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Airbrushed Nation: The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines
by Jennifer NelsonGlamour. Cosmo. SELF. Ladies’ Home Journal. Vogue. In an industry that has been in a downward spiral for years, these magazines-and other women-focused magazines like them-have not only retained their readership, they’ve increased it. Every month, five million-plus women peel back the slick cover of their favorite magazine to thumb through pages filled with tidings and advice about fashion, beauty, sex, relationships, dieting, health, and lifestyle. But do women’s magazines offer valuable information, or do they merely peddle fluff and fantasy-and in either case, do women take their messages to heart? InStiletto Nation,Jennifer Nelson-a longtime industry insider-exposes the naked truth behind the glossy pages of women’s magazines, both good and bad. Nelson delves deep into the world of glossies, explaining the ways in which these magazines have been positive for women, highlighting the ways in which their agendas have been misguided, and asking the questions that have long gone unasked: What do women think and believe about the retouched photos, the ubiquitous sex advice, the constant offensive on aging, and the fantasy fashion spreads featuring unaffordable clothing and accessories? Do the unrealistic ads, images, and ideals that permeate glossies damage women’s self-esteem . . . and is it intentional?
Aircraft Command Techniques: Gaining Leadership Skills to Fly the Left Seat (Routledge Revivals)
by Sal J FalluccoThis title was first published in 2002: A comprehensive examination of the characteristics of the experienced captain. Each chapter begins with an appropriate and relevant anecdote that is analogous to the chapter's main theme. It then progresses to the chapter's main objective and finishes with a scenario that the reader must try to solve from a captain's perspective. Immediately following each of these scenarios, the reader is presented with a number of considerations that should be evaluated when solving the problem. The intent is to help the pilot practice thinking as a captain. Offering a wealth of practical guidance, this book is an ideal platform for pilots or indeed, anyone interested in how leadership and management skills are used to achieve excellence. The reader should gain important command skills and learn how to apply these skills to routine and unexpected situations, in the same way in which an experienced captain would.
Airing Dirty Laundry
by Ishmael ReedIshmael Reed returns with "Airing Dirty Laundry" with an axe to grind. But the ax he grinds is bigger than any particular subject matter: his chief bugbear being the double standard by which black behavior is judged vis-a-vis white behavior, not only in the white-dominated media but in the white public mind.
Airline Finance (Routledge Revivals)
by Peter S MorrellThis title was first published in 2002: The purpose of this book is to provide, as far as possible, a broad understanding of all areas of airline finance. It is intended to be suitable for both those in the industry without any financial background and newcomers to the industry who may have some knowledge of finance.
Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition
by Hans A. BaerThe number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the sector’s environmental impact and the challenges facing attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and social life, and how the world system has become increasingly dependent on them to function. He critically examines current efforts to mitigate the climatic impact of the air travel and argues for a significant move away from air transport, suggesting that such a shift may only be achieved through a more fundamental change in the world system.
Ajapa the Tortoise: A Book of Nigerian Folk Tales
by Margaret BaumannLong before people could turn to books for instruction and amusement, they relied upon storytellers for answers to their questions about life. Africa boasts a particularly rich oral tradition, in which the griot -- village historian -- preserved and passed along cultural beliefs and experiences from one generation to the next. This collection of 30 timeless fables comes from the storytellers of Nigeria, whose memorable narratives tell of promises kept and broken, virtue rewarded, and treachery punished.Ajapa the Tortoise -- a trickster, or animal with human qualities -- makes frequent appearances among the colorful cast of talking animals. In "Tortoise Goes Wooing," he learns a valuable lesson in friendship and sharing. Ajapa's further adventures describe how, among other things, he became a chief, acquired all of the world's wisdom, saved the king, tricked the lion, and came to be bald. Recounted in simple but evocative language, these ancient tales continue to enchant readers and listeners of all ages.
Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh: An Intellectual Biography of the Radical Sikh Economist (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought)
by Ashwani SaithThis book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. Unorthodox, outspoken, and invariably rigorous, Ajit Singh made highly significant contributions to industrial economics, corporate governance and finance, and stock markets – developing empirically sound refutations of neoclassical tenets. He was much respected for his challenges both to orthodox economics, and to the one-size-fits-all free-market policy prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions in relation to late-industrialising developing economies. Throughout his career, Ajit remained an analyst and apostle of State-enabled accelerated industrialisation as the key to transformative development in the post-colonial Global South. The author traces Ajit Singh’s radical perspectives to their roots in the early post-colonial nationalist societal aspirations for self-determination and autonomous and rapid egalitarian development – whether in his native Punjab, India, or the third world – and further explores the nuanced interface between Ajit’s simultaneous affinity, seemingly paradoxical, both with socialism and Sikhism. This intellectual biography will appeal to students and researchers in Development Economics, History of Economic Thought, Development Studies, and Post-Keynesian Economics, as well as to policy makers and development practitioners in the fields of industrialisation, development and finance within the strategic framework of contemporary globalisation.
Akan and Ga-Adangme Peoples: Western Africa Part I
by Madeline ManoukianRoutledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Akbar and the Jesuits: An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar
by Father Pierre JarricFirst published in 1926.'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The GuardianThe Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending more years at Akbar's court than others did months, and traversing his dominions from Lahore to Kabul, and from Kashmir to the Deccan, they undoubtedly sowed the seeds of British influence in the East.Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor Akbar, and as such, forms the earliest European description of the Mogul Empire.
Ake: The Years of Childhood
by Wole SoyinkaA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké: The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, Aké is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.
Akenfield
by Ronald Blythe Matt WeilandWoven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe's wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.
Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet
by Nicholas ReevesNicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.
Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt
by Dominic MontserratThe pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.
Akhenatens Sed-Festival At Karna
by Jocelyn GoharyFirst published in 1992 as part of the Studies in Egyptology Series. This study looks at the depiction of the Sed-festival on blocks of the Temple at Karnak. According to some studies, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV recorded details of a Sed-festival event in his new temple complex dedicated to the Aten at Karnak. Blocks from the temple buildings which were re-used after the death of Amenhotep IV, were examined and photographed by the Akhenaten Temple Project between 1966 and 1977 in an attempt to analyse, with the aid of the computer, scenes carved on the blocks known as the Akhenaten 'talatat'.
Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
by Eli BaxterMembers of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin.Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it.Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view.
Akokoaso: A Survey of a Gold Coast Village (London School Of Economics Monographs On Social Anthropology Ser. #Vol. 10)
by W. H. BeckettInitially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at the Gold Coast 'Middletown' during the period of 1932 to 5. The report covers the village and its inhabitants, their housing, occupations and family economy, moving onto the system of land tenure, the methods of cultivation and the value and yields of cocoa and other crops. The final section gives a statiscal analysis of costs of production and of earnings. Throughout is the emphasis is on the cocoa industry and its effect on every aspect of community life.
Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa (ISAW Monographs #2)
by George HatkeAksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeologicalevidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopiankingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth centuryCE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subjectof a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention hasbeen given to contact between these two regions. Hatke arguesthat ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified areapolitically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopiadeveloped within very different regional spheres of interaction, asa result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus itsenergies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route ofcontact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towardsthe Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexistedin peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintainedwith each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Onlyin the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush,and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly tosecurity issues on Aksum’s western frontier.Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, muchless dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is oftenbelieved, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royalideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia criticallyexamines the extent to which relations between two ancient Africanstates were influenced by warfare, commerce, and politicalfictions.Online edition available as part of the NYU Library's Ancient World Digital Library and in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW).
Aktives Altern im digitalen Zeitalter: Informations-Kommunikations-Technologie verstehen, nutzen und integrieren
by Minas Dimitriou Susanne Ring-DimitriouAltersgerechte Assistenzsysteme leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag, die Lebensumgebung mit intelligenter Technik gesundheitsfördernder und selbstbestimmt zu gestalten. Diverse Sensoren, Geräte und Dienste (z.B. Sturzmeldesysteme, Exergames und Fitnessprogramme) sind heute verfügbar, jedoch steckt die Überprüfung der Wirksamkeit dieser Applikationen noch in den Kinderschuhen. Schlagworte wie „user-centered design“ hin zu einem „partizipatorischen Design“ beschreiben gerade den Umbruch, der in der App-Entwicklung vonstattengeht. Der vorliegende Open Access Sammelband enthält Ergebnisse aus empirischen Studien; aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen wird das Thema erörtert.Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.
Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013
by Oliver Strijbis Kai-Uwe SchnappDieses Buch geht in seiner Analyse der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss der Wahlkampf auf das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl 2013 hatte. Dazu wendet es auf eklektische Weise etablierte Wahltheorien an und verbindet diese mit dem Konzept des "Wahlkampfereignisses". Um die Wählerentscheidungen zu jedem Zeitpunkt des Wahlkampfs nachzeichnen zu können werden die Prognosemarktdaten von politikprognosen. de sowie ein Umfragedurchschnitt der Befragungsunternehmen mit wöchentlicher Befragung (Forsa, Emnid, Infratest) herangezogen.
Aktuelle Diskurse in der Sozialwirtschaft II (Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement)
by Ludger KolhoffDas Buch dokumentiert die Beiträge der von der „Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialmanagement / Sozialwirtschaft BAG SMSW“ in den Jahren 2017 und 2018 durchgeführten Fachtagungen:- Kompetenzen und Ermöglichungsstrukturen an der Schnittstelle von Sozial- und Publicmanagement- Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialplanung im lokalen Raum- Finanzielle Ressourcen der Sozialwirtschaft- Care: Bezahlte und unbezahlte sozialwirtschaftliche Versorgung
Aktuelle Diskurse in der Sozialwirtschaft III (Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement)
by Ludger KolhoffÖkonomische Fragestellungen, Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte gewinnen in der Praxis und im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs des Sozialwesens immer mehr an Bedeutung. Das Buch befasst sich mit aktuellen Fragen aus Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement. Es dokumentiert Beiträge aus drei Fachtagungen der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialmanagement/ Sozialwirtschaft (BAG SM/SW) e.V. aus den Jahren 2018 und 2019.
Aktuelle Diskurse in der Sozialwirtschaft IV (Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement)
by Ludger KolhoffAktuelle zentrale Fragen der Sozialwirtschaft und des Sozialmanagements werden auch 2021 auf den Tagungen der in Deutschland tonangebenden wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialmanagement / Sozialwirtschaft BAG SMSW, diskutiert.Die vorliegende Publikation dokumentiert die Beiträge der Tagungen:Diversity Management in Einrichtungen der Sozialwirtschaft (in Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule Neubrandenburg)Aktuelle Herausforderungen an die Lehre in der Sozialwirtschaft (in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachhochschule der Diakonie Bielefeld)Qualitätsmanagement in der Sozialwirtschaft: Hilfreiches Instrument oder bürokratisches Übel? (in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachhochschule Mittweida)
Aktuelle Diskurse in der Sozialwirtschaft V (Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement)
by Ludger KolhoffAktuelle zentrale Fragen der Sozialwirtschaft und des Sozialmanagements werden auch 2022 und 2023 auf Tagungen der in Deutschland Ton angebenden wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, der „Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialmanagement / Sozialwirtschaft BAG SMSW“ diskutiert.Die vorliegende Publikation dokumentiert die Beiträge der Tagungen:· Sozialunternehmen im internationalen Vergleich (In Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule XXX)· Gender und Sozialwirtschaft (In Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule XXX)· Digitalisierung in der Sozialwirtschaft (In Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule XXX)Die Zielgruppen· Studierende und Lehrende der Sozialen Arbeit/der Sozialwirtschaft/des Sozialmanagements· Fach- und Führungskräfte aus dem Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit/der Sozialwirtschaft/des Sozialmanagements
Akzeptanz in der Medien- und Protestgesellschaft: Zur Debatte um Legitimation, öffentliches Vertrauen, Transparenz und Partizipation
by Günter Bentele Reinhard Bohse Uwe Hitschfeld Felix Krebber,,Stuttgart 21" wurde zu einer Chiffre für Bürgerproteste und ein Symbol für ,,schwindende Akzeptanz" von Großvorhaben. Eine Reihe von Infrastrukturprojekten wird auch künftig vor Akzeptanzproblemen stehen. Dieser Band analysiert grundlegende Aspekte des Diskurses über Akzeptanz und Bürgerbeteiligung in der modernen Gesellschaft. Er bietet wissenschaftliche Zugänge zu Akzeptanz, Vertrauen, Transparenz und Legitimation sowie Fallbeispiele für Konflikte in Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik. Eine Beschreibung von Methoden und Verfahren zur Erlangung besserer Akzeptanz ergänzt den Band.
Al Jazeera and Democratization: The Rise of the Arab Public Sphere (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government)
by Ezzeddine AbdelmoulaAl Jazeera and Democratization analyses the increasing role of the media in political transformations with a special emphasis on the Arab world. Taking the Al Jazeera media network as a case study, the author explains how engaging the public and providing platforms for open debate and free expression contributed to the emergence of a new vibrant Arab public sphere. The launch of Al Jazeera in 1996 was a significant event that led to subsequent changes both in Arab media and politics. Among these changes, the Arab spring is certainly the most remarkable. This unprecedented phenomenon has already resulted in political change in a number of countries and is expected to generate a democratizing wave and reshape the face of the region. The Arab spring provides us with a telling empirical example where the interplay between media and politics is manifest. The public sphere that has emerged out of this newly communicative environment has undoubtedly played its role in the current political transformations. In this context, Arab democratization is no longer an abstract, it is rather a developing process that needs our attention and requires concerted scholarly efforts. Highly topical, this book provides a fresh theoretical perspective on Arab democratization in light of the Arab Spring, and is essential reading for researchers and students of Middle East Politics, Media Studies and Democratization.