In this textbook, the bio-medical view will be extended to a human view including insights from humanities, social sciences. This extension challenges us all the more to combine the requirement of scientific objectivity with the subjectivity inherent to human life. In addition, the bio-medical view is deepened using knowledge of botanical epidemiology with respect to 'evolutionary dynamics of pathogens' ...

Empathetic Storytelling, Volume I: Igniting Change in Education - Paperback

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by Sean Nank (Volume Editor), Jaclyn Murawska (Volume Editor)In the Critical Storytelling series, this latest book elevates the voices of a myriad of authors using empathetic storytelling to ignite change in education. Stories connect us through the meaning we make, intricately woven in a diverse tapestry of shared experiences held together with the delicate thread of our humanity. Uncovering implicit biases and choices inherent in the two themes of all -isms (including racism, sexism, and ab...

Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861 - Paperback

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by Thomas Mareite (Author)While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In Condition...

Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya - Paperback

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by Gerda Kuiper (Volume Editor), Eric Kioko (Volume Editor), Michael Bollig (Volume Editor)This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have inten...

Living Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education With/In Indigenous Communities - Paperback

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by Cynthia Nicol (Volume Editor), Jo-Ann Archibald q'Um q'Um Xiiem (Volume Editor), Florence Glanfield (Volume Editor)Living Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education with/in Indigenous Communities explores challenges and possibilities across international contexts, involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, teachers and Elders responding to calls for improved education for all Indigenous students. Authors from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Micronesia, and Canada explore the...

Cultural Semantics in the Lexicon of Modern Chinese - Hardcover

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by Ming Zhao (Author)What is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and items with a cultural meaning. It provides criteria for identifying these items by using detailed examples from theory and application. Finally, the two types of cultural seman...

Paul Mattick: Selected Texts - Hardcover

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by Gary Roth (Author)These essays by Paul Mattick were written during periods of radical activity and address themes still critical for us today--the devastation of war-torn areas and the abject destitution to which beleaguered populations are subjected, the authoritarian character of ostensibly democratic regimes, the ecological disasters that increasingly beset the world, the rationale behind and limits to governmental efforts to stimulate and stabilize the economy, and Mattick's assessment...

Writing Is Revision: Compositions from the Feminist Fringe - Hardcover

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by Cate McGowan (Author)Through her use of the scholarly personal narrative and braided essay form, McGowan weaves strands of rhetoric with creative writing, navigating complex themes with academic rigor and emotional introspection. Her blend of equal parts humor, gravitas, and scholarship invites readers to explore the complexities of being a woman in a male-dominated world while looking at how writers might use coping mechanisms and transgressive workarounds, from code-switching to storytel...

The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History - Paperback

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by Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony (Author)Dorothy Fujita-Rony's The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies ...

The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man's Oldest Story - Hardcover

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by Robert Blust (Author)Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon. The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of...

Stem Education in Us Prisons - Paperback

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by Joe Lockard (Volume Editor), Tsafrir Mor (Volume Editor)Renewal of higher-education programs in US prisons creates a need for science education. This is the first book to address STEM education in prisons in the United States. It calls on activist science teachers to develop innovative ways to teach in challenging carceral settings. Over the last fifty years, science education and prison education have moved in different directions, one expanding and the other contracting. This book bring...

Girls of the World: 250 Portraits of Awesome - Paperback

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by Mihaela Noroc (Author)This collection of powerful photographs and moving stories showcases young women of all backgrounds, from a myriad of cultures, showing us that all girls are awesome in their own special way. Travel from Kabul to Texas with author and photographer Mihaela Noroc and experience astonishing diversity and a shared humanity in Girls of the World: 250 Portraits of Awesome. The inspiring stories of these young women are the stories of our planet. Their gaze into the camera ...

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Levenson (Author)"An elegant, wide-ranging history" (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning--and the pitfalls of ego--as it does about microbes. "Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field."--Science Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs f...

Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food

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Report copyright infringementby Elspeth Hay (Author)A new and ancient story about perennial nut trees, our ecological role as humans, and the future of food The day Elspeth Hay learned that we can eat acorns, stories she'd believed her whole life began to unravel. Until then she'd always believed we must grow our staple foods in farmed fields-- the same fields wreaking havoc on our land, air, and water. But all over the Northern Hemisphere, Hay learned, humans once grew our staple foods in f...

Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Berman (Author)From the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical health. Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, body, and environment, with a special emphasis on the natural environment. He has devoted his life to s...

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Boyle (Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word."--Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE - A NEW YORKER AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A New York Times Boo...