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Design and Digital Interfaces

Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness

By: Ben Stopher,John Fass,Eva Verhoeven,Tobias Revell

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Design and Digital Interfaces

Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness

By: Ben Stopher,John Fass,Eva Verhoeven,Tobias Revell

Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they? From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us. Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with. This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making, and into the techno-political realm of deliberate and unintended consequences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350068292

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9781350068292

Pomp and Piety

Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England

By: Ben Norman

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Pomp and Piety

Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England

By: Ben Norman

Get to know this distinguished group on an intimate level by discovering what they ate and drank, how their houses were furnished, what possessions were most important to them, the pastimes they enjoyed, the people they loved, the friends they hated, the outlandish customs they tolerated, and the lives they led.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398110183

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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Ben Fallaw

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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Ben Fallaw

The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas. Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not appreciated the pervasive influence of Catholics and Catholicism on postrevolutionary state formation. By delving into the history of four understudied Mexican states, he is able to show that religion swayed regional politics not just in states such as Guanajuato, in Mexico's central-west "Rosary Belt," but even in those considered much less observant, including Campeche, Guerrero, and Hidalgo. Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico reshapes our understanding of agrarian reform, federal schooling, revolutionary anticlericalism, elections, the Segunda (a second Cristero War in the 1930s), and indigenism, the Revolution's valorization of the Mesoamerican past as the font of national identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822395711

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9780822395713

Youth and Violent Performativities

Re-Examining the Connection Between Young People and Violence

By: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer

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Youth and Violent Performativities

Re-Examining the Connection Between Young People and Violence

By: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group. Instead, the book critically examines how young people become violent as they enact and resist the available violent performativities in youth. It focuses on the experiences of 28 young people in Australia who are subjected to violence, who use violence and who resist violence. A critical analysis of these young people’s “messy” stories facilitates a reframing of the physical violence routinely attributed to young people as a product of violating systems and structures. The author constructs a converging theoretical landscape to re-examine youth, violence and resistance at the intersection of the sociology of violence and the sociology of youth. Drawing on interviews with young Australians, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary international scholarship on youth and violence, while also examining the potential for complicity to violence in youth research and practice. In doing so it offers youth scholars and practitioners a framework for reassessing their theoretical frameworks and methods for studying and working with young people in connection with violence.

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Springer Nature

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9811555427

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9789811555428

Interpreting the Body

Between Meaning and Matter

By: Anne Marie Champagne,Asia Friedman

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Interpreting the Body

Between Meaning and Matter

By: Anne Marie Champagne,Asia Friedman

Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals’ “handling” of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.

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Policy Press

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1529211573

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This Day in Civil Rights History

By: Ben Beard,Horace Randall Williams

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This Day in Civil Rights History

By: Ben Beard,Horace Randall Williams

A unique catalog of historic civil rights events, This Day in Civil Rights History details the struggles, sacrifices, and triumphs on the road to equal rights for all U.S. citizens. From the Quakers’ 17th-century antislavery resolution to slave uprisings during the Civil War, to the infamous Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, and beyond, authors Horace Randall Williams and Ben Beard present a vivid collection of 366 events—one for every day of the year plus Leap Day—chronicling African Americans’ battle for human dignity and self-determination. Every day of the year has witnessed significant events in the struggle for civil rights. This Day in Civil Rights History is an illuminating collection of these cultural turning points.

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University of Georgia Press

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1603061584

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9781603061582

The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

By: Daniel A. Hughes,Ben Gurney-Smith

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The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

By: Daniel A. Hughes,Ben Gurney-Smith

A practical guide to implementing the rich theory of attachment for treating mental health challenges in children. This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience, and development in children with mental health problems. Alongside practical recommendations, Daniel Hughes and Ben Gurney-Smith use dialogue from clinical work to illustrate applications of these principles from Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as well as other attachment-based practices with parents and children. This “little book” will demystify how attachment theory—one of today’s most in-demand approaches—can actually be brought into clinical work. Topics include regulating emotional states; repairing ongoing relationships; establishing an attachment-based therapeutic relationship; accepting a child’s inner life; assessing the caregiver’s need for safety, regulation, and reflection; the importance of nonverbal and verbal conversations in facilitating secure attachment; and strengthening the mind of the child.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393714365

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9780393714364

Metropolis

A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

By: Ben Wilson

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Metropolis

A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

By: Ben Wilson

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities.

