Cultural Translation

Cultural translation as an opposite against linguistic translation can be traced back along way; How ever, the main cultural translation theories and theorists came on scene during 1990 and this decade. Hopefully, it is very critical for nuances and small differences among languages which can be drawn by linguistic theories.

 The more a translator is aware of complexities of differences between cultures, the better a translator s/he will be. It is probably right to say that there has never been a time when the community of translators was unaware of cultural differences and their significance for translation.

Translation theorists have been cognizant of the problems attendant upon cultural knowledge and cultural differences at least since ancient Rome. Cultural knowledge and cultural differences have been a major focus of translator training and translation theory for as long as either has been in existence. Planning a culture is an instance of deliberate creation of new options for social and individual life. The generally accepted view is that such options somehow emerge and develop through the anonymous contributions of untold masses.

These contributions are normally described as “spontaneous”, i.e., as products, or by-products, of the very occurrence of human interaction. Items emerging under conditions of spontaneity are believed to be random. Moreover, the way by which the items accumulate, get organized and develop into accepted repertoires is supposed to be the result of free negotiations between market forces.

The complex mechanism through which, out of the free negotiation between these forces, certain groups adopt or reject specific repertoires is the chief question on the agenda of all the human and social sciences. However, this view needs several modifications; not by eliminating the ideas of spontaneity and market negotiations, but by recognizing that these very negotiations may unavoidably lead to acts of planning. This happens because negotiations inherently result in selection – choosing between alternatives.

Thus, once any body, either an individual or a group, in whatever capacity, starts to act for the promotion of certain elements and for the suppression of other elements, “spontaneity” and “deliberate acts” are no longer unrelated types of activities. Any deliberate intervention to establish priorities in an extant set of possibilities (often discussed out-of-context as “codification”, “standardization”, or “legislation”) must therefore be recognized as a basic instance of “planning”. If, in addition to acting in favor of priorities, a given individual or a group not only supports but is actively engaged in devising new options, then planning is unmistakably at work.

Why certain individuals or groups become engaged in culture planning, what they expect to achieve by it, and what practices they use, are among the questions I intend to deal with in the following. The conspicuous interest in culture planning expressed by rulers of those entities is clear evidence of their awareness of the insufficiency of sheer physical force for successful domination.

The emergence of centralized religious institutions and practices (in contradistinction, perhaps, to local cults), we are told by historians, can best be explained in terms of imparting social cohesion via cognitive allegiance through persuasion. Clearly, by adhering to the same codified set of cults and beliefs (anachronistically called religions), people were told what reality was, and which options of what repertoires are available to them, or indispensable for them.

The application of planning provides socio-cultural cohesion The implementation of planning provides cohesion to either a factual or a potential entity. This is achieved by creating a spirit of allegiance among those who adhere to the repertoire thus introduced. By “socio-cultural cohesion” I mean a state where a wide-spread sense of solidarity, or togetherness, exists among a group of people, which consequently does not require conduct enforced by power. I think the key concept for such cohesion is the mental disposition that propels people to act in many ways that otherwise would have been contrary to their “natural inclinations” and vital interests. Going to war prepared to be killed would be the ultimate case, amply repeated throughout human history.

 To create shared readiness on a fair number of issues is something that, although vital for any society, cannot be taken for granted. For example, no government can take for granted that people will obey “laws,” whether written or not, unless people are successfully persuaded to do so. Obedience achieved by force or intimidation, applied by the military or the police, can be effective for a certain span of time. However, sooner or later such obedience will collapse, partly be-cause few societies can afford to keep a large enough corps of law-enforcement agents. Classical sociological thinking has recognized the powerful role of what they called “persuasion” for the “successful control” of a dominated population.

 It is not easy to assess the level of cohesion in any society. However, it seems worthwhile to develop some clear categories for such assessments. These categories make it clear what we may mean by a “high level” – which in its turn can be re-translated to “success” from the point of view of planning – or a “low level,” which in its turn can be re-translated to “failure.” When, for example, territories are subjected to the domination of external powers, and the local population sticks to the repertoire with which it had crystallized as an entity, we may speak of a high level of cohesion. Socio-cultural cohesion may become a necessary condition for creating a new entity, and/or for the survival of an existing entity.

The large entities discussed here are social units such as “community”, “tribe”, “clan”, and “people”. Or “nation”; they are not “natural” objects. They are formed by the acts of individuals, or small groups of people, who take initiatives and are successful in mobilizing the resources needed for the task. The most vital element among those resources is a cultural repertoire that makes it possible for the endeavoring group to provide justification, contents to the separate and distinct existence of the entity. Various methods can be observed for the creation of large entities, especially those known as “nations”, where we witness a search for a repertoire suitable to support the existence of the entity and secure its perpetuation.

The most conspicuous seem to be the following:

(1) 1)A group takes control of some territory by force and dominates its inhabitants. If the enterprise is to hold, there is a chance that the members of the controlling group will eventually realize that for the maintenance and survival of the entity, they had better do something to achieve cohesion.

2) A group of individuals organize themselves and become engaged in a power struggle to rid themselves of control they wish to reject. Once they succeed, they may find themselves at sea vis-à-vis the entity they created which, now that the struggle is over, may disintegrate for lack of cohesion.

(3) An individual or a group engages in devising a repertoire to justify the establishment of an entity over a certain territory that does not necessarily overlap with their home territory. This is often connected with the successful so-called unification of different territories. The same method, however, can work in the opposite way, i.e. it can make it possible for a certain territory to secede fully or partly from a larger entity (Hechter 1992). Different perspective about cultural translation The notion of culture is essential to considering the implications for translation and, despite the differences in opinion as to whether language is part of culture or not, the two notions of culture and language appear to be inseparable.

In 1964, Nida discussed the problems of correspondence in translation, conferred equal importance to both linguistic and cultural differences between the SL and the TL and concluded that differences between cultures may cause more severe complications for the translator than do differences in language structure. It is further explained that parallels in culture often provide a common understanding despite significant formal shifts in the translation.

According to him cultural implications for translation are thus of significant importance as well as lexical concerns. In 1984, Reiss and Vermeer in their book with the title of ‘Groundwork for a General Theory of Translation’ concentrated on the basic underlying ‘rules’ of this theory which involve: 1- A translatum (or TT) is determined by its skopos, 2- A TT is an offer of information in a target culture and TL considering an offer of information in a source culture and SL. This relates the ST and TT to their function in their respective linguistic and cultural context. The translator is once again the key player in the process of intercultural communication and production of the translatum because of the purpose of the translation.

In 1988 Newmark defined culture as “the way of life and its manifestations that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression”, thus acknowledging that each language group has its own culturally specific features. He also introduced ‘Cultural word’ which the readership is unlikely to understand and the translation strategies for this kind of concept depend on the particular text-type, requirements of the readership and client and importance of the cultural word in the text. Peter Newmark also categorized the cultural words as follows:

1) Ecology: flora, fauna, hills, winds, plains

2) Material Culture: food, clothes, houses and towns, transport

3) Social Culture: work and leisure

4) Organizations Customs, Activities, Procedures, Concepts: • Political and administrative • Religious • artistic

5) Gestures and Habits He introduced contextual factors for translation process which include: 1-the purpose of text 2- Motivation and cultural, technical and linguistic level of readership 3- Importance of referent in SL text 4- Setting (does recognized translation exist?) 5- Recency of word/referent 6- Future or refrent.

In 1992, Mona Baker stated that S.L word may express a concept which is totally unknown in the target culture. It can be abstract or concrete. It maybe a religious belief, a social custom or even a type of food. In her book, In Other Words, she argued about the common non-equivalents to which a translator come across while translating from SL into TL, while both languages have their distinguished specific culture. She put them in the following order:

 a) Culture specific concepts

b) The SL concept which is not lexicalized in TL

c) The SL word which is semantically complex

d) The source and target languages make different distinction in meaning

 e) The TL lacks a super ordinate

f) The TL lacks a specific term (hyponym)

g) Differences in physical or interpersonal perspective h) Differences in expressive meaning

i) Differences in form

j) Differences in frequency and purpose of using specific forms

k) The use of loan words in the source text.

