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Essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American
experience. This collection begins with stories of immigration and
exile by following newcomers' attempts to assimilate into American
society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally
Howell have assembled emerging and established writers who examine
notions of home, belonging, and citizenship from a wide array of
communities, including cultural heritages originating from Lebanon,
Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen. The strong pattern in Arab Detroit
today is to oppose marginalization through avid participation in
almost every form of American identity-making. This engaged stance
is not a by-product of culture, but a new way of thinking about the
US in relation to one's homeland. Hadha Baladuna ("this is our
country") is the first work of creative nonfiction in the field of
Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora
in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab
Americans in the US. Narratives move from a young Lebanese man in
the early 1920s peddling his wares along country roads to an
aspiring Iraqi-Lebanese poet who turns to the music of Tupac Shakur
for inspiration. The anthology then pivots to experiences growing
up Arab American in Detroit and Dearborn, capturing the cultural
vibrancy of urban neighborhoods and dramatizing the complexity of
what it means to be Arab, particularly from the vantage point of
biracial writers. Included in these works is a fearless account of
domestic and sexual abuse and a story of a woman who comes to terms
with her queer identity in a community that is not entirely
accepting. The volume also includes photographs from award-winning
artist Rania Matar that present heterogenous images of Arab
American women set against the arresting backdrop of Detroit. The
anthology concludes with explorations of political activism dating
back to the 1960s and Dearborn's shifting demographic landscape.
Hadha Baladuna will shed light on the shifting position of Arab
Americans in an era of escalating tension between the United States
and the Arab region.
This state-of-the-art Handbook provides an overview of the role of
big data analytics in various areas of business and commerce,
including accounting, finance, marketing, human resources,
operations management, fashion retailing, information systems, and
social media. It provides innovative ways of overcoming the
challenges of big data research and proposes new directions for
further research using descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and
prescriptive analytics. With contributions from leading academics
and practitioners, the Handbook analyses how big data analytics can
be used in different sectors, including detecting credit fraud in
the financial sector, identifying potential diseases in health
care, and increasing customer loyalty in the telecommunication
sector. Chapters explore the use of artificial intelligence in
accounting, the construction of successful data science ecosystems
using the public cloud, and transformational models of personal
data protection in the digital era. The Handbook also discusses the
difficulties of adopting a data science platform and how the public
cloud can aid companies in overcoming these challenges. Exploring
how industries rely on predictive analytics to improve their
decision-making, this Handbook will be essential reading for
students and scholars in business analytics, economics, information
systems, innovation and technology, and research methods. It will
also benefit data analysts, economists, human resource managers,
marketers, neuroscientists, and social science researchers.
The most detailed map of the World available which can be folded
and stored in a standard-size notebook. The 6 laminated pages are
spill and rip-proof and include an 11" x 17" map and 4 pages of
country facts. An essential tool for school at any level. Suggested
uses: Students -- a map you can keep handy from elementary school
through college; Professors -- adopt this map for your course as an
inexpensive supplement; Teachers -- a map that can be purchased as
a class set that will last your entire career; Parents -- instill
knowledge and interest in the world, inspire travel, and connect
family history to the places on the map.
This revised second edition of Comparative Tort Law offers an
updated and enriched framework for analysing and understanding the
current state of tort law around the world. Using a critical
comparative methodology, it examines common issues such as
causation, economic and non-economic damages, product and
professional liability, and the relationship between tort law and
crime, insurance and public welfare schemes. Featuring
contributions from international experts, this book also provides a
comprehensive comparative assessment of tort law cultures,
contextualising them within the legal systems and societies that
sustain them. Chapters cover many jurisdictions often overlooked in
the mainstream literature, and explore illuminating case studies
from tort systems in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia and
sub-Saharan Africa, including new chapters specifically discussing
tort law in Brazil, India and Russia. Comparative Tort Law is a
critical tool for students, scholars and academic researchers,
especially those specialising in tort and comparative law. It will
also be useful to policymakers, practitioners and judges, in
particular those dealing with differing tort law systems.
Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative
works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary
modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern
form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities,
and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy.
Exemplary cases show electronic literature looking back to
modernism for inspiration and source material (in content, form,
and ideology) through which to critique contemporary culture. In so
doing, this literature renews and reframes, rather than rejects, a
literary tradition that it also reconfigures to center around
media. To support her argument, Pressman pairs modernist works by
Pound, Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William
Poundstone's "Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit]"
(2005), Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd
Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter. With each pairing, she demonstrates
how the modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s laid the
groundwork for the innovations of electronic literature. In sum,
the study situates contemporary digital literature in a literary
genealogy in ways that rewrite literary history and reflect back on
literature's past, modernism in particular, to illuminate the
crucial role that media played in shaping the ambitions and
practices of that period.
