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The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

by Stephen Watt, Dan Hassler-Forest, Erik Bohman, Stephen Shapiro, Jack Raglin, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Andrea Ruthven, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, John Gibson, Jonathan P. Eburne, Stephen Schneider, Jeffrey T. Nealon ...

Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
"Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

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"Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of
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You're Not Playing with a Full Deck

Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage

by Stephen Shapiro ...

THAT PERSON WHO DRIVES YOU NUTS? THEY'RE THE ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE.With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold.But here’s the problem: when everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. No breakthroughs.You end up playing with only half a deck.The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the ... Read more

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THAT PERSON WHO DRIVES YOU NUTS? THEY'RE THE ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE.With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold.But here’s the problem: when everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. No breakthroughs.You end up playing with only half a deck.The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the
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How to Read Marx's Capital

by Stephen Shapiro ...

Series series How to Read Theory
Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to ... Read more

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Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to
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How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish

by Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro ...

Series series How to Read Theory
Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid ... Read more

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Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid
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Tracking Capital

World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Culture

by Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, Stephen Shapiro ...

Series series SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis, the book offers readers a series of rubrics, keywords, and concepts—such as zemiperiphery, registration, and commodity chains—to enable more integrated, transdisciplinary methods ... Read more

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Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis, the book offers readers a series of rubrics, keywords, and concepts—such as zemiperiphery, registration, and commodity chains—to enable more integrated, transdisciplinary methods
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror

Edited by Stephen Shapiro, Mark Storey ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
Opening up the warm body of American Horror – through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums – this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life. Through a series of accessible and informed essays, moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, The Cambridge Companion to American Horror ... Read more

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Opening up the warm body of American Horror – through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums – this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life. Through a series of accessible and informed essays, moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, The Cambridge Companion to American Horror
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Decolonizing the Undead

Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

Edited by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Dr Giulia Champion, Dr Roxanne Douglas ...

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the ... Read more

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Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the
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Invisible Solutions

25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems

by Stephen Shapiro ...

Narrated by Stephen Shapiro ...

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3 hours 8 min

Unprecedented access to infinite solutions has led us to realize that having all of the answers is not the answer. From innovation teams to creativity experts to crowdsourcing, we've turned from one source to another, spending endless cycles pursuing piecemeal solutions to each challenge we face. What if your organization had an effective systematic approach to deal with any problem? To find ... Read more

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Unprecedented access to infinite solutions has led us to realize that having all of the answers is not the answer. From innovation teams to creativity experts to crowdsourcing, we've turned from one source to another, spending endless cycles pursuing piecemeal solutions to each challenge we face. What if your organization had an effective systematic approach to deal with any problem? To find
... Read more
Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture

by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Professor Philip Barnard ...

Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive ... Read more

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Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive
... Read more
Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Edited by Liam Kennedy, Stephen Shapiro ...

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dominance of our neoliberal regime. The essays collected here reveal how contemporary American writers have both propped up and interrogated the ... Read more

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Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dominance of our neoliberal regime. The essays collected here reveal how contemporary American writers have both propped up and interrogated the
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown

Edited by Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmett, Stephen Shapiro ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life ... Read more

$133.19 USD

Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life
... Read more
World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

Edited by Sharae Deckard, Stephen Shapiro ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique and to distinguish between neoliberal ideology and processes of neoliberalization. It explores the ... Read more

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This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique and to distinguish between neoliberal ideology and processes of neoliberalization. It explores the
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