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The Feminine Musique

Multimedia and Women Today ; And, On Writing for Multimedia

By: Sabrina Pena Young

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The Feminine Musique

Multimedia and Women Today ; And, On Writing for Multimedia

By: Sabrina Pena Young

The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today" traces the intersection of experimental music and new media through the works of composers and artists at the turn of twentieth century America. An invaluable addition to any music, visual arts, or historical library collection, "The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today" gives a voice to the sights and sounds of innovative women such as Laurie Anderson, Alison Knowles, Brenda Hutchinson, Pauline Oliveros, Pamela Z, Yoko Ono, Meredith Monk, Maggie Payne, Sylvia Pengilly, Madonna, Lydia Lunch, and countless others, who embraced social change, technology, and the arts to create compelling and sometimes controversial works.

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0557084032

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Droits de l'investisseur étranger et protection de l'environnement

Contribution à l'analyse de l'expropriation indirecte

By: Sabrina Robert-Cuendet

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Droits de l'investisseur étranger et protection de l'environnement

Contribution à l'analyse de l'expropriation indirecte

By: Sabrina Robert-Cuendet

En droit international de l’investissement, le prisme de l’expropriation indirecte couvre une large catégorie de mesures – telles que les réglementations – qui n’impliquent pas de transfert de propriété mais aboutissent à une grave interférence avec un investissement. La définition des dépossessions indemnisables constitue une question extrêmement sensible, située à la croisée des chemins entre la protection des droits des investisseurs et la préservation des prérogatives de l’Etat. Cet ouvrage explore, à travers l’exemple de la réglementation environnementale, le droit applicable à cette notion controversée. Il montre que l’approche traditionnelle – reposant sur une dilution du concept d’expropriation – n’est nullement appropriée et il contribue à clarifier l’étendue de la protection de l’investisseur sur le fondement du droit de la responsabilité internationale de l’Etat. In international investment law, the prism of indirect expropriation includes a broad range of measures – such as regulatory measures – which do not involve a transfer of property but result in a serious interference with an investment. The definition of compensable taking is a very sensitive issue situated at the crossroads between the protection of investors' private rights and the safeguarding of the state's sovereign prerogatives. This book explores, through the example of environmental regulation, the law applicable to this controversial topic. It suggests that the traditional approach – based on an extension of the concept of expropriation – is inappropriate and it contributes to clarifying the scope of the international protection of the investor on the ground of the law of state responsibility.

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9004187553

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Black Girls

Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies

By: Sabrina Marchetti

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Black Girls

Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies

By: Sabrina Marchetti

In today’s Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who in the 1960s and 70s migrated to the former colonising country, the Netherlands and Italy respectively, and there became domestic and care workers. Sabrina Marchetti analyses the narratives of some of these women in order to powerfully demonstrate how the legacies of the colonial past have been, at the same time, both their tool of resistance and the reason for their subordination.

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9004276939

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9789004276932

Employers, Agencies and Immigration

Paying for Care

By: Anna Triandafyllidou,Sabrina Marchetti

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Employers, Agencies and Immigration

Paying for Care

By: Anna Triandafyllidou,Sabrina Marchetti

Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once home and workplace, this volume is organised into sections that deal with the subjectivities of employers and their relationships with their employees in the home; the re-organisation of welfare and care arrangements at state level; and the wider area of migrant domestic and care work, with the transformation of the au pair scheme. Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.

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Routledge

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1317144244

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9781317144243

Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

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Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

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NYU Press

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1479831093

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Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins

The Civil War Begins

By: Sabrina Crewe,Michael V. Uschan

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Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins

The Civil War Begins

By: Sabrina Crewe,Michael V. Uschan

Looks at the attack on Fort Sumter, discussing the divison between the north and the south, the soldiers who defended Fort Sumter, and the impact on the history of America.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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0836834143

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Nihil Obstat

Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Nihil Obstat

Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Politics, religion, and social change in the post-communist world of Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Duke University Press

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0822320703

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9780822320708

Migration and Domestic Work

IMISCOE Short Reader

By: Sabrina Marchetti

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Migration and Domestic Work

IMISCOE Short Reader

By: Sabrina Marchetti

This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within which this specific phenomenon takes place. The author explains notions such as the “international division of reproductive labor” or “global care chains” which emphasize the inequality in the way care and domestic tasks are distributed today between middle-class women in receiving nations and migrant domestic workers. Moreover, the book shows how women migrating to work in the domestic work and private care sector are facing a complex landscape of migration and labor regulations that are extremely difficult to navigate. At the same time, this issue also addresses employers’ households who cannot find appropriate or affordable care among declining welfare states and national workers reluctant to take the job, whilst legal regulations make difficult to hire a domestic worker who is a third country national. As such this book offers an interesting read to academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.

