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State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021
R.J. May;R.J. May
In a previous volume, State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Yea...
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State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021
2022
In a previous volume, State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty -Five Years (2001, reprinted by ANU E Press in 2004), a collection of papers by the author published between 1971 and 2001 was put together to mark Papua New Guinea's first 25 years as an independent state. This volume presents a collection of papers written between 2001 and 2021, which update the story of political and social development in Papua New Guinea in the first two decades of the twenty -first century.The chapters cover a range of topics, from an evaluation of proposals for political reform in the early 2000s, a review of the discussion of'failing states'in the island Pacific and the shift to limited preferential voting in 2007, to a detailed account of political developments from the move against Sir Michael Somare in 2011 to the election of Prime Minister Marape and his performance to 2022. There are also chapters on language policy, external and internal security, religious fundamentalism and national identity, and the sustainability of economic growth.
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Social Engineering : How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulativ E Communication
Robert W. Gehl;Sean T. Lawson;Robert W. Gehl;Sean T. Lawson
Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online c...
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Social Engineering : How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulativ E Communication
2022
Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry—examined through the lens of social engineering. The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. Corporate social media is an especially good channel for manipulative communication, with Facebook a particularly willing vehicle for it. In Social Engineering, Robert Gehl and Sean Lawson show that online misinformation has its roots in earlier techniques: mass social engineering of the early twentieth century and interpersonal hacker social engineering of the 1970s, converging today into what they call “masspersonal social engineering.” As Gehl and Lawson trace contemporary manipulative communication back to earlier forms of social engineering, possibilities for amelioration become clearer. The authors show how specific manipulative communication practices are a mixture of information gathering, deception, and truth-indifferent statements, all with the instrumental goal of getting people to take actions the social engineer wants them to. Yet the term “fake news,” they claim, reduces everything to a true/false binary that fails to encompass the complexity of manipulative communication or to map onto many of its practices. They pay special attention to concepts and terms used by hacker social engineers, including the hacker concept of “bullshitting,” which the authors describe as a truth-indifferent mix of deception, accuracy, and sociability. They conclude with recommendations for how society can undermine masspersonal social engineering and move toward healthier democratic deliberation.
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Clearing the Plains NEW EDITION : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
James Daschuk;James Daschuk
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning autho...
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Clearing the Plains NEW EDITION : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
2019; Vol. 00065
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Elizabeth A. Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty -first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year ” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers'Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others
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Indigenous peoples--Canada--History - Indigenous peoples--Canada, Western--History - Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--Canada, Western--History - Indians of North America--Diseases--Canada, Western--History - Indians of North America--Canada, Western--History - Indigenous peoples--Canada--Government relationsContent provider:
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The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
Antonio López;Adrian Ivakhiv;Stephen Rust;Miriam Tola;Alenda Y. Chang;Kiu-w...
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars i...
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The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. The book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains , energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments. This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Deep gratitude for the generous support of those institutions that provided funding to enable this volume to be available simultaneously in print and open access: University of Oregon Libraries Open Access Publishing Award, Frank J. Guarini School of Busi-ness at John Cabot University, University of Vermont Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Lausanne, and School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
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Claude McKay : The Making of a Black Bolshevik
Winston James;Winston James
Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Inte...
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Claude McKay : The Making of a Black Bolshevik
2022
Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted, 2023 Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright FoundationOne of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay's life and writing were defined by his class consciousness and anticolonialism, shaped by his experiences growing up in colonial Jamaica as well as his early career as a writer in Harlem and then London. Dedicated to confronting both racism and capitalist exploitation, he was a critical observer of the Black condition throughout the African diaspora and became a committed Bolshevik.Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay's political and intellectual trajectory from his upbringing in Jamaica through the early years of his literary career and radical activism. In 1912, McKay left Jamaica to study in the United States, never to return. James follows McKay's time at the Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State University, as he discovered the harshness of American racism, and his move to Harlem, where he encountered the ferment of Black cultural and political movements and figures such as Hubert Harrison and Marcus Garvey. McKay left New York for London, where his commitment to revolutionary socialism deepened, culminating in his transformation from Fabian socialist to Bolshevik.Drawing on a wide variety of sources, James offers a rich and detailed chronicle of McKay's life, political evolution, and the historical, political, and intellectual contexts that shaped him.
