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  • 1
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403979551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (270 pages)
    Series Statement: CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48330951
    Keywords: Internet-China-Congresses.. ; China-Politics and government-Congresses.. ; China-Economic conditions-Congresses ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Cyber China -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Romanization of Chinese Names and Terms -- List of Acronyms -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 New Means, A New Polity? -- Chapter One Speaker's Corner or Virtual Panopticon: Discursive Construction of Chinese Identities Online -- Chapter Two Cyberspace and the Emerging Chinese Religious Landscape-Preliminary Observations -- Chapter Three The Changing Role of the State in Greater China in the Age of Information -- Part 2 Communication and Control: Sovereignty in the Age of the Internet -- Chapter Four Controlling the Internet Architecture within Greater China -- Chapter Five Government Online and Cross-Straits Relations -- Chapter Six The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation? -- Part 3 Global Networking and Economic Interactions -- Chapter Seven The Information Technology Industry and Economic Interactions Between China and Taiwa -- Chapter Eight Global Networking and the New Division of Labor Across the Taiwan Strait -- Chapter Nine Informational Capitalism and the Remaking of "Greater China": Strategies of Siliconizatio -- Chapter Ten Urban Assemblages: An Ecological Sense of the Knowledge Econom -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403978561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (269 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.6970944
    Keywords: Muslims-Europe.. ; Islam-Europe.. ; Muslims-United States.. ; Islam-United States.. ; Europe-Relations-Islamic countries.. ; Islamic countries-Relations-Europe.. ; United States-Relations-Islamic countries.. ; Islamic countries-Relations-United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Exploring the woefully neglected reality of Islam as a major cultural and relgious facet of American and European politics and societies, Cesari examines how Muslims in the West are challenging the notion of an inevitable clash or confrontation. With nearly twelve million Muslims living in the larger countries of Western Europe and almost six million in America, the challenges of integrating newcomers within different countries, and the place of Islam in democratic and secular context in the post 9/11 context, have become more pertinent. Comparing the interaction of Muslims with their new countries, this book addresses the implications of increased Islamic visability, violent clashes, beneficial cooperation, and questions within the Muslim community about their role and the role of Islam in democratic states. Pursuing a holistic approach to Muslims as a new minority within western democracy, Cesari provides important insights.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Clash to Encounter -- 1 The Numbers Debate -- Part I: Islam and the West: Mutual Transformation -- 2 Islam as Stigma -- 3 The Secularization of Individual Islamic Practice -- 4 The Secularization of Islamic Institutions in Europe and the United States: Two Approaches -- Part II: The Imagined Community -- 5 The Absolutized Community -- 6 The Virtual Community -- Part III: The Reinvented Community: New Figures of Islamic Authority in the West -- 7 Bureaucratic and Parochial Leaders -- 8 Transnational Leaders and Charismatic Speakers -- 9 The Reformation of Islamic Thought -- Conclusion: Toward a Reconciliation of Islam and the West? -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781403981912
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (245 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.76608349999998
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A new collection that addresses the problematic pathologization of queer youth, this book argues that the majority of educators and youth workers still know little about queer youth's negotiations of identity and community. The contributors examine the dangerous effects of heteronormalizing practices, and look at how young people negotiate labels and stereotypes in and out of school settings. What makes this project unique is that the contributors go beyond the discussions of homophobia young people experience on an everyday basis - the look at how youth subvert these experiences into those of pleasure, power, and confidence. In addition, the contributors look at how youth organize communities and negotiate positive identities in different settings.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781403981318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (317 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.09533
    Keywords: Saudi Arabia-Social conditions.. ; Yemen (Republic)-Social conditions.. ; Saudi Arabia-History.. ; Yemen (Republic)-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Arabia Incognita: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies -- 2 The `Imama vs. the `Iqal: Hadari-Bedouin Conflict and the Formation of the Saudi State -- 3 Ecology, Knowledge, and Trade in Central Arabia (Najd) during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 4 Shifting Loyalties and Failed Empire: A New Look at the Social History of Late Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1918 -- 5 Leaving Only Question-Marks: Geographies of Rule in Modern Yemen -- 6 Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier -- 7 The Capture of Riyadh Revisited: Shaping Historical Imagination in Saudi Arabia -- 8 Struggles Over History and Identity: "Opening the Gates" of the Kingdom to Tourism -- 9 Evacuating Memory in Postrevolutionary Yemen -- 10 Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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  • 5
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137066985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (218 pages)
    DDC: 305.896044
    Keywords: Social sciences.. ; Europe-History.. ; France-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnic Minority Struggles for Recognition -- 2. North Mrican Cultural Expression -- 3. Radio Beur: Multiculturalism on the French Airwaves -- 4. Exhibiting Minorities: The Politics of Recognition at Beaubourg -- 5. French Television in the Age of Multiculturalism -- 6. Les Banlieues: Suburban Space and National Identity -- 7. The Algerian War: Transcending Splintered Memories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 6
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403976758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (267 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42/01
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In what might seem an unusual pairing, Barlett brings together the insights of Albert Camus and feminist thought, and in doing so sheds new light on both. Looking through a Camusian lens, Bartlett reveals a 'rebellious feminism' that simultaneously refuses oppression and affirms human dignity in solidarity with concrete, diverse others and the earth, giving us new insights into this life-affirming ethic.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781403982421
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (195 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89912
    Keywords: Duna (Papua New Guinean people)-Social conditions.. ; Duna (Papua New Guinean people)-Kinship.. ; Duna (Papua New Guinean people)-Economic conditions.. ; Mythology, Duna-Papua New Guinea-Aluni Region.. ; Mines and mineral resources-Papua New Guinea-Aluni Region.. ; Social change-Papua New Guinea-Aluni Region.. ; Aluni Region (Papua New Guinea)-History.. ; Aluni Region (Papua New Guinea)-Social conditions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is a new ethnography on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, which uses a case-study approach to consider the role of "tradition" in the politics of adjustment to transnational forces of change.
    Abstract: Cover -- Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea -- Contents -- List of Photos -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Place and Problem -- Chapter 2 Flexible Groups -- Chapter 3 Forces of Change -- Chapter 4 Leaders and Speech-Making -- Chapter 5 Myth, Ritual, and Change -- Chapter 6 The Duna in Regional Context -- Chapter 7 Concepts of Tradition and Change -- Chapter 8 Empowering the Past? -- Chapter 9 Change Among the Duna: A Synopsis and Some Wider Implications -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781403981561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (239 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.60820000000001
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This collection brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. Activists and academics consider questions such as; are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to effectively respond to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both 'religion' and 'secularism' in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer inclusive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminists Responding to Violence: Theories, Vocabularies, and Strategies -- PART I: TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT -- 1 Feminism in the Time of Violence -- 2 The Wrong Victims: Terrorism, Trauma, and Symbolic Violence -- 3 Definitions and Injuries of Violence -- 4 Filling the Sight by Force: A Meditation on the Violence of the Vernacular -- 5 Rethinking Responses to Violence, Rethinking the Safety of "Home -- 6 Violence of Protection -- 7 Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion? -- PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE U.S. POLITICAL REGIME -- 8 Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, Before and After 9/11 -- 9 The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush's "Preemptive" War Strategy -- 10 The Erosion of Democracy in Advancing the Bush Administration's Iraq Agenda: Government Lies and Misinformation and Media Complicity -- PART III: CONTEXTS AND LOCATIONS OF VIOLENCE -- 11 Naming Enmity: The Case of Israel/Palestine -- 12 Toward a Cherokee Theory of Violence -- 13 Dangerous Crossings: Violence at the Borders -- 14 Domestic Terror -- 15 Testifying to Violence: Gujarat as a State of Exception -- 16 Challenging What We Mean by Conflict Prevention: The Experience of East Timor -- PART IV: ANTIVIOLENCE ETHICS AND STRATEGIES: COALITIONS, THEATRES, INTERDEPENDENCIES -- 17 Sisterhood after Terrorism: Filipino Ecumenical Women and the U.S. Wars -- 18 The Female Body as Site of Attack: Will the "Real" Muslim Woman's Body Please Reveal Itself? -- 19 Responses to Violence: Healing vs. Punishment -- 20 Our Enemies, Ourselves: Why Antiviolence Movements Must Replace the Dualism of "Us and Them" with an Ethic of Interdependence -- Recommended Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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  • 9
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403981394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (300 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 394.12
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is a volume of interdisciplinary essays that brings together a wide range of scholarship in diet studies, a growing field that investigates connections between food, drink and culture, including literature, philosophy and history.
    Abstract: Cover -- Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Consumption As Performance: The Emergence Of The Consumer In The Romantic Period -- Part I Constructions, Simulations, Cultures -- Chapter 1 William Henry Ireland: From Forgery To Fish 'N' Chips -- Chapter 2 The Taste Of Paradise: The Fruits Of Romanticism In The Empire -- Chapter 3 The Politics Of The Platter: Charlotte Smith And The "Science Of Eating" -- Chapter 4 Sustaining The Romanti And Racial Self: Eating People In The "South Seas" -- Chapter 5 Eating Romantic England: The Foot And Mouth Epidemic And Its Consequences -- Part II Waiter, There's a Trope in My Soup: Close Readings -- Chapter 6 Hegel, Eating: Schelling And The Carnivorous Virility Of Philosophy -- Chapter 7 Byron's World Of Zest -- Chapter 8 Beyond The Inconsumable: The Catastrophic Sublime And The Destruction Of Literature In Keats's The Fall Of Hyperion And Shelley's The Triumph Of Life -- Part III Disgust, Digestion, Thought -- Chapter 9 The Endgame Of Taste: Keats, Sartre, Beckett -- Chapter 10 A "Friendship Of Taste":The Aesthetics Of Eating Well In Kant's Anthropology From A Pragmatic Point Of View -- Chapter 11 (In) Digestible Material: Illness And Dialectic In Hegel's The Philosophy Of Nature -- Chapter 12 Romantic Dietetics! Or, Eating Your Way To A New You -- Let Them Eat Romanticism: Materialism, Ideology, And Diet Studies -- Index.
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  • 10
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403982605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (352 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.48460972919997
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically-enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture, Cooper offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Word, Sound, and Power -- ONE: Border Clash: Sites of Contestation -- TWO: Slackness Personified: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks -- THREE: Lady Saw Cuts Loose: Female Fertility Rituals in the Dancehall -- FOUR: "Mama, Is That You?": Erotic Disguise in the Films -- FIVE: "Lyrical Gun": Metaphor and Role-Play in Dancehall Culture -- SIX: "More Fire": Chanting Down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton -- SEVEN: "Vile Vocals": Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados -- EIGHT: Hip-hopping across Cultures: Reggae to Rap and Back -- NINE: "Mix Up the Indian with All the Patwa": Rajamuffin Sounds in Cool Britannia -- TEN: The Dancehall Transnation: Language, Lit/orature, and Global Jamaica -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781403980274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (266 pages)
    Series Statement: Political Evolution and Institutional Change Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.20948499999997
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A pioneering investigation into the foundations of personal political attitudes as affected by direct experiences with state provision of services.
    Abstract: Cover -- The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Research Problems -- 1 The Personal and the Political -- Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses -- 2 Self-Interest and Social Justice -- 3 The Institutional Interface -- 4 Political Trust and Ideology -- Findings -- 5 The Data and the Case -- 6 The Welfare State and the Economy -- 7 Self-Interest -- 8 Distributive Justice -- 9 Voice -- 10 The Customer, the User, and the Client -- Implications -- 11 The Personal and the Political Revisited -- Notes -- References -- INDEX.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9780230608825
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (311 pages)
    Series Statement: Europe in Transition: the NYU European Studies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.80094300000002
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Is Germany still the "ethnic nation" par excellence? This book, drawing on some of the most extensive attitudinal data about immigrant and ethnic minorities ever collected there, reveals a far more complicated picture, which simultaneously confounds and confirms this long-standing characterization.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Ausländer in the Heimat: Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Germany -- Chapter 2 The Ethnic and Demographic Structure of Foreigners and Immigrants in Germany -- Chapter 3 On the Economic and Social Situations of Immigrant Groups in Germany -- Chapter 4 Ethnocentrism in Germany: Worldview Connections and Social Contexts -- Chapter 5 Foreigners as Second-Class Citizens? Attitudes Toward Equal Civil Rights for Non-Germans -- Chapter 6 Measuring Contemporary Prejudice Toward Immigrants in Germany -- Chapter 7 The Others and We: Relationships Between Germans and Non-Germans from the Point of View of Foreigners Living in Germany -- Chapter 8 Anti-Semitism in the Late 1990s -- Chapter 9 Authoritarianism and Ethnocentrism in East and West Germany: Does the System Matter? -- Chapter 10 Ethnocentrism and Support for Extreme-Right Parties -- Chapter 11 Social Distance and Physical Proximity: Day-to-Day Attitudes and Experiences of Foreigners and Germans Living in the Same Residential Areas -- Chapter 12 Regional Influences on Attitudes Toward Foreigners -- Appendix: Questions about Ethnic Minorities in ALLBUS 1996 -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781403980663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (267 pages)
    Series Statement: Political Evolution and Institutional Change Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.37200000000001
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A theoretical and empirical study of the problems of creating political and social trust in post-socialist countries.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Participants in the Project -- Introduction -- Part I Social Capital and Democratic Transition -- One: Social Trust and Honesty in Government: A Causal Mechanisms Approach -- Two: Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy: Why Bo Rothstein is Better Able to Explain Sweden than Romania -- Part II Trust and the Business Environment -- Three: Measuring Trust in Transition: Preliminary Findings from 26 Transition Economies -- Four: Underground Financing in Russia -- Five: How Trust is Established in Economic Relationships when Institutions and Individuals Are Not Trustworthy: The Case of Russia -- Six: Establishing Confidence in Business Partners: Courts, Networks, and Relationships as Pillars of Support -- Seven: The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia's Economy: Property Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers, 1998-2002 -- Eight: Mafia Transplantation -- Nine: Beyond Law Enforcement: Governing Financial Markets in China and Russia -- Part III Trust, Cooperation,and Success -- Ten: The Emergence of Trust Networks under Uncertainty: The Case of Transitional Economies-Insights from Social Psychological Research -- Eleven: Blindness to Success: Social Psychological Objectives Along the Way to a Market Economy in Eastern Europe -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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  • 14
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781349731343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (219 pages)
    Series Statement: Girls' History and Culture Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.235209730904
    Keywords: Teenage consumers-History-United States-20th century.. ; Teenage girls-History-United States-20th century.. ; Popular culture-History-United States-20th century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Emergence of Teenage Girls -- 2. "Oh the Bliss": Fashion and Teenage Girls -- 3. "Good Looks": Commercialized Beauty and Health -- 4. "Damn Good Jazz": Music, Radio, and Dance -- 5. ''A Guiding Factor in My Life": Teenage Girls and Movies -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Illustration Acknowledgments -- Index.
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  • 15
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403980823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (285 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23/0832
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, the authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of X-Files fans, the influence of computer games and the 'Lara Croft' phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like X-Files .