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Anchor

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0385543476

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Processing

A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

By: Casey Reas,Ben Fry

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Processing

A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

By: Casey Reas,Ben Fry

An introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts that also serves as a reference and text for Processing, an open-source programming language designed for creating images, animation, and interactivity.

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MIT Press

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0262182629

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9780262182621

Cárdenas Compromised

The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán

By: Ben Fallaw

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Cárdenas Compromised

The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán

By: Ben Fallaw

Cárdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatán region during the regime of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to reexamine and dispel long-cherished beliefs about the Cardenista era. For historical, geographical, and ethnic reasons, Yucatán was the center of large-scale land reform after the Mexican Revolution. A long-standing revolutionary tradition, combined with a harsh division between a powerful white minority and a poor, Maya-speaking majority, made the region the perfect site for Cárdenas to experiment by launching an ambitious top-down project to mobilize the rural poor along ethnic and class lines. The regime encouraged rural peasants to form collectives, hacienda workers to unionize, and urban laborers to strike. It also attempted to mobilize young people and women, to challenge Yucatán’s traditional, patriarchal social structure, to reach out to Mayan communities, and to democratize the political process. Although the project ultimately failed, political dialogue over Cárdenas’s efforts continues. Rejecting both revisionist (anti-Cárdenas) and neopopulist (pro-Cárdenas) interpretations, Fallaw overturns the notion that the state allowed no room for the agency of local actors. By focusing on historical connections across class, political, and regional lines, Fallaw transforms ideas on Cardenismo that have long been accepted not only in Yucatán but throughout Mexico. This book will appeal to scholars of Mexican history and of Latin American state formation, as well as to sociologists and political scientists interested in modern Mexico.

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Duke University Press

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0822380242

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A World of Paper

Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

By: John C. Rule,Ben S. Trotter

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A World of Paper

Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

By: John C. Rule,Ben S. Trotter

Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696-1715, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant foreign ministers of the ancien regime. Building on the work of his predecessors, he fashioned a skilled team of collaborators as he managed the complex issues of war and peace during the turbulent final decades of Louis XIV's reign. John Rule and Ben Trotter examine Torcy's department to depict administrative structures as they emerged through the circulating stream of paper that connected his office with provincial administrators and diplomats abroad. They explore the collection and centralization of information during Torcy's tenure through the creation of a modern state archive, discreet intelligence gathering, and the surveillance and management of the French mails. They also study the postal carriers, couriers, household officers of the royal court, genealogists hired for research, and an informal "brain trust" of experts, and advisors who carried vital information in and out of the department every day. A remarkable reconstruction of the department of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy, A World of Paper demystifies bureaucracy and explores the ways in which the modern information state developed from his labours.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773592156