Coulthard stated that once the ideal ST readership has been determined, considerations must be made concerning the TT. He said that the translator’s first and major difficulty is the construction of a new ideal reader who, even if he has the same academic, professional and intellectual level as the original reader, will have significantly different textual expectations and cultural knowledge. In the case of the extract translated here, it is debatable whether the ideal TT reader has “significantly different textual expectations,” however his cultural knowledge will almost certainly vary considerably. Applied to the criteria used to determine the ideal ST reader it may be noted that few conditions are successfully met by the potential ideal TT reader.

Indeed, the historical and cultural facts are unlikely to be known in detail along with the specific cultural situations described. Furthermore, despite considering the level of linguistic competence to be roughly equal for the ST and TT reader, certain differences may possibly be noted in response to the use of culturally specific lexis which must be considered when translating.

 According to ke Ping “Cultural presupposition,” refers to underlying assumptions, beliefs, and ideas that are culturally rooted, widespread. • According to him anthropologists agree on the following features of culture:

(1) Culture is socially acquired instead of biologically transmitted;

(2) Culture is shared among the members of a community rather than being unique to an individual;

(3) Culture is symbolic. Symbolizing means assigning to entities and events meanings which are external to them and which cannot be grasped alone. Language is the most typical symbolic system within culture;

(4) Culture is integrated. Each aspect of culture is tied in with all other aspects. Procedures of translating culture-specific concepts (CSCs) Defining culture-bound terms (CBTs) as the terms which “refer to concepts, institutions and personnel which are specific to the SL culture” (p.2), Harvey (2000:2-6) puts forward the following four major techniques for translating CBTs: 1. Functional Equivalence: It means using a referent in the TL culture whose function is similar to that of the source language (SL) referent.

As Harvey (2000:2) writes, authors are divided over the merits of this technique: Weston (1991:23) describes it as “the ideal method of translation,” while Sarcevic (1985:131) asserts that it is “misleading and should be avoided.” 2. Formal Equivalence or ‘linguistic equivalence’: It means a ‘word-for-word’ translation. 3. Transcription or ‘borrowing’ (i.e. reproducing or, where necessary, transliterating the original term): It stands at the far end of SL-oriented strategies. If the term is formally transparent or is explained in the context, it may be used alone.

 In other cases, particularly where no knowledge of the SL by the reader is presumed, transcription is accompanied by an explanation or a translator’s note. 4. Descriptive or self-explanatory translation: It uses generic terms (not CBTs) to convey the meaning. It is appropriate in a wide variety of contexts where formal equivalence is considered insufficiently clear. In a text aimed at a specialized reader, it can be helpful to add the original SL term to avoid ambiguity.

The following are the different translation procedures that Newmark (1988b) proposes: • Transference: it is the process of transferring an SL word to a TL text. It includes transliteration and is the same as what Harvey (2000:5) named “transcription.” • Naturalization: it adapts the SL word first to the normal pronunciation, then to the normal morphology of the TL. (Newmark, 1988b:82)

• Cultural equivalent: it means replacing a cultural word in the SL with a TL one. however, “they are not accurate” (Newmark, 1988b:83) • Functional equivalent: it requires the use of a culture-neutral word. (Newmark, 1988b:83) • Descriptive equivalent: in this procedure the meaning of the CBT is explained in several words. (Newmark, 1988b:83)

• Componential analysis: it means “comparing an SL word with a TL word which has a similar meaning but is not an obvious one-to-one equivalent, by demonstrating first their common and then their differing sense components.” (Newmark, 1988b:114) • Synonymy: it is a “near TL equivalent.” Here economy trumps accuracy. (Newmark, 1988b:84)

• Through-translation: it is the literal translation of common collocations, names of organizations and components of compounds. It can also be called: calque or loan translation. (Newmark, 1988b:84)

• Shifts or transpositions: it involves a change in the grammar from SL to TL, for instance, (i) change from singular to plural, (ii) the change required when a specific SL structure does not exist in the TL, (iii) change of an SL verb to a TL word, change of an SL noun group to a TL noun and so forth. (Newmark, 1988b:86) • Modulation: it occurs when the translator reproduces the message of the original text in the TL text in conformity with the current norms of the TL, since the SL and the TL may appear dissimilar in terms of perspective. (Newmark, 1988b:88)

• Recognized translation: it occurs when the translator “normally uses the official or the generally accepted translation of any institutional term.” (Newmark, 1988b:89) • Compensation: it occurs when loss of meaning in one part of a sentence is compensated in another part. (Newmark, 1988b:90)

• Paraphrase: in this procedure the meaning of the CBT is explained. Here the explanation is much more detailed than that of descriptive equivalent. (Newmark, 1988b:91)

 • Couplets: it occurs when the translator combines two different procedures. (Newmark, 1988b:91)

 • Notes: notes are additional information in a translation. (Newmark, 1988).

Graedler (2000:3) puts forth some procedures of translating CSCs:

 1. Making up a new word.

2. Explaining the meaning of the SL expression in lieu of translating it.

 3. Preserving the SL term intact.

4. Opting for a word in the TL which seems similar to or has the same “relevance” as the SL term. Notes can appear in the form of ‘footnotes.’ Although some stylists consider a translation sprinkled with footnotes terrible with regard to appearance, nonetheless, their use can assist the TT readers to make better judgments of the ST contents.

 Nida (1964:237-39) advocates the use of footnotes to fulfill at least the two following functions:

(i) to provide supplementary information, and (ii) to call attention to the original’s discrepancies. The Importance of Culture in Translation 1. The definition of “culture” as given in the Concise Oxford Dictionary varies from descriptions of the “Arts” to plant and bacteria cultivation and includes a wide range of intermediary aspects. More specifically concerned with language and translation.

Newmark defines culture as “the way of life and its manifestations that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression” (1988:94), thus acknowledging that each language group has its own culturally specific features. He further clearly states that operationally he does “not regard language as a component or feature of culture” (Newmark 1988:95) in direct opposition to the view taken by Vermeer who states that “language is part of a culture” (1989:222).

 According to Newmark, Vermeer’s stance would imply the impossibility to translate whereas for the latter, translating the source language (SL) into a suitable form of TL is part of the translator’s role in transcultural communication. The notion of culture is essential to considering the implications for translation and, despite the differences in opinion as to whether language is part of culture or not, the two notions appear to be inseparable. Discussing the problems of correspondence in translation, Nida confers equal importance to both linguistic and cultural differences between the SL and the TL and concludes that “differences between cultures may cause more severe complications for the translator than do differences in language structure” (Nida, 1964:130). It is further explained that parallels in culture often provide a common understanding despite significant formal shifts in the translation.

The cultural implications for translation are thus of significant importance as well as lexical concerns. Lotman’s theory states that “no language can exist unless it is steeped in the context of culture; and no culture can exist which does not have at its centre, the structure of natural language” (Lotman, 1978:211-32). Bassnett (1980: 13-14) underlines the importance of this double consideration when translating by stating that language is “the heart within the body of culture,” the survival of both aspects being interdependent. Linguistic notions of transferring meaning are seen as being only part of the translation process; “a whole set of extra-linguistic criteria” must also be considered. As Bassnett further points out, “the translator must tackle the SL text in such a way that the TL version will correspond to the SL version… To attempt to impose the value system of the SL culture onto the TL culture is dangerous ground” (Bassnett, 1980:23). Thus, when translating, it is important to consider not only the lexical impact on the TL reader, but also the manner in which cultural aspects may be perceived and make translating decisions accordingly.

 General cultural implications for translation Language and culture may thus be seen as being closely related and both aspects must be considered for translation. When considering the translation of cultural words and notions, Newmark proposes two opposing methods: transference and componential analysis (Newmark, 1988:96). As Newmark mentions, transference gives “local colour,” keeping cultural names and concepts. Although placing the emphasis on culture, meaningful to initiated readers, he claims this method may cause problems for the general readership and limit the comprehension of certain aspects.

The importance of the translation process in communication leads Newmark to propose componential analysis which he describes as being “the most accurate translation procedure, which excludes the culture and highlights the message” (Newmark, 1988:96). Nida’s definitions of formal and dynamic equivalence (see Nida, 1964:129) may also be seen to apply when considering cultural implications for translation.

