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A City for Children

Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

By: Marta Gutman

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A City for Children

Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

By: Marta Gutman

We like to say that our cities have been shaped by creative destruction the vast powers of capitalism to remake cities. But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity. Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings, and most tellingly she reveals the determinative roles of women and charitable institutions. In Oakland, Gutman shows, private houses were often adapted for charity work and the betterment of children, in the process becoming critical sites for public life and for the development of sustainable social environments. Gutman makes a strong argument for the centrality of incremental construction and the power of women-run organizations to our understanding of modern cities.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226311287

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Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

By: Marta Usiekniewicz

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Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

By: Marta Usiekniewicz

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett's No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout's Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows that food and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.

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240

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Springer Nature

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3031291603

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9783031291609

The Madwoman Can't Speak

Or why Insanity is Not Subversive

By: Marta Caminero-Santangelo

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The Madwoman Can't Speak

Or why Insanity is Not Subversive

By: Marta Caminero-Santangelo

In this work, the subversive madwoman first appropriated by feminist theorists and critics is re-evaluated. How, the author asks, can such a figure be subversive if she's effectively imprisoned, silent and unseen? Taking issue with a prominent strand of current feminist literary criticism, Caminero-Santangelo identifies a counternarrative in writing by women in the last half of the 20th century, one which rejects madness, even as a symbolic resolution.

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222

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Cornell University Press

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0801485142

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9780801485145

Shakin' Up Race and Gender

Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)

By: Marta E. Sánchez

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Shakin' Up Race and Gender

Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)

By: Marta E. Sánchez

The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between ethnic groups; we must also study them in relation to one another and to U.S. mainstream society. In "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender, Marta E. Sánchez creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Her frame opens up the black/white binary that dominated the 1960s and 1970s. It reveals the hidden yet real ties that connected ethnics of color and "white" ethnics in a shared intercultural history. By using key literary works published during this time, Sánchez reassesses and refutes the unflattering portrayals of ethnics by three leading intellectuals (Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis) who wrote about Chicanos, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. She links their implicit misogyny to the trope of La Malinche from Chicano culture and shows how specific characteristics of this trope—enslavement, alleged betrayal, and cultural negotiation—are also present in African American and Puerto Rican cultures. Sánchez employs the trope to restore the agency denied to these groups. Intercultural contact—encounters between peoples of distinct ethnic groups—is the theme of this book.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774788

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9780292774780

Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

By: Anabella Davila,Marta Elvira,Jacobo Ramirez,Laura Zapata-Cantu

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Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

By: Anabella Davila,Marta Elvira,Jacobo Ramirez,Laura Zapata-Cantu

Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.

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Springer

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1137026081

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9781137026088

Big Picture Strategy

The Six Choices That Will Transform Your Business

By: Marta Dapena Baron

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Big Picture Strategy

The Six Choices That Will Transform Your Business

By: Marta Dapena Baron

Develop winning brand strategies by focusing your team on the key strategic choices that drive organizational growth and learning. This book presents a system of six practical choices that articulate exactly how to launch and grow brands. Big Picture Strategy shows readers how limiting and focusing the strategic options available to company stakeholders can unlock previously inaccessible levels of productivity and growth. Strategist, consultant, and author Marta Dapena Barón describes the six key decisions facing organizations and teams today and how to develop a winning strategy by approaching these decisions systematically. The book includes discussions of: The critical choices that leaders must make to define a marketing strategy and to align their teams to be able to execute on it The four strategies companies use to launch and grow brands successfully How to use strategy-integrated metrics to promote continuous learning in organizations How to increase communications efficiency in commercial organizations through the use of a common vocabulary to frame customer-based issues Unlike many of its competitors, Big Picture Strategy does not pretend that your organization has unlimited resources or capacity to pursue every area of possible strategic advantage. Instead, the author lays out a systematic and integrated choice-based framework that will drive growth in your organization for years to come.

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279

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119712076

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9781119712077

The Essential Guide to Being Polish

50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood

By: Anna Spysz,Marta Turek

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The Essential Guide to Being Polish

50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood

By: Anna Spysz,Marta Turek

Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter -- and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish. Enter The Essential Guide to Being Polish -- the go-to concise resource for anyone looking to reconnect with their culture or, indeed, hoping that their friends, children, or colleagues learn something about their heritage. Divided into three sections to make for an easy-to-follow format -- Poland in Context, Poles in Poland, and Poles Abroad -- this guide covers just about everything and does so in a style that is at once entertaining and informative: the country's history and geography, wars, Jews in Poland, the communist past, the post-communist past and present, language, kings and queens, religion/Catholicism (with special focus on Pope John Paul II), holidays, food, and drink. What is a real Polish wedding all about? That, too, is addressed succinctly and with flair in this guide. Other chapters cover literature, music, art, famous scientists, Polish men and Polish women, Poles in America, Poles in the UK, Poles and the EU, and last but not least, Polish pride. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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381

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New Europe Books

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0985062312

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9780985062316

The horrors of Holocaust in the view of literary translation. The mechanisms and principles of literary translation in "The Pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman

By: Marta Zapała-Kraj

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The horrors of Holocaust in the view of literary translation. The mechanisms and principles of literary translation in "The Pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman

By: Marta Zapała-Kraj

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Interpreting / Translating , grade: 5.0, , language: English, abstract: The primary aim of this thesis is to present the art of literary translation through the perspective of a book. This book was written by the musician Władysław Szpilman and depicts his life. Szpilman is a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, which is the period in Polish history that was shadowed by the horrors of mass murders both on Polish and Jewish nations. Translation gives us access to the literature of the world. It allows us to enter the minds of people from other places. And it enriches not only our personal knowledge and artistic sense, but also our culture’s literature, language, and thought. Still, literary translation is an odd art. It consists of a person sitting at a desk, writing literature that is not his or her own but has someone else’s name on it. Like a musician, a literary translator takes someone else’s composition and performs it in his own special way. Just as a musician embodies someone else’s notes by moving his body or throat, a translator embodies someone else’s thoughts and images by writing in another language.

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GRIN Verlag

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3668966907

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A City for Children

Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

By: Marta Gutman

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Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

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A City for Children

A City for Children

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

The Madwoman Can't Speak

The Madwoman Can't Speak

Shakin' Up Race and Gender

Shakin' Up Race and Gender

Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

Big Picture Strategy

Big Picture Strategy

The Essential Guide to Being Polish

The Essential Guide to Being Polish

The horrors of Holocaust in the view of literary translation. The mechanisms and principles of literary translation in "The Pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman

The horrors of Holocaust in the view of literary translation. The mechanisms and principles of literary translation in "The Pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman

A City for Children

A City for Children

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