“…Michael Jackson's this is it es una oportunidad única para ver una serie de imágenes exclusivas de Michael Jackson mientras creaba, ensayaba y desarrollaba sus conciertos en el O2 Arena de Londres. …”

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“…Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of turning inward to one's self. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Billie Jean ; The way you make me feel ; Black or white ; Rock with you ; She's out of my life ; Bad ; I just can't stop loving you ; Man in the mirror ; Thriller ; Beat it ; The girl is mine ; Remember the time ; Don't stop 'til you get enough ; Wanna be startin' somethin' ; Heal the world -- Scream (duet with Michael Jackson and Janet jackson) ; They don't care abour us ; Stranger in moscow ; This time around ; Earth song ; D.S. ; Money ; Come together ; You're not alone ; Childhood (theme from Free Willy 2) ; Tabloid junkie ; Bad ; History ; Little susie ; Smile…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dreaming of Michael Jackson : notes on Jewish listening / "Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars" : images of Jews from the Jewish sheet-music trade / "Dances partake of the racial characteristics of the people who dance them" : Nordicism, antisemitism, and Henry Ford's old-time music and dance revival / "Ovoutie slanguage is absolutely Kosher" : Yiddish in scat-singing, jazz jargon, and Black music / "If I embarrass you, tell your friends" : the musical comedy of Bell Barth and Pearl Williams / "Here's a foreign song I learned in Utah" : the anxiety of Jewish influence in the music of Bob Dylan / Negotiating boundaries : musical hybridity in Tzadik's radical Jewish culture series…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Eccentric performance and embodied music in the post-soul moment -- Becoming post-soul : Eartha Kitt, the Stranger, and the melancholy pleasures of racial reinvention -- Stevie Wonder's "Quare" teachings and cross-species collaboration in Journey through the secret life of plants and other songs -- "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions" : P-Funk's Black masculinity and the performance of imaginative freedom -- Michael Jackson, queer world making, and the trans erotics of voice, gender, and age -- "Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no" : Grace Jones and the performance of "Strangé" in the post-soul moment -- Funking toward the future in Meshell Ndegeocello's The world has made me the man of my dreams -- Epilogue : Janelle Monáe's collective vision…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Eccentric performance and embodied music in the post-soul moment -- Becoming post-soul : Eartha Kitt, the Stranger, and the melancholy pleasures of racial reinvention -- Stevie Wonder's "Quare" teachings and cross-species collaboration in Journey through the secret life of plants and other songs -- "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions" : P-Funk's black masculinity and the performance of imaginative freedom -- Michael Jackson, queer world making, and the trans erotics of voice, gender, and age -- "Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no" : Grace Jones and the performance of "Strangé" in the post-soul moment -- Funking toward the future in Meshell Ndegeocello's The world has made me the man of my dreams -- Epilogue : Janelle Monáe's collective vision…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson's fake death -- 2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson -- 2.18. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Brian Christopher Jones -- Protest, law and regime type / Fu Hualing and Michael Jackson -- The ultimate test of fidelity : judicial responses to civil disobedience in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu and Anne SY Cheung -- Democratic legitimacy vs rule of law : a comparative study of oath-taking controversies in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Zhu Han -- Court criticism and the rule of law : from 'foreign' to 'dinosaur' judges / Brian Christopher Jones -- Taiwan's 'civil code v special law' debate in the same-sex marriage controversy : a populist threat to the rule of law? …”

“…The economy sank despite humungous bailouts and unemployment hit new highs--not to mention the drama of Octomom, Sotomayor, Swine Flue, GM's bankruptcy, Iran's election chaos and the death of Michael Jackson. This cool book chronicles the history of the year 2009 with cartoons you'll never forget…”