According to Nida, a “gloss translation” mostly typifies formal equivalence where form and content are reproduced as faithfully as possible and the TL reader is able to “understand as much as he can of the customs, manner of thought, and means of expression” of the SL context (Nida, 1964:129). Contrasting with this idea, dynamic equivalence “tries to relate the receptor to modes of behaviour relevant within the context of his own culture” without insisting that he “understand the cultural patterns of the source-language context” (idem).

Conclusion

A variety of different approaches have been examined in relation to the cultural implications for translation. It is necessary to examine these approaches bearing in mind the inevitability of translation loss when the text is, as here, culture bound. Considering the nature of the text and the similarities between the ideal ST and TT reader, an important aspect is to determine how much missing background information should be provided by the translator using these methods.

It has been recognized that in order to preserve specific cultural references certain additions need to be brought to the TT. This implies that formal equivalence should not be sought as this is not justified when considering the expectations of the ideal TT reader. At the other end of Nida’s scale, complete dynamic equivalence does not seem totally desirable either as cultural elements have been kept in order to preserve the original aim of the text, namely to present one aspect of life in France.

Thus the cultural implications for translation of this kind of ST do not justify using either of these two extremes and tend to correspond to the definition of communicative translation, attempting to ensure that content and language present in the SL context is fully acceptable and comprehensible to the TL readership. (Newmark,1988).

 

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Higgins, I. 1992. Thinking Translation. London: Routledge. Lotman, J., Uspensky, B. 1978. “On the Semiotic Mechanism of Culture,” New Literary History, pp. 211-32.

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Tourism, Creativity and Development $180 Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development. This book critically analyzes the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies in tourism development and charts the emergence of ‘creative tourism’. Why has ‘creativity’ become such an important aspect of development strategies and of tourism development in particular? Why is this happening now, apparently simultaneously, in so many destinations across the globe? What is the difference between cultural tourism and creative tourism? These are among the important questions this book answers.It critically examines the developing relationship between tourism and creativity, the articulation of the ‘creative turn’ in tourism, and the impact this has on theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to tourism development. A wide range of examples from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa explore the interface between tourism and creativity including: creative spaces and places such as cultural and creative clusters and ethnic precincts; the role of the creative industries and entrepreneurs in the creation of experiences; creativity and rural areas; the ‘creative class’ and tourism; lifestyle, creativity and tourism and marketing creative tourism destinations. The relationship between individual and collective forms of creativity and the widely differing forms of modern tourism are also discussed. In the concluding section of the book the contribution of creativity to tourism and to development strategies in general is assessed, and areas for future research are outlined.The diverse multidisciplinary contributionslink theory and practice, and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and marketing tool. It is the first exploration of the relationship between tourism and creativity and its consequences for tourism development in different parts of the

≪I≫Joie De Vivre ≪/I≫In French Literature And Culture $69.15 The apparent self-sufficiency of joie de vivre means that, despite the widespread use of the phrase since the late nineteenth century, the concept has rarely been explored critically. Joie de vivre does not readily surrender itself to examination, for it is in a sense too busy being what it is. However, as the essays in this collection reveal, joie de vivre can be as complex and variable a state as the more negative emotions or experiences that art and literature habitually evoke. This volume provides an urgently needed study of an intriguing and under-explored area of French literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. While the range and content of contributions embraces linguistics, literature, art, sport and politics, the starting point is, like that of the term joie de vivre itself, in French language and culture.This volume will be of special interest to researchers across the full range of French studies, from literature and language to cultural studies. It will be of direct appeal to specialist readers, university libraries, graduate and undergraduate students, and general readers with a lively interest in French literature and culture of the medieval, early modern and broad modern periods. This book’s fresh perspectives on the theme of joie de vivre and its relation to questions of privacy, contemplation, voyeurism, feasting and nationhood will also be of relevance to researchers in comparative and cognate disciplines.

”A kind of thing that might be”: Toward a poetics of new media. $49.99 This dissertation examines new media by taking as its starting point the definition offered by Lev Manovich, “the shift of all culture to computer culture”—new media are new not so much because they have not existed before but because they must adhere to the conventions of a computer. Media, according to Manovich, become programmable, and in their new programmability, along with a host of other implications and repercussions of that programmability, we human beings experience something new. Articulating that something remains no easy chore, and Manovich continually makes his case that “the language of new media” much resembles the language of that older medium, cinema. However, to nod in agreement with Manovich is not the present task; instead, I take Manovich and place his notion of new media in direct dialogue with rhetorical theorists Aristotle, Plato, Kenneth Burke, Barry Brummett, Jeffery Walker, Michel Foucault, and other writers and thinkers in order to pursue a portion of that “shift of all culture”: I ask, “If new media has a language, what is the poetics of that language?” In order to pursue an answer to this question, I take individual new media objects—the film Saving Private Ryan; the video game Medal of Honor: Frontline; the computer worm MyDoom; the media coverage of the 1996 presidential campaign trail, including the “Dean Scream”; the SanDisk’s cooperation with the Alzheimer’s Association’s “Take Action against Alzheimer’s” campaign; the film The Manchurian Candidate; and the modern database—and analyze how they make meaning. In order to do this, I frequently reach back into antiquity, specifically into the early and predisciplinary areas of philosophy, rhetoric, and poetics.

”A kind of thing that might be”: Toward a poetics of new media. $49.99 This dissertation examines new media by taking as its starting point the definition offered by Lev Manovich, “the shift of all culture to computer culture”—new media are new not so much because they have not existed before but because they must adhere to the conventions of a computer. Media, according to Manovich, become programmable, and in their new programmability, along with a host of other implications and repercussions of that programmability, we human beings experience something new. Articulating that something remains no easy chore, and Manovich continually makes his case that “the language of new media” much resembles the language of that older medium, cinema. However, to nod in agreement with Manovich is not the present task; instead, I take Manovich and place his notion of new media in direct dialogue with rhetorical theorists Aristotle, Plato, Kenneth Burke, Barry Brummett, Jeffery Walker, Michel Foucault, and other writers and thinkers in order to pursue a portion of that “shift of all culture”: I ask, “If new media has a language, what is the poetics of that language?” In order to pursue an answer to this question, I take individual new media objects—the film Saving Private Ryan; the video game Medal of Honor: Frontline; the computer worm MyDoom; the media coverage of the 1996 presidential campaign trail, including the “Dean Scream”; the SanDisk’s cooperation with the Alzheimer’s Association’s “Take Action against Alzheimer’s” campaign; the film The Manchurian Candidate; and the modern database—and analyze how they make meaning. In order to do this, I frequently reach back into antiquity, specifically into the early and predisciplinary areas of philosophy, rhetoric, and poetics.

”A sense of taste with a sense of place”: Coffee identities across the United States and El Salvador. $49.99 Salvadoran exports of specialty grade coffee increased from 8% to 30% of total coffee exports between 2002 and 2006 with the United States purchasing the lion’s share (Consejo Salvadoreno del Cafe 2007). Specialty coffee, a product that differentiates itself in the market in terms of quality and the emphasis placed on the singularity and traceability of its origins, has altered the ways in which producers and consumers of coffee identify themselves in relation to one another. “Taste” and “place” become tropes that allow us to understand the trajectory of coffee culture in time and space where culture is a “…historical product and historical force—shaped and shaping, socially constituted and socially constitutive” (Roseberry 1989:53). Coffee allows us to explore the construction of individual and collective identities amidst diverse experiences with capitalism and to consider what it means to be a producer and a consumer of commodities in a global context.

”A sense of taste with a sense of place”: Coffee identities across the United States and El Salvador. $49.99 Salvadoran exports of specialty grade coffee increased from 8% to 30% of total coffee exports between 2002 and 2006 with the United States purchasing the lion’s share (Consejo Salvadoreno del Cafe 2007). Specialty coffee, a product that differentiates itself in the market in terms of quality and the emphasis placed on the singularity and traceability of its origins, has altered the ways in which producers and consumers of coffee identify themselves in relation to one another. “Taste” and “place” become tropes that allow us to understand the trajectory of coffee culture in time and space where culture is a “…historical product and historical force—shaped and shaping, socially constituted and socially constitutive” (Roseberry 1989:53). Coffee allows us to explore the construction of individual and collective identities amidst diverse experiences with capitalism and to consider what it means to be a producer and a consumer of commodities in a global context.

”Gliding through our memories”: The performance of nostalgia in American musical theater. $49.99 American musical theater reverberates with both idealized and ironic representations of the past, with complex forms of unthinking, reassuring nostalgia and self-conscious anti-nostalgia. The American past, as the dominant setting for what is often called a uniquely “American” art form, becomes the vehicle whereby individual musicals both glorify and problematize American culture and values. At the same time, musical theater as a whole is riddled with either appreciation for or disaffection with the “golden age” inaugurated by Oklahoma! (1943). Musical theater needs its ghosts—the nostalgic memories of performances, tropes, and past icons—to reconfigure and fill in gaps in communal memory.;Methodologically, this study seeks to unify an archive fragmented between libretti, cast recordings, sporadic records of past performances, and traces of critical responses. One of the reasons for the persistence of nostalgia with American musicals is its fragmentary archive. Musicals perform a narrative through an articulation of prose, verse, music, and dance; none of these elements can be ignored in understanding a particular show. Study of each musical as a performative whole elucidates the contradictory ways in which nostalgia is performed.;This study examines the work of both nostalgia and anti-nostalgia in seven plays. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! has often been mistaken as a purely nostalgic work, although contemporaries conceived and appreciated it as a modern production redefining “musical theater.” David Henry Hwang’s 2002 revisal of one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s last musicals, Flower Drum Song, is compared to its original incarnation (1958), revealing two attempts not only to make musical theater relevant in a changing American culture, but also to look back to the musical comedies that Oklahoma! helped to overturn. The non-narrative revue format of Stephen Sondheim’s “anti-musical” Assassins (1991) displays the most resistance toward the golden age

”Gliding through our memories”: The performance of nostalgia in American musical theater. $49.99 American musical theater reverberates with both idealized and ironic representations of the past, with complex forms of unthinking, reassuring nostalgia and self-conscious anti-nostalgia. The American past, as the dominant setting for what is often called a uniquely “American” art form, becomes the vehicle whereby individual musicals both glorify and problematize American culture and values. At the same time, musical theater as a whole is riddled with either appreciation for or disaffection with the “golden age” inaugurated by Oklahoma! (1943). Musical theater needs its ghosts—the nostalgic memories of performances, tropes, and past icons—to reconfigure and fill in gaps in communal memory.;Methodologically, this study seeks to unify an archive fragmented between libretti, cast recordings, sporadic records of past performances, and traces of critical responses. One of the reasons for the persistence of nostalgia with American musicals is its fragmentary archive. Musicals perform a narrative through an articulation of prose, verse, music, and dance; none of these elements can be ignored in understanding a particular show. Study of each musical as a performative whole elucidates the contradictory ways in which nostalgia is performed.;This study examines the work of both nostalgia and anti-nostalgia in seven plays. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! has often been mistaken as a purely nostalgic work, although contemporaries conceived and appreciated it as a modern production redefining “musical theater.” David Henry Hwang’s 2002 revisal of one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s last musicals, Flower Drum Song, is compared to its original incarnation (1958), revealing two attempts not only to make musical theater relevant in a changing American culture, but also to look back to the musical comedies that Oklahoma! helped to overturn. The non-narrative revue format of Stephen Sondheim’s “anti-musical” Assassins (1991) displays the most resistance toward the golden age

”Let’s get free”: A critical ethnography of rap/hip hop, African American rhetoric, and critical social theory in college composition. $49.99 This dissertation is a critical ethnographic study of the ways four students experienced a first-year college writing course in which Rap/Hip Hop, African American rhetoric, and elements of critical social theory (Marxism, Critical Race Theory, and Black Feminism/Womanism) served as the primary “texts” for critical writing and interrogation. The research sought insight into the following questions: How can Hip Hop pedagogy in college composition engage students in a process of naming and changing unjust structures of racial oppression? In what ways does such instruction become meaningful in the lives of students beyond the confines of the composition classroom? Conducting extensive participant-observation with each informant both inside and outside of the composition classroom, I analyzed field notes and a variety of student-produced rhetorical artifacts for insight into the meaningfulness of major theoretical and rhetorical frameworks discussed in the course.;Findings indicated that students appropriated for themselves the critical engagements offered through Black rhetoric, culture, and critical social theory. Students indexed radical aspects of Rap/Hip Hop, Marxist theory, Black Feminism/Womanism, and Critical Race Theory within academic writing tasks. These concepts also facilitated students’ critical democratic engagement against structures of racial, social, and economic injustice within their own social worlds. Such findings suggest that incorporating Rap/Hip Hop and critical social theory in college composition can facilitate students’ ability to produce and resist discourses of power.

”Nostalgia without memory”: A case study of American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $49.99 This dissertation explores the ascribed social meanings and processes of conversion among contemporary American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Employing the ethnographic field methods of participant observation and interviewing at two primary fieldsites, a Greek Orthodox and Orthodox Church in America parish, I examine how converts, as choice-makers using consumer-like strategies and print/electronic media to study and compare religious options, reflect and effect change in communities commonly regarded in the United States as preserving the languages and customs of various immigrant groups from Eastern, Southeastern Europe, and the Middle East. Much of the existing scholarly literature on Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States characterizes it as an ancient, unchanging form of Christianity that is highly resistant to the conditions of what religion scholars refer to as the “spiritual marketplace” of expansive religious diversity and individual choice-making in regard to religious affiliation. Yet, through the lens of conversion, I chart how the language and methods of the “marketplace” are taken-for-granted elements of church life, engrained in the words and actions of Orthodox clerics and lifelong church members in addition to converts themselves. Drawing upon the work of sociologist Ann Swidler, I argue that the marketplace remains one of the most powerful “toolkits” or “cultural repertoires,” although by no means the only one, by which local Orthodox Christians in Pittsburgh have come to understand their religious lives and serves as a new means of gauging the influence and engagement of Orthodox Christianity with its surrounding American culture.

”Nostalgia without memory”: A case study of American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $49.99 This dissertation explores the ascribed social meanings and processes of conversion among contemporary American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Employing the ethnographic field methods of participant observation and interviewing at two primary fieldsites, a Greek Orthodox and Orthodox Church in America parish, I examine how converts, as choice-makers using consumer-like strategies and print/electronic media to study and compare religious options, reflect and effect change in communities commonly regarded in the United States as preserving the languages and customs of various immigrant groups from Eastern, Southeastern Europe, and the Middle East. Much of the existing scholarly literature on Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States characterizes it as an ancient, unchanging form of Christianity that is highly resistant to the conditions of what religion scholars refer to as the “spiritual marketplace” of expansive religious diversity and individual choice-making in regard to religious affiliation. Yet, through the lens of conversion, I chart how the language and methods of the “marketplace” are taken-for-granted elements of church life, engrained in the words and actions of Orthodox clerics and lifelong church members in addition to converts themselves. Drawing upon the work of sociologist Ann Swidler, I argue that the marketplace remains one of the most powerful “toolkits” or “cultural repertoires,” although by no means the only one, by which local Orthodox Christians in Pittsburgh have come to understand their religious lives and serves as a new means of gauging the influence and engagement of Orthodox Christianity with its surrounding American culture.

”The Stars Belong to Everyone”: The rhetorical practices of astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993). $49.99 Astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (University of Toronto) reached a variety of audiences through different rhetorical forms. She communicated to her colleagues through her scholarly writings; she reached out to students and the public through her Toronto Star newspaper column entitled “With the Stars,” which she authored for thirty years; she wrote The Stars Belong to Everyone, a book that speaks to a lay audience; she hosted a successful television series entitled Ideas; and she delivered numerous speeches at scientific conferences, professional women’s associations, school programs, libraries, and other venues.;Adapting technical information for different audiences is at the heart of technical communication, and Sawyer Hogg’s work exemplifies adaptation as she moves from writing for the scientific community (as in her articles on globular cluster research) to science writing for lay audiences (as in her newspaper column, book, and script for her television series). Initially she developed her sense of audience through a male perspective informed largely by her scholarly work with two men (Harlow Shapley and her husband, Frank Hogg) as well as the pervasive masculine culture of academic science.;This dissertation situates Sawyer Hogg in what is slowly becoming a canon of technical communication scholarship on female scientists. Toward this end, I discuss how she rhetorically engaged two different audiences, one scholarly and one popular, how Sawyer Hogg translated male dominated scientific rhetoric to writing for the public, and how science writing helped her achieve her professional goals. Complementing the archival research in addressing the questions of this study, I employ social construction analysis (also known as the social perspective) for my research methodology. She was ahead of her time and embodied the social perspective years before its definition as a rhetorical concept. In short, my study illuminates one scientific woman’s voice,

”The Stars Belong to Everyone”: The rhetorical practices of astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993). $49.99 Astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (University of Toronto) reached a variety of audiences through different rhetorical forms. She communicated to her colleagues through her scholarly writings; she reached out to students and the public through her Toronto Star newspaper column entitled “With the Stars,” which she authored for thirty years; she wrote The Stars Belong to Everyone, a book that speaks to a lay audience; she hosted a successful television series entitled Ideas; and she delivered numerous speeches at scientific conferences, professional women’s associations, school programs, libraries, and other venues.;Adapting technical information for different audiences is at the heart of technical communication, and Sawyer Hogg’s work exemplifies adaptation as she moves from writing for the scientific community (as in her articles on globular cluster research) to science writing for lay audiences (as in her newspaper column, book, and script for her television series). Initially she developed her sense of audience through a male perspective informed largely by her scholarly work with two men (Harlow Shapley and her husband, Frank Hogg) as well as the pervasive masculine culture of academic science.;This dissertation situates Sawyer Hogg in what is slowly becoming a canon of technical communication scholarship on female scientists. Toward this end, I discuss how she rhetorically engaged two different audiences, one scholarly and one popular, how Sawyer Hogg translated male dominated scientific rhetoric to writing for the public, and how science writing helped her achieve her professional goals. Complementing the archival research in addressing the questions of this study, I employ social construction analysis (also known as the social perspective) for my research methodology. She was ahead of her time and embodied the social perspective years before its definition as a rhetorical concept. In short, my study illuminates one scientific woman’s voice,

”There’s some good karma up in here”: A case study of white school leadership in an urban context. $49.99 As educators work to improve achievement within the current policy environment of accountability and “subgroups,” their attention has been drawn to considerations of race, culture, and learning in schools. Yet few school leaders have the preparation or knowledge to assist teacher learning about these issues.;Theories of culturally relevant pedagogy focus on how teachers can teach subject matter in a culturally appropriate manner, and previous scholarship has considered culturally relevant pedagogy in relation to teaching and learning. This inquiry examines it in relation to leadership content knowledge. Critical race theory offers a lens through which to examine the relationship of beliefs and knowledge when considering race and racism in the American educational system and for further situating an examination of school leadership and cultural competency.;The research questions I address are: (1) What kind of perspective toward students is held by educators in the school? How do these perspectives connect with teaching, learning, and leadership? (2) How is culturally relevant pedagogy represented in the schools? How do school leaders foster or hinder CRP in their schools? (3) In which contexts and events in the practice of school leadership do issues of race, culture, and learning surface? How are the issues mediated by the principal and other school leaders?;This case study of three White principals reveals that they faced many issues of race, culture, and learning, yet tended to be colorblind and colormute. Even when they identified issues, they were reluctant to address them or without resources, thus ignoring situations that could have served as sites of teacher learning. Several White teachers held dynamic and nuanced asset perspectives toward children of color. New teachers in particular learn a “repertoire of racialized and ‘cultural’ comparisons” (Pollock, 2001) as a key component of belonging to their community, a repertoire that knowledgeable school

”There’s some good karma up in here”: A case study of white school leadership in an urban context. $49.99 As educators work to improve achievement within the current policy environment of accountability and “subgroups,” their attention has been drawn to considerations of race, culture, and learning in schools. Yet few school leaders have the preparation or knowledge to assist teacher learning about these issues.;Theories of culturally relevant pedagogy focus on how teachers can teach subject matter in a culturally appropriate manner, and previous scholarship has considered culturally relevant pedagogy in relation to teaching and learning. This inquiry examines it in relation to leadership content knowledge. Critical race theory offers a lens through which to examine the relationship of beliefs and knowledge when considering race and racism in the American educational system and for further situating an examination of school leadership and cultural competency.;The research questions I address are: (1) What kind of perspective toward students is held by educators in the school? How do these perspectives connect with teaching, learning, and leadership? (2) How is culturally relevant pedagogy represented in the schools? How do school leaders foster or hinder CRP in their schools? (3) In which contexts and events in the practice of school leadership do issues of race, culture, and learning surface? How are the issues mediated by the principal and other school leaders?;This case study of three White principals reveals that they faced many issues of race, culture, and learning, yet tended to be colorblind and colormute. Even when they identified issues, they were reluctant to address them or without resources, thus ignoring situations that could have served as sites of teacher learning. Several White teachers held dynamic and nuanced asset perspectives toward children of color. New teachers in particular learn a “repertoire of racialized and ‘cultural’ comparisons” (Pollock, 2001) as a key component of belonging to their community, a repertoire that knowledgeable school

”They’re us”: Infectious trauma and the zombie apocalypse. $49.99 This project aims to explain American culture’s relationship to trauma, survivors, healing, and social roles as exhibited in the postmodern zombie narrative, a subgenre which is almost entirely concerned with issues involving trauma’s effect on ontology, epistemology, and society building.;Chapter one begins the project with a history of the zombie narrative’s relationship to trauma and social critique. Chapter two concerns itself with the apocalyptic zombie narrative’s statements about issues of community, ontology, and rebuilding. The project moves on in chapter three to examine the ways in which the zombie narrative exhibits ideas related to compensation for trauma. As Kirby Farrell points out, compensation has been linked to trauma since the Victorian age—but what Farrell doesn’t cover in detail is the question of what attitudes such a mindset leads to. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by examining exactly what kinds of traumas are being compensated for in the zombie narrative, what those compensations are, and how they lead to particular images of survival and transcendence. Finally, the project will wrap up by examining the role that social functions play in traumatization. It is clear in narratives like Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, or a film like Deathdream that the protagonists are as traumatized by their respective roles in society (such as former slave, female, husband, parent, or soldier) as they are by the events which actually happen to them, and it seems that the zombies and conditions of zombiehood in these particular narratives requires that these narratives be read with such social roles constantly in mind. The last chapter will attempt to examine how history and these social roles influence the protagonists’ interactions with trauma and healing.;This project uses critics such as Fredric Jameson, James Berger, Carol Clover, and Linda J. Holland-Toll to examine works such as Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am

”They’re us”: Infectious trauma and the zombie apocalypse. $49.99 This project aims to explain American culture’s relationship to trauma, survivors, healing, and social roles as exhibited in the postmodern zombie narrative, a subgenre which is almost entirely concerned with issues involving trauma’s effect on ontology, epistemology, and society building.;Chapter one begins the project with a history of the zombie narrative’s relationship to trauma and social critique. Chapter two concerns itself with the apocalyptic zombie narrative’s statements about issues of community, ontology, and rebuilding. The project moves on in chapter three to examine the ways in which the zombie narrative exhibits ideas related to compensation for trauma. As Kirby Farrell points out, compensation has been linked to trauma since the Victorian age—but what Farrell doesn’t cover in detail is the question of what attitudes such a mindset leads to. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by examining exactly what kinds of traumas are being compensated for in the zombie narrative, what those compensations are, and how they lead to particular images of survival and transcendence. Finally, the project will wrap up by examining the role that social functions play in traumatization. It is clear in narratives like Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, or a film like Deathdream that the protagonists are as traumatized by their respective roles in society (such as former slave, female, husband, parent, or soldier) as they are by the events which actually happen to them, and it seems that the zombies and conditions of zombiehood in these particular narratives requires that these narratives be read with such social roles constantly in mind. The last chapter will attempt to examine how history and these social roles influence the protagonists’ interactions with trauma and healing.;This project uses critics such as Fredric Jameson, James Berger, Carol Clover, and Linda J. Holland-Toll to examine works such as Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am

’80s Gold $19.99 Beneath the flourish, extravagance, and pretension that saturated the pop charts during the ’80s lay a culture rich in innovation that brought about the rise of truly groundbreaking music and an indomitable spirit of independence, not to mention nationwide networks that fostered originality and valued substance over style. That side of things is nowhere documented in ’80s Gold. However, there was such an overabundance of highly polished, catchy tunes in such a wide variety of genres that it’s nearly impossible to document it all (though there have been more than enough earnest attempts) without leaving a sense of exhaustion. This two-disc, 33-song collection represents some of the best of the best of the decade, as every single song on here was a number one Billboard Hot 100 chart hit at one point or another. And to its credit, Universal presents a wide scope of sounds and styles here. Case in point: where else can one find Blondie sitting right next to Christopher Cross’ smooth “Sailing” anthem next to Diana Ross next to Rick Springfield and have it all make sense? There is literally something for everyone here, from new wave to new jack, and while it’s easy to point out all of the obvious omissions, the quality control is so high that it’s quite easy to forget about what’s missing and simply enjoy what’s here. Most fans of ’80s music will already have most of these tunes on other compilations, but those looking for an awesome starting reference point will find that ’80s Gold is an excellent edition to any pop collection. ~ Rob Theakston, Rovi

‘Scape: The International Magazine of Landscaping and Architecture $19.95 The planning parameters of city planning and landscape architecture are changing as a result of global warming. ’scape 4 presents the most intelligent and exciting designs, and discusses the various possibilities planners have, for working with the changing climate.Designing without water: heat and dryness demand new visions; resource scarcity calls for rethinking. Delta regions are the most densely populated areas in the world. Precisely in these regions the water is rising. In the Netherlands a number of studies and initiatives are investigating what solutions are possible and desirable. Arctic cities are no longer remote, whether economically or in terms of culture or climate. What were once extreme situations can be sensibly developed today.Portrait: The French landscape architect Gilles Clément’s concept of the “jardin planétaire” calls on designers to relate to the earth as a garden. A plea for collective responsibility, poetic and convincing.

10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Imposter $37.79 Praise for 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read“Because of too much TV and too little decent schooling, too many Americans are unread in the classics that have defined our culture. That’s why Wiker’s 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read is so important: it provides a shopping list for those who want to understand what makes America and the West exceptional.”—Brett M. Decker, Editorial Page Editor, Washington Times“Benjamin Wiker illuminates some of the great books of our civilization with an insightful simplicity that is not only breathtaking but potentially life changing.”—Joseph Pearce, author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. TolkienPraise for 10 Books That Screwed Up the World“Benjamin Wiker has read the worst books in Western Civilization so you don’t have to. Professor Wiker’s poison pen portraits are great critical aids to analyzing some of the worst ideas that have ever contaminated Western Civilization. Professor Wiker recommends actually reading the books—but his own book is a whole lot more fun.”—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization“If you want to know where Western civilization ran off the rails, read this book. And if you want to help get us back on track, buy extra copies and see what you can do to get them into doctor’s office waiting rooms, faculty lounges, and your local public library. Wiker has the goods on the authors of our current confusion about (among other things) human nature, morality, sex, economics, law, and government—this book will open many eyes.”—Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., Editor of the Conservative Book Club and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to English and American Literature

10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Imposter $50.26 Praise for 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read“Because of too much TV and too little decent schooling, too many Americans are unread in the classics that have defined our culture. That’s why Wiker’s 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read is so important: it provides a shopping list for those who want to understand what makes America and the West exceptional.”—Brett M. Decker, Editorial Page Editor, Washington Times“Benjamin Wiker illuminates some of the great books of our civilization with an insightful simplicity that is not only breathtaking but potentially life changing.”—Joseph Pearce, author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. TolkienPraise for 10 Books That Screwed Up the World“Benjamin Wiker has read the worst books in Western Civilization so you don’t have to. Professor Wiker’s poison pen portraits are great critical aids to analyzing some of the worst ideas that have ever contaminated Western Civilization. Professor Wiker recommends actually reading the books—but his own book is a whole lot more fun.”—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization“If you want to know where Western civilization ran off the rails, read this book. And if you want to help get us back on track, buy extra copies and see what you can do to get them into doctor’s office waiting rooms, faculty lounges, and your local public library. Wiker has the goods on the authors of our current confusion about (among other things) human nature, morality, sex, economics, law, and government—this book will open many eyes.”—Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., Editor of the Conservative Book Club and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to English and American Literature

100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art $11.45 Used – What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture that created it.Featuring designs by Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Madame Gres, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and many others, this one-of-a-kind collec

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101 American Customs: Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices $1.44 New – What is sold at garage sales? Why does no one get wet at a bridal shower? For non-native speakers, here’s a humorous approach to understanding common American customs and the expressions related to them. Customs are explained, one to a page, with conversational examples and whimsical cartoons. Topics range from age-old traditions, such as shaking hands and bachelor parties, to more modern American practices – coupon clipping, TV dinners, and tailgate parties.

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1830-1848: The End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture $55.97 New – The question of ‘the end of metaphysics’ is generally considered as a central issue concerning the nature and significance of “philosophy as such,” and, accordingly, as belonging to the realm of ‘pure’ or ‘fundamental’ philosophy. By contrast, this book investigates to what extent the end of metaphysics might be related to specific influences from outside philosophy. Focusing on the period between 1830 and 1848, it argues that metaphysics was not so much challenged by internal philosophica

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1830-1848: The End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture $79.2 New – The question of ‘the end of metaphysics’ is generally considered as a central issue concerning the nature and significance of “philosophy as such,” and, accordingly, as belonging to the realm of ‘pure’ or ‘fundamental’ philosophy. By contrast, this book investigates to what extent the end of metaphysics might be related to specific influences from outside philosophy. Focusing on the period between 1830 and 1848, it argues that metaphysics was not so much challenged by internal philosophica

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1911 in Politics: 1911 Elections, 1911 Referendums, Political Parties Disestablished in 1911, Political Parties Established in 1911 $22.91 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1911 Elections, 1911 Referendums, Political Parties Disestablished in 1911, Political Parties Established in 1911, States and Territories Established in 1911, Mongolia, Northern Territory, United States Senate Election in New York, 1911, Outer Mongolia, 1911-1919, Social Democratic Federation, Musavat, British Socialist Party, New Zealand General Election, 1911, Cercle Proudhon, Breton Nationalist Party, Neukamerun, Mexican Communist Party, Socialist Propaganda League, Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council Election, 1911, Australian Referendum, 1911, Western Australian Liberal Party, South African Party, Finnish Parliamentary Election, 1911, South Wales Socialist Society, Republican-Socialist Party, Socialist Party of North America, Independent Civil Party. Excerpt: Mongolia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cave paintingsImportant prehistoric sites are the Paleolithic cave drawings of the Khoid Tsenkheriin Agui (Northern Cave of Blue) in Khovd Province and the Tsagaan Agui (White Cave) in Bayankhongor Province. A Neolithic farming settlement has been found in Dornod Province. Contemporary findings from western Mongolia include only temporary encampments of hunters and fishers. The population during the Copper Age has been described as paleomongolid in the east of what is now Mongolia, and as europid in the west. In the second millennium B.C, during the bronze age, western Mongolia was under the influence of the Karasuk culture. Deer stones and the omnipresent keregsürens (small kurgans) probably are from this era; other theories date the deer stones as 7th or 8th centuries BCE. A vast iron-age burial complex from the 5th-3rd century, later also used by the Xiongnu, has been unearthed near Ulaangom. Before the 20th century, some scholars as… More:

1950s Plastics Design: Everyday Elegance $5.95 This newly revised book presents a factual discussion of the wide variety of colorful and popular plastics housewares made between 1945 and 1960. Wonderful advertisements that announced to the world what new designs were possible with this experimental material are shown. Many color photographs of today’s highly collectible plastics objects demonstrate the variety of colors and useful forms that were manufactured. Vinyl, Lucite, Melamine and Formica, to name but a few, have become common household names since their introduction in this era. Here are chairs, tables, dishes, cups, radios, lampshades, draperies, cooking containers, car interiors, floors and more-all made of plastics. A very useful Collectors’ Guide, providing information about all the major manufacturers and trade names, is organized by product types for easy reference. For 1950s families with small budgets and small homes, the “magic” of plastics chemistry promised unprecedented practical benefits mingled with the glamour and drama of sleek modern forms. At last, plastics had stepped out of the kitchen and bath to enter almost every area of home design. In a single decade, plastics had won favor among an astonishingly diverse groupÑfrom dimestore shoppers and young marrieds to gifted designers and prestigious proponents of affordable good design. In tracing plastic’s whirlwind rise from wartime sham to postwar miracle, this book explores not only the history of an important segment of 1950s collectibles but also the history of a culture redefining its way of life.

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21st Century Blue: Being a Bear in the Modern World $8.26 New – There are a lot of books about Rangers fans; this one is for them. It looks at the last three decades on and off the field, with a humorous eye cast over the strange world of Scottish football. The book deals with a whole host of subjects concerning Rangers, including what it was like to grow up during the Souness Revolution, the club’s traditions, the growth of fan culture and the changing relationship between footballers and fans, and the role of the Scottish media in the life of the clu

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21st-Century Modernism $94.15 Used – This revisionist narrative of poetic change in the twentieth century challenges the accepted notions of what poetry is and can be in the new century and makes the case for the seminal place of poetry in contemporary culture.

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22 Skidoo/Subtractions $6.11 Poetry. 22 SKIDOO takes as its playground the junkyard of Modernity. In a contemporary world which discards memory and experience along with last season’s shoes, any building over 25 years old, and millions of tons of last year’s computers and cell phones, these poems recycle archeologically recovered materials into a funny, lively exploration of the possibilities of creation in a world where the young think that what Duke Ellington made wasn’t really music. If 22 SKIDOO reclaims the junk of modern culture, finding for it new forms and arrangements, SUBTRACTIONS kicks the props from under the elaborate illusion of completion that ironically locates a world without history. This is a two-volume book, with the two volumes bound back-to-back. 22 SKIDOO is the winner of the 2009 Friggin Prize.

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6 Elements For Managing Workforce Talent-Vol. 1b $13.6 As aging workforce demographics result in a smaller workforce pool and economic growth continues, human capital is becoming more valuable. Without a skilled and motivated workforce, companies have little chance of realizing their full potential and profitability. Many are realizing that to survive over the long term, talent management, culture, and organizational commitment are becoming the new gold. Accounting provides important information that is often outdated and does not necessarily determine what a company will do in the future; it only predicts. What determines a company’s future are the makeup and actions of its workforce. 6 Elements for Managing Workforce Talent is Volume 1b of Howatt HR Consulting’s Talent Management Series that has been developed to promote strategic talent management considerations. Volume 1b introduces six elements that help companies enhance their talent equity — the accumulated value an organization gains from its workforce. Each of the six sections has been developed to assist human resources and business leaders to facilitate a discussion on what they are doing and may need to improve to manage and develop their companies¿ human capital. William A. Howatt,PhD, EdD, Post Doc Behavioral Science UCLA School of Medicine,is CEO of Howatt HR Consulting Inc., a strategic human resources management company. Howatt HR Consulting focuses on assisting companies to gain a significant competitive edge for their organization by minimizing risk to talent equity. This is accomplished through defining, designing, and developing talent management solutions for removing potential talent equity risks and to filling gaps.

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8th-Century Christian Martyrs: Mael Ruba, Eurosia, Abo of Tiflis, Saint Rumbold, Theofrid, Aethelberht II of East Anglia, Andrew of Crete $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Máel Ruba, (Pronounced Mel-roova) Máelrubai (Old Irish spelling), Maol Rubha (Maolrubha) (Scottish Gaelic spelling), or Malruibhe (642722), sometimes Latinised as Rufus, is a saint of the Celtic Church. Originally from Bangor, County Down, Ireland, he was a monk and founded the monastic community of Applecross in Ross, one of the best attested early Christian monasteries in what is now Scotland. Máelrubai was descended from Niall, King of Ireland, on the side of his father Elganach. His mother, Subtan, was a niece of Saint Comgall (d. 597 or 602) of Bangor. Máelrubai was born in the area of Derry and was educated at Bangor. In 671, when he was thirty, he sailed from Ireland to Scotland with a group of monks. For two years he travelled around the area, chiefly in Argyll, perhaps founding some of the many churches still dedicated to him, before settling at Aporcrosan (Applecross) in the west of Ross opposite the islands of Skye and Raasay in 673. Both Máelrubai’s voyage to ‘Britain’ and his foundation of Applecross are recorded in contemporary Irish annals, implying that they were considered of great significance at the time. The Gaelic name of Applecross, “A’ Chomraich”, ‘The Sanctuary’, derives from an area of inviolate ground which surrounded the monastery in ancient times. Its limits were originally marked by crosses. Unfortunately, only a fragment of one of these has survived, within the farmyard at Camusterrach, south of Applecross village. Maol Rubha’s monastery was a major Christian centre and instrumental in the spread of both Christianity and Gaelic culture amongst the Picts of northern Scotland. There are several locations named after Maol Rubha such as Loch Maree. In the 17th century the Presbytery of Dingwall was disturbed by

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A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection $1.99 A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colofrul characters as Truman Capote, John Cage, Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, and Wilhelm Rontgen, and their curious ideas. Through these individuals, we can better explore life’s astonishing richness and glimpse the diversity of human imagination.Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality gives readers a glimpse of new ways of thinking and of other worlds as he reaches across cultures and peers beyond our ordinary reality. He illuminates some of the most mysterious phenomena affecting our species. What is creativity? What are the religious implications of mosquito evolution, simulated Matrix realities, the brain’s own marijuana, and the mathematics of the apocalypse? Could we be a mere software simulation living in a matrix? Who is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Emanuel Swedenborg? Did church forefathers eat psychedelic snails? How can we safely expand our minds to become more successful and reason beyond the limits of our own intuition? How can we become immortal?

A Believable Bible $26.61 In a recent study reported by the Associated Press, the American Religious Identification Survey concluded that, the percentage of Christians in America had declined. It went on further to report that more people say that they have no religion at all. Approximately 30o% of married couples did not have a religious ceremony. About 27% of those polled said that they did not want a religious funeral.Why is this true? Increasingly, people feel the need to make a decision. They must decide between, accepting and becoming a Biblical literalist or, embracing the known, verifiable realities about the world in which they live. This choice is confusing, and it creates a state of cognitive dissonance that becomes intolerable for most people.Having to accept a Bible that is unbelievable, that is filled with pre-modern, unacceptable notions, and even noxious declarations, is a turnoff to people in an educated culture. Having to believe in an indefinable, punitive, and capricious God as promoted in religion, is a difficult and repulsive pill for most people to swallow.In “A Believable Bible” you are provided with a guidebook for understanding and making sense of the book of faith that is the basic document of, and that is responsible for the Christian faith in America.You will be surprised to discover that the Bible may not be what you have been led to believe. Incorporating the best of recent biblical scholarship and psychological insight, Dr. Kania takes you on a fascinating journey of discovery and new truth, much as he did in his prior book, “Healthy Religion.”

A Better Man: True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride and What It Really Means to Be a Man $35.67 New – The journey from childhood to manhood is a momentous time in every boy’s life, yet never has this transition been more challenging than it is today.In addition to the trials of peer pressure, hormones and popularity, young men must grapple with a culture that places enormous emphasis on physical appeal, material wealth and celebrity status. Television, film and video game heroes have become role models to a generation, and boys are hard-pressed to find reliable answers to the question of w

A Better Man: True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride and What It Really Means to Be a Man $48.95 New – The journey from childhood to manhood is a momentous time in every boy’s life, yet never has this transition been more challenging than it is today.In addition to the trials of peer pressure, hormones and popularity, young men must grapple with a culture that places enormous emphasis on physical appeal, material wealth and celebrity status. Television, film and video game heroes have become role models to a generation, and boys are hard-pressed to find reliable answers to the question of w

A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade $21.2 In 1978, Patrick McNaughton witnessed a bird dance masquerade in the small town of Dogoduman. He was so affected by this performance that its dazzling artistic power has never left him. As he revisits that very special evening in A Bird Dance near Saturday City, McNaughton carefully considers the components of the performance, its pace, the performers, and what the entire experience means for understandings of Bamana and West African aesthetics and culture. The performance of virtuoso dancer Sidi Ballo becomes McNaughton’s vehicle for understanding the power of individuals in African art and the power of aesthetics as a cultural phenomenon. Topics such as what makes art effective, what makes it “good,” how production is wrapped in individual virtuosity, and what individual artistry suggests about society reveal how individuals work together to create the indelible experience of outstanding performance. This exuberant and captivating book will influence views of society, culture, art, history, and their makers in West Africa for years to come.

