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Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Rich with illustrations this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority gender seduction (the sexy look the alluring look the glamorous look the vulnerable look) wealth and beauty youth and health and leisure and political hierarchy. Taken together the chapters offer to the student and the general reader a complete semiotics of clothing in a form that is highly readable very entertaining and thoroughly informative. The illustrations provide fascinating glimpses into the history of American fashion and clothing-along with their antecedents in Europe-as well as a fine collection of images from the more familiar world of contemporary America. Rubinstein has identified six distinct categories of dress in American society upon which Dress Codes is based. Clothing signs were instituted by those in authority have one meaning indicate behavior and are required attire (police uniforms or the clothing of ministers and priests); ?clothing symbols on the other hand reflect the achievement of cultural values?wealth beauty you and health. The wearing of clothing symbols?designer clothing or jewelry?may have several meanings; '`'clothing tie-signs ? which are specific types of clothing that indicate membership in a community outside mainstream culture (Hasidic Amish or Hare Krishna attire). They were instituted by those in authority have one meaning they indicate expected behavior and are required attire; ?clothing tie symbols? emanate from hopes fears and dreams of particular groups. They include trendy styles such as hip-hop hippie and gothic. Another category ?contemporary fashion ? reflects consumer sentiments and the political and economic forces of the period. ?Personal dress ? refers to the I component we bring in when dressing the public self (bowtie dramatic or artistic at | Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

GBP 175.00
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Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

First published in 1989 Combating Long-Term Unemployment follows on from and is a companion to Local Authorities and New Technologies. The book seeks to inform debate by analysing policy responses to the problem of long-term unemployment and by focusing on the role of local initiatives in a European context. Long-term unemployment in Europe is a complicated and multifaceted problem the policy responses to which need to be studied against various contexts. It is designed to appeal to all those interested in policies to combat long-term unemployment: local and central government officials private sector organizations whose work is relevant to locally based initiatives and interested academics. | Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E. C. Relations

GBP 90.00
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Long-Term Monitoring and Research in Asian University Forests Understanding Environmental Changes and Ecosystem Responses

Long-Term Monitoring and Research in Asian University Forests Understanding Environmental Changes and Ecosystem Responses

This book disseminates various long-term data and research results from university forests in Asia towards realizing adaptive forest management and conservation based on a comprehensive understanding of environmental changes and ecological responses. University forests - which refer to large forested areas owned or controlled by universities and devoted primarily to research and teaching programs in forest-related sciences - have collected managed and analyzed long-term meteorological hydrological biological and geographic data under an organizationally stable observation system. With the influence of global warming becoming apparent and extreme weather events occurring more frequently in the region it is an important and urgent challenge to understand long-term environmental and ecosystem changes in forests and provide robust scientific knowledge on how ecosystems respond to those changes. This book is a step towards addressing the challenge. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Forest Research. | Long-Term Monitoring and Research in Asian University Forests Understanding Environmental Changes and Ecosystem Responses

GBP 130.00
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British Shareholder Meetings in the Long Nineteenth Century

British Shareholder Meetings in the Long Nineteenth Century

This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800 and 1920 provides scholars and students new insight into the development of big businesses in the world today. Although such meetings comprised only one of many facets of companies’ intersections with their publics during the nineteenth century they regularly provide a rich insight into each industry. This collection offers a breadth of examples including utilities land companies and theatres as well as mining insurance banking and transport to allow readers to gain a sense of the protean nature of incorporation during the long nineteenth century. Following a general introduction the book is divided into four sections: Doing the Business (on day-to-day financial operations) Politics (on corporate activities than intersected with British political and imperial concerns) Failure (on the communication and reception of financial ruin) and Mergers and Acquisitions (on shareholders’ responses to proposed mergers). Short introductions to each document provides the necessary information about each company and its constituents. This title will be of great interest to students of History Business and Finance. | British Shareholder Meetings in the Long Nineteenth Century

GBP 110.00
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Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

