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Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Negotiations of National Identity

By: Larissa Tracy

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Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Negotiations of National Identity

By: Larissa Tracy

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843843935

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9781843843931

Land/Relations

Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Larissa Lai

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Land/Relations

Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Larissa Lai

Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and following Canada’s sesquicentennial, Land/Relations presents a collaborative effort at what Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai call “counter-memory,” a collective effort to recognise “relationships that have always been”—between peoples, between humanity and other living forms, between us and the land—in an effort to avoid erasure, loss, and trauma. Twenty influential literary critics engage a variety of genres—essay, life writing, testament, polemic, poetry—to explore the ways Canadian cultural production has been shaped by social and historical relations and can be given new and various forms to decolonize the institutions associated with the creation of this country’s vision of Canadian literature.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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177112511X

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9781771125116

Understanding Games and Game Cultures

By: Ingrid Richardson,Larissa Hjorth,Hugh Davies

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Understanding Games and Game Cultures

By: Ingrid Richardson,Larissa Hjorth,Hugh Davies

Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of contemporary life. Games today interweave with the social, economic, material, and political complexities of living in a digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and where do we play? This book explores the ways in which games and game cultures can be understood. It investigates the sites, genres, platforms, interfaces and contexts for games and gameplay, offering a critical overview of the breadth of contemporary game studies. It is an essential companion for students looking to understand games and games cultures in our increasingly playful and ‘gamified’ digital society.

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SAGE

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1529738520

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9781529738520

Achieving Social Justice

Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future

By: Larissa Behrendt

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Achieving Social Justice

Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future

By: Larissa Behrendt

This new work argues that a broad Indigenous rights framework is crucial to achieving positive change in the socio-economic disadvantage into which Indigenous Australians are born. It explains why addressing problems in Indigenous communities at a practical level needs to be done in conjunction with rights protection.

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Federation Press

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1862874506

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9781862874503

Games and Gaming

An Introduction to New Media

By: Larissa Hjorth

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Games and Gaming

An Introduction to New Media

By: Larissa Hjorth

The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Sony Xbox to platforms such as iPhones and online gaming worlds, the realm of games and their scope has become all-pervasive. The study of games is no longer a niche interest but rather an integral part of cultural and media studies. The analysis of games reveals much about contemporary social relations, online communities and media engagement. Presenting a range of approaches and analytical tools through which to explore the role of games in everyday life, and packed with case material, Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this new media and how it permeates global culture in the twenty-first century.

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Berg

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1847884911

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9781847884916

Indigenous Australia for Dummies

By: Larissa Behrendt

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Indigenous Australia for Dummies

By: Larissa Behrendt

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies answers these questions and countless others about the oldest race on Earth. It explores Indigenous life in Australia before 1770, the impact of white settlement, the ongoing struggle by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to secure their human rights and equal treatment under the law, and much more. Celebrating the contributions of Indigenous people to contemporary Australian culture, the book explores Indigenous art, music, dance, literature, film, sport, and spirituality. It discusses the concept of modern Indigenous identity and examines the ongoing challenges facing Indigenous communities today, from health and housing to employment and education, land rights, and self-determination. Explores significant political moments—such as Paul Keating's Redfern Speech and Kevin Rudd's apology, and more Profiles celebrated people and organisations in a variety of fields, from Cathy Freeman to Albert Namatjira to the Bangarra Dance Theatre and the National Aboriginal Radio Service Challenges common stereotypes about Indigenous people and discusses current debates, such as a land rights and inequalities in health and education This book will enlighten readers of all backgrounds about the history, struggles and triumphs of the diverse, proud, and fascinating peoples that make up Australia's Indigenous communities. With a foreword by former PM Malcolm Fraser, Indigenous Australia For Dummies is a must-read account of Australia's first people. 'Indigenous Australia For Dummies is an important contribution to the broad debate and to a better understanding of our past history. Hopefully it will influence future events.'—Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118308433

