Since the late 1980s, American jeweller Keith Lewis (*1959) has been consistently tackling issues of Queer identity and politics in his figurative and narrative jewellery, including a groundbreaking series of memorial jewels addressing the impact of the AIDS crisis on himself and his community. Often witty, sometimes shocking, frequently erotic, and surprisingly moving, his jewellery is an act of remembering and witnessing, and a joyous assertion that desire and pleasure, wonderful ends in themselves, can collapse historical distance and connect the past and the present. Written by Damian Skinner and featuring four of Lewis’s artist talks documenting key preoccupations and series, this monograph surveys a bold, provocative, and ambitious body of work that deserves to be widely known.

In the past several years two academic controversies have migrated from the classrooms and courtyards of college and university campuses to the front pages of national and international newspapers: Alan Sokal's hoax, published in the journal "Social Text," and the self-named movement, "Perestroika," that recently emerged within the discipline of political science. Representing radically different analytical perspectives, these two incidents provoked wide controversy precisely because they brought into sharp relief a public crisis in the social sciences today, one that raises troubling questions about the relationship between science and political knowledge, and about the nature of objectivity, truth, and meaningful inquiry in the social sciences. In this provocative and timely book, Keith Topper investigates the key questions raised by these and other interventions in the "social science wars" and offers unique solutions to them.

Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life.

Two or three nights before we left my dad, I had ten pennies laying on the dresser that had been given to me and I was excited about what I was going to buy with them (back then you could buy quite a bit of treats with ten pennies). I went to bed happy and woke up to see my pennies gone. I knew right away, what had happened to my little treasure. My temper flared; my mother took me by the hand and said, "Don't say anything about the pennies being gone because your daddy will whip you." I had to keep my mouth closed even though I was upset, but even back then I vowed "I Won't Be Denied." When I get grown I'm going to let him know how I feel. For some reason, the time as yet has not presented itself.

This is an updated edition of the popular workbook, written to match the latest syllabus. It has been written for students studying the "International Marketing Strategy" module in the CIM Diploma; it is endorsed by Trevor Watkins, the CIM Chief Examiner, and contains sample exam questions. The layout of this text is lively and interactive. Each unit has the same structure with the intention of making learning easier and more consistent, and contains objectives, test tasks, practical examples and case studies. There are also questions to test the reader's knowledge, advice on where to find out more, a succinct chapter summary, and revision tips.

This text is a coursebook tailored specifically for students undertaking the International Marketing Strategy module of the CIM Certificate. Completely revised and updated to fit in with the syllabus, the book is officially endorsed by the CIM and approved by the CIM Chief Examiner.;The text contains: a firmly international perspective; material to cover e-marketing issues; up-to-date examples and case-studies to illustrate the theory; text references and website references; and preparatory aids for the final exam, including the most recent exam papers, examiners' marking schemes and specimen answers.

Ron Morgan is well known as an innovative floral designer. Here, he demonstrates the beauty and versatility of clear glass vessels in home decorating. Whether filling glassware with flowers, shells, vegetables, nuts, fruits, or unusual plant materials, the end result is fun, casual, easy, and affordable. Morgan provides templates from his original designs, which can be easily followed at home to create dazzling centerpieces or colorful, contemporary accents throughout the home.