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Bad Faith and the Culture War

Pathologies of Colorblindness in Politics, Law, and Civil Society

by Dr. Amien Kacou ...

Bad Faith and the Culture War retraces recent campaigns against “wokeness” to a convergence of colorblind ideologies that insidiously entrench traditional racism beneath a veneer of “common sense.”Probing interconnections between legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou devises an eclectic ... Read more

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Bad Faith and the Culture War retraces recent campaigns against “wokeness” to a convergence of colorblind ideologies that insidiously entrench traditional racism beneath a veneer of “common sense.”Probing interconnections between legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou devises an eclectic
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A Queer Bestiary

Non/Humans in Contemporary U.S. Literature

by Dr. Christopher Lloyd ...

The slippery and mutable boundaries between humans and nonhumans are frequently figured queerly in twenty-first-century U.S. literature. This innovative book examines the ways that nonhumans are brought into intimate, estranging contact with humans in contemporary novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction. Through detailed attention to a selection of real and imagined flora, fauna, and other ... Read more

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The slippery and mutable boundaries between humans and nonhumans are frequently figured queerly in twenty-first-century U.S. literature. This innovative book examines the ways that nonhumans are brought into intimate, estranging contact with humans in contemporary novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction. Through detailed attention to a selection of real and imagined flora, fauna, and other
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Algorithmic Justice

Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Criminal Justice

by Carl E. Dement Jr., Dr. Melissa A. Smith ...

Series series Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
While AI-assisted tools promise greater efficiency, consistency, and accuracy in criminal justice, they also introduce ethical, procedural, and epistemological challenges demanding careful oversight.Carl E. Dement Jr. and Melissa A. Smith investigate the rapidly evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the written narratives that shape the criminal justice process. Drawing on ... Read more

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While AI-assisted tools promise greater efficiency, consistency, and accuracy in criminal justice, they also introduce ethical, procedural, and epistemological challenges demanding careful oversight.Carl E. Dement Jr. and Melissa A. Smith investigate the rapidly evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the written narratives that shape the criminal justice process. Drawing on
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Constructed Victimhood

A Pathway to Mainstreaming Hate on Social Media

by Dr Carmen Celestini ...

Carmen Celestini analyzes social media posts from both mainstream and alternative platforms to demonstrate how “anti-woke” extremists in Canada capitalize on perceived injustices to co-opt a fabricated social identity of victimhood, both online and off.Using a networked thematic analysis framework, Celestini examines posts from white, Christian Canadian nationalist and far-right social media ... Read more

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Carmen Celestini analyzes social media posts from both mainstream and alternative platforms to demonstrate how “anti-woke” extremists in Canada capitalize on perceived injustices to co-opt a fabricated social identity of victimhood, both online and off.Using a networked thematic analysis framework, Celestini examines posts from white, Christian Canadian nationalist and far-right social media
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Dedicated to Art

The Story of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

by Prof. or Dr. Lisa Lipinski ...

Dedicated to Art: The Story of the Corcoran Gallery of Art is the first complete biography of one of the country's oldest and most venerable art institutions told through the lives of its people. The story begins with the founder William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), the middle son of Irish immigrants who made his fortune in finance and banking and amassed a notable fine art collection for which he ... Read more

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Dedicated to Art: The Story of the Corcoran Gallery of Art is the first complete biography of one of the country's oldest and most venerable art institutions told through the lives of its people. The story begins with the founder William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), the middle son of Irish immigrants who made his fortune in finance and banking and amassed a notable fine art collection for which he
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Now or Never!

A History of the First Scottish Devolution Referendum

by Dr Tom Chidwick ...

On 1 March 1979, voters went to the polls in Scotland's first national referendum to decide whether to establish a Scottish Assembly, nearly three centuries after the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament in 1707. Held just two months before the general election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, the referendum was Scotland's first opportunity to determine the constitutional question that ... Read more

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On 1 March 1979, voters went to the polls in Scotland's first national referendum to decide whether to establish a Scottish Assembly, nearly three centuries after the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament in 1707. Held just two months before the general election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, the referendum was Scotland's first opportunity to determine the constitutional question that
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Cesare Pavese’s Film Treatments for the Dowling Sisters

Translations, Correspondence, Interviews, and the Film That Never Was

by Dr. Mark Pietralunga, Dr. Lawrence G. Smith ...

Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
A landmark and critical edition presenting the English translations of Cesare Pavese's film treatments for the first time along with complete correspondences with Hollywood actresses the Dowling Sisters and unearthed interviews.Offering a comprehensive collection of Cesare Pavese's film treatments, this volume includes the previously unpublished English translation of The Serpent and the Dove, ... Read more

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A landmark and critical edition presenting the English translations of Cesare Pavese's film treatments for the first time along with complete correspondences with Hollywood actresses the Dowling Sisters and unearthed interviews.Offering a comprehensive collection of Cesare Pavese's film treatments, this volume includes the previously unpublished English translation of The Serpent and the Dove,
... Read more
Feminist Apocalypse

Representations of Women and Gender in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

by Dr Ezekiel Crago ...

Feminist Apocalypse explores how the post-apocalypse is best seen as a narrative mode rather than genre, and its use in cinematic narrative began in the 1950s, largely fueled by the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation.In this book, Ezekiel Crago argues early post-apocalyptic films were primarily concerned with the plight of their usually white male protagonist, but this changed in the 1980s, ... Read more

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Feminist Apocalypse explores how the post-apocalypse is best seen as a narrative mode rather than genre, and its use in cinematic narrative began in the 1950s, largely fueled by the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation.In this book, Ezekiel Crago argues early post-apocalyptic films were primarily concerned with the plight of their usually white male protagonist, but this changed in the 1980s,
... Read more
The New High Protein Diet

The bestselling weight loss plan, featuring easy, healthy recipes

by Dr Charles Clark, Maureen Clark ...

Make weight-loss easy with the bestselling, medically-based diet plan, featuring hundreds of healthy, high-protein recipes!To lose weight quickly, easily and permanently, you don't need superhuman willpower, endless hours to prepare complex low-calorie recipes, or to live on cottage cheese and lettuce.Instead, The New High Protein Diet lays out an easy-to-follow, medically-based diet plan to help ... Read more

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Make weight-loss easy with the bestselling, medically-based diet plan, featuring hundreds of healthy, high-protein recipes!To lose weight quickly, easily and permanently, you don't need superhuman willpower, endless hours to prepare complex low-calorie recipes, or to live on cottage cheese and lettuce.Instead, The New High Protein Diet lays out an easy-to-follow, medically-based diet plan to help
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Fictitious Countries in Media

by Dr Melissa Beattie ...

Melissa Beattie explores the promises and pitfalls of fabricated nations as a setting and subject of fictional narratives, interrogating the methods and motivations of their creation and, more importantly, who they purport to represent.Drawing upon aesthetics, industrial analyses, and postcolonial theory, Beattie argues that in (re)combining elements of real nations into constructed ones, we ... Read more

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Melissa Beattie explores the promises and pitfalls of fabricated nations as a setting and subject of fictional narratives, interrogating the methods and motivations of their creation and, more importantly, who they purport to represent.Drawing upon aesthetics, industrial analyses, and postcolonial theory, Beattie argues that in (re)combining elements of real nations into constructed ones, we
... Read more
Ethical and Practical Challenges in Photojournalism

Photojournalists on Edge

by Dr, Prof Yung Soo Kim ...

Professional photojournalist-turned-scholar Yung Soo Kim unpacks the ethical and practical challenges that photojournalists – and photojournalism as an industry – must continually negotiate in their commitment to uphold and circulate reliable information.As the evolution and accessibility of digital technologies continue to skyrocket in the 21st century, both the authority and authenticity of ... Read more

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Professional photojournalist-turned-scholar Yung Soo Kim unpacks the ethical and practical challenges that photojournalists – and photojournalism as an industry – must continually negotiate in their commitment to uphold and circulate reliable information.As the evolution and accessibility of digital technologies continue to skyrocket in the 21st century, both the authority and authenticity of
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Insurgent Infrastructure

Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Young Lords

by Dr, Prof Eric Manuel Rodriguez ...

Eric Manuel Rodriguez argues that revolutionary rhetoric operates as insurgent infrastructure rather than symbolic performance.Examining the Young Lords, a revolutionary nationalist organization forged from conditions of colonial displacement, racial capitalism, and urban neglect, this book argues that rhetorical studies requires recalibration to account for rhetoric's material dimensions and its ... Read more

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Eric Manuel Rodriguez argues that revolutionary rhetoric operates as insurgent infrastructure rather than symbolic performance.Examining the Young Lords, a revolutionary nationalist organization forged from conditions of colonial displacement, racial capitalism, and urban neglect, this book argues that rhetorical studies requires recalibration to account for rhetoric's material dimensions and its
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