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On Video Games

The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

By: Soraya Murray

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On Video Games

The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

By: Soraya Murray

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts.As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. This book examines both their elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds, whose social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalisation and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture. Demonstrating that games are at the frontline of power relations, she reimagines how we see them - and more importantly how we understand them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178672250X

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9781786722508

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers

Egypt's Changing Northwest Coast

By: Donald Powell Cole,Soraya Altorki

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Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers

Egypt's Changing Northwest Coast

By: Donald Powell Cole,Soraya Altorki

A new e-book edition of the classic study of the radical changes in lifestyle, trade, agriculture, and land use that have taken place on Egypt's northwest coast in the face of a huge influx of Nile Valley settlers and touristsThe arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions has for centuries been sustained. In the late twentieth century, however, forces such as modernization, globalization, and the politics and economics of nations became so great that major changes in the old ways.

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American Univ in Cairo Press

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9774244842

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9789774244841

On Video Games

The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

By: Soraya Murray

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The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

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Designs for Life

Molecular Biology After World War II

By: Soraya de Chadarevian

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Designs for Life

Molecular Biology After World War II

By: Soraya de Chadarevian

An important study on the making of molecular biology and its cultural contexts.

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452

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Cambridge University Press

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0521570786

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9780521570787

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

A Novel

By: Soraya Palmer

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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

A Novel

By: Soraya Palmer

“Mothers never die. Children love to resurrect us in they stories.” Folktales and spirits animate this lively and unforgettable coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother’s illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's past Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their father’s violence and their mother’s worsening illness, an unsettled Zora escapes into her journal, dreaming of being a writer, while Sasha discovers sex and chest binding, spending more time with her new girlfriend than at home. But the sisters, like their parents, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know—and reckon with a family secret buried in the past. A tale told from the perspective of a mischievous narrator, featuring the Rolling Calf who haunts butchers, Mama Dglo who lives in the ocean, a vain tiger, and an outsmarted snake, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts is set in a world as alive and unpredictable as Helen Oyeyemi’s. Telling of the love between sisters who don’t always see eye to eye, this extraordinary debut novel is a celebration of the power of stories, asking, What happens to us when our stories are erased? Do we disappear? Or do we come back haunting?

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289

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Catapult

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1646222180

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9781646222186

Heredity under the Microscope

Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

By: Soraya de Chadarevian

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Heredity under the Microscope

Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

By: Soraya de Chadarevian

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twentieth century, researchers studied chromosomes by looking through a microscope. Unlike any other technique, chromosome analysis offered a direct glimpse of the complete human genome, opening up seemingly endless possibilities for observation and intervention. Critics, however, countered that visual evidence was not enough and pointed to the need to understand the molecular mechanisms. Telling this history in full for the first time, Soraya de Chadarevian argues that the often bewildering variety of observations made under the microscope were central to the study of human genetics. Making space for microscope-based practices alongside molecular approaches, de Chadarevian analyzes the close connections between genetics and an array of scientific, medical, ethical, legal, and policy concerns in the atomic age. By exploring the visual evidence provided by chromosome research in the context of postwar biology and medicine, Heredity under the Microscope sheds new light on the cultural history of the human genome.

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318

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University of Chicago Press

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022668525X

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9780226685250

Molecularizing Biology and Medicine

New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s

By: Soraya de Chadarevian,Harmke Kamminga

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Molecularizing Biology and Medicine

New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s

By: Soraya de Chadarevian,Harmke Kamminga

The contributors present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production, and uses of molecules including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and vaccines. These case studies examine how processes of molecularization were set in motion in the inter-war period, how they were used as a resource in the biomedical 'mobilization' of World War II, and how new alliances and strategies created as part of the war effort played a central role in the reorganisation of biomedicine in the post-war period.

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586

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Taylor & Francis

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1135298009

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9781135298005

Models

The Third Dimension of Science

By: Soraya de Chadarevian,Nick Hopwood

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Models

The Third Dimension of Science

By: Soraya de Chadarevian,Nick Hopwood

Now that '3-D models’ are so often digital displays on flat screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were once the third dimension of science. This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. These remarkable artefacts were fixtures of laboratories and lecture halls, studios and workshops, dockyards and museums. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as in teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge. Accessible and original chapters by leading scholars highlight the special properties of models, explore the interplay between representation in two dimensions and three, and investigate the shift to modelling with computers. The book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the sciences, medicine, and technology, and in collections and museums.