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Socialism--United States--History--20th century - Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century - Jamaican Americans--Intellectual life - African American authors--Biography - Authors, Jamaican--20th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Tungusic Languages
Hölzl, Andreas;Payne, Thomas E.;Hölzl, Andreas;Payne, Thomas E.
Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses ...
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Tungusic Languages
2022; Vol. 00032
Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenisey River and Xinjiang in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin in the east. They extend as far north as the Taimyr Peninsula and, for a brief period, could even be found in parts of Central and Southern China. This book is an attempt to bring researchers from different backgrounds together to provide an open-access publication in English that is freely available to all scholars in the field. The contributions cover all branches of Tungusic and a wide range of linguistic features. Topics include synchronic descriptions, typological comparisons, dialectology, language contact, and diachronic reconstruction. Some of the contributions are based on first-hand data collected during fieldwork, in some cases from the last speakers of a given language.
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Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
Mr Clive Moore;Mr Clive Moore
Nahona`ara—means'facing the `ara', the place where the southeast winds meet the land j...
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Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
2022
Nahona`ara—means'facing the `ara', the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`arabecame Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 721,000 people.Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands views Honiara in several ways: first as Tandai traditional land; then as coconut plantations between the 1880s and 1930s; within the British protectorate (1893–1978) and its Guadalcanal District; in the 1942–45 war years , which created the first urban settlement; in the directly post-war period until 1952 as the new capital of the protectorate, replacing Tulagi; and then as the headquarters of the Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC) between 1953 and 1974. Finally, in 1978, Honiara became the capital of the independent nation of Solomon Islands and the headquarters of Guadalcanal Province.The book argues that over decades there have been four and sometimes five changing and intersecting Honiara ‘worlds'operating at one time, each of different social, economic and political significance. The importance of each group—British, Solomon Islanders, other Pacific Islanders, Asians, and more recently the 2003–17 presence of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)—has changed over time.
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-Senécal;Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-S...
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nine...
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
2024
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers'revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. Because fashion is also a multifaceted subject with humanagency at its core, at the confluence of thematerial (fabrics, clothing, dyes, tools, and machines) and the immaterial (savoir-faire, identities, images, and brands), this volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, opening its pages to researchers from a variety of complementary fields. The chapters in this volume are organized based on their relationship to five fields of study: economics and commerce, politics, business, identities, and historical sources. Paying particular attention to change, the book goes beyond the great fashion capitals and well-known fashion centers and points to the broader geographies of fashion. Particular geographical areas focus on the emergence of new fashion systems and business models, whether they be in Sweden, Bangladesh, or Spain, or on the African continent, considered to be the “new frontier” of the industry. Covering myriad aspects of the subject this is the perfect companion for all those interested in history of dress and fashion in the modern world.
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Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Raanan Rein;Susanne Zepp-Zwirner;Raanan Rein;Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of ...
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Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
2024
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in the context of the Spanish war, such as Palestine and Turkey. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this volume brings together historians and literary scholars from different countries. Their research is based on newly found primary sources in both national and private archives, as well as on post-essentialist methodological insights for women's history, Jewish history, and studies on belonging. By bringing together a group of emerging and senior scholars from different countries, we highlight the polyphony of voices of diverse individuals drawn into the Spanish Civil War. Contributors to this volume have explored new or little-researched primary sources found in archives and documentary centers, including papers held by relatives of the people we study. The volume is aimed at both scholarly and non-scholarly public, including any readers interested in the Spanish Civil War, twentieth-century European history, Jewish studies, women's history, or anti-fascism. This volume can be used both in undergraduate college courses and in postgraduate university seminars.