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9780773592155

Ships of the Royal Navy

The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present

By: J J Colledge,Ben Warlow

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Ships of the Royal Navy

The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present

By: J J Colledge,Ben Warlow

Newly updated fifth edition: The remarkable reference that is “absolutely essential in every naval historian’s library” (Warship World). This is the latest updated edition of the book known simply as “Colledge” for its longtime reputation as the first stop for anyone wanting more information on any British warship from the fifteenth century to the present day when only the name is known. Each entry gives concise details of dimensions, armament, and service dates, and the volume’s alphabetical and chronological arrangement makes it easy to track down the right ship—avoiding the confusion and errors that can result due to the Royal Navy’s tradition of re-using the same names. This fifth edition contains some 200 new entries and revisions to many older entries. These reflect the demise of the post-Cold War ships as the Royal Navy was shrunk down as part of the peace dividend and successive defense reviews saw the loss of significant ships classes such as the Type 42 destroyers, Type 22 frigates, and the Illustrious class carriers. It is now being re-equipped in the face of new global challenges and has seen the introduction of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the RN; the Type 45 destroyers; and Type 26 frigates and new patrol ships which will take on more global policing roles. Regarding submarines, the Cold War S and T classes are being replaced by the Astute class, and the deterrent role undertaken by the Vanguard class is to be carried forward by the Dreadnought class. Also included are the new RFAs, which are increasingly taking on frontline operations to release the small number of escorts to more combative roles. In addition, there are updates to the Royal Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand navies, which have programs to introduce new destroyers, Arctic patrol vessels, submarines, and support ships. Since the death of Jim Colledge, who was widely respected for his pioneering research on the technical details of warships, his magnum opus has been updated, corrected and expanded with similar enthusiasm and attention to detail by Ben Warlow, a retired naval officer and author of a number of books in the field. “An authoritative guide to British warships through the ages.” —Ships Monthly “The automatic starting point of research on Royal Navy ships.” —Lloyd’s List “[A] quite invaluable reference tool.” —The Mariner’s Mirror

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Seaforth Publishing

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1526793288

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Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660

By: Avner Ben-Zaken

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Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660

By: Avner Ben-Zaken

Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies—in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in the Eastern world—Ben-Zaken reveals the intricate ways that scientific knowledge moved across cultures. His diligent exploration traces the eastward flow of post-Copernican cosmologies and scientific discoveries, showing how these ideas were disseminated, modified, and applied to local cultures. Never before has a student of scientific traffic in the Mediterranean taken such pains to see precisely which instruments, books, and ideas first appeared where, in whose hands, by what means, and with what implications. In doing so, Ben-Zaken challenges accepted views of Western primacy in this fruitful exchange. He shows not only how Islamic cultures benefited from European scientific knowledge but also how Eastern understanding of classical Greek texts informed developments in the West. Ben-Zaken’s mastery of different cultures and languages uniquely positions him to tell this intriguing story. His findings reshape our understanding of scientific discourse in this critical period and contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural Christian-Muslim studies.

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JHU Press

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0801899923

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100 Things Capitals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Stanley Cup Edition

By: Ben Raby,Craig Laughlin

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100 Things Capitals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Stanley Cup Edition

By: Ben Raby,Craig Laughlin

Washington Capitals fans will forever remember the moment the Caps clinched the 2018 Stanley Cup. But only real fans know the full history of the "Save the Caps" campaign or have rocked the red in enemy territory. 100 Things Capitals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans. Whether you were loyal through the early dark days of the franchise, or whether you're a more recent supporter of Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, these are the 100 things fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Experienced sportswriter Ben Raby has collected every essential piece of Caps knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Triumph Books

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1641252146

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9781641252140

When the Boys Came Marching Home

True Stories of the Men who Went to War and the Women and Children who Took Them Back

By: Ben Wicks

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When the Boys Came Marching Home

True Stories of the Men who Went to War and the Women and Children who Took Them Back

By: Ben Wicks

True stories of the men who went to war and the women and children who took them back.

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Design and Digital Interfaces

Design and Digital Interfaces

Pomp and Piety

Pomp and Piety

Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Youth and Violent Performativities

Youth and Violent Performativities

Interpreting the Body

Interpreting the Body

This Day in Civil Rights History

This Day in Civil Rights History

The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

Metropolis

Metropolis

Processing

Processing

Cárdenas Compromised

Cárdenas Compromised

A World of Paper

A World of Paper

Ships of the Royal Navy

Ships of the Royal Navy

Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660

Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660

100 Things Capitals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

100 Things Capitals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

When the Boys Came Marching Home

When the Boys Came Marching Home

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