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**Missing**: More Inspirational Stories of Everyday People ((Extra)Ordinary #2)
by Keith Maginn“This world needs books like these right now—the inspirational people within these pages.” - Kimberly Morand, blogger"When everything in life goes wrong, what keeps people going? This wonderful collection of answers tells how some conquered the near impossible." - Frank Litsky, retired editor and reporter, The New York TimesBurned on 100 percent of his body as a young boy, John O’Leary was given a 1 percent chance of survival. Thirty years later, he is a bestselling author, nationally known speaker, beloved husband, and dedicated father.Once controlled by addiction, Todd Crandell is now an addiction counselor—and a world-class Ironman triathlete.Born with no arms or legs, Nick Vujicic fought back from the brink of suicide to become a faith-driven motivational speaker admired by people around the world.These are just three of the inspiring lives featured in (Extra)Ordinary: More Inspirational Stories of Everyday People—tales of individuals who started out as “ordinary” but have proven to be anything but.Each of the people featured in (Extra)Ordinary reminds us of the depth of human potential and calls us to find our own strength to make our mark on the world around us. (Extra)Ordinary opens our eyes to the power that rests in each and every person!"I love this book. If you are looking for a book to inspire you, get yourself a copy. You will not be disappointed." - J. Bronder Book Reviews
**Missing**: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu (Critical Realism: Interventions (Routledge Critical Realism))
by Nancy Fraser Pierre BourdieuNancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu on social suffering. All the essays collected here engage with the work of one or both of these thinkers’. They consider some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions that Fraser’s and Bourdieu’s models have provoked, and offer some compelling examples of their analytical power.
**Missing**: Notions, Equivalences, and Lyapunov-like Characterizations (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics)
by Lars Grüne Philipp Braun Christopher M. KellettLyapunov methods have been and are still one of the main tools to analyze the stability properties of dynamical systems. In this monograph, Lyapunov results characterizing the stability and stability of the origin of differential inclusions are reviewed. To characterize instability and destabilizability, Lyapunov-like functions, called Chetaev and control Chetaev functions in the monograph, are introduced. Based on their definition and by mirroring existing results on stability, analogue results for instability are derived. Moreover, by looking at the dynamics of a differential inclusion in backward time, similarities and differences between stability of the origin in forward time and instability in backward time, and vice versa, are discussed. Similarly, the invariance of the stability and instability properties of the equilibria of differential equations with respect to scaling are summarized. As a final result, ideas combining control Lyapunov and control Chetaev functions to simultaneously guarantee stability, i.e., convergence, and instability, i.e., avoidance, are outlined. The work is addressed at researchers working in control as well as graduate students in control engineering and applied mathematics.
**Missing**: Our Knowledge, Our Process, Our Choice (SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education)
by Chrystal A. George Mwangi; Yedalis Ruíz SantanaOffers novel frameworks and models for understanding college access and choice among communities of Color.This much-needed volume brings together academics, practitioners, students, and community members of Color to thoroughly reframe college access and choice in research and practice. Enrollment rates continue to differ substantially by race and ethnicity. While Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color remain inequitably stratified in the pursuit of higher education, many models of college choice are simply insufficient for understanding the college-going processes of diverse students. Continually centering BIPOC knowledge, assets, and needs, contributors provide a series of varied yet connected frameworks grounded in culturally sustaining, community-oriented research. Like the educational journeys it represents, the volume is a communal activity that invites participation. Each chapter concludes with a series of critical reflection questions to guide readers in deeper learning and engagement.