In 1944 the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire’s highest literary award Novel of the Year. Then at the peak of her popularity Mei Niang published in Japanese-owned Chinese-language journals and newspapers in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) Japan and north China. Contemporaries lauded her writings especially for introducing liberalism to Manchuria’s literary world. In Maoist China however Mei Niang was condemned as a traitor and a Rightist with her life and career torn to shreds until her formal vindication in the late 1970s. In 1997 Mei Niang was named one of Modern China's 100 Writers. The collection that is translated in this volume Xiaojie ji (Young lady’s collection) was published in 1936 when she was 19 years old. Long thought forever lost in the violence of China’s civil war and Maoist strife the collection was only re-discovered in 2019. This is the first book-length English-language translation of the work of this high-profile prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China. Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings will appeal to those interested in Chinese literature the Japanese Empire historic fiction history women’s/gender history and students in undergraduate and graduate level courses. To date English-language volumes of translated Chinese literature have rarely focused on Manchukuo’s Chinese writers or centered on those who left the puppet state by1935. This volume fills an important historical lacuna – a teenaged Chinese woman’s views of life and literature in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. | Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

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Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long nineteenth-century the volumes consider how scientific social and cultural experiences with drugs alcohol addiction gambling and prostitution varied around the world. What might be considered vice or addiction could be interpreted in various ways through various lenses and such activities were interpreted differently depending upon the observer: the medical practitioner; the evangelical missionary; the thrill seeking bon-vivant and the concerned government commissioner to name but a few. For example opium addiction in middle class households resulting from medical treatment was judged much differently than Chinese opium smoking by those in poverty or poor living conditions in North American work camps on the west coast or on the streets of Soho. This collection will assemble key documents representing both the official and general view of these various activities providing readers with a cross section of interpretations and a solid grounding in the material that shaped policy change cultural interpretation and social action. | Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

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Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of 19th century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient medieval modern as well as on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political cultural economic and social changes of the era this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th century history and the history of coins. | Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

GBP 120.00
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Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient medieval and modern numismatics and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political cultural economic and social changes of the era this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins. | Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

GBP 120.00
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Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

This book is a collection of case studies that provides fresh insights into the history of political activism in Europe’s long 1970s. It covers the full spectrum of such groups from the far left to the neofascist right and from the various parts of Europe including East and West. The chapters in this book push the boundaries of our knowledge with regard to transnational spaces. For many political activists at the time identifying with a ‘transnational’ or ‘global’ protest movement provided both legitimacy for their claims and stood for the promise of sweeping change. Existing research has often reproduced such perceptions. This book goes beyond such an approach by distinguishing between different forms of transnational spaces. More specifically it recognizes important differences between imagined spaces of solidarity and belonging spaces of knowledge circulation and spaces of social experience and political action. Each chapter uses this new framework and analyses the interrelationship and significance of each of these three spaces. Beyond Transnationalism will be of particular interest to historians political scientists and educators. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History. | Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

GBP 120.00
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British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II - Regulating Nature and Conquering Nature

British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II - Regulating Nature and Conquering Nature

This collection of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines the ways in which environmental issues were managed artistically and socially as well as politically. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history. | British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II - Regulating Nature and Conquering Nature

GBP 110.00
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

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A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government interviews and first-hand personal experiences Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939 only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church - and parishes reopened new clergy and bishops were consecrated a patriarch was elected and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However after Stalin's death Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years including schisms in Ukraine Estonia and Moldova and confrontations between church traditionalists conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics Roman Catholics Protestant evangelists and pagans in the south and east the canonization of the last Czar the church's financial crisis and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility. | A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

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The Long Shadow of the Border Migrants Brokers and European Border Governance in Africa

The Long Shadow of the Border Migrants Brokers and European Border Governance in Africa