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Springer Nature

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3031114663

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The Practice of Generalist Social Work

By: Marla Berg-Weger,Sabrina W Tyuse

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The Practice of Generalist Social Work

By: Marla Berg-Weger,Sabrina W Tyuse

In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cognitive processes needed for social work practice in the present moment. Grounded in a strengths-based perspective, chapters in the textbook discuss practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations and guide students through all phases of the change process with the aid of case studies, examples, and exercises that highlight and provide connections to real-life practice situations. Theoretical frameworks, important value and ethical considerations, and pivotal communication skills are all included in the text’s comprehensive coverage of different practice settings with clients and communities. The sixth edition is now guided by the 2022 Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS), with connections to renewed objectives and competencies integrated throughout, and is further updated to reflect and focus on new developments within the discipline. These include anti-racism efforts and movements to address entrenched racial inequities; the practice of cultural humility and cultural responsiveness; and attention to community-based implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengthened and now fully up to date, this edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides a sweeping, in-depth, and lively introduction to social work practice for generalist courses, and is supported by a range of fully updated resources for instructors and their students on www.routledgesw.com/.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000838676

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9781000838671

Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes

The Global Travels of Judge Dee

By: Sabrina Yuan Hao

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Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes

The Global Travels of Judge Dee

By: Sabrina Yuan Hao

In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.

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9004682511

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Repay Evil with Evil

Book 1

By: Patrizia Sabrina Prudenzi

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Repay Evil with Evil

Book 1

By: Patrizia Sabrina Prudenzi

Did I really kill everyone? I don't know. Why can't I remember? The young Julia Walz gets into trouble. She is suspected of having committed a series of brutal murders. Her biggest problem: she doesn't know because she is suffering from memory disorders due to a childhood trauma. Only the handsome inspector David Nyomda believes her. When he finds clues to a gruesome secret in Julia's past, he puts himself in danger in order to help her. Forgive or repay? Sometimes you have no choice when the past is too terrible ...

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Babelcube Inc.

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1667413279

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Scars of War

The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

By: Sabrina Thomas

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Scars of War

The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

By: Sabrina Thomas

Best First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam--the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War--American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in a Cold War era, America's defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent. Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism with the U.S. Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for American citizenship.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496229347

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9781496229342

Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University

Wrestling with the Ghost of a Bull

By: Sabrina Liccardo

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Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University

Wrestling with the Ghost of a Bull

By: Sabrina Liccardo

This book proposes a conceptual-empirical framework for exploring forms of continuity and change along psychosocial pathways in South African universities. It illustrates how the psychosocial pathways are grounded in the symbolic narratives and knowledges of young scientists, engineers and architects - all interlocutors in the research from which this book is based. Alala, Mamoratwa, Welile, Odirile, Kaiya, Amirah, Takalani, Nosakhele, Naila, Ambani, Khanyisile, Itumeleng, Ethwasa and Kgnaya provide collective standpoints in the multiplicities within and between the lived lives and told stories of young Black South African women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. In doing so, this compelling work advances possibilities for demythologising scientific endeavour as a white male achievement and shifting knowledge communities across gendered, racialised, class and national divides. This book presents an innovative narrative methodology, utilising the myth of the Minotaur to examine the state of the university at the heart of the hierarchical labyrinth in “post”-apartheid South Africa. Throughout the work the author wrestles with and self-reflexively highlights her own positionality as a white, middle-class South African woman to examine how this affects the production of this research in ways which serve to preserve the colonial knowledge system. With the rise of the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall student movement in South Africa, demanding for the fall of institutionalised racial hierarchies, the author uses the cover image of narrative formations in the spirit of exploration to think with and through undulating networked forms that could possibly forge new psychosocial pathways towards decolonising and reinventing South African universities. This work offers a unique conceptual and methodological resource for students and scholars of psychosocial and narrative theory, as well as those who are concerned about the politics of higher education, both in South Africa and in other contexts around the world.

