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by A. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and a brief history of its portrayal on film in order examine how it has shaped contemporary versions of self-identity, memory, and the human body.
Financial Cycles
Sovereigns, Bankers, and Stress Tests
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
As financial positions expand, the economy becomes more vulnerable to adverse and unexpected developments taking place outside the six to seven year business cycle. Over 50 years ago Nikolai Kondratieff developed the theory of "The Long Waves in Economic Life", which incorporated an extended...
by K. Bokhari, F. Senzai
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy.
A New Growth Model for the Greek Economy
Requirements for Long-Term Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the strongest...
Business Efficiency and Ethics
Values and Strategic Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Business Efficiency and Ethics presents both the theory of business efficiency and ethics, and a wealth of case studies based on practical experience. This unique perspective offers a framework for identifying this behaviour and reestablishing appropriate business behavior standards.
Revolutions in Book Publishing
The Effects of Digital Innovation on the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Revolutions in Book Publishing uses dynamic methods to examine the evolution of the industry's transition from physical place to cyber space, analyzing the latest effects of technological innovations on the industry as well as their influence on distribution channels, market structure, and conduct of the industry.
Cuban Women and Salsa
To the Beat of Their Own Drum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female singers negotiate issues of gender, race, and nation through their performances, Poey engages with the ways they problematize the idea of the nation and facilitate their musical performances' movement across multiple borders.
Desistance from Crime
New Advances in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go unanswered. Rocque covers the history...
The Objects of Affection
Semiotics and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways.
Digesting Race, Class, and Gender
Sugar as a Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.
by A. Funari
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path.
History and Psyche
Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between psychoanalysis and history.
The Phenomenology of Learning and Becoming
Enthusiasm, Creativity, and Self-Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In this text, the history of phenomenological research on learning is synthesized and brought forward into the areas of existential learning, the development of enthusiasm about learning (from childhood through adulthood), and paradigmatic creative experience. Original research findings are derived...