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Party Like a Rock Star

A Celebrity Party Planner's Tips and Tricks for Throwing an Unforgettable Bash

By: Jes Gordon,Jessica Baumgardner

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Party Like a Rock Star

A Celebrity Party Planner's Tips and Tricks for Throwing an Unforgettable Bash

By: Jes Gordon,Jessica Baumgardner

A top Hollywood party planner on how to design a wide range of fabulous fêtes Jes Gordon knows that girls just want to have fun. In Party Like A Rock Star, she shows them how. Gordon—a party-planner extraordinaire who has helmed events for the likes of Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Nicolas Cage, and Jennifer Lopez—presents a fun, comprehensive guide to event planning that reveals her tried-and-true secrets, culled over twenty years in the biz. With color photos throughout, but with step-by-step details that make the book much more than another impossibly perfect photo shoot, Gordon shows readers exactly how to create a unique event, one that reflects their own personalities and individual aesthetics. This hip, easy-to-follow guide will transform anyone’s approach to entertaining—from birthday parties to baby showers to anniversaries. Topics include: *Creating a concept for any party—a concept that reflects you *How to budget—from a small soiree to a big bash *Stocking a home bar and whipping up smart cocktails *Whetting guests’ appetites—with insider secrets from chefs *Being a flawless host—or guest *Etiquette guidelines and gift ideas *How to produce a party from beginning to end—colorful case studies and detailed instructions

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762758228

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9780762758227

The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

No Space of Our Own

By: Jessica Megarry

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The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

No Space of Our Own

By: Jessica Megarry

#MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and what is the political significance of women using male-controlled and algorithmically curated platforms for feminism? To answer these questions, Megarry foregrounds an analysis of the practices and ethics of the historical Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), including the revolutionary characteristics of face-to-face organising and the development of an autonomous print culture. Centering discussions of time, space and surveillance, she utilises radical and lesbian feminist theory to expose the contradictions between the political project of women’s liberation and the dominant celebratory narratives of Web 2.0. This is the first book to seriously consider how social media perpetuates the enduring logic of patriarchy and howdigital activism shapes women’s oppression in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with intergenerational feminist activists from the UK, the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as archival and digital activist materials, Megarry boldly concludes that feminists should abandon social media and return to the transformative powers of older forms of women-centred political praxis. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Women’s and Gender Studies, Lesbian and Queer Studies, Social Movement Studies, Critical Internet Studies and Political Communication, as well as anyone with an interest in feminist activism and the history of the WLM.

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324

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Springer Nature

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3030606295

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9783030606299

Digital Feminist Activism

Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

By: Kaitlynn Mendes,Jessica Ringrose,Jessalynn Keller

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Digital Feminist Activism

Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

By: Kaitlynn Mendes,Jessica Ringrose,Jessalynn Keller

From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally, what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.

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225

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Oxford University Press

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0190697865

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9780190697860

Performing Arts Management

A Handbook of Professional Practices

By: Jessica Rae Bathurst,Tobie S. Stein

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Performing Arts Management

A Handbook of Professional Practices

By: Jessica Rae Bathurst,Tobie S. Stein

Do you know what it takes to manage a performing arts organization today? In this comprehensive volume, more than 100 managers of top nonprofit and commercial venues share their winning strategies. * Financial management, building a funding base, labor relations, much more * Explores the realities of running a performing arts organization today From theater to classical music, from opera to dance, every type of organization is included, with information on how each one is structured, key managerial figures, its best-practices for financial management, how it handles labor relations, and more. Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, the Mark Morris Dance Company, the New Victory Theater, the Roundabout Theater, the Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, and many other top groups are represented. Learn to manage a performing arts group successfully in today’s rapidly changing cultural environment with Performing Arts Management.

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830

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Simon and Schuster

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1581157533

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9781581157536

Brain Culture

Shaping Policy Through Neuroscience

By: Jessica Pykett

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Brain Culture

Shaping Policy Through Neuroscience

By: Jessica Pykett

This unique book offers a timely analysis of the effects of our rapidly growing knowledge about the brain, mind, and behavior on public policy and practice. Jessica Pykett examines the interactions of developments in neuroscience, education, architecture and design, and workplace training, showing how the global spread of neuroscientific understandings of brain functioning has led to changes in--and questions about--how we approach issues of policy, governance, and the encouragement and enforcement of particular behaviors. Researchers and practitioners in both the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy makers, will find its insights surprising and valuable.

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224

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Policy Press

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1447314050

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9781447314059

A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

By: Jessica van Horssen

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A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

By: Jessica van Horssen

For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.

