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The Fruits of Their Labor
by Cindy HahamovitchIn 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers--Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean--who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
by Rocío RosalesThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the "ethnic cage" to explain both the promise and pain of community.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
by Jamison Green Aaron DevorIn this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research.
Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy
by Ariel GoreHappiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness secrets that are backed by scientific findings. The problem is that all of this science is done by and for cis white men. And some of the most vocal of these happiness experts were announcing that women could become happier by espousing "traditional" values and eschewing feminism. Skeptical of this hypothesis, Ariel Gore took a deep dive into the optimism industrial complex, reading the history, combing the research, attending the conferences, interviewing the thought leaders, and exploring her own and her friends' personal experiences and desires. Fuck Happiness is a nuanced, thoughtful examination of what happiness means and to whom, how it's played a role in defining modern gender roles and power structures, and how we can all have a more empowered relationship with the pursuit of joy in our lives.
Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance
by Simon SpringerThis book is a call to action against the most persistent and pestilent disease of our time. Translated into over twenty different languages, the book offers a call to action that transcends local contexts and speaks to the violent global conditions of our neoliberal age. Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance is a worldwide middle finger to the all-encompassing ideology of our era. The original essay sparked controversy in the academy when it was first released, and has since spread around the world as enthusiastic rebels translated it into their own languages. This book brings those translations together, accompanied with short essays from each translator that explain the reasons why they translated the text and describes the localized struggles against neoliberalism in their regions. With translations into languages from across the globe, including Mandarin, German, Indonesian, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Korean, and many more, this book highlights the international nature of resistance to the totalitarian ideology of neoliberalism. Featuring a cover produced by renowned artist Ed Repka (a.k.a. the King of Thrash Metal Art), this internationalized, heavy-metal rant against the all-powerful ideology highlights a chink in its armor. When people across the world find a way to communicate a shared message and stand together, resistance can be both beautiful and inspiring.
Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
by Lisa Downing Iain Morland Nikki SullivanOne of the twentieth century’s most controversial sexologists--or "fuckologists,” to use his own memorable term--John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet fought its uptake by feminists. He backed surgical treatments for transsexuality, but argued that gender roles were set by reproductive capacity. He shaped the treatment of intersex, advocating experimental sex changes for children with ambiguous genitalia. He pioneered drug therapy for sex offenders, yet took an ambivalent stance towards pedophilia. In his most publicized case study, Money oversaw the reassignment of David Reimer as female following a circumcision accident in infancy. Heralded by many as proof that gender is pliable, the case was later discredited when Reimer revealed that he had lived as a male since his early teens. In Fuckology, the authors contextualize and interrogate Money's writings and practices. The book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, "hermaphroditism,” "transsexualism,” and "paraphilia,” but also addresses his lesser-known work on topics ranging from animal behavior to the philosophy of science. The result is a comprehensive collection of new insights for researchers and students within cultural, historical, and gender studies, as well as for practitioners and activists in sexology, psychology, and patient rights.
La fuente de la autoestima
by Toni Morrisonp style="text-align:center">El último libro de la gran premio Nobel de Literatura: su insoslayable legado moral e intelectual El racismo puede ponerse un traje nuevo, comprarse unas botas nuevas, pero ni él ni su súcubo gemelo, el fascismo, son nuevos ni capaces de nada nuevo. Solo puede reproducir el entorno que respalda su propia condición: el miedo, el rechazo y una atmósfera en que sus víctimas han perdido las ganas de luchar.TONI MORRISONLa fuente de la autoestima es la magnífica recopilación de ensayos y discursos de Toni Morrison en los que ofrece sus lúcidas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, la cultura y el arte de los últimos cuarenta años, y realiza una contundente crítica de sus obras y también de algunas ajenas. Morrison aborda temas sociales acuciantes como la inmigración, el empoderamiento de la mujer, la prensa, el dinero o los derechos humanos, la función de los artistas en la sociedad, la creación literaria y, al igual que en su emocionante discurso de recepción del Premio Nobel, el poder del lenguaje. La crítica ha dicho...«Morrison recordó que Estados Unidos se ha levantado sobre la raza, la esclavitud, la memoria, la identidad, la discriminación y la integración de la cultura afroamericana. Nunca se cansó de señalar la manera como los negros han sido tratados en su país. Y no ocultó las críticas a su raza. [...] Gran parte de todo eso está expresado en La fuente de la autoestima.»Winston Manrique «Toni Morrison es la gran narradora de la verdad afroamericana. Una de las personas que mejor ha contado y reflexionado sobre la situación de la población negra y su cultura en Estados Unidos y sobre la raza en general en el mundo. [...] Nunca se cansó de señalar la manera como los negros han sido tratados en su país. Y no ocultó las críticas a su raza. Gran parte de todo eso está expresado en La fuente de la autoestima.»The Huffington Post «Este libro es un legado, [...] una suerte de testamento intelectual. En él, la Nobel de Literatura hace algo así como abrirnos la sala de máquinas de sus ficciones. [...] Una mezcla originalísima de inteligencia, fuerza y humanidad. [...] Imprescindible.»Pablo Martínez Zarracina, La Rioja «Una autora fundamental del siglo XX que en La fuente de la autoestima demuestra por qué está considerada una referencia moral, ética y cultural. Un testamento literario de una luchadora infatigable contra el racismo y a favor de los derechos humanos. Textos de mucha actualidad a pesar de haber sido escritos hace años.»Use Lahoz, El Ojo Crítico (RNE 1) «Morrison es algo más que la abanderada de la literatura norteamericana. Es nuestra mejor cantante. Y este libro, probablemente su canción más importante. [...] Resulta mágico ser testigodel trabajo de su mente e imaginación, tan fértiles y sutiles como el jazz.»James McBride, The New York Times Book Review «Conmovedor. [...] Magnífico. [...] Un gran libro, rico, heterogéneo, ¡aleluya! [...] Uno siente la tentación de examinar con detenimiento sus palabras: su agudeza y claridad moral son deslumbrantes, del mismo modo que su visión sobre cómo deberíamos caminar hacia un futuro menos injusto y con menos odio.»The Guardian «Deslumbrante, cautivadora y sumamente personal: una reflexión sobre su carrera literaria y su misión artística, que no es sino la de revelar y honrar la belleza del dolor y el drama de la vida de los afroamericanos.»O, The Oprah Magazine
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by Ed SandersFug Youis Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug Youtraces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishingFuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg)--as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labels.
Fugitive Days
by Bill AyersBill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator. In the late 1960s he was a young pacifist who helped to found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, the Weather Underground. In a new era of antiwar activism and suppression of protest, his story, Fugitive Days, is more poignant and relevant than ever.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show (Personal Takes)
by Null Stanley FishFaith, liberalism, and law in a classic TV show.
Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery On Trial
by Steven LubetDuring the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves—a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When free Blacks and their abolitionist allies intervened, prosecutions and trials inevitably followed. These cases involved high legal, political, and—most of all—human drama, with runaways desperate for freedom, their defenders seeking recourse to a “higher law” and normally fair-minded judges (even some opposed to slavery) considering the disposition of human beings as property.
Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State
by Stephen DillonDuring the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. <P><P>In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neoliberal-carceral state. Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and the continued legacies of slavery. <P>LDillon theorizes these prisoners and fugitives as queer figures who occupied a unique position from which to highlight how neoliberalism depended upon racialized mass incarceration. In so doing, he articulates a vision of fugitive freedom in which the work of these activists becomes foundational to undoing the reign of the neoliberal-carceral state.
Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom
by Jessica A. KrugDuring the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The fugitives mounted effective resistance to European colonialism despite—or because of—the absence of centralized authority or a common language. In Fugitive Modernities Jessica A. Krug offers a continent- and century-spanning narrative exploring Kisama's intellectual, political, and social histories. Those who became Kisama forged a transnational reputation for resistance, and by refusing to organize their society around warrior identities, they created viable social and political lives beyond the bounds of states and the ruthless market economy of slavery. Krug follows the idea of Kisama to the Americas, where fugitives in the New Kingdom of Grenada (present-day Colombia) and Brazil used it as a means of articulating politics in fugitive slave communities. By tracing the movement of African ideas, rather than African bodies, Krug models new methods for grappling with politics and the past, while showing how the history of Kisama and its legacy as a global symbol of resistance that has evaded state capture offers essential lessons for those working to build new and just societies.
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
by Jarvis R. GivensA fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today. Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage. There is perhaps no better exemplar of this heritage than Carter G. Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. Givens shows that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to which he belonged: Woodson’s first teachers were his formerly enslaved uncles; he himself taught for nearly thirty years; and he spent his life partnering with educators to transform the lives of Black students. Fugitive Pedagogy chronicles Woodson’s efforts to fight against the “mis-education of the Negro” by helping teachers and students to see themselves and their mission as set apart from an anti-Black world. Teachers, students, families, and communities worked together, using Woodson’s materials and methods as they fought for power in schools and continued the work of fugitive pedagogy. Forged in slavery, embodied by Woodson, this tradition of escape remains essential for teachers and students today.
Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom (Just Ideas)
by Jimmy Casas KlausenCritics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America (Southern Dissent)
by Damian Alan PargasThis volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers, advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom, where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives’ claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. These individuals procured false documents or changed their names to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves’ motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth | Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E. Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | Viola Franziska Müller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas | Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
by Janet NearyFugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on the genre’s central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony.Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
by Matthew OmelskyIn Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. “Fugitive time” names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City to Sun Ra’s transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitive aesthetic, Omelsky shows how fugitive time evolves and how it remains a dominant form of imagining freedom in global black cultural expression.
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
by Sharada Balachandran OrihuelaIn this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to postrevolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality. The author shows that these subjects are not taking part in unlawful acts only for economic gain. Rather, Balachandran Orihuela argues that piracy might, surprisingly, have served as a public good, representing a form of transnational belonging that transcends membership in any one nation-state while also functioning as a surrogate to citizenship through the ownership of property. These transnational and transactional forms of social and economic life allow for a better understanding of the foundational importance of property ownership and its role in the creation of citizenship.
Führen als Beruf: Andere erfolgreich machen
by Boris KaehlerFür Führungskräfte ist Führen eine berufliche Tätigkeit. Allerdings haben die wenigsten eine sehr konkrete Vorstellung davon. Dieses Buch entwirft mit den drei Teilen Führungsverständnis, Führungsalltag und Führungsstrategie ein umfassendes professionelles Selbstverständnis. Es geht darum, ein realistisches und funktionales Managementbild jenseits von Klischees und Modekonzepten zu vermitteln. Dabei steht die praktische Umsetzbarkeit im Vordergrund: Was genau ist zu tun? Worauf kommt es in der Praxis an?Theoretische Grundlage dafür ist das Modell der Komplementären Führung. Führungskräfte wirken im Wesentlichen durch andere, nämlich ihre Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Sie sollten dabei primär auf deren Selbststeuerung setzen, aber im Bedarfsfall kompensierend eingreifen. Bezugspunkt dafür sind die vielfältigen Aufgabenstellungen, Aktivitäten und Instrumente ganzheitlicher Personalführung, die das Modell zu einem Gesamtkonzept integriert. Allgemeinverständlich und mit zahlreichen Praxistipps, das Werk richtet sich an alle, die Führen als Arbeit verstehen und sich zum Ziel gesetzt haben, ihre Organisationseinheit und deren Mitglieder erfolgreich zu machen.
