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Art and the Global Economy
John Zarobell
"Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibitions; and the internationalization of the scope of contemporary art. John Zarobell explores the economic and social transformations in the cultural sphere, the results of greater access to information about art, exhibitions, and markets around the world, as well as the increasing interpenetration of formerly distinct geographical domains. By considering a variety of locations--both long-standing art capitals and up-and-coming centers of the future--Art and the Global Economy facilitates a deeper understanding of how globalization affects the domain of the visual arts in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher
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Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine
Patrick James Dunagan
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eyes a world yet beyond awaits hearingknocks the page brings sky to hand
an answer
there is no answer
nothing's forgotten
. . . forgiven
. . . leftonly movement lasts
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The Duncan Era: One Reader's Cosmology
Patrick James Dunagan
"Essays around the life and work of American poet Robert Duncan, his influences and lasting presence in the art form."
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Arte-acción y performance en los muchos Méxicos
Karina Hodoyán and Josefina Alcázar
Josefina Alcázar continúa delineando el mapa del performance en México. Para trazar este vasto territorio convocó a creadores de diversas regiones del país para investigar y rastrear la historia de esta expresión artística. Lo que ese mapa muestra es que en algunas regiones el desarrollo del arte del performance es más duradero y consistente, mientras que en otras apenas germina, apenas deja ver sus primeros brotes. Hay ciudades donde esta manifestación artística es constante y en no pocos sitios es interrumpida, entrecortada y con altibajos. El centralismo que padece México se refleja en todas las actividades y el performance no escapa a este lastre.
Las coordenadas que esbozan esta geografía se desprenden de escenarios con características particulares, con sus signos y códigos locales, con su ritmo, estructura y sus propias contradicciones, lo que se plasma en una amplia investigación que contempla lugares como Oaxaca, Mérida, Monterrey, Chihuahua, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Tijuana, Sonora, Xalapa, Michoacán, Chiapas y la Ciudad de México.
La indagación no deja de cubrir el trabajo de artistas residentes más allá del río Bravo, particularmente en California, donde se halla la segunda ciudad con más mexicanos y personas de ascendencia mexicana. Todo esto muestra la pluralidad caleidoscópica y múltiple que habita el fascinante mundo del performance o arte-acción creado en los muchos Méxicos.
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Josefina Alcázar continues to outline the performance map in Mexico. To trace this vast territory, he invited creators from different regions of the country to investigate and trace the history of this artistic expression. What this map shows is that in some regions the development of performance art is more durable and consistent, while in others it barely germinates, barely reveals its first buds. There are cities where this artistic manifestation is constant and in many places it is interrupted, interrupted and with ups and downs. The centralism suffered by Mexico is reflected in all the activities and the performance does not escape this burden.
The coordinates that outline this geography are derived from scenarios with particular characteristics, with their local signs and codes, with their rhythm, structure and their own contradictions, which is reflected in a broad investigation that includes places such as Oaxaca, Mérida, Monterrey, Chihuahua, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Tijuana, Sonora, Xalapa, Michoacán, Chiapas and Mexico City.
The investigation does not stop covering the work of resident artists beyond the Rio Grande, particularly in California, where the second city with more Mexicans and people of Mexican descent is located. All this shows the kaleidoscopic and multiple plurality that inhabits the fascinating world of performance or art-action created in the many Mexicos.
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from Book of Kings
Patrick James Dunagan
from BOOK OF KINGS presents roughly the first half of a book-length serial poem exploring open field poetics. It's 'line,' as the saying goes, is driven by a breath spaced measure, derived à la readings in the work of poets such as Larry Eigner, Joanne Kyger, and Paul Blackburn. With debt of course acknowledged to William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson as well as Stéphane Mallarmé.
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Positive Words, Powerful Results: simple ways to honor, affirm, and celebrate life
Hal Urban
Although we live in an ocean of words, we rarely acknowledge their power to uplift or put down, to inspire or discourage, to help or hurt. But in this jewel of a book, Hal Urban -- parent, award-winning teacher, and author of the classic Life's Greatest Lessons -- shows us simple and immediate ways that we can use language to change lives -- both our own and those around us.