This book delves beyond the spectacular images of African migrants struggling to scale border fences or cross the Mediterranean in unseaworthy rubber dinghies by unpacking the policies and emerging practices that shape contemporary border governance in the expanding EU–African borderlands. For decades Africa has been the scene of a wide range of European interventions aimed at restraining irregularised migration to Europe creating an accelerated moment of control and confinement. Today the externalisation of Europe’s borders into Africa encompasses agreements on the return of migrants securitised border operations and projects under the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. At a time when safe and legal mobility is limited and the human social and political conditions of African migrants are severely challenged this book emphasises how European efforts are both assisted but also resisted by local actors with agendas of their own. Based on ethnographic fieldwork the different contributions vividly portray how African lives continue to be shaped by Europe’s desire to contain and govern human mobility and how dominant spatial geopolitics are contested on various levels. This book will be of particular value to students and researchers interested in African studies International Politics Border Governance Anthropology Human Geography and Global Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics. | The Long Shadow of the Border Migrants Brokers and European Border Governance in Africa

GBP 130.00
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

This collection opens with marginalized responses to the highly politicized Cinderella traditions in the Anglophone world. In the United States Cinderella was incorporated into the gendered narrative of the American Dream and narratives of empire in the colonial world particularly in the mid-1800s. Marginalized writers have responded to these nationalistic colonial traditions in two distinctive ways: clever Cinderellas who negotiate a broken system or passive Cinderellas who die as anti-heroes in disenchanting fairy tales. This dual tradition of marginalized Cinderellas is also apparent across the Anglophone world. Potential texts include the out-of-print works of Sinèad de Valera excerpts from the novels of Hannah Crafts Jessie Fauset and Julia Kavanagh along with dramas by Ann Devlin and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

GBP 110.00
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Style Bible What to Wear to Work

Style Bible What to Wear to Work

First impressions (and second ones!) count whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry she addresses the basics of fashion and executive presence by offering advice anecdotes and style alerts that help readers avoid major fashion faux pas at the office. Style Bible: What to Wear to Work is the must-have resource for the modern professional male or female climbing the ladder of success. Lauren identifies the ultimate wardrobe essentials and reveals shopping strategies and destinations for the everyday person. Style Bible complete with helpful illustrations is the go-to manual on how to dress for every professional occasion and a valuable resource for understanding dress codes by industry city and gender so that your visual cues will make a strong impact. Make a commitment to being better dressed at work with Style Bible. | Style Bible What to Wear to Work

GBP 175.00
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Approaching Pilgrimage Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes Sites and Practices

Approaching Pilgrimage Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes Sites and Practices

This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research and to define its key methodological approaches and problems. Pilgrimage studies has long been influenced by such academic disciplines as anthropology and this volume considers the new insights that pilgrimage studies can offer to these disciplinary fields. Bringing together experienced pioneers and a younger generation of pilgrimage scholars the chapters address the directions contemporary pilgrimage research is taking and how it is developing into the future. Covering topics like digital pilgrimage multi-site pilgrimages and long-term ethnography with examples from Europe the Middle East and Japan this is an important resource for all researchers engaging with pilgrimage. | Approaching Pilgrimage Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes Sites and Practices

GBP 130.00
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The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

On September 11 2001 a small number of desperate men hoping to earn paradise attacked New York and Washington D. C. Their spectacular acts of destruction concluded America's nearly decade-long vacation from insecurity known as the post-Cold War era. As eras go this one was short and it certainly ended with a bang not a whimper. The United States still sole superpower was now challenged by a bleak new world. Americans do not care for the bleak and do not tolerate it for long. Predictably national shock soon became righteous anger coupled to international campaigns against groups and states held responsible for the scourge of terrorism. These were short-term measures that hurt our enemies but did not fix the problem. Not long after these events the Foreign Policy Research Institute organized a new Center on Terrorism Counterterrorism and Homeland Security. Its purpose was to take a longer term view of the terrorism problem and what might be done about it-not only academic research but also policy suggestions. This book contains a broad selection of the Center's output including essays on American strategy homeland security knowing the enemy and the military dimension. A notable feature is the discussion of the educational issue: what and how to teach our children about terrorism. | The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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