E-book How To Retire Early: Your Guide to Getting Rich Slowly and Retiring on…

What makes this book different from all the other books out there on early retirement? We think it's the amount of personal financial detail we provide. We don’t hold back! You can use this information as a kind of financial yardstick to measure what is possible in your own life. We retired from full-time work at the age of 43. In this book we share with you the roadmap we followed to get …

E-book Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis : Steps Towards a Metacosmics

Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude for your decision to crack open at least the first page of this volume. Given that mass lit-eracy is an idea that has only been around a few centuries, given that thus far some 130 million titles have been published and more than two million new ones are added each year, given that a human being who dedicated his or her life to reading…

E-book The Cultural Set-up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States…

How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock…

E-book The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance

I 2006 the tactical media collective Ubermorgen gained access to Amazon’s digital library, capturing more than three thousand copyright-protected books sold on the site by manipulating its “Search Inside the Book” feature.1Unleashing a series of software applications known as “bots,” Ubermorgen sent five thousand to ten thousand requests per book and reassembled them into pdfs that we…

E-book Business School Internationalisation in a Changing World

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, …

E-book Wallerstein 2.0 : Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21…

Immanuel Wallerstein is often named“the master of the field”2when scholarsdiscuss world-systems theory, and while there are others whose works pavedthe way for this kind of analysis,3it is true that the former had a prominentposition within the field he helped to create. Wallerstein, however, would notonly be perceived as a “worldwide renowned and influential sociologist andeconomic histo…

E-book Ignatian Pedagogy : A Practical Approach

The publication of The Characteristics of Jesuit Education in 1986 aroused a renewed interest in Jesuit education among teachers, administrators, students, parents and others around the world. It has given them a sense of identity and purpose. That document, translated into 13 languages, has been the focus for seminars, workshops, and study. Reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. In …

E-book Doing Family on the Move : Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and …

This study asks the question how highly-skilled migrants cope with professional careers on the one hand and family life on the other. To answer to this ques-tion, I conducted 36 interviews with highly-skilled migrants and seven other interviews with key informants in the Lake Geneva region, Switzerland, and the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region, Germany. The …

E-book Medical Interpreting: Training the Professionals

«This comprehensive, insightful and well-researched work is an essential and timely contribution to sustaining the training of healthcare interpreters. It provides an important foundation for trainers, researchers and practitioners, based on a thorough and up-to-date reflection on the challenges and needs of healthcare interpreting today, and on the development of training materials for interp…

E-book Loving Justice : Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England

In the best- selling Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765– 69), William Blackstone— most celebrated as a legal scholar, but also an occasional poet— famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant, readable, and easily transportable four- volume summary. Soon after publication, it became an interna-tional monument not only…

E-book Trusting the Police : Comparisons across Eastern and Western Europe

Police are a prominent topic in the media. Either they are described pos-itively, such as when successfully apprehending a criminal, or they were portrayed critically, due to inappropriate behavior, for example. Images depicting discreditable behavior by officers, such as fighting back peaceful demonstrators and protesters, shed a negative light on the police and throw their role into question.…

E-book Men in Manual Occupations : Changing Lives in Times of Change

After decades of skills policy centred on getting as many young people as possible through higher education, there is now an emerging shortage of skilled workers in many countries. The question of how to achieve the right balance between types of work in a society is a question which transcends national borders and, as this book will show, one that requires …

E-book Navigating Academia : Women’s Stories of Success and Struggle - A Ca…

he book “Navigating Academia: Women’s Stories of Success and Struggle” contains powerful stories about career journeys of women in academia, for women, by women, and with women. Although a range of studies have been conducted on gender equality, critical knowledge gaps remain on gender disparities in academia requiring …

E-book Gods & Goddesses of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec Civilizations (Gods and …

Sharing many common beliefs, deities, and rituals, the religion of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca was rooted in both the earth and the sky, the rhythms of the seasons, and the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. Readers will meet rain and sun gods, corn gods and fertility gods, earth mothers who are both creators and destroyers, and even a feathered serpent. Lavish primary-source images of arts a…

E-book Cities of the Ancient World

We live in a world of cities - for the first time ever, the majority of the population lives in an urban environment - and reflecting on ancient models of the "city" as a human phenomenon offers important lessons for our culture today. Cities of the Ancient World is your opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development. Taught by esteemed Profe…

E-book 21 Days of Effective Communication: Everyday Habits and Exercises to I…

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E-book Making Moral Making Moral Judgments : Psychological Perspectives on Mo…

Moral judgments are the most significant social inferences people make about others and themselves. Those who are judged to be immoral are not just thought to be mistaken or misguided, but unacceptable in a fundamental way: corrupt, untrustworthy, malevolent, and possibly even evil. Moral philosophers’ detailed conceptual analyses of the nature of these judgments, along with psychologists’ …