**Missing**: Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
by Jill Didur Nalini MohabirThis book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific.The essays assess the role that literature, visual culture, architecture, archives, and ethnography can play in enriching our understanding of the complex histories of ports and port cities. They present the relation between ports and colonial infrastructure such as immigration checkpoints, detention centers, mines, plantations, shipping containers, canals, sewers, and rivers, and their impact on human and more-than-human environments. The volume approaches (post)colonial ports through the “ecotone,” a concept borrowed from geography and ecology to describe a transition zone where two biological communities meet and mix—such as a forest and a grassland—to bring attention to port (non)spaces as a hinge between their environments, communities, and colonial infrastructure. It foregrounds postcolonial and decolonial approaches to the ecotone to draw attention to the cultural, ecological, and geographical dynamics that inform the social fabric of contemporary ports and port cities in the wake of the empire.This volume is aimed at scholars and postgraduates across disciplines such as literature, geography, fine arts, cultural studies, and history.
**Missing**: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation (Studies in the Psychosocial)
by D. Hook(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.
**Missing**: Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
by Rachel Gregory FoxThis book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ways is information reframed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal discourses, the book charts possible—and unexpected—routes via which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks the reader to consider how they, themselves, embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so responsibly, with empathy and accountability.
**Missing**: Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies (Heritage, Culture and Identity)
by Michael M. RocheWhile there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, (Dis)placing Empire offers new insights into the practice of Empire.
**Missing**: Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
by Stefan Couperus Harm KaalThis book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ideologies that emerge behind the use of the concept of community. It explores a wide variety of actors, ranging from the tenants of London council estates to transnational cultural elites.
**Missing**: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Aoise StratfordThis anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos, and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And how do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.
**Missing**: Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992) (Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik)
by Jens Schröter Christoph ErnstThe late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the historically very important interactive television project "Piazza virtuale" (1992).
**Missing**: Ten Inspirational Stories ((Extra)Ordinary #3)
by Kristin Bartzokis<P><P>Camille. Lynn. Monique. Becky and Margaret. Jaime. Olga. Christina. Rasheera. Odalys. Danielle. <P><P>These are the seemingly everyday women whose stories inspired (Extra)Ordinary Women - and whose resilience and strength will inspire women around the world. <P><P>These women have defeated breast cancer, addiction, and homelessness. They have lived through the Boston Marathon bombing and hundreds of surgeries. They have traveled from foreign lands to create a better life. They have endured brain cancer, abuse, and poverty. They have given a home to dozens of special-needs children. They have known loss, pain, and fear. <P><P>They are survivors. And they share their stories to empower other women who need something - and someone - to believe in. <P><P>(Extra)Ordinary Women reminds us of the amazing stories that we find all around us when we open our eyes, hearts, and minds. <P><P>And these extraordinary women remind us to never give up, never quit, and never underestimate the power of a woman.
**Missing**: The Mediated Structure of Feeling Among the Rural Elderly in Post-Reform China (Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference)
by Hao WuFrom the vantage point of rural grandparents’ mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media. Based on a 10-month ethnography involving 18 rural families (live-in studies with 11), it explores how media technology and culture reconfigures desires, attachments, disappointments, and grievances in family life. This book joins the emerging field that emphasizes the importance of affective and emotional, and offers a new perspective in understanding family dynamics in a mediated world. Focusing on separated migrant families, where the younger generation works in the industrial area and the elderly and children remain in villages, the book highlights the role of mediated emotions in connecting and dividing family members. Importantly, it examines how the state-led neoliberal modernization project since the 1980s juxtaposes with the advance of digital media in rural China, and how it further relates to the rural families.
**Missing**: The Politics of Securitisation in Europe (Routledge Critical Security Studies)
by Jonas HagmannThis book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations. What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats? This book explains state behaviour on the basis of a reflexive framework of insecurity politics, and argues that governments act on the knowledge of international danger available in their societies, but that such knowledge is organised by markedly varying ideas of who threatens whom and how. The book develops this argument and illustrates it by means of various European case studies. Moving across European history and space, these case studies show how securitisation has projected evolving and often contested local ideas of the organisation of international insecurity, and how such knowledges of world politics have then conditioned foreign policymaking on their own terms. With its focus on insecurity politics, the book provides new perspectives for the study of international security. Moving the discipline from systemic theorising to a theory of international systematisation, it shows how world politics is, in practice, often conceived in a different way than that assumed by IR theory. By the same token, by depicting national insecurity as a matter of political construction, the book also raises the challenging question of whether certain projections of insecurity may be considered more warranted than others. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, European politics, foreign policy and IR, in general.