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: A Road Map of What's to Come -- Some Preliminary Definitions of Terms -- The Researcher as No-Mad -- or No-Madic Research -- A Brief Road-Map as to What's to Come -- I The Non-Divide Between Fantasy and Reality: Setting Up Our Study -- 1 A Historical Andenken: Youthful Appropriations -- Youth Demographics: The Difficulty of Boundaries -- Designer Capitalist Exploitation -- The Fantasy of Developmental Psychology -- The Future is "Now": The Return of Repressed Youth -- 2 Our Hypothesis: Youth Fantasies Lacanian Style -- The Child as Spectral Object -- Revisiting the Future: The "Loss" of the Innocent Child -- The Fantasy of Objet a: Lacanian Innovations -- Putting it All Together: Fantasy Through an Example -- The Gun as the Lure of Objet a -- 3 A Lacanian Approach to Media -- The Stubborn and Defensive Ego -- Affective Body States and Triebe -- Imaginary and Symbolic Tensions -- Interpassivity and the Media -- Pathological Overidentification: The Fan as Predator -- Death Drive and the Dead Voice -- An Ethics of the Real: Transgression of and "Beyond" the Law -- II Post-Oedipalization: Postmodern Drive Culture -- 4 Is Kronos Eating Our Children? Historical Fathers -- Saturn Devouring His Children -- When Can You Eat Your Son? -- From Freud's Just-So Story to False Memory Syndrome -- Postmodern Kronos: Devouring His Children's Dasein for Profit -- Today's Monotheism as the ONE -- 5 The Contradictory Demands of the Superego: Contemporary Fathers -- The Brotherhood of Presidential Follies -- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: You Must, For You are Driven! -- Surviving Enjoyment: The Perversity of the Neighborly Act -- Tony Soprano as Everyman? The Conflict Between Two Fathers -- Power Lust: No ONE in Charge -- 6 The Loss of Symbolic Authority in Postmodernity.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137109866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (312 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800943
    Keywords: Eugenics-Germany-History.. ; Ethics, Evolutionary.. ; Racism-Germany.. ; Germany-Race relations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Laying New Foundations for Ethics -- 1. The Origin of Ethics and the Rise of Moral Relativism -- 2. Evolutionary Progress as the Highest Good -- 3. Organizing Evolutionary Ethics -- 2. Devaluing Human Life -- 4. The Value of Life and the Value of Death -- 5. The Specter ofInferiority: Devaluing the Disabled and "Unproductive -- 6. The Science of Racial Inequality -- 3. Eliminating the "Inferior Ones -- 7. Controlling Reproduction: Overturning Traditional Sexual Morality -- 8. Killing the "Unfit -- 9. War and Peace -- 10. Racial Struggle and Extermination -- 4. Impacts -- 11. Hitler's Ethic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 17
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403978806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (160 pages)
    Series Statement: Political Evolution and Institutional Change Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Social capital (Sociology) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A sustained examination of the bases of social trust that points to the importance of micro-foundations.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Social Capital -- 3 The Problem of the Formation of Social Capital -- 4 The Creation of Particularized Trust -- 5 The Creation of Social Trust -- 6 The Creation of Social Trust-the Role of the State -- 7 The "Virtuous Circle" of the Creation of Social Capital -- 8 Conclusions -- Appendix: Coding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781403973719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.09729
    Keywords: Cultural fusion-Caribbean Area.. ; Postcolonialism-Caribbean Area.. ; Equality-Caribbean Area.. ; Nationalism-Caribbean Area ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the relationship of cultural hybridity to social equality? Why have some forms of hybridity been enshrined in the caribbean imagination and others disavowed? What is the appeal of cultural hybridity to nationalist and post-nationalist projects alike? What can we learn from the hybridization of Afro-caribbean and Indo-caribbean cultures set in motion by slavery and indentureship? In answering these questions, this book intervenes in several important debates in postcolonial studies about cultural resistance and popular agency, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an age of globalization.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Critique and Methodology -- Chapter 1 Theorizing Hybridity: The Post-Nationalist Moment -- Chapter 2 Theorizing Hybridity: Caribbean Nationalisms -- Part 2 Alternatives and Aesthetics -- Chapter 3 Manifestos of Desire: Hybridity as Forced Poetics -- Chapter 4 Beyond Resistance: Rehearsing Opposition in Derek Walcott's Pantomime -- Chapter 5 Marvelous Realism, Feminism, and Mulatto Aesthetics: Erna Brodber's Myal -- Chapter 6 East Indian/West Indian: Racial Stereotype, Hosay, and the Politics of National Space -- Chapter 7 Facing the Music: Gender, Race, and Dougla Poetics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403981417
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (214 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800112
    Keywords: Ethnic conflict-Forecasting ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state regional and international actors, changes in the ethnic balance of power, and the degree of economic, social, and cultural integration within the regional or global system. The variety of approaches provides useful analytical tools for students, while the diversity of cases from different regions gives the reader a sense of the scope of such problems.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Diffusion and Escalation of Ethnic Conflict -- Chapter 2 Third-Party States in Ethnic Conflict: Identifying the Domestic Determinants of Intervention -- Chapter 3 Modeling the Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict: An Application to Northern Ireland and South Africa -- Chapter 4 Identities Unbound: Escalating Ethnic Conflict in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Tajikistan -- Chapter 5 Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: The Breakup of Yugoslavia -- Chapter 6 Internationalization as an Explanation? The Development of Ethnic Conflict in Latin America -- Chapter 7 Diffusion and Escalation in the Great Lakes Region: The Rwandan Genocide, the Rebellion in Zaire, and Mobutu's Overthrow -- Chapter 8 The Regionalization, Internationalization, and the Perpetuation of Conflict in the Middle East -- Chapter 9 The Impact of International Diffusion on the Escalation of the Sri Lankan Conflict -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781403982452
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (251 pages)
    Series Statement: Europe in Transition: the NYU European Studies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.449
    Keywords: Language and languages-Political aspects-Congresses.. ; Multilingualism-Political aspects-Congresses.. ; Identity politics-Congresses ; Electronic books
    Abstract: As Europe moves closer to adopting English and its de facto lingua franca, this collection of essays explores the links between politics, nationalism monolingualism, and multilingualism.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface to the American Edition -- The Politics of Language -- Part One: The Limits of National Monolingualism -- Chapter 1 Difference Rights and Language in France -- Chapter 2 Langue d'oc, French and the Construction of a State in France -- Chapter 3 Bilingualism and Ethnic Change in California -- Part Two: The Fragility of Plurilingual Nations -- Chapter 4 Nationalism Versus Bilingualism -- Chapter 5 Struggling Against Territory: Language Policy in Canada -- Chapter 6 Beyond Multiculturalism: Identity, Intercultural Communication, and Political Culture-The Case of Switzerland -- Part Three: Nation-Making and Linguistic Revivals -- Chapter 7 Hebrew, the Language of National Daily Life -- Chapter 8 Linguistic Acculturations and Reconstructions in the ULB Group (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus) -- Chapter 9 Unity and Plurality in the Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Sphere -- Chapter 10 Languages in the Wired World.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403980151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (337 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.3/72
    Keywords: Social ethics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Resisting Ethics takes on the task of developing a new form of ethics based on existentialism and the lived experience of practical resistance.
    Abstract: Cover -- Resisting Ethics -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Complicity, Ethics, and Resistance -- Chapter 2 As Fragile as Glass: Balancing the Individual and the Social -- Chapter 3 Methods, Not Recipes: Rethinking Ethics in (and Through) Resistance -- Chapter 4 Turning Ourselves on Our Heads: Hegemony and the Colonized Habitus -- Chapter 5 Dirty Hands and Making the Human: Fanon, the Algerian Revolution and an Ethics of Freedom -- Chapter 6 "For Everyone, Everything": Social Ethics, Consent, and the Zapatistas -- Chapter 7 Toward a Resisting Social Ethics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781403973696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (230 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.60000000000002
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The book provides a general explanation of why the relationship between a government and its citizens deteriorates into violence by examining, in both contemporary and historical settings, the motives of those involved.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Machiavelli, the Grand Inquisitor, and Count Tilly's Reward -- TWO: The Principals and the Agents of Political Violence -- THREE: The Arab-Israeli 20,000-Day War -- FOUR: The Russian Civil War -- FIVE: The English Civil War -- SIX: The Three Horsemen of Political Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137098351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4/0944
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262271066 , 0262271060 , 0262033208 , 9780262033206 , 0262532654 , 9780262532655 , 1417502231 , 9781417502233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 494 p.)
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Introduction to the economics and mathematics of financial markets
    DDC: 332.632/01/5195
    Keywords: Finance Textbooks ; Mathematical models ; Finance Textbooks Mathematical models ; Electronic books ; Finance Textbooks. Mathematical models ; Derivat ; Finanzmathematik ; Kapitalmarktforschung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Textbooks ; Lehrbuch ; Kapitalmarktforschung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Derivat ; Finanzmathematik ; Kapitalmarktforschung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Derivat ; Finanzmathematik
    Abstract: Annotation Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Marketsfills the longstanding need for an accessible yet serious textbook treatment of financial economics. The book provides a rigorous overview of the subject, while its flexible presentation makes it suitable for use with different levels of undergraduate and graduate students. Each chapter presents mathematical models of financial problems at three different degrees of sophistication: single-period, multi-period, and continuous-time. The single-period and multi-period models require only basic calculus and an introductory probability/statistics course, while an advanced undergraduate course in probability is helpful in understanding the continuous-time models. In this way, the material is given complete coverage at different levels; the less advanced student can stop before the more sophisticated mathematics and still be able to grasp the general principles of financial economics.The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an introduction to basic securities and financial market organization, the concept of interest rates, the main mathematical models, and quantitative ways to measure risks and rewards. The second part treats option pricing and hedging; here and throughout the book, the authors emphasize the Martingale or probabilistic approach. Finally, the third part examines equilibrium models—a subject often neglected by other texts in financial mathematics, but included here because of the qualitative insight it offers into the behavior of market participants and pricing
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index , Introduction to the economics and mathematics of financial markets
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262256872 , 0262256878 , 0262182424 , 9780262182423
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 200 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rogers, Richard, 1965- Information politics on the Web
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology Social aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; Web search engines Political aspects ; Web portals Political aspects ; Civil society ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Web search engines Political aspects ; Web portals Political aspects ; Information technology Social aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Civil society ; Information technology ; Political aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Informatietechnologie ; World wide web ; Sociale aspecten ; Politieke aspecten ; Viagra ; Voedselveiligheid ; Anti-globalismebeweging ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books
    Abstract: Does the information on the Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web, Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the larger question of what the Web is for, Rogers argues that the Web is still the best arena for unsettling the official and challenging the familiar. Rogers describes the politics at work on the Web as either back-end--the politics of search engine technology--or front-end--the diversity, inclusivity, and relative prominence of sites publicly accessible on the Web. To analyze this, he developed four "political instruments," or software tools that gather information about the Web by capturing dynamic linking practices, attention cycles for issues, and changing political party commitments. On the basis of his findings on how information politics works, Rogers argues that the Web should be, and can be, a "collision space" for official and unofficial accounts of reality. (One chapter, "The Viagra Files" offers an entertaining analysis of official and unofficial claims for the health benefits of Viagra.) The distinctiveness of the Web as a medium lies partly in the peculiar practices that grant different statuses to information sources. The tools developed by Rogers capture these practices and contribute to the development of a new information politics that takes into account and draws from the competition between the official, the non-governmental, and the underground
    Abstract: Introduction : behind the practice of information politics -- The Viagra files : the Web as collision space between official and unofficial accounts of reality -- Mapping de-territorialization : classic politics in tatters -- After Genoa : remedying informational politics and augmenting reality with the Web -- Election issue tracker : monitoring the politics of attention -- The practice of information politics on the Web.
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    ISBN: 9780262277518 , 0262277514 , 1417501537 , 9781417501533 , 9780262112864 , 0262112868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kotlikoff, Laurence J Coming generational storm
    DDC: 332.024/00973
    Keywords: Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; United States ; Aging Economic aspects ; United States ; Older people Government policy ; United States ; Retirement income Planning ; United States ; Population forecasting United States ; Economic forecasting United States ; Baby boom generation United States ; Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Economic forecasting ; Older people Government policy ; Retirement income Planning ; Population forecasting ; Aging Economic aspects ; Baby boom generation ; Electronic books ; Baby boom generation ; Aging Economic aspects ; Older people Government policy ; Retirement income Planning. ; Population forecasting ; Economic forecasting ; Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Sozialpolitik ; United States Population ; Economic aspects ; United States Population ; Economic aspects ; United States ; United States Population ; Economic aspects ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; USA ; Sozialpolitik ; USA ; Sozialpolitik
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index , Coming generational storm
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262256643 , 0262256649 , 1282096605 , 9781282096608
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 211 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McCarthy, John Technology as experience
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Technology Social aspects ; Technologie Aspect social ; Multimédias interactifs ; Interactive multimedia ; Technology Social aspects ; Interactive multimedia ; Technology Social aspects ; Technologie ; Interactivité ; Aspects sociaux ; Multimédia ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Technik ; Gesellschaft ; Alltag ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Technologie ; Mens-computer-interactie ; Beleving ; Tecnologia (aspectos sociais) ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: How to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262286213 , 0262286211
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 161 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital nation
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology Social aspects ; Cyberspace Social aspects ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Information society ; Computers and civilization ; Cyberspace Social aspects ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Information technology Social aspects ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Information technology Social aspects ; Computers and civilization ; Information society ; Cyberspace Social aspects ; Civilization, Modern ; Computers and civilization ; Cyberspace ; Social aspects ; Information society ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Digital nation at a crossroads -- "Everybody should know the basics, like how to use a computer" -- A Faustian bargain for the digital age -- The new frontier of civil rights -- A digital nation in black and white -- Flattening the virtual landscape in education -- Wire-less youth : rejuvenating the net.