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303049036X

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Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

By: Sabrina Billings

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Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

By: Sabrina Billings

Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783090774

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9781783090778

Curriculum Connections for Tree House Travelers for Grades K-4

By: Jane Berner,Sabrina Minser,Helen Burkart Presser

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Curriculum Connections for Tree House Travelers for Grades K-4

By: Jane Berner,Sabrina Minser,Helen Burkart Presser

If your students love the Magic Tree House books, you will love this book! Cross all curricular areas and engage students in meaningful and stimulating learning experiences. Guide students on thrilling trips through time to Magic Tree House locations where they will discover dinosaurs, knights and castles, Egyptian mummies and pyramids, and pirates and buried treasure. Collaborate with technology specialists, art teachers, and classroom teachers to create units that touch every student. Find cross-curricular lessons and in-depth studies of time and place, designed to promote deep learning in students while motivating them to read both fiction and nonfiction. Designed for elementary students, these literature-based units are easily adaptable to middle school students.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1586833553

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Justice and Profit in Health Care Law

A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom

By: Sabrina Germain

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Justice and Profit in Health Care Law

A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom

By: Sabrina Germain

The issue of justice in the field of health care is becoming more central with concerns over access, cost and provision. Obamacare in the United States and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in the United Kingdom are key examples illustrating the increasing pressure put on governments to find just and equitable solutions to the problem of health care provision. Justice and Profit in Health Care Law explores the influence of justice principles on the elaboration of laws reforming health care systems. By examining the role played by key for-profit stakeholders (doctors, employers and insurers), it tracks the evolution of distributive norms for the allocation of health care resources in western welfare states. Essentially, this book sheds light on the place given to justice in the health care law-making process in order to understand the place we wish to give these principles in future health care reforms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509902724

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9781509902729

Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping

Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States

By: Sabrina Karim,Kyle Beardsley

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Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping

Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States

By: Sabrina Karim,Kyle Beardsley

Recent developments such as Sweden's' Feminist Foreign Policy, the "Hillary Doctrine," and the integration of women into combat roles in the U.S. have propelled gender equality to the forefront of international politics. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, however, has been integrating gender equality into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades as part of the women, peace and security agenda that has been most clearly articulated in UNSC Resolution 1325. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality in peacekeeping operations and been vehicles for promoting gender equality in post-conflict states? While there have been major improvements related to women's participation and protection, there is still much left to be desired. Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley argue that gender power imbalances between the sexes and among genders place restrictions on the participation of women in peacekeeping missions. Specifically, discrimination, a relegation of women to safe spaces, and sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and violence (SEAHV) continue to threaten progress on gender equality. Using unique cross-national data on sex-disaggregated participation of peacekeepers and on the allegations of SEAHV, as well as original data from the UN Mission in Liberia, the authors examine the origins and consequences of these challenges. Karim and Beardsley also identify and examine how increasing the representation of women in peacekeeping forces, and even more importantly through enhancing a more holistic value for "equal opportunity," can enable peacekeeping operations to overcome the challenges posed by power imbalances and be more of an example of and vehicle for gender equality globally.

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Oxford University Press

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0190602430

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9780190602437

Social Currents in Eastern Europe

The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Social Currents in Eastern Europe

The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Examines the meanings and sources of various social currents - intellectual dissent, feminism, religious activism, the formation of independent youth cultures and movements, and trade unionism - in seven communist countries.

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Duke University Press

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0822315483

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9780822315483

Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

The Postmigrant Condition

By: Moritz Schramm,Sten Pultz Moslund,Anne Ring Petersen,Mirjam Gebauer,Hans Christian Post,Sabrina Vitting-Seerup,Frauke Wiegand

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Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

The Postmigrant Condition

By: Moritz Schramm,Sten Pultz Moslund,Anne Ring Petersen,Mirjam Gebauer,Hans Christian Post,Sabrina Vitting-Seerup,Frauke Wiegand

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts. The authors explore postmigrant theory in relation to the visual arts, theater, film and literature as well as the representation of migration and cultural diversity in cultural institutions, offering case studies of postmigrant analyses of contemporary works of art from Europe (mainly Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).

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Routledge

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0429013671

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9780429013676

A Home Built from Love and Loss

Coming Together As a Blended Family

By: Sabrina McDonald

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A Home Built from Love and Loss

Coming Together As a Blended Family

By: Sabrina McDonald

Grieving is part of every blended family. Sabrina and her new husband were both widowed when their families blended, so grieving was expected. They recognized the losses suffered in their families would take time to heal. What they have since learned is that every blended family experiences grieving--whether you are widowed or divorced. And the process usually takes longer than expected. Sabrina vulnerably shares her personal experiences and struggles, revealing her mistakes and fears that she had early on in her new marriage and with her new family. In A Home Built from Love and Loss, you'll learn towork through different parenting styles as a stepmother or stepfather;parent kids in different ages and stages of development (hormones, personalities, and power dynamics);compassionately address chaos and hurt feelings together and independently;deal with feelings of gui“/li>handle initial rejection from stepchildren;glean biblical wisdom on how to do life together with grace;connect better on an emotional level with your newly-formed family while keeping traditions that have grounded your family; andhonor the bereaved or divorced spouse.For anyone facing the challenges of blended families, A Home Built from Love and Loss offers practical advice and spiritual guidance to find hope in the midst of grief.

