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Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

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Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and
... Read more
Canvas Detroit

by Julie Pincus, Nichole Christian, Jane Orr, Halima Cassells, Mitch Cope, Ron English, Greg Fadell, Jerome Ferretti, Scott Hocking, Judith Hoffman, Greg Holm, Nicole MacDonald, Hubert Massey, Gregory Tom, Yvette Rock, Robert Sestok, Catie Newell, Raymond E. Stanczak, Graem Whyte, Katie Yamasaki, John Dunivant, John Sauve, Alec Hostomsky, Olayami Dabls, Marc Schwartz, Erik Howard, Katie Craig, Matthew Eaton, Kevin Joy, Veronika Scott, Kobie Solomon ...

Series series Painted Turtle Press
A compelling look at the contemporary art and artists that are transforming Detroit's physical landscape.Detroit's unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and ... Read more

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A compelling look at the contemporary art and artists that are transforming Detroit's physical landscape.Detroit's unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and
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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper0, Adrian Danks1, Rebecca Bell-Metereau2, Brenda Austin-Smith3, Dominic Lennard4, Daniel Varndell5, Matthew Cipa6, Tom Conley7, Ms. Linda Badley8, Professor Kristen Hatch9 ...

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio
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The Biggest Thing in Show Business

Living It Up with Martin & Lewis

by Murray Pomerance, Matthew Solomon ...

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar ... Read more

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A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar
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The Blinded City

Ten Years In Inner-City Johannesburg

by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon ...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSIAmid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSIAmid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in
... Read more
Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa

A New Postcolonial Critique

by Fidelis Allen, Luke A. Amadi, James Olusegun Adeyeri, John Ebute Agaba, Biko Agozino, Olayinka Akanle, Adebisi Alade, Solomon Awuzie, Fred Ekpe F. Ayokhai0, Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo1, Jairos Gonye2, Yakubu Moses Joseph3, Nick T. C. Lu4, Fouad Mami5, Nathan Moyo6, Mike Odey7, Victor Ikechukwu Ogharanduku8, Matthew Dayi Ogali9, Emmanuel Steelman Okla0, Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen1 ...

Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocates for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural ... Read more

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Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocates for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural
... Read more
Queering the South on Screen

by Eric G. Anderson, Ted Atkinson, R. Brasell, Scott Combs, Darren Elliott-Smith, Joe Edward Hatfield, David Markus, Margaret T. McGehee, D. Matthew Ramsey, Jeff Solomon, Jessica Walker ...

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Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the ... Read more

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Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the
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Orson Welles in Focus

Texts and Contexts

by James Naremore, Catherine Benamou, Vincent Longo, Marguerite Rippy, Craig Simpson, Matthew Solomon, Francois Thomas, Shawn VanCour0 ...

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected
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Man School

Relating With Women in the #MeToo Era

by Matthew Solomon ...

"Man School: Relating with Women in the #MeToo Era" is simultaneously an acknowledgement of women and a non-judgmental education for men in how we got here, why women are upset, and how men can win in relating with women in this new paradigm. Matthew Solomon, the "Coach for the Modern Soul," has spent most of his adult life mastering relationships and communication.As the #metoo movement emerged ... Read more

$4.99 USD

"Man School: Relating with Women in the #MeToo Era" is simultaneously an acknowledgement of women and a non-judgmental education for men in how we got here, why women are upset, and how men can win in relating with women in this new paradigm. Matthew Solomon, the "Coach for the Modern Soul," has spent most of his adult life mastering relationships and communication.As the #metoo movement emerged
... Read more
Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

$24.49 USD

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has
... Read more
Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era

The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

by Matthew H. Ciscel, Fengyuan Ji, Ekaterina Levintova, Andrejs Plakans, Marek Skovajsa, Norina Solomon, Magda Stroinska, Cosmina Tanasoiu, Rossen Vassilev, Marius Dragomir ...

This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post ... Read more

$105.99 USD

This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post
... Read more
Routes and Rites to the City

Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg

Edited by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez, Peter Kankonde Bukasa, Bettina Malcomess ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban ‘super-diversity’ as a plurality of religious, ethnic, ... Read more

$80.09 USD

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban ‘super-diversity’ as a plurality of religious, ethnic,
... Read more

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