Steve Jobs and philosophy : for those who think different /

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Women and language essays on gendered communication across media /

Table of Contents: “…Lutz -- When talk meets page : the feminist aesthetic of adapted narration and language play / Melissa Ames -- Blurred boundaries and re-told histories : Julia Alvarez's how the Garc'a girls lost their accents / Sarah Himsel Burcon -- Performative spaces : constructing and instructing gendered behavior -- Bodies in dialogue : performing gender and sexuality in salsa dance / Aleysia Whitmore -- "Tell me, does she talk during sex?" …”
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HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY human validity and invalidity from antiquity to early modernity. by Hughes, Bill, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…<P>List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Violating disability; Chapter outlines; Concluding remarks; <I>PART 1: Method and Theory; </I>CHAPTER 1: Thinking through disability history: An act of recovery; Introduction; Methodological self-consciousness: The author in the confessional; New Historicism; The place of <I>Proprium</I> and moral economy in a historical sociology of disability; History of disability or a history of impairment; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 2: Modelling disability theory: A contemporary history of the disability idea; Introduction; First wave radicalism: The social model of disability; The second wave: Conceptual proliferation, Critical Disability Studies and the growth of the cultural model of disability; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 3: Conceptualising property and propriety, validity and invalidation; Introduction; Recognition: Moral economy of propriety; Ableism: the cloak of validity; Invalidation; Concluding remarks; Part 1: Concluding remarks; <I>PART 2: Disability in History: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modernity; </I>Part 2: Introductory remarks; CHAPTER 4: Disability in ancient Greece and Rome; Introduction; <I>Arete</I>: The contours of classical propriety; 'And those of the worst': Disposable bodies; <I>Pharmakos</I>: The disabled scapegoat; An ocular-centric culture of light and appearance: being blind in Greco-Roman society; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 5: Disability in the Christian Middle Ages; Introduction; Eristic Christianity; God, Church and state: Normate power triangulated; Theological invalidations: The others of the unscathed; Ambiguous God, ambiguous scripture, ambiguous testaments of sin and disability; God's tease: Saints and sinners; No ears to hear, no eyes to see ... the wonders of God; The era of ridicule; From monsters to demons; Merciful conduct: A stairway to heaven; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 6: Renaissance and Reformation: Disability invalidation in Early Modernity; Introduction; Interregnum; Aesthetics and classical revivalism; Demons and witches; Monsters; Dark subjects; Savages and heathens; Social dislocation: Vagabonds and beggars; Fools and folly; 'Each to his own': The closed Protestant body; Concluding remarks; CONCLUSION: A banquet of indignities; Index</P>…”
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Family and space : rethinking family theory and empirical approaches /

Table of Contents: “…: family (dis)continuities concerning Polish remigration in the context of digital communication technologies / Jagoda Motowidlo -- The playground and the pub : about the merging of age-specific urban domains into family space / Lia Karsten -- The "authentic" family : on the aesthetic representation of family and living spaces in mom lifestyle blogs / Petra Schmidt -- Conclusion: opening space for family studies / Maya Halatcheva-Trapp, Giulia Montanari and Tino Schlinzig -- Index.…”
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Cold War cities politics, culture and atomic urbanism, 1945-1965 /

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The business of creativity : toward an anthropology of worth / by Moeran, Brian, 1944-

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Affective heritage and the politics of memory after 9/11 : curating trauma at the Memorial Museum / by Micieli-Voutsinas, Jacque

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Edges of transatlantic commerce in the long eighteenth century /

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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

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