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257

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UBC Press

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0774828447

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9780774828444

Healthism

Health-Status Discrimination and the Law

By: Jessica L. Roberts,Elizabeth Weeks,Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

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Healthism

Health-Status Discrimination and the Law

By: Jessica L. Roberts,Elizabeth Weeks,Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or 'healthism' - should be allowed, and when it should not.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107160383

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9781107160385

Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools

Guided Readings and Assignments from MITs Training Program for Environmental Professionals

By: Lawrence Susskind,Bruno Verdini,Jessica Gordon,Yasmin Zaerpoor

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Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools

Guided Readings and Assignments from MITs Training Program for Environmental Professionals

By: Lawrence Susskind,Bruno Verdini,Jessica Gordon,Yasmin Zaerpoor

‘Environmental Problem-Solving' presents short excerpts from carefully selected readings, expert commentaries on those readings, assignments, and the best MIT student responses to the assignments and exam questions with excellent student response. The book presents four main models of environmental policy-making: competing theories of environmental ethics; tools for environmental assessment and environmental decision-making; and techniques for public engagement and group decision-making. The book covers the material presented in the semester-long course required of all students enrolled in MIT’s Environmental Policy and Planning Specialization.

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508

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Anthem Press

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1785271326

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9781785271328

Rebel Girls

Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

By: Jessica K. Taft

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Rebel Girls

Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

By: Jessica K. Taft

Visit theUnspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print media, television, movies, and even presidential campaign speeches, just how thoroughly do the users immersed in this new technology understand it? What, exactly, is the Web changing? And how might we participate in or even direct Web-related change? Intended for readers new to studying the Internet, each chapter in Unspun addresses a different aspect of the "web revolution"--hypertext, multimedia, authorship, community, governance, identity, gender, race, cyberspace, political economy, and ideology--as it shapes and is shaped by economic, political, social, and cultural forces. The contributors particularly focus on the language of the Web, exploring concepts that are still emerging and therefore unstable and in flux. Unspun demonstrates how the tacit assumptions behind this rhetoric must be examined if we want to really know what we are saying when we talk about the Web. Unspun will help readers more fully understand and become critically aware of the issues involved in living, as we do, in a wired society. Contributors include: Jay Bolter, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Dawn Dietrich, Cynthia Fuchs, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Timothy Luke, Vincent Mosco, Lisa Nakamura, Russell Potter, Rob Shields, John Sloop, and Joseph Tabbi.

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NYU Press

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0814783252

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9780814783252

American Science in an Age of Anxiety

Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War

By: Jessica Wang

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American Science in an Age of Anxiety

Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War

By: Jessica Wang

No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists enjoyed unprecedented public visibility and political influence as a new elite whose expertise now seemed critical to America's future. But as the United States grew committed to Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and the ideology of anticommunism came to dominate American politics, scientists faced an increasingly vigorous regimen of security and loyalty clearances as well as the threat of intrusive investigations by the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities and other government bodies. This book is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. By examining cases of individual scientists subjected to loyalty and security investigations, the organizational response of the scientific community to political attacks, and the relationships between Cold War ideology and postwar science policy, Jessica Wang demonstrates the stifling effects of anticommunist ideology on the politics of science. She exposes the deep divisions over the Cold War within the scientific community and provides a complex story of hard choices, a community in crisis, and roads not taken.

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396

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807847496

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9780807847497

Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Daniel J. Myers,Jessica L. Collett

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Daniel J. Myers,Jessica L. Collett

Written by well-known sociologists John D. DeLamater, Daniel J. Myers, and Jessica L. Collett, this fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology is a highly accessible and engaging exploration of the question "what is it that makes us who we are?". With hundreds of real-world examples, figures, and photographs and grounded in the latest research, the text explores such topics as self, attitudes, social influence, emotions, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and collective behavior. The book also explains the methods that social psychologists use to investigate human behavior in a social context and the theoretical perspectives that ground the discipline. Each chapter is a self-contained unit for ease of use in any classroom.

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657

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Routledge

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0429972725

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9780429972720

Party Like a Rock Star

A Celebrity Party Planner's Tips and Tricks for Throwing an Unforgettable Bash

By: Jes Gordon,Jessica Baumgardner

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Party Like a Rock Star

A Celebrity Party Planner's Tips and Tricks for Throwing an Unforgettable Bash

By: Jes Gordon,Jessica Baumgardner

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0762758228

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Book's by Jessica Baumgardner

Party Like a Rock Star

Party Like a Rock Star

The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

Digital Feminist Activism

Digital Feminist Activism

Performing Arts Management

Performing Arts Management

Brain Culture

Brain Culture

A Town Called Asbestos

A Town Called Asbestos

Healthism

Healthism

Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools

Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools

Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

American Science in an Age of Anxiety

American Science in an Age of Anxiety

Social Psychology

Social Psychology

Party Like a Rock Star

Party Like a Rock Star

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