    Abstract: The long-term social benefits of building an inclusive information society: a national action plan.As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face increasing hardships. What happens when--in search of quick and cheap fixes--a government office shuts down and is replaced by a public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job applications? Inevitably, those most in need of the services and opportunities offered are further marginalized. In Digital Nation, Tony Wilhelm shows us how to build a more inclusive information society, offering a plan that reaps the benefits offered by the new technology while avoiding the pitfalls of social exclusion. Technology, he tells us, isn't the problem--it's the use of technology that can empower or control, unite or divide; we need to recover the ideas of social justice and fairness that have been lost in the rush to make things faster and cheaper. In Wilhelm's vision of an inclusive digital nation, everyone can take advantage of the new technology. With everyone part of the information society, we can revolutionize the way we educate our citizens, deliver healthcare, and engage in productive work. The result will be increased efficiency and productivity that will lead to long-term savings of billions of dollars and an enhanced quality of life as technology expands choice and opportunity. We can begin to bring this about by expanding access to computers and making it easier to acquire digital literacy skills. To do nothing--to turn a blind eye to the promise of an inclusive technology--would cost us socially and economically. Digital Nation's call for action sets the terms for a new debate on bridging the digital divide
    Description / Table of Contents: Digital nation at a crossroads"Everybody should know the basics, like how to use a computer" -- A Faustian bargain for the digital age -- The new frontier of civil rights -- A digital nation in black and white -- Flattening the virtual landscape in education -- Wire-less youth : rejuvenating the net.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137075116
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (195 pages)
    DDC: 302.14
    Keywords: Democracy.. ; Ethics.. ; Political science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Principal Events in the Life of Erich Fromm -- 1. Introduction: The Quest -- 2. Freedom Lost -- 3. Humanistic Ethics -- 4. Toward a Gendered Humanism -- 5. Work -- 6. Consumption -- 7. Democracy -- 8. One World -- 9. Conclusion: Radical Humanism and Human Solidarity -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262281157 , 0262281155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 260 p.) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Euro and its central bank
    Keywords: European Central Bank European Central Bank ; European Central Bank ; European Central Bank ; European Central Bank. ; European Central Bank ; Europäische Zentralbank ; Monetary policy European Union countries ; Euro ; Monetary policy European Union countries ; Europe ; European Union countries ; Monetary policy ; Monetary policy ; Euro ; Electronic books ; Euro. ; Monetary policy ; Monetary policy ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Money & Monetary Policy ; Euro ; Geldpolitik ; Währungsunion ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; European Central Bank ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Europäische Zentralbank ; Euro ; Geldpolitik ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Europäische Zentralbank ; Euro ; Geldpolitik
    Abstract: History and analysis of European monetary integration and related economic, financial, monetary, and international political issues: an accesible guide.This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a central banker who has been involved in the making of European monetary unification since 1979, offers an accessible guide to the euro and the European Central Bank for scholars, students, and the general reader, discussing the related economic, financial, monetary, and international political issues. In the process he also provides an overview of central banking in general and the multiple activities of a central bank; as the case of the European Central Bank illustrates, central banking involves not only monetary analysis and policy but much else, including banknote printing and handling, market operations, payment systems, bank supervision, and coordinating with other public institutions.Padoa-Schioppa begins with the historical background of European monetary integration, starting with the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which lay the foundation for the Common Market, and covering the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, the development of an anchor currency, and the "euroskepticism" of the U.K. Subsequent chapters are devoted to economic policy, monetary policy, the euro as unifier in the financial system, the payment system, the euro as an international actor outside "euroland," and the challenges ahead for the still relatively young project of European monetary integration
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index , Euro and its central bank
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262269773 , 0262269775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 329 p.) , ill
    Series Statement: Topics in contemporary philosophy
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    Parallel Title: Print version Freedom and determinism
    Keywords: Free will and determinism ; Free will and determinism ; Electronic books ; Free will and determinism. ; PHILOSOPHY ; Free Will & Determinism ; Free will and determinism ; Determinismus ; Freiheit ; Wille ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Determinismus ; Wille ; Freiheit ; Determinismus ; Wille ; Freiheit
    Abstract: Freedom and determinism: a framework Joseph Keim Campbell ... [et al.] -- Determinism, freedom, and agency: -- Determinism: what we have learned and what we still don't know John Earman -- Freedom and the power of preference Keith Lehrer -- Agency, responsibility, and indeterminism: reflections on libertarian theories of free will Robert Kane -- Trying to act Carl Ginet -- The metaphysics of moral responsibility: -- The sense of freedom Dana K. Nelkin -- Libertarian openness, blameworthiness, and time Ishtiyaque Haji -- Moderate reasons-responsiveness, moral responsibility, and manipulation Todd R. Long -- Which autonomy? Nomy Arpaly -- The transfer of nonresponsibility John Martin Fischer -- The compatibility problem: -- Van Inwagen on free will Peter van Inwagen -- Compatibilist options John Perry -- Freedom and contextualism Richard Feldman -- Buddhism and the freedom of the will: Pali and Mahayanist responses Nicholas F. Gier Paul Kjellberg -- After compatibilism and incompatibilism Ted Honderich
    Description / Table of Contents: Freedom and determinism: a framework /Joseph Keim Campbell ... [et al.] --Determinism, freedom, and agency: --Determinism: what we have learned and what we still don't know /John Earman --Freedom and the power of preference /Keith Lehrer --Agency, responsibility, and indeterminism: reflections on libertarian theories of free will /Robert Kane --Trying to act /Carl Ginet --The metaphysics of moral responsibility: --The sense of freedom /Dana K. Nelkin --Libertarian openness, blameworthiness, and time /Ishtiyaque Haji --Moderate reasons-responsiveness, moral responsibility, and manipulation /Todd R. Long --Which autonomy? /Nomy Arpaly --The transfer of nonresponsibility /John Martin Fischer --The compatibility problem: --Van Inwagen on free will /Peter van Inwagen --Compatibilist options /John Perry --Freedom and contextualism /Richard Feldman --Buddhism and the freedom of the will: Pali and Mahayanist responses /Nicholas F. Gier,Paul Kjellberg --After compatibilism and incompatibilism /Ted Honderich.
    Note: "A Bradford book." , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , Freedom and determinism , Freedom and determinism: a framework , Determinism, freedom, and agency:Determinism: what we have learned and what we still don't know , Freedom and the power of preference , Agency, responsibility, and indeterminism: reflections on libertarian theories of free will , Trying to act , The metaphysics of moral responsibility:The sense of freedom , Libertarian openness, blameworthiness, and time , Moderate reasons-responsiveness, moral responsibility, and manipulation , Which autonomy? , The transfer of nonresponsibility , The compatibility problem:Van Inwagen on free will , Compatibilist options , Freedom and contextualism , Buddhism and the freedom of the will: Pali and Mahayanist responses , After compatibilism and incompatibilism
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262284097 , 026228409X , 1417561823 , 9781417561827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 364 p.) , ill
    Series Statement: CESifo seminar series
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    Parallel Title: Print version Measuring the tax burden on capital and labor
    Keywords: Taxation Case studies ; Taxation Econometric models ; Taxation Case studies ; Taxation Econometric models ; Taxation Econometric models ; Taxation Case studies ; Electronic books ; Taxation Case studies. ; Taxation Econometric models. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; Taxation ; Taxation ; Taxation ; Econometric models ; Case studies ; Besteuerungsverfahren ; Messung ; Steuerbelastung ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Case studies ; Steuerbelastung ; Messung ; Besteuerungsverfahren ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Steuerbelastung ; Messung ; Besteuerungsverfahren ; Ökonometrisches Modell
    Abstract: A guide to current approaches to measuring the effective tax rate, with case studies that illustrate the different methods discussed.Today's highly complicated tax codes have led economists and policy makers depend on simplified summary measures in order to understand how taxes affect the economy. Studies of the effective tax rate--that is, a measurement of the net amount of tax levied on certain economic activities--provide this sort of descriptive summary. Using estimates of effective tax rates, economists can look for evidence of economic behavior under different tax laws and policy makers can evaluate whether the net outcome is in accord with their intentions. Globalization, with its accompanying international mobility of capital and labor, has created a new use for estimates of the effective tax rate as policy makers seek to compare tax burdens in one country with those in another.This book provides an overview of the most important methods currently used to measure effective tax rates, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and illustrating their use with specific case studies. The contributors, all noted international economists and seasoned policy makers, consider such topics as a new method to measure the effective tax rate on investment, the tax burden on cross-border investment, effective tax rates on human capital, the "Taxing Wages" approach, and measurement at the macro and micro levels
    Abstract: Measuring taxes on capital and labor / Peter Birch Sørensen -- Measuring taxes on income from capital / Michael P. Devereux -- Measuring taxes on income from capital / Michael P. Devereux and Alexander Klemm -- A new summary measure of the effective tax rate on investment / Roger Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis, and Joel Slemrod -- The tax burden on cross-border investment / Harry Grubert -- Measuring effective tax rates on human capital / Kirk A. Collins and James B. Davies -- Tax ratios on labor and capital income and on consumption / David Carey and Josette Rabesona -- The "taxing wages" approach to measuring the tax burden on labor / Christopher Heady -- How to measure the tax burden on labor at the macro level? / Jakob de Haan, Jan-Egbert Sturm, and Bjørn Volkerink -- Using micro data to assess average tax rates / W. Steven Clark.
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    ISBN: 9780262283717 , 0262283719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version European monetary integration
    Keywords: Economic and Monetary Union Economic and Monetary Union ; Economic and Monetary Union ; Economic and Monetary Union ; Economic and Monetary Union. ; Economic and Monetary Union ; Monetary unions European Union countries ; Monetary unions ; Monetary unions ; Electronic books ; Monetary unions ; Monetary unions ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Money & Monetary Policy ; International economic integration ; Währungsunion ; European Union countries Economic integration ; European Union countries Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union countries ; European Union countries Economic integration ; European Union countries Economic integration ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Economic and Monetary Union ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Europäische Integration
    Abstract: Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki Koskela -- Asymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? / Daniel Gros and Carsten Hefeker ; Discussant: Jørgen Elmeskov -- Is the ECB too decentralized? / Jakob de Haan, Helge Berger, and Robert Inklaar ; Discussant: Mika Widgrén -- Fiscal aspects of Central Bank independence / Christopher A. Sims ; Discussant: Svend E. Hougarrd Jensen -- Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem: eurowinners and eurolosers revisited / Hans-Werner Sinn and Holger Feist ; Discussant: Jouko Vilmunen -- Financial fragility, bubbles, and monetary policy / Gerhard Illing ; Discussant: Phillippe Bacchetta
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki Koskela -- Asymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? / Daniel Gros and Carsten Hefeker ; Discussant: Jørgen Elmeskov -- Is the ECB too decentralized? / Jakob de Haan, Helge Berger, and Robert Inklaar ; Discussant: Mika Widgrén -- Fiscal aspects of Central Bank independence / Christopher A. Sims ; Discussant: Svend E. Hougarrd Jensen -- Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem: eurowinners and eurolosers revisited / Hans-Werner Sinn and Holger Feist ; Discussant: Jouko Vilmunen -- Financial fragility, bubbles, and monetary policy / Gerhard Illing ; Discussant: Phillippe Bacchetta
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki KoskelaAsymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? / Daniel Gros and Carsten Hefeker ; Discussant: Jørgen Elmeskov -- Is the ECB too decentralized? / Jakob de Haan, Helge Berger, and Robert Inklaar ; Discussant: Mika Widgrén -- Fiscal aspects of Central Bank independence / Christopher A. Sims ; Discussant: Svend E. Hougarrd Jensen -- Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem: eurowinners and eurolosers revisited / Hans-Werner Sinn and Holger Feist ; Discussant: Jouko Vilmunen -- Financial fragility, bubbles, and monetary policy / Gerhard Illing ; Discussant: Phillippe Bacchetta.
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , European monetary integration
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    ISBN: 9780262272926 , 026227292X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Uniform Title: Economie de la connaissance 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version Economics of knowledge
    Keywords: Knowledge management Economic aspects ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Knowledge management Economic aspects. ; Information technology Economic aspects. ; Technological innovations Economic aspects. ; Informationstechnik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wissensmanagement ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Wissensmanagement ; Informationstechnik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaft ; Wissen ; Reproduktion ; Öffentliches Gut ; Geistiges Eigentum ; Wissensmanagement ; Wissensproduktion
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index , Rev. and enlarged translation of: L'economie de la connaissance , Economics of knowledge
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    ISBN: 9780262270663 , 0262270668 , 1417560371 , 9781417560370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 481 p.) , ill
    Series Statement: Representation and mind
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    Parallel Title: Print version Causation and counterfactuals
    Keywords: Causation ; Counterfactuals (Logic) ; Causation ; Electronic books ; Causation. ; Counterfactuals (Logic) ; PHILOSOPHY ; Epistemology ; Causation ; Counterfactuals (Logic) ; Irrealer Konditionalsatz ; Kausalität ; Philosophie ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kausalität ; Irrealer Konditionalsatz ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul -- Trumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong
    Description / Table of Contents: Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul -- Trumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong
    Description / Table of Contents: Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. PaulTrumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong.
    Note: "A Bradford book." , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-467) and indexes , Causation and counterfactuals
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    ISBN: 9780262272865 , 0262272865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version Great divestiture
    Keywords: Privatization Great Britain ; Public welfare ; Privatization ; Public welfare Great Britain ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Electronic books ; Privatization ; Public welfare. ; Privatization. ; Public welfare ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Security ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Services & Welfare ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Great Britain Social policy ; 1979- ; Great Britain Social policy ; 1979- ; Great Britain ; Great Britain Social policy 1979- ; Great Britain Social policy 1979- ; Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Geschichte 1979-1997 ; Großbritannien ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Geschichte 1979-1997
    Abstract: Historical background -- Privatization theories and cost-benefit analysis -- Macroeconomic trends -- Firms -- Shareholders -- Employees -- Consumers -- Taxpayers -- The British Telecom case history -- Epilogue: A state without ownership.
    Abstract: The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first comprehensive treatment of the overall welfare impact of this broad national policy of divestiture. Using the tools of social cost-benefit analysis, Florio assesses the effect of privatization on consumers, taxpayers, firms, shareholders, and workers. His conclusion may be surprising to some; his findings suggest that the changeover to private ownership per se had little effect on long-term trends in prices and productivity in Britain and contributed to regressive redistribution.After historical and theoretical overviews of privatization and a look at macroeconomic trends in the Thatcher-Major era, Florio considers in detail the microeconomic effects of British privatization on several key groups. In successive chapters, he examines firms and productivity changes; shareholders' windfall gains and evidence of underpricing and outperformance in privatized companies; workers, management, and changes in industrial relations; consumers and the quantity and quality of goods after the change to public ownership; and taxpayers and the interplay between privatization and tax reform. He follows these chapters with a case study of British Telecom--significant not only because it was the largest divestiture of the period but also because of its influence on subsequent telecommunications privatization elsewhere. The final chapter considers the overall quantitative impact of the Thatcher-Major privatization on all sectors and its relationship with regulation and liberalization. The Great Divestiture not only offers an exhaustive analysis of the effects of the British process of privatization but also illustrates a method of inquiry and a testable research approach that could prove to be useful in similar studies of other countries
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-407) and index , Great divestiture
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262274876 , 0262274876
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxvii, 333 p.) , ill
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Keywords: Digital art Philosophy ; Aesthetics ; Human body (Philosophy) ; Digital media Philosophy ; Image (Philosophy) ; Computer art Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Aesthetics. ; Body, Human (Philosophy) ; Digital media Philosophy. ; Image (Philosophy) ; Digital art Philosophy. ; Medienkunst ; Ästhetik ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Medienkunst ; Ästhetik ; Medienkunst ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: From image to body. Between body and image : on the "newness" of new media art -- Framing the digital image : Jeffrey Shaw and the embodied aesthetics of new media -- The automation of sight and the bodily basis of vision. The affect-body. Affect as interface : confronting the "digital facial image" -- What's virtual about VR? "reality" as body-brain achievement -- The affective topology of new media art. Time, space, and body. Body times
    Description / Table of Contents: From image to body. Between body and image : on the "newness" of new media art -- Framing the digital image : Jeffrey Shaw and the embodied aesthetics of new media -- The automation of sight and the bodily basis of vision. The affect-body. Affect as interface : confronting the "digital facial image" -- What's virtual about VR? "reality" as body-brain achievement -- The affective topology of new media art. Time, space, and body. Body times
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , New philosophy for new media
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262275798 , 0262275791
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 274 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Critical resistance
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Critical theory ; Opposition, Theory of ; Opposition, Theory of ; Critical theory ; Electronic books ; Critical theory. ; Opposition, Theory of. ; Kritische Theorie ; Politische Philosophie ; Widerstand ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Kritische Theorie ; Widerstand ; Politische Philosophie ; Kritische Theorie ; Widerstand ; Politische Philosophie
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index , Critical resistance
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    ISBN: 9781349731787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (252 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Conundrum, Challenge, and Choice -- Chapter 1 Glimpses of an Ecological Consciousness -- Part 1 Educational Forms and Processes Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 2 Transformative Learning for Bioregional Citizenship -- Chapter 3 Learning Ecology. A New Approach to Learning and Transforming Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 4 Graduate Leadership Education in a Socio-Ecological Perspective: Working at the Paradigmatic Interface -- Chapter 5 The Ecology of Learning and Work: Learning for Transformative Work Practices -- Part 2 Learning Through Engagement in the Life World -- Chapter 6 A Pueblo Story for Transformation -- Chapter 7 Midwifing Transformative Change -- Chapter 8 Nurturing the Internal Flame: Sustained Commitment to Environmental Work -- Chapter 9 A Transformation Model for Passion in the Workplace -- Part 3 The Dynamic Relation of Personal Agency in Community Context -- Chapter 10 Personal and Social Transformation: A Complementary Process Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 11 Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self-Transformation -- Chapter 12 From Intersubjective Psychotherapy to Esprit Networking: Mapping a Social Practice -- Chapter 13 Fostering Ways-of-Giving Within Communities -- Chapter 14 Transformative Rungs on Wisdom's Ladder -- Notes on Contributors.
