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 Strenuous Decades: Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia (Social and Cultural Changes in China) by Choi, Chi-cheung English | March 21, 2022 | ISBN: 3110673444 | 300 pages | PDF | 18 MB The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably changes the social and economic lives of people in these port cities and, subsequently, of their fellow compatriots farther inland. Studies of port cities have focused on the interactive political and economic relationship between trading centers. The center of attention in this book is socioeconomic life and cultural identity, which are shaped by the movement of goods, people, knowledge, and information, particularly when the community faces a crisis.
 Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust By Diego Gambetta, Heather Hamill 2005 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0871543095 | PDF | 26 MB A taxi driver's life is dangerous work. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In "Streetwise," Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person's character or intent. Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region's sectarian violence. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, "Streetwise" lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger. The drivers' decisions about whom to trust are treated in conjunction with the "sign-management" strategies of their prospective passengers-both genuine passengers who try to persuade drivers of their trustworthiness and the villains who mimic them. As the theory that guides this research suggests, drivers look for signs that correlate closely with trustworthiness but are difficult for an impostor to mimic. A smile, a business suit, or a skullcap alone do not reassure drivers, as any criminal could easily wear them. Only if attached to other signs-a middle-aged woman, a business address, or a synagogue-are they persuasive. Drivers are adept at deciphering deceitful signals, but trickery is occasionally undetectable, so they must adopt defensive strategies to minimize their exposure to harm. In Belfast, where! drivers are locals and often have histories of paramilitary involvement, "macho" posturing often serves to deter would-be criminals, while New York cabbies, mostly immigrants who view themselves as outsiders, try simply to minimize the damage from attacks by appeasing robbers and carrying only small amounts of cash. For most people, erring in a trust decision leads to a broken heart or a few dollars lost. For cab drivers, such an error could mean losing their lives. The way drivers negotiate these high stakes offers us vivid insight into how to determine another person's trustworthiness. Written with clarity and color, "Streetwise" invites the reader to ride shotgun with cabbies as they grapple with a question of relevance to us all: which signs of trustworthiness can we really trust?  Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later by Howard Zehr, Barb Toews English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 162097648X | 176 pages | True EPUB | 60.87 MB Side-by-side, time-lapse photos and interviews, separated by twenty-five years, of people serving life sentences in prison, by the bestselling author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice
 Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance: An Empirical Study of Male Identities in Western Theatrical Dance Training By Doug Risner, Ramsay Burt 2009 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0773446613 | PDF | 6 MB This study investigates the competitive world of pre-professional Western concert dance training and education in the United States as experienced and lived by boys and young men, an under-represented population in the field. This work examines the discourses of professional dance preparation through theoretical and narrative approaches that elucidate the highly gendered professional dance world as evidenced through the minds and bodies of male adolescents and young adults. Dance, its training and social meanings, has a rich history and long-time associations with gender and gender roles in world culture. While dance in some cultures is seen as an appropriate activity and valid vocation for males, the dominant Western paradigm positions concert dance as a predominantly "female" activity and art form. Encouraging male participation has historically involved well intentioned but frequently heterosexist approaches that idealize noteworthy heterosexual male dancers, focus on masculinist comparisons between male athletes (presumably heterosexual) and male dancers, and encourage greater male participation by minimizing or ignoring the significant population of gay males in dance. The study's substantial social implications about gender, femininity, masculinity, homophobia, sexual orientation, gendered bodies, and child culture will appeal to multiple readerships interested in arts education, humanizing pedagogies, and social justice concerns.  Starting a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Eric Tyson English | May 29, 2019 | ISBN: 1119565219 | 656 pages | MOBI | 2.93 Mb Starting a business? Don't sweat it!  Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! By Michael Sparke 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1574412841 | PDF | 4 MB Stan Kenton (1911-1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums up the mesmerizing bandleader at the height of his powers, arms waving energetically, his face a study of concentration as he cajoled, coaxed, strained, and obtained the last ounce of energy from every musician under his control.Michael Sparke's narrative captures that enthusiasm in words: a lucid account of the evolution of the Kenton Sound, and the first book to offer a critical evaluation of the role that Stan played in its creation. Insightful and thought-provoking throughout, and supported by liberal quotes from the musicians who made the magic, even at his most contentious the author's high regard and admiration for his subject shines through. The most knowledgeable of Stan's fans will learn new facts from this far-reaching biography of a man and his music. Stan Kenton will be essential reading for every Kenton devotee and jazz historian.  Karen Jackson Ford, "Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity" English | ISBN: 0817358463 | 2015 | 220 pages | PDF | 14 MB A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.  William Kittredge, "Southwestern Homelands" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0792265343 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.4 mb For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the American Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear as he takes us on a rewarding tour of the territory that runs from Santa Fe to Yuma, and from the Grand Canyon on south through Phoenix and Tucson to Nogales. It is a region where urban sprawl abuts desert expanse, where Native American pueblos compete for space with agribusiness cotton plantations, and where semi-defunct mining towns slowly give way to new-age hippie gardening and crafts enclaves.  Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music By Ola Johansson, Thomas L. Bell, Ola Johansson, Thomas Bell 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0754675777 | PDF | 6 MB Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.  Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview By Graeme Harper, Ruth Doughty, Jochen Eisentraut 2009 | 896 Pages | ISBN: 0826458246 | PDF | 48 MB Sound and Musicin Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overviewis a comprehensive work defining and encapsulating concepts, issues and applications in and around the use of sound in film and the cinema, media/broadcast and new media. Over thirty definitive full-lengthessays, which are linked by highlighted text and reference material, bring together original research by many of the world's top scholars in this emerging field. Complete with an extensive bibliography, Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media provides the most comprehensive and wide-ranging considerationof this subjectyet produced. > |
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