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Digital media and democracy tactics in hard times /

Table of Contents: “…Travers Scott -- Al Jazeera English : an interview with Hassan Ibrahim / Nathalie Magnan, Megan Boler, and Andréa Schimdt -- Media interventions and art practices : an interview with Shaina Anand / Alessandra Renzi and Megan Boler -- The gambiarra : considerations on a recombinatory technology / Ricardo Rosas -- Where the activism is / Trebor Scholz -- Whacking Bush : tactical media as play / Graham Meikle -- The daily show and Crossfire : satire and sincerity as truth to power / Megan Boler with Stephen Turpin -- Cybersupremacy : the new face and form of White supremacist activism / R. …”
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Professional nursing concepts, issues, and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Lambert and Clinton E. Lambert -- The art and science of nursing / Judith M. Parker -- Exploring popular images and representations of nurses and nursing / Philip Darbyshire and Suzanne Gordon -- Nursing, philosophy, and knowledge : a commitment to know oneself and others / Gail J. …”
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Opening Science The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing /

Table of Contents: “…The Potential of Social Network Sites in the Scholarly Realm -- Reference Management -- Open Access: A State of the Art -- Novel Scholarly Journal Concepts -- The Public Knowledge Project: Open Source Tools for Open Access to Scholarly Communication -- Altmetrics and Other Novel Measures for Scientific Impact -- Dynamic Publication Formats and Collaborative Authoring -- Open Research Data -- Intellectual Property and Computational Science -- Research Funding in Science 2.0 -- Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Sciences -- The Social Factor in Open Science -- Case: Creative Commons -- Case: Collaborative Authoring using Google Documents and Cloud Software -- Case: Unique Identity for a Researcher -- Case: Challenges in Open Data in Medical Research -- Case: On the Sociology of Science 2.0 -- Case: How This Book Was Created Using Collaborative Text Editing -- Case: History 2.0 -- Case: Making Data Citeable: Datacite.…”
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African Archaeology Without Frontiers : Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress /

Table of Contents: “…Iron bloom crushing sites in northern Togo / Philip de Barros and Gabriella Lucidi -- 5. L'art rupestre au Cameroun, nouvelles decouvertes et contribution à l'iconographie sous-regionale / Narcisse Santores Tchandeu -- 6. …”
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Across the Waves : How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio / by Vaillant, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Airwaves5 The Air of Paris: Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashioning -- 6 The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968 -- Afterword: Radios at the Heart of Nations -- Appendix: U.S.â#x80;#x93;French Radio Time Line -- Notes -- Selected Resources…”
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Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction / by Shippey, T. A.

Table of Contents: “…: '"People are plastic": Jack Vance and the dilemma of cultural relativism' -- SF authors really mean what they say : 'Alternate historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and me' -- A revealing failure by the critics : 'Kingsley Amis's science fiction and the problems of genre' -- A glimpse of structuralist possibility : 'The golden bough and the incorporations of magic in science fiction' -- Serious issues, serious traumas, emotional depth : 'The magic art and the evolution of words: Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" trilogy' -- SF and politics. …”
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Las mujeres en la pobreza /

Table of Contents: “…Asunción Lara y Nelly Salgado de Snyder -- Consideraciones para la elaboración de un estado dle arte sobre las políticas públicas y la mujer / Liliana Kusnir con la colaboración de Clara Judisman, John Townsend y Evangelina Mijares -- Es la cooperación para las mujeres? …”
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Authority and Dissent in Jewish Life /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- When the Memory of David Is Not Enough to Authenticate the Temple in Jerusalem / Joel Gereboff -- From Acosta and Spinoza to Arendt to Laurence and Aylon: Verbiage and Visual Art as Instruments of Dissent in Modern Jewish Thought / Ori Z. …”
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The Cultural Life of James Bond : Specters of 007 /

