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Brand Aid
Shopping Well to Save the World
Av Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte
Häftad, 2011
203 kr
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“Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “cappuccinos or cashmere” will help to fight AIDS in Africa. Cofounded in 2006 by the rock star Bono, Product RED has been a particularly successful …
Removing Mountains
Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning …
Tourist State
Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien’s Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist …
Rebirth of the Clinic
Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
Av Cindy Patton
Häftad, 2010
284 kr
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From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the …
Swamplife
People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Häftad, 2011
275 kr
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Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades-a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered …
Interface
IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
Av John Harwood
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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" In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBMs corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What …
Slumbering Masses
Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good nights sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The …
Hot Spotter's Report
Military Fables of Toxic Waste
Häftad, 2013
301 kr
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Many nuclear and other U.S. military facilities from World War II and the Cold War are now being closed and remediated. Some of these sites have even been transformed into nature refuges and hailed as models of environmental stewardship. Yet, as Shiloh R. Krupar argues, these efforts are too often …
Lifeblood
Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
Häftad, 2013
310 kr
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If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don’t we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits-Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire-Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew T. …
Zoo Renewal
White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
Av Lisa Uddin
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their …
Folklore of the Freeway
Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
Av Eric Avila
Häftad, 2014
281 kr
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When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New …
Fiery Cinema
The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945
Av Weihong Bao
Häftad, 2015
349 kr
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What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the …
Building a House in Heaven
Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
Av Mona Atia
Häftad, 2013
294 kr
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Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation-the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the connection between Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising …
Landscape of Discontent
Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
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On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district …
Restaurant Republic
The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
Av Kelly Erby
Häftad, 2016
281 kr
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Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in …
HIV Exceptionalism
Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
Av Adia Benton
Häftad, 2015
273 kr
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WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCEIn 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. …
Bamako Sounds
The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
Häftad, 2015
310 kr
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Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, …
Seizing Jerusalem
The Architectures of Unilateral Unification
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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After seizing Jerusalems eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the worlds most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as …
Improper Names
Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
Inbunden, 2015
917 kr
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Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, …
Improper Names
Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, …
Made to Hear
Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Häftad, 2016
310 kr
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A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants …
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments …
Life, Emergent
The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
Av Yasmeen Arif
Häftad, 2016
330 kr
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How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass violence look like from the perspective of the social? Taking us from Sierra Leone to India to Lebanon, Life, Emergent challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. …
Nature of the Path
Reading a West African Road
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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The Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a community that has existed on the margins of larger societies for centuries. Marcus Filippello shows how a road running through the Lama Valley in Southeastern Benin has become a mnemonic device that has …
