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Shocks, States, and Sustainability outlines a theory for when we can expect long-term changes toward sustainability. Thomas K. Rudel offers historical comparisons of radical reforms in environmental practices to show that societies become more sustainable in the aftermath of earth-shaking events events that underline the limits of our natural resources.

In light of popular feminist movements such as #MeToo, which harness new technologies to challenge rape culture, this pioneering book explores how digital feminist campaigns are used, felt, and experienced by members of the public including feminist leaders and "everyday" activists and participants.

The Recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy examines the music of an important and popular Kansas City band in terms of negotiations over musical styles between black musicians and the racist music industry during a crucial period of popularity and change for American jazz.

The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives; the second object of a double object construction; the second object of a causative; instruments; subject matter arguments; and adverbs. This volume collects together Chris Collins's published work on the linker in the Khoisan languages.

The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an essential primer for those seeking information about one of the most important regions in the world today.

An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world's melting continent, Antarctica

Provides a detailed review of visions for sustainable development and resilience, and insights about how to use a variety of tactics including ecosystem approach, governance, adaptive environmental management, stakeholders and partnerships, dispute resolution, benefit-cost analysis, environmental impact assessment, life-cycle assessment, effective implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

Through a close reading of interactive and experimental art works, this book explores how the digital uncanny unsettles concepts of "self," "affect," "feedback," and "aesthetic experience," forcing us to reflect on our relationship with computational media and by extension our relationship to each other and our experience of the world.

Author Stephen A. Crist draws on years of archival research and interviews with family, friends, and the man himself to offer the most thorough examination to date of Dave Brubeck's seminal jazz album.

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience on Cage's career. The examples chosen highlight moments of rupture within Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.

The Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Reference Handbook provides an easy-to-read guide for music-making in the studio setting, from equipment fundamentals to recording and mixing almost any instrument.

Written in a lively Q&A format, Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) offers a comprehensive and balanced look at the origins, history, and practice of federal impeachment.

A practical guide that promotes music learning by experience rather than imitation and memorization.

In this debate-format book, four philosophers-Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer-articulate contrasting views on race. Each author presents a distinct viewpoint on what race is, and then replies to the others, offering theories that are clear and accessible to undergraduates, lay readers, and non-specialists, as well as other philosophers of race.

Based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and eight years of interviews, this book reviews the dynamics between Afghan and U.S. journalists, and the global diplomatic power of the American press within the context of the post-9/11 era.

A criticism of the view that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric ideals are antithetical to sound environmental policy in the ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND SCIENCE POLICY series. The author defends a biocentric individualist stance, claiming that this view can also support the goals on the environmentalist agenda.

This text presents the history of American film, from the birth of the talkies to the decline of the studio system. It celebrates the work of American film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks, and offers portraits of stars, from Garbo and Bogart to Katharine Hepburn and Clark Gable.

Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making.

Philosophy of Medicine provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the topic. It offers a novel theory of the nature of medicine, and proposes a new attitude to medicine, aimed at improving the quality of debates between medical traditions (including alternatives) and facilitating medicine's decolonization.

Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides an overview of common shortcuts and mistakes people make in managing their finances.

This book provides an introduction to philosophical treatments of pornography. It considers relevant debates in ethics, aesthetics, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and social ontology thus offering a comprehensive examination of the topic. While offering an introduction, the book also puts forward substantive philosophical views on pornography.