Distrust is in the airof politicians, corporations, and the institutions that claim to protect us. Trust is often seen as the foundation of a better societybut better for whom? While some forms of radical certainty can foster survival, resist...Lasīt vairāk
Amit Dinesh Patel, Gabrielle Messeder, Andrew Knight-Hill
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765105108)
This volume presents the voices of diverse and often marginalized practitioners, celebrating Black and South Asian experimental sound musicians and their underrepresented music practices.Black and South Asian artists are some of the...Lasīt vairāk
Progressive political organizing faces a chicken-and-egg predicament. On the one hand, those who are most impacted by a circumstance should be the ones identifying problems and developing solutions. On the other hand, simply being a worker does not m...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111624051)
This collection aims to renew our perspective on adaptation and intermedial processes by thinking of them in terms of codes rather than media. As a result, the notion of transcodification emerges as a crucial tool in order to study the circulation...Lasīt vairāk
Subtle Webs provides an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how local organizations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City have transformed data and worked with schools to solve the problem of dropping out. In the process, the book reveals...Lasīt vairāk
Subtle Webs reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. This behind-the-scenes look at how organizations have worked with high s...Lasīt vairāk
The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britains intellectual life. The lives of the outs...Lasīt vairāk
How can movement actors navigate the tensions between allyship, representation, and power while striving for transformative change? This question serves as the cornerstone of Worker Centered, which provides an ethnographic study of a worker center c...Lasīt vairāk
In The Influence Economy, Maxim Sytch explores the external influences that nudge buyers toward questionable decisions and consumption, revealing how professional services--consulting, marketing, banking, and legal firms--create demand for u...Lasīt vairāk
Discovering Organizations is recommended as core reading by module leaders who seek an engaging, thought-provoking introduction to organizational theory and organization studies. This text operates as a springboard to help readers appreciate...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197786116)
Subtle Webs reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. This behind-the-scenes look at how organizations have worked with high s...Lasīt vairāk
A major tenet of contemporary capitalism holds that what is good for business can align with what is good for society. Efforts towards more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces epitomize this rising ideology, termed responsible capitalism. A...Lasīt vairāk
A major tenet of contemporary capitalism holds that what is good for business can align with what is good for society. Efforts towards more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces epitomize this rising ideology, termed responsible capitalism...Lasīt vairāk
The introduction provides guidance for the book. There is an effort in chapter 2 and throughout the book to examine the conceptualization of social inclusion for people with disabilities and to provide insights about the digital meaning of the term....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507264)
This Element focuses on the specific ways people in southern East Asia mastered their environment through two forms of cooperation: centralized and intensive, ultimately represented by the states, and decentralized and extensive, exemplified by inter...Lasīt vairāk
Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asias largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures i...Lasīt vairāk
Sarah Irving, Karčne Sanchez Summerer, Rachel Mairs, Lucia Admiraal
Sērija : Languages and Culture in History
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048560394)
- Discussion of Arabic teaching across a wide geographical and temporal range - Engaging case studies which add intriguing detail and colour to historical study - Siting of language study within highly topical colonial and postcolonial contexts and d...Lasīt vairāk
Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scientists alike. In centering economic democracy and a collectivist-democrati...Lasīt vairāk
A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western mus...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, ISBN-13: 9798218328641)
Explores the recent history of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and how it might serve as a blueprint for any college administration looking to grow their institution in challenging times--...Lasīt vairāk
An investigation of performative encounters of culture, politics, and education in and for institutional settings. This book builds on scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist...Lasīt vairāk
The value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, of its contributions in the theoretical and methodological fields and of its influence on the growth of sociology throughout the world and in America in...Lasīt vairāk
Forming and defending unions in the United States has always been a Herculean task. Employers have a long history of fighting vigorously to bust strikes and prevent workers from organizing- and, ultimately to dis-organize unions. The government, inc...Lasīt vairāk
Riven by poor governance and outright corruption, the British Psychological Society (BPS) may now be in terminal decline. Individual members have left it in despair and some groups (for example clinical, educational and organisational psychologists)...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487550813)
Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as a public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, the Hannah Arendt...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an original study of the youth organizations in London, Toronto, and Vancouver that offer creative and arts programs mainly to youth from diverse and socially marginalized backgrounds. It describes a sector that is often not recognized,...Lasīt vairāk
The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britains intellectual life....Lasīt vairāk
A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicagos predominant strategy for responding to violence, and its impact on crime and public opinion.Stop & frisk has drawn a great deal of attention--and h...Lasīt vairāk
