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Sideshow U.S.A. : freaks and the American cultural imagination
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ISBN: 0226005399 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press


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Continental divides : remapping the cultures of North America.
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ISBN: 9780226005515 0226005518 0226005526 9780226005522 9780226005539 0226005534 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She in


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Raising Henry
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ISBN: 0300184298 9780300184297 1299841295 9781299841291 9780300180008 0300180004 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven

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Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family's encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today's knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family's story is impossible to forget.


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Transparency : new trajectories in law
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ISBN: 9781032175539 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa
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ISBN: 9780796926173 0796926174 Year: 2021 Publisher: Boulder

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NEW EMPIRE OF AI : the future of global inequality
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ISBN: 9781509553099 1509553096 Year: 2024 Publisher: [S.l.]: POLITY PRESS,

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As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing inequality is the single biggest threat to the transformative potential of AI. Not only is AI built on an unequal global system of power, it stands poised to entrench existing inequities, further consolidating a new age of empire. AI’s impact on inequality will not be experienced in poorer countries only: it will be felt everywhere. The effects will be seen in intensified international migration as opportunities become increasingly concentrated in wealthier nations; in heightened political instability and populist politics; and in climate-related disasters caused by an industry blind to its environmental impact across supply chains.

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Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa
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ISBN: 9780796926173 Year: 2021 Publisher: Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers, ; HSRC Press

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The masculinity studies reader
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ISBN: 0631226605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Malden (Mass.) : Blackwell,

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The masculinity studies reader
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ISBN: 9780631226604 Year: 2002 Publisher: Malden (Mass.) Blackwell

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The masculinity studies reader
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ISBN: 0631226591 0631226605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell

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The Masculinity Studies Reader is a collection of previously published essays that have defined the interdisciplinary study of masculinity. Bringing together scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this volume serves multiple functions as a teaching companion, introduction to the field, and scholarly resource. Showcasing key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Halperin, Freud, Dyer, Boyarin, and Fanon, the Reader seeks to reconceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism, as well as across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and queer theory. An introductory essay written by the editors frames widely-read and -cited work in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of, and to raise questions about, masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.

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