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1) Blackout
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On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels, office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and restaurants, music and dancing in the streets. On block after block, men and women proved themselves heroes by helping neighbors and strangers make it through the night.
Unfortunately, there was...
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life
In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation-penned by none other than Mario Vargas...
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Una obra que contiene una original perspectiva de las temáticas que actualmente son referencia obligada en el debate político mexicano: la democracia, el populismo y el conflicto social, cuestiones que son discutidas a partir de algunos hitos fundacionales de la política contemporánea en México y del análisis de recientes hechos sociales tan cruciales como el proceso electoral de 2006 o el movimiento que en el mismo año se desarrollo en Oaxaca....
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The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India.
Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was...
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.... But after that, I realized that I really knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I did not. I know almost nothing about them really. Their courtship? Working in the...
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Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with...
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Here, in this landmark personal work, Gerry demonstrates how, despite the democratic rhetoric we hear and believe, we have become enslaved. All of us are trapped by a complex web of corporate and governmental behemoths he calls the "New Slave Master" that today controls our airways, educates our children, and manages every facet of our lives.
Yet, far from being a pronouncement of gloom, Give Me Liberty! is an inspiring and visionary work. In the...
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¿A quiénes se suele denominar Millennials en Bolivia?¿Cuánto representan en el electorado para las elecciones de 2019?¿Son los Millennials de Bolivia como realmente se los caracteriza?¿Son nativos digitales? Este libro es el resultado de un estudio de sistematización que pretende verificar las características que normalmente se les suele atribuir a los Millennials.Al estar estrechamente relacionado con la evolución de la tecnología, este...
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What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to migration by focusing on places of departure rather than arrival and rethinks migration from the perspective of those who have not (yet) left. Through an intimate ethnography of towns and villages notorious in Morocco for their striking emigration to "the outside," Elliot traces the powerful ways migration permeates life: as brutal...
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The future of work is inclusive. Organizations that embrace differences and cultivate inclusion will thrive in the years to come.Embracing Differences: Cultivating Inclusion in the Workplace of the Future is a comprehensive guide to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. This book provides practical advice on how to:Build a diverse and inclusive workforce.Foster a culture of belonging and respect.Remove barriers...
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In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ teenagers, Berg witnessed the struggles, fears, and ambitions of these disconnected youth as they resisted the pull of the street, tottering between destruction and survival.
Focusing on the lives and loves of eight unforgettable youth, No House to Call...
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Katrina Onstad, pushes back against this all-work, no-fun ethos that dominates our lives. Tired of suffering from Sunday night letdown, she digs into the history, positive psychology, and cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend and how we can revive it. Onstad follows the trail of people, companies, and countries who are vigilantly protecting their time off for joy, adventure, and most important, purpose. Filled with personal and professional...
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"Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems" "Finalist for the Foreword INDIES, Political and Social Sciences Category" "Winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award, American Society of Criminology" "Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association" Asad L. Asad is assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Comparative...
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