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Insanity and Genius
Masks of Madness and the Mapping of Meaning and Value
The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
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Consumer Australia
Historical Perspectives
How did Australia become a "consumer society"? Leading scholars explore the ways selling, buying, and exchanging have defined Australian life from the 19th century on, charting the growth of consumption and asking where it is headed.
How did Australia become a “consumer society”? Leading scholars explore the ways selling, buying, and exchanging have defined Australian life from the 19th century on, charting the growth of consumption and asking where it is headed.
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Capital Punishment in Popular Culture, Toys, Games, and Nursery Rhymes
Toying with Death
This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice in death sentencing, featuring illustrated toys and dolls representing famous trials and murderers.
This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice in death sentencing, featuring illustrated toys and dolls representing famous trials and murderers.
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Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
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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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For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city's real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?
For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city’s real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?
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Reflections on Gender from a Communication Point-of-View
GenderSpectives
This text offers students’ reflections as they grapple with gender issues while intersecting with their identities, sexualities, race and ethnicity, and nationalities. It explores standpoints on gender, internalizing ideas about selfhood and scrutinizing understandings of gender.
This text offers students’ reflections as they grapple with gender issues while intersecting with their identities, sexualities, race and ethnicity, and nationalities. It explores standpoints on gender, internalizing ideas about selfhood and scrutinizing understandings of gender.
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Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Towards a New Theory of Diversity and Discontinuity
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
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Visible Women
Tales of Age, Gender and In/Visibility
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author's own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author’s own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
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Growing Up a Woman
The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development
The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.
The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.
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Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.
Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.
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Deriving from a conference on work and family, this book focuses on technology, managers, globalization, and gender, analysing the state of global affairs. It offers new approaches to how technology, globalization, managers and gender issues affect the work and family balance.
Deriving from a conference on work and family, this book focuses on technology, managers, globalization, and gender, analysing the state of global affairs. It offers new approaches to how technology, globalization, managers and gender issues affect the work and family balance.
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Applied Social Sciences
Sociology
Applied Social Sciences: Sociology offers a collection of studies explaining complex phenomena like migration, culture, and identity. This volume provides material for professionals and is accessible to the public interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.
Applied Social Sciences: Sociology offers a collection of studies explaining complex phenomena like migration, culture, and identity. This volume provides material for professionals and is accessible to the public interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.
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Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other
Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
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Departing from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere, this text identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular.
Departing from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere, this text identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular.
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Facts and Fantasies
Images of Istanbul Women in the 1920s
This work analyzes debates on women's rights in the popular press of 1920s Turkey, following them into obscene literature. In these popular stories, urban women who defied the new patriarchal social order were often depicted as heroines.
This work analyzes debates on women’s rights in the popular press of 1920s Turkey, following them into obscene literature. In these popular stories, urban women who defied the new patriarchal social order were often depicted as heroines.
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Whistleblowing
White-Collar Fraud Signal Detection
Many white-collar criminals are too powerful to jail. Whistleblowers play an important role in detection by sending crime signals. This book details fraud signal detection and presents four case studies where whistleblowers reported fraud suspicions.
Many white-collar criminals are too powerful to jail. Whistleblowers play an important role in detection by sending crime signals. This book details fraud signal detection and presents four case studies where whistleblowers reported fraud suspicions.
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Constructing and Sharing Memory
Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
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Text and Image in the City
Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
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Treating children as property can lead to abuse. This book exposes the possessive logic behind this danger, urging us to listen to children’s voices and redefine child protection by asking one crucial question: protection for whom?
Treating children as property can lead to abuse. This book exposes the possessive logic behind this danger, urging us to listen to children’s voices and redefine child protection by asking one crucial question: protection for whom?
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