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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on WorkIn Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of...
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Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary ArtArt ] Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in...
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Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary ArtArt + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in...
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The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Detention of UyghursThe Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial. In the detention centres individuals are exposed...
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Organizing for Suicide Prevention: A Case Study at the Golden Gate BridgeOrganizing for Suicide Prevention: A Case Study at the Golden Gate Bridge describes the long struggle to end a tragic history of individuals jumping from the bridge to their death. Readers learn how a group of advocates grew and sustained a coalition led by...
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Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and the Construction of National Identity, 1898-1945Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines a wide variety of media and ideologically charged discourses...
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Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North AfricaThe compelling true story of Nelly Benatar--a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the last million escaping the Second World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees...
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Pro PHP 8 MVC: Model View Controller Architecture-Driven Application DevelopmentExamine the building blocks that make any good MVC framework using PHP 8. This book exposes all the considerations that many developers take for granted when using a popular framework, and teaches you how to make this MVC framework your own. You'll quickly get...
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Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous FatherWinner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back...
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I'm Not Single, I Have a Dog: Dating Tales from the Bark SideAt age 60, Susan Hartzler has learned to accept, even love, the single life, provided she has good friends and a dog or two by her side. Always attracted to the quintessential bad boy with his good looks and charming ways, she was sure...
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Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National HeritageIn Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds...
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The Gems of Hiddenite, North Carolina: Mining History, Geology and MineralogyEmerald-green hiddenite, a gem so valuable that it is said a June bug can carry away $1,000 worth, is only found in one area of North America: Alexander County, North Carolina. Now known as the village of Hiddenite, the area has continuously produced gems...
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The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Scientists, Naturalists, Artists and Others Document America's Last FrontierIn 1899, one of America's wealthiest men assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts--many of whom would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to the largely unknown territory of Alaska. The Harriman Expedition remains unparalleled in its...
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Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 3: Spirit and Salvation"Here is catechesis at its best, instructing the student of theology, providing pastors with a sermon-enriching manual, and giving growing Christians a resource book that will both inform and nourish them, as well as provide endless theological enjoyment " --Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor's Professor...
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Adventure Journal: 50 Things to Try in the WinterA winter-themed journal to capture memories, inspire activities, and stimulate creativity throughout the holiday season.Write, draw, think, listen, and dare with the Adventure Journal: 50 Things to Try in the Winter. Begin on any page and do as many activities as you can fit...
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Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing GamesActual play is a movement within role-playing gaming in which players livestream their gameplay for others to watch and enjoy. This new medium has allowed the playing of games to become a digestible, consumable text for individuals to watch, enjoy, learn from, and analyze....
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A Passage to IndiaBased on author E. M. Forster's real-life experiences, A Passage to India is a mind-opening tale set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement of the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th-century...
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Data-Driven Organization Design: Delivering Perpetual Performance Gains Through the Organizational SystemUnderstand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design. Using data and analytics is a key opportunity for businesses to transform performance and achieve success. With a data-driven approach, all the elements of...
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Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without FutureCommentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change-culturally, socially, and politically-has become one of the defining problems of...
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Courting His Amish WifeHe offers her his hand, but will she ever take his heart? When Levi Miller learns Eve Summy will be forced to marry her would-be attacker or get shunned, he marries her instead. Now husband and wife, but complete strangers, they must figure out...
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