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Focus on the Family

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1646071026

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9781646071029

Jet Li

Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom

By: Sabrina Q Yu

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Jet Li

Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom

By: Sabrina Q Yu

This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the transnational Chinese actor Jet Li, probably the best martial arts actor alive.Jet Li's career has crossed numerous cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hollywood to France. In Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom, Sabrina Qiong Yu uses Li as an example to address some intriguing but under-examined issues surrounding transnational stardom in general and transnational kung fu stardom in particular.Presenting case studies of audiences' responses to Jet Li films and his star image, this book explores the way in which Li has evolved from a Chinese wuxia hero to a transnational kung fu star in relation to the discourses of genre, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and national identity. By rejecting a text-centred approach which prevails in star studies and instead emphasising the role of audiences in constructing star image, this book challenges some established perspectives in the study of Chinese male screen images and martial arts/action cinema.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748689559

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9780748689552

Nuestra América

30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States

By: Sabrina Vourvoulias

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Nuestra América

30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States

By: Sabrina Vourvoulias

Celebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra América, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Nuestra América highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their incredible contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States. The stories in this book cover each figure's cultural background, childhood, and the challenges and opportunities they met in pursuit of their goals. A glossary of terms and discussion question-filled reading guide, created by the Smithsonian Latino Center, encourage further research and exploration. Twenty-three of the stories featured in this anthology will also be included in the future Molina Family Latino Gallery, the first national gallery dedicated to Latina/o/xs at the Smithsonian. This book is a must-have for teachers looking to create a more inclusive curriculum, Latina/o/x youth who need to see themselves represented as an important part of the American story, and all parents who want their kids to have a better understanding of American history. Featuring beautiful portraits by Gloria Félix, this is a book that children (and adults) will page through and learn from again and again. Nuestra América profiles the following notable figures: Sylvia Acevedo, Luis Álvarez, Pura Belpré, Martha E. Bernal, Julia de Burgos, César Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Roberto Clemente, Celia Cruz, Olga E. Custodio, Óscar de la Renta, Jaime Escalante, Macario García, Emma González, Laurie Hernández, Juan Felipe Herrera, Dolores Huerta, Jennifer Lopez, Xiuhtezcatl Martínez, Sylvia Méndez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, C. David Molina, Rita Moreno, Ellen Ochoa, Jorge Ramos, Sylvia Rivera, María Elena Salinas, Sonia Sotomayor, Dara Torres, and Robert Unanue.

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Running Press Kids

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0762497483

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9780762497485

Global Domestic Workers

Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights

By: Sabrina Marchetti,Daniela Cherubini,Giulia Garofalo Geymonat

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Global Domestic Workers

Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights

By: Sabrina Marchetti,Daniela Cherubini,Giulia Garofalo Geymonat

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights. The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from migrants and low-income groups to racialized and rural girls and women. Casting light on issues such as subjectification, and collective organizing on the part of a category of workers conventionally regarded as unorganizable, this ambitious volume will be invaluable for scholars, policy makers and activists alike.

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Policy Press

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1529207916

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The Human Disease

How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

By: Sabrina Sholts

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The Human Disease

How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

By: Sabrina Sholts

How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last—because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about pandemic risks, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us. Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences, scientific findings, and historical stories, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms large in Sholts’s account, it is, in fact, just one of the many infectious disease events explored in The Human Disease. With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks, Sholts suggests, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens, and how bad it becomes, are largely within our highly capable human hands—and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brains.

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

The rapidly growing world population and increasingly dense settlements demand ever-larger and more complex buildings from today's engineers. In comparison to this technological progress, a building's equipment for emergency evacuation has been hardly developed further. This work presents a concept for a building evacuation system based on mobile devices. Furthermore, various algorithms for route planning with mobile devices and for indoor localization of mobile devices are addressed.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731502070

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Financing Healthcare in China

Towards universal health insurance

By: Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk

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Financing Healthcare in China

Towards universal health insurance

By: Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk

China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run. This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes. Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful.

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Routledge

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1315516276

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Delicious Temptation

By: Sabrina Sol

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Delicious Temptation

By: Sabrina Sol

Amara Maria Robles is a good girl. So good that she gave up her dreams of becoming a renowned pastry chef to help her parents with their struggling Mexican bakery. Yet her parents reject any changes she suggests, and refuse to sell her mouth-watering confections. Clearly being a good girl isn't paying off. So when her brother's sexy ex-best friend walks into the bakery, Amara's tempted to be very bad indeed... After a scandal twelve years ago, resident bad boy Eric Valencia has returned to make things right with his family and friends. One glance at Amara and her wicked curves, however, and Eric finds himself thinking about how she'd feel beneath him-something he promised Amara's brother he would never think about, let alone do. But this bad boy is in deep trouble...because Amara's determined to have her cake, and Eric, too. Each book in the Delicious Desires series is STANDALONE: * Delicious Temptation * Delicious Complication * Delicious Satisfaction

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Entangled: Brazen

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The Relationship of Body Weight and Skepticism towards Advertising

By: Sabrina Brauneis

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The Relationship of Body Weight and Skepticism towards Advertising

By: Sabrina Brauneis

Based on the Self-Esteem Theory, Gender Theories, the Cognitive Dissonance Theory and the Social Comparison Theory Sabrina Brauneis investigates the relationship between body weight (conceptualized and measured here using the Body Mass Index (BMI)) and skepticism towards advertising. The first study’s findings support a general direct influence of body weight on skepticism towards advertising. The second study finds out that specific products influence the relation of body weight, self-esteem and skepticism towards advertising. The third study discovers seasons as a crucial factor on the relationship. The fourth study shows that overweight models cause higher levels of skepticism towards advertising among normal weight and overweight women.

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Plantation Life on Old River and Beyond

An Autobiographical Story Based on the Life of Henry Gage, Sr

By: Henry Gage,Cowander V. Gage,Sabrina V. Gage

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Plantation Life on Old River and Beyond

An Autobiographical Story Based on the Life of Henry Gage, Sr

By: Henry Gage,Cowander V. Gage,Sabrina V. Gage

Issac Asimov once said "I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't I would die." I feel the same way. My poetry is an outlet for my frustration, my anger, my happiness, and my confusion. While reading the poetry contained in these pages you may feel those same emotions. My goal was to trap these feelings in the moment and set them free. Some of these pages contain advice that may benefit you in some way. Take to heart the words and emotions trapped here and then set your problems free as well. Don't let them drown you..... just let them go.

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Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation

An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach

By: Heather Atkinson,Kim Nixon-Cave,Sabrina Smith

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Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation

An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach

By: Heather Atkinson,Kim Nixon-Cave,Sabrina Smith

Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach is a groundbreaking text designed to enhance the practice of all health care providers, enrich discussion, and emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of managing best outcomes for a child who has had a stroke. Evidence-based practice is threaded throughout the text with an emphasis on recovery vs. compensation, goal achievement, and outcome measurement. In conjunction with the interdisciplinary contributions from a wide variety of health care professionals, Drs. Heather Atkinson, Kim Nixon-Cave, and Sabrina E. Smith aim to provide the necessary tools to effectively treat children with stroke. The first section reviews the medical fundamentals, covering all major types of strokes. The second section of Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation focuses on the core of the matter, rehabilitation. The final section expands the understanding of the child’s recovery to the family, community, and school environment. Select chapters include: Personal vignettes written by family members of children who have had a stroke that provides insight into the impact a stroke can have on the child and family A family focus box to summarize the main points of the chapter to provide the best tools for caregivers to advocate for their child A case study related to the content and family perspective Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation also utilizes the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework throughout. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach is an interdisciplinary and invaluable resource for students and clinicians to understand and apply effective evidence-based practice and treatment approaches for childhood stroke. The text will also be of interest to healthcare professionals, specifically physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physicians, neuropsychologists, nurses, and educators, who work with children who have experienced a stroke.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040135773

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Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil

The Politics of Life and Death

By: Sabrina Villenave

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Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil

The Politics of Life and Death

By: Sabrina Villenave

The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects. Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset – one that has persisted throughout Brazil’s experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the "war on drugs" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography.

