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American resistance
Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative data, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how resistance gro...
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American zoo
A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zooOrangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old televis...
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An address in paris
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account.
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An examination of mate selection in the online realm
The use of online matchmaking has increased dramatically over recent years and has become a popular means for individuals to find an intimate partner. The consequences of such services, for both individuals and the larger society, remain largely unknown. International chapters address the nature ...
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An internet for the people
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early i...
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An introduction to platform economy in india
Digital platforms garner both apprehension and admiration for their disruptive influence on social systems, structures, and everyday lives. The authors explore the operational socio-technical framework of India's growing platform economy at the confluence of numerous platform ecosystems developed...
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An ungovernable foe
Natalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation.
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Anarchism and its aspirations
An accessible and thorough overview of anarchist figures and tendencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Anarchist cybernetics
From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignited a re-emergence of participatory democracy as a political ideal within organizations. This pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies to explore the cont...
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Anarchy and society
Sociology and anarchism share many common interests although often interpreting each in differently including community, solidarity, feminism, restorative justice, and social domination
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Animals and society
Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct po...
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Animals and the human imagination
Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South Afri...
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Appearance as capital
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Taking a sociological approach, the authors of Appearance as Capital examine physical appearance as a normatively regulated form of capital and explore how it is possible to accumulate and convert capital based on...
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Appetite for innovation
The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar, in...
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Arab and middle eastern sport
This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regio...
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Architecture and the public good
The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. This dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and proposes solutions that wou...
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Art of memories
In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage’s curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self...
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Artificial intelligence – intelligent art?
This book discusses the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
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Artificial whiteness
Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all...
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Ascent to glory
Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment Gabriel García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyo...
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Athletic activism
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.
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Backboards and blackboards
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Backpacking culture and mobilities
This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpacking’s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological develop...
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Banding together
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--rangin...
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Banished to the homeland
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological a...
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Bauman and contemporary sociology
This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagem...
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Bauman's legacy
What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.
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Becoming an ally, 3rd edition
Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism — for all people who recognize their privilege and want to move toward a more just world by learning to act as a...
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Becoming black political subjects
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralisti...
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Becoming right
How divergent campus cultures affect conservative college studentsConservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to yo...
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Beer and racism
Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of...
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Being there, but how?
This book launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.
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Beyond 9 to 5
In Beyond 9 to 5, Sarah Norgate investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way we regard and are affected by time. Using everyday examples from around the world, her intriguing analysis unravels both the mental and biological mysteries of our relationships wit...
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Beyond marx and other entries
Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores everything from semiotics, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political science, to Franz Kafka's literary works.
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Beyond microfoundations and macrofoundations of institutions
Transcending the limitations of Coleman’s “bathtub” metaphor, papers advance a multilevel theory of institutions as dynamic, recursive systems. Rather than privileging micro-action or macro-structure, contributors view institutions as a continuum where influence flows continuously across levels—f...
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Beyond quantity
This book asks what epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data.
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Beyond the beat
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat loo...
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Beyond the digital divide
This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.
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Beyond the nation-state
Examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture. This title also examines the role of education in diffusing such attitudes and models, as global citizens confront national institutions.
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Black sun
Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.
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Black toledo
Black Toldeo is a documentary history of the African American experience of resettlement focusing on the particular experience of Toledo, Ohio.
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Black youth aspirations
This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.
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Blame the intern
An inside look at the work lives of college interns and their uncertain path to paid employmentWhile generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counselors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern take...
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Blessed are the organized
How ordinary citizens band together to bring about real changeIn an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But...
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Blogging in beirut
Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of p...
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