**Missing**: Theologie im Dialog mit Philosophie, Pädagogik und Therapeutik (Schriften zur Kritischen Lebenskunst)
by Peter Bubmann Traugott RoserDer Begriff ‚Lebenskunst‘ ist in der Beratungsliteratur, Praktischen Philosophie und theologischen Fächern schnell populär geworden. Aber kann er auch in interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit als Leitkategorie dienen? Dieser Band fragt im Gespräch mit Philosophie, Pädagogik und Therapeutik und in ökumenischer theologischer Kooperation nach der Tragfähigkeit des Lebenskunstkonzepts. Damit findet zum ersten Mal in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaft ein vertiefter Austausch zwischen theologischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen bzw. philosophischen Ansätzen einer Theorie der Lebenskunst statt. Der Band richtet sich an alle, die theoretisch wie praktisch an Fragen der Lebenskunst und an ihrer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Vertiefung interessiert sind. Diskutiert wird, was Theologie in die Lebenskunstdiskurse und die konkreten Fragestellungen einer Alltagsethik einzubringen hat und wo sie von den kulturwissenschaftlichen Lebenskunstdiskursen lernen kann. Wo gibt es Brücken zwischen therapeutischen Lebenskunstansätzen und christlicher Seelsorge? Wie wird Kunst theologisch wahrgenommen und was bedeutet das für ein Lebenskunstdenken? Ein eigener Akzent liegt auf der Klärung von Gender-Fragen und sexueller Identität und auf der Bedeutung transhumaner Vorstellungen von Lebenskunst(-hilfe), etwa durch Robotik und KI. Wie Lebenskunst zu erlernen wäre, ist Gegenstand eines Dialogs zwischen Vertretenden der Allgemeinpädagogik und der Religionspädagogik.
**Missing**: Transnational Conversations (Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three Year Olds: Cross-disciplinary Insights and Innovations #4)
by Sandra Cheeseman Frances PressThis book brings together researchers from a variety of national contexts to examine and explore the conceptualisation, reconceptualisation and translation of children’s rights for infants and toddlers in early childhood education and care settings.It brings together authors from various national contexts to examine changing understandings and manifestations of infant and toddler rights in Early Childhood Education and Care. The book aims to engender trans-national dialogue through the contributions. Through such dialogue, both authors and readers are challenged to recognise the specificity of their own cultural contexts and thereby envision a more expansive view of infant and toddler rights. By drawing together reflections on infant-toddler rights from key early childhood researchers across the world, this book will extend readers understandings of rights – not only in terms of how rights are (re)conceptualised but also how to meaningfully translate the rights afforded in policy to practice.
**Missing**: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (Gender in a Global/Local World)
by Kim RygielThe war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation and effects of this US-led aggression. Virtually absent from these accounts is an examination of the central role that gender, race, class and sexuality play in the war on terror. This lack of attention reflects a continued resistance by analysts to acknowledge and engage identity-related social issues as central elements within global politics. As this conflict spreads and deepens, it is more important than ever to examine how diverse international actors are using the war on terror as an opportunity to reinforce existing gendered, raced, classed and sexualized inter/national relations. This book examines the official war stories being told to the international community about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged. The book will benefit students, scholars and practitioners in the areas of international relations, women's studies and cultural studies.
**Missing**: What Americans Know About Social Groups And Why It Matters For Politics (Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)
by Marisa Abrajano Nazita LajevardiThis Element examines just how much the public knows about some of America's most stigmatized social groups, who comprise 40.3% of the population, and evaluates whether misinformation matters for policy attitudes and candidate support. It designs and fields an original survey containing large national samples of Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and White Americans, and include measures of misinformation designed to assess the amount of factual information that individuals possess about these groups. The authors find that Republicans, White Americans, the most racially resentful, and consumers of conservative news outlets are the most likely to be misinformed about socially marginalized groups. The authors' analysis also indicates that misinformation predicts hostile policy support on racialized issues; it is also positively correlated with support for Trump. The authors then conducted three studies aimed at correcting misinformation. Their research speaks to the prospects of a well-functioning democracy, and its ramifications on the most marginalized.