E-book How Is It Between Us? : Relational Ethics and Care for the World

“How is it between us?” is the question I would like to consider as the most fundamental of all ethical questions. I will take this consideration up through an engagement with a debate concerning transcendence and the transcendental that has arisen recently within the anthropology of ethics1—though what is at stake within this debate has repercussions for the disciplin…

E-book Encountering Pain : Hearing, seeing, speaking

here may not yet be a cure for chronic pain but there is room for ‘accompanying’ people with pain along their journeys. Persistent pain makes demands on language inextricably bound up with the demands of moving beyond our individual experience to empathise with that of another. It raises ethical challenges in its management unlike those associate…

E-book The Malays

Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousn…

E-book As If Already Free: Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber

A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. This collection of new writing brings together his insights into one book, showing how deeply his work continues to influence us today. Graeber’s writing resonates with both scholars and activists looking to shake thi…

E-book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s ground-breaking book…

E-book Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

The Korean Wave (or Hallyu), which refers to the global circulationof Korean media and popular culture, seems more visible than ever,despite almost two decades of doubt, skepticism, and disapproval aboutits continuation. In particular, the rapid surge of K-pop (Korean idolpop music) in the global mediascape, led by several idol groups andtheir dedicated overseas fans since the mid-2010s, reveal…

E-book Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh : Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Pea…

This book is inspired by Acehnese scholar Eka Srimulyani’s appeal to bring ‘the sub-altern narrative and stories to the fore so the marginalized groups and perspectives can be brought to the discourse and common knowledge of the people’ and, in order to do so, it requires revisiting ‘the notion of agency and xplor[ing] the different agencies that were the …

E-book Global Resource Scarcity : Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?

As indicated by its title, this is a book about the relationship between what are perceived to be scarce natural resources and the tendency for access to them to lead to international conflict or cooperation. It is apparent from our reading of existing literature and from the contributions to this book that experts are often situated in positions that find little opportunity to engage …

E-book Housing the Poor : The Right to the City and Policy Arrangements in Ur…

What is so interesting about housing policies? I have been asked this question many times over the last years, ever since I became interested in the topic of housing. I used to respond in a simple way, disregarding the complexity of the topic: ‘We cannot allow the existence of one billion people living in slums!’, ‘We live in the 21st century; there must be a way to improve the living con…

E-book Freezing Fertility : Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics o…

When I imagine my eggs, I think of them as grey and shiny, like slippery helium balloons clustering in the thousands within organs lit up and awake. I think of eggs enfleshed in follicular cavities, folding again and again into a sponge of cells and yellow bodies, pulsing patiently with only an occasional burst: membrane breaking at the touch of engorged fimbrae, fallopian fingers brushing the …

E-book I have no Country, I have a homeland : Istanbulite Romiois Place- Memo…

An anthropological exploration is a journey that takes place through a long tunnel?4 Truthfully, this process can be portrayed as a journey, that can be gen-erally described as one that starts with a declaration of a dissertation problem-atic followed by narrowing of the field of study, setting out how you are going to approach the study, reviewing all the existing li…

E-book Making Sense of the Arab State

For scholars of the Arab world, the state remains an elusive, unsettled, and unsettling presence. Since mandatory and then independent states emerged in the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, theorizing the Arab state has been a central preoccupation for generations of regional specialists. The gravitational pull of the state is not surprising. As a pr…

E-book The China Alternative : Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands region has entered a new period of uncertainty precipitated in large part by the emergence of China as a major regional actor as well as the reaction of more established powers to perceived threats to their longstanding influence. In March 2019, in the wake of a flurry of activity on the part of Australia, New Zealand and the United States …

E-book Geopolitics by Other Means : The Indo-Pacific Reality

In 2007, in a speech before the Indian Parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brought back to light an ancient Asian geographical vision: the so-called “confluence of the two seas”. It referred to the idea of linking the Pacific with the Indian Ocean, as Japanese policymakers conceived the concept at the time. That would later become the “Indo-Pacific …

E-book The Rise of State Capital : Transforming Markets and International Pol…

The early twenty- first century was in many ways the perfect unipolar moment. A decade after the end of the Cold War, major events such as the ideological triumph of liberal democracy, the resolution of violent conflicts in the Balkans and elsewhere and the declaration of the UN Millennium Development Goals promised a future in which the United States, as primus inter pares, would over-see the …

E-book Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all member states ofthe United Nations in 2015, is a shared blueprint for people and the planet,intending to achieve peace and prosperity for all. The Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) is a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to some of theworld’s most complex, societal, and environmental challenges. Businesses play acrucia…

Ebook The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization…

This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s …

E-book Regions in International Trade

Export activity has been traditionally analysed for countries. Its regional dimension was somewhat neglected or not noticed. The main premise of our research is that exports are strongly diversified regionally. The imperative to conduct such research stems from constatation that exports do not come from an undefined space, from a country treated as a s…

