Download or read book BOOM MAGAZINE 028 April 2015 written by Boom Magazine Asia and published by Boom Magazine Asia. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April is upon us, and there’s a spring in its step. In our cover story, we catch rising superstar Charli XCX on her tour with Katy Perry for a chat about her big plans for the music industry (P14), and in our B-Side we introduce you to UK indie band Public Service Broadcasting’s breakthrough album documenting the US/Soviet Space Race (P20). After a fantastic Art Basel, we sat down with the charismatic Alec Monopoly to discuss the underworld of street artists in Flipside (P24). In On the Rocks, we find out a little more about new music venue Orange Peel (P32), and in Boom’s Kitchen we find out how Chef Jowett Yu has had so much success with Chinese eatery Ho Lee Fook (P30). Dip into our travel guide to Lombok and the Gili Islands for a paradise getaway this Easter (P40), and of course, our Mixer (P48) covers all the latest albums you need in your collection, including Kendrick Lamar’s long-anticipated latest, To Pimp a Butterfly. Remember, we want you to get involved! Submit your On the Streets (P46) for the chance to appear in our next issue, and check out Volcom’s True to This Photography Competition (P18) for the opportunity to win some incredible prizes. Check out our event recommendations (P4), including Ozone’s ‘Rainbow Balloon’ anniversary party (P10), and the legendary 2 Chainz at Club CUBIC’s 4th birthday (P6). Last but not least, flip through to our Hidden Tracks section (P52) for the latest from our city’s coolest bloggers, a Q&A with last month’s cover artist, your monthly zodiac, and more. Enjoy the month, and keep BOOMing!
Download or read book Boom Magazine 030 June 2015 written by Boom Magazine Asia and published by Boom Magazine Asia. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city heats up, but it never slows down. June is here, and in the run up to Ultra Music Festival in Korea and Road to Ultra in Macau on the 13th, we have a chat with two of the biggest names in EDM. Dutch superstar Nicky Romero gives us the lowdown on his relationship with David Guetta in our A-Side (P18), and German mega producer Thomas Gold chats us through his production process in our B-Side (P22). In the spirit of Ultra, we decided to try producing a track ourselves. In Production 101 (P26) we sit down with the guys at Sol Passion Music, who reveal to us the level of skill that really goes into those huge EDM tracks. Summer’s arrival means it’s music festival season, and we’ve gathered a list of some of the world’s best, with special deals from Flight Centre to each one (P28). Check out our fashion shoot (P32) for some of the chicest urban trends for summer, and On The Streets (P44) to see how they’re being worn around Hong Kong. The weird and wonderful cocktails at Ham & Sherry’s Back Bar couldn’t go ignored this month; check out On The Rocks (P42) to see what we mean. In Boom’s Kitchen (P40) we try out the fusion cuisine at Fresh Modern Kitchen, and fall in love with their seafood creations. Of course, we’ve got more music recommendations for you in Mixer (P46) and Asian Mixer (P48), and don’t forget to check your monthly Zodiac (P58)! Find our Hidden Tracks section for some of HK’s coolest bloggers keeping us up to date with their passions, and look out for snaps of your friends in Rewind (P62). But before all that, let us guide you through the essential events on this month (P4). Sit back and buckle up; it’s gonna be a busy one!
Download or read book Boom Magazine 031 July 2015 written by Boom Magazine Asia and published by Boom Magazine Asia. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July’s arrived, and it bears gifts. This month, two of the world’s biggest names in music land in our midst - on the same night! Electronic fans, book your tickets to Macau for Deadmau5 on the 22nd, who we introduce a little more to you in our A-Side (P14). Back in Hong Kong, influential Brit band Blur flies into the HKCEC. In our Special Feature (P22) we chat with drummer Dave Rowntree about new album The Magic Whip, which was recorded in our very own streets. Also recorded in Hong Kong is local dream pop band Thud’s new Floret E.P, and over in Macau, alt. trio Turtle Giant gear up to release their second full-length album, Many Mansions I, recorded in a local theatre. Check out our interviews with the bands, who both have strong opinions on the music scene in Asia (P18). Down in the underground scene, Oliver Clasper gets up close and personal with IDM innovator Lee Gamble in On the Decks (P26) after an exquisite set at The Empty Gallery. As always, flip over to Mixer (P48) for our new music recommendations. This month in On the Rocks (P44) we descend the Shin Hing Steps into brand new ‘80s themed hangout spot NEO, and in Boom’s Kitchen (P42) we explore Hong Kong’s sweet tooth - the everlasting love for Japanese desserts. In Play Away (P28), we’ve put together a detailed weekend itinerary for Tokyo. Plus, festival-goers should check out our Summer Jams fashion shoot (P32) for this year’s essential sunshine wear. Check out the best upcoming events in our calendar (P4), catch up on your monthly Zodiac (P58), and see how many of your friends you can spot in our photos of last month’s parties! (P62)
Download or read book US Power in Latin America written by Rubrick Biegon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting directions. It disaggregates US power into distinct forms (structural, coercive, institutional and ideological) to convincingly argue that the United States is remaking its hegemony in the Western hemisphere. The first decade of the new century saw the ascendancy of leftist and centre-left forces in Latin America. The emergence and consolidation of the ‘New Latin Left’ signalled a profound challenge to the long-standing hegemony of the United States in the region. This book details the ways in which US foreign policy responded: defining hegemony as a dialectical relationship patterned by multiple and overlapping forms of power, it situates US policy in the context of the Post-Washington Consensus. Making considerable use of confidential diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks, it examines the interplay of different facets of US hegemony, which are inextricably bound up in the neoliberalisation of the region’s political economy. This book brings clarity to what remains an open and contested process of hegemonic reconstitution, and promises to be of interest to scholars working in a number of overlapping subject areas, including International Relations (IR), US foreign policy and Latin American studies.
Download or read book JAIR Journal of International Relations written by Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty and published by IndraStra Global e-Journal Hosting Services. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAIR Journal of International Relations (JAIR J. Int. Relat.) is a biennial, peer-reviewed, refereed journal of International Relations published by The Jadavpur Association of International Relations with the financial assistance from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.
Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American Male Musical Theatre Actors written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Retail Value Proposition written by Kyle Murray and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American economy is profoundly dependent on the success of its retailers and the strength of its consumer spending. Yet, how do leading retailers create value for their customers? To a large extent this has been accomplished by streamlining operations and a decades-long focus on cost cutting and price competitiveness. Today, retailers realize that they need to discover new ways to differentiate themselves and attract consumer spending. The American Retail Value Proposition provides the framework for building that differentiation and establishing a competitive advantage that goes beyond price discounting. This framework is based on more than a decade of research, including hundreds of hours of interviews with executives from the world’s leading retailers, including Starbucks, Walmart, Apple, Amazon, and Lowe’s. Whether you are an aspiring merchant or an industry veteran, this book's strategic framework will help you build a solid foundation for your business in today's ever-evolving retail marketplace.
Download or read book Made Up written by Martha Laham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made Up exposes the multibillion-dollar beauty industry that promotes unrealistic beauty standards through a market basket of advertising tricks, techniques, and technologies. Cosmetics magnate Charles Revson, a founder of Revlon, was quoted as saying, "In the factory, we make cosmetics. In the store, we sell hope." This pioneering entrepreneur, who built an empire on the foundation of nail polish, captured the unvarnished truth about the beauty business in a single metaphor: hope in a jar. Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards is a thorough examination of innovative, and often controversial, advertising practices used by beauty companies to persuade consumers, mainly women, to buy discretionary goods like cosmetics and scents. These approaches are clearly working: the average American woman will spend around $300,000 on facial products alone during her lifetime. This revealing book traces the evolution of the global beauty industry, discovers what makes beauty consumers tick, explores the persistence and pervasiveness of the feminine beauty ideal, and investigates the myth-making power of beauty advertising. It also examines stereotypical portrayals of women in beauty ads, looks at celebrity beauty endorsements, and dissects the “looks industry.” Made Upuncovers the reality behind an Elysian world of fantasy and romance created by beauty brands that won’t tell women the truth about beauty.
Download or read book The End of International Adoption written by Estye Fenton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade during this shift. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace. Many parents, activists, and scholars have questioned whether the inequality inherent in international adoption renders the entire system suspect. In the face of such concerns, international adoption has not only become more difficult, but also more politically and ethically fraught. The mothers interviewed for this book found themselves navigating contemporary American family life in an unexpected way, caught between the double-bind of work-family life and a new paradigm of thinking about the method—international adoption—that they used to create those families.