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    ISBN: 9781403979612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (242 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42096199999997
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A close examination of the interaction of new intellectual currents with indigenous concepts of morality and virtue, through the prism of changing ideals of womenhood.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The Household, Consumerism, and the New Woman -- 2 The House, City, and Nation that Ismail Built -- 3 Patterns of Urban Consumption and Development, 1879-1922 -- 4 Advertising and Consumer Culture in Egypt: Creating al-Sayyida al-Istihlakiyya -- 5 al-Sayyida al-Istihlakiyya and the "New Woman -- Part II Teaching the New Woman -- 6 Education: Creating Mothers, Wives, Workers, Believers, and Citizens -- 7 The Discourse on Female Education -- 8 Textbooks: Defining Roles and Boundaries -- 9 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 1417560568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 21 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Hoy, David Couzens Critical resistance
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Critical theory ; Opposition, Theory of ; Critical theory ; Opposition, Theory of ; Kritische Theorie ; Politische Philosophie ; Widerstand ; Electronic books ; Kritische Theorie ; Widerstand ; Politische Philosophie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 1423796586
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 200 p , ill , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology Social aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; Web search engines Political aspects ; Web portals Political aspects ; Civil society ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Informatietechnologie ; World wide web ; Sociale aspecten ; Politieke aspecten ; Viagra ; Voedselveiligheid ; Anti-globalismebeweging ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : behind the practice of information politics -- The Viagra files : the Web as collision space between official and unofficial accounts of reality -- Mapping de-territorialization : classic politics in tatters -- After Genoa : remedying informational politics and augmenting reality with the Web -- Election issue tracker : monitoring the politics of attention -- The practice of information politics on the Web
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2006
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262256391 , 0262256398
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 416 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social capital and information technology
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Social capital (Sociology) Congresses ; Information technology Congresses ; Social aspects ; Information networks Congresses ; Social aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Organizational learning Congresses ; Social capital (Sociology) Congresses ; Information technology Congresses Social aspects ; Information networks Congresses Social aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Organizational learning Congresses ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Technologie de l'information ; Analyse sociologique ; Aspects sociaux ; Réseaux d'information ; Gestion des connaissances ; Acquisition de connaissances ; Organisation de l'entreprise ; Congrès ; Information networks ; Social aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Knowledge management ; Organizational learning ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Informationstechnik ; Organisatorisches Lernen ; Soziales Kapital ; Soziologie ; Wissensmanagement ; Informatietechnologie ; Sociale netwerken ; Informatienetwerken ; Technologies de l'information ; Réseau d'information ; Gestion des connaissances ; Aspect social ; Capital social (Sociologie) ; Apprentissage organisationnel ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Amsterdam (2002) ; Kongress ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology
    Abstract: Social capital and information technology: current debates and research / Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf -- Trust, acceptance, and alignment: the role of IT in redirecting a community / Anna-Liisa Syrjänen and Kari Kuutti -- The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital / Anita Blanchard -- Find what binds: building social capital in an Iranian NGO community system / Markus Rohde -- How does the internet affect social capital? / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman -- The ties that share: relational characteristics that facilitate information seeking / Rob Cross and Stephen P. Borgatti -- Exploring the eagerness to share knowledge: the role of social capital and ICT in knowledge sharing / Bart van den Hooff, Jan de Ridder, and Eline Aukema -- Design requirements for knowledge-sharing tools: a need for social capital analysis / Marleen Huysman -- Explaining the underutilization of business-to-business clusters: the role of social capital / Charles Steinfield -- The impact of social capital on project-based learning / Mike Bresnen [and others] -- Sharing expertise: the next step for knowledge management / Mark S. Ackerman and Christine Halverson -- Pearls of wisdom: social capital building in informal learning environments / Robbin Chapman -- Expertise finding: approaches to foster social capital / Andreas Becks, Tim Reichling, and Volker Wulf -- Fostering social creativity by increasing social capital / Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff, and Yunwen Ye.
    Note: A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262281010 , 0262281015
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 338 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Vienna series in theoretical biology
    Parallel Title: Print version Evolution of communication systems
    DDC: 302.209
    Keywords: Communication History ; Language and languages Origin ; Animal communication ; Human evolution ; Communication History ; Language and languages Origin ; Human evolution ; Animal communication ; Communication History ; Language and languages Origin ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies ; Animal communication ; Communication ; Human evolution ; Language and languages ; Origin ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: I. INTRODUCTION --Theoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communication systems /D. Kimbrough Oller,Ulrike Griebel --II. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: CONCEPTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS --On reading signs: some differences between us and the others /Ruth Garrett Millikan --Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication /William F. Harms --Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution /D. Kimbrough Oller --III. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS --Social and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication /Luc Steels --The role of learning and development in language evolution: a connectionist perspective /Morten H. Christiansen,Rick Dale --Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena /Magnus S. Magnusson --IV. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE BASIS --Social processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication /Charles T. Snowdon --Human infant crying as an animal communication system: insights from an assessment/management approach /Donald H. Owings,Debra M. Zeifman --Evolution of communication from an Avian perspective /Irene M. Pepperberg --Cephalopod skin displays: from concealment to communication /Jennifer A. Mather --V. PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE --The evolution of language: from signals to symbols to system /Chris Sinha --Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication /Peter Gärdenfors --Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective /R.I.M. Dunbar --Kin selection and "mother tongues": a neglected component in language evolution /W. Tecumseh Fitch --Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language /James R. Hurford --How far is language beyond our grasp? A response to Hurford /Michael A. Arbib --IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS --Directions for research in comparative communication systems /D. Kimbrough Oller,Ulrike Greibel.
    Abstract: Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling.The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisciplinary enterprise. In this volume, scientists engaged in the fields of evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, the cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling come together to explore a comparative approach to the evolution of communication systems. The comparisons range from parrot talk to squid skin displays, from human language to Aibo the robot dog's language learning, and from monkey babbling to the newborn human infant cry. The authors explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the emergence of human language, which they propose to be intricately connected with drastic changes in human lifestyle. While it is not yet clear what the physical environmental circumstances were that fostered social changes in the hominid line, the volume offers converging evidence and theory from several lines of research suggesting that language depended upon the restructuring of ancient human social groups. The volume also offers new theoretical treatments of both primitive communication systems and human language, providing new perspectives on how to recognize both their similarities and their differences. Explorations of new technologies in robotics, neural network modeling and pattern recognition offer many opportunities to simulate and evaluate theoretical proposals. The North American and European scientists who have contributed to this volume represent a vanguard of thinking about how humanity came to have the capacity for language and how nonhumans provide a background of remarkable capabilities that help clarify the foundations of speech
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record , I. INTRODUCTIONTheoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communication systems , II. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: CONCEPTIONS AND FOUNDATIONSOn reading signs: some differences between us and the others , Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication , Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution , III. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSSocial and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication , The role of learning and development in language evolution: a connectionist perspective , Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena , IV. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE BASISSocial processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication , Human infant crying as an animal communication system: insights from an assessment/management approach , Evolution of communication from an Avian perspective , Cephalopod skin displays: from concealment to communication , V. PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGEThe evolution of language: from signals to symbols to system , Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication , Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective , Kin selection and "mother tongues": a neglected component in language evolution , Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language , How far is language beyond our grasp? A response to Hurford , IV. CONCLUDING REMARKSDirections for research in comparative communication systems
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262283250 , 0262283255
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 433 p.) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shaping the network society
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology Social aspects ; Computer networks Social aspects ; Social participation ; Civil society ; Computer networks Social aspects ; Information technology Social aspects ; Social participation ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Civil society ; Computer networks ; Social aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concerned less with bits, bytes, and algorithms and more with productive partnerships that engage both researchers and community activists. These collaborations are producing important sociotechnical work that will affect the future of the network society. Traditionally, academic research on real-world users of technology has been neglected or even discouraged. The authors contributing to this book are working to fill this gap; their theoretical and practical discussions illustrate a new orientation -- research that works with people in their natural social environments, uses common language rather than rarefied academic discourse, and takes a pragmatic perspective. The topics they consider are key to democratization and social change. They include human rights in the "global billboard society"; public computing in Toledo, Ohio; public digital culture in Amsterdam; "civil networking" in the former Yugoslavia; information technology and the international public sphere; "historical archaeologies" of community networks; "technobiographical" reflections on the future; libraries as information commons; and globalization and media democracy, as illustrated by Indymedia, a global collective of independent media organizations
    Abstract: Shaping the network society: opportunities and challenges / Douglas Schuler and Peter Day -- U.S. global cyberspace / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- Shaping technology for the "good life": the technological imperative versus the social imperative / Gary Chapman -- Human rights in the global billboard society / Cees J. Hamelink -- A census of public computing in Toledo, Ohio / Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat -- A Polder model in cyberspace: Amsterdam public digital culture / Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens -- Community networks go virtual: tracing the evolution of ICT in Buenos Aires and Montevideo / Susana Finquelievich -- Civil networking in a hostile environment: experiences in the former Yugoslavia / Veran Matic -- Rethinking telecenters: microbanks and remittance flows- reflections from Mexico / Scott S. Robinson -- The role of community networks in shaping the network society: enabling people to develop their own projects / Fiorella de Cindio -- Information technology and the international public sphere / Craig Calhoun -- What do we need to know about the future we're creating? technobiographical reflections / Howard Rheingold -- Libraries: the information commons of civil society / Nancy Kranich -- The soil of cyberspace: historical archaeologies of the Blacksburg electronic village and the Seattle community network / David Silver -- Globalization and media democracy: the case of indymedia / Douglas Morris -- Prospects for a new public sphere / Peter Day and Douglas Schuler.
    Note: "An outgrowth of the Seventh DIAC symposium held in Seattle in 2000"--Introd. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262280266 , 0262280264
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 218 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital sublime
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Cyberspace Economic aspects ; Cyberspace Political aspects ; Information society ; Telecommunication ; Myth ; Cyberspace Economic aspects ; Cyberspace Political aspects ; Telecommunication ; Myth ; Cyberspace Political aspects ; Information society ; Cyberspace Economic aspects ; Telecomunicaciones ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Cyberspace ; Economic aspects ; Cyberspace ; Political aspects ; Information society ; Myth ; Telecommunication ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments before it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore the myths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled to believe in them. He tells us that what kept enthusiastic investors in the dotcom era bidding up stocks even after the crash had begun was not willful ignorance of the laws of economics but belief in the myth that cyberspace was opening up a new world.Myths are not just falsehoods that can be disproved, Mosco points out, but stories that lift us out of the banality of everyday life into the possibility of the sublime. He argues that if we take what we know about cyberspace and situate it within what we know about culture--specifically the central post-Cold War myths of the end of history, geography, and politics--we will add to our knowledge about the digital world; we need to see it "with both eyes"--that is, to understand it both culturally and materially.After examining the myths of cyberspace and going back in history to look at the similar mythic pronouncements prompted by past technological advances--the telephone, the radio, and television, among others--Mosco takes us to Ground Zero. In the final chapter he considers the twin towers of the World Trade Center--our icons of communication, information, and trade--and their part in the politics, economics, and myths of cyberspace
    Abstract: The secret of life -- Myth and cyberspace -- Cyberspace and the end of history -- Loose ends : the death of distance, the end of politics -- When old myths were new : the ever-ending story -- From ground zero to cyberspace and back again.
    Description / Table of Contents: The secret of lifeMyth and cyberspace -- Cyberspace and the end of history -- Loose ends : the death of distance, the end of politics -- When old myths were new : the ever-ending story -- From ground zero to cyberspace and back again.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262278935 , 0262278936 , 0262134454 , 9780262134453 , 1417574372 , 9781417574377 , 0262633396 , 9780262633390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 314 pages)
    Series Statement: Bradford Bks
    DDC: 302.12
    Keywords: Attribution (Social psychology) ; Intentionality (Philosophy) ; Human behavior ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a dual nature -- as being both cognitive and social acts -- and proposes a comprehensive theoretical model that integrates the two aspects. When people try to understand puzzling human behavior, they construct behavior explanations, which are a fundamental tool of social cognition. But, Malle argues, behavior explanations exist not only in the mind; they are also overt verbal actions used for social purposes. When people explain their own behavior or the behavior of others, they are using the explanation to manage a social interaction -- by offering clarification, trying to save face, or casting blame. Malle's account makes clear why these two aspects of behavior explanation exist and why they are closely linked; along the way, he illustrates the astonishingly sophisticated and subtle patterns of folk behavior explanations. Malle begins by reviewing traditional attribution theories and their simplified portrayal of behavior explanation. A more realistic portrayal, he argues, must be grounded in the nature, function, and origins of the folk theory of mind -- the conceptual framework underlying people's grasp of human behavior and its connection to the mind. Malle then presents a theory of behavior explanations, focusing first on their conceptual structure and then on their psychological construction. He applies this folk-conceptual theory to a number of questions, including the communicative functions of behavior explanations, and the differences in explanations given for self and others as well as for individuals and groups. Finally, he highlights the strengths of the folk-conceptual theory of explanation over traditional attribution theory and points to future research applications
    Note: "A Bradford book."
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403973764
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (258 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics. It is consumer choice of producers and products on the basis of attitudes and values of personal and family well-being as well as ethical or political assessment of business and government practice. In the face of economic globalization and a regulatory vacuum, consumers increasingly take responsibility in their own hands, making the market an important venue for political action through their decisions of what to purchase. This book opens the readers' eyes to a new way of viewing everyday consumer choices and the role of the market in our lives, illuminating the broader theoretical and historical context of concerns about sweatshops, responsible coffee, and ethical and free trade. Contemporary forms of political consumerism - boycotts, labelling schemes, stewardship certification, socially responsible investing, etc. - are described and evaluated. Individual actions are shown to be important in the complexity of globalization.
    Abstract: Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Why Political Consumerism? -- 2 History of Political Consumerism -- 3 Contemporary Forms and Institutions -- 4 A Study of Political Consumerism Today: The Case of Good Environmental Choice in Sweden -- 5 Shopping with and for Virtues -- Appendix: The Political Business of Consumerism: A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403981493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Over the last four decades Jürgen Habermas has forged an innovative and much-discussed theory of contemporary capitalist society. Building on Max Weber's thesis that the dynamic of capitalism actually erodes individual freedom and the meaningfulness of social life - famously resulting in a culture of 'specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart' - Habermas traces contemporary social conflict to resistance to this dynamic by a variety of social groups. His theory of 'communicative action' attempts to show the possibilities in contemporary society for moving toward a more balanced social life that, unlike other political currents today, would not sacrifice the truly progressive features of complex modern societies. By marginalizing methodological and other more specialized theoretical concerns, this book focuses on Habermas's substantive portrayal of contemporary society and its discontents.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Weber and Modernity -- 2 Weber and Western Marxism -- 3 Rationality and Communicative Action -- 4 Society as Lifeworld and System -- 5 Social Conflict and Progressive Politics -- 6 Contested Terrain: Language, Art, and Gender -- 7 The Limitations of Habermas's Social and Political Argument -- 8 Habermas and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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    ISBN: 9781403982179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (173 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.27
    Keywords: Sociology, Military-United States.. ; United States-Armed Forces-History-21st century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An edited collection of ethnographic research that seeks to provide visions of and for US military culture from a solid anthropological base. The volume explores several important but relatively unknown cultural variations in the defense community through a variety of lenses. A strong list of contributors highlight important issues such as: anthrax vaccines, the 'Golden Age' culture of the military, gender roles among army spouses, weight control and physical readiness, the military advisor, and the United States Naval Academy.
