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This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

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Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitioners with an introduction and conclusion by Professors Peter Laufer and Christian Ruggiero.

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This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.

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This bookasks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.

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The book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.

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Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights.

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This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Framptons Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Framptons historiography of modern architecture.

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Popular song is an artform which reaches far beyond the music itself, and in order to fully appreciate its impact, the modern critic needs to analyse the elements that we find outside the song as well as those they find within i

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This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.

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This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.

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Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man's replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism.

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As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.

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This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.

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Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal levels of authority.

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A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.

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This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.

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Regimes of Happiness is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

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Governing cross-border data flows is inherently difficult given the ubiquity and value of data, and the impact government policies can have on business, innovation and societal interests. This book engages with the unexplored topic of why and how governments should develop a coherent and consistent framework regulating cross-border data flows.

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Forget events as one-off experiences, and organizers purely organizing events.Welcome to a new world, where events build communities and nurture relationships all year round all with event technology at its core. Featuring dozens of practical case studies, this book will help event professionals or anyone looking to enter the future of the liveevents industry.