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Operators vs Quantifiers

Operators vs Quantifiers

In this volume seven experts in logic and semantics examine reasons for using the intensional operator approach over the variable binding approach and vice versa. In logic and semantics there are two alternative tools that can be applied to many types of embedding phrases (modal temporal etc): the intensional operator approach and the variable binding approach. A rivalry between operators and quantifiers occurs in many areas of semantics: e. g. tense modality locational operators epistemic modality. There are areas where the operator approach dominates and areas where quantifiers prevail. Sometimes as in the case of tense roles have switched and where one approach used to dominate the other has taken over. This volume features contributions from leading experts in the field that examine the following questions: what exactly is at stake in a choice between the alternatives? are there any principled reasons for deciding which approach to use in which case? should we be purists and eliminate one approach completely in favour of the other? Operators vs Quantifiers will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of philosophy linguistics computer science and mathematics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Inquiry.

GBP 130.00
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Black Women in Politics Identity Power and Justice in the New Millennium

Black Women in Politics Identity Power and Justice in the New Millennium

The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections public policy and social activism. Their challenges and initiatives are explored in public spaces institutional behaviours and public policy. The volume features cutting-edge research exploring black women's political engagement. The first group of contributors interrogates the treatment of black women within the discipline of political science. The second group examines the relationship between cultural politics and policymaking. The third and final group outlines the politics of race-gendered identity and black feminist practice. Black Women in Politics includes chapters on black leadership radical versus moderate politics in New Orleans and the Shelby vs. Holder Supreme Court decision. The editors introduce a new series highlighting trends in black politics. Finally the work notes the passing of William (Nick) Nelson and Hanes Walton Jr. prominent members of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. | Black Women in Politics Identity Power and Justice in the New Millennium

GBP 145.00
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Mightier than the Sword How the News Media Have Shaped American History

Mightier than the Sword How the News Media Have Shaped American History

In this engaging examination of the media's influence on US history and politics Rodger Streitmatter visits sixteen landmark episodes from the American Revolution to the present-day fight for gay and lesbian marriage equality. In each of these cases Streitmatter succinctly illustrates the enormous role that journalism has played in not merely recording this nation's history but also in actively shaping it. Mightier than the Sword offers students and professors a highly readable and accessible alternative to journalism history textbooks. Instead of trying to document every detail in the development of US media through dry dull lists of names dates and headlines this book focuses on sixteen discrete episodes that illustrate a point that is much larger than the sum of their parts: media have played and continue to play an enormous role in shaping this nation. The fourth edition features an entirely new chapter on the way US media have championed various gay and lesbian rights initiatives from the 2003 Lawrence vs. Texas sodomy case through the June 2013 Supreme Court decision striking down DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act). Balancing criticism and celebration of news media and exploring both print and electronic platforms Mightier than the Sword provides students with a sense of the power and responsibility inherent in the institution of journalism. | Mightier than the Sword How the News Media Have Shaped American History

GBP 130.00
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Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema Screening Composite Spaces

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema Screening Composite Spaces

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i. e. composite spaces) in the context of the growing ubiquitousness of digital media and culture. Bringing together a range of key cinematic texts the book examines how these films represent composite space by depicting—often subtly and without explicit reference to technology—what it feels like to live in a world of ubiquitous digital media. The book explores composite spaces through the striking use of elements like colour symbolic graphics and music and covers topics like: music as mediator between levels of experience/perception in visionary films such as Sucker Punch (2011) and Spring Breakers (2012); digital colour as an interface in films including Under the Skin (2013); the integration of digital graphical elements drawn from game spaces into material spaces in films such as Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) and Nerve (2016); and films that take place on a computer screen including 2020’s widely discussed Zoom-produced pandemic horror film Host. Through the close analysis of these films the book offers fresh perspectives on conceptual issues of embodiment digital agency and subjectivity. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and scholars in the fields of film studies digital aesthetics and film theory digital culture and digital media. | Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema Screening Composite Spaces

GBP 130.00
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The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet each of these dynamics is gendered with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. Silly Lady Novelists are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius. | The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

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Foundations of Political Sociology

Foundations of Political Sociology

When initially published in 1972 Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides a cross-fertilization of knowledge concerning the interrelation of social class and political power. Taking into account new specializations in social theory the book covers all major social systems on a comparative international basis. The opening remarks prepared for this new printing provide an estimate of how the field has changed during the past quarter century and what unexpected challenges have arisen in areas of public trust and personal privacy. This book examines fascism communism anarchism conservatism and liberalism as systems of rule as well as domains of theory. It is thus a unique effort at linking problems of history with problems of policy. The six sections of the book detail the historical and theoretical antecedents of this relatively new hybrid area in social research: policy coordinates of political sociology types of social systems forms of political ideologies polarities of revolution and counter-revolution civil-military relations mass vs. elite contradictions and threads of consensus and conflict running through these themes. Horowitz presents as his central thesis that in today's world no economic determinism can do justice to social reality. Foundations is the work of a politically sensitive and knowledgeable scholar. Louis Schneider Social ForcesFoundations of Political Sociology reflects extensive teaching and research in the area of political sociology. The book combines analytical insight with a provocative cutting edge and represents the best of Professor Horowitz. Thomas R. McFaul The AnnalsHorowitz's political stance is interesting. Though he knows the radical literature he distances himself from it. He sympathizes with everyone and strives to be provocative and yet elusive a personal voice in a dogmatic discipline. W. J. M. Mackenzie Political Studies

GBP 130.00
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Remodelling to Prepare for Independence The Philippine Commonwealth Decolonisation Cities and Public Works c. 1935–46

Remodelling to Prepare for Independence The Philippine Commonwealth Decolonisation Cities and Public Works c. 1935–46

Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth Decolonisation Cities and Public Works c. 1935–46 illuminates the implications of the USA’s final phase of colonial rule in the Philippine Islands. It explores the Filipino side of decolonisation and the management of the built environment in the years immediately prior to self-rule. This book shakes off the collaboration vs. resistance paradigm that empire histories generally follow and consequently yields an original vantage point to comprehend transition within an Asian society in the years immediately prior to during and after World War Two. This will not only deepen insight of the American Empire but also grants the opportunity to tie Philippine political-cultural change to the global history of urban planning’s advancement. Accordingly it opens a new window to rethink Filipino ethno-history and societal evolution alongside the opportunity to compare the Philippines with other nations that undertook planning projects as part of their decolonisation process and early-postcolonial advancement. The book utilises theoretical frames in order to help creatively excavate the era 1935–46 for the purpose of not just revealing what public works occurred but to also uncover what those projects meant to the Commonwealth Government the BPW’s staff and the public who benefitted from public works projects. The book will be relevant to students and researchers of Urban History Asian and American (Empire) History and Imperial and Colonial Studies. Architects planners and members of the public who are interested in the form and meaning of urban environments designed/constructed in the past will also find the publication to be of great interest. | Remodelling to Prepare for Independence The Philippine Commonwealth Decolonisation Cities and Public Works c. 1935–46

GBP 130.00
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The European Digital Economy Drivers of Digital Transition and Economic Recovery

The European Digital Economy Drivers of Digital Transition and Economic Recovery

The “digital economy” is a conceptual umbrella referring to markets organizations and their networks that are based on digital technologies communication data processing and e-commerce. It is multidimensional and its dynamic structure must be analysed from various dimensions such as economic – changes in the nature of resources production factors and economic processes; technological – technological progress viewed from a macroeconomic perspective vs. technological innovation viewed from a microeconomic perspective; regulatory – challenges facing regulators new risks affecting the institutional order; and sociological – changes in society’s functioning principles attitudes towards work and human relations. The purpose of this book is to analyse the effectiveness of digital technologies as well as the fundamental factors that contribute to technological progress in the long run. It also examines structural and qualitative shifts in economies and societies. It investigates many research questions such as the gap between the level of digital economic development in European Union countries; digital transformation and its impact on workplace skills development patterns; and also the legal framework for data as resource. The book approaches these issues from a multidisciplinary perspective from law to economics and sociology. It focuses on definitional discussions the measurement challenges drivers for digital transition the impact on labour relations digital skills and education data reuse and data extractivism. This is a comprehensive introduction to the different contexts from which the digital economy can be addressed offering an innovative method for studying this complex phenomenon and as such it will be a valuable resource for students scholars and researchers across a range of disciplines. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The European Digital Economy Drivers of Digital Transition and Economic Recovery

GBP 130.00
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Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC (In)dependence Cha Cha Cha?

Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC (In)dependence Cha Cha Cha?

This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and examines international criminal law (ICL) vs the black body through an immersive format of art music poetry and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach the book interrogates the operationalisation of the Rome Statute to detail a Eurocentric hegemony at the core of ICL. It explores how colonialism and slavery have come to shape ICL exposing the perpetuation of the colonial and warns that it has ominous contemporary and future implications for Africa. As currently envisaged and acted out at the ICC this law is founded on deceptive and colonial ideas of ‘what is wrong’ in/with the world. The book finds that the contemporary ICL regime is founded on white supremacy that corrupts the law’s interaction with the African. The African is but a unit utilised by the global elite to exploit and extract resources. From time to time these alliances disintegrate with ICL becoming a retaliatory tool of choice. What is at stake is power not justice. This power has been hierarchical with Eurocentrism at the top throughout modern history. Colonialism is seen not to have ended but to have regerminated through the foundation of the ‘independent’ African state. The ICC reproduces the colonial by use of European law and ultimately the over-representation of the black accused. To conclude the book provides a liberated African forum that can address conflicts in the content with a call for the end of the ICC’s involvement in Africa. The demand is made for an African court that utilises non-colonising African norms which are uniquely suited to address local conflicts. Multidisciplinary in nature this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international criminal law criminal justice human rights law African studies global social justice sociology anthropology postcolonial studies and philosophy. | Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC (In)dependence Cha Cha Cha?

GBP 120.00
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A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology Culture and Society in Transition

A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology Culture and Society in Transition

The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social environments seem uncertain. As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century the authors have successfully incorporated these nuances with many important updates on race and racism Black Lives Matter the rise of populist politics ISIS new social media feminist perspectives on sex work trans and non-gender conforming identities and more. New to this edition: New data text box examples photos exercises study questions and glossary terms appear throughout. New discussions added of arts-based and participatory approaches to research historical changes in the perception of deviance legalization of marijuana; Islam vs. secularism in France new forms of socialization heteronormative and essentialist language related to sex and gender intersections of social class and other identities the prison industrial complex informal sharing economies atheism and more. New text boxes include: Young Saudis Find Freedom in their Phones How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life School-to-Prison Pipeline India’s Reproductive Assembly Line Workers Feel Pain of Layoffs Like Prohibition the fight over guns is about something else Micro-aggression and Changing Moral Cultures Praise for A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology Treats sociology as a living vibrant discipline. The book is a masterful synthesis written in a style that is at once sophisticated engaging and accessible. —Peter Kivisto Augustana College Alexander and Thompson have produced the modern textbook we have all been waiting for—comprehensive and coherent but above all intelligent. Designed to make teaching sociology unproblematic the book is the ideal combination of theory evidence and accessibility. —Bryan S. Turner editor of The Cambridge Dictionary of SociologySets new standards in speaking directly to students of the most significant recent developments in sociology and social changes they are living. It shows how inspiring the sociological imagination can be in areas like media sexuality gender relations inequality and globalization. —Lyn Spillman University of Notre DameA truly contemporary sociology one that mines the classics of sociology for insights into a profoundly changed postmodern world. Most important the book reminds us of sociology’s capacity to surprise. —Francesca Polletta University of California–IrvineAn extraordinary textbook that synthesizes a wealth of sociological studies. The book is engaging and readable key concepts are clearly defined and important theories are succinctly explicated. I highly recommend it to students and faculty alike. —William Julius Wilson Harvard University | A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology Culture and Society in Transition

GBP 115.00
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