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 Christine L. Williams, "Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality" English | 2006 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0520247175 | PDF | 0,9 mb "I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture.  Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero: Ten Years of Challenges and Victories English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030985989 | 104 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 22 MB This open access book describes the development of Innopolis, a young Russian university established in 2012 to focus on teaching excellence in computer science, engineering, and robotics. It reports on the problems that were faced in the first decade of its development, and the adopted solutions. It shows how the key aspects for the development of the faculty, the curricula, the university structure, and the challenge of internationalization have been successfully addressed by the university management and professors, and how the solutions are scalable for other newly founded research organizations.  Thomas Pynchon, "Inherent Vice: A Novel" English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0143117564, 1594202249 | EPUB | 0,6 mb Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon-Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era  Daniel Tiffany, "Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance" English | 2009 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0226803104, 0226803090 | EPUB | 0,4 mb Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry's genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture.  Jiyeoun Song, "Inequality in the Workplace: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea" English | 2014 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0801452155 | PDF | 1,7 mb The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labor markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In Inequality in the Workplace, Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets between protected regular workers and underprotected and underpaid nonregular workers.  Michael Z. Newman Ph.D., "Indie: An American Film Culture" English | 2011 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0231144644, 0231144652 | PDF | 8,7 mb America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies involves more than just considering films. Filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, festivals, critics, and audiences all shape the art's identity, which is always understood in relation to the Hollywood mainstream.  Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, "In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought " English | ISBN: 0826522262 | 2019 | 302 pages | PDF | 4 MB Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation. This fact, in and of itself, should have been enough to perpetuate an image of Haitians as strong and agentive people. But leaders of countries on both sides of the Atlantic felt threatened by Haiti's beginnings and were intent on sapping it of resources. More than a century of various restrictions on trade, the imposition of crippling fines, and, eventually, a US occupation followed. Yet even as they suffered economically under these penalties, Haitians persisted, some of them becoming influential actors in the world of global politics.  Ngo Van, Ken Knabb, Hélène Fleury, "In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary" English | 2010 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 1849350132 | PDF | 7,2 mb In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more-this time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the surrealists.  Victoria F. Nourse, "In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics" English | 2008 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0393065294 | EPUB | 0,4 mb The disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.  Olga Sedakova, Stephanie Sandler, Ksenia Golubovich, "In Praise of Poetry" English | 2014 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 1940953022 | EPUB | 0,4 mb At an early age, Olga Sedakova began writing poetry and, by the 1970s, had joined up with other members of Russia's underground "second culture" to create a vibrant literary movement―one that was at odds with the political powers that be. This conflict prevented Sedakova's books from being published in the U.S.S.R. Instead, they were labeled as being too "esoteric," "religious," and "bookish." Until 1990, the only way her collections were available in Russian were in samizdat, hand-written copies, which circulated from reader to reader, building her reputation. |
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