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Conversations with Ron Rash - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Ron Rash - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's history in Appalachia, where most members have worked with their hands as farmers or millworkers. In the Grit Lit or Rough South genre, Rash maintains a prominent place as a skilled craftsman and triple threat, publishing four collections of poetry, six short story collections, and six novels. Though best known as an Appalachian writer, Rash's reach has grown to extend well beyond Appalachia and the American South, spreading to an international audience. Conversations with Ron Rash collects twenty-two interviews with the award-winning author and provides a look into Rash's writing career from his first collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth in 1994 through his 2015 novel, Above the Waterfall . The collection includes four interviews from outside the United States, two of which appear in English for the first time. Spanning sixteen years, these interviews demonstrate the disciplined writing process of an expert writer, Rash's views of literature on a local and a global scale, his profound respect for the craft of the written word, and his ongoing goal to connect with his readers.

DKK 858.00
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The Cool-Kawaii - Thorsten Botz Bornstein - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cool-Kawaii - Thorsten Botz Bornstein - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world''s favorite youth culture; and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute, that is distributed internationally by Japan''s powerful anime industry. The USA and Japan are cultural superpowers and global trendsetters because they make use of two particular concepts that hide complex structures under their simple surfaces and are difficult to define, but continue to fascinate the world: cool and kawaii. The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes these attitudes and explains the intrinsic powers that are leading to a fusion of both aesthetics. Cool and kawaii are expressions set against the oppressive homogenizations that occur within official modern cultures, but they are also catalysts of modernity. Cool and kawaii do not refer us back to a pre-modern ethnic past. Just like the cool African American man has almost no relationship with traditional African ideas about masculinity, the kawaii shôjo is not the personification of the traditional Japanese ideal of the feminine, but signifies an ideological institution of women based on Japanese modernity in the Meiji period, that is, a feminine image based on westernization. At the same time, cool and kawaii do not transport us into a futuristic, impersonal world of hypermodernity based on assumptions of constant modernization. Cool and kawaii stand for another type of modernity, which is not technocratic, but rather "Dandyist" and closely related to the search for human dignity and liberation.

DKK 919.00
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Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards - Marouf A. Hasian - Bog - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press -

Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards - Marouf A. Hasian - Bog - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press -

This book provides academics and lay persons with Kafkaesque readings of our memories of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings in Iraq. The author uses critical analyses of the rise of Blackwater, support for private security firms and private contracting, prosecutorial and defense preparations and the 2014 jury trial to argue that most observers have drastically underestimated the groundswell of support that existed for Erik Prince and many other defenders of military or security outsourcing. This book puts on display the cultural, legal, and political difficulties that confronted those who wanted to try former Blackwater security guards in the name of belated social justice.

DKK 905.00
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Reading Japan Cool - John E. Ingulsrud - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Japan Cool - John E. Ingulsrud - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga—Japanese comics—which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way. In spite of a gradual decline in readership, manga still commands over a third of the publishing output. The volume of manga works that is being produced and has been through history is enormous. There are manga publications that attract readers of all ages and genders. The diversity in content attracts readers well into adulthood. Surveys on reading practices have found that almost all Japanese people read manga or have done so at some point in their lives. The skills of reading manga are learned by readers themselves, but learned in the context of other readers and in tandem with school learning. Manga reading practices are sustained by the practices of other readers, and manga content therefore serves as a topic of conversation for both families and friends. Moreover, manga is one of the largest sources of content for media production in film, television, and video games. Manga literacy, the practices of the readers, the diversity of titles, and the sheer number of works provide the basis for the movement recognized as Japan Cool. Reading Japan Cool is directed at an audience of students of Japanese studies, discourse analysts, educators, parents, and manga readers.

DKK 1016.00
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Risk, Failure, Play - Janet O'shea - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Risk, Failure, Play - Janet O'shea - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Author Janet OâShea shows how play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and demonstrates that physical play, with its immediacy and heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. Risk, Failure, Play also demonstrates the many ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. Risk, Failure, Play intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, as well as theories of play and competition in order to produce insights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us and challenges us to reimagine our social reality.