    Abstract: Cover -- Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Subject, Audience, and Voice -- Chapter 1 Peacekeepers and Politics: Experience and Political Representation Among U.S. Military Officers -- Chapter 2 Medical Risks and the Volunteer Army -- Chapter 3 Guardians of the Golden Age: Custodians of U.S. Military Culture -- Chapter 4 Gender- and Class-Based Role Expectations for Army Spouses -- Chapter 5 Weight Control and Physical Readiness Among Navy Personnel -- Chapter 6 The Military Advisor as Warrior-King and Other "Going Native" Temptations -- Chapter 7 Integrating Diversity and Understanding the Other at the U.S. Naval Academy -- Conclusion: Anthropology and the U.S. Military -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781403974006
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (235 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.76609730000001
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia is an analysis of the negative response to the discovery of the homosexual in late Nineteenth century America. In this period of social distress, many Americans came to doubt the underlying assumptions of national progress. If the United States were to remain true to its promise of earthly perfection, then the forces of social disharmony had to be overcome. Homosexuality, however, challenged the very notions of order and progress. This book investigates the responses of the emergent medical community to this problem, and concludes with a discussion of how the negative reception of the homosexual impacted the future social conception of gay men and women.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of a National Ideology up to the Civil War -- 2 The Rise of an Urban Middle-Class in the Post-Civil War Era -- 3 Nineteenth-Century Gay America -- 4 A Period of Turmoil and Change -- 5 Nineteenth-Century American Medicine -- 6 The Debate Between Alienism and Neurology -- 7 The German Discovery of the Homosexual -- 8 American Physicians Discover the Homosexual -- 9 The Homosexual and the Physician in the 1890s -- 10 An Emerging Homosexual Identity During the Gilded Age -- 11 The Limits of Congenital Homosexuality -- 12 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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    ISBN: 9781403979544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (258 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Social capital (Sociology) ; Civil society ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Generating Social Capital -- 2 The Sources of Social Capital -- 3 Democracy in France: Do Associations Matter? -- 4 The Importance of Passive Membership for Social Capital Formation -- 5 Voluntary Associations and Democratic Attitudes: Value Congruence as a Causal Mechanism -- 6 Associations or Informal Networks? Social Capital and Local Development Practices -- 7 Rain or Fog? An Empirical Examination of Social Capital's Rainmaker Effects -- 8 A Tale of Two Cities: Local Patterns of Social Capital -- 9 Trust, Democracy and Governance: Can Government Policies Influence Generalized Trust? -- 10 Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach -- 11 Institutions and Their Impact on Social Capital and Civic Culture: The Case of Italy -- 12 Conclusion: The Sources of Social Capital Reconsidered -- About the Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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    ISBN: 9781137116000
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (397 pages)
    Edition: 9th ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.24209730000001
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- DAUGHTERS OF A REVOLUTION-YOUNG WOMEN TODAY -- Daughters of a Revolution: An Introduction by Anne J. Stone -- Two Generations: A Mother and Daughter Talk about -- One Young Women: Where They Stand -- Two Young Women, Education, and Employment -- Three Baby Boom to Generation X: Progress in Young Women's Health -- Four Integrating Work and Life: Young Women Forge New Solutions -- Five The Economics of Young Women Today -- Six Taking It from Here: Policies for the Twenty-first Century -- AMERICAN WOMEN TODAY: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT -- Section 1 Demographics -- Section 2 Education -- Section 3 Health -- Section 4 Employment -- Section 5 Earnings and Benefits -- Section 6 Economic Security -- Section 7 Women in the Military -- Section 8 Elections and Officials -- WOMEN IN CONGRESS -- The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues at 25: Challenges and Opportunities by Cynthia A. Hall -- The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues-107th Congress -- Women in the 107th Congress -- References -- Notes on the Contributors -- About the Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI) -- About the Editors -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780230109223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (181 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48329999999999
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- 1 Introduction: Information Technology and World Politics-The Growing Connection -- Part One: Information Technology and the "Global Village -- 2 Stateless Nations: "I Pledge Allegiance To … ? -- 3 Come Together? Debunking the Myth of the Internet and the Global Village -- 4 Subnational Groups and the Internet: An Irritant to Globalization, Not a Threat -- 5 The International Security Implications of Internet Use Via Satellite -- Part Two: Information Technology, Freedom, and Civil Society-Case Studies -- 6 Fujimori Meets Cabinas Publicas: The Internet, Journalism, and Democracy in Peru -- 7 Beyond the Internet: Democracy on the Phone? -- 8 China, Democracy, and the Internet -- 9 The Internet and the Evolution of Civil Society in Iran -- Part Three: The Internet and Economic Development -- 10 From Tea Sheds to Cyber Cafes: Could an Internet-Driven Modernization Strategy Succeed in India? -- 11 Brain Drain: An Unintended Consequence of Wiring Brazil? -- 12 www.AfricanOpportunity.com -- About the Authors -- Index.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137052049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (291 pages)
    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 393.90954
    Keywords: Sati-India ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Foreword -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Overlapping Discourses:Widows,Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting -- 2. Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations -- 3. Instructions for Christian Women:The Sati and European Widows -- 4. Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers -- 5. Civility and "Dying" to Speak: Sati, the Fetish, and History -- Chronological Chart of Indian Voyages of Early Modern European Travelers (cited in this book) who wrote about Sati -- Notes -- Bibliography of Indian Travel Narratives cited in this book -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781137094568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages Ser.
    DDC: 305.90664090199999
    Keywords: Gays-Europe-History-To 1500 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- 1. Articulating Premodern Male Homoeroticism -- Part 1 Affirmations of Male Same-Sex Desire -- Introduction Promoting Homosocial Intimacy -- 2. Chivalric Bonds and the Ideals of Friendship -- 3. Competing Desires -- 4. Homoerotic Identifications -- 5. Male-Male Gazing -- Part 2 Denigrations of Male Same-Sex Desire -- Introduction Sodomy as a Discursive Weapon -- 6. Sodomy, Politics, and Male-Male Desire -- 7. Dramatized Sodomitical Discourse: The Case of Troilus and Pandarus -- Afterword Queer Lessons from the Fourteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781403980359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (267 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Educational anthropology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and local reformers operate 'within and against' global models. Anthropologists need to recognize the global presence in local schooling as well as local transformation of global models. This is a collection that scholars in the field of the anthropology of education will not want to be without.
    Abstract: Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- A World Culture of Schooling? -- PART I MINISTRIES AND SCHOOLS TRANSFORM -- 1 "Thai Wisdom" and GloCalization: Negotiating the Global and the Local in Thailand's National Education Reform -- 2 Transformations in South Africa: Policies and Practices from Ministry to Classroom -- 3 Teaching by the Book in Guinea -- PART II TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS RESPOND -- 4 Beyond the "One Best System"? Developing Alternative Approaches to Instruction in the United States -- 5 Resistance to the Communicative Method of Language Instruction within a Progressive Chinese University -- 6 World-Cultural and Anthropological Interpretations of "Choice Programming" in Tanzania -- 7 The Politics of Identity and the Marketization of U.S. Schools: How Local Meanings Mediate Global Struggles -- PART III OUTSIDE OR BEYOND A GLOBAL CULTURE -- 8 World Culture or Transnational Project? Competing Educational Projects in Brazil -- 9 Europeanization and French Primary Education: Local Implications of Supranational Policies -- 10 Transforming the Culture of Scientific Education in Israel -- COMMENT -- The Global Model and National Legacies\Toward a Cultural Anthropology of the World? -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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    ISBN: 9781403976789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (184 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42/0952
    Keywords: Feminism-Japan.. ; Feminism-United States.. ; Women-Political activity-Japan.. ; Women-Political activity-United States.. ; Women's rights-United States.. ; Women's rights-Japan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An acclaimed political scientist suggests that American feminists and policymakers can learn important lessons from the experiences of their Japanese counterparts.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Comparing Women's Movements in Japan and the United States: Trends and Transformations -- 2 Equal Employment Opportunity Policy in the United States and Japan -- 3 Domestic Violence Policy in Japan and the United States -- 4 Reproductive Rights Policy in the United States and Japan -- 5 Policies to Harmonize Work and Family Life in Japan and the United States -- Conclusion: Assessing Policy Change -- Notes -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781349385126
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    Pages: 1 online resource (315 pages)
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    DDC: 305.89240000000001
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    ISBN: 9781403982704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: New Directions in Latino American Cultures Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.35000000000002
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Sommer invites distinguished writers to examine the fundamental difference it makes to play games between languages.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: CHOICES? -- 1 What Is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism? -- 2 Is Monolingualism Possible? -- 3 "José, can you see?": Latin@ Responses to Racist Discourse -- PART II: SOME PLACES -- 4 Nueva York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond -- 5 Crossing Town: Montreal in Translation -- 6 Introduction to Tetraglossia: The Situation of Maghrebi Writers -- 7 Bilingualism, Quechua Poetry, and Migratory Fragmentations in Present-day Peru -- 8 The Transamerican Trail to Cerca del Cielo: John Sayles and the Aesthetics of Multilingual Cinema -- PART III: GENDERS -- 9 Doña Marina and Captain Malinche -- 10 Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss: El caso Casey -- 11 The Mother Tongue -- 12 The Novel as Cuban Lexicon: Bargaining Bilinguals in Daína Chaviano's -- PART IV: DOUBLE-BARRELED CANON -- 13 Pidginizing Chinese -- 14 Found in Translation: Reflections of Bilingual American -- 15 Mixture's Speech -- 16 Kafka's Canon: Hebrew and Yiddish in The Trial and Amerika -- 17 Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning -- PART V: LIVING INVESTIGATIONS -- 18 Bilingual Scenes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781349737703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (412 pages)
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    DDC: 306.36209729
    Keywords: Slavery-Caribbean Area-History ; Electronic books
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    ISBN: 9781137115461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (210 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.37209721
    Keywords: Social justice-Mexican-American Border Region.. ; Pan-Americanism.. ; Non-governmental organizations-Mexican-American Border Region.. ; Human rights-Mexican-American Border Region ; Electronic books
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781349625772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (182 pages)
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.40944000000002
    Keywords: Merovingians-Food-Social aspects ; Electronic books
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    ISBN: 9781403979438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (244 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 391.65
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- IN THE FLESH -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- BODIES OF POWER -- Chapter 1 SUBVERSIVE BODIES, INVENTED SELVES -- Chapter 2 RECLAIMING THE FEMALE BODY -- Chapter 3 VISIBLY QUEER -- Chapter 4 MODERN PRIMITIVISM AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE OTHER -- Chapter 5 CYBERPUNK, BIOMEDICINE, AND THE HIGH-TECH BODY -- READING THE POSTMODERN TECHNO-BODY -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781349737642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (494 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.36209729
    Keywords: Caribbean Area-Historiography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Description of the Project -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- Plates -- Introduction -- 1 Ethnohistorical research in the Hispanic Caribbean -- 2 The physical environment: biogeographical teleconnections in Caribbean prehistory -- 3 The first Caribbean people: -- Part I: the Palaeoindians in Cuba and the circum-Caribbean -- Part II: The Archaics -- 4 Agricultural societies in the continental Caribbean -- 5 Agricultural societies in the Caribbean: The Lesser Antilles -- 6 Agricultural societies in the Caribbean: The Greater Antilles and the Bahamas -- 7 The indigenous societies at the time of Conquest -- 8 Chiefdoms in the islands and mainland: a comparison -- 9 Freedom and servitude: indigenous slavery and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 0585446784
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 260 p , ill , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Digital divide ; Marginality, Social ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Economy, society, and technology : analyzing the shifting terrains -- Models of access : devices, conduits, and literacy -- Physical resources : computers and connectivity -- Digital resources : content and language -- Human resources : literacy and education -- Social resources : communities and institutions -- Conclusion : the social embeddedness of technology
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-245) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    ISBN: 9780262285711 , 0262285711 , 0585481172 , 9780585481173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 612 pages) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 2nd ed
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    Parallel Title: Print version Monetary theory and policy
    DDC: 332.4/6
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    Keywords: Monetary policy ; Money ; Money ; Monetary policy ; Electronic books ; Monetary policy. ; Money. ; Geldpolitik ; Geldtheorie ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Geldtheorie ; Geldpolitik ; Geldtheorie ; Geldpolitik
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    ISBN: 9780262276870 , 0262276879
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 544 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Inside technology
    Parallel Title: Print version Biomedical platforms
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Social medicine ; Social medicine ; Biotechnology ; Biotechnology ; Biological Markers ; Immunophenotyping ; Sociology, Medical ; Biomarkers ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Biotechnology ; Social medicine ; Wetenschapsdynamica ; Biotechnologie ; Biomedische techniek ; Immunologie ; Pathologie ; 44.06 medical sociology ; 44.31 medical physics ; Biologie ; Immunphänotypisierung ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Krankheitsbegriff ; Medizin ; Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. An Introduction to Platforms -- 2. Hospital Platforms -- 3. Biomedicine and Platforms -- 4. Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Immunophenotyping: Building a Platform -- 5. Running the Immunophenotyping Platform -- 6. The Core of the Platform: Markers -- 7. At the Periphery: Flow and Slides -- 8. Regulating Immunophenotyping -- 9. Regulating Diseases on the Platform -- 10. Conclusion: Platform Sociology -- App. List of Interviewees.
