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The Netflix Effect examines the scope and influence of Netflix, a company at the forefront of the changing relationships between media and technology.

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The significance of feasts, feasting and drinking throughout the history of the world is not to be underestimated. The Never-Ending Feast explores and analyses the variety of traditions surrounding and significances ascribed to commensality, throwing light on how and why human history is essentially the story of the never-ending feast.

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The significance of feasts, feasting and drinking throughout the history of the world is not to be underestimated. The Never-Ending Feast explores and analyses the variety of traditions surrounding and significances ascribed to commensality, throwing light on how and why human history is essentially the story of the never-ending feast.

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The New Cinematic Weird analyzes the role that creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres play in recent films of this genre. The author shows how the new cinematic weird elicits joy by creating weird atmospheres as affective intensities that are to be experienced rather than understood.

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The purpose of this tudy was to measure how well diagnostic related groupings (DRGs) perform as length of stay predictors. This study performed a length of stay analysis on the 44,546 patient discharge abstracts from the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York in 1980.

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A young British woman defines, or redefines, feminism, and sets the agenda for the 21st century.

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This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century.

Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories.

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Because the mere propensity to receive public assistance is only one aspect of the welfare burden imposed by a particular group, the author also examines the absolute amount of public assistance received.

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Place of publication taken from publisher's website.

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A controversial look at how the failure of most of the poor to work at all has transformed American politics, by a New York University political scientist who is a leading advocate of workfare programs.

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Dealing with issues of race and identifying new racial realities, this work examines the white backlash to affirmative action, the organizational structure of affirmative action, the impact of social networks on occupational mobility, and upward mobility and minority neighbourhoods.

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The articles in this volume will stimulate a new effulgence of ideas and a new flurry of research in the social science disciplines.

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The New Southern European Diaspora: Youth, Unemployment, and Migration uses a qualitative and ethnographic approach to investigate the movement of young adults from Spain, Portugal, and Italy to more economically stable countries.

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The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyses a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream citizens and sees higher education as a threat to achieving its goals. In doing so, Michael H. Gavin provides a tool, The Nostalgia Spectrum, to examine American racism within the text.

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An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age.

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Focusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures such as electric energy, computer systems, and the chemical and food industries.

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Some of the freshest and bravest thinking about government in decades.

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A superb book . useful reading not only for those concerned about health in Nicaragua but also for anyone concerned about the transformation of health care programs througout the world. for courses in medical and political anthropology, international health, and health education, as well as for health professionals in the international arena.

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