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Critically examines two interpretations of government. The first comes from pop culture fictions about politics, the second from academic political science. Stephen Benedict Dyson argues that televised political fictions and political science theories are attempts at meaning-making, reflecting and shaping how a society thinks about its politics.

Addresses the varied helpful roles of formal models and goes further to take up more fundamental considerations of epistemology and methodology. The authors integrate the exposition of the epistemology and the methodology of modelling and argue that these two reinforce each other.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

Focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book argues that the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the US liberal multicultural capitalist state.

Explores the arguments for and against coeducation, as presented in newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, student-authored school newsletters, and roundtable discussions published in the Japanese press, as these reforms were being implemented in the post-World War II era.

Illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence. The book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic.

Collects sixteen essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns - and the surprising and necessary knowledge to be found where they cross paths.

Offers a toast to cocktail culture in the Mitten and the state's flourishing craft cocktail and distillery movements. Based on Cheers!, Lester Graham and Tammy Coxen's popular cocktail segment on Michigan Radio (NPR), this book gathers forty-five of the authors' favorite cocktail recipes celebrating the Great Lakes State.

This vivid biography portrays a complex, brilliant, often contradictory, and ultimately fascinating man. His life-both as a record of himself and as a reflection of his times-makes for a good and important story of Michigan history and politics, the automotive industry, and philanthropy.

Presents an innovative perspective that looks beyond the simple category of "kids" media to consider how entertainment industry strategies invite producers and consumers alike to cross boundaries between adulthood and childhood, professional and amateur, new media and old.

Analyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation. Juergen Braunstein focuses on the early formation period of SWFs, a critical but little understood area.

Argues that elite inexperience may constrain self-interest and lead elites to undertake incremental approaches to reform, aiding the process of democratic consolidation. Using a multimethods approach, the book examines three consecutive periods of reform in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim majority country and third largest democracy.

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene fauna.

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theatre artists have created plays and productions about unification. Performing Unification examines how German directors, playwrights, and theater groups have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation's history and collective identity.

This volume has been written as a response to the new types of communicative demands that the twenty-first century has brought to the workplace. Today's education programs must prepare students to understand complex operations, be problem-solvers, be computer literate, and be fluent in professional English when speaking and writing.

Addresses the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Collectively, the essays in this volume offer a critically interdisciplinary view of how and why social media has been at the heart of US and global political discourse for over a decade.

The geologic story of the Great Lakes region is one of the most remarkable of any place on Earth. Great Lakes Rocks takes readers on this fascinating journey through geologic history. Throughout, the book gives special attention to the link between the region's geology and its modern history.

Returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present.

Describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts. Activities encourage students to investigate the language choices that are typical of their own academic disciplines or professional fields through structured reading and writing activities.

Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories.

Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question.

Experts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history in this volume. The book demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea.

Sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako.

Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Steph Burt has written that she ""has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world."" In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes's work that approach these beautiful verbal objects with both intellectual rigour and genuine awe.

The US Supreme Court exists to resolve constitutional disputes between the lower courts and the other branches of government. American law and society function more effectively when the Court resolves ambiguous questions of Constitutional law. Yet a Court that prioritizes resolving many disputes will at times produce contradictory sets of opinions.

Highlights advocacy and activism across party lines and probes implications for theory and policy-making. The book explores original case studies of eight US policy-makers who challenged authority during the Obama administration - from war veterans and fundamentalist Christian activists to former spies and minority legislators.

Uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions about what defines a musical work and musical performance, seeking to go beyond philosophical and aesthetic templates from Western classical music to foreground the distinctive practices and aesthetics of jazz.

Voting behavior is informed by the experience of advanced democracies, yet the electoral context in developing democracies is significantly different. This book develops a theoretical framework to specify why voter behaviour differs across contexts.