Old stories and contemporary issues in films about antiquity and the middle ages, Kleinstuber, Ross (professor At The Univ. Of Pittsburgh) Coldsmith, Jeremiah (phd In Sociology) Leigey, Margaret (professor & Chair Of Criminology At

Автор: Silver Ira D.
Название: Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues
ISBN: 1506386814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781506386812
Издательство: Sage Publications
Цена: 226420.00 T
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Описание: Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by carefully analyzing headline-making issues they are already familiar with and illustrating the connection between individual problems and larger social forces. Each chapter engages students in thinking about the world sociologically by focusing on a specific case study that represents a more general social problem. The chapters always start with the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and personal experiences that students bring to the case--what author Ira Silver refers to as the conventional wisdom--and effectively demonstrate to them the first wisdom of sociology: things are not what they seem. In each instance, Silver shows how sociologists ask questions, gather empirical data, use multiple perspectives, and consider larger social forces to discover the hidden stories behind individual behavior.

Автор: Haupt Jennifer
Название: Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of Covid-19
ISBN: 1771682280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771682282
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 18570.00 T
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Описание: Alone Together connects writers, readers, and booksellers in a wonderfully imaginative way. It's a really good book for a really good cause." - James Patterson, Bestselling author, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come.

Jennifer Haupt, editor and curator of this anthology, and Central Avenue Publishing, as well as all contributing authors, are donating net profits to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community.

In response to the pandemic, Ms. Haupt rallied more than 90 authors to contribute their work to ALONE TOGETHER, free of charge, to support struggling independent booksellers forced to close their doors.

The roster of diverse voices includes:

Kwame Alexander
Jenna Blum
Andre Dubus III
Jamie Ford
Nikki Giovanni
Pam Houston
Jean Kwok
Major Jackson
Caroline Leavitt
Ada Lim n
Dani Shapiro
David Sheff
Garth Stein
Luis Alberto Urrea
Steve Yarbrough
and Lidia Yuknavitch.

Alone Together is divided into five sections: Love, Grief, Comfort, Grace, and Possibilities. The overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty is changing us as individuals and a society.

"Alone Together showcases the human desire to grieve, explore, comfort, connect, and simply sit with the world as it weathers the pandemic. Jennifer Haupt's timely and moving anthology also benefits the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, making it a project that is noble in both word and deed." - Ann Patchett, Bestselling author, bookseller, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation

Автор: Ethan Laughman
Название: The Slow Release: Stories about Death from the Flannery O`Connor Award for Short Fiction
ISBN: 0820355313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355313
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23100.00 T
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Описание: Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O`Connor Award for Short Fiction series.

Автор: Laughman Ethan
Название: Down on the Sidewalk: Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O`Connor Award for Short Fiction
ISBN: 0820357626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357621
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23100.00 T
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Описание: Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years - or soon to be - Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality.

Автор: Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Ahmed Youssefagha, Wasantha Parakrama Jayawardene
Название: Contemporary Issues in Public Health in North Africa and the Middle East
ISBN: 1631179330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631179334
Издательство: Nova Science
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Цена: 89750.00 T
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Описание: With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region`s unique natural character. His compelling photographs of ancient mountains, old-growth forests, rare plants, and powerful waterways reveal the Appalachians` rich scenic beauty, while Chris Bolgiano`s interpretive text and captions tell the story of its natural history.

Автор: Nada Saab, Robert Myers
Название: Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 9004375368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004375369
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 154080.00 T
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Описание: In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, ?Isam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and Sa?d Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and Ra?ida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator, The Jester, The Rape, Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, ?Ali?, respectively.

Автор: Asl? U. Bali, Omar M. Dajani
Название: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 1108831230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108831239
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 116160.00 T
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Описание: This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Comprised of eleven case studies examining the experience across the region, together with essays by leading scholars providing comparative and theoretical perspectives and a synthetic conclusion by the co-editors, the volume offers a textured portrait of the dilemmas of decentralization during a period of sweeping transition in the region. The collection addresses an important gap in the comparative decentralization literature, which has largely neglected the MENA region. Both retrospective and forward-looking in orientation, the book is a valuable resource not only for scholars of comparative politics, constitutional design, and Middle East studies, but also for policy makers evaluating the feasibility and efficacy of decentralization as a vehicle for improving governance and responding to identity conflict in any part of the world.

Автор: Ethan Laughman
Название: Good and Balanced: Stories about Sports from the Flannery O`Connor Award for Short Fiction
ISBN: 0820357650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357652
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23100.00 T
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Описание: These stories of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball get a fresh take through stories that might feature a losing coach, a woman hoopster, or a groundskeeper.

Автор: Gil Z. Hochberg
Название: Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future
ISBN: 1478014822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478014829
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 21690.00 T
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Описание: In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history's repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive's liberatory potential.

Автор: Nada Saab, Robert Myers
Название: Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 9004527079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004527072
Издательство: Brill
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Цена: 65090.00 T
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Описание: In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, ?Isam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and Sa?d Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and Ra?ida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator, The Jester, The Rape, Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, ?Ali?, respectively.

Автор: Laughman Ethan
Название: Rituals to Observe: Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O`Connor Award for Short Fiction
ISBN: 082035659X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356594
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23100.00 T
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Описание: These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory.

Автор: eds. J. Michael Ryan and Helen Rizzo
Название: Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges
ISBN: 162637838X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626378384
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 75200.00 T
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Описание: The role of gender in the Middle East and North Africa is widely discussed - but often little understood. Seeking to close that gap, the authors of this comprehensive study explore a wide range of issues related to gender in the region as they have been unfolding since the Arab Spring.