    Abstract: Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, and therapeutic practices. To describe this new alignment between the normal and the pathological, the authors introduce the notion of the biomedical platform. Defined as a specific configuration of instruments, individuals, and programs, biomedical platforms generate routines, entities, and activities, held together by standard reagents and protocols. Biological entities such as cell surface markers, oncogenes, and DNA profiles now exist as both normal biological components of the organism and as pathological signs--that is, as biomedical substances. The notion of a biomedical platform allows researchers interested in the development of contemporary medicine to describe events and processes overlooked by other approaches.The authors focus on a specific biomedical platform known as immunophenotyping. They describe its emergence as an experimental system with roots in biology (immunology) and pathology (oncology). They recount how this experimental system was transformed into a biomedical platform initially for the diagnosis of leukemia and subsequently for other diseases such as AIDS. Through this case study, they show that a biomedical platform is the bench upon which conventions concerning the biological or normal are connected with conventions concerning the medical or pathological. They observe that new platforms are often aligned with existing ones and integrated into an expanding set of clinical-biological strategies
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    ISBN: 9780262278348 , 0262278340
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 554 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital media revisited
    DDC: 302.234
    Keywords: Digital media Social aspects ; Digital media Social aspects ; Digital media Social aspects ; Massacommunicatie ; Massamedia ; Digitale systemen ; Sociale aspecten ; Culturele aspecten ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Digital media ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Interdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.Arguing that "first encounters" have already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. Digital media are not only objects of analysis but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives on both media and culture. Drawing on insights from literary theory, semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, media studies, sociology, and education, the contributors construct new positions from which to observe digital media in fresh and meaningful ways. Throughout they explore to what extent interpretation of and experimentation with digital media can inform theory. It also asks how our understanding of digital media can contribute to our understanding of social and cultural change.The book is organized in four sections: Education and Interdisciplinarity, Design and Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Interpretation, and Social Theory and Ethics. The topics include the effects on reading of the multimodal and multisensory aspects of the digital environment, the impact of practice on the medium of theory, how digital media are dissolving the boundaries between leisure and work, and the impact of cyberspace on established ethical principles
    Abstract: Theory and practice in new media studies / Jay David Bolter -- The paradigm is more important than the purchase: educational innovation and hypertext theory / George P. Landow -- The challenge of digital learning environments in higher education: the need for a merging of perspectives on standardization / Jon Lanestedt -- The Internet and its double: voice in electracy / Gregory L. Ulmer -- From oracy to electracies: hypernarrative, place, and multimodal discourses in learning / Andrew Morrison -- The reading senses: designing texts for multisensory systems / Maribeth Back -- Acting machines / Peter Bøgh Andersen -- Performing the MUD adventure / Ragnhild Tronstad -- Digital art and design poetics: the poetical potentials of projection and interaction / Lars Qvortrup -- Low tech-high concept: digital media, art, and the state of the arts / Stian Grøgaard -- Rhetorical convergence: studying web media / Anders Fagerjord -- Computer games and the Ludic structure of interpretation / Eva Liestøl -- "Next level": women's digital activism through gaming / Mary Flanagan -- "Gameplay": from synthesis to analysis (and vice versa): topics of conceptualization and construction in digital media / Gunnar Liestøl -- We all want to change the world: the ideology of innovation in digital media / Espen Aarseth -- On distributed society: the Internet as a guide to a sociological understanding of communication / Terje Rasmussen -- Proper distance: toward an ethics for cyberspace / Roger Silverstone -- "Making voices": new media technologies, disabilities, and articulation / Ingunn Moser and John Law -- The good, the bad, and the virtual: ethics in the age of information / Mark Poster.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theory and practice in new media studies / Jay David BolterThe paradigm is more important than the purchase: educational innovation and hypertext theory / George P. Landow -- The challenge of digital learning environments in higher education: the need for a merging of perspectives on standardization / Jon Lanestedt -- The Internet and its double: voice in electracy / Gregory L. Ulmer -- From oracy to electracies: hypernarrative, place, and multimodal discourses in learning / Andrew Morrison -- The reading senses: designing texts for multisensory systems / Maribeth Back -- Acting machines / Peter Bøgh Andersen -- Performing the MUD adventure / Ragnhild Tronstad -- Digital art and design poetics: the poetical potentials of projection and interaction / Lars Qvortrup -- Low tech-high concept: digital media, art, and the state of the arts / Stian Grøgaard -- Rhetorical convergence: studying web media / Anders Fagerjord -- Computer games and the Ludic structure of interpretation / Eva Liestøl -- "Next level": women's digital activism through gaming / Mary Flanagan -- "Gameplay": from synthesis to analysis (and vice versa): topics of conceptualization and construction in digital media / Gunnar Liestøl -- We all want to change the world: the ideology of innovation in digital media / Espen Aarseth -- On distributed society: the Internet as a guide to a sociological understanding of communication / Terje Rasmussen -- Proper distance: toward an ethics for cyberspace / Roger Silverstone -- "Making voices": new media technologies, disabilities, and articulation / Ingunn Moser and John Law -- The good, the bad, and the virtual: ethics in the age of information / Mark Poster.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262269353 , 026226935X , 058548175X , 9780585481753
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 480 p.) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: BCSIA studies in international security
    Parallel Title: Print version Fighting words
    DDC: 306.4495
    Keywords: Language policy Asia ; Language policy ; Language policy ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Ethnic relations ; Language policy ; Asia Ethnic relations ; Asia ; Asia Ethnic relations ; Asia Ethnic relations ; Asia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Language policy is a sensitive issue in most countries. In countries where more than one language is spoken--the vast majority--language policies affect the ability of individuals and groups to participate in government, to be treated fairly by governmental agencies, to have access to government services, to take advantage of educational opportunities, and to pursue economic success.Language policies also affect the prospects for survival of ethnic groups that define themselves on the basis of language. Assimilationist policies can threaten the existence of minority groups as distinct entities. Accommodationist policies might allow many ethnic groups to flourish but weaken national unity. In many countries, disputes over language policies have led to ethnic tensions and, in some cases, to violent ethnic conflicts.This book analyzes the impact of different kinds of language policies on ethnic relations in fifteen multiethnic countries in Asia and the Pacific. The analyses include discussion of the origins of different language policies and of how the policies have evolved over time. The book develops policy recommendations, both for individual countries and in more general terms
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note:Introduction /Michael E. Brown /Sumit Ganguly --Ch. 1Language Policy and National Development in India /Jyotirindra Dasgupta --Ch. 2Politics of Language Policy in Pakistan /Alyssa Ayres --Ch. 3Language, Identity, and the State in Bangladesh /Amena Mohsin --Ch. 4Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka /Neil DeVotta --Ch. 5Language Policy in Modern Burma /Mary P. Callahan --Ch. 6Politics of Language in Thailand and Laos /Charles F. Keyes --Ch. 7Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Vietnam /Thaveeporn Vasavakul --Ch. 8Politics of Language Policies in Malaysia and Singapore /Sumit Ganguly --Ch. 9Language Policy and the Promotion of National Identity in Indonesia /Jacques Bertrand --Ch. 10Harmonizing Linguistic Diversity in Papua New Guinea /R.J. May --Ch. 11Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in the Philippines /Caroline S. Hau /Victoria L. Tinio --Ch. 12Evolution of Language Policies in China /June Teufel Dreyer --Ch. 13Evolution of Language Policies and National Identity in Taiwan /June Teufel Dreyer --Ch. 14Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia /Michael E. Brown.
    Note: Project sponsored by the BCSIA Studies in International Security in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, and the Pacific Basin Research Center. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-461) and index. - Description based on print version record , Project sponsored by the BCSIA Studies in International Security in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, and the Pacific Basin Research Center
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262279451 , 0262279452 , 0585482721 , 9780585482729
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 493 p.) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Vitruvius
    Keywords: Vitruvius Pollio De architectura ; Vitruvius Pollio ; Vitruvius Pollio ; Vitruvius Pollio. ; Vitruvius ; De architectura (Vitruvius Pollio) ; Architecture Early works to 1800 ; Architecture Early works to 1800 ; Architecture Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Architecture Early works to 1800. ; ARCHITECTURE ; Reference ; ARCHITECTURE ; Professional Practice ; ARCHITECTURE ; Adaptive Reuse & Renovation ; ARCHITECTURE ; Buildings ; General ; Architecture ; Bouwkunst ; Didactisch proza ; Latijn ; Early works ; Vertalingen (vorm) ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Vitruvius De architectura ; Vitruvius De architectura
    Abstract: "Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual accuracy of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius's purpose in writing what he called "the whole body of architecture." Devoting each chapter to a different Vitruvian "body," McEwen addresses such topics as the relation of the book and its author to Augustus, the role of beauty in forging the new world order, and the nature and unprecedented extent of Augustan building programs."--Jacket
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-476) and index , Vitruvius
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262286527 , 0262286521 , 0585443823 , 9780585443829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 341 p.) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Dollarization
    Keywords: Dollarization ; Money ; Dollar, American ; Foreign exchange ; Currency question ; International finance ; International finance ; Dollar, American ; Foreign exchange ; Currency question ; Money ; Dollarization ; Electronic books ; Money. ; Dollar, American. ; Foreign exchange. ; Currency question. ; International finance. ; Currency question ; Dollar, American ; Dollarization ; Foreign exchange ; International finance ; Money ; Amerikaanse dollar ; Wisselkoersen ; Monetaire politiek ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Foreign Exchange ; Devisenmarkt ; Internationaler Zahlungsverkehr ; US-Dollar ; Wechselkurs ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; US-Dollar ; Wechselkurs ; Devisenmarkt ; Internationaler Zahlungsverkehr ; US-Dollar ; Wechselkurs ; Devisenmarkt ; Internationaler Zahlungsverkehr
    Abstract: Dollarization : a primer / Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger -- Dollarization : analytical issues / Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco -- Using balance sheet data to identify sovereign default and devaluation risk / Pablo Andrés Neumeyer and Juan Pablo Nicolini -- Dollarization and the lender of last resort / Christian Broda and Eduardo Levy Yeyati -- Measuring costs and benefits of dollarization : an application to Central American and Caribbean countries / Ugo Panizza, Ernesto Stein, and Ernesto Talvi -- Dollarization : the link between devaluation and default risk / Andrew Powell and Federico Sturzenegger -- Implementation guidelines for dollarization and monetary unions / William C. Gruben, Mark A. Wynne, and Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga -- The political economy of dollarization : domestic and international factors / Jeffry A. Frieden
    Description / Table of Contents: Dollarization : a primer / Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger -- Dollarization : analytical issues / Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco -- Using balance sheet data to identify sovereign default and devaluation risk / Pablo Andrés Neumeyer and Juan Pablo Nicolini -- Dollarization and the lender of last resort / Christian Broda and Eduardo Levy Yeyati -- Measuring costs and benefits of dollarization : an application to Central American and Caribbean countries / Ugo Panizza, Ernesto Stein, and Ernesto Talvi -- Dollarization : the link between devaluation and default risk / Andrew Powell and Federico Sturzenegger -- Implementation guidelines for dollarization and monetary unions / William C. Gruben, Mark A. Wynne, and Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga -- The political economy of dollarization : domestic and international factors / Jeffry A. Frieden
    Description / Table of Contents: Dollarization : a primer / Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico SturzeneggerDollarization : analytical issues / Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco -- Using balance sheet data to identify sovereign default and devaluation risk / Pablo Andrés Neumeyer and Juan Pablo Nicolini -- Dollarization and the lender of last resort / Christian Broda and Eduardo Levy Yeyati -- Measuring costs and benefits of dollarization : an application to Central American and Caribbean countries / Ugo Panizza, Ernesto Stein, and Ernesto Talvi -- Dollarization : the link between devaluation and default risk / Andrew Powell and Federico Sturzenegger -- Implementation guidelines for dollarization and monetary unions / William C. Gruben, Mark A. Wynne, and Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga -- The political economy of dollarization : domestic and international factors / Jeffry A. Frieden.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262279826 , 0262279827 , 0585448418 , 9780585448411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 453 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version Credit reporting systems and the international economy
    Keywords: Credit bureaus Congresses ; Consumer credit Congresses ; Credit bureaus Directories ; Credit bureaus Congresses ; Credit bureaus Directories ; Consumer credit Congresses ; Consumer credit Congresses ; Credit bureaus Directories ; Credit bureaus Congresses ; Electronic books ; Credit bureaus Congresses. ; Consumer credit Congresses. ; Credit bureaus Directories. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Finance ; Consumer credit ; Credit bureaus ; Kredietwaardigheid ; Krediet ; Verslaglegging ; Financiële informatiesystemen ; Overheidsbeleid ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Directories ; Congressen (vorm) ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Konsumentenkredit ; Kreditauskunft ; Kreditschutz ; Kreditsicherung ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Directories ; Kreditauskunft ; Konsumentenkredit ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Kreditschutz ; Kreditsicherung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Kreditauskunft
    Abstract: "Credit reporting is a critical part of the financial system in most developed economies but is often weak or absent in developing countries. It addresses a fundamental problem of credit markets: asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders that can lead to adverse selection and moral hazard. The heart of a credit report is the record it provides of an individual's or a firm's payment history, which enables lenders to evaluate credit risk more accurately and lower loan processing time and costs. Credit reports also strengthen borrower discipline, since nonpayment with one institution results in sanctions with others."
    Abstract: "This book provides the first comprehensive review of credit reporting systems worldwide and documents the rapid growth in the industry. It offers empirical and theoretical evidence of the impact of credit reporting on financial markets, using examples from both developed and developing economies. Credit reporting, it shows, significantly contributes to predicting default risk of potential borrowers, which promotes increased lending activity. The book also covers the role of public policy in the development of credit reporting initiatives, including the role of public credit registries managed by central banks; and the role of legal, regulatory, and institutional factors in supporting credit reporting."--Jacket
    Abstract: Credit reporting systems around the globe / Margaret J. Miller -- Public credit information / Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano -- Credit reporting agencies / Rowena Olegario -- Credit information and market performance / Kevin Cowan and Jose De Gregorio -- Private business information exchange in the United States / Jarl G. Kallberg and Gregory F. Udell -- The use of public credit registry information in the estimation of appropriate capital and provisioning requirements / Michael Falkenheim and Andrew Powell -- Relationship lending in the Argentine small business credit market / Allen N. Berger [and others] -- The value of comprehensive credit reports / John M. Barron and Michael Staten -- Privacy restrictions and the use of data at credit registries / Raphael W. Bostic and Paul S. Calem -- Segmentation and the use of information in Brazilian Credit markets / Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Alkimar Moura -- Regulation of personal data protection and of credit reporting firms / Rafael del Villar, Alejandro Diaz de Leon, and Johanna Gil Hubert.
    Note: Many of the papers included here were first presented at the International Conference on Credit Reporting Systems, held in Miami, Florida in June 2000.--Acknowledgments , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , Credit reporting systems and the international economy
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    ISBN: 9780262282482 , 0262282488 , 058545065X , 9780585450650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 476 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints
    Keywords: Finanzbeziehungen ; Haushaltskonsolidierung ; Finanzausgleich ; Öffentliche Ausgaben ; Finanzpolitik ; OECD-Staaten ; Entwicklungsländer ; Osteuropa ; Fiscal policy ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; Fiscal policy ; Electronic books ; Fiscal policy. ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations. ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Public Finance ; Fiscal policy ; Dezentralisation ; Fiskalpolitik ; Notenbankpolitik ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fiskalpolitik ; Dezentralisation ; Fiskalpolitik ; Notenbankpolitik ; Fiskalpolitik ; Dezentralisation
    Abstract: Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. Inman -- Constraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi -- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø -- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden -- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb -- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden -- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten -- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou -- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad -- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel -- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp -- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland
    Description / Table of Contents: Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. Inman -- Constraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi -- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø -- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden -- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb -- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden -- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten -- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou -- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad -- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel -- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp -- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland
    Description / Table of Contents: Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. InmanConstraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi -- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø -- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden -- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb -- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden -- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten -- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou -- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad -- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel -- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp -- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262272186 , 0262272180 , 0585446733 , 9780585446738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 377 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version Capital flows and crises
    Keywords: Capital movements ; Financial crises ; International finance ; International finance ; Financial crises ; Capital movements ; Electronic books ; Capital movements. ; Financial crises. ; International finance. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Finance ; Capital movements ; Financial crises ; International finance ; Kapitaalverkeer ; Financiële crises ; Internationale financiën ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Internationale Kapitalbewegung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Internationale Kapitalbewegung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Internationale Kapitalbewegung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Liberalisierung
    Abstract: I. Background. 1 Introduction -- 2 A century of capital flows -- II. Capital account liberalization. 3 Capital account liberalization : what do the cross-country studies tell us? -- 4 When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? with Carlos Arteta and Charles Wyplosz -- III. Crises. 5 Exchange market mayhem : the antecedents and aftermath of speculative attacks with Andrew Rose and Charles Wyplosz -- 6 Contagious currency crises with Andrew Rose and Charles Wyplosz -- 7 The Baring crisis in a Mexican mirror -- 8 The EMS crisis in retrospect -- 9 Understanding Asia's crisis -- IV. Policy implications. 10 Capital controls : capital idea or capital folly? -- 11 Taming capital flows
    Description / Table of Contents: I. Background. 1.Introduction --2.A century of capital flows --II. Capital account liberalization. 3.Capital account liberalization : what do the cross-country studies tell us? --4.When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? /withCarlos ArtetaandCharles Wyplosz --III. Crises. 5.Exchange market mayhem : the antecedents and aftermath of speculative attacks /withAndrew RoseandCharles Wyplosz --6.Contagious currency crises /withAndrew RoseandCharles Wyplosz --7.The Baring crisis in a Mexican mirror --8.The EMS crisis in retrospect --9.Understanding Asia's crisis --IV. Policy implications. 10.Capital controls : capital idea or capital folly? --11.Taming capital flows.