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9781118308431

Female Urology E-Book

Text with DVD

By: Shlomo Raz,Larissa V. Rodriguez

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Female Urology E-Book

Text with DVD

By: Shlomo Raz,Larissa V. Rodriguez

Completely reorganized and updated, the 3rd Edition of this best-selling reference presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of female urology, making it easy to implement today’s best approaches for every patient, both surgical and non-surgical. Offers step-by-step, highly illustrated guidance on diagnosing and managing the full range of female urologic problems you encounter in practice. Features the work of all new contributors and 30% new content to keep you abreast of the latest in the specialty. Enables you to implement the most current techniques through new chapters on pharmacologic neuromodulation (Botox) and laparoscopic management of SUI, as well as an expanded section on Surgical Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Includes 200 new illustrations and 400 new clinical photographs reflecting the state of current practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437710530

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9781437710533

Ambient Play

By: Larissa Hjorth,Ingrid Richardson

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Ambient Play

By: Larissa Hjorth,Ingrid Richardson

How mobile games are part of our day-to-day lives and the ways we interact across digital, material, and social landscapes. We often play games on our mobile devices when we have some time to kill—waiting in line, pausing between tasks, stuck on a bus. We play in solitude or in company, alone in a bedroom or with others in the family room. In Ambient Play, Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson examine how mobile gameplay fits into our day-to-day lives. They show that as mobile games spread across different genres, platforms, practices, and contexts, they become an important way of experiencing and navigating a digitally saturated world. Mobile games become conduits for what the authors call ambient play, pervading much of our social and communicative terrain. We become digital wayfarers, moving constantly among digital, social, and social worlds. Hjorth and Richardson explore how households are transformed by media—how idiosyncratic media use can alter the spatial composition and emotional cadence of the home. They show how mobile games connect domestic forms of play with more public forms of playfulness in urban spaces, how collaborative play (both networked and face-to-face) is incorporated into private and public play, and how touchscreens and haptic play emphasize the perception of the moving body. Hjorth and Richardson invite us to think of mobile gaming as more than a “casual” distraction but as a complex cultural practice embedded into our contemporary ways of being, knowing, and communicating.

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MIT Press

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0262044366

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9780262044363

Digital Ethnography

Principles and Practice

By: Sarah Pink,Heather Horst,John Postill,Larissa Hjorth,Tania Lewis,Jo Tacchi

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Digital Ethnography

Principles and Practice

By: Sarah Pink,Heather Horst,John Postill,Larissa Hjorth,Tania Lewis,Jo Tacchi

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as well as providing insights into exploring individuals’ or communities’ lived experiences, practices and relationships. The book: Defines a series of central concepts in this new branch of social and cultural research Challenges existing conceptual and analytical categories Showcases new and innovative methods Theorises the digital world in new ways Encourages us to rethink pre-digital practices, media and environments This is the ideal introduction for anyone intending to conduct ethnographic research in today’s digital society.

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SAGE

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1473943140

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Beyond Babel

Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

By: Larissa Brewer-García

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Beyond Babel

Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

By: Larissa Brewer-García

Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108493009

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9781108493000

The Global Rules of Art

The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

By: Larissa Buchholz

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The Global Rules of Art

The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

By: Larissa Buchholz

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwide Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules of Art examines how this discriminatory situation has changed in recent decades. Drawing from abundant sources—including objective indicators from more than one hundred countries, multiple institutional histories and discourses, extensive fieldwork, and interviews with artists, critics, curators, gallerists, and auction house agents—Larissa Buchholz examines the emergence of a world-spanning art field whose logics have increasingly become defined in global terms. Deftly blending comprehensive historical analyses with illuminating case studies, The Global Rules of Art breaks new ground in its exploration of valuation and how cultural hierarchies take shape in a global context. The book’s innovative global field approach will appeal to scholars in the sociology of art, cultural and economic sociology, interdisciplinary global studies, and anyone interested in the dynamics of global art and culture.

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Princeton University Press

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0691245444

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9780691245447

Haunting Hands

Mobile Media Practices and Loss

By: Kathleen M. Cumiskey,Larissa Hjorth

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Haunting Hands

Mobile Media Practices and Loss

By: Kathleen M. Cumiskey,Larissa Hjorth

Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which death and loss manifest themselves. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones, iPads, iPhones, or tablets. Mobile media entangle various forms of social, online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public, and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life, death, and our digital after-lives.

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Oxford University Press

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0190695072

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9780190695071

Twelve Lords for Yuletide

A Historical Holiday Romance Collection

By: Erica Ridley,Claire Delacroix,Ava Stone,Sadie Bosque,Deb Marlowe,Anthea Lawson,Larissa Lyons,Nicole Zoltack,Jane Charles,Nadine Millard,Eve Pendle,Emmanuelle de Maupassant

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Twelve Lords for Yuletide

A Historical Holiday Romance Collection

By: Erica Ridley,Claire Delacroix,Ava Stone,Sadie Bosque,Deb Marlowe,Anthea Lawson,Larissa Lyons,Nicole Zoltack,Jane Charles,Nadine Millard,Eve Pendle,Emmanuelle de Maupassant

From sweet kisses under the mistletoe to passionate encounters at holiday house parties, secret identities to second chances, find your Christmas cheer in these twelve different historical romance tales from bestselling and award-winning authors! The lord you've been looking for might be just a story away... ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (**medium) - Ava Stone Only a duke will do for Lady Ivy Dallimore. If her unhappily married sisters have taught her anything, it’s that love is fleeting but a title lasts forever, which is all well and good in theory until she finds herself falling for the scandalous third son of a marquess who is bound and determined to make his fortune in trade! THE VISCOUNT’S TEMPTING MINX (*mild) - Erica Ridley He's an unbendable lord. She's an unstoppable force. When these two clash, their winter nights will never be the same! THE CHRISTMAS CONQUEST (***hot) - Claire Delacroix Love was not part of the plan when this marriage was arranged… Can a matchmaking courtesan in disguise save this match before the new year dawns? LADY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (*mild) - Deb Marlowe Neither Lord Ellesworth nor Miss Glenna Bolton have much Christmas spirit this year. Neither have much desire to travel during the season, either, but a Star in the East, an abandoned child and a quest for holiday cheer might just convince these two that love is the best gift of the Season. A WINTER WISH (*mild) - Nadine Millard Mariah Bolton is as headstrong as she is clever, as strong-willed as she is beautiful. She enjoys her life and, apart from a rather snobbish mama, she is happy with her lot. Imagine her consternation then when her world is turned upside down by the brooding and aloof Mr. Brandon Haverton! LYING BENEATH THE MISTLETOE (***hot) - Sadie Bosque Matilda needs a miracle. She left Henry, her first and only love, over a decade ago. Now she’s back and determined to piece his heart back together. But she only has one night to do it. A VERY MERRY VISCOUNT (*mild) - Jane Charles The thought of spending Christmas at Danby Castle with her matchmaking great-uncle fills Lady Tabitha Storm’s heart with dread, until she spies the handsome horseman from Hyde Park. Would Andrew Delaney, Viscount Straffan, receive more this holiday than he ever dreamed, or would his Irish heritage stand in his way? THE LADY’S GUIDE TO A HIGHLANDER’S HEART (***hot) - Emmanuelle de Maupassant Meet a young bride in disguise and a battle-hardened Highland warrior in this passionate 'enemies to lovers' medieval romance. MASKED LOVE (*mild) - Nicole Zoltack An evening of enchantment has a maid wishing a lord might look past his station this Christmas season. THE MISTLETOE TEMPTATION (***hot) - Eve Pendle She deliberately steps on his toes to avoid marriage and he retaliates by proposing a fake engagement. A Regency enemies to friends to lovers romance, with a touch of brother’s best friend, and a whole lot of banter and steamy scenes. A SNOWLIT CHRISTMAS KISS (**medium) - Larissa Lyons When a mischievous feline nudges two lonely souls together on a wretched, snowy night, a few Christmas kisses might be all they need. But he’s engaged, and she’s decided to never marry, so in the morning they go their separate ways, leaving pieces of their hearts behind...until a Twelfth Night Ball brings misunderstandings to light and merry tidings to one and all. A DUKE FOR MIDWINTER (*mild) - Anthea Lawson After a gentleman rescues her from a winter storm, Miss Selene Banning finds herself snowbound with Sir Jared Kendrick, who is not precisely who he claims to be… Scoop up the first collection, Twelve Lords for Christmas, for more heartwarming tales of the holidays!

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Fiddlehead Press

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1680131389

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9781680131383

Icy Beginning

By: Larissa Whiting,Jazmine Hughes

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Icy Beginning

By: Larissa Whiting,Jazmine Hughes

Gwen La' Tor was an average girl... Until everything changed when she Turned. Now she's been sent off to a boarding school on an uncharted island in the U.K. made just for Supernatural beings. Will she live to have kids of her own? Will she ever return home? WIll she live to see graduation?

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Lulu.com

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1304636852

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For Better or Worse 1

EWW Universe - The Series

By: Larissa B.B

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For Better or Worse 1

EWW Universe - The Series

By: Larissa B.B

▪ Watch out! An epic series will come alive.▪ This series has the fervour of wrestling, the freshness of the music, and the acidity of the world... just read, and you will enjoy.The year is 1999.Three young Australian boys leave on their first international trip with different goals to the same destination: London, England.Miguel Smith is a cheerful extroverted boy. Carlos Wilson is an introverted self-aware young boy. And Patrick Taylor the shy dreamer boy. Fate (and a grumpy old man) ended up bringing the three to sit next to each other on the plane.The flight hours made them get to know each other further in a long talk about their lives and the reasons that moved them to this trip.They didn’t know it, but this moment telling about their complicated lives will be the most relaxing they will have until the moment the plane land and begin the turmoil of emotions that will shake their lives, for the best and worst. But one thing is sure this is just the start of a strong true friendship.

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Editora Bibliomundi

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1526021625

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9781526021625

Screen Ecologies

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

By: Larissa Hjorth,Sarah Pink,Kristen Sharp,Linda Williams

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Screen Ecologies

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

By: Larissa Hjorth,Sarah Pink,Kristen Sharp,Linda Williams

How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region—a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects.

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MIT Press

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026233402X

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9780262334020

Understanding Social Media

By: Sam Hinton,Larissa Hjorth

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Understanding Social Media

By: Sam Hinton,Larissa Hjorth

Instructors - Electronic inspection copies are available or contact your local sales representative for an inspection copy of the print version. Understanding Social Media provides a critical and timely conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, this book provides a clear and concise explanation of the key concepts but also goes beyond specific brands, sites and practices to show readers how to place social media more critically within the changing media and cultural landscape. As an aid to understanding, key concepts in each chapter are illustrated by case studies to give real-world examples of theory in action. Cutting across the many dimensions of social media, from the political, economic and visual, this book explores the industries, ideologies and cultural practices that are increasingly becoming part of global popular culture.

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SAGE

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1446283127

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Mobile Media Methods

By: Larissa Hjorth,Gerard Goggin

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Mobile Media Methods

By: Larissa Hjorth,Gerard Goggin

Mobile media such as smartphones, apps, and social media are an integral part of everyday life, used by billions of people around the world. For students and researchers, mobile media also offer a treasure trove of new concepts, methods, and techniques to do research – representing a new phase in digital methods. Across disciplines, researchers rely upon mobile media for quantitative and qualitative projects, to gather data and document sound and images, engage with participants, and disseminate findings. This is the first textbook devoted to explaining these innovative and groundbreaking mobile media methods. Exploring the opportunities and limitations mobile media offer for methods, the book covers a range of topics from mobilities and placemaking to virtual reality and AI, as well as new kinds of mobility such as e-scooters and connected cars. Student-friendly features such as practical guidance on how to gather and analyse data alongside exercises are also included. Underscoring the book throughout is the definition of methods as not just a series of tools and techniques, but as an invitation to rethink how to conceptualize, practice, study and theorize the relationship between research, data and the field. Drawing from the best of mobile and digital communication research, Mobile Media Methods offers a clear, accessible, and practical guide to mobile media methods. It is essential reading and a useful resource for students and scholars of digital technology and research methods.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509558810

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Chemistry and Nutritional Effects of Capsicum

By: Valdir Florêncio da Veiga, Jr,Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann,Claudio Pereira de Araujo, Jr,Ananda da Silva Antonio

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Chemistry and Nutritional Effects of Capsicum

By: Valdir Florêncio da Veiga, Jr,Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann,Claudio Pereira de Araujo, Jr,Ananda da Silva Antonio

The Capsicum genus comprises the botanic species known as chili peppers, the most widely consumed natural product by humankind. Their usage is diverse and varies from food additives to defensive devices and medicines. Providing a comprehensive overview of the great popularization and socioeconomic importance of Capsicum, this book includes a holistic description of the properties of Capsicum and how this correlates with the chemical profile. Several of their specialized metabolites, such as capsaicinoids and carotenoids, are in fact responsible for peppers characterization as a functional food as they provide pungency, deterrent properties and outstanding biological activities such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic and chemopreventive. This book shows the big picture behind peppers featuring as functional foods using a biochemistry background to elucidate how the chemical composition of this genus can affect its unique bioactivity and sensorial characteristics. In addition, the state-of-art regarding Capsicum exploitation is also emphasized. Intended for all types of audiences, it is a resource for those curious about peppers pungency, for graduate students aiming to improve their skills and professional who need to update their knowledge regarding peppers chemistry and pharmacology.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1839160659

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9781839160653

Strangers Drowning

Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

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Strangers Drowning

Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn’t? How would their parents’ risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she’s responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why.

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Penguin

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0698195604

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Burdens of Political Responsibility

Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness

By: Jade Larissa Schiff

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Burdens of Political Responsibility

Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness

By: Jade Larissa Schiff

How can human beings acknowledge and experience the burdens of political responsibility? Why are we tempted to flee them, and how might we come to affirm them? Jade Larissa Schiff calls this experience of responsibility 'the cultivation of responsiveness'. In Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness, she identifies three dispositions that inhibit responsiveness - thoughtlessness, bad faith, and misrecognition - and turns to storytelling in its manifold forms as a practice that might facilitate and frustrate it. Through critical engagements with an unusual cast of characters (from Bourdieu to Sartre) hailing from a variety of disciplines (political theory, phenomenology, sociology, and literary criticism), she argues that how we represent our world and ourselves in the stories we share, and how we receive those stories, can facilitate and frustrate the cultivation of responsiveness.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139867911

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Exploring Minecraft

Ethnographies of Play and Creativity

By: Larissa Hjorth,Ingrid Richardson,Hugh Davies,William Balmford

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Exploring Minecraft

Ethnographies of Play and Creativity

By: Larissa Hjorth,Ingrid Richardson,Hugh Davies,William Balmford

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography, the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday life.

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Springer Nature

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3030599086

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9783030599089

Creative Practice Ethnographies

By: Larissa Hjorth,Anne M. Harris,Kat Jungnickel,Gretchen Coombs

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Creative Practice Ethnographies

By: Larissa Hjorth,Anne M. Harris,Kat Jungnickel,Gretchen Coombs

Creative Practice Ethnographies focuses on the intersection of creative practice and ethnography and offers new ways to think about the methods, practice, and promise of research in contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. How does creative practice inform new ways of doing ethnography and vice versa? What new forms of expression and engagement are made possible as a result of these creative synergies? By addressing these questions, the authors highlight the important roles that ethnography and creative practice play in socially impactful research. This book is aimed at interdisciplinary researchers, scholars, and students of art, design, sociology, anthropology, games, media, education, and cultural studies.

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Being Lakota

Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation

By: Larissa Petrillo,Melda Trejo,Lupe Trejo

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Being Lakota

Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation

By: Larissa Petrillo,Melda Trejo,Lupe Trejo

In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, croissants are as readily available as plantains. Yet this same culinary diversity is accompanied by high prices and a scarcity of locally made food that is bewildering to residents and visitors alike.; A staggering two-thirds of the country's food is imported from outside Gabon, making Libreville's cost of living comparable to that of Tokyo and Paris. In this compelling study of food culture and colonialism, Jeremy Rich explores how colonial rule intimately shaped African life and how African townspeople developed creative ways of coping with colonialism as European expansion threatened African self-sufficiency. From colonization in the 1840s through independence, Libreville struggled with problems of food scarcity resulting from the legacy of Atlantic slavery, the violence of colonial conquest, and the rise of the timber export industry.; Marriage disputes, racial tensions, and worker unrest often centered on food, and townspeople employed varied tactics to combat its scarcity. Ultimately, imports emerged as the solution and have had a lasting impact on Gabon's culinary culture and economy. Fascinating and informative, A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat engages a new avenue of historical inquiry in examining the culture of food as part of the colonial experience and resonates with the questions of globalization dominating culinary economics today.

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0803215819

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The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World

By: Congyan Cai,Larissa van den Herik,Tiyanjana Maluwa

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The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World

By: Congyan Cai,Larissa van den Herik,Tiyanjana Maluwa

How can the UN Security Council contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security in times of heightened tensions, global polarisation, and contestation about the principles underlying the international legal and political order? In this Trialogue, experts with diverse geographic, socio-legal, and ideational backgrounds present their perspectives on the Security Council's historic development, its present functions and deficits, and its defining tensions and future trajectories. Three approaches engage with each other: a power-focused approach emphasising the role of China as an emerging actor; an institutionalist perspective exploring how less powerful states, particularly the elected members of the Security Council, exert influence and may strengthen rule-of-law standards; a regionalist perspective investigating how the Security Council as the central actor can cooperate with regional organisations towards maintaining international peace and security. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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1009423436

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Russian Jews on Three Continents

Identity, Integration, and Conflict

By: Larissa Remennick

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Russian Jews on Three Continents

Identity, Integration, and Conflict

By: Larissa Remennick

In the early 1990s, more than 1.6 million Jews from the former Soviet Union emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Germany, and other Western countries. Larissa Remennick relates the saga of their encounter with the economic marketplaces, lifestyles, and everyday cultures of their new homelands, drawing on comparative sociological research among Russian-Jewish immigrants. Although citizens of Jewish origin ostensibly left the former Soviet Union to flee persecution and join their co-religionists, Israeli, North American, and German Jews were universally disappointed by the new arrivals’ tenuous Jewish identity. In turn, Russian Jews, whose identity had been shaped by seventy years of secular education and assimilation into the Soviet mainstream, hoped to be accepted as ambitious and hard working individuals seeking better lives. These divergent expectations shaped lines of conflict between Russian-speaking Jews and the Jewish communities of the receiving countries. Since her own immigration to Israel from Moscow in 1991, Remennick has been both a participant and an observer of this saga. This is the first attempt to compare resettlement and integration experiences of a single ethnic community (former Soviet Jews) in various global destinations. It also analyzes their emerging transnational lifestyles. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book opens new perspectives for a diverse readership, including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, Slavic scholars, and Jewish studies specialists.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412854555

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Indigenous Australia For Kids For Dummies

By: Larissa Behrendt

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Indigenous Australia For Kids For Dummies

By: Larissa Behrendt

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture Indigenous Australia For Kids For Dummies is here to enlighten you about the history, struggles and triumphs of the diverse peoples that make up Australia’s Indigenous communities. Did you know that Australia is home to the world’s oldest culture? Experience 60,000 years of history and culture, plus, get right up-to-the-minute, with amazing facts about Indigenous sports and entertainment figures and info on what matters to Indigenous peoples today. This interactive book has loads of features that will engage and excite readers aged 10-15 years old – and their teachers and parents! Featuring profiles of celebrated Indigenous people like Cathy Freeman and Albert Namatjira, as well as fun research projects and hands-on activities that bring Indigenous Australia to life. Ever wanted to connect with your local Indigenous communities? This book will give you ideas about how you can connect with First Nations peoples and other interactive ways to extend your learning out of the book. Discover the rich culture, long history and special values of the world’s oldest race Learn about Indigenous art, song, dance, literature and contributions to contemporary Australia Impress friends and family with your knowledge of Australian colonisation and Indigenous rights Figure out what’s going on in the lives of Indigenous Australians today – and bust the most common myths This book is perfect for young readers who want to appreciate and understand the diverse, proud, and fascinating peoples that make up Australia's Indigenous communities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730390357

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Dance-Punk

By: Larissa Wodtke

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Dance-Punk

By: Larissa Wodtke

Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop. This book explores the historical and cultural conditions of the genre as it appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s and then again in the early 2000s, and illuminates what is at stake in delineating dance-punk as a genre. Looking at bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, Public Image Ltd., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Le Tigre, this book examines the tensions between and blurring of the rhetoric and emotion in dance music and the cynical and ironic intellectualizing associated with post-punk.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501381873

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Online@AsiaPacific

Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

By: Larissa Hjorth,Michael Arnold

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Online@AsiaPacific

Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

By: Larissa Hjorth,Michael Arnold

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local. The six case studies that inform this book—Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne—offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo; generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a sense of belonging. Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography, cultural studies and media and communication studies, Online@AsiaPacific will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media studies, communication studies and internet studies.

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Routledge

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1136657614

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Influence Without Boots on the Ground: Seaborne Crisis Response

Maritime Crisis Response

By: Larissa Forster

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Influence Without Boots on the Ground: Seaborne Crisis Response

Maritime Crisis Response

By: Larissa Forster

This thesis was accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich in the fall semester 2010 on the recommendation of Prof. Dr. Albert A. Stahel and Prof. Dr. Peter Dombrowski (U.S. Naval War College.)" - p. ii

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1935352032

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The Restoration of Hope

By: Larissa Self

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The Restoration of Hope

By: Larissa Self

THE RILEY COOPER SERIES OF HOPE Book Two Nearly a year has passed since the human race had been decimated by an unknown virus. With her husband's whereabouts still unknown and the world no longer familiar to her, Riley Cooper, along with her family, find solace within their community of friends now living in Jackson, Wyoming. Fully aware that the longevity of their survival will largely depend on the growth of their community, the inhabitants of Jackson begin their search for other survivors. In doing so, they discover the terrifying truth of what humanity has become, leaving Riley and her family faced with the unimaginable possibility that hope is lost.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1644585219

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The Russian Language Today

By: Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke,Terence Wade

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The Russian Language Today

By: Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke,Terence Wade

The Russian Language Today provides the most up-to-date analysis of the Russian language. The Russian language has changed dramatically in recent years, becoming inundated by new words, mainly from American English. The authors focus on the resulting radical changes in Russian vocabulary and grammar. Supported throughout by extracts from contemporary press and literary sources, this is a comprehensive overview of present-day Russian and an essential text for all students of the Russian language.

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113476555X

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Twelve Lords for Christmas

A Historical Holiday Romance Anthology

By: Deb Marlowe,Claire Delacroix,Anthea Lawson,Brenda Hiatt,Jane Charles,Erica Taylor,Emmanuelle de Maupassant,Larissa Lyons,Sadie Bosque,Nicole Zoltak,Nadine Millard,Eve Pendle

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Twelve Lords for Christmas

A Historical Holiday Romance Anthology

By: Deb Marlowe,Claire Delacroix,Anthea Lawson,Brenda Hiatt,Jane Charles,Erica Taylor,Emmanuelle de Maupassant,Larissa Lyons,Sadie Bosque,Nicole Zoltak,Nadine Millard,Eve Pendle

From sexy earls to holiday ghosts, second chances to false engagements, find your Christmas cheer in these twelve sweet-to-spicy historical romance tales from bestselling and award-winning authors! The lord you've been looking for might be just a page-turn away... A CUP OF CHEER - Deb Marlowe The Earl of Chester’s wild ways nearly cause a disaster and set him to reevaluating his lifestyle. Paired up with his grandmother’s companion and charged with bringing Christmas to a lonely house, will he come to believe in himself—and love? THE MISTLETOE TRAP - Eve Pendle A spicy-hot story of a heroine with a flair for enterprising embroidery and a botanist single father hero. Can a scandal that compromises Amelia's reputation give their love a second chance? A MOST INCONVENIENT EARL - Claire Delacroix When Eurydice Goodenham unexpectedly proposes a marriage of convenience to Sebastian Montgomery, Earl of Rockmorton, the notorious rake is intrigued. Sebastian soon realizes that the unpredictable Eurydice is the perfect match for him - but can he convince his skeptical bride to take a chance on love? THE LADY’S GUIDE TO MISTLETOE AND MAYHEM - Emmanuelle de Maupassant On the run until she receives her inheritance, Ursula takes on the identity of an etiquette teacher and heads to Castle Dunrannoch to whip her 'young charge' into shape. But the long-lost heir is a whole lot more than she's bargained for! A COUNTESS FOR CHRISTMAS - Anthea Lawson Miss Cecilia Fairfax dreads the upcoming holidays, especially when her brother brings home an unexpected guest. But of all the blessings of the season, sometimes the most unexpected is love. MISS ISABELLA THAWS A FROSTY LORD - Larissa Lyons Mistletoe kisses grant a blind heroine and a frosty hero a chance at happiness during a winter house party. HER ACCIDENTAL GROOM - Nadine Millard Lady Natalia Soronsky and Lord Benjamin Strafford started out as enemies and ended up as co-conspirators in a faux betrothal. But the longer they continue the ruse, the more they start to wonder just how false their feelings are. CHRISTMAS SPIRITS - Jane Charles When Benjamin Storm, Earl of Kenley, is sent to Scotland to procure a missing whisky shipment, he encounters the most unusual smuggler. JOY TO THE WORLD - Nicole Zoltack Unbeknownst to Eliza Berkeley, the man she thought she was going to marry was not Stephen Huntington, the Duke of Wyndale. Will a match formed through deceit blossom into love this Christmas? TO FALL FOR A DUKE BY CHRISTMAS - Sadie Bosque A reluctant duke and a charming commoner devise a plan to serve their own needs. A false relationship is supposed to be their salvation... Until love intervenes. WHAT IF I STILL LOVE YOU - Erica Taylor After a failed elopement ten years earlier, Henry, Earl of Carrington, and Anna, the widowed Viscountess Rycroft, are reunited at his aunt’s Twelfth Night party. Can this star-crossed pair find their way back to each other? CHRISTMAS PROMISES - Brenda Hiatt When Lord Vandover leaves for London, he promises his grandmother he will return with a bride. Unfortunately, with each simpering debutante he meets he regrets that promise more—until he encounters the lovely Miss Holly Paxton.vv KEYWORDS: Scarlett Scott, Bridgerton, Holiday Romance, Christmas Love, Regency, Alexa Aston, Eva Chase, Cheryl Bolen, Duke, Earl, Nobility, Fake Betrothal, Exchange of Letters, Mistletoe

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1680131370

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Triptych

An Examination of the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible

By: Larissa Wodtke,Rhian E. Jones

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Triptych

An Examination of the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible

By: Larissa Wodtke,Rhian E. Jones

The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with intellectual attention to the album's depth and complexity.

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191092489X

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