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Stanford University Press

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0804739722

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9780804739726

Proposal Writing

Effective Grantsmanship for Funding

By: Soraya M. Coley,Cynthia A. Scheinberg,Yulia A. Levites Strekalova

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Proposal Writing

Effective Grantsmanship for Funding

By: Soraya M. Coley,Cynthia A. Scheinberg,Yulia A. Levites Strekalova

The updated Sixth Edition of the best-selling Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding offers a fresh, robust presentation of the basics of program design and proposal writing for community services funding. Authors Soraya M. Coley, Cynthia A. Scheinberg, and new co-author Yulia A. Levites Strekalova help readers develop the knowledge they need to understand community agencies, identify and describe community needs, identify funding sources, develop a viable program evaluation, prepare a simple line-item budget, and write a compelling need statement. The jargon-free, step-by-step presentation makes the book as useful to students in the university classroom as to first-time grant writers in the nonprofit setting. The new edition adds activities that can be done individually or in class to build students′ skills and apply the chapter material.

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161

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SAGE Publications

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154437156X

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9781544371566

Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By: Soraya Boudia,Angela N. H. Creager,Scott Frickel,Emmanuel Henry,Nathalie Jas,Carsten Reinhardt,Jody A. Roberts

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Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By: Soraya Boudia,Angela N. H. Creager,Scott Frickel,Emmanuel Henry,Nathalie Jas,Carsten Reinhardt,Jody A. Roberts

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978818033

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9781978818033

Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

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Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION*** NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today ***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION*** Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage. As women, we’ve been urged for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet there are so, so many legitimate reasons for us to feel angry, ranging from blatant, horrifying acts of misogyny to the subtle drip, drip drip of daily sexism that reinforces the absurdly damaging gender norms of our society. In Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly argues that our anger is not only justified, it is also an active part of the solution. We are so often encouraged to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Approached with conscious intention, anger is a vital instrument, a radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power—one we can no longer abide. “A work of great spirit and verve” (Time), Rage Becomes Her is a validating, energizing read that will change the way you interact with the world around you.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501189573

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9781501189579

In My Humble Opinion

My So-Called Life

By: Roberts, Soraya

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In My Humble Opinion

My So-Called Life

By: Roberts, Soraya

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late Í90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela ChaseÍs search for her identity, MSCLÍs realistic representation of adolescence on TV was groundbreaking; without her there would be no Buffy or Felicity, Rory Gilmore or Veronica Mars. The seriesÍ broadcast coincided with the arrival of third-wave feminism, the first feminist movement to make teen voices a priority, and Angela became their small-screen spokesperson. From her perspective, MSCL explored gender, identity, sexuality, race, class, body image, and other issues vital to the third wave (and the world). To this day, passionate fans dissect everything from what Rickie Vasquez did for gay representation to what Jordan Catalano did for leaning, and Soraya Roberts makes an invaluable contribution to that conversation with In My Humble Opinion.

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ECW Press

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177090882X

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9781770908826

Harlequin Romance March 2014 Bundle

An Anthology

By: Soraya Lane,Michelle Douglas,Jennifer Faye,Nikki Logan

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Harlequin Romance March 2014 Bundle

An Anthology

By: Soraya Lane,Michelle Douglas,Jennifer Faye,Nikki Logan

Harlequin Romance brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin Romance bundle includes The Returning Hero by Soraya Lane, Road Trip with the Eligible Bachelor by Michelle Douglas, Safe in the Tycoon’s Arms by Jennifer Faye and Awakened By His Touch by Nikki Logan. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Romance!

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569

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146033244X

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9781460332443

Different Views of Anxiety Disorders

By: Salih Selek

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Different Views of Anxiety Disorders

By: Salih Selek

Anxiety, whether an illness or emotion, is a term with historical roots even in the Bible, but it was not popular until the modern age. Today, we can group, diagnose and treat several anxiety disorders to an extent, but the assessment of symptoms and severity, dealing with resistant conditions, new treatment modalities and specific patient population, such as children, are still the challenging aspects of anxiety disorders. This book intends to present anxiety disorders from a different view and discuss a wide variety of topics in anxiety from a multidimensional approach. This Open Access book addresses not only psychiatrists but also a broad range of specialists, including psychologists, neuroscientists and other mental health professionals.

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IntechOpen

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9533075600

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Book's by Soraya Murray

On Video Games

On Video Games

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers

On Video Games

On Video Games

Designs for Life

Designs for Life

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Heredity under the Microscope

Heredity under the Microscope

Molecularizing Biology and Medicine

Molecularizing Biology and Medicine

Models

Models

Proposal Writing

Proposal Writing

Residues

Residues

Rage Becomes Her

Rage Becomes Her

In My Humble Opinion

In My Humble Opinion

Harlequin Romance March 2014 Bundle

Harlequin Romance March 2014 Bundle

Different Views of Anxiety Disorders

Different Views of Anxiety Disorders

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