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Worlds So Strange and Diverse

Author : Grzegorz Trębicki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875260
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Worlds So Strange and Diverse written by Grzegorz Trębicki and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an analysis of contemporary fantasy (non-mimetic) literature in all its richness and diversity, and offers a preliminary definition of the major fields of taxonomical interest, in addition to marking some of the unmapped territories of “fantastic” fiction. In its first part, the book presents an overview of all major previous theoretical discussions of the issue, particularly those by Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Darko Suvin, Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz and Farah Mendlesohn. The second part of the book provides an interesting comprehensive taxonomy of its own, based on the notion of supragenological types of literature, first introduced by Andrzej Zgorzelski.

The Weird

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466803193
Total Pages : 2482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Weird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Weird in a World That's Not

Author : Jennifer Romolini
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062472755
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Weird in a World That's Not written by Jennifer Romolini and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to career success for the awkward, the offbeat, the introverted, and anyone who feels like they don’t fit in: “A book as funny as it is wise.” —Rumaan Alam, New York Times–bestselling author of Leave the World Behind As a brand-new employee at a mandatory corporate retreat, Jennifer Romolini—who was afraid of heights—found herself, under pressure, clawing her way to the top of a rope ladder. There, she promptly froze in terror until someone climbed up to help her down. It didn’t seem like an auspicious beginning, but the awkward, anxious, twenty-seven-year-old misfit stayed in the job (where climbing was not actually a required skill), and went on to succeed. She navigated through the New York media industry and became a boss—an editor-in-chief, an editorial director, and a vice president—all within little more than a decade. In this book, she asserts that being outside the norm and achieving high-level success are not mutually exclusive, even if it seems like only office-politicking extroverts are set up for reward. Part career memoir, part real-world guide, Weird in a World That’s Not offers relatable advice on how to achieve your dreams when you feel like you don’t fit in and the odds seem stacked against you. She helps you face your fears, find the right career, and get and keep a job—and offers empathetic, clear-cut answers to important questions: How do I navigate the awkwardness of networking? How do I deal with intense office politics? How do I leave my crappy job? How do I learn how to be a boss, not just a #boss? And, most importantly: How do I do all this and stay true to who I really am? Authentic, funny, and moving, Weird in a World That’s Not will help you tap into your inner tenacity and find your path, no matter how off-the-beaten-path you are.

Diverse Energies

Author : 11 Speculative Fiction Authors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620140116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Diverse Energies written by 11 Speculative Fiction Authors and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of dystopian short stories featuring diverse main characters and by authors of color.

Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity

Author : Solange Lefebvre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317073819
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity written by Solange Lefebvre and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses, and have created so much public tension that national governments have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such combined challenges have culminated in the creation of government-initiated or private national commissions. This book presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a broader framework that includes the national public commissions which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France, Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact, the key political players involved, the media debates and reception surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples’ lives tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural identity between countries.

Unity in Diversity Revisited?

Author : Barbara Korte
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823351924
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Unity in Diversity Revisited? written by Barbara Korte and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity

Author : Irmengard Rauch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110820064
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity written by Irmengard Rauch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity".

A New Kind of Diversity

Author : Tim Elmore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book A New Kind of Diversity written by Tim Elmore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A New Kind of Diversity, bestselling author Tim Elmore brings his decades of research and leadership experience to bear on what might be the biggest, most dramatic, and most disruptive shift the American workforce has ever seen: the vast diversity of several generations living—and working—together. The past few years have brought an endless cascade of social media movements that left many of us . . . well . . . scratching our heads. Regardless of how we feel about the gaps between us, there is one we cannot avoid. One of the largest gaps remains an “elephant in the room.” We know it's there but we don't know how to talk about it. It's the different generations that find themselves working together. It's a generation gap. There is a new kind of diversity that only eight percent of U.S. companies even recognize: diverse generations on teams. Long laughed off as a cliché and more recently mocked in memes #HowToConfuseMillennials and #OKBoomer hashtags, the generational gap has become an undeniable tension in the global workplace. Sadly, it has fostered: Loneliness in our workplaces. Poor communication on our teams. Reduction in revenue and team morale. Conflicting values and priorities in the office. Divisions that lead to “walls” instead of “bridges.” For the first time in history, up to five generations find themselves working alongside each other in a typical company. The result? There can be division. Interactions between people from different generations can resemble a cross-cultural relationship. Both usually possess different values and customs. At times, each generation is literally speaking a different language! How can we hope to work together when we can't even understand each other? This book provides the tools to: Get the most out of the strengths of each age group on your team. Foster effective communication instead of isolation among people. Build bridges rather than walls so that loneliness becomes connectedness. Connect people to learn how both veterans and rookies can mentor each other.