Timely and original, Rethinking Communication Geographies explores
the human condition under digital capitalism, depicting an
environment in which digital logistics have taken centre stage in
day-to-day life. The book responds to a pressing need to address
the key questions of human autonomy and security, as well as the
social power relations of the platform economy, in a world in which
media and space have become increasingly entangled. Establishing a
framework for understanding 'geomedia' as an environmental regime
that shapes human subjectivity, Andre Jansson advances a humanistic
and interdisciplinary approach to the study of communication
geographies, arguing that human activities are accommodated to
sustain the circulation of digital data. The book examines concrete
examples related to audio-streaming, transmedia tourism, and
platform urbanism, ultimately demonstrating how digital skills and
logistical expertise have become forms of capital in contemporary
society. Mapping ongoing transitions related to how digitalization
affects spatial processes, the unique perspectives explored in this
book will be of equal interest to postgraduates and researchers in
the fields of human geography and media and communication studies.
The innovative concepts and approaches to the study of digital
geography introduced throughout will also enhance the dialogue
between a vast range of disciplines across the humanities and
social sciences.
We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not
only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course,
music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object
that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much
of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is
not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and
musical sounds as well. The music industry, governments and artists
have always relied on posters, films and album covers to enhance
music's semiotic meaning. Music as Multimodal Discourse: Semiotics,
Power and Protest considers musical sound as multimodal
communication, examining the interacting meaning potential of sonic
aspects such as rhythm, instrumentation, pitch, tonality, melody
and their interrelationships with text, image and other modes,
drawing upon, and extending the conceptual territory of social
semiotics. In so doing, this book brings together research from
scholars to explore questions around how we communicate through
musical discourse, and in the discourses of music. Methods in this
collection are drawn from Critical Discourse Analysis, Social
Semiotics and Music Studies to expose both the function and
semiotic potential of the various modes used in songs and other
musical texts. These analyses reveal how each mode works in various
contexts from around the world often articulating counter-hegemonic
and subversive discourses of identity and belonging.
This revised and updated Research Handbook on European State Aid
Law brings together established academics and practitioners to
provide a wide-ranging coverage of the field. Incorporating
political science, economics and the law in its analysis, it
provides a strong overview of the salient issues in State aid law
and policy. Chapters address the significance of State aid to
various aspects of the political and legal systems of the Member
States, including taxation, the financial sector, and the interplay
between EU rules on State aid, free movement and public
procurement. The Research Handbook further examines the application
of the State aid rules to major sectors of the EU economy and
introduces brand new themes for State aid analysis, such as
arbitration, social services and the impact of Brexit. Featuring
theoretical explorations and empirical studies, this Research
Handbook will be crucial reading for scholars and researchers of EU
State aid law, especially those searching for new avenues of
research. It will also be a useful reference point for officials in
national governments and the European Commission who are engaged in
the State aid approval process. Judges hoping to expand their
knowledge of EU State aid law and policy will also benefit from
this insightful Research Handbook.
This insightful and timely book considers the role of great-power
competition in what has come to be known as gray zone conflict.
Based on cutting-edge empirical research, it addresses the
question: how can interactions between adversaries in international
crises be managed in ways which avoid dangerous escalation? Drawing
together diverse perspectives, an interdisciplinary team of
academics and policy analysts take a data-driven approach to
analyzing international crises over the past 100 years. Taking the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as a backdrop for critical
evaluation, chapters examine US and NATO approaches to the
management of escalation in asymmetric conflicts. Ultimately, the
book identifies areas where classical deterrence theory is
incompatible with the realities of the contemporary conflict
environment, and proposes innovative tools for managing crises in
the future. Providing historical overviews of escalation management
in international crises, this comprehensive book is essential
reading for students and scholars of international politics,
international relations, terrorism and security, and foreign
policy, particularly those studying Chinese, Russian and US
strategic decision making. It will also be beneficial to policy
analysts, military leaders, and journalists focusing on
contemporary international issues.
Sport studies is becoming an increasingly popular discipline, but
the most effective research methods used to investigate the
multi-faceted nature of the empirical sporting world have yet to be
identified. This book makes a timely and relevant contribution to a
broader methodological project as the first systematic examination
and explication of qualitative research methods within sports
studies. Bringing together leading experts in the field,
Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies assesses a variety of
approaches, ranging from social historical, media text, and
personal narrative to ethnographic and interview-based qualitative
research methodologies. Drawing on the diversity of sport studies
literature, contributors outline the major issues and strategies
associated with each method and highlight best practice exemplars
to follow. What are the future opportunities and avenues for
further investigation within sports studies research? What are the
true assets of qualitative data collection and analysis? Answering
these and countless other questions that are critical for the
future of the discipline, this practical research guide is an
essential reference tool for students and scholar
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