Don`t Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality, Laderman Gary

Автор: Laderman, Julian
Название: Useful probability for bridge players
ISBN: 1771400595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771400596
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Цена: 18350.00 T
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Описание: An accessible study of all aspects of probability in the game of bridge, to help every player understand percentages and choices in play.

Автор: Laderman Scott
Название: Empire in Waves
ISBN: 0520279107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520279100
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 84480.00 T
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Описание: Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century.

Emerging as an imperial instrument in post-annexation Hawaii, spawning a form of tourism that conquered the littoral Third World, tracing the struggle against South African apartheid, and employed as a diplomatic weapon in America's Cold War arsenal, the saga of modern surfing is only partially captured by Gidget, the Beach Boys, and the film Blue Crush. From nineteenth-century American empire-building in the Pacific to the low-wage labor of the surf industry today, Laderman argues that surfing in fact closely mirrored American foreign relations. Yet despite its less-than-golden past, the sport continues to captivate people worldwide.

Whether in El Salvador or Indonesia or points between, the modern history of this cherished pastime is hardly an uncomplicated story of beachside bliss. Sometimes messy, occasionally contentious, but never dull, surfing offers us a whole new way of viewing our globalized world.

Автор: Laderman, Julian
Название: Still not finding squeezes?
ISBN: 1554947588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554947584
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Автор: Laderman Scott, Gruenewald Tim
Название: Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture Since 9/11
ISBN: 0520299175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520299177
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Imperial Benevolence reveals how profoundly and thoroughly the ethos of empire has come to shape twenty-first-century American life and thought. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, this is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States's endless wars. Imperial Benevolence shows that while American popular culture is only rarely a product of the state, it continuously suppresses awareness of U.S. imperialism while assuming American exceptionalism and innocence. Expertly coordinated essays by prominent historians and media scholars address the ways that movies and television series such as Zero Dark Thirty, The Avengers, and even The Walking Dead, as well as video games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, have largely presented the United States as a global force for good. Popular culture, with few exceptions, has depicted the U.S. as a reluctant hegemon fiercely defending human rights and protecting or expanding democracy from the barbarians determined to destroy it.

Автор: Laderman Scott, Gruenewald Tim
Название: Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture Since 9/11
ISBN: 0520299183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520299184
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 26400.00 T
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Описание: Imperial Benevolence reveals how profoundly and thoroughly the ethos of empire has come to shape twenty-first-century American life and thought. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, this is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States's endless wars. Imperial Benevolence shows that while American popular culture is only rarely a product of the state, it continuously suppresses awareness of U.S. imperialism while assuming American exceptionalism and innocence. Expertly coordinated essays by prominent historians and media scholars address the ways that movies and television series such as Zero Dark Thirty, The Avengers, and even The Walking Dead, as well as video games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, have largely presented the United States as a global force for good. Popular culture, with few exceptions, has depicted the U.S. as a reluctant hegemon fiercely defending human rights and protecting or expanding democracy from the barbarians determined to destroy it.

Автор: Laderman, Julian
Название: Bridge to simple squeezes
ISBN: 1897106262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781897106266
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Описание: Second revised edition.