Table of Contents: “…Jones and Andrew Higson -- Paradoxical masculinity : James Bond, icon of failure / Toby Miller -- Femininity, seriality and collectivity : rethinking the Bond girl / Moya Luckett -- Market forces : James Bond, women of color, and the eastern bazaar / Lorrie Palmer -- Shaken, not stirred britishness : James Bond, race, and the transnational imaginary / Anna Everett -- Global agency between Bond and Bourne : Skyfall and James Bond in comparison to the Jason Bourne film series / Seung-hoon Jeong -- James Bond and art cinema / Christopher Holliday -- Branding 007 : title sequences in the James Bond films / Jan-Christopher Horak -- "Unlike men, the diamonds linger" : Bassey and Bond beyond the theme song / Meenasarani Linde Murugan -- Skyfall and global casino culture / Joyce Goggin -- Three dimensions of Bond : adaptive fidelity and fictional coherence in the videogame adaptations of GoldenEye / Ian Bryce Jones and Chris Carloy.…”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch -- The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!"…”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch -- The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!"…”
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Papa, PhD essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

Table of Contents: “…Aaron Simmons -- Sheathing the sword / Gregory Orfalea -- Weighed but found wanting: ten years of being measured and divided / Robert Mayer -- Vespers, matins, and lauds: the life of a liberal arts college professor / Ralph James Savarese -- How white was my prairie / Mark Montgomery -- Meniscus / Robert Gray -- Once was lost / John Bryant -- Shared attention: hearing Cameron's voice / Mark Osteen -- Accidental academic, deliberate dad / Kevin G. …”
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Papa, PhD essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

Table of Contents: “…Aaron Simmons -- Sheathing the sword / Gregory Orfalea -- Weighed but found wanting: ten years of being measured and divided / Robert Mayer -- Vespers, matins, and lauds: the life of a liberal arts college professor / Ralph James Savarese -- How white was my prairie / Mark Montgomery -- Meniscus / Robert Gray -- Once was lost / John Bryant -- Shared attention: hearing Cameron's voice / Mark Osteen -- Accidental academic, deliberate dad / Kevin G. …”
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt : Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project /

Table of Contents: “…Neuman, with Scott Collins, Catherine Cooper, Derek Merck, and David Murray -- A Study of the Relative Locations of Facial Features within Mummy Portraits / Jevon Thistlewood, Olivia Dill, Marc Walton, and Andrew Shortland -- From All Sides: The APPEAR Project and Mummy Portrait Provenance / Judith Barr -- Painted Mummy Portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Kata Endreffy and Árpád M. Nagy -- Scrutinizing "Sarapon": Investigating a Mummy Portrait of a Young Man in the Michael C. …”
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt : Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project /

Table of Contents: “…Neuman, with Scott Collins, Catherine Cooper, Derek Merck, and David Murray -- A Study of the Relative Locations of Facial Features within Mummy Portraits / Jevon Thistlewood, Olivia Dill, Marc Walton, and Andrew Shortland -- From All Sides: The APPEAR Project and Mummy Portrait Provenance / Judith Barr -- Painted Mummy Portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Kata Endreffy and Árpád M. Nagy -- Scrutinizing "Sarapon": Investigating a Mummy Portrait of a Young Man in the Michael C. …”
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Analyzing intelligence origins, obstacles, and innovations /

Table of Contents: “…Treverton -- Enduring challenges -- The art of strategy and analysis / Roger Z. George -- Foreign denial and deception: analytical perspectives / James B. …”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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The significance of Sinai traditions about Sinai and divine revelation in Judaism and Christianity /

Table of Contents: “…/ Diana Lipton -- Sinai in art and architecture / David Brown -- Sinai since Spinoza : reflections on revelation in modern Jewish thought / Paul Franks.…”
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The Stewart/Colbert effect essays on the real impacts of fake news /

Table of Contents: “…Tally, Jr -- It's all about meme: the art of the interview and the insatiable ego of the Colbert bump / Kevin A. …”
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Learning from the global financial crisis creatively, reliably, and sustainably /

Table of Contents: “…Truth, beauty and the financial crisis : evaluating what works / Robert Richardson and Matt Statler -- Aesthetics and the economic meltdown / Ralph Bathurst and Margot Edwards -- Smashing moneytheist mirrors : how artists help us live with financial schizophrenia / Pierre Guillet de Monthoux -- Hence God exists / Skip McGoun -- The fine art of finance / Steve Taylor -- The play ethic / Pat Kane -- Cassim's law : a regulars' table speech about the crisis / Henrik Schrat -- Managing the global financial crisis : lessons from technological crisis management / Paul Shrivastava, Bill Gruver and Matt Statler -- Failures of high reliability in finance / Nathaniel Bush, Peter Martelli, and Karlene Roberts -- Wrong assumptions and risk cultures : deeper causes of the global financial crisis / Ian I. …”
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