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Publication Date: 2024
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Justin Wyatt's study of Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977) considers four distinct aspects of the film: the function of space and Altman's ability to guide the action through the careful unfolding of the mise-en-scene; the critique of social and sexual manners; the construction of Shelley Duvall's impressive performance; and the ways through which the film can be interpreted generically as alternately a psychological drama, a puzzle film, a dark comedy, and a horror film--
Publication Date: 2025
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Like many Midwestern factory towns, deindustrialization damaged Racine in the 1970s and 1980s. But the Wisconsin city differed from others like it in one important way: workers maintained their homegrown working-class economy and political culture. Even as labor declined across the country, Racine's workers successfully fought for fair housing and education, held politicians accountable, and allied with racial and gender justice organizations.
Publication Date: 1953
Publication Date: 2024
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This collaborative history testifies to the central part theatre has played in French culture for over a thousand years. Through a range of diverse contributions, it places centre-stage the genders, ethnicities and classes that have had to wait in the wings both of theatres and of theatre history--
Publication Date: 2024
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Two celebrated spirituality writers, American poet and author Kathleen Norris and Irish storyteller and peace activist Gareth Higgins, discuss twelve acclaimed movies that can help us better understand our lives, from before birth to death and beyond--
Publication Date: 2024
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Against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women's participation in the workforce, particularly in urban areas. A Woman's Job presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women's lives in Delhi as they weave in and out of service employment, education, and domestic contracts. Urban, educated, and skilled, these young women seek employment in cafes, malls, call centres, and offices in the globalising landscape of Delhi.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2024
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This book provides an accessible resource for understanding the world behind the advertising jingles and Super Bowl commercials and digital algorithms. Advertising has become a ubiquitous force in American life, penetrating almost every aspect of our daily routines.
Publication Date: 1985
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2021
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The number of older war veterans receiving disability benefits is steadily growing and is predicted to rise in the next decade. This book provides comprehensive knowledge about health and psychosocial concerns of veterans aging with disabilities and unmet needs and compares policy in three countries that have been involved in massive warfare in the 20th century--the United Kingdom, the United States, and Israel.
Publication Date: 2021
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For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there--this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.--Publisher description.
Publication Date: 2024
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Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness.
Publication Date: 2025
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An acclaimed international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping narrative of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by Western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight.
Publication Date: 2023
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The 17 chapters of Jangar and Praise of the Jangar by the famous zhangarchi of Xinjiang, Perlen Arimpil (1923-1994), were recorded on magnetic tape by the renowned scholar and Jangar researcher D. Taya in 1991. The audio recording was transferred to paper and published in Japan in 1999 and in China in 2013. --Internom.
Publication Date: 2025
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This book covers state-of-the-art AI technologies for art creation, understanding, and evaluation. Each chapter providing an entry point for readers, presenting SOTA AI technologies for art creation and understanding and covering the fascinating combination of AI with traditional Chinese art.
Publication Date: 1945
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This autobiography covers the life of American avant-garde composer and pianist George Antheil.
Publication Date: 2024
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The first book to document the short yet prolific artistic career of fashion photographer and filmmaker Tom Kublin, and a celebration of his creative union with Cristóbal Balenciaga during the fashion house's postwar heyday in Paris. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublin capture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s, from the impeccable elegance of the collection shoots--including exclusive film footage of Balenciaga himself at work--to striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines.
Publication Date: 2025
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[The author] examines the lives, music, legacies, and interactions with Elvis Presley of the four innovative Black artists who created a style that would come to be known as Rock 'n' Roll: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur Big Boy Crudup, and ... Calvin Newborn-- Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
Publication Date: 2025
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In Peter Beinart's view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of sacred Jewish tradition and history, and also warps our understanding of modern history. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, he argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?
Publication Date: 2025
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Do you ever wish you had more faith, but struggle to make religious belief fit with modern assumptions about the world and human life? With a rare combination of empathy, open-mindedness, and persuasive argument, Ross Douthat offers a blueprint for thinking one's way from doubt to belief. As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us--whether we are agnostic, somewhat religious, or longtime believers--want to have more faith than we do.
Publication Date: 2024
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Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive story of how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every race and changing our understanding of gender and power in athletics and beyond--