Führung und Organisation: Neue Entwicklungen im Management der Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft (Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement)
by Marlies W. Fröse Beate Naake Maik ArnoldDer Band nähert sich dem Phänomen der Führung in Organisationen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen an und identifiziert verschiedene Diskursstränge, die im Rahmen des 6. Fachkongresses «Führen in der Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft: Neue Denk- und Organisationsmodelle» der Internationalen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwirtschaft/ Sozialmanagement (INAS) im März 2018 analysiert und diskutiert worden sind. Die versammelten Beiträge setzen an der Frage an, was Führung ist bzw. wie Führung funktioniert und reproduziert wird. Es geht um das Quo Vadis dieser neuen Entwicklungen.
FUIMOS TODOS (EBOOK)
by Juan B. Yofre"Nadie fue", el libro anterior de Juan B. Yofre, se convirtió en una de las grandes sorpresas editoriales de los últimos años. Sobre la base de fuentes privilegiadas, narraba el desarrollo histórico de la Argentina de los años 70 hasta la caída de Isabel Perón. Fuimos todos es la fascinante continuación de aquel éxito: retoma los avatares de nuestra historia desde el 24 de marzo de 1976 hasta la aventura militar de Malvinas -que llevó al fin del Proceso- y sus consecuencias. Yofre repite aquí su procedimiento periodístico, exhuma documentos, apuntes, informes, cartas, que ven la luz por primera vez. Hallazgos que muestran aspectos absolutamente desconocidos de un período de violencia y dan cuenta del enfrentamiento entre los argentinos, ya no solamente de las Fuerzas Armadas y las organizaciones terroristas sino también de las continuas luchas intestinas del propio régimen castrense. Un eslabón más en la historia de la decadencia política argentina. Exhaustivamente documentado, polémico, revelador, Fuimos todos expone los hechos, como dice el autor, "sine ira et cum studio", es decir, para que el lector saque sus propias conclusiones y con la honesta intención de evitar que se repitan los nefastos errores del pasado reciente. El teniente general Jorge Rafael Videla asumió la presidencia de la Nación el 29 de marzo de 1976, luego de deponer cinco días antes a la presidenta constitucional María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón, más conocida por su nombre artístico de "Isabel". Al poco tiempo, Videla comenzó a realizar visitas a ciudades del interior. La foto lo muestra durante un viaje a la austral ciudad de Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, en el invierno de 1976. Como evidencia la instantánea, a pesar del rigor climático la gente se acercaba a saludarlo. Es más, si se pone la atención se verá que un hombre salió de un lugar cerrado, sólo con un suéter, para estrechar su mano. Es una foto atípica que muestra en pequeña escala el grado de aquiescencia del que gozó el gobierno del Proceso militar en sus primeros años de gran parte de la ciudadanía. Dos años más tarde, Videla debería salir al balcón de la Casa de Gobierno para saludar a la multitud que festejaba la victoria del Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol de 1978. Y lo mismo ocurrió en septiembre de 1979, cuando la selección juvenil de fútbol se consagró campeona mundial en Japón. Esta foto fue elegida por lo escasamente conocida. Y porque exhibe a un Videla en el que no aparecen rodeándolo custodias ni agentes de seguridad. Sólo simples ciudadanos con interés en saludar a su presidente.
Fujian's Tulou: A Treasure of Chinese Traditional Civilian Residence
by Hanmin HuangThis book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins. As such, it offers readers access to a unique treasure of traditional civilian residence, while also representing a valuable asset for architects and researchers in architectural history, cultural relics and fine arts.
Fukushima
by Mark HeleyFukushima: What You Need to Know is a concise but comprehensive guide to the disaster at Fukushima and its ongoing consequences. Presenting a solution-based approach, Mark Heley details the current problems and future potential risks and offers balanced information about what we can do about them. The book covers: * The extent of the pollution from Fukushima and what and where the dangers are * The real risks from radiological pollution and the protective measures you can take * Possible solutions for stopping the ongoing contamination and cleaning up the damage already done * A call for meaningful international collaboration and the ending of the era of secrecy and cover-ups about the risks of nuclear power
Fukushima
by The Union of Concerned Scientists David Lochbaum Edwin Lyman Susan Q. StranahanOn March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted. In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time. Bolstered by photographs, explanatory diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary, the narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.