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Exhibition catalog for show of the same title. Includes short biographies of more than 50 artists who worked at Atelier 17 as well as artwork they produced while working at the famous workshop in Paris and New York.

This co-edited volume explores the school to prison pipeline from an environmental and food justice perspective. Chapters represent the perspectives of diverse leading scholars in academia from all over the country and engages in an interdisciplinary framework for discussing a host of ideologies and social movements within environmental justice..

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The struggle for racial justice and the rise of Afro-civil society in Brazil and Salvador da Bahia is the main concern of Dr. Dixon's new book. Theoretically it contributes to Latin American critical racial theory and Afro-Brazilian social movements by providing deep insights regarding cultural politics in Salvador da Bahia by exploring the following: different forms of Black consciousness and cultural expressions; different levels of political action and social mobilization; and analyzes current debates on racial and gender discrimination and broader social inequality.

In T. E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a "dream palace" of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. America's Dream Palace brings into sharp focus the ways U.S. foreign policy has shaped the emergence of expertise concerning this crucial, often turbulent, and misunderstood part of the world.

This book is intended to teach the reader about the leading architecture technology called Revit.

The Elm Hill School for Feebleminded Children and Youth in Barre, Massachusetts was founded in 1848 and was the first school for children with intellectual disabilities in the United States. The school was known for its innovative methods and its long history of teaching students previously thought to be incapable of learning. Elm Hill was open for ninety-eight years and changed in response to the times, but it remained a home and haven for its residents until the end.

Most people are aware that there are negative impacts on children involved in bullying, however Bullying Scars discusses the consequences that carry over into adult life. While some people seem to shake off the effects of childhood maltreatment by peers and even by adults, others are left with harmful consequences to their general health, mental health, and overall well-being. The research for this book includes interviews with hundreds of adults and it found long-lasting problems in adult friendships and intimate relationships. Surprisingly a percentage of adults reported positive influences in their lives from childhood bullying.

The book provides an analysis and German translation of three early medieval monastic rules that are influenced by the Irish monk Columbanus (d. 615) who came to the Frankish Kingdoms at the end of the sixth century and instigated a wave of monastic foundations that had a strong impact on the development of medieval monastic life. All three rules appear to be eminent contributions to early medieval theology. They are documents of a phase of monastic history, in which notions of discipline and obedience, sacred space and boundaries, confession and penance, the control of affects and emotions and the theological basis of monastic life were still matters of experimentation and dispute.

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Composition in the Age of Austerity offers critical accounts of how the restructuring of higher education is shaping the daily realities of composition programs. Chapters chronicle how neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. Contributors also focus on how neoliberal political economy influences the direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods of delivery, and the ways of valuing and assessing writing also shape the primary concerns and directions of scholarship.

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Each chapter of Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition deals with the work of a different film composer working today. My chapter, on the music of Carter Burwell and titled Burwell and Space, Inner, Outer, Environmental and Acoustical, focuses primarily on Burwell's work with the Coen brothers, and on his unique and understated way of using music to generate filmic meaning.

Corresponding Voices is a poetry series created in 2002, presenting a new collection every spring, to be read as a dialogue among poets across cultures. The Point of Contact Gallery has become a habitual meeting place for poetry readings in all languages, integrating the participation of poets and scholars from the region and from abroad, as well as Syracuse University faculty and students. Vol. 9 includes new works from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Jane Springer, Caitlin Vance, and Santee Frazier.

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Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Educationexamines how English and literacy teacher education--a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives--shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity. Significant and timely, this book focuses attention on the unique needs and perspectives of racially and linguistically diverse preservice teachers in the field of literacy and English education and offers ways to improve teacher training to better meet the needs of preservice teachers from all racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. These changes have the potential to diversify the teacher force and cultivate teachers who bring rich racial, cultural, and linguistic histories to the field of teaching.

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This book examines the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships in fieldwork and acknowledging the impact these relationships have on scholarly findings and theories. The editors and their contributors investigate how globalization affects this relationship as scholars are increasingly involved in shared networks and are subject to the same socioeconomic systems as locals. The editors argue for a processual approach that begins with an analysis of researchers' personal and professional backgrounds that inform the cooperative relationships they establish during fieldwork - often a long term process - in countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil.

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.

Is graduate school for me? Should I ask him to marry? What does it make sense to do when one's self-interest and morality sharply conflict? Where should we go for dinner? What should I do with my life? How much of my energy and resources should I devote to helping the less fortunate? Should I take up painting? It is such a nice day I wonder if I should cancel my plans and go for a long walk with my dog? This set of questions is so diverse that they might not immediately seem to fall under a single interesting category. But they are all about what it makes good sense to do. Is there anything general to be said about how to answer these sorts of questions? This book argues for an understanding of what would make one answer to such questions better than another.

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This book introduces human rights as an evolving, or evolutive framework with the capacity to leverage social justice and sovereignty struggles. In the world today, the most food and nutrition insecure are ironically those who produce food as well as those most discriminated against in public policy development, particularly women with marginalized groups. Our NGO-academic collaborative asked the question: When so many call for the inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of hunger and malnutrition of women and girls still not improving? This inquiry is not only relevant for women and girls, but also for marginalized boys and adult men, and moreover for the economic and political stability of communities and states. Through case studies and an expanded food sovereignty framework, we address three conditions that impeded women's right to adequate food and nutrition: structural violence as an under-examined barrier to self-determination; neglect of women's and girls', and also men's and boys' overall nutritional needs throughout their life cycle by a narrow and profit-oriented nutrition policy fixated on malnutrition during pregnancy, lactation and infancy; disregard for local and regional food systems in which women are key, but also discriminated against actors.

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The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and other stratifying variables. Some papers assess how the provision of financial assistance, particularly during economic downturns, may be easily absorbed or financially detrimental. Others demonstrate how immigrant grandparents navigate multiple sets of cultural expectations to provide childcare to their grandchildren. Some show how Hispanic grandparents acculturation level is linked to childcare and financial transfer across generations. Others emphasize the extent to which schoolchildren with disabilities are more likely to receive grandparent care, particularly if the mother is single. Some reveal how custodial grandmothers are significantly more likely to be poor, face social isolation, and report poorer health. Others enumerate the positive, and negative, impacts of frequent interaction for both generations. In total, the volume underscores the impact of evolving diversification of grandparenting across multiple generations.

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Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our digital platforms teem with trolls and expressions of disrespect. Reflecting these conditions, surveys show that a significant majority of Americans believe we are living in an age of unusual anger and discord. Everywhere we look, there seems to be conflict and hostility, with shared respect and consideration nowhere to be found. In a country that encourages thick skins and speaking one's mind, is civility even possible, let alone desirable? In How Civility Works, Keith J. Bybee elegantly explores the "crisis" in civility, looking closely at how civility intertwines with our long history of boorish behavior and the ongoing quest for pleasant company. Bybee argues that the very features that make civility ineffective and undesirable also point to civility's power and appeal. Can we all get along? If we live by the contradictions on which civility depends, then yes, we can, and yes, we should.

An experimental novel written in three days as part of Canada's Three-day Novel contest.

A novel that follows several women from youth to middle age. It interrogates the complications of visual culture, ethics, and identity.

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In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable idea, they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy. Tracing the notion of public opinion from its late eighteenth-century origins to the Gilded Age, Mark G. Schmeller’s Invisible Sovereign argues that public opinion is a central catalyst in the history of American political thought. Schmeller treats it as a contagious idea that infected a broad range of discourses and practices in powerful, occasionally ironic, and increasingly contentious ways. Ranging across a wide variety of historical fields, Invisible Sovereign traces a shift over time from early "political-constitutional" concepts, which identified public opinion with a sovereign people and wrapped it in the language of constitutionalism, to more modern, "social-psychological" concepts, which defined public opinion as a product of social action and mass communication.

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Under the helm of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico witnessed one-party rule for almost eight decades, making it one of the most successful cases of authoritarianism in twentieth-century Latin America. Rather than an urban-centered process, the book shows that the foundations of this system were linked to the containment and repression of rural peoples, many of whom went on to support the PRI. To understand this support, the book tracks three peasant brothers, Ruban, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, affiliated with large-scale sugar cooperatives in the south-central region of Morelos an Puebla. Taking stock of how the brothers, two of whom were assassinated, negotiated the incursion of authoritarianism shows that accommodation was the most common response in the countryside. More than complicity, this accommodation was a product of ambivalent acceptance and continual violence. Using sources such as oral histories and secret police files, the book argues that the state was more violent than previously assumed and honed strategies of control in rural areas that is later employed in urban centers. This view unlocks the puzzle of the PRI-led state's popular support, explaining how it remained in power until the year 2000 and why it regained the presidency in 2012.

The eleven interdisciplinary essays that comprise this book complement and expand upon a significant body of literature on the history of the Franciscan and Dominican orders during the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. They elucidate and examine the ways in which mendicant friars established, sustained, and transformed their institutional identities and shaped the devotional experiences of the faithful to whom they ministered via verbal and visual culture. Taking primary texts and images as their point of departure, these essays break new scholarly ground by revising previous assumptions regarding mendicant life and actions and analysing sites, works of art, and texts that either have been neglected in the existing literature or that have not been examined through the lens of current methodologies such as sermon studies, ritual, gender, and cross-cultural interactions. Indeed, the varied methods and subjects of these essays demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the mendicant orders and the ways and spaces in which they operated and presented themselves on the local, regional, and global stages.

Shane Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to create a new series of photographs for their 2012 exhibition, "Picturing the South." Lavalette's highly anticipated monograph, One Sun, One Shadow, is an extension of this body of work. Native to the Northeast, it was primarily through traditional music -- the sounds of old time, blues, and gospel -- that Lavalette had formed a relationship with the South. With that in mind, the region's rich musical history became the natural entry point for this project and the resulting photographs. Moved by the themes and stories past down in songs, Lavalette let the music itself carry the pictures. One Sun, One Shadow includes a text by artist and poet Tim Davis.

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Gregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global "post-secular" turn that has been taking place since 9/11. He asks how these two "returns to religion" can be taking place simultaneously, and explores the relationship between them. Lambert reflects on statements of these returns from contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He discovers a unique and "foreboding" sense of the term "religion" that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective.

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The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest food studies research, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. The volume is composed of four parts. The first part explores the significant developments in US food history in one of five time periods to situate the topical and thematic chapters to follow. The second part examines the key ingredients in the American diet throughout time, allowing authors to analyze many of these foods as items that originated in or dramatically impacted the Americas as a whole, and not just the United States. The third part focuses on how these ingredients have been transformed into foods identified with the American diet, and on how Americans have produced and presented these foods over the last four centuries. The final section explores how food practices are a means of embodying ideas about identity, showing how food choices, preferences, and stereotypes have been used to create and maintain ideas of difference. Including essays on all the key topics and issues, The Routledge History of American Foodways comprises work from a leading group of scholars and presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of food in American culture.

The edited collection in this 2nd edition of the Sage Handbook of E-learning Research addresses the continued need for study and understanding of learning practices "formal, informal and non-formal" in contemporary technology-supported and technology-enabled education, work and social settings. In preparing this 2016 edition, we found much progress in research, unfolding in many new directions, each wrestling with how to analyze and represent learning in an era of continuing change in technologies, learning practices, and knowledge distribution. Research is rapidly expanding to consider further influences, e.g., how context, values, design choices, adoption patterns, and/or devices affect use, with an increasing interest in how these affect learning opportunities and practices. This volume takes stock of progress in e-learning research, highlighting advances as well as new directions in studies and methods for approaching and keeping up with changes in learning in an e-society. In particular, developments that have garnered attention and are addressed in chapters in this volume include games and gamification of learning, virtual worlds, MOOCs, big data and learning, e-learning practice in educational settings, libraries and museums, e-learning theory, literacy, methods, pedagogy, and a look to the future.

Bai Juyi (772-846), a great poet of the Tang Dynasty of China, is a famous and very influential writer in Chinese literary history. Called the King of Poetry, his writing is realistic, on a wide variety of topics, and simple and "down-to-earth". Here are five of what many consider to be his masterpieces, in a fresh English translation, and accompanied by the original Chinese. Their titles are: The Rhyme of the Lute, The Charcoal Seller, Farewell at the Grasslands, On Seeing Wheat Harvesters, and The Song of Eternal Regret.

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As more Americans are attending college, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are now in a position where they must directly compete with other institutions. While other colleges and universities might have more resources and stronger infrastructures, HBCUs provide better opportunities to meet the needs of students of color. Setting a New Agenda for Student Engagement and Retention in Historically Black Colleges and Universities explores the innovations that HBCUs can enact to better serve and prepare the next generation of African American leaders, and to be more competitive in the higher education landscape. As students need different forms of support throughout their academic career, it becomes necessary to engage them through mentorship, programming, and classroom management. Topics related to writing centers and living learning communities are included.

This volume marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by reflecting on the unrivalled work of the Shakespeare Association of America and offering a unique collection of leading Shakespeare scholars outlining key developments in Shakespeare studies over the last two decades. These essays are complemented by younger scholars who respond and look forward to new fields of study and debate. As such the book offers a "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare criticism, covering all the key areas of research and study including gender, text, performance, the body, history, religion and biography. This is a must-read, comprehensive introduction to the key critical ideas surrounding Shakespeare's work and a stimulating exploration of where Shakespeare studies will go next.

Writing for the multibillion-dollar video-game industry is unlike writing for any other medium. Slay the Dragon will help you understand the challenges and offer creative solutions to writing for a medium where the audience not only demands a great story, but to be a driving force within it. Aimed at traditional writers who want to learn interactive narrative as well as game creators who want to tell better, more emotionally involving stories, the book is written by two creative veterans of both Hollywood and "Nerdyhood." Through lively discussions and self-paced-exercises, Bryant and Giglio step you such topics as: the "no-act" structure of video games; writing great game characters; making gameplay emotionally meaningful; and bringing your game world alive.