E-book Entrepreneurial Theorizing : An Approach to Research

Entrepreneurship scholars have paid significant attention to the role of theory in their research. Indeed, publishing in most top entrepreneur-ship and management journals requires a paper to contribute to theory (Hambrick, 2007; Shepherd, 2010). Although some scholars question this dominant role of theory (Hambrick, 2007;Pfeffer, 2014), few disagree about…

E-book Pathways in Decentralised Collective Bargaining in Europe

One of the main trends in labour relations across Europe – started already in the 1980s – is “decentralisation” in collective bargaining at the company level. This involves a shift from multi-employer bargaining to single-employer bargaining with trade unions or other workers representatives (Marginson, 2015; oecd, 2018; Traxler, 1995; Visser, 2016). This development continued in the la…

E-book Stocks for All : People’s Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Public stock markets aretoosmall. The lack of companies with publicly-tradedshares creates manyproblems.Ifpublicly-traded shares are scarce, valuationsare higher and thereisanincreased risk of bubbles. The lack of companieswith publicly-traded shares can increase financial inequality,because retail in-vestors are excluded from privatestock markets.Itcan alsomake itmore difficultto fund futurepe…

E-book 100 Chinese Silences

There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an “orientalist” tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American litera…

E-book Greenland in Arctic Security : (De)securitization Dynamics under Clima…

As the Arctic is getting warmer, ice at sea and on land is melting. Great powers appear ready to conflict over resources appearing from under the ice. Science tells us about this climatic thaw already happening; much commentary and great power strategies want us to believe that a geopolitical freeze is inevitable. Either way, the Arctic region we have known since the end of the Cold …

E-book A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of P…

A Nuclear Refrain is a piece of “spatial fic-tion” that challenges vital but neglected is-sues around the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and the concomitant policy of nuclear deterrence. We issue this challenge via the extension of our geographical imagi-nations into the past, present, and future.The UK’s 2016 decision to replace its Vanguard submarine fleet, as a major step to-w…

E-book The Boggart Sourcebook : Texts and Memories for the Study of the Briti…

This section gathers nineteenth-century boggart ephemera, particularly from newspapers but also from magazines, rare books and broadsides. Given the space constraints, I concentrate on material that other researchers might have trouble finding. I have typically included here actual boggart news (everything from ‘boggart hunts’ to children dying from boggart stories, sic)…

E-book Living with Monsters : Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

"Did you hear a single thing Uncle said to you, Sarah? A single damn thing?” Marvin shook his head in exasperation. “Don’t go looking for things unless you want them to find you.” These quotes are extracts from some of the chapters that follow, and they superbly condense what we mean by Living with Mon-sters. There is a fundamental distinction between the monsters you will meet on t…

E-book Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes As Hazards, Disasters, and Catastro…

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E-book Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Ryme is found in verbal arts throughout the world. In the appendix tothis introduction, we offer a partial list of languages whose associated verbal arts sometimes have rhyme.Rhyme is most commonly found in texts which are poems, including sung poems (songs). Poems are dened as texts which are divided into lines, where lines are a sectioning imposed on the oral or written …

E-book Brought to Life by the Voice : Playback Singing and Cultural Politics …

In 1975, a reviewer for the Toronto Sun reported on a live performance by Lata Mangeshkar, then the reigning playback voice of Hindi cinema, during her first North American tour. “Lata Mangeshkar is what is known as a ‘playback singer,’” he wrote. “That is the vocalist who replaces the voice of the leading lady [in a film] whenever she breaks into song. …

E-book Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

The book examines the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three West African countries: Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The choice of these three countries enables a fair comparison: all three face similar social, economic and political problems, share similar religious, tra-ditional and cultural backgrounds and, most importantly for this book, all suffe…

E-book Crude Moves : Political Power in Oil-Age Niger

auguration, on 28 November 2011, I received this text message2 calling on the people to make Zinder a “ghost town”. The message was one of several circulated prior to the inauguration which named oil-related grievances, attacked the incumbent govern-ment of new President Mahamadou Issoufou (since March 2011), and called on the population to resist and fight.When Papa arrived …

E-book GDPR and Biobanking : Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research …

Discrepancies in biobank research regulations have commonly been regarded as one of the most significant hurdles for effective research collaboration. One of the more central aspects of biobank research regulation concerns the use of personal data—health and genetic data and other information related to individuals, either as indi-vidual research subjects or participants in a particular scien…

E-book Climate Lyricism

Whenever i think about climate change, which is often, I strug-gle to make sense of its enormity. So much seems to be at stake. Maybe everything. And there’s not a lot of time to try to blunt its most destructive impacts. Yet I don’t know if anything I do matters. I feel powerless. I run through the routine of my days, scurrying from one activity to the next wh…