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University of San Francisco
Alan Ziajka and Robert Elias
The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigration to the western United States, and the population growth of California and San Francisco as a result of the California Gold Rush. For 159 years, the University of San Francisco has enriched the lives of thousands of people. The institution has graduated students who went on to become leaders in government, education, business, journalism, sports, the sciences, and the legal and medical professions. Among its alumni, the university counts three San Francisco mayors, a US senator, four California Supreme Court justices, a California lieutenant governor, two Pulitzer Prize winners, three Olympic medalists, several professional athletes, and the former president of Peru.
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Triangle Squared: three conversations
Ava Koohbor
Poetry. Art. Three fictional conversations among Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Morton Feldman.
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The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference
Terence J. Parr
Programmers run into parsing problems all the time. Whether it’s a data format like JSON, a network protocol like SMTP, a server configuration file for Apache, a PostScript/PDF file, or a simple spreadsheet macro language—ANTLR v4 and this book will demystify the process. ANTLR v4 has been rewritten from scratch to make it easier than ever to build parsers and the language applications built on top. This completely rewritten new edition of the bestselling Definitive ANTLR Reference shows you how to take advantage of these new features.
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Landscape Portrait Figure Form
Dean Rader
A frog and a toad walk into a book of poems. They meet Paul Klee, Heironymus Bosch, Adrienne Rich, Sesshu Toyo, Mark Twain, all of them escorted by Dean Rader. There are adventure poems, landscapes, assassins, self portraits, there are what some might call ‘ideas’ mixed with some very funny moments, and what we might quite seriously call ‘emotions.’
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Das Gedichtete (or un thème et variations poétique)
Patrick James Dunagan
Das Gedichtete (or un thème et variations du poétique) is book of raw material shaped by the elements in Dunagan’s mind and chosen by the poet with great care. Local and galactic resonances, basic Songsmithing. The grumblings and ecstasies of a lifer in the guild. “Das Gedichtete,” after Walter Benjamin: “the poetized,” or that which “in an ideal sense, preexists each particular poem but is realized only in the poem’s creation.”
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There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk: A GUSTONBOOK
Patrick James Dunagan
Poetry. Written in and around the Spring of 2009, composed of short, fragmentary blocks of verse and prose, including several quoted sources, GUSTONBOOK is a workman's notebook of sorts sketched out in response to several years spent contemplating the work and life of painter Philip Guston in relation to the ongoing world, i.e., exhibitions, books on/about Guston, other books/art works amid daily walks, drinks, and talks. More explorations than explanations, the entries contained herein situate the eye of memory as witness to the immediate surrounds of now: day to day, hour by hour, the concern never (always) changing. As Guston once said, gesturing out the window, "Who wants that? and you can't have it anyway."
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The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
Robert Elias
Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship to American empire, from the revolutionary era to the present
“The Empire Strikes Out is a rare and wonderful combination of splendid scholarship and lively writing. Robert Elias’s affection for baseball illuminates its pages even when he is unearthing episodes of organized baseball’s racism, jingoism, unbridled militarism, and insensitivity to other cultures. A truly fine work.” —Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer, The Era, and October Men
Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.”
From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national pastime and baseball’s role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball’s frequent and often surprising connections to America’s presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America’s dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that’s about more than just sports.
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Imagining Black womanhood : the negotiation of power and identity within the Girls Empowerment Project
Stephanie Sears
Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Africentric, womanist, single-sex, after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie D. Sears carefully examines the stakes of the complex negotiations of Black womanhood for both the girls served by the project and for the women who staffed it. Rather than a multigenerational alliance committed to women's and girls' empowerment, the women and girls often appeared to struggle against each other, with the girls' "politics of respect" often in conflict with the staff's "politics of respectability," a conflict especially highlighted in the public contexts of dance performances. This groundbreaking case study offers significant insights into practices of resistance, identity work, youth empowerment, cultural politics, and organizational power." ""This book makes an important contribution by focusing on girls of color and an organization devoted to girls of color, exposing the complexities and contradictions that mark the way power, race, and gender become operationalized in practice. Well written and with rich quotes, it's a wonderful read."︣Mary P. Sheridan, author of Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone.
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Native Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Beyond The Academic-Industrial Complex
Andrea Smith
Native Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Beyond The Academic-Industrial Complex is chapter 2 in Part 1 of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change, edited by Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Copyright 2009.