A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) $15.58 Used – Patricia Pearson returns to non-fiction with a witty, insightful and highly personal look at recognizing and coping with fears and anxieties in our contemporary world. The millions of North Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about today’s culture that is making

A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) $18 Used – Patricia Pearson returns to non-fiction with a witty, insightful and highly personal look at recognizing and coping with fears and anxieties in our contemporary world. The millions of North Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about today’s culture that is making

A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) $50.94 New – Patricia Pearson returns to non-fiction with a witty, insightful and highly personal look at recognizing and coping with fears and anxieties in our contemporary world. The millions of North Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about today’s culture that is making

A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) $37.62 New – Patricia Pearson returns to non-fiction with a witty, insightful and highly personal look at recognizing and coping with fears and anxieties in our contemporary world. The millions of North Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about today’s culture that is making

A Brief History of Anxiety?yours and Mine $8.38 New – A bold new view of anxiety from an unerringly smart and funny writer who has suffered from it her whole life. The millions of Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about twenty-first century American culture that is making people anxious, and offers some surprising

A Brief History of Anxiety?yours and Mine $8.02 New – A bold new view of anxiety from an unerringly smart and funny writer who has suffered from it her whole life. The millions of Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly “nervous nellies” with “weak characters” who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about twenty-first century American culture that is making people anxious, and offers some surprising

A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative $74.64 New – “A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative” is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms “empty paternity” – a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.

A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative $40.59 New – “A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative” is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms “empty paternity” – a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.

A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories $161.47 A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Three methodologies – loosely termed socio-economic/biographic, textual analysis, and gender analysis – and a variety of sources, from hagiographical biographies to medical case histories, are used to tell three very different but complementary stories about what it was to practise medicine in 16th century China. Woven together, these stories combine to create a multi-dimensional portrayal that brings to life the very human experiences, frustrations and aspirations of a well respected and influential physician who yet struggled to win respect from fellow practitioners and loyalty from patients. In so doing, the book creates a vibrant and colourful picture of contemporary medical practice that at the same time deepens our understanding of the interrelationship between gender culture and medicine.

A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese $1.62 New – Globalisation means that increasingly we meet people from a wider variety of nations and cultures.The manufacturing revolution that has seen Japan become one of the top industrialised nations in the world means that more Japanese people are travelling abroad and more people are travelling to Japan.What should Christian?’s know about the Japanese? That question is answered by this book.A Christian?’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese firstly looks at the history, culture and religions common in

A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese $0.62 Used – Globalisation means that increasingly we meet people from a wider variety of nations and cultures.The manufacturing revolution that has seen Japan become one of the top industrialised nations in the world means that more Japanese people are travelling abroad and more people are travelling to Japan.What should Christian?’s know about the Japanese? That question is answered by this book.A Christian?’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese firstly looks at the history, culture and religions common in

A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese $1.62 Used – Globalisation means that increasingly we meet people from a wider variety of nations and cultures.The manufacturing revolution that has seen Japan become one of the top industrialised nations in the world means that more Japanese people are travelling abroad and more people are travelling to Japan.What should Christian?’s know about the Japanese? That question is answered by this book.A Christian?’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese firstly looks at the history, culture and religions common in

A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese $5.55 New – Globalisation means that increasingly we meet people from a wider variety of nations and cultures.The manufacturing revolution that has seen Japan become one of the top industrialised nations in the world means that more Japanese people are travelling abroad and more people are travelling to Japan.What should Christian?’s know about the Japanese? That question is answered by this book.A Christian?’s Pocket Guide to the Japanese firstly looks at the history, culture and religions common in

A Collection of Poems by Several Hands $35.16 This was the best-selling poetry anthology of the eighteenth century, edited by the most celebrated publisher of the era, Alexander Pope’s protege, Robert Dodsley. It includes poems by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Garick, Lady Mary Worley Montagu, Horace Walpole,Joseph and Thomas Warton, James Thomson, Elizabeth Carter, Pope himself, and many others. The Collection of Poems is an invaluable index of literary culture in the eighteenth century, and yet despite its great popularity and influence, it has not been in print for more than two hundred years. makes available on the open market…the poetical miscellany that played sucha cnetral role in capturing and defining the fashionalbe taste in poetry during the last half of the eighteenth century. What is more, the decision to provide a facsimile edition affords modern users not only the flavour of the original but the assurance of absolute textual fidelity ( Times Literary Supplement – 10-09-98)

A Common Sense Enema $12.88 Eliminate Excremental Thinking Today!This book provides a common sense analysis of a wide range of issues that arise in daily discourse and debate with family, friends, colleagues, and adversaries. Topics include, for example: WHICH GENDER IS SUPERIOR AND WHY?WHO ARE THE MOST OVERPAID AND UNDERPAID AMONG US?WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS IF LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION?WHO ARE THE MOST OVERAPPRECIATED AND UNDERAPPRECIATED BASEBALL PLAYERS ?WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HEIGHT, HAIR, AND ONE’S NAME IN OUR CULTURE?WHY ARE WE SO INFATUATED WITH DOGS?WHAT ARE THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN BODY?SHOULD THE DYING BE FORCED TO LIVE?WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FLAW IN OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?WHO ARE OUR MOST ANNOYING CITIZENS AND WHY?

A Companion to American Literature and Culture $100.08 Used – This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. It offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about

A Companion to American Literature and Culture $116.45 New – This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. It offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about A

A Companion to American Literature and Culture $209.95 This expansive Companion to American Literature provides a set of fresh perspectives, some related, some dissonant, on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Written by experts in the field, the Companion embraces the many different voices that constitute American literature, from slave narratives and oral tales to regional writing and literature of the environment. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter.The three sections of the book offer three distinctive paradigms for thinking about American literature. The first section draws attention to the ways in which American literature has been constructed and studied at differing moments and by different groups of people. The second looks at the literary production of individual authors and at groups of writers who interacted with one another. The final section examines the interactions between contemporary forms of creative expression and the theories that inform and are, in turn, shaped by such writing.

A Companion to American Literature and Culture $159.71 Used – This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. It offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about

A Companion to American Literature and Culture $171.32 New – This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. It offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about A

A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World $24.95 “If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process of losing our grip on psychoanalysis itself, as Freud conceived it?”-from Chapter 1As he developed his striking new science of the mind, Sigmund Freud had frequent recourse to ancient culture and the historical disciplines that draw on it. A Compulsion for Antiquity fully explores how Freud appropriated figures and themes from classical mythology and how the theory and practice of psychoanalysis paralleled contemporary developments in historiography, archaeology, philology, and the history of religions. Drawing extensively from Freud’s private correspondence and other notes and documents, Richard H. Armstrong touches on Freud’s indebtedness to Sophocles and the Oedipus complex, his interest in Moses and the Jewish religion, and his travels to Athens and Rome.Armstrong shows how Freud turned to the ancient world to deal with the challenges posed by his own scientific ambitions and how these lessons influenced the way he handled psychic “evidence” and formulated the universal application of what were initially isolated clinical truths. Freud’s narrative reconstructions of the past also related to his sense of Jewishness, linking the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis with contemporary central European Jewish culture. Ranging across the breadth of Freud’s work, A Compulsion for Antiquity offers fresh insights into the roots of psychoanalysis and fin de siecle European culture, and makes an important contribution to theburgeoning discipline of mnemohistory.About the Author:Richard H. Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Director, Program in Classical Studies, University of Houston.

A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods $0.99 An Essential Household Reference…Revised and UpdatedWith our culture’s growing interest in organic foods and healthy eating, it is important to understand what food labels mean and to learn how to read between the lines. This completely revised and updated edition of A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives gives you the facts about the safety and side effects of more than 12,000 ingredients–such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs–that end up in food as a result of processing and curing. It tells you what’s safe and what you should leave on the grocery-store shelves.In addition to updated entries that cover the latest medical and scientific research on substances such as food enhancers and preservatives, this must-have guide includes more than 650 new chemicals now commonly used in food. You’ll also find information on modern food-production technologies such as bovine growth hormone and genetically engineered vegetables.Alphabetically organized, cross-referenced, and written in everyday language, this is a precise tool for understanding food labels and knowing which products are best to bring home to your family.