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Human Impacts at a Planetary Scale
Why System Change Is Essential
Our global infrastructure has exceeded planetary boundaries. To protect Earth and ensure our survival, we must transition to lifestyles that restore natural ecosystems. This book explores the systems contributing to species loss and documents the solutions being offered.
Our global infrastructure has exceeded planetary boundaries. To protect Earth and ensure our survival, we must transition to lifestyles that restore natural ecosystems. This book explores the systems contributing to species loss and documents the solutions being offered.
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Human Trafficking
Women’s Stories of Agency
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
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Humorous Garden-Paths
A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
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Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys
Twentieth-Century Representations of Male Beauty
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
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This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
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Husbands Bosworth Polish Resettlement Camp (1948-58)
Polish Identity in Post-War Britain
This study of Polish resettlement camps in post-war Britain draws on eye-witness testimony—including the author’s own childhood experiences—and rare archives. It examines the unique nationalistic culture that emerged, a vital story in the history of multicultural Britain.
This study of Polish resettlement camps in post-war Britain draws on eye-witness testimony—including the author’s own childhood experiences—and rare archives. It examines the unique nationalistic culture that emerged, a vital story in the history of multicultural Britain.
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I Am
Remix Your Web Identity
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true "web author."
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true “web author.”
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I Want to Change My Life
Can Reality TV Competition Shows Trigger Lasting Career Success?
Talent shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But do they deliver? This book shows that few contestants achieve lasting success, revealing that television picks its own stars for a good backstory as much as for their talent.
Talent shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But do they deliver? This book shows that few contestants achieve lasting success, revealing that television picks its own stars for a good backstory as much as for their talent.
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Ideas in Development
Essays on the History of Philosophy
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
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Identity
Beyond Tradition and McWorld Neoliberalism
This book explores how identity is refashioned in our globalized world. It examines the intersection of "who we are" with mass media, the nation, and social practice, from advertising and sports to activism and online life.
This book explores how identity is refashioned in our globalized world. It examines the intersection of “who we are” with mass media, the nation, and social practice, from advertising and sports to activism and online life.
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The search for identity is a challenge in our global world. Placing the topic against an intercultural background, this book addresses the relationship between self, identity, and society from an academic perspective, with research from around the world.
The search for identity is a challenge in our global world. Placing the topic against an intercultural background, this book addresses the relationship between self, identity, and society from an academic perspective, with research from around the world.
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Identity, Politics, and Narratives of Belonging
Northeast India in Literature and Contemporary Discourses
This collection of essays explores Northeast India’s diverse heritage, from its literature and folklore to gender dynamics. It delves into identity, beliefs, and customs, revealing how they shape regional identities and the evolving cultural discourse of the region.
This collection of essays explores Northeast India’s diverse heritage, from its literature and folklore to gender dynamics. It delves into identity, beliefs, and customs, revealing how they shape regional identities and the evolving cultural discourse of the region.
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Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
Perspectives in Literatures and Cultures
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.
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Images and Human Rights
Local and Global Perspectives
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.
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This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
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This volume explores the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world by both writers and the media, discussing the usage of such images in specific political periods.
This volume explores the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world by both writers and the media, discussing the usage of such images in specific political periods.
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This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
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Immaterial Labor and Cultural Production
The Dialectic of Late Capitalism
Immaterial labor is a central issue for understanding late capitalism. This book offers unsettling reflections on the inseparability of labor and culture, showing how the production of capitalist wealth has presented new features that require new critical thinking.
Immaterial labor is a central issue for understanding late capitalism. This book offers unsettling reflections on the inseparability of labor and culture, showing how the production of capitalist wealth has presented new features that require new critical thinking.
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This book explores the role of MNCs in Cameroon's economic development. An empirical survey on corporate social responsibility finds that some MNCs may contribute more to underdevelopment than development, and argues for policies to better regulate their activities.
This book explores the role of MNCs in Cameroon’s economic development. An empirical survey on corporate social responsibility finds that some MNCs may contribute more to underdevelopment than development, and argues for policies to better regulate their activities.
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This book highlights physicochemical parameters and micro-constituents used to determine the botanical and geographical origins of honey, in combination with chemometrics. It is the ultimate research guide for honey uniqueness, appealing to academics and practitioners alike.
This book highlights physicochemical parameters and micro-constituents used to determine the botanical and geographical origins of honey, in combination with chemometrics. It is the ultimate research guide for honey uniqueness, appealing to academics and practitioners alike.
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