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Routledge

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1000528308

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Capillary Electrophoresis: Principles and Practice

By: Reinhard Kuhn,Sabrina Hoffstetter-Kuhn

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Capillary Electrophoresis: Principles and Practice

By: Reinhard Kuhn,Sabrina Hoffstetter-Kuhn

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a brand-new analytical me- thod with the capability of solving many analytical separa- tion problems very fast and economically. This method gives new information about the investigated substances which can- not easily be obtained by other means. CE has become an established method only recently, but will be implemented in almost every analytical laboratory in industry, service units and academia in the near future. The most important fields of CE application are pharmaceutical and biochemical research and quality control. The authors have exhaustive practical experience in the application of CE methods in the pharmaceutical industry and provide the reader with a comprehensive treatment of this method. The main focus is on how to solve problems when applying CE in the laboratory. Physico-chemical theory is only dealt with in depth when necessary to understand the underlying separation mechanisms in order to solve your problems at the analytical bench. An addendum includes tables on the preparation of buffers and recommended further reading.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364278058X

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Collectivist Visions of Modernity

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Collectivist Visions of Modernity

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Poland, and Donald Trump’s United States.

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Central European University Press

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9633863104

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9789633863107

Computer Security - ESORICS 2005

10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Milan, Italy, September 12-14, 2005, Proceedings

By: Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati

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Computer Security - ESORICS 2005

10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Milan, Italy, September 12-14, 2005, Proceedings

By: Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2005, held in Milan, Italy in September 2005. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. Among the topics addressed are access control, security protocols, digital signature schemes, intrusion detection, voting systems, electronic voting, authorization, language-based security, network security, denial-of-service attacks, anonymous communications, and security analysis.

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3540289631

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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Marie Chase

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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Marie Chase

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? Through an exploration of life and death among these resourceful women, thebook provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813552591

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Democratic Transition in Croatia

Value Transformation, Education, and Media

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Democratic Transition in Croatia

Value Transformation, Education, and Media

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. Central to the Croatian experience has been the issue of nationalism and whether the Croatian state should be defined as a citizens' state (with members of all nationality groups treated as equal) or as a national state of the Croats (with a consequent privileging of Croatian culture and language, but also with a quota system for members of national minorities). Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Mati ́c have gathered here a series of studies by important scholars to examine the development of Croatia in the aftermath of communism and the war that marred the transition. Sixteen scholars of the region discuss the values and institutions central to Croatia's transformation from communism and toward liberal democracy. They discuss economic change, political parties, and the uses of history since 1989. To understand the patterns in Croatia, they examine how civic values have been expressed, reinforced, and sometimes challenged through religion, education, and the media. The implications of nationalism in its various manifestations are treated thematically in all the analyses. This book is a companion volume to a similar study on Slovenia, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner and released in fall 2006. Together, these two works form an important case study in comparison and contrast between two countries in the same region going through the transition from communism to liberal democracy. Scholars and policy makers will find a wealth of material in these two volumes.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603444521

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Tales To Warm Your Heart

Together In The Rain and Other Stories

By: Vanessa Renee Min Ng,Brigitte Tang,Ian Choo,Dejoy Shastikk Kumaran,Sharon Skariah,Nur Sabrina Dzulkifli,Sng Li Lyn

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Tales To Warm Your Heart

Together In The Rain and Other Stories

By: Vanessa Renee Min Ng,Brigitte Tang,Ian Choo,Dejoy Shastikk Kumaran,Sharon Skariah,Nur Sabrina Dzulkifli,Sng Li Lyn

Prepare to have your heartstrings tugged at as you delve into stories written by the young; read of young maids becoming ballerinas, an unlikely friendship between two soldiers, a runner with an important message and finding your Happily Ever After against all odds.

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Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

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9814320900

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9789814320900

Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Sal Restivo,Sabrina M. Weiss,Alexander Stingl

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Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Sal Restivo,Sabrina M. Weiss,Alexander Stingl

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics, social cognition, and medical ethics. Offering innovative approaches to these issues, such as an integrated social brain-mind-body model and a critique of divisions between the natural and technological, this book provides novel conceptions of self, society and an emerging ’cyborg’ generation. From the micro level of brains and expanding all the way out to biopolitical civics, disciplinary boundaries are made permeable, emphasizing the increased need for interdisciplinary scholarship. By rejecting outdated and restrictive categories and classifications, new horizons in studies of science, technology, and medicine can be explored through the incorporation of feminist, international, and postmodern perspectives. A truly interdisciplinary examination of science and technology as cultural phenomena, Worlds of ScienceCraft will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies, as well as philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, technology, and medicine.

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