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Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, this book looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn.

The 1960s launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America," dividing US society in deep and troubling ways. By examining crucial events, trends, and individuals, this volume offers a nuanced and pluralist account of the longest decade in America.

World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of global communication electric. This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections - "Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time" - that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy.

Explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings.

Outlines the principles that underlie a successful international venture: development of a custom-fit internationalization strategy; selection of foreign markets and structured market entry processes; design of market growth strategies; intercultural management and international corporate management; and the carrying out of market exits.

Bringing together essays from experts who analyze how the landscapes, images, and economies of the industrial city have changed through boom and bust, this title covers a range of subjects, from car cities to steel towns, from visualization of industrial cities in avant-garde art to the role of industrial heritage in urban regeneration.

Covers the processes of commodification of emotion about now reach into all areas of labor processes, extending even to private life and intimate relationships. This title takes concepts to study the diversity of this economic intrusion into family, education, and nursing in the service sector as well as into corporate management.

Investigates the governance structures and mechanisms of knowledge and technology transfer in the context of innovation and production systems in six regions of Europe. With analyses of strengths and weaknesses, barriers, and shortcomings, this book identifies best practice models and policy recommendations for the investigated regions.

Investigates the political economy of civil war and democratic peace, arguing that the civil wars did not represent state decay, but exhibited dynamics characteristic of state formation.

Analyzing the regimes of production and their segmentations in the context of global and national production networks, this title discusses Chinese and international industrial relations theory and labor sociology and explore the perspectives of collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China.

The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the heart of Central Asia is home to the city of Osh, which is commonly discussed as an epicenter of radical Islamism and political instability, yet also fully globalized. The author explores what this means for the everyday lives of the city's young people.

Juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of cultural imaginary and performance.

A study that examines the relationship between the media and the government in authoritarian regimes and Western democracies, focusing on how political structures affect the level of trust between the public and the news media.

Focuses on politics and the political as contested concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other spheres; the question of whether violence is a means, an object, or the end of political communication; and on a future agenda for writing political history.

Focuses on how the far right's views of Islam have been increasingly co-opted by both liberal and conservative parties and woven into the policies of Western governments over the past two decades. This book explores how Islamophobia has moved to the mainstream of Western policymaking, and the role that the media has played.

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of that period.

Features articles that investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.

Investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and diversity, this volume explores water practices in different cultures and shows that water is much more than a commodity, a resource, or a substance - it is a focal point that reflects local culture.

Argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function autodynamically - in much the same fashion that modern technology steers, controls, and regulates itself - by adopting general systems policies. This title explains the way that organizations must be structured so that they can organize themselves.

Examines the consequences of the arrival of social media and the increasing dominance of big Internet players, such as Google, for science and research, particularly in the realms of organization and communication.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences within European democracy is crucial. This title provides an interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of social interaction, drawing on political science, sociology, communications studies, legal studies, and art history.

Analyzes representations of corpses on TV through cultural, sociological, and historical lenses, providing pictorial and film analysis using interviews with producers, make-up artists, and coroners.

Despite the fact that mergers and acquisitions are a crucial part of the modern business landscape, the factors that can make the difference between success and failure remain little understood - as evidenced by the disappointing outcomes of the majority of acquisitions. This title focuses on the role of corporate boards in mergers.

Offers a pair of detailed case studies - of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya and al-Jihad and Lebanon's Hizbullah - to identify typical forms of support relationships, development patterns, and dynamics of both radicalization and restraint.

Our conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades. Built around examples of controversial representations of cultural transfer from Asia, the Arab world, and Europe, this title presents a critical self-reflection on the scholarly practices that underpin our attempts to study and describe other cultures.

Presenting case studies from Tashkent, Yerevan, Gumri, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Osh, this book examines the way that different groups, from Christians and Muslims to ardent reformers and Soviet apologists, assign meaning to public spaces and deploy them in attempts to construct the way the history of their cities is understood.

From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successful merger between the two major corporations that would become Clariant: Sandoz and Hoechst.

Delineating the psychological, management, and economic errors business leaders tend to make, this title explains how these errors can be avoided through conscientious attention to the use of clear language.

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-67) was a key leader of American science in the nineteenth century. This biography explains and explores Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as aids to his goal of creating a national foundation for a shared culture.

American studies has changed drastically over the years, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This title resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice.