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Tasting Coffee
(June 2022)
An Inquiry into Objectivity
Kenneth Liberman - Author
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Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.
At once ethnographic and phenomenological, Tasting Coffee investigates the global chain of coffee production "from seed to cup," stopping at every stage along the way to describe the tasting pract...(Read More) |
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Welding Technical Communication
(May 2022)
Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge
Jo Mackiewicz - Author
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Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
Welding Technical Communication explores the teaching and learn...(Read More) |
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Technologies of Human Rights Representation
(February 2022)
Alexandra S. Moore - Editor
James Dawes - Editor
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Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focuse on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.
The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal pri...(Read More) |
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Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
(March 2021)
How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms
Andrea L. Press - Author
Francesca Tripodi - Author
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Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.
Feminism can reflect the cultural moment, especially as media appropriate and use feminist messaging and agenda to various ends. Yet media can also push boundaries, exposing audiences to ideas they may not be familiar with and advancing pub...(Read More) |
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Screen Love
(February 2021)
Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era
Tom Roach - Author
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Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate "normal life" before the pandemic. In Screen Love, Tom Roach urges us to do the opposite. Rather than highlight the ways that social media might help reprodu...(Read More) |
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Garbage in Popular Culture
(November 2020)
Consumption and the Aesthetics of Waste
Mehita Iqani - Author
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Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theo...(Read More) |
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Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness
(August 2020)
How Leaders Help Heal the Heart of the World
Jiying Song - Editor
Dung Q. Tran - Editor
Shann Ray Ferch - Editor
Larry C. Spears - Editor
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A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.
In a world where leaders and organizations face conflicts and complexity at an alarming rate, where human cruelty sometimes dominates kindness in individuals and families, and where nations hover in the shadow of moral and financial collapse, how do we find courage to forge a strong and enduring path into the future? In a fresh and ...(Read More) |
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Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
(June 2020)
Ahmed Al-Rawi - Author
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Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.
Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women’s social movements, as well as female figures and online communities, emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women&rs...(Read More) |
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Cub Reporters
(August 2019)
American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age
Paige Gray - Author
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Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.
Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of ...(Read More) |
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One America?
(May 2019)
Presidential Appeals to Racial Resentment from LBJ to Trump
Nathan Angelo - Author
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Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archetypal white, Middle-American swing voter.
Despite major advancements in civil rights in the United States since the 1960s, racial inequality continues to persist in American society. While it may appear that presidents do not address the topic of race, it lurks in the background of presidenti...(Read More) |
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