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Haste to Rise : A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
David Pilgrim;Franklin Hughes;David Pilgrim;Franklin Hughes
Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely ...
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Haste to Rise : A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
2020
Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses—and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished in their professional fields. Many went on to both ignite and help lead the explosive civil rights movement. Very few people know their stories—until now. Haste to Rise is a book about the incredible resilience and breathtaking accomplishments of those students. It was written to unearth, contextualize, and share their stories and important lessons with this generation. Along the way we are introduced to dozens of these Jim Crow–era students, including the first African American to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Belford Lawson , the lead attorney in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. (1938), a landmark court battle that safeguarded the right to picket. We also meet one of Lawson's contemporaries, Percival L. Prattis, a pioneering journalist and influential newspaper executive. In 1947, he became the first African American news correspondent admitted to the U.S. House and Senate press galleries. There is also an in-depth look into the life and work of the institute's founder, Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, a racial justice pioneer who created educational opportunities for women, international students, and African Americans. Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university's official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!
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African American professional employees--Biography - African Americans--Education--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Unequal Lives : Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
Kalissa Alexeyeff;Nicholas A. Bainton;John Cox;Debra McDougall;Kalissa Alex...
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global ex...
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Unequal Lives : Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
2021
As we move further into the twenty -first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of the historical contingency of these configurations of inequality, this volume illustrates the multidimensional, multiscale and epistemic nature of contemporary inequality.This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now ranks among the greatest challenges of our time. The inspiration for this volume derives from the breadth and depth of Martha Macintyre's remarkable scholarship. The contributors celebrate Macintyre's groundbreaking work, which exemplifies the explanatory power, ethical force and pragmatism that ensures the relevance of anthropological research to the lives of others and to understanding the global condition.
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Globalization--Pacific Area - Glocalization--Pacific Area - Sex role--Pacific Area - Equality--Pacific Area - Ethnology--Pacific Area - Globalization--Social aspects--Pacific AreaContent provider:
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Texas Jazz Singer : Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
Kevin Mooney;Kevin Mooney
At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing ...
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Texas Jazz Singer : Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
2021; Vol. number twenty-five
At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She sang with Benny Goodman and also performed vocals for such notables as Will Bradley, Bobby Hackett, Harry James (her first husband), Johnny Mercer, Lionel Hampton, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Peanuts Hucko (her second husband), and Fletcher Henderson.Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Texas Jazz Singer recalls both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond. As it traces American music through the twentieth century, Louise Tobin's story provides insight into the challenges musicians faced to sustain their careers during the cultural revolution and ever-changing styles and tastes in music.In this absorbing biography, music historian Kevin Edward Mooney offers readers a view of a remarkable life in music, told from the vantage point of the woman who lived it. Rather than simply making Tobin an emblem for women in jazz of the big band era, Mooney concentrates instead on Tobin's life, her struggles and successes, and in doing so captures the particular sense of grace that resonates throughout each phase of Tobin's notable career.
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The 21st Century (2000-2017)
Salem Press;Salem Press
Immediate access to in-depth information on 21st Century leaders of business, technolo...
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The 21st Century (2000-2017)
2017
Immediate access to in-depth information on 21st Century leaders of business, technology, politics, science, the arts, and sports from around the world.
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Twenty-first century - Biography--21st centuryContent provider:
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
David Michael Smith;David Michael Smith
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death...
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
2023
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States.In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
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National characteristics, American - World politics - Crimes against humanity--History - Political violence--United States--History - Genocide--History - Imperialism--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Geosynthetics: Leading the Way to a Resilient Planet : PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOSYNTHETICS (12ICG), SEPTEMBER 17-21, 2023, ROMA, ITALY.
Giovanni Biondi;Daniele Cazzuffi;Nicola Moraci;Claudio Soccodato;Giovanni B...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Geosynthe...
