By Susan J. Terrio

ISBN-10: 0520221257

ISBN-13: 9780520221253

ISBN-10: 0520221265

ISBN-13: 9780520221260

This soaking up narrative follows the craft neighborhood of French chocolatiers--members of a tiny workforce experiencing extensive foreign competition--as they fight to make sure the survival in their companies. Susan J. Terrio strikes simply between ethnography, background, concept, and vignette, telling a narrative that demanding situations traditional perspectives of craft paintings, associational types, and coaching versions in overdue capitalism. She enters the area of Parisian craft leaders and native artisanal households there and in southwest France to narrate how they paintings and the way they confront the representatives and constructions of strength, from style makers, CEOs, and ads executives to the technocrats of Paris and Brussels. taking a look at craft tradition and group from a cross-disciplinary viewpoint, Terrio reveals that the chocolatiers verify their collective identification and their position within the current through commemorating selectively their function in historical past. as well as becoming a member of a unique culture of yankee anthropological writing at the function of foodstuff, her examine of the social creation of style within the invention of classic, grand cru sweets lends specificity and weight to theories of intake via Pierre Bourdieu and others. The ebook will attract anthropologists, cultural experiences students, and somebody all for existence in modern France.

By Nicholas Carr

ISBN-10: 1848878834

ISBN-13: 9781848878839

During this ground-breaking and compelling booklet, Nicholas Carr argues that now not due to the fact Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been uncovered to this kind of mind-altering know-how. The Shallows attracts at the most modern study to teach that the web is actually re-wiring our brains inducing simply superficial realizing. as a result there are profound alterations within the method we are living and speak, keep in mind and socialise - even in our very belief of ourselves. via relocating from the depths of proposal to the shallows of distraction, the net, it kind of feels, is basically fostering lack of know-how. The Shallows isn't really a manifesto for luddites, nor does it search to show again the clock. quite it's a revelatory reminder of the way a long way the net has develop into enmeshed in our day-by-day life and is affecting the way in which we expect. This landmark e-book compels us all to seem anew at our dependence in this all-pervasive know-how.

By Mark Kurlansky

ISBN-10: 1101057122

ISBN-13: 9781101057124

A impressive portrait of yank foodstuff prior to international conflict II, provided by means of the New York Times-bestselling writer of Cod and Salt.

Award-winning New York Times-bestselling writer Mark Kurlansky takes us again to the nutrition and consuming behavior of a more youthful the US: ahead of the nationwide street method introduced the rustic nearer jointly; prior to chain eating places imposed uniformity and occasional caliber; and ahead of the Frigidaire intended frozen foodstuff in mass amounts, the nation's foodstuff used to be seasonal, neighborhood, and conventional. It helped shape the special personality, attitudes, and customs of these who ate it.

In the Thirties, with the rustic gripped through the good melancholy and hundreds of thousands of american citizens suffering to get by means of, FDR created the Federal Writers' undertaking less than the recent Deal as a make-work application for artists and authors. a few writers, together with Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, have been dispatched all throughout the US to chronicle the consuming behavior, traditions, and struggles of local community. The undertaking, known as "America Eats," used to be deserted within the early Forties end result of the global conflict and not completed.

The nutrition of a more youthful Land finds this forgotten literary and historic treasure and brings it to exuberant lifestyles. Mark Kurlansky's fabulous publication captures those impressive tales, and mixed with real recipes, anecdotes, images, and his personal musings and research, inspires a bygone period while americans had by no means heard of quick nutrition and the grocery superstore was once a specific thing of the longer term. Kurlansky serves as a consultant to this hearty and poignant examine the country's roots.

From ny automats to Georgia Coca-Cola events, from Arkansas possum-eating golf equipment to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers came upon american citizens of their neighborhood niches and consuming a major range of nutrition. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and groups of yank nutrition.

By Roger T. Dean

ISBN-10: 0199792038

ISBN-13: 9780199792030

Roger T. Dean (ed.)

The Oxford instruction manual of computing device tune deals a state of the art cross-section of the main field-defining themes and debates in desktop song at the present time. a distinct contribution to the sector, it situates computing device track within the extensive context of its production and function around the variety of concerns - from song cognition to pedagogy to sociocultural themes - that form modern discourse within the field.