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Generational Shockwaves and the Implications for Higher Education
Donald Heller and Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio
Baby Boomers, in their roles as students, parents, professors and administrators, transformed the American higher education system. As Boomers near retirement, Generation X and the Millennials are building on those contributions and making their own impacts. This volume sheds light on a current issue in higher education: managing the melding of generations, each with its needs and approaches to teaching and learning
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State Postsecondary Education Research: New Methods to Inform Policy and Practice
Donald Heller and Kathleen M. Shaw
Following political scientist's "rediscovery" of states as units of analysis -- because they constitute unique "natural laboratories" for testing theory and hypotheses about political behavior and policy adoption dynamics -- this book introduces this perspective as an increasingly important tool for researchers in higher education. This book provides an in-depth examination of the challenges and opportunities inherent in conducting cross-state higher education policy research. The authors of each chapter use their individual research projects to demonstrate the array of methodological, theoretical, analytical, and political challenges inherent in conducting comparative state-level policy research. The book is intended as a resource for researchers in higher education policy and as a text for higher education policy courses. It may also appeal to scholars of educational policy as well as higher education policymakers
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The Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
Robert Elias
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance follows the witty and feisty Debs Kafka through the dysfunctional halls of academia, into the scandal-ridden Catholic Church, down the streets of San Francisco, and into the locker rooms of Major League Baseball. Can he fathom the chaos of these different worlds, find the culprit, and still salvage his own aspirations and stormy romance? In a nutshell this novel is: Good Will Hunting meets the Rookie on the Field of Dreams behind the Catholic Church.
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Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 things that matter
Hal Urban
A collection of twenty life principles based on the values of integrity and compassion explains how to enrich one's life by embracing healthier attitudes about money, success, and having fun.
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Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime
Robert Elias
One particular American sport arguably surpasses all others in reflecting U.S. society: the national pastime -- baseball. Roger Angell has suggested, "Baseball seems to have been invented solely for the purpose of explaining all other things in life". It has uniquely mirrored the trends within our culture and has been associated with "The American Dream" in all of its permutations. Baseball has been an arena in which the mightiest struggles of our society -- equal rights regardless of race, nationality, or gender -- have been played out.
Editor Robert Elias has woven together a collection of essays of exceptional diversity to look at how baseball and the American Dream have connected through history to the present day, as well as providing a signpost to the future of baseball in American popular culture. Featuring articles by former players such as Orlando Cepeda and Dusty Baker (currently the manager for the San Francisco Giants), legendary journalists such as Leonard Koppett, Andrei Codrescu, and Roger Kahn, and contemporary scholars such as Jules Tygiel, Gai Berlage, and Samuel Regalado, this volume provides a unique and valuable perspective on baseball and its distinctive place in American culture.
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Rethinking Peace
Robert Elias and Jennifer Turpin
With the development of the atomic bomb, Albert Einstein remarked that everything had changed except our thinking about the world. Einstein and Bertrand Russell warned us that "we have to learn to think in a new way. . . . shall we put an end to the human race; or shall we renounce war?"
Unfortunately, we are facing the end of this century still in the midst of wars of various motivations. In response, the editors of Rethinking Peace have compiled a collection of essays designed to encourage readers to think differently about the world and the prospects for peace. Based on rigorous scholarly work, these essays nevertheless have been written to be read by students—to make important points in a short space, and in plain English.
With an emphasis on new thinking and positive strategies for developing a more peaceful world, the authors explore why conventional politics and generations of peace movements have not quelled our fascination with militarism; how we got to where we are now; the kind of thinking that keeps leading us to war; and how we can fundamentally change our thinking so that a peaceful future is more than simply a pipedream.
The forty-five articles—fresh, timely, diverse, and controversial—are sure to provoke meaningful discussion and debate.
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Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
Robert Elias
The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives.
From a thorough examination of victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs, Elias concludes that little victim support has actually occurred and that victimization is, in fact, escalating. He argues for a change in the structural sources of crime and proposes a `new culture' that could lead to substantially less crime.
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The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights
Robert Elias
Considering victimology as a reflection of the structure of American society, Elias examines its links to the broad arenas of social, political and economic relations and advocates a new victimology of human rights that embraces victims of both crime and oppression.
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