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Geosynthetics: Leading the Way to a Resilient Planet : PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOSYNTHETICS (12ICG), SEPTEMBER 17-21, 2023, ROMA, ITALY.
2023
This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (12 ICG), held in Roma, Italy, 17-21 September 2023. About 750 Authors - Academics, Researchers, Students, Practitioners, Contractors and Manufacturers – contributed to the peer-reviewed papers of this volume, which includes the Giroud lecture, the Bathurst lecture, the Rowe lecture, four keynote lectures and 296 technical papers. The content of these proceedings illustrates the sustainable use of geosynthetics in a variety of innovative as well as consolidated applications. After the sustainability implications in the correct use of geosynthetics, the ability to overcome the natural events effects, often related to the climate change, and to adequately afford the human activities (as the increase of pollution) forced to refer to a new keyword: Resiliency. The 12 ICG intends to become the base for the next step, hence the conference theme is'Geosynthetics, Leading the Way to a Resilient Planet'. The conference topics, through general and parallel sessions, invited presentations and keynote lectures, address the most recent developments in geosynthetic engineering, and stimulate fruitful technical and scientific interaction among academicians, professionals, manufacturers, students. The 12 ICG proceedings contain a wealth of information that could be useful for researchers, practitioners and all those working in the broad, innovative and dynamic field of geosynthetics.
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Nuevas investigaciones y perspectivas sobre literatura, cultura y pensamiento.
Flores Borjabad, Salud Adelaida;Grana, Romina;Respaldiza Salas, Inmaculada;...
Esta obra recoge el análisis y estudio de grandes investigadores quienes han estudiado...
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Nuevas investigaciones y perspectivas sobre literatura, cultura y pensamiento.
2023
Esta obra recoge el análisis y estudio de grandes investigadores quienes han estudiado la literatura desde diferentes puntos de vista con el fin de demostrar que la literatura no es una lista de movimientos y autores. Asimismo, se ha puesto de manifiesto que la literatura es una forma de comunicación que convive con el ser humano desde sus orígenes, de manera tal que no puede ser entendida de una forma aislada.Por ello, la división en cuatro secciones ha mostrado que la literatura debe entenderse como movimiento artístico, pero también como una manifestación cultural y una forma de pensamiento crítico. Leer nos hace libres y nos invita a pensar de manera autónoma, por lo que este libro corrobora la idea de que literatura, cultura y pensamiento conforman una tríada indivisible. Dicho de otro modo, la literatura permite transmitir la cultura y el conocimiento de esa cultura nos invita a reflexionar de una manera crítica y autónoma.
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Investigación y experiencias educativas centradas en la creatividad artística, Música, cultura audiovisual y artes escénicas en la sociedad de las pantallas.
Morales Caruncho, Xana (Coordinador);Tizón Díaz, Manuel (Coordinador);Marfi...
Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo, del trabajo investigador de decen...
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Investigación y experiencias educativas centradas en la creatividad artística, Música, cultura audiovisual y artes escénicas en la sociedad de las pantallas.
2023; Vol. 00113
Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo, del trabajo investigador de decenas de personas que han dirigido su mirada, su capacidad para el análisis y la exploración, al ámbito musical y audiovisual, teniendo en cuenta también las posibilidades de las artes escénicas, Los textos que siguen a continuación se estructuran en dos bloques temáticos: la música y las artes escénicas, por un lado, y el cine y la comunicación audiovisual por otro, Esa estructura responde a la intención de facilitar la búsqueda de capítulos de interés para quienes se acerquen a esta obra, Sin embargo, la segmentación podría haber sido mucho más compleja, ya que se trata de una obra que contiene investigaciones junto a reflexiones teóricas de gran interés y de una significativa amplitud de temas y enfoques,
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Communication - Musicology - Performing arts--ResearchContent provider:
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Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society
Adam Simpson;Nicholas Farrelly;Adam Simpson;Nicholas Farrelly
This new edition of Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society provides a sophisticated ye...
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Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society
2023
This new edition of Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society provides a sophisticated yet accessible overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar and explains the complex historical and ethnic dynamics that have shaped the country. Thoroughly revised, the book analyses the context and tragic consequences of the military coup in February 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic. With clear and incisive contributions from the world's leading Myanmar scholars, this book assesses the policies and political reforms that have provoked contestation in Myanmar's recent history and driven both economic and social change. In this context, questions of economic ownership and control and the distribution of natural resources are shown to be deeply informed by long-standing fractures among ethnic and civil-military relations. The chapters analyse the key issues that constrain or expedite societal development in Myanmar and place recent events of national and international significance in the context of its complex history and social relations. The book provides detailed analysis of the coup, which overturned a decade of political and economic reforms and threw the country into chaos. It explains the drivers for the coup, how it has impacted on the country and the future prospects for accountability and justice. Filling a gap in the market, this research textbook and primer will be of interest to upper undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of Southeast Asian politics, economics and society and to journalists and professionals working within governments, companies and other organisations.
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
Stephen Boucher;Carina Antonia Hallin;Lex Paulson;Stephen Boucher;Carina An...
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explore...
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science of collective intelligence applied to public challenges and will inspire public actors, academics, students, and activists across the world to apply collective intelligence in policymaking and administration to explore its potential, both to foster policy innovations and reinvent democracy. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology and systems, innovation and democracy as well as more broadly for political science, psychology, management studies, public organizations and individual policy practitioners, public authorities, civil society activists and service providers.
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Democracy--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Democracy--Philosophy - Political participationContent provider:
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'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
Stephen Wilks;Stephen Wilks
'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of ...
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'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
2023
'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representativesshines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation.The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia's first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce'; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building.This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.
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With and Without Galton : Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia
Nikolai Krementsov;Nikolai Krementsov
In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scie...
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With and Without Galton : Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia
2018
In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become ‘eugenics.'The same year , Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Florinskii's book would go on to have a remarkable afterlife in twentieth- and twenty -first-century Russia. In this lucid and insightful work, Nikolai Krementsov argues that the concept of eugenics brings together ideas, values, practices, and fears energised by a focus on the future. It has proven so seductive to different groups over time because it provides a way to grapple with fundamental existential questions of human nature and destiny. With and Without Galton develops this argument by tracing the life-story of Florinskii's monograph from its uncelebrated arrival amid the Russian empire's Great Reforms, to its reissue after the Bolshevik Revolution, its decline under Stalinism, and its subsequent resurgence: first, as a founding document of medical genetics, and most recently, as a manifesto for nationalists and racial purists. Krementsov's meticulously researched ‘biography of a book'sheds light not only on the peculiar fate of eugenics in Russia, but also on its convoluted transnational history, elucidating the field's protean nature and its continuing and contested appeal to diverse audiences, multiple local trajectories, and global trends. It is required reading for historians of eugenics, science, medicine, education, literature, and Russia, and it will also appeal to the general reader looking for a deeper understanding of this challenging subject.
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Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States : A History
Philip R. Popple;Philip R. Popple
The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Prac...
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Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States : A History
2018
The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years , Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of the field from the perspective of elites, service providers, and recipients. This book uniquely chronicles and analyzes the development of social work practice theory on two levels: from the top down, looking at the writings, conference presentations, and training course material developed by leaders of the profession; and from the bottom up, looking at case records for evidence of techniques that were actually applied by social workers in the field. Additionally, the author takes a careful and critical look at the development of social work methods, setting it apart from existing histories that generally accept the effectiveness of the field's work. Addressing CSWE EPAS standards at both the BSW and MSW levels, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States is ideal both as a primary text for history of social work/social welfare classes and a supplementary text for introduction to social work/social welfare or social welfare policy and services classes.
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Public welfare--United States--History - Social service--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Soul on Soul : The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
Tammy L. Kernodle;Tammy L. Kernodle
First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Willi...
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Soul on Soul : The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
2020
First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages. In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.