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-361) and index , Capital flows and crises , I. Background. 1.Introduction2.A century of capital flowsII. Capital account liberalization. 3.Capital account liberalization : what do the cross-country studies tell us?4.When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts?with , III. Crises. 5.Exchange market mayhem : the antecedents and aftermath of speculative attackswith , 6.Contagious currency criseswith , 7.The Baring crisis in a Mexican mirror8.The EMS crisis in retrospect9.Understanding Asia's crisisIV. Policy implications. 10.Capital controls : capital idea or capital folly?11.Taming capital flows.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262282857 , 0262282852 , 0585481229 , 9780585481227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 226 p.) , ill
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    Uniform Title: Théorie économique de la fiscalité 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version Economics of taxation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Salanié, Bernard The economics of taxation
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    Keywords: Steuertheorie ; Optimale Besteuerung ; Steuerwirkung ; Theorie ; Taxation ; Taxation ; Electronic books ; Taxation. ; Mikroökonomie ; Steuertheorie ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Steuertheorie ; Mikroökonomie ; Steuertheorie ; Mikroökonomie
    Note: Expanded translation of: Théorie économique de la fiscalité , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , Economics of taxation
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    ISBN: 9780262277334 , 0262277336 , 0585481105 , 9780585481104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Print version Management
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    Keywords: Management ; Organizational change ; Corporate governance ; Personnel management ; Human capital ; Technological innovations Management ; Technological innovations Management ; Corporate governance ; Management ; Personnel management ; Technological innovations Management ; Organizational change ; Human capital ; Electronic books ; Management. ; Organizational change. ; Corporate governance. ; Personnel management. ; Human capital. ; Technological innovations Management. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Management Science ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Organizational Behavior ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Industrial Management ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Management ; Corporate governance ; Human capital ; Organizational change ; Personnel management ; Technological innovations ; Management ; Management ; Management ; Zukunft ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Management ; Zukunft ; Management ; Zukunft
    Abstract: The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT was famous. Fifty years later, the Sloan School gathered international leaders in business and management, MIT faculty, students, and alumni to address again the basic principles that should guide business and management. This book presents the papers prepared by student-faculty teams, speeches by business and world leaders, and summaries of the discussions from this special convocation; taken together, they offer a guide to the future of management based on the hallmarks of MIT and Sloan--creativity and innovation.The topics considered coalesced around three main themes. First, and paramount, is the necessity of building and maintaining trust by means of openness, transparency, and accountability; this was addressed in speeches by Kofi Annan and Carly Fiorina and exemplified by the case study presented of Nike's efforts to rebuild the trust of customers. The increasingly complex conditions of the modern global economy emerged as another recurring theme, as the participants considered the effect of the growing spectrum of stakeholders on issues of corporate governance. The third common theme was the inescapability of technological and scientific change, from the Internet as a marketing tool to the organizational impact of information technology
    Note: "The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary." , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references and index , Management
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262266925 , 026226692X , 0585444838 , 9780585444833
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (236 pages) , Illustrationen , Karten
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    Parallel Title: Print version Conceptual art and the politics of publicity
    Keywords: Art Marketing ; Conceptual art United States ; Art Marketing ; United States ; Art Marketing ; Conceptual art ; Electronic books ; Conceptual art ; Art Marketing. ; Concept-art ; Öffentlichkeit ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Concept-art ; Öffentlichkeit ; Concept-art ; Öffentlichkeit
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-223) and index , Conceptual art and the politics of publicity
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262269582 , 0262269589 , 0585478805 , 9780585478807
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (307 p.) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Contingent object of contemporary art
    Keywords: Art Reproduction ; Art Attribution ; Art, Modern 20th century ; Aesthetics, Modern 20th century ; Aesthetics, Modern 20th century ; Art, Modern 20th century ; Art Attribution ; Art Reproduction ; Electronic books ; Art Reproduction. ; Art Attribution. ; Art, Modern 20th century. ; Aesthetics, Modern 20th century. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Ästhetik ; Moderne ; Kunst ; Vervielfältigung ; Zuschreibung ; Geschichte 1960-2003
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index , Contingent object of contemporary art
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262280778 , 0262280779 , 0585482691 , 9780585482699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 317 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version New essays on semantic externalism and self-knowledge
    Keywords: Self-knowledge, Theory of ; Externalism (Philosophy of mind) ; Self-knowledge, Theory of ; Electronic books ; Self-knowledge, Theory of. ; Externalism (Philosophy of mind) ; Self-knowledge, Theory of ; Zelfkennis ; Internalisatie ; Semantische interpretatie ; PHILOSOPHY ; Epistemology ; Externalism (Philosophy of mind) ; Philosophie ; Selbstbewusstsein ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Selbstbewusstsein ; Philosophie ; Selbstbewusstsein ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Introduction Martin Davies -- Problem of armchair knowledge Martin Davies -- Some reflections on the acquisition of warrant by inference Crispin Wright -- McKinsey's challenge, warrant transmission, and skepticism Brian P. McLaughlin -- Transmission of warrant and closure of apriority Michael McKinsey -- Reductio argument and transmission of warrant Jessica Brown -- Externalism and self-knowledge Fred Dretske -- Puzzle about doubt Gary Ebbs -- Knowing that one knows what one is talking about Susana Nuccetelli -- Two transcendental arguments concerning self-knowledge Anthony Brueckner -- Externalism, Davidson, and knowledge of comparative content Joseph Owens -- Memory and knowledge of content Kevin Falvey -- What do you know when you know your own thoughts? Sanford C. Goldberg -- Introspection and internalism Richard Fumerton -- Two forms of antiskepticism Matthias Steup
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction /Martin Davies --Problem of armchair knowledge /Martin Davies --Some reflections on the acquisition of warrant by inference /Crispin Wright --McKinsey's challenge, warrant transmission, and skepticism /Brian P. McLaughlin --Transmission of warrant and closure of apriority /Michael McKinsey --Reductio argument and transmission of warrant /Jessica Brown --Externalism and self-knowledge /Fred Dretske --Puzzle about doubt /Gary Ebbs --Knowing that one knows what one is talking about /Susana Nuccetelli --Two transcendental arguments concerning self-knowledge /Anthony Brueckner --Externalism, Davidson, and knowledge of comparative content /Joseph Owens --Memory and knowledge of content /Kevin Falvey --What do you know when you know your own thoughts? /Sanford C. Goldberg --Introspection and internalism /Richard Fumerton --Two forms of antiskepticism /Matthias Steup.
    Note: "A Bradford book." , Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index , New essays on semantic externalism and self-knowledge , Introduction , Problem of armchair knowledge , Some reflections on the acquisition of warrant by inference , McKinsey's challenge, warrant transmission, and skepticism , Transmission of warrant and closure of apriority , Reductio argument and transmission of warrant , Externalism and self-knowledge , Puzzle about doubt , Knowing that one knows what one is talking about , Two transcendental arguments concerning self-knowledge , Externalism, Davidson, and knowledge of comparative content , Memory and knowledge of content , What do you know when you know your own thoughts? , Introspection and internalism , Two forms of antiskepticism
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  • 81
    ISBN: 0585481857 , 9780585481852
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 433 pages , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Inventing the organizations of the 21st century
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Inventing the organizations of the 21st century
    DDC: 658
    Keywords: Unternehmensorganisation ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Strategisches Management ; Theorie ; Industrial management. ; Strategic planning. ; Industrial organization. ; Corporations. ; Industrial management ; Strategic planning ; Industrial organization ; Corporations ; Corporations ; Industrial organization ; Strategic planning ; Industrial management ; Industrial management. ; Strategic planning. ; Industrial organization. ; Corporations. ; Innovation ; Organisation ; Organisationswandel ; Unternehmen ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationswandel ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Organisation ; Organisationswandel ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsfähigkeit ; Strategisches Management
    Note: An initiative of MIT's Sloan School of Management , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9781403982346
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896/08142
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    Keywords: Globalization-Social aspects-Brazil-Salvador.. ; Blacks-Race identity-Brazil-Salvador.. ; Popular culture-Brazil-Salvador.. ; Social change-Brazil.. ; Salvador (Brazil)-Race relations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and move it away from American dominated notions that are not adequate to describe racial difference in other countries (and also in the countries where the notions originated). He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Afro-Latin Paradox?: Ambiguous Ethnic Lines, Sharp Class Divisions, and Vital Black Culture -- Chapter 1 Negro Parents, Black Children: Racial Classification in a Changing Brazil -- Chapter 2 A Contested Icon: On the Use and Abuse of Africa in Elite and Popular Brazilian Culture -- Chapter 3 The Local and the Global in Today's Afro-Bahia -- Chapter 4 "Glocal" Funk in Bahia and in Rio: Local Interpretations of Black Globalization -- Chapter 5 Being Black in Two Cities: Comparing Lower-Class Black Youth in Salvador and Amsterdam -- Conclusion: The Place of Brazil in the Black Atlantic -- Notes -- Bibliography/References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 0585446792 , 9780262274265 , 0262274264 , 9780585446790
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Leonardo
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    Uniform Title: Virtuelle Kunst in Geschichte und Gegenwart
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    Keywords: Art and electronics ; Computer art ; Panoramas ; Virtual reality in art ; Panoramas ; Virtual reality in art ; Computer art ; Art and electronics ; ART ; Techniques ; General ; Art and electronics ; Computer art ; Panoramas ; Virtual reality in art ; Geschichte ; Netzkunst ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Netzkunst ; Geschichte ; Netzkunst ; Geschichte
    Abstract: 1. Introduction : The science of the image ; Immersion -- 2. Historic spaces of illusion : Immersive image strategies of the classical world ; The Chambre du Cerf in the Papal Palace at Avignon ; In Rome on Mount Olympus: Baldassare Peruzzi's Sala delle Prospettive ; Immersion in biblical Jerusalem: Gaudenzio Ferrari at Sacro Monte ; Baroque ceiling panoramas ; Viewing with military precision: the birth of the panorama ; Barker's invention: developing the space of illusionistic landscapes ; Construction and function of the panorama ; The panorama: a controversial medium circa 1800 ; The role of economics in the international expansion of the panorama -- 3. The panorama of the Battle of Sedan: obedience through presence : The battle in the picture ; The power of illusion, suggestion, and immersion ; Anton von Werner: artist and power player ; Political objectives ; The panorama stock exchange ; With Helmholtz's knowledge: "democratic perspective" versus "soldiers' immersion" ; Strategy and work of the panoramist ; L'art industriel ; The rotunda -- 4. Intermedia stages of virtual reality in the twentieth century: art as inspiration of evolving media : Monet's Water Lilies panorama in Giverny ; Prampolini's futurist polydimensional scenospace ; Film: visions of extending the cinema screen and beyond ; Highways and byways to virtual reality: the "ultimate" union with the computer in the image ; The rhetoric of a new dawn: the California dream ; Virtual reality in its military and industrial context ; Art and media evolution I.
    Abstract: 5. Virtual art, digital! The natural interface : Charlotte Davies: Osmose ; The suggestive potential of the interface ; Aesthetic distance ; The concept of "the work" in processual or virtual art -- 6. Spaces of knowledge : Knowbotic research (KR + cF): Dialogue with the Knowbotic South ; The virtual Denkraum I: The Home of the Brain (1991) ; The virtual Denkraum II: Memory Theater VR by Agnes Hegedues (1997) ; Ultima Ratio: for a theater of the media ; Exegetes of the panorama: Benayoun, Shaw, Naimark ; Mixed realities ; Virtual reality's dynamic images ; The computer: handtool or thinktool? -- 7. Telepresence: art and history of an idea : Telepresence now! ; Subhistory of telepresence ; "Telepistermological" implications: presence and distance -- 8. Evolution : Genetic art: Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau ; A-Volve ; Artful games: the evolution of images ; A-Life's party ; A-Life's subhistory ; Transgenic art -- 9. Perspectives.
    Abstract: An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art.Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype.Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-401) and indexes
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 0585446768
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 421 p , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Technology Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Technik ; Gesellschaft
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 0585437025
    Language: English
    Pages: 126 p , 22 cm
    Uniform Title: Nos temps modernes 〈engl.〉
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Economics Sociological aspects ; Work Social aspects ; Human capital ; Electronic books
    Note: Translation of: Nos temps modernes , Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-124) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403981493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen ; Kritische Theorie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Electronic books ; Habermas, Jürgen 1929- ; Kritische Theorie ; Habermas, Jürgen 1929- ; Soziologische Theorie
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262276030 , 0262276038 , 0585444978 , 9780585444970
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 155 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Improvisational design
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Visual communication Digital techniques ; Image processing Digital techniques ; Visual communication Digital techniques ; Image processing Digital techniques ; Image processing Digital techniques ; Visual communication Digital techniques ; Image processing ; Digital techniques ; Visual communication ; Digital techniques ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: A theoretical framework for the design of digital communication.Traditional visual design expresses information in fixed forms, such as print or film, so the message can be stored or distributed. With interactive media and continuously updated information, communication entails a new, more dynamic set of design problems. In this book Suguru Ishizaki offers a theoretical framework for dealing with the challenges and opportunities of what he calls "dynamic design." His approach incorporates a community of collaborating agents that control design solutions in response to a changing context. He illustrates his ideas with several examples, such as expressive e-mails and responsive maps. The book will be of particular interest to interaction designers, visual designers, software engineers, and human-computer interaction experts
    Note: Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--MIT, 1985. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index. - Description based on print version record , Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--MIT, 1985
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262278522 , 0262278529 , 0585450153 , 9780585450155
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 235 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version War and reconciliation
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Reconciliation ; Peace ; Civil war ; War (International law) ; War (International law) ; Reconciliation ; Civil war ; Peace ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Civil war ; Peace ; Reconciliation ; War (International law) ; Versöhnung ; Kriegsende ; Gewapende conflicten ; Vredesoperaties ; Emoties ; Redelijkheid ; Konfliktlösning ; Inbördeskrig ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A study of the role of reconciliation in intrastate and international conflict resolution and an argument for the value of integrating emotion in our conceptions of human rationality and problem-solving
    Abstract: Civil war and reconciliation -- International war and reconciliation -- Rethinking rationality in social theory -- Implications for policy and practice and avenues for further research.
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  • 89
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262275507 , 0262275503 , 0585482713 , 9780585482712
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vi, 318 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Eloquent images
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Visual communication ; Digital media ; Criticism ; Criticism ; Digital media ; Visual communication ; Digital media ; Visual communication ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Critical theory and the challenge of new media / Jay David Bolter -- Seriously visible / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The dialogics of new media: video, visualization, and narrative in Red planet: scientific and cultural encounters with Mars / Helen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming, and Robert Markley -- Recovering the multimedia history of writing in the public texts of ancient Egypt / Carol S. Lipson -- Digital images and classical persuasion / Kevin LaGrandeur -- The word as image in an age of digital reproduction / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum -- Same difference: evolving conclusions about textuality and new media / Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco -- Illusions, images, and anti-illustrations / Jan Baetens -- Cognitive and educational implications of visually rich media: images and imagination / Jennifer Wiley -- Feminist cyborgs live on the world wide web: international and not so international contexts / Gail E. Hawisher and Patricia Sullivan -- Unheimlich maneuver: self-image and identificatory practice in virtual reality environments / Alice Crawford -- Eloquent interfaces: humanities-based analysis in the age of hypermedia / Ellen Strain and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey -- Writing a story in virtual reality / Josephine Anstey.
