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Freedom and Confinement in Modernity
Kafka's Cages
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead.
Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World
The Theoretical Lenses of István Mészáros and Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and István Mészáros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers.
by M. Tabak
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A scholarly exploration of Marx's thought without any favorable or critical ideological agendas, this book opposes the compartmentalization of Marx's thought into various competing doctrines, such as historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and different forms of economic determinism.
by J. Sostrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Almost 400 years ago philosophers John Locke and David Hume implicitly defined communication as a tool for the transmission of pure ideas, stating that the ideas themselves are what matter, not the way in which they are expressed and exchanged. Now known as the transmission model, this form of communication...
The Life of Herbert Hoover
Fighting Quaker, 1928–1933
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.
Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States
Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book examines how Massachusetts Normal Art School became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists. The founding myth of American art education is the story of Walter Smith, the school’s first principal. This historical case study argues that Smith’s...
by Karen Sands-O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community...
Marx Today
Selected Works and Recent Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars, sympathetic to, but critical of, Marxism. For example, the author includes the classic...
Marketing to the 90s Generation
Global Data on Society, Consumption, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Marketing to the 90s Generation is based on original research conducted by sociologists and psychologists on generational cohorts, how they come about, what defines them and what it means to society, its institutions and companies.
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
America’s First Regional Theatre
The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
South Africa's Renegade Reels
The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko Modisane delves into the public...
Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network
America and the West’s Fatal Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore this vast influence
Lusting for London
Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.