“…The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. …”

“…Theoretical analyses and modelling techniques are presented, for phenomena ranging from the detection of cracks to the acoustics of the oceans. Measurement methods are also discussed, which probe by acoustic waves the properties of widely different systems…”

“…Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. …”

“…Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. …”

“…Em forma de guia turístico, esta obra apresenta a Bahia aos leitores sob um ângulo diferenciado e bastante completo, trazendo informações sobre sua história, seu clima, sua população, suas festas, suas religiões, sua culinária, seus artistas, músicas e literatura, tudo através de uma linguagem clara e direta, mas curiosa e objetiva. Funciona também como uma fonte de pesquisa para percebermos as mudanças (para melhor e para pior) pelas quais a Bahia passou ao longo dos anos…”

“…Im Fokus stehen Werke u.a. von Einar Schleef, Auguste Rodin, William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Emir Kusturica, Tsai Ming-Liang, Bruce Naumann und Eija-Liisa Ahtila. …”

“…In this book, Jeremy Fernando meditates on art through a response to specifics works, to the specificity of the craft, tekhnē, of each work; offering a reading of specific works of photography (Photovoice sg), poetry (Tammy Ho Lai-Ming), installation art (Charles Lim), film (Tan Chui Mui), conceptual art (ZXEROKOOL), and charcoal drawings (Yanyun Chen). …”

“…In this book the reader will be introduced to different power generation and distribution systems with an analysis of some types of existing disturbances and a study of different industrial applications such as battery charges…”

“…It shows how a Gramscian understanding of the revolutionary process provides a powerful instrument for charting the possibilities for an emancipatory project by the Egyptian subaltern classes. …”

“…However, the closer the technology is examined, the more its charm fades away. This paper analyzes CCS technology in terms of the likelihood of its application in Poland. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : flux and change in Melanesian gender relations / Martha Macintyre -- Securitisation, development and the invisibility of gender / Stephanie Lusby -- Gender struggles of educated men in the Papuan highlands / Jenny Munro -- Kindy and grassroots gender transformations in Solomon Islands / John Cox -- Casting her vote : Women's political participation in Solomon Islands / Pauline Soaki -- 'I won't go hungry if he's not around' : 'working class' urban Melanesian women's agency in intimate relationships / Ceridwen Spark -- Pacific policy pathways : young women online and offline / Tait Brimacombe -- Lewa was Mama (beloved guardian mother) / Michelle Nayahamui Rooney…”

“…En este periodo, el conflicto entre la añoranza por el pasado y la impaciencia por lograr la modernidad sometió a la educación a un vaivén de avances y retrocesos, como en el campo de batalla donde a veces no hay una definición clara de vencedores y vencidos. Aquí, más bien, hubo perdedores: edificios escolares ocupados por militares, presupuestos dedicados a golpes de Estado, estudiantes brillantes truncados en su carrera, maestros ignorados o ignorantes. …”

“…It focuses on Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims, authors and political advisers to Charlemagne and to Charles the Bald, respectively. It examines how they used Augustinian political thought and ethics, as manifested in the De Civitate Dei, to give more weight to their advice. …”

“…From Captain Scott to Beryl Bainbridge, from Cherry-Garrard to science fiction, an Antarctic 'psychotopography' has been created in which the charm and mystery of an anomalous place are reflected, deeply anchored to the imaginative dimension…”

“…The challenge for those charged with implementing Microsoft Office 365 is to leverage these advantages with the minimal disruption of their organization. …”

“…Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance-many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population. …”

“…On 15 March 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. …”

“…Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. …”

“…Il est passé des matériaux de rencontre disponibles dans son environnement aux matériaux sur mesure, conçus pour répondre à des cahiers des charges multicritères. Aujourd'hui nous pouvons, notamment grâce à la modélisation numérique à différentes échelles, concevoir des matériaux très performants, associant diverses classes de matériaux, dans des géométries et des dimensions contrôlées. …”

“…Research on real-world problems--like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry--requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as from stakeholders affected by the problem and those in a position to do something about it. This book charts new territory in taking a systematic approach to research integration using dialogue methods to bring together multiple perspectives. …”