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This collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as "secular, " and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. These poets and critics address thes...

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An exploration of the notions of 'global' and 'local'. Through detailed ethnographic examples, the authors show how global institutions are manifested in local contexts.

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Tackles the assumptions and misunderstandings that keep leaders of local churches from fulfilling the call to create disciple-making faith communities.

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was tragically killed, six people who were leaders made decisions on coping with the event. They were just like you. Their stories are your stories. Their thoughts, actions, and choices then can help make you a better leader for today and tomorrow. Relive their fateful day of April 4, 1968 to gain a unique perspective on your own.

On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as "the" global garment of our world. This book takes up that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising, explanations for why this is the case, challenging the accepted history of jeans and showing why the reasons cannot be comm...

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Historians have long claimed Czechoslovakia between the world wars as an island of democracy in a sea of dictatorships. Miller pieces together the story of the party and its longtime leader, Antonín Svehla- the "Master of Compromise, " who had an extraordinary capacity to mediate between political parties, factions, and individual political leaders.

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their part, find that they are treated as one of the family, and would they even want to be? After a year of careful research, this book shows how most of our assumptions and expectation...

With contributions from distinguished international authors, the material presented here focuses upon new findings in the field of control including interesting applications. As well as being informative, it is a useful tool for practitioners of systems and control to ascertain new developments in the field.

The nature of power--one of the central concerns in social science--is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth of perspectives and case studies, arguing that such studies have reached a key stage. Developments in the characterization of dominance associated with...

This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a developing field in sociological and anthropological based courses., This...

Traditionell beschäftigen sich Ethnologen mit Verwandtschaftsnetzwerken, Bräuchen und Mythen bestimmter Gruppen von Menschen. Doch was passiert, wenn wir einen immer größer werdenden Anteil unseres Lebens nicht mehr mit physischer Interaktion, sondern im virtuellen Raum des Internets verbringen? Wenn ein soziales Netzwerk wie Facebook fast 650 Millionen Mitglieder hat? Daniel Miller guckt in seinen Fallstudien, die er - ein Anknüpfungspunkt an...