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This is a hilarious, eye-opening tour of the new romantic landscape, from one of America's sharpest comic voices and one of its leading sociologists.
In the old days, most people would find a decent person who lived in their village or neighbourhood, and after deciding they weren't a murderer, get married and have kids - all by the age of 22. Now we spend years of our lives searching for our perfect soul mate and, thanks to dating apps, mobile phones and social media, we have more romantic options than ever before in human history. Yet we also have to confront strange new dilemmas, such as what to think when someone is too busy to reply to a text but has time to post a photo of their breakfast on Instagram. And if we have so many more options, why aren't people any less frustrated? For years, American comedian Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at dating and relationships, and in Modern Romance, he teams up with award-winning sociologist Eric Klinenberg to investigate love in the age of technology. They enlisted some of the world's leading social scientists, conducted hundreds of
interviews, analyzed the behavioural data, and researched dating cultures from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to New York City.
The result is an unforgettable picture of modern love, combining Ansari's irreverent humour with cutting-edge social science.
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Brown Boy - A Memoir
Omer Aziz
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R445
R373
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An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and
class that "cuts to the bone" (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In a tough
neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy
white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a
first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and
despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead,
succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of
high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open
up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes
his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris,
Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he
continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at
being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He
is searching for community and identity, asking questions of
himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in
difficult situations--whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the
more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and
powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further
away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the
books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the
contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to
a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the
questions he couldn't have asked in his youth: Was assimilation
ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and
class? And could we--the collective West--ever honestly confront
the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the
past? In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that
eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity
that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he
knows himself to be.
Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management presents a
pragmatic and easy-to-implement framework for the successful
operation of selling and sales management. Focused specifically on
the value-exchange behavior of buyers and sellers, the book is
composed of eight fundamental building blocks, which provide:
* A revolutionary framework to describe the dynamics of consumer
and organizational buying processes
* A scientific, analytical approach to the personal elements in
selling
* A much needed insight into the personal interactions between
buyers and sellers, both the implicit and explicit
* A new and unique structure which integrates psychographic data
mining and modeling techniques in a sales context, for the first
time
Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management reflects selling
and sales management practices within the field, based upon the
extensive experience of the authors and other contributors. It is
essential reading for advanced students, practitioners and
researchers in sales and marketing.
- Develops a revolutionary framework to describe consumer and
organizational buying processes, derived from author's earlier work
in a nationally-sanctioned textbook in China
- Approaches data modeling in a sales context
- Includes insight the personal interactions between buyer and
seller, both the implicit and explicit
This book is written as a comprehensive and practical guide for
General Practitioners who often manage patients with diabetic foot
complications. Topics covered include Types of Diabetic Foot
Complications, Basic Science involved, Examining a Diabetic Foot,
Doing Investigations and Treating a Diabetic Foot, Endocrine
Control, Nutritional Support, Choice of Wound Dressing and Choice
of the appropriate Antibiotic. An important chapter, especially
useful to the GPs is a practical guide on when to treat the
patients in their clinics and when to send them to hospitals for
management by Diabetic Foot Specialists. A special emphasis has
also been given to guide GPs how to educate their patients on Care
of Diabetes itself, Care of the Foot and Choice of Footwear. In
addition, this Companion Book to GPs will also be useful to Nurses
and Podiatrists who also provide care to Diabetic Foot patients.
For the latter, a Supplement has been added. Relevant topics
include Team Approach, Nursing a Diabetic Foot, Nutrition, Wound
Dressings, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, Maggot Debridement
Therapy, Off-loading & Shoes, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,
Charcot Joint Disease and Rehabilitation.
This book investigates the interplay between media, politics,
religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and
democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring"
uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,
specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their
potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors
systematically explore and critique these online communities and
spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies,
largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic
discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a
computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.
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A Land Full of God (Hardcover)
Mae Elise Cannon; Foreword by Daniel Roth, Aziz Abu Sarah
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R1,545
R1,224
Discovery Miles 12 240
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While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa
has always played an important role in democratic and
non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats,
activists, and others who work towards political transformations.
New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools
and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing
democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective,
this book also presents case studies and national experiences for
media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.
Population growth and industrial development have increased the
amount of wastewater generated by urban areas, and one of the major
problems facing industrialized nations is the contamination of the
environment by hazardous chemicals. Therefore, to meet the
standards, suitable treatment alternatives should be established.
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in Water and Wastewater
Treatment is a pivotal reference source that provides vital
research on the current, green, and advanced technologies for
wastewater treatment. While highlighting topics such as groundwater
treatment, environmental legislation, and oxidation processes, this
publication explores the contamination of environments by hazardous
chemicals as well as the methods of decontamination and the
reduction of negative effects on the environment. This book is a
vital reference source for environmental engineers, waste
authorities, solid waste management companies, landfill operators,
legislators, environmentalists, and academicians seeking current
research on achieving sustainable management for wastewater
treatment.
Streetwise pickpockets, Maggie and Josh, are inseparable. Only
their friendship makes life bearable at the Scribbens Home for Very
Wayward Children, run by the villainous Miss Scribbens. But when
Maggie encounters a strange and sinister circus, she abandons Josh
and tumbles headfirst into a world of dangerous and dazzling magic.
She’s determined to solve the mystery of its disappearing
performers and animals. Where do they go? Who is the mastermind
behind it all? Josh sets out to find Maggie, unaware of the dark
dangers that lie ahead.
What was the most famous revolution in the world in 2011? Of course
the answer is the Egyptian Revolution, known as the 25th January
Revolution or the White Revolution. And yet there aren't any books
about this great peaceful revolution. This is a real pity because
millions of people, young and old, would love to read about this
subject New Egypt or the Quiver Land was born after a long black
era of Tyranny. How could this happen? What was the price of
achieving this goal? How could the peaceful Quiverians perform
their White Revolution? Details of feelings, actions and
consequences of this revolution are included in an easy style of
writing.
How do educators and activists in today's struggles for change use
historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for
political education? How do they create and engage with independent
and often informal archives and debates? How do they ultimately
connect this historical knowledge with contemporary struggles?
History's Schools aims to advance the understanding of
relationships between learning, knowledge production, history and
social change. This unique collection explores engagement with
activist/movement archives; learning and teaching militant
histories; lessons from liberatory and anti-imperialist struggles;
and learning from student, youth and education struggles. Six
chapters foreground insights from the breadth and diversity of
South Africa's rich progressive social movements; while others
explore connections between ideas and practices of historical and
contemporary struggles in other parts of the world including
Argentina, Iran, Britain, Palestine, and the US. Besides its great
relevance to scholars and students of Education, Sociology, and
History, this innovative title will be of particular interest to
adult educators, labour educators, archivists, community workers
and others concerned with education for social change.
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