Author: Adi Kuntsman
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Israels occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the worlds most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens. Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global contextboth the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupations impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
Author: T. Griffiths
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By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and Istvan Meszaros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers. **Review I loved this book! It is so valuable and clearly written! Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World highlights the intense relevance of Wallersteins and Meszaross work to those of us within the Marxist and the critical pedagogy traditions seeking democratic and just systemic alternatives to capitalism and to education within and against capitalism. Dave Hill, Research Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and Marxist educational and political activist This volume illuminates the scholarship of two major theorists of the capitalist world-system, who examine its evolution over the past 500 years and its uncertain future. The historical, holistic social science perspectives of Immanuel Wallerstein and Istvan Meszaros provide essential analytical tools for understanding the structures and processes by which the global economy generates the current international crises in economies and societies. More than that, as this invaluable book highlights, world-systems analysis provides the comprehensive long view that enables educators and researchers to envision alternative futures that are more democratic, peaceful, and globally just. Robert F. Arnove, Chancellors Professor Emeritus of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA About the Author Author Tom G. Griffiths Tom G. Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in comparative and international education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Author Robert Imre Robert Imre is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Australia.
Author: Matthew Dillon
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Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, womens rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world as well as scholarship on religious and social history. The contributors face a famously difficult task ancient authors rarely recorded aspects of womens lives, including their songs, prophecies, and prayers. Many of the objects women made and used in ritual were perishable and have not survived certain kinds of ritual objects (lowly undecorated pots, for example) tend not even to be recorded in archaeological reports. However, the broad range of contributions in this volume demonstrates the multiplicity of materials that can be used as evidence including inscriptions, textiles, ceramics, figurative art, and written sources and the range of methodologies that can be used, from analysis of texts, images, and material evidence to cognitive and comparative approaches. **
Author: Hei Long
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21 Techniques of Silent Killing outlines methods used trained assassins to execute their victims with cold efficiency. The spike, knife and nunchaku are used to impale or strangle victims in a minimum amount of time with a maximum chance for lethal results. These are ruthless methods used in the shadowy worlds of criminal activity and international espionage -- and this book holds nothing back! In fact, the illustrations in this book are so graphic that our regular printer refused to handle the job.The techniques in this book are not self-defense maneuvers, nor is this a training manual.
Author: MaryAnne Bennie
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Author: Lee Strobel
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Why do you believe what you believe? How can you know your faith is credible?Many Christians today struggle to answer these questions. Though you may know what you believe, the why and how behind the thought can be complex, confusing, and even mysterious.In Todays Moment of Truth, bestselling author Lee Strobel articulates in 180 easy-to-read devotions the reasons why Christians believe what they believe. Combining his expertise in apologetics with his journalistic approach to parsing out the details, this devotionalwill leave you deeply encouraged and well-informed. Topics range from scientific discoveries to theological explanations, and each devotion is followed by a brief reflection and prayer for meditation.The time has come to walk confidently in your faith. Todays Moment of Truth will be an invaluable tool as you grow in your understanding of and faith in Christ.
Author: Jennifer Farley Gordon
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Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate todays eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley Gordon and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labor practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, Sustainable Fashion will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.
Author: Samah Selim
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This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various forms of cultural and literary creation emerging from the encounter with European genres as well as indigenous popular literary forms and languages. The book explores the multiple and fluid translation practices of this period as a form of unauthorized translation that was not invested in upholding nationalist binaries of originality and imitation. Instead, translators experimented with radical and complex forms of adaptation that turned these binaries upside down. Through a series of close readings of novels published in the periodical The Peoples Entertainments , the book explores the nineteenth century literary, intellectual, juridical and economic histories that are constituted through translation, and outlines a comparative method of reading that pays particular attention to the circulation of genre across national borders.Review Selims is an original, readable, and witty contribution to both translation studies and Nahda studies. Future researchers will have to reckon with her thoroughly researched arguments and ideas. (Ziad Elmarsafy, Professor of Comparative Literature, Kings College London, UK)