    Abstract: The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates a battleground between the feminized, seductive power of images and the masculine rationality of the printed word. Eloquent Images suggests that these debates misunderstand the dynamic interplay that has always existed between word and image. Arguing that the complex relationship between text and image in New Media does not represent a radical rupture from the past, the book examines rhetorical and cultural uses of word and image both historically and currently. It shows that complex, interpenetrating relationships between verbal and visual communication systems were already evident in hieroglyphic writing and in ancient rhetoric and persist in the work of classical rhetoricians, in cultural studies of technology, even in the binary code distinctions of digital environments. The essays blend theory, critique, and design practice to explore the often contradictory relations of word and image. All of them call for theoretically grounded approaches to hypermedia design
    Description / Table of Contents: Critical theory and the challenge of new media / Jay David BolterSeriously visible / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The dialogics of new media: video, visualization, and narrative in Red planet: scientific and cultural encounters with Mars / Helen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming, and Robert Markley -- Recovering the multimedia history of writing in the public texts of ancient Egypt / Carol S. Lipson -- Digital images and classical persuasion / Kevin LaGrandeur -- The word as image in an age of digital reproduction / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum -- Same difference: evolving conclusions about textuality and new media / Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco -- Illusions, images, and anti-illustrations / Jan Baetens -- Cognitive and educational implications of visually rich media: images and imagination / Jennifer Wiley -- Feminist cyborgs live on the world wide web: international and not so international contexts / Gail E. Hawisher and Patricia Sullivan -- Unheimlich maneuver: self-image and identificatory practice in virtual reality environments / Alice Crawford -- Eloquent interfaces: humanities-based analysis in the age of hypermedia / Ellen Strain and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey -- Writing a story in virtual reality / Josephine Anstey.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9780262285285 , 0262285282 , 1423729870 , 9781423729877 , 0262700948 , 9780262700948
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 502 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: MIT Press sourcebooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wired homestead
    DDC: 303.4834
    Keywords: Internet Social aspects ; Internet Aspect social ; Ordinateurs et famille ; Computers and families ; Internet Social aspects ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Computer Science ; Engineering & Applied Sciences ; COMPUTERS ; Social Aspects ; General ; Computers and families ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The use of the internet in homes rivals the advent of the telephone, radio, or television in social significance. Daily use of the World Wide Web and e-mail is taken for granted in many families, and the computer-linked internet is becoming an integral part of the physical and audiovisual environment. The internet's features of personalization, interactivity, and information abundance raise profound new issues for parents and children. Most researchers studying the impact of the internet on families begin with the assumption that the family is the central influence in preparing a child to live in society and that home is where that influence takes place. In The Wired Homestead, communication theorists and social scientists offer recent findings on the effects of the internet on the lives of the family unit and its members. The book examines historical precedents of parental concern over "new" media such as television. It then looks at specific issues surrounding parental oversight of internet use, such as rules about revealing personal information, time limits, and web site restrictions. It looks at the effects of the web on both domestic life and entire neighborhoods. The wealth of information offered and the formulation of emerging issues regarding parents and children lay the foundation for further research in this developing field. The contributors include Robert Kraut, Jorge Reina Schement, Ellen Seiter, Sherry Turkle, Ellen Wartella, and Barry Wellman."
    Abstract: Family boundaries, commercialism, and the Internet : a framework for research / Joseph Turow -- Disintermediating the parents : what else is new? / Elihu Katz -- Historical trends in research on children and the media : 1900-1960 / Ellen Wartella and Byron Reeves -- The impact of the Internet on children : lessons from television / Daniel R. Anderson and Marie K. Evans -- Television and the Internet / Ellen Seiter -- Data on family and the Internet : what do we know and how do we know it? / Maria Papadakis -- A family systems approach to examining the role of the Internet in the home / Amy B. Jordan -- The Internet and the family : the views of parents and youngsters / Joseph Turow and Lilach Nir -- Mediated childhoods : a comparative approach to young people's changing media environment in Europe / Sonia Livingstone -- Outlook and insight : young Danes' uses of the Internet-- navigating global seas and local waters / Gitte Stald -- Sex on the Internet : issues, concerns and implications / Mark Griffiths -- The Internet's implications for home architecture / Steven Izenour -- Breaking up is hard to do : family perspectives on the future of the home PC / David Frohlich, Susan Dray, and Amy Silverman -- Women, guilt, and home computers / Catherine Burke -- "Nobody lives only in cyberspace" : gendered subjectivities and domestic use of the Internet / Lisa-Jane McGerty -- Internet paradox revisited / Robert Kraut [and others] -- Virtuality and its discontents / Sherry Turkle -- Three for society : households and media in the creation of twenty-first century communities / Jorge Reina Schement -- When everyone's wired : use of the Internet in networked communities / Andrea L. Kavanaugh -- Community building on the Web / Lodis Rhodes -- Examining community in the digital neighborhood : early results from Canada's wired suburb / Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262284943 , 0262284944 , 0585480257 , 9780585480251
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 404 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Media in transition
    Parallel Title: Print version Rethinking media change
    DDC: 302.2309
    Keywords: Mass media History ; Mass media History ; Mass media History ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Mass media ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Introduction : Toward an aesthetics of transition / David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins -- Web of paradox / David Thorburn -- Historicizing media in transition / William Uricchio -- Re-newing old technologies : astonishment, second nature, and the uncanny in technology from the previous turn-of-the-century / Tom Gunning -- How users define new media : a history of the amusement phonograph / Lisa Gitelman -- Books are dead, long live books / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- Help or hindrance? The history of the book and electronic media / Paul Erickson -- Historical perspectives on the book and information technology / Gregory Crane -- Potholes on the information superhighway : Congress as a publisher in nineteenth-century America / Oz Frankel -- Prophetic peasants and bourgeois pamphleteers : the camisards represented in print, 1685-1710 / Daniel Thorburn -- Redefining the home screen : technological convergence as trauma and business plan / William Boddy -- Homer to home page : designing digital books / William J. Mitchell -- Reflections on interactivity / Luis O. Arata -- Forms of future / Michael Joyce -- Stitch bitch : the patchwork girl / Shelley Jackson -- "Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal / Peter Donaldson -- Private uses of cyberspace : women, desire, and fan culture / Sharon Cumberland -- Quentin Tarantino's Star wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins -- Immersion in the virtual ornament : contemporary "movie ride" films / Constance Balides -- The virtual window / Anne Friedberg -- Architectures of the senses : neo-baroque entertainment spectacles / Angela Ndalianis -- Media technology and museum display : a century of accommodation and conflict / Alison Griffiths.
    Abstract: The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition--patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : Toward an aesthetics of transition / David Thorburn and Henry JenkinsWeb of paradox / David Thorburn -- Historicizing media in transition / William Uricchio -- Re-newing old technologies : astonishment, second nature, and the uncanny in technology from the previous turn-of-the-century / Tom Gunning -- How users define new media : a history of the amusement phonograph / Lisa Gitelman -- Books are dead, long live books / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- Help or hindrance? The history of the book and electronic media / Paul Erickson -- Historical perspectives on the book and information technology / Gregory Crane -- Potholes on the information superhighway : Congress as a publisher in nineteenth-century America / Oz Frankel -- Prophetic peasants and bourgeois pamphleteers : the camisards represented in print, 1685-1710 / Daniel Thorburn -- Redefining the home screen : technological convergence as trauma and business plan / William Boddy -- Homer to home page : designing digital books / William J. Mitchell -- Reflections on interactivity / Luis O. Arata -- Forms of future / Michael Joyce -- Stitch bitch : the patchwork girl / Shelley Jackson -- "Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal / Peter Donaldson -- Private uses of cyberspace : women, desire, and fan culture / Sharon Cumberland -- Quentin Tarantino's Star wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins -- Immersion in the virtual ornament : contemporary "movie ride" films / Constance Balides -- The virtual window / Anne Friedberg -- Architectures of the senses : neo-baroque entertainment spectacles / Angela Ndalianis -- Media technology and museum display : a century of accommodation and conflict / Alison Griffiths.
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262281164 , 0262281163 , 0585480842 , 9780585480848
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 306 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Democracy's dilemma
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Democracy ; Globalization ; International economic integration ; Environmentalism ; Social justice ; Environmentalism ; Social justice ; International economic integration ; Democracy ; Globalization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Democracy ; Environmentalism ; Globalization ; International economic integration ; Social justice ; Internationalisatie ; Milieubeleid ; Sociale rechtvaardigheid ; Democratie ; Internationale samenwerking ; Economische integratie ; Politieke participatie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of such other important considerations as environmental and social well-being. A first step toward righting this imbalance is the recognition that economic gains do not guarantee better lives or better communities and societies. Democratic societies face a dilemma. Global economic integration produces a need for global political integration. Without it, national, state, and local governments are under pressure to forego environmental protection and social programs in order to be competitive. At the same time, global governance presents problems because of its scale and its inaccessibility to citizens. This book describes the consequences of this dilemma--such as political cynicism and lack of democratic participation--and proposes ways of dealing with it. Paehlke seeks a middle ground between those who reject globalization and those who claim that it will create the best of all possible worlds. Because there is no returning to a world that is less economically, culturally, and politically integrated, he argues, we should make every effort to advance global cooperation and equity. He suggests specific interventions that could be built into international trade agreements, including global minimum wages and provisos that natural commodities from developing economies such as energy and forest cuttings not be allowed to decline in price relative to the manufactured goods of more advanced economies. He also suggests ways to improve domestic democratic effectiveness
    Abstract: The challenge of global economic integration -- A tale of two transitions -- Electronic capitalism as media monolith -- Toward a three-bottom-line perspective -- Measuring the three bottom lines -- Integrating the three bottom lines through global governance -- Community, work, and meaning : everyday life as politics -- Global politics one nation at a time.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262257015 , 0262257017
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 246 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Acting with technology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Spinuzzi, Clay Tracing genres through organizations
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology Case studies ; Organization Case studies ; Information technology Case studies ; Organization Case studies ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Organization ; Information technology ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: "In Tracing Genres through Organizations, Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improve information design. He argues that the traditional user-centered approach to design does not take into consideration the unofficial genres that spring up as workers write notes, jot down ideas, and read aloud from an officially designed text. These often ephemeral innovations in information design are vital components in a genre ecology (the complex of artifacts mediating a given activity). When these innovations are recognized for what they are, they can be traced and their evolution as solutions to recurrent design problems can be studied. Spinuzzi proposes a sociocultural method for studying these improvised innovations that draws on genre theory (which provides the unit of analysis, the genre) and activity theory (which provides a theory of mediation and a way to study the different levels of activity in an organization). After defining terms and describing the method of genre tracing, the book shows the methodology at work in four interrelated studies of traffic workers in Iowa and their use of a database of traffic accidents. These workers developed an ingenious array of ad hoc innovations to make the database better serve their needs. Spinuzzi argues that these inspired improvisations by workers can tell us a great deal about how designed information fails or succeeds in meeting workers' needs. He concludes by considering how the insights reached in studying genre innovation can guide information design itself."
    Abstract: Tyrants, heroes, and victims in information design --"Writers, writers everywhere": positioning the user in technical communication.Fieldwork-to-formalization methods: observing workers, modeling behavior.Official and unofficial solutions.Integrating research scope --Problem of unintegrated scope.From artifacts to genres.From genres to genre ecologies.From genre ecologies to genre tracing.Tracing genres across developmental eras: The ALAS Activity System --Studying genre ecologies in cultural-historical terms.Overview of the ALAS Activity System.Before 1974: preautomation accident location and analysis.1974: mainframe-ALAS (IBM 3090 Mainframe).1989: PC-ALAS (DOS).1996: GIS-ALAS (Windows).
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    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262257176 , 0262257173 , 0585446784 , 9780585446783
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 260 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Warschauer, Mark Technology and social inclusion
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Digital divide ; Marginality, Social ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Digital divide ; Marginality, Social ; Technische vernieuwing ; Ongelijkheid ; Sociaal-economische aspecten ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Economy, society, and technology : analyzing the shifting terrains -- Models of access : devices, conduits, and literacy -- Physical resources : computers and connectivity -- Digital resources : content and language -- Human resources : literacy and education -- Social resources : communities and institutions -- Conclusion : the social embeddedness of technology
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9781137095473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (166 pages)
    Series Statement: The World of the Roosevelts Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.38097299999998
    Keywords: Public opinion-United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Growing up in a Frontier Boom Town: The Life and Times of the Hurjas -- 2. College Days and Beyond -- 3. 1932 Presidential Election -- 4. Polling and Patronage for Roosevelt and the New Deal -- 5. Post-New Deal Hurja -- 6. 1939-Publishing, Polling, Consulting -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9780230108196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (405 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative Feminist Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4/0954
    Keywords: Women-India-History.. ; Women-India-Social life and customs.. ; Women and religion-India-History.. ; Hindu women-India-History.. ; Muslim women-India-History.. ; Sex-Religious aspects-Hinduism.. ; India-Social life and customs.. ; India-Moral conditions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Sexuality, Obscenity, Community -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translation, Transliteration Orthography, and Referencing Methods -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Redefining Obsenity and Aesthetics in Print -- Chapter 3 Sanitising Women's Social Space -- Chapter 4 Mapping the Domestic Domain -- Chapter 5 The Icon of the Mother: Bharat Mata, Matri Bhasha and Gua Mata -- Chapter 6 'Us and Them': Anxious Hindu Masculinity and the 'Other' -- Chapter 7 Hindu Women, Muslim Men -- Chapter 8 Some Conclusions and Beyond -- Appendix: Brief Background of Some Hindi Writers and Hindu Publicists -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780230109285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (339 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89240430904
    Keywords: Jews-Germany-Intellectual life-Congresses ; Electronic books
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781403982445
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (262 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.60000000000002
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book situates the war in its historical and theoretical context and surveys the interests of the Congolese government, the rebel groups, and of the intervening states in the war.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Maps of Congo (DRC) and Africa -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Causes and Consequences of the Congo War -- PART I THE CONGO WAR IN CONTEXT -- 2 Contextualizing Congo Conflicts: Order and Disorder in Postcolonial Africa -- 3 Historicity of a Crisis: The Origins of the Congo War -- PART II THE POST-MOBUTU REGIMES IN CONGO AND THEIR SUPPORTERS -- 4 A Survival Guide to Kinshasa: Lessons of the Father, Passed Down to the Son -- 5 Angola's Role in the Congo War -- 6 A Political and Military Review of Zimbabwe's Involvement in the Second Congo War -- PART III THE CONTESTANTS OF THE KABILA REGIMES -- 7 Congo's Rebels: Their Origins, Motivations, and Strategies -- 8 The Complex Reasons for Rwanda's Engagement in Congo -- 9 Museveni's Adventure in the Congo War: Uganda's Vietnam? -- PART IV AMBIVALENT STATES, EARLY OUTCOMES, AND NONSTATE PHENOMENA -- 10 The Impossible Neutrality? South Africa's Policy in the Congo War -- 11 Arms Proliferation and the Congo War -- 12 The Economic Impact of the Congo War -- 13 The Politics of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Congo War -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9780312299071
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (222 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800963
    Keywords: Oromo (African people)-Government relations.. ; African Americans-Government relations.. ; Racism.. ; Cultural pluralism.. ; Ethiopia-Ethnic relations.. ; United States-Race relations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this book demonstrates the dynamic interplay between social structures and human agencies in the system. African Americans in the United States of America and Oromos in the Ethiopian Empire developed their respective liberation movements in opposition to racial/ethnonational oppression, cultural and colonial domination, exploitation, and underdevelopment. By going beyond its focal point, the book also explores the structural limit of nationalism, and the potential of revolutionary nationalism in promoting a genuine multicultural democracy.
    Abstract: Cover -- Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I Introduction -- Chapter II The Development of African American Nationalism -- Chapter III The Oromo National Movement -- Chapter IV The Impact of U. S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle1 -- Chapter V Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements -- Chapter VI Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Genuine Multicultural Democracy -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781137085030
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (289 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4094
    Keywords: Women-History-To 1500.. ; Marriage-History-To 1500.. ; Women-Europe-History-To 1500 ; Electronic books
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