This text discusses key debates in the sociology of ethnicity and race, arguing that ethnicity is culturally expressed and politically and economically contextualised. World-wide examples are used to give an international and comparative perspective.
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested concept. More space is given to ideas of 'threat' and 'competition' in conceptualizing ethnicity, as well as to recent issues in migration, especially increased migration to the US from Central and South America. Fenton situates ethnic identities and interest in the changing modern world, and seeks to explain the contemporary conditions of delineation along ethnic and racial lines. Without assuming the centrality of ethnic difference, this book asks: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is it as important as many have assumed? The second edition of Fenton's highly regarded Ethnicity will continue to be an invaluable text for students of sociology, politics and international relations coming to the subject for the first time. Its innovative and challenging approach will also appeal to more advanced scholars of race and ethnicity.
Explore the features of this innovative open source language in depth, from working with the type system through object-orientation to understanding the runtime and the TypeScript compiler. This fully revised and updated second edition of Steve Fenton’s popular book covers everything you need to discover this fascinating language and transform your experience of JavaScript development. What’s New in This Edition Coverage of major changes to modules, namespaces, and module loading New guidance on how to use inference to reduce the effort of using TypeScript Recommendations on compiler options A wide range of feature updates from intersections and tuples to async/await and the new approach to mixins What You’ll Learn Understand the TypeScript type system, and how to use it effectively Apply object-oriented design using TypeScript Use modules effectively to manage large programs Integrate existing frameworks and libraries into your TypeScript program Who This Book Is For Web developers looking for a modern approach to JavaScript development
Cranked helps teams and organisations to effectively deliver software in a changeable or uncertain environment. This book will teach you all about the values, activities and practices that you need to know to delight your customers with your software product. With the techniques in this book you can: - Improve product quality - Release faster and with less errors - Focus on value - Deliver more features - Increase motivation and job satisfaction - Make your customers and end-users happy If you are already working in an agile or lean team, Cranked could accelerate you to the next level. If you are switching to agile or lean - Cranked will help you to avoid common problems in failed agile adoptions. Cranked can be used in any size of organisation to solve complex software development problems.
So here it is, a collection from the “New Meanings†section of The Odford English Dictionary. A hand-picked list of around 500 of the best entries, presented to you neatly arranged into several categories by skilled capuchins, edited by the tea boy and accidentally leaked to the public on a series of disks left in the back of a taxi.
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
If you are interested in learning how to use Octopus Deploy, this book will take you through the whole process in just eight steps, with plenty of tips and screen-shots to aid learning. * Learn how to package your application and database * Find out how to publish packages to the library * Discover how to create an automated deployment process * Learn how to manage environments and machines * Move your software along a deployment pipeline * Add steps to obtain approval for deployments
If you are wondering which metrics are important, confused about the kind of chart you should add to your dashboards, or want to discover how to find and fix incidents before your customers even know there is a problem; this book can fill those gaps in just a couple of commutes. I'll explain what metrics to start with, and how you can use a simple process to refine your strategy over time to find metrics that are appropriate to your context. This book covers the following web operations monitoring fundamentals: - Incident management - Metric collection - Creating dashboards - Selecting metrics - Choosing chart types - Monitoring metrics to detect problems - Raising alarms and sending alerts
The works of Emile Durkheim have had an enormous influence on sociology. This book provides, first, a clearly written introduction to Durkheim's major works, looking at each of the major fields to which he contributed. Secondly, it examines the ways in which Durkheim has continued to provide inspiration in a variety of areas within sociology. It therefore focuses closely on live issues within the subject and shows the continuing relevance of Durkheim's work to issues of topical concern, such as the division of labour and class conflict, the state, race, education, law and deviance and religion. Thirdly, it provides an assessment of the interpretations of Durkheim as a 'radical' thinker, in contrast to the view of him as fundamentally conservative. It will provide a valuable introduction to students of one of sociology's founding fathers and will be of interest to those interested in sociology as a whole for its assessment of the contemporary relevance of Durkheim's thought for major issues.
This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.
MONSTER! #34 - Boasting eye-poppingly colorful "Kappa" cover art by Ian Coleman, our first issue of MONSTER! in about a year is yet another monstrously HUGE 370-page behemoth, cram-jammed from cover-to-cover with all manner of exotic creature feature loveliness! Articles this ish include in-depth coverage of Yōkai Monsters in folklore and cinema (etc.) by Jolyon Yates and Michael Hauss; Parts 4]5 of Stephen R. Bissette's epic career-spanning article on/interview with American D.I.Y. master monster-maker Brett Piper; Daniel Best's piece about the now-lost silent era Australian spook shocker FISHER'S GHOST (1924); the second and final part of "Channel of Darkness," Stephen Jilks' retrospective of BBC-TV's 1970s horror programming (including DOCTOR WHO and much more); "The Horror of the Unseen," David SHEER FILTH Flint's article covering The Beeb's gothic ghost stories for Christmas; the second instalment of Christos Mouroukis' film-by-film overview of the GODZILLA movie series; plus "The House that Josh Built," Troy Howarth's (second) M! interview with up-'n'-coming young indie filmmaker Joshua Kennedy, whose latest TLC production HOUSE OF THE GORGON (co-starring Hammer glamour gals Veronica Carlson and Martine Beswicke!) will be premiering at Monster Bash 2019. In addition to all our coverage of Japanese kaidan/kaiju fare this issue, we've also got plentiful other international content too, including reviews of cinematic exotica from other such parts of the globe as India, Italy, Argentina, Malaysia, and the U.S. of A. Other writing contributors for M! #34 include: Shamya Dasgupta, Kinshuk Gaur, Dennis Capicik, Martín Núñez, Eric Messina, Les Moore, Tim Paxton, and Steve Fenton. Other original artworks were contributed by BC Sterrett, Marcio Costa, and Denis St. John.
Based on an analysis of the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data set 1996-97 and on surveys of higher education institutions, staff and students. Investigates current practice and attitudes towards equal opportunities for ethnic minority academics.
Part-time PI Paul Rook—the “brilliantly original detective”—returns in this high-concept, thrilling sequel to Philosophical Investigations (Robert Foster, bestselling author of The Lunar Code). Dr. Paul Rook’s life is a mess: he drinks too much, his wife has left him for his best friend, and he spends his days teaching philosophy to students who aren’t interested at all. Thankfully, he has another life—a sideline career as a private investigator. So when he meets Mary King, whose small-time criminal husband has been shot dead in an Istanbul hotel room, he gladly takes the case. Almost immediately a mysterious character, known only as Gladiator, begins to send text messages to Rook, warning him off the trail. As the messages continue, the body count starts to mount. Rook soon finds himself immersed in the murky world of crooked politicians, shady arms deals, and a web of criminals and cover-ups that extends further than he could ever have imagined . . .
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