Download or read book Sexuality and Globalization An Introduction to a Phenomenology of Sexualities written by L. Bibard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over the so-called 'nature."

Download or read book Sexuality and Globalization An Introduction to a Phenomenology of Sexualities written by L. Bibard and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over the so-called 'nature."

Download or read book 3D Printing for Development in the Global South written by T. Birtchnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birtchnell and Hoyle explore how printers, designs, materials and infrastructures all need to be 'just right' in order for meaningful social change to happen with appropriate scale. The 3D4D Challenge suggests 3D printing could reach scale in the Global South, even perhaps having the same impact as the mobile phone or microfinance in development.

Download or read book International Practice Theory written by C. Bueger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the practice turn play out in international relations? This study offers a concise introduction to the core approaches, issues and methodology of International Practice Theory, examining the design, strategies and technique of practice theoretical research projects interested in global politics, and outlining issues for a future agenda.

Download or read book The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market written by G. Tholen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.

Download or read book Payday Lending written by Carl Packman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payday Lending looks at the growth of the high cost credit industry from the early payday lending industry in the early 1990s to its development in the US as a highly profitable industry around the world.

Download or read book Social Franchising written by I. Alon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social franchising represents a third generation form of franchising development, after trade-name and business-format franchising. At the intersection of social enterprise and micro finance literatures, this book reviews a variety of social franchising formats across a number of developing countries.

Download or read book The Post War Anglo American Far Right written by P. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945 neo-Nazi and far right extremists on both sides of the Atlantic have developed rich cultures which regularly exchange ideas. Leading activists such as Colin Jordan and George Lincoln Rockwell have helped to establish what has become a complex web of marginalised extremism. This book examines the history of this milieu to the present day.

Download or read book Transmedia Archaeology written by C. Scolari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling in different historical periods and countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. It takes us into the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Superman and El Eternauta, introduces us to the archaeology of transmedia, and reinstates the fact that it's not a new phenomenon.

Download or read book Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern written by N. Herold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice.

Download or read book Martin Heidegger on Technology Ecology and the Arts written by A. Lack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.

Download or read book Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies written by M. Ustaoglu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey could be considered the most important and leading Islamic country that has implemented the Western economic model successfully mostly because of the modernization efforts since late Ottoman period. As a result of the secularization efforts in the field of economy in early republican era, Muslim people in the country had to deal with non-Islamic practices that contradict with their religious beliefs. Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies analyzes the emergence of the Islamic financial institutions in Turkey, by taking into account their history, their operational model, and their legal regulations in the financial field, to discuss the future of Islamic finance. The contributors also consider the ability of Islamic financial institutions and tools to respond to the financial needs of Muslims.

Download or read book Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones written by M. Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.

Download or read book Re Orientalism and Indian Writing in English written by L. Lau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.

Download or read book Communicating Politics Online written by Chapman Rackaway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of political communication is morphing almost constantly into new areas and realities. Online-only news, Web 2.0 user-created content, hyperlocal news, and the rise of the Twittersphere have all contributed to an ever-changing media environment. Communicating Politics Online captures the constant change of new online media.

Download or read book Media Transformation written by L. Elleström and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media. Elleström proposes a model for pinpointing the most vital conceptual entities and stages in intermedial transfers involving different media types such as speech, writing, music, films, and websites.

Download or read book Deposit Guarantee Schemes written by F. Arnaboldi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnaboldi highlights the importance of one of the three pillars of the Banking Union, the common mechanism for insuring deposits. She claims that integrated financial markets require a European solution with regard to deposit insurance and that the establishment of a pan-European scheme could address the problems for large cross-border banks.