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Publication Date: 2024
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Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as ‘creative industries’, valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers.
Publication Date: 2012
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Provides students with the biological laboratory techniques needed to pursue any major in the life and health sciences. This title gives researchers the skills and understanding of the fundamental laboratory procedures that are needed to run experiments, solve problems, and become a productive member of the modern life science laboratory.
Publication Date: 2024
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Dear elia explores the many different kinds of unwellness that reside and proliferate among Asian Americans (and others) in the university, including pressures from immigrant families, the devaluing of critical ethnic studies and exploitation of contingent faculty, and the kinds of access and care demanded (and foreclosed) by approaches to COVID-19. Mimi Khúc offers a pedagogy of unwellness: the understanding that we are all unwell in different ways at different times, in relation to differentially disabling and enabling structures, and so we need differential care.
Publication Date: 2024
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Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies.
Publication Date: 2022
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Over 90 delicious, deeply personal recipes that tell the story of Puerto Rico's Stateside diaspora from America's first Puerto Rican food columnist, award-winning writer Illyanna Maisonet--
Publication Date: 2022
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Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition features the original cover and high-quality reproductions of the interior layout as Cha intended them. Produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, this version of Dictee faithfully renders the book as an art object in its authentic form.
Publication Date: 2024
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First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi's Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on cinema written in Japanese. This pioneering translation brings Hasumi's landmark work to an English-speaking public for the first time, inviting a new readership to engage with this astutely observed, deeply moving meditation on the oeuvre of one of the giants of world cinema.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2017
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Sport is for everyone, isn't it? Society has led us to believe that women and sport don't mix. But why? What happens to the young girls who dare to climb trees and cartwheel across playgrounds? In her exploration of major taboos, from sex to the gender pay gap, Anna Kessel discovers how sport and exercise should play an integral role in every sphere of our modern lives. Covering a fascinating range of women, from Sporty Spice to mums who box and breastfeed, Eat Sweat Play reveals how women are finally reclaiming sport, and by extension their own bodies, for themselves.
Publication Date: 2023
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Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community--
Publication Date: 2021
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Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism--
Publication Date: 2023
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In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens in marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany--the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich--the Civil Code remained the law of the land.
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Date: 2016
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This book is a compilation of essays by TRIO Student Support Services Students at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). Inspired by Aquinas College's student publishing project, IPFW TRIO Student Support Services coordinated a semester long opportunity for TRIO students in the spring of 2016. Students were asked to participated in writing circles where they could tell their stories, hear other students' stories, and get feedback about how to write compelling essays about their life experiences. (Introduction).
Publication Date: 2022
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Contends that the current extinction rate is nothing short of catastrophic and is the result of capitalism's global attack on the air, water, plants and creatures that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. Dawson argues that extinction cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To grasp it fully we need tor transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics. --Adapted from publisher description.
Publication Date: 2023
Publication Date: 2023
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La lecture pour le plaisir est un antidote majeur à l'émergence du crétin digital. Des centaines d'études montrent le bénéfice massif de cette pratique sur le langage, la culture générale, la créativité, l'attention, les capacités de rédaction, les facultés d'expression orale, la compréhension d'autrui et de soi-même, ou encore l'empathie, avec, in fine, un impact considérable sur la réussite scolaire et professionnelle. Aucun autre loisir n'offre un éventail de bienfaits aussi large.
Publication Date: 2023
Publication Date: 2011
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The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state and serves as a field guide for people seeking to find and identity these species. Each rare plant is fully characterized through rich description of its appearance, reproductive strategy, associated plants, and habitat, identification of current threats to its survival in Washington, and scarcity in areas outside the state.
Publication Date: 2024
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There's far more to British food than fish and chips. Discover the history and culture of Great Britain through its rich culinary traditions--
Publication Date: 2023
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Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error--as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine--but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she had known the extraordinary women profiled within these pages--entrepreneurs, chefs, food stylists, mixologists, historians, influencers, hoteliers, and more--and learned from their stories?
Publication Date: 2023
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Scholars of religion and seekers in general will find Forms of Krishna: Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis to be an informative introduction to Indic philosophy and Vaishnava history. For those who are already so informed, many details of Krishna and his worship are unveiled for the first time (at least in the English language), and this is especially so for the much beloved icons explored in these pages, whose full story may be hard to find, even in Sanskrit and Bengali literature. Steven J.
Publication Date: 2021
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From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place?
Publication Date: 2024
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This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues--
