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The Shelf2life Travelogues Collection offers readers a unique
glimpse into the diverse landscape, culture and wildlife of the
world from the perspective of late 19th and early 20th century
esteemed travelers. From the exotic islands of Fiji to the lush
jungles of Africa to the bustling streets of New York City, these
picturesque backdrops set the scene for amusing, and at times
prejudiced, anecdotes of adventure, survival and camaraderie.
Photographs and whimsical illustrations complement the descriptive
text, bringing to life the colorful characters encountered along
the way. The Shelf2Life Travelogues Collection allows readers to
embark on a voyage into the past to experience the world as it once
was and meet the people who inhabited it.
This book bridges a crucial gap in the literature on gender and
organizational culture by providing an historical account of how
discriminatory practices develop, are maintained but also change
over time. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival
material, the author presents an historical account of the way
specific discriminatory practices developed and changed over the
life of three airline companies--British Airways, Air Canada, and
Pan American Airways. The book covers the period 1919 to 1991 and
is organized around key periods in the hiring and treatment of
female employees but the focus is on gender in the broadest sense
of the word (looking at the social construction of male and female
sexuality; heterosexuality and homosexuality). Gender is explored
through analysis of organizational symbolism, workplace practices
and organizational structuring. As a history of discriminatory
practices the book is unique in the field of business and corporate
history.
New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low-income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches that are most .
* Presents a new framework for understanding literacy and
digitalization, to bring together multiple schools of thought, from
critical literacy to new literacies to multiliteracies * Connects
interdisciplinary fields such as embodied cognition, sociology of
education, digital literacy * New scholarship from famous literacy
scholars Kathy A. Mills and Len Unsworth
* Presents a new framework for understanding literacy and
digitalization, to bring together multiple schools of thought, from
critical literacy to new literacies to multiliteracies * Connects
interdisciplinary fields such as embodied cognition, sociology of
education, digital literacy * New scholarship from famous literacy
scholars Kathy A. Mills and Len Unsworth
In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills
investigates women's experiences with street harassment,
recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The
author follows feminist scholars to consider the ways that silence
can potentially, if only partially, protect women from verbally
assaultive men who harass women in public. This violence both
reveals and conceals itself in the discourses of silence about and
during street harassment. It maps onto and reflects the web of
violence that proves persistent and difficult to dismantle. This
work operates as an initial intervention, by way of recognition of
street harassment as a problem that hides in plain sight.
This book, first published in 1988, is an English translation of
the sixteenth-century Spanish treatise Tratado de Cuentas or On
Accounts by Diego del Castillo. The broad purpose of this work is
to make this treatise and the issues it raises in accounting
history better known. Despite its importance to the field, the
Tratado has until this point been relatively inaccessible. The
Tratado is a legal treatise with legal implications - accounting
activity has always had social consequences, and as a result,
accounting practices have been subject to and shaped by legal
constraints throughout their history. This work makes clear the
important relationship between law and accounting.
This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Containing detailed descriptions and analyses of monastic ritual, the work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions as they interact with more localised understandings of bodily identity and territorial cosmology, to produce a substantial re-interpretation of the place of monks as ritual performers and peripheral householders in Ladakh. The work also examines the central and indispensable role of incarnate lamas, such as the Dalai Lama, in the religious life of Tibetan Buddhists.
This book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction
entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the oral
narrative process which can be observed in individual performances.
This book argues that Bruno Mars is uniquely positioned to borrow
from his heritage and experiential knowledge as well as his musical
talent, performative expertise, and hybrid identities (culturally,
ethnically, and racially) to remix music that can create "new music
nostalgia." Melinda Mills attends to the ways that Mars is
precariously positioned in relation to all of the racial and ethnic
groups that constitute his known background and argues that this
complexity serves him well in the contemporary moment. Engaging in
the performative politics of blackness allows Mars to advocate for
social justice by employing his artistic agency. Through his
entertainment and the everyday practice of joy, Mars models a way
of moving through the world that counters its harsh realities.
Through his music and perfomance, Mars provides a way for a
reconceptualization of race and a reimagining of the future.
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