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  • The World of Maps

    Map Reading and Interpretation for the 21st Century

    by Judith A. Tyner, PhD ...
    Maps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate systems, and projections. It gives students a deeper understanding of the types of maps they ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • A Contextual History of Women in Cartography During WWII

    Millie the Mapper

    by Judith A. Tyner, James A. Tyner ...
    This book examines the essential role of women in cartography during WWII. Starting by highlighting the process of mapping during World War II and major employers of women cartographers, Tyner and Tyner illuminate how the discipline of cartography emerged and highlight the contributions of women involved in this process. The book uncovers the impact of WWII on mapmaking.Before the war, cartography ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education

    by Judith A. Tyner ...
    Series series Studies in Historical Geography
    From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. Descriptions of these samplers stated that they were designed to teach needlework and geography. The focus of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith’s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating ... Read more

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  • Think Tanks in America

    by Thomas Medvetz ...
    A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they've had on the United States.Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they ... Read more

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  • The Marketplace of Ideas

    Reform and Resistance in the American University

    by Louis Menand ...
    "Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street JournalThe publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard ... Read more

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  • Research Methodologies in EU and International Law

    by Professor Tamara Hervey, Professor Robert Cryer, Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Ali Bohm ...
    Law research students often begin their PhDs without having an awareness of methodology, or the opportunity to think about the practice of research and its theoretical implications. Law Schools are, however, increasingly alive to the need to provide training in research methods to their students. They are also alive to the need to develop the research capacities of their early career scholars, not ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Politics, Society, and the Media, Second Edition

    by Paul Nesbitt-Larking ...
    Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada.The framework for the book presents a model ... Read more

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  • Media Anthropology for the Digital Age

    by Anna Cristina Pertierra ...
    The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the global study of media and communication. She recounts the rise of anthropological studies of media, the discovery of digital cultures, ... Read more

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  • The Reorder of Things

    The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

    by Roderick A. Ferguson ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments that reflected their histories and experiences, resulting in the formation of interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Manly States

    Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics

    by Charlotte Hooper ...
    Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how the theory and practice of international relations produces and sustains masculine identities and ... Read more

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