DKK 1020.00
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Advanced Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines - Jiu Tao Nie - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Advanced Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines - Jiu Tao Nie - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Along with the increasingly important runtime engines pervasive in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a solid presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the Java virtual machine, JavaScript engine and Android execution engine. The community expects to see not only formal algorithm description, but also pragmatic code snippets; to understand not only research topics, but also engineering solutions. This book meets these demands by providing a unique description that combines high level design with low level implementations and academic advanced topics with commercial solutions. This book takes a holistic approach to the design of VM architecture, with contents organized into a consistent framework, introducing topics and algorithms in an easily understood step by step process. It focuses on the critical aspects of VM design, which are often overlooked in other works, such as runtime helpers, stack unwinding and native interface. The algorithms are fully illustrated in figures and implemented in easy to digest code snippets, making the abstract concepts tangible and programmable for system software developers.

DKK 1042.00
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The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro - Jarle Leirpoll - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro - Jarle Leirpoll - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

This book provides you with in-depth knowledge of Premiere Pro, and explains how the software “thinks”. With new skills you can choose the best workflow for your project, and simplify and accelerate your video editing process. All the authors are professional editors and want to know exactly how to cut your film as fast as possible with top quality output. There is invaluable information in The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro that’s not available anywhere else – not even in Adobe’s own manuals. - Advanced workflows for huge speed boosts:Learn why your old workflow is outdated, and how you can edit a lot faster with smarter workflows that automate several steps in the editing process - Learn how custom settings, presets, keyboard shortcuts and templates saves hours of work:Premiere can be customized in many ways that most editors don’t know. By tailoring the software to your needs you save clicks on just about every task - Understand audio smoothing, color grading, motion graphics, and advanced editing techniques:With many traditional jobs now being done by one single person, you need skills in all these disciplines. You’ll learn how, but more importantly why, to do everything. What You''ll Learn: - Choose the best and fastest workflow for every task from "import" all the way to "export" - Make your video look and sound better without spending more time - Working on a 15 sec promo, a 2 minute news story, a 30 minute documentary or a 2 hour feature film? With the knowledge in this book you’ll edit faster, no matter what you’re editing - Understand the technical stuff, like timeline settings, render codecs, color subsampling, export settings, effect controls and monitor settings - Know when to send your clips to other Adobe software, and how to treat them there. Use integration with Audition to fix bad audio, do tracking in After Effects, improve graphics in Photoshop and prepare logos for animation in Illustrator - Master the Premiere Pro timeline, even stacks of timelines, and edit, trim and adjust with ease Who This Book Is For: - Video journalists (and everyone else) will learn how to edit faster and get home in time for dinner. - Bloggers will learn how to make their online video and audio “pop”. - Film cutters will learn how to organize, rough cut and fine tune huge amounts of material effectively and how to output for digital cinema. - Experienced video editors will learn how to deal with multi-track audio and to work faster in every step of the edit. - Marketing people who edit video for social media and web pages will learn simpler ways to make a faster cut. - Teachers in media studies will understand the logic in Premiere Pro, and be better prepared for teaching video editing.

DKK 967.00
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Power and Society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Power and Society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism to consider the intricate social tapestry of one of the most intricate worlds in modern fantasy. Surveying the Discworld’s institutionalised power structures from government and police to civil services, banks and societies, it explores ideas such as language, translation, humour, crowds, community, justice and coercion in the series’ major works. Featuring analyses of novels such as Men at Arms, Equal Rites, Carpe Jugulum, Guards! Guards!, Jingo, Night Watch, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and many more, this collection illuminates how Pratchett juxtaposed his narratives with contemporary reflections on social constructs. Broken down into parts looking at social power dynamics, building and destroying worlds and the power of language, the book offers a much-needed corrective to the dearth of scholarship on one of fantasy literature’s worldbuilding titans.

DKK 936.00
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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II - Raffael Scheck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II - Raffael Scheck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners'' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards created strong demands for equal rights at the end of the war, leading to clashes with a colonial administration eager to reintegrate them into a discriminatory routine.

DKK 858.00
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