**Missing**: Women, Theory, Fiction (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)
by Gerardine MeaneyWhat is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature? This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three important contemporary British women novelists. Treating both fiction and theory as texts, she traces the connections between the theorists – Hélène Cixious, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva – and the novelists – Doris Lessing, Angela Carter and Muriel Spark. This reading of the work of these six major women writers explores new forms of women’s identity, subjectivity and narrative and demonstrates how theoretical and literary texts can illuminate each other to bridge the gap between theory and literary criticism.
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+ vida - kilos: Los juegos del hambre y las trampas del comer
by Máximo RavennaLa sociedad monta el espectáculo de los juegos del hambre y nos tiende las trampas del comer. Sirve platos que obnubilan y nos sumergen en una voracidad sin límites que se traduce en kilos y kilos de más.Hoy en día, engordar se ha transformado en un proceso natural, porque el hambre ya no es una alarma que nos dice que necesitamos alimentarnos, sino una sensación que se activa por cualquier motivo: cuando estamos tristes, alegres, cansados o eufóricos, trabajando o divirtiéndonos... Todo es una buena excusa para comer sin parar.Si bien no somos culpables de estar gordos, sí tenemos la responsabilidad de llevar una vida saludable y combatir las conductas tóxicas y nocivas que nos impulsan a comer de más.El doctor Máximo Ravenna presenta un abordaje multidisciplinario que contempla tanto los aspectos nutricionales como los neurológicos, hormonales, psicológicos y sociales involucrados en la obesidad, y propone estrategias para cambiar de hábitos.Mediante un tratamiento serio, ordenado, eficaz, dinámico y concreto, basado en un replanteo alimentario que involucra la cantidad, la calidad y la frecuencia, Ravenna brinda las claves para alcanzar y mantener el peso ideal.
+18: Saga Inspírame: Libro 1 (Saga: Inspírame #Volumen 1)
by Darlis StefanyUno de los últimos fenómenos de la plataforma Wattpad: una historia de amor alocada, divertida y llena de giros inesperados. Cuando los secretos salen a la luz... ¡todo es posible. Alaska Hans tiene un secreto: le encanta escribir. Y se le da especialmente bien. Tanto que su novela escrita bajo seudónimo se ha convertido en un éxito total en la plataforma JoinApp. Drake, su insoportable pero atractivo vecino lo descubrirá y nada volverá a ser lo mismo entre los dos. Porque cuando tu vecino sexy descubre tu mayor secreto... ¿hay algo que puede ir mal? Escenas comprometedoras, situaciones incómodas y una historia romántica que nos recuerda que el amor platónico no es más que una simple excusa para aquellos que no se atreven a dar el paso. Una novela alocada, caótica, divertida y sobre todo... +18.
, 2nd Edition: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
by Jan Vom Brocke Michael RosemannBusiness Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world' s leading BPM thought leaders. This first volume focuses on arriving at a sound definition of BPM approaches and examines BPM methods and process-aware information systems. As such, it provides guidance for the integration of BPM into corporate methodologies and information systems. Each chapter has been contributed by leading international experts. Selected case studies complement their views and lead to a summary of BPM expertise that is unique in its coverage of the most critical success factors of BPM.<P><P> The second edition of this handbook has been significantly revised and extended. Each chapter has been updated to reflect the most current developments. This includes in particular new technologies such as in-memory data and process management, social media and networks. A further focus of this revised and extended edition is on the actual deployment of the proposed theoretical concepts. This volume includes a number of entire new chapters from some of the world's leading experts in the domain of BPM.
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by Saul WilliamsThe greatest AmericansHave not been born yetThey are waiting quietlyFor their past to dieplease give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance...