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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring?
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional...
The Collapse of Western Civilization
A View from the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West...
Autism's False Prophets
Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused...
Building the New American Economy
Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this passionate and powerful book—part manifesto, part plan of action—the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes...
In Their Voices
Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds, racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda elaborates significantly on that finding, specifically...
Confronting Injustice and Oppression
Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions,...
Religion and Sports
An Introduction and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports...
Shivers Down Your Spine
Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender...
Love, Amy
The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in...
Film Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His...
Special Effects
Still in Search of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix,...
Plastic Reality
Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects, she follows the industry's slow build toward the...
American Showman
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882–1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in...