When crisis requires American troops to deploy on American soil, the country depends on a rich and evolving body of law to establish clear lines of authority, safeguard civil liberties, and protect its democratic institutions and traditions. Since the attacks of 9/11, the governing law has changed rapidly even as domestic threats-from terror attacks, extreme weather, and pandemics-mount. Soldiers on the Home Front is the first book to systematically analyze the domestic role of the military as it is shaped by law, surveying America's history of judicial decisions, constitutional provisions, statutes, regulations, military orders, and martial law to ask what we must learn and do before the next crisis. America's military is uniquely able to save lives and restore order in situations that overwhelm civilian institutions. Yet the U.S. military has also been called in for more coercive duties at home: breaking strikes, quelling riots, and enforcing federal laws in the face of state resistance. It has spied on and overseen the imprisonment of American citizens during wars, Red scares, and other emergencies. And while the fears of the Republic's founders that a strong army could undermine democracy have not been realized, history is replete with reasons for concern. At a time when the military's domestic footprint is expanding, Banks and Dycus offer a thorough analysis of the relevant law and history to challenge all the stakeholders-within and outside the military-to critically assess the past in order to establish best practices for the crises to come.

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For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O'Reilly has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry's leading trade journal. Now, fifty of their most recent columns are collected in one volume, providing thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable insight into many of the industry's most contentious issues. Covering an era in sports that has experienced rapid change, the authors discuss such topics as gender equity, corporate sponsorship, collegiate athletics, diversity, and the future of sports. As two of the leading scholars in the business of sports, Burton and O'Reilly also draw upon years of experience to give both students and industry professionals a dual perspective on the role sports play in a healthy, thriving society.

Poetry has always been vital to language acquisition, beginning with nursery rhymes and songs. This book, however, is intended for all readers. It contains a hundred original poems in Chinese, with English translation, on a wide variety of contemporary topics. They are all short, in classical Chinese styles. Instructors can use them as classroom readings, and translation exercises, for beginning Chinese students, also intermediate and advanced. Chinese parents may read them to their children, and the children recite them with their grandparents.

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Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encyclopedia written by a wide range of contributors - from illiterate craftspeople to titled gentry. Chambers wrote that incorporating information submitted by the public would considerably strengthen the second edition of his well-received Cyclopaedia, which relied on previously published information. In Textual Curation, Krista Kennedy examines the editing and production histories of the Cyclopaedia and Wikipedia, the ramifications of robot-written texts, and the issues of intellectual property theory and credit. Kennedy also documents the evolution of both encyclopedias as well as the participation of central players in discussions about the influence of technology and collaboration in early modern and contemporary culture. Through this comparative study, based on extensive archival research and data-driven analysis, Kennedy illuminates the deeply situated nature of authorship, which is dependent on cultural approval and stable funding sources as much as it is on original genius and the ownership of intellectual property. Kennedy's work significantly revises long-held notions of authorial agency and autonomy, establishing the continuity of new writing projects such as wikis with longstanding authorial practices that she calls textual curation. This study examines a wide range of texts that recompose accepted knowledge into reliable, complex reference works combining contributions of article text alongside less commonly considered elements such as metadata vocabularies, cross-indexing, and the development of print and digital interfaces. Comparison of analog and networked texts also lays bare the impact of technological developments, both in the composing process and in the topics that can practically be included in such a text. By examining the human and technological curators that support these encyclopedias as well as the discourses that surround them, Kennedy develops textual curation as a longstanding theory and process that offers a nuanced construction of authorship.

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This feminist-oriented ethnography of Dominican gender performance focuses on masculinity and femininity in accordion-based merengue tÃ-­pico while also touching on cross-dressing and queer performance in other popular genres like bachata , reggaetón , orquesta merengue, merengue de calle, and fusion musics. By combining music, movement, video, and literary analysis with oral history, Tigers offers a new model for the holistic study of gender, while demonstrating the importance of local feminisms and local musics for understanding as well as destabilizing traditional notions of gender and genre. As a whole, the book aims to provide a new perspective on Caribbean gender that considers classic binaries but goes beyond them; to show how music can either reinforce entrenched gender roles or help to open up possibilities by imagining new roles and identities for all genders; to give concrete examples demonstrating the performativity of gender; and to show how powerfully musical performance unites gender, racial, national, and other identities, with both the problems and opportunities that such conjunctions entail.

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At the intersection of travel writing and translation studies, Frieden's textual referentialism begins with texts and reads beyond them to their referents. Frieden thus proposes a rigorous alternative to post-structuralism and New Historicism, reenergizing literary and cultural studies.

A book-length poem that follows a pair of runaways through real and imagined landscapes.

Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. The book examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. The book examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The pessimism dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them all: whether life is worth living.