Fifty years after musical tones have been produced on a working laptop or computer for the 1st time, advancements in desktop computing have introduced computing device tune within sight of all listeners and composers. construction and distribution of laptop song have grown greatly for that reason, and the time is correct for this survey of computing device track in its cultural contexts. a magnificent and overseas array of track creators and lecturers talk about machine music's background, current, and destiny with a large point of view, together with composition, improvisation, interactive functionality, spatialization, sound synthesis, sonification, and modeling. all through, they merge perform with thought to supply a desirable investigate computing device music's probabilities and enduring appeal.

Contents:

1 creation: the various futures of desktop tune.
Roger T. Dean
Section I: a few histories of desktop tune and its applied sciences
2. A old view of computing device song technology
Douglas Keislar
3. Early and early rules in laptop track - their improvement and their present forms
Paul Doornbusch
4. Sound synthesis utilizing computers
Peter Manning
Section II: The tune
5. Computational ways to composition of notated instrumental song: Xenakis and the opposite pioneers
James Harley
6. Envisaging improvisation in destiny machine music
Roger T. Dean
Section III: Sounding Out
7. machine track: a few reflections
Trevor Wishart
8. a few notes on my digital improvisation practice
Tim Perkis
9. Combining the acoustic and the electronic: song for tools and desktops or pre-recorded sound
Simon Emmerson
Section IV: inventive and function Modes
10. Dancing the tune: interactive dance and music
Wayne Siegel
11. Gesture and morphology in desktop track performance
Garth Paine
12. Sensor established musical tools and interactive music
Atau Tanaka
13. Spatialisation and machine music
Peter Lennox
14. The voice in laptop track and its dating to put, id and community
Hazel Smith
Noam Sagiv, Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean
16. An creation to info sonification
David Worrall
17. Electronica
Nick Collins
18. Generative algorithms for making song: emergence, evolution and ecosystems
Jon McCormack, Alice Eldridge, Alan Dorin and Peter McIlwain
Section V: Cognition and Computation of computing device tune
19. Computational modelling of track cognition and musical creativity
Geraint A. Wiggins, Marcus T. Pearce and Daniel Müllensiefen
20. Soundspotting: a brand new type of process?
Michael Casey
Section VI: Sounding Out
21. Interactivity and improvisation
George E. Lewis
22. From outdoor the window: digital sound performance
Pauline Oliveros
23. Empirical reviews of machine sound
Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean
Section VII: Cultural and academic matters
24. towards the gender ideal
Mary Simoni
25. Sound-based track four all
Leigh Landy
26. Framing studying views in laptop song education
Jøran Rudi and Palmyre Pierroux
Appendix
27. A chronology of machine tune and similar events
Paul Doornbusch

By S. B. MacDonald

This ebook encompasses a wide selection of lovely items used in the coaching and serving of the famed spirit absinthe. those wonderful antiques from the mid 1800s during the early twentieth century evoke a time of attractiveness, artwork, new applied sciences and altering tradition; the period often called France's los angeles Belle Époque.

As you trip via those pages, you'll relive for a second, this magical time. Spoons, glasses, carafes, pitchers, saucers, artwork, and different absinthe-related components are proven in huge, targeted colour pictures, in addition to a quick description in their objective and use. some of the antiques are offered actual-size or greater. enthusiasts of absinthe, and antiques quite often, will benefit from the fantastic thing about those based survivors of time.

From the Author
Collecting, studying, and photographing those ancient antiques has been an excellent trip. those items evoke an period passed by, and are works of useful paintings. Please take pleasure in this ebook, and percentage my ardour for the artfulness of those absinthe antiques, and the tradition from which they came.

From the interior Flap
Turn those pages and slip into France's l. a. Belle Époque (the appealing age). It used to be a time of splendor in layout, new applied sciences, appreciation of the humanities, nice literature, social switch, and, in fact, absinthe. while getting ready and serving absinthe, applying those appealing antiques within the ritual makes every little thing much more particular. A quiet night with stable associates, nice dialog, and world-class absinthe is an excellent adventure. Our fast paced global spins a section extra slowly; we will be able to chill out, percentage our concepts, and luxuriate in the beauty of an period long gone by.

About the Author
S. B. MacDonald is a contemporary devotee to the realm of absinthe. he's a member of The Wormwood Society, a nonprofit association fascinated by offering present, traditionally, and scientifically actual information regarding absinthe. internet hosting normal tasting events that includes absinthe from around the globe, MacDonald encourages others to proportion his ardour for this finely crafted spirit. He has been a columnist for numerous magazines, is an award successful filmmaker, an authorized ship's grasp, and for the final two decades, has been a guitar maker via alternate. Antiques have continually been an immense a part of his lifestyles.

Evaluation: Staying hooked up to the song & leisure simply acquired more uncomplicated!
Written for song pros and fanatics. Contents supply information, reports and information for all genres of track, together with radio play, tune video, similar web job and retail updates.

By Collectif

ISBN-10: 2297040369

ISBN-13: 9782297040365

Passer le ranking IAE-Message vous permet de candidater à plus de three hundred formations universitaires en Gestion et en administration (niveaux Licence et Master). Et tout étudiant peut se présenter au rating IAE-Message sans situation antérieure de formation spécifique en économie ou en gestion.
Avec 12 periods du rating chaque année (8 en métropole et four à l'étranger) et plus de 70 centres d'examen en France et à l'étranger, il y a toujours un lieu près de chez vous pour passer le ranking IAE-Message et même le repasser plusieurs fois pour améliorer votre ranking (le greatest est four hundred issues) et ne retenir que le meilleur.
Pour vous permettre de vous entraîner de manière extensive et efficace, ce livre est tout entier consacré à une seule épreuve: "Culture générale".
Il contient three hundred questions inédites sur l'actualité récente mises au element en collaboration avec l'équipe du ranking IAE-Message et vous fournit les réponses.

By Samuel P. Huntington, Lawrence E. Harrison

ISBN-10: 0465031765

ISBN-13: 9780465031764

Well-liked students and newshounds consider the query of why, at the start of the twenty-first century, the area is extra divided than ever among the wealthy and the negative, among these residing in freedom and people lower than oppression.

By danah boyd

ISBN-10: 0300166311

ISBN-13: 9780300166316

What's new approximately how little ones converse via companies resembling fb, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media impact the standard of teens' lives? during this eye-opening publication, adolescence tradition and expertise specialist danah boyd uncovers a few of the significant myths relating to teens' use of social media. She explores tropes approximately identification, privateness, safeguard, risk, and bullying. eventually, boyd argues that society fails teenagers whilst paternalism and protectionism prevent teenagers' skill to develop into expert, considerate, and engaged voters via their on-line interactions. but regardless of an atmosphere of rampant fear-mongering, boyd reveals that youth usually locate how you can interact and to boost a feeling of identity.

Boyd's conclusions are crucial studying not just for folks, lecturers, and others who paintings with kids but additionally for a person drawn to the effect of rising applied sciences on society, tradition, and trade in years yet to come. providing insights gleaned from greater than a decade of unique fieldwork interviewing young children around the usa, boyd concludes reassuringly that the youngsters are very well. while, she recognizes that coming to phrases with existence in a networked period isn't effortless or seen. In a technologically mediated international, lifestyles is certain to be advanced.

By Couze Venn

ISBN-10: 0761954112

ISBN-13: 9780761954118

This crucial ebook seriously addresses the `becoming West' of Europe and investigates the `becoming glossy' of the realm. Drawing at the paintings of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the e-book proposes that the query of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcoloniality. The argument totally conveys the feel that modernity is in obstacle. It maps out a brand new family tree of the delivery of the trendy and indicates a brand new approach of grounding the assumption of an emancipation of being.

Postcolonialism has emerged as a relevant subject in modern social technology and cultural experiences. This ebook informs readers as to the crucial strands of the talk and introduces a number of recent principles to be able to be a wealthy fund for different writers and researchers. The booklet will entice complicated undergraduate and postgraduate scholars within the social sciences and in cultural and media studies.