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From Tarzan to Homer Simpson

Author : Sócrates Nolasco
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463510354
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book From Tarzan to Homer Simpson written by Sócrates Nolasco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men have lower life expectancy than women; they account for 90% of the incarcerated population; they die more often in traffic accidents, from alcohol and drug consumption, and they commit more suicides than women. Since that information has been accessible for a long time, why is it not taken into account when campaigns are created and actions are defined? Violence is not an ‘entity’: it is male. Confronted with that reality, the author sought to formulate the question orientating towards the following working hypothesis: this ‘common knowledge’ should be forgotten, given that the involvement of men in situations of violence plays an important role in the preservation of political ideation in contemporary societies. During this study it became clear that men are exposed to a more complex type of death than mere physical death, but just as important, which is relative to their social representation. This insight led to understanding other aspects that could be associated with men’s intense involvement in situations of violence. Could it be that in contemporary culture a purpose is served by keeping men involved with situations of violence? If so, what might that be?

Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse

Author : Anna Pilińska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891894
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse written by Anna Pilińska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a variety of perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature, film, drama, and popular culture, to issues tackled by psychology, gender studies, and social sciences. Arranged into thematic sections, the chapters cover a wide range of approaches to fatherhood, including studies and analyses based on fieldwork and interviews with participants. Each chapter discusses various culture-dependent models of masculinity in relation to the topic of fatherhood depicted in works of literary and film art, emphasizing the crucial factors and features which make all these models different from one another and using examples of such cultural contexts as Australia, China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Iran. With the use of methodological tools provided by literature studies, film studies, culture studies, psychology, gender and queer studies, and sociology, the book is a comprehensive insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.

Singles 125

Author : Vânia Gomes
Publisher : KBR EDITORA DIGITAL
ISBN 13 : 1944608605
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Singles 125 written by Vânia Gomes and published by KBR EDITORA DIGITAL. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries

Author : Tom Dwyer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813148403
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries written by Tom Dwyer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past, present and permits the development of insights about future. The BRICS countries have all engaged in development processes and some remarkable improvements in young people's lives over recent decades are documented. However, the chapters also show that these gains can be undermined by instabilities, poor decisions and external factors in those countries. Periods of economic growth, political progress, cultural opening up and subsequent reversals rearticulate differently in each society. The future of youth is sharply impacted by recent transformations of economic, political and social realities. As new opportunities emerge and the influence of tradition on youth's lifestyles weakens and as their norms and values change, the youth enter into conflict with dominant expectations and power structures.The topics covered in the book include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet, identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context. This handbook serves as a reference to those who are interested in having a better understanding of today's youth. Readers will become acquainted with many issues that are faced today by young people and understand that through fertile dialogues and cooperation, youth can play a role in shaping the future of the world.

The Mystery and the World

Author : Maria Clara Bingemer
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 071884453X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery and the World written by Maria Clara Bingemer and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mystery and the World, Maria Clara Bingemer explores how the place of religion in society has dramatically shifted since the Enlightenment. The modern era is characterised by a major change in humanity's fundamental desires that means that reason has taken the place of faith. Human beings, in their ongoing search for a scientific understanding of the world, have drifted away from seeking any essence of transcendence in their lives. Bingemer examines this transition and how, especially inthe postmodern era, it has led to technology and superficial happiness becoming all-important as opposed to the more sacred sense of contentment that governed us for centuries prior to the Enlightenment. In her discussion, however, Bingemer demonstrates that we as humans have not lost our innate desire to believe in a higher power and that, even in our world of instant satisfaction, we still need to fill the void left by religion. Through well-researched analysis of the modern era and discussion of some of the mystics of more recent times, she reveals to readers how our religious belief, whilst changed, is not dead and is still an important aspect of our existence.

Piracy Cultures

Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479732273
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Piracy Cultures written by Manuel Castells and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy CulturesEditorial Introduction MANUEL CASTELLS 1 University of Southern California GUSTAVO CARDOSO Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) What are "Piracy Cultures"? Usually, we look at media consumption starting from a media industry definition. We look at TV, radio, newspapers, games, Internet, and media content in general, all departing from the idea that the access to such content is made available through the payment of a license fee or subscription, or simply because its either paid or available for free (being supported by advertisements or under a "freemium" business model). That is, we look at content and the way people interact with it within a given system of thought that sees content and its distribution channels as the product of relationships between media companies, organizations, and individualseffectively, a commercial relationship of a contractual kind, with accordant rights and obligations. But what if, for a moment, we turned our attention to the empirical evidence of media consumption practice, not just in Asia, Africa, and South America, but also all over Europe and North America? All over the world, we are witnessing a growing number of people building media relationships outside those institutionalized sets of rules. We do not intend to discuss whether we are dealing with legal or illegal practices; our launching point for this analysis is that, when a very significant proportion of the population is building its mediation through alternative channels of obtaining content, such behavior should be studied in order to deepen our knowledge of media cultures. Because we need a title to characterize those cultures in all their diversitybut at the same time, in their commonplacenesswe propose to call it "Piracy Cultures."

Evolving Toolbox for Complex Project Management

Author : Alex Gorod
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 042958928X
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Evolving Toolbox for Complex Project Management written by Alex Gorod and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enhances learning about complex project management principles and practices through the introduction and discussion of a portfolio of tools presented as an evolving toolbox. Throughout the book, industry practitioners examine the toolsets that are part of the toolbox to develop a broader understanding of complex project management challenges and the available tools to address them. This approach establishes a dynamic, structured platform for a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the modern, rapidly changing, multifaceted business environment to teach the next generation of project managers to successfully cope with the ever increasing complexity of the 21st century.

Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Author : Walter E. Little
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355367
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Mayas in Postwar Guatemala written by Walter E. Little and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan languages, places current anthropological analyses in relation to Mayan political activism and key Mayan intellectuals’ research and criticism. Illustrating specifically how Mayas in this post-war period conceive of their social and political place in Guatemala, Mayas working in factories, fields, and markets, and participating in local, community-level politics provide critiques of the government, the Maya movement, and the general state of insecurity and social and political violence that they continue to face on a daily basis. Their critical assessments and efforts to improve political, social, and economic conditions illustrate their resiliency and positive, nonviolent solutions to Guatemala’s ongoing problems that deserve serious consideration by Guatemalan and US policy makers, international non-government organizations, peace activists, and even academics studying politics, social agency, and the survival of indigenous people. CONTRIBUTORS Abigail E. Adams / José Oscar Barrera Nuñez / Peter Benson / Barbara Bocek / Jennifer L. Burrell / Robert M. Carmack / Monica DeHart / Edward F. Fischer / Liliana Goldín / Walter E. Little / Judith M. Maxwell / J. Jailey Philpot-Munson / Brenda Rosenbaum / Timothy J. Smith / David Stoll

The Guilty Mirror

Author : Ron Henchel
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426971257
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Guilty Mirror written by Ron Henchel and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you struggle with paralysis of analysis in your daily life? Are you blaming everyone else for your lack of satisfaction in life, love, and more? Do you require more motivation to make the changes you need to be happy? Step one: Grab a mirror and take a look. Guess what? The only one who can help you is staring right back at you. Author Ron Henchel feels your pain and is here to help with The Guilty Mirror. Using humorous anecdotes to help you see that your glass really is half full, these stories of other people finding their own bliss will amuse and inspire you to become your own best friend. Its time to fire the negative grump in the mirror! Life is complex, and its easy to get overwhelmed. Keeping matters simple is the key to success. Youll find tools, ideas, and tips to keep an optimistic and productive approach to life. Once youve determined your own personality style, you can easily customize your approach to breaking down the barriers that stand in your way. Learning to laugh at yourself is an important step in the journey to loving and accepting yourself and these humorous exercises can help you start the healing!

Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book

Author : David Quantick
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472146239
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book written by David Quantick and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Best quiz book ever' HARRY HILL 'Quantick is the Captain Beefheart of quizzing' MARK BILLINGHAM 'The antidote to every deathly dull pub quiz you've ever been to. This is how a quiz book should be written - where having fun is the most important outcome' GARY WIGGLESWORTH, author of The Book Lover's Quiz Book Distinctive, unusual, difficult, but spectacularly entertaining, this quiz book is to other pub quizzes what Trivial Pursuit was to Ludo, what The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is like to the Rhyl phone directory, and what the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is like compared to a kid's scooter. Loads better. David Quantick works regularly with Armando Iannucci, including on the new HBO series, Avenue 5. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp and a Writers' Guild Award for The Thick of It. For over fifteen years, David has also hosted his own very popular quizzes at festivals, events, pubs, clubs, cinemas and in tents: the quizzes range is broad and the questions are tricky. They're not about statistics, there's no sport, the picture rounds are conceptual, and there's sometimes a round called 'Martin Amis Character or Blur Song'. Each quiz is funny and entertaining even if you don't know the answers. The quizzes are informative and opinionated. In some ways, they're like stand-up with questions. This is a book based on David's excellent live quizzes, described by many people as 'quite difficult'. But they are quizzes. Quite difficult quizzes that tax the brain and make it go in directions it didn't know it could. That's not to say the questions are fiendishly scientific and packed with questions about dates and the periodic table. They're about books and music, movies and actors, strange events and interesting quotes. You don't leave a Quantick quiz knowing how many times Spurs have won the League, but you may know how many Shirleys have sung a Bond theme or how George V made the front page of The Times. The effectiveness of David's quizzes is down to their unusual variety and almost stream-of-consciousness leaps and bounds of factual imagination. There's not even much point in cheating, because the answers often require mental agility as well as just knowing where Calais is (it's in France, but it wasn't always, even when it was). David's quiz book includes twenty-five main quizzes, four Christmas quizzes and four specialist quizzes, so thirty-three quizzes in total. Entertaining in its own right, this is also a conceptual yet very practical guide to staging excellent quizzes of your own.

Simpsons Comics

Author : Matt Groening
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892849670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Simpsons Comics written by Matt Groening and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bart starts his own humor magazine and it isn't long before Springfield's resident funnyman Krusty the Clown wants in on the business. Then, donut-lovers Homer Simpson and Chief Clancy Wiggum take over each other's deliciously do-nothing jobs. And speaking of switcheroos, Bart boards the wrong airplane and finds himself mistaken for a local Springshire lad, Brit Simpson. Throw in an alien abduction, a cosmic trip to an alternate reality, a contentious bar war, a ghostly superhero pairing, and a rescue mission beneath the nuclear power plant, and you have the most colossal compendium yet. And make that dream of a personal home theater a reality with your own scale model of Springfield's classic movie house, the Aztec Theater"--Page 4 of cover.

Modernist Star Maps

Author : Aaron Jaffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351916874
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Star Maps written by Aaron Jaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.

Simpsons Comics Unchained

Author : Matt Groening
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781840234039
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Simpsons Comics Unchained written by Matt Groening and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simpsons are busting out the bindings in one of their wackiest books yet, and no one is safe from their maniacal comic madness! See Grampa Simpson, Bart Simpson (a.k.a. El Barto), Homer, the Comic Book Guy and local celebrity Krusty the Clown act out their wildest schemes in the new comic collection--"Simpsons Comics Unchained."

The Secret Diary of God

Author : Koos Kombuis
Publisher : Struik Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Diary of God written by Koos Kombuis and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as God's secret diary, this is a humorous, satirical look at the history of God, which puts a very different spin on the biblical stories.

The Rocklopedia Fakebandica

Author : T. Mike Childs
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466873019
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Rocklopedia Fakebandica written by T. Mike Childs and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the name of the cantina band in Star Wars was? Or how many fictional singers Elvis played? Or how many fake bands had real Top Ten hits? This hysterical, witty, and irreverent book answers all these questions and more. Based on the popular Web site fakebands.com, The Rocklopedia Fakebandica contains almost 1,000 entries covering such pop-culture staples as Spinal Tap, the Monkees, the Partridge Family, the Blues Brothers, the Rutles, Schroeder, the Chipmunks, the Brady Kids, the California Raisins, the Commitments, the Archies, the Banana Splits, Eddie and the Cruisers, the Wonders, Phoebe Buffay, Miss Piggy, Josie and the Pussycats, Jessica Rabbit, School of Rock, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Perfect for pop-culture addicts, trivia buffs, and music lovers of all stripes, The Rocklopedia Fakebandica is the consummate addition to any bookshelf, coffee table, or bathroom.

It's Not the Media

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Down in the Dumps

Author : Jani Scandura
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390337
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Down in the Dumps written by Jani Scandura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four locales: Reno, Key West, Harlem, and Hollywood. In investigating these Depression-era “dumps,” places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of “depressive modernity,” an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity—capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration—are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill. Such a modernity is not stagnant or fixed, nor immobile, but is constituted by an instantaneous unstaging of desire, territory, language, and memory that reveals itself in the shimmering of place. An interpretive bricolage that draws on an unlikely archive of 1930s detritus—office memos, scribbled manuscripts, scrapbooks, ruined photographs, newspaper clippings, glass eyes, incinerated stage sets, pulp novels, and junk washed ashore—Down in the Dumps escorts its readers through Reno’s divorce factory of the 1930s, where couples from across the United States came to quickly dissolve matrimonial bonds; Key West’s multilingual salvage economy and its status as the island that became the center of an ideological tug-of-war between the American New Deal government and a politically fraught Caribbean; post-Renaissance Harlem, in the process of memorializing, remembering, grieving, and rewriting a modernity that had already passed; and Studio-era Hollywood, Nathanael West’s “dump of dreams,” in which the introduction of sound in film and shifts in art direction began to transform how Americans understood place-making and even being itself. A coda on Alcatraz and the Pentagon brings the book into the present, exploring how American Depression comes to bear on post-9/11 America.