Outreach and Diversity:

Author : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
ISBN 13 : 0829820973
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Outreach and Diversity: written by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outreach and Diversity" examines the social missions and justice-minded actions of Christians in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Lawrence N. Jones, and Robert A. Schneider. Series editor Barbara Brown Zikmund.

Living with Religious Diversity

Author : Sonia Sikka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317370988
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Living with Religious Diversity written by Sonia Sikka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religious communities. It examines the question of how to balance religious diversity, individual rights and freedoms with a common national identity and moral consensus. The essays discuss the interface between state and civil society in ‘secular’ countries and look at case studies from the the West and India. They study themes such as religious education, religious diversity, pluralism, inter-religious relations and exchanges, dalits and religion, and issues arising from the lived experience of religious diversity in various countries. The volume asserts that if religious violence crosses borders, so do ideas about how to live together peacefully, theological reflection on pluralism, and lived practices of friendship across the boundaries of religious identity-groupings. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship from across the world, the book will interest scholars and students of philosophy, religious studies, political science, sociology and history.

The Man-Made World

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513274821
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Man-Made World written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women’s suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy not only on the lives of women, but on the structure and health of society at large. In the beginning, Gilman observes that though biology naturally attributes motherhood and fatherhood to women and men respectively, there is no evolutionary explanation for the widespread control of men over all other human activities. This inequity, Gilman explains, is what she means by the term “Androcentric Culture,” a culture organized by men, for men. Having established her thesis, Gilman dedicates chapters to such topics as the family, health, art, sports, religion, education, government, economics, and warfare in order to observe the impact of male domination on each. Ultimately, Gilman asks what, if anything, will men lose if women are granted the rights and responsibilities they have no reason not to share. The Man-Made World is a thorough and powerful experiment in sociological thought and a groundbreaking work of feminist nonfiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Man-Made World is a classic of American literature and nonfiction reimagined for modern readers.

Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds

Author : Didier Zúñiga
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148755334X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds written by Didier Zúñiga and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us to question our own condition of human animality so that we may reconsider the relations we entertain with one another and with more-than-human forms of life on earth.

Unity in Diversity

Author : Harm Pinkster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110847426
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Unity in Diversity written by Harm Pinkster and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diversity in Disney Films

Author : Johnson Cheu
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600090
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Diversity in Disney Films written by Johnson Cheu and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Author : Zana Vathi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319130242
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World written by Zana Vathi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence (Italy). Building on key concepts from the social sciences and migration studies, such as identity, integration and transnationalism, the author links these with emerging theoretical notions, such as mobility, translocality and cosmopolitanism. Ethnic identities, transnational ties and integration pathways of the youngsters and adults are compared, focusing on intergenerational transmission in particular and recognizing mobility as an inherent characteristic of contemporary lives. Departing from the traditional focus on the adult children of settled migrants and the main immigration countries of continental North-Western Europe, this study centres on Southern Europe and Great Britain and a very recently settled immigrant group. The result is an illuminating early look at a second generation “in-the-making”. Indeed, the findings provide ample grounds for pragmatic and forward-looking policy to enable these migrant-origin youngsters, and others like them, to more fully attain their potential. The book ends with a call to reassess the term “second generation” as it is currently used in policy and scholarly works. Children of migrants seldom see themselves as a particular and homogeneous group with ethnicity as an intrinsic identifying quality. More importantly, they make use of all the limited resources at their disposal, and view their integration processes through broader geographies – showing sometimes a cosmopolitan orientation, but also using localized reference points, such as the school, city, or urban neighbourhood.

Choosing Tomorrow's Children

Author : Stephen Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199273960
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Choosing Tomorrow's Children written by Stephen Wilkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? Is there something morally wrong with choosing what their sex will be, or with trying to 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth? This book offers answers to such questions.

Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

Author : Rosemarie Mielke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382127
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities written by Rosemarie Mielke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies that had been successful in dealing with external conflicts and making the transition from war to peace have realized that this does not automatically resolve internal conflicts. On the contrary, the resolution of external conflicts may even sharpen the internal ones. This volume, a joint publication of the University of Haifa and the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) at the University of Hamburg, addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups.