Extraordinary encounters

Explores the theoretical and methodological challenges that the "Interview" brings to the discipline of "Ethnography". Argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. Contribu...

Extraordinary forms of aging

This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria.

Extraordinary renditions

Music, war, and imperial ambition touch three lives in this intricately woven story.

Extraterritorial

Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality’s centrality to twenty-first-century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the r...

Extreme collecting

A comprehensive debate from a historical and contemporary perspective on the practice of collecting difficult objects Offers a new perspective on the acquirement of objects related to war and genocide Evaluates the limits of new strategies for the practice of collecting Details t...

Extreme islam

Documentation from the self-proclaimed enemies of the West.

Extreme poverty, growth and inequality in bangladesh

This book is unique in that it focuses on extreme poverty. It brings together contributions from both academics and policy makers to address fundamental questions such as what difference does it make if we talk of extreme poverty as opposed to other more moderate forms of poverty?

Extreme teaming

Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of increasingly complex, cross industry projects. Amy Edmondson and Jean-Francois Harvey show vividly through their international cases how the complex demands of collaboration impact on management and revolutionize our understanding of teams.

Extremely lightweight guns

In this bold debut collection, Nikki Moustaki explores femininity in contexts that grapple with violence, mental illness, loss, love, and relationships. She investigates these themes through a variety of provocative narratives, settings, and forms: from a prose poem about a gun shop owner ranting...

Extremism and violent extremism in serbia

This volume explores the issues of extremism and violent extremism in Serbia through research from a multitude of different interdisciplinary perspectives. It explores the issue as evident on the ground in Serbia in 2017 and 2018, using fresh and original research and perspectives that demonstrat...

Exuberance

These dazzling poems are set in the earliest years of American aviation when daredevil pilots—women and men—thrilled spectators who had never seen an airplane.

Eye

Eye and brain

Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenom...

Eye brother horn

From Commonwealth Book Prize Shortlisted Author Bridget Pitt Finalist for the Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction and the Sunday Times Literary Fiction Long List  A Zulu foundling and a white missionary’s child raised as brothers in a world intent on making them enemies. A sweeping tale of ide...

Eye lake

Three disappearances, an underwater castle and the end of the world haunt this lively story of a northern town.

Eye of the century

Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests ...

Eye on the sky

The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentr...

Eyelid lick

Winner of the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series, this book is charged with ecstatic yet gritty humor and hyperkinetic desire.

Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers

“There is so much bottle-dark beauty here. Jake Skeets is a new, essential voice in poetry, in literature.” —TOMMY ORANGE

Eyes in the shadows

Even as scandals over the US military’s domestic surveillance of civilians continue to surface today, Eyes in the Shadows reveals how this monitoring of citizens began more than a century ago. In this new origin story of the US surveillance state, Alexandre Rios-Bordes returns to the First World ...

Eyes of the ocean

Eyes of the Ocean is Syaman Rapongan’s literary autobiography, both a powerful story of survival in a settler state and a masterful portrait of the Indigenous artist as a young man.

Eyes of the sky

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the island of Taiwan. In Eyes of the Sky, he invites readers to learn the ways of this oceanic world—and to learn to see their own worlds anew through a Tao lens.

Eyes on china

Eyes on China is the ideal textbook for students entering the third year of a four-year course of Chinese language study and those who are ready to move from an intermediate to advanced level. Bridging the gap between informal spoken Chinese and more formal written Chinese, this textbook presents...

Eyes on gaza

A powerful and impassioned collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time during the annihilation by a leading scholar of Islamophobia.All the world's eyes are now on Gaza and Palestine. Arab and Muslim-American law scholar and author Khaled A. Beydoun shares h...

Eyes to the south

A comparative study of the porous intellectual and political borders between a colonial power and the colonized.

Eyewitnesses to the russian revolution

The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.

F. scott fitzgerald: the great gatsby

More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the fir...

F.b. eyes

How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black ...

Fables and forensics

Emily Watlington, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

Fabricating consumers

Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped chang...

Facade greenery

On the basis of texts, photographs, and plans of around 50 most unusual contemporary examples, "Façade Greenery" documents the entire spectrum of this field, giving a piece of nature back to the city.

Face to face

In this extraordinary 1959 interview, Carl Gustav Jung speaks with disarming lucidity about death, God, dreams, and the psyche’s hidden depths.

Face to face with the cia

Face to Face with the CIA is the gripping firsthand account of the highest-ranking North Vietnamese officer taken captive during the war.

Facebook and philosophy

Faces in the crowd

Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing" (Alma Guillermoprieto).

Faces of crisis in 20th- and 21st-century prose

This book offers innovative readings of the motif of crisis as explored by twentieth- and twenty-first-century novelists, spanning personal and identity crisis, interpersonal relationships and family ties, and threats on a global scale.

Faces of muhammad

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have al...

Faces of power

Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence–on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most...

Faces of power

Seyom Brown’s authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the presen

Faces of state terrorism

Terrorism is usually discussed as the actions of individuals. This book argues that Governments carry out most acts of terrorism.

Facets of the enlightenment

Facets of the Enlightenment: Studies in English Literature and Its Contexts presents a collection of essays that delve into various aspects of English culture during the eighteenth century. The author emphasizes the complexity of this era, acknowledging its contradictions, self-contradictions, an...

Facilitating change across cultures

As the international development sector responds to calls for decolonisation and localisation, how can facilitators work humbly, wisely and respectfully across cultures to support positive change?This book asks readers to reflect on their own roles, values and power as facilitators in internation...

Facilitating software architecture

The software architect role is evolving. As systems and their interactions with the teams that build, run, and evolve them become more complex, it's often impossible for those playing the traditional architect roles to be everywhere they need to be. There's simply too much architecture to be done...

Facilitation basics, 2nd edition

Stop presenting and start facilitating meaningful learning.Whether you are a subject matter expert who occasionally takes on a trainer role, a trainer who wants to build on solid presentation skills, or anywhere in between, Facilitation Basics will help you create supportive and effective learnin...