Download or read book Hollywood and the Baby Boom written by James Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom's great size has dictated the terms of national policy and public debate. While aspects of this history are well-documented, the relationship between the baby boom and Hollywood has never been explored. And yet, for almost 40 years, baby boomers made up the majority of Hollywood's audience, and since the 1970s, boomers have dominated movie production. Hollywood and the Baby Boom weaves together interviews with leading filmmakers, archival research and the memories of hundreds of ordinary filmgoers to tell the full story of Hollywood's relationship with the boomers for the first time. The authors demonstrate the profound influence of the boomers on the ways that movies were made, seen and understood since the 1950s. The result is a compelling new account that draws upon an unprecedented range of sources, and offers new insights into the history of American movies.
Download or read book Dreams in the New Century written by Gary R. Mormino and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.
Download or read book Gender in Music Production written by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of music production has for many years been regarded as male-dominated. Despite growing acknowledgement of this fact, and some evidence of diversification, it is clear that gender representation on the whole remains quite unbalanced. Gender in Music Production brings together industry leaders, practitioners, and academics to present and analyze the situation of gender within the wider context of music production as well as to propose potential directions for the future of the field. This much-anticipated volume explores a wide range of topics, covering historical and contextual perspectives on women in the industry, interviews, case studies, individual position pieces, as well as informed analysis of current challenges and opportunities for change. Ground-breaking in its synthesis of perspectives, Gender in Music Production offers a broadly considered and thought-provoking resource for professionals, students, and researchers working in the field of music production today.
Download or read book Customer Relationship Management written by Roger J. Baran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book balances the behavioral and database aspects of customer relationship management, providing students with a comprehensive introduction to an often overlooked, but important aspect of marketing strategy. Baran and Galka deliver a book that helps students understand how an enhanced customer relationship strategy can differentiate an organization in a highly competitive marketplace. This edition has several new features: Updates that take into account the latest research and changes in organizational dynamics, business-to-business relationships, social media, database management, and technology advances that impact CRM New material on big data and the use of mobile technology An overhaul of the social networking chapter, reflecting the true state of this dynamic aspect of customer relationship management today A broader discussion of the relationship between CRM and the marketing function, as well as its implications for the organization as a whole Cutting edge examples and images to keep readers engaged and interested A complete typology of marketing strategies to be used in the CRM strategy cycle: acquisition, retention, and win-back of customers With chapter summaries, key terms, questions, exercises, and cases, this book will truly appeal to upper-level students of customer relationship management. Online resources, including PowerPoint slides, an instructor’s manual, and test bank, provide instructors with everything they need for a comprehensive course in customer relationship management.
Download or read book Strategic Sustainability written by Daniel S. Fogel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become more competitive. Including examples and ideas implemented in various countries, it is based on known scientific principles about the natural world and organizational principles focusing on the work domain. The intersection of these two realms of research creates a powerful and new approach to comprehensive, seemingly contradictory issues. Daniel S. Fogel draws from disparate fields and creates a story about organizations, their future and how people are part of the problem and, more importantly, part of the solution. Readers will find ways to take action to improve organizations and avoid denigrating our natural environment, learning to be mindful of the urgency we should feel to improve our impact on the world. The focus on the natural environment provides a powerful focus for creating value in organizations and addressing the major challenges we all face. Advanced sustainability students, working professionals and board members, managers and legislators responsible for governing organizations or implementing public policy will find this book useful. A companion website features an instructor’s manual with test questions, as well as 38, 10-minute videos for classroom use.
Download or read book MGMT3 written by Chuck Williams and published by Cengage AU. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to learning the principles of management, MGMT 3 is the third Asia–Pacific edition of a proven, innovative solution to enhance the learning experience. Concise yet complete coverage supported by a suite of online learning aids equips students with the tools required to successfully undertake an introductory management course. Paving a new way to both teach and learn, MGMT 3 is designed to truly connect with today's busy, tech-savvy student. Students have access to online interactive quizzing, videos, podcasts, flashcards, case studies, games and more. An accessible, easy-to-read text along with tear out review cards completes a package which helps students to learn important concepts faster. MGMT 3 delivers a fresh approach to give students what they need and want in a text.
Download or read book Becoming America s Playground written by Larry D. Gragg and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
