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  • Arms Politics

    Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar

    by Francesco Buscemi ...
    In Arms Politics**, Francesco Buscemi tells the story of the ceasefire, disarmament, and rearmament of the Ta'ang movement in Myanmar's Shan State through an analysis of the formation of the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta'ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA).** With a focus on the circulation of weapons through the post-1991 ceasefire, disarmament, and rearmament years, Buscemi explores how ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • From Body Fuel to Universal Poison

    Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present

    by Francesco Buscemi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food. Half storytelling and half historic work, it analyzes the way in which humans have dealt with the idea of eating animals in the Western world, from 1900 to the present.The story part of the book follows the rise and fall of meat, and illustrates how this type of food has become a problem in a more emotional way. The historical ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Feeling Political

    Emotions and Institutions since 1789

    by Ute Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen, Agnes Arndt, Michael Amico, Karsten Lichau, Hannah Malone, Julia Wambach, Juliane Brauer, Caroline Moine ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its ... Read more

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  • Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda

    A Political History of Italian Food TV

    by Francesco Buscemi, Flavia Laviosa ...
    Series series Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
    This book aims to develop a political history of Italian ‘good food’ on national television, and the central role of food in Italian culture. The focus is highly original and this is a unique interdisciplinary study at the intersection between food studies, media studies and politics.The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda are food, television and politics. These are the three main ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Reality and Measurement in Algebraic Quantum Theory

    NWW 2015, Nagoya, Japan, March 9-13

    Edited by Masanao Ozawa, Jeremy Butterfield, Hans Halvorson, Miklós Rédei, Yuichiro Kitajima, Francesco Buscemi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume contains papers based on presentations at the “Nagoya Winter Workshop 2015: Reality and Measurement in Algebraic Quantum Theory (NWW 2015)”, held in Nagoya, Japan, in March 2015. The foundations of quantum theory have been a source of mysteries, puzzles, and confusions, and have encouraged innovations in mathematical languages to describe, analyze, and delineate this wonderland. Both ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Red Reckoning

    The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life

    by Dr. Linda Weiss, Dr. Kurt W. Jefferson, Dr. Eric Kasper, Dr. Elaine Tyler May, Dr. Peter J. Verovšek, Matt Sprengeler, Dr. Mary Beth Chopas, Dr. Tony Shaw, Dr. Francesco Buscemi, Dr. Kurt Edward Kemper, Dr. Randi Barnes Cox, Dr. Simon Stow, Dr. Eunice Rojas, Ann V. Collins, Angela F. Keaton, Charity Rakestraw ...
    Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a broad array of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    by Christopher B. Barrett, Tim Benton, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, Rebecca J. Nelson, Elizabeth Bageant, Edward Buckler, Karen Cooper, Isabella Culotta, Shenggen Fan, Rikin Gandhi, Steven James, Mark Kahn, Laté Lawson-Lartego, Jiali Liu, Quinn Marshall, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Alexander Mathys, Cynthia Mathys, Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou, Alesha Miller, Kamakhya Misra, Andrew Mude, Jianbo Shen, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Claire Song, Roy Steiner, Philip Thornton, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple ... Read more

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  • The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

    by Edward N. Luttwak ...
    As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China’s own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, Luttwak argues that the most populous nation on Earth—and its second largest economy—may be headed for a fall.For any country whose rising strength cannot go unnoticed, the universal logic ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition

    A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory

    by Carol J. Adams ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    First published in 1990, Carol J. Adams' revolutionary work has engaged, enraged, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with eating animals and masculinity. This iconic book, referenced in rock songs, feminist artwork and even a Law and Order SVU episode, continues to change the lives of its readers ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Death of the Liberal Class

    by Chris Hedges ...
    The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the ... Read more

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  • China's Vision of Victory

    by Jonathan D. T. Ward ...
    Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is guiding a country of 1.4 billion people towards what it calls “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” and, with it, the end of an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • White Bread

    A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD