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"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970's against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970's, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change.
Guerrillas --- History --- George Jackson Brigade --- 1970s. --- american history. --- anarchism. --- anger. --- anti corporations. --- anti state institutions. --- anticapitalist underground. --- bank robberies. --- bombers. --- bombings. --- crime. --- criminals outlaws. --- discussion books. --- engaging. --- george jackson brigade. --- imprisonment. --- insider perspective. --- intense. --- interviews. --- jailbreak. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- pacific northwest. --- page turner. --- revolt. --- revolutionary extremism. --- social change. --- social movements. --- terrorism. --- true crime. --- united states. --- violence. --- war.
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These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism-in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley-political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.
Universities and colleges --- History. --- University of California, Berkeley --- 20th century. --- affirmative action. --- american universities. --- berkeley. --- california. --- culture wars. --- education. --- essays. --- free speech movement. --- generational. --- global universities. --- higher learning. --- insider perspective. --- large universities. --- multiculturalism. --- nonfiction. --- political activists. --- political turmoil. --- political. --- politicized environment. --- professor of sociology. --- sociologists. --- student activism. --- students and teachers. --- united states. --- university of california.
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Cinema is a truly global phenomenon and screenwriters who limit their ambitions to Hollywood can unnecessarily limit their careers. This book, loaded with information on every page, provides the practical know-how for breaking into the global marketplace. It is the first book to offer specific advice on writing for screens large and small, around the world from Hollywood to New Zealand, from Europe to Russia, and for alternative American markets including Native American, regional, and experimental. The book provides valuable insider information, such as * Twenty-five percent of German television is written by Hollywood writers. Screenwriters just need to know how to reach that market. * Many countries, including those in the European Union, have script development money available-to both foreign and local talent--from government-sponsored film funds. * The Web's influence on the film industry has been profound, and here you can find out how to network through the Web. The book also lists the key Web addresses for writers. Andrew Horton, author of two acclaimed books on screenwriting, includes personal essays by accomplished screenwriters from around the world and offers insightful case studies of several films and television scripts, among them My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and The Sopranos. Full of endless enthusiasm for great films and great scripts, this book will be an essential resource for both aspiring writers and accomplished writers hoping to expand their horizons, improve their skills, and increase their chances for success.Includes an interview with Terry Gilliam and contributions from Bernard Gordon, writer for The Day of the Triffids and The Thin Red Line; Lew Hunter, Chair of Screenwriting at UCLA; Karen Hall, writer/producer for Judging Amy and M*A*S*H; and other screenwriters
Motion picture authorship. --- alternative film markets. --- america. --- aspiring writers. --- career. --- case studies. --- cinema scholars. --- europe. --- experimental film. --- film careers. --- film industry. --- film studies. --- global cinema. --- global market. --- globalization. --- hollywood. --- hong kong. --- insider perspective. --- modern film. --- movie scripts. --- native americans. --- new zealand. --- nonfiction essays. --- nonfiction guide. --- online networking. --- practical advice. --- regional film. --- russia. --- screenwriters. --- screenwriting. --- television and film. --- Motion picture authorship
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In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem-a local biological community and its interactions with its environment-has given rise to many institutions and research programs, like the National Science Foundation's program for Long Term Ecological Research. Coleman's insider account of this important and fascinating trend toward big science takes us from the paradigm of collaborative interdisciplinary research, starting with the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957, through the International Biological Program (IBP) of the late 1960's and early 1970's, to the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs of the 1980's.
Biotic communities --- Ecosystem management --- Ecology --- Interdisciplinary research. --- Research. --- 1957. --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- american ecosystems. --- big science. --- biological communities. --- ecological collaborations. --- ecologists. --- ecology. --- ecosystem science. --- environment. --- insider perspective. --- interdisciplinary research. --- international biological program. --- international geophysical year. --- large ecosystems. --- long term ecological research programs. --- long term ecological research. --- national science foundation. --- nonfiction account. --- research institutions. --- research programs. --- science majors. --- study of ecosystems. --- textbooks. --- united states.
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This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork, interviews with Palestinian leaders, and an extensive survey of Arabic-language writings and documents, Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords presents the meaning of state building and self-reliance as Palestinians themselves have understood them in the years between 1993 and 2002.Nathan J. Brown focuses his work on five areas: legal development, constitution drafting, the Palestinian Legislative Council, civil society, and the effort to write a new curriculum. His book shows how Palestinians have understood efforts at building institutions as acts of resumption rather than creation-with activists and leaders seeing themselves as recovering from an interrupted past, Palestinians seeking to rejoin the Arab world by building their new institutions on Arab models, and many Palestinian reformers taking the Oslo Accords as an occasion to resume normal political life. Providing a clear and urgently needed vantage point on most of the issues of Palestinian reform and governance that have emerged in recent policy debates-issues such as corruption, constitutionalism, democracy, and rule of law-Brown's book helps to put Palestinian aspirations and accomplishments in their proper context within a long and complex history and within the larger Arab world.
Nation-state. --- Palestinian Arabs --- National state --- State, The --- National interest --- Self-determination, National --- Politics and government --- Palestinian National Authority. --- Palestinian Authority --- Sulṭah al-Waṭanīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah --- Palestine National Authority --- PNA --- Sulṭah al-Filasṭīnīyah --- 20th century. --- arab israeli conflict. --- arab national models. --- arab palestine. --- arab world. --- constitutionalism. --- fieldwork. --- historical. --- history buffs. --- insider perspective. --- interviews. --- legal development. --- middle east. --- nation building. --- nonfiction. --- oslo accords. --- palestine. --- palestinian legislative council. --- palestinian politics. --- palestinian reformers. --- political perspective. --- political science. --- politics. --- social activists. --- textbooks. --- world politics.
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Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics-and the arbitrariness- behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.
Models (Persons) --- Modeling agencies. --- Fashion shows. --- Style shows --- Advertising --- Agencies, Modeling --- Model agencies --- Employment agencies --- Clothing models --- Fashion models --- House models --- Mannequins (Persons) --- Models, Fashion --- Employees --- Modeling agencies --- Clothing and dress --- beauty consumption. --- beauty standards. --- cultural economy. --- cultural production. --- cultural theory. --- culture studies. --- ethnography. --- fashion economy. --- fashion industry. --- fashion models. --- fashion studies. --- fashion world. --- female models. --- gender studies. --- insider perspective. --- london. --- male models. --- modeling agents. --- modeling politics. --- modeling. --- new york. --- nonfiction. --- personal observations. --- photographers. --- race and class. --- runway models. --- selling beauty. --- social science. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- stylists.
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In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of students, faculty, and administrators struggling with the politics of race in higher education at U.C. Berkeley's prestigious law school-one of the first institutions to implement affirmative action policies and one of the first to be forced to remove them. Andrea Guerrero is a member of the last class of students admitted to Boalt Hall under the affirmative action policies. Her informed and passionate journalistic account provides an insider's view into one of the most pivotal and controversial issues of our time: racial diversity in higher education.Guerrero relates the stories of those who benefited from affirmative action and those who suffered from its removal. She shows how the "race-blind" admission policies at Boalt have been far from race-neutral and how the voices of underrepresented minority students have largely disappeared. A hushed silence-the silence of students, faculty, and administrators unwilling and unable to discuss the difficult issues of race-now hangs over Boalt and many institutions like it, Guerrero claims. As the legal and sociopolitical battles over affirmative action continue on a number of consequential fronts, this book provides a rich and engrossing perspective on many facets of this crucial question.
Affirmative action programs. --- California. --- Discrimination in education. --- Discrimination in education - Law and legislation - California. --- Law and legislation. --- University of California, Berkeley.-- School of Law.-- Admission. --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Discrimination in education --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - U.S. - General --- Law and legislation --- Affirmative action programs --- University of California, Berkeley. --- Admission. --- Educational discrimination --- Race discrimination in education --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Boalt Hall School of Law --- School of Law of the University of California --- Education --- Segregation in education --- University of California (1868-1952). --- University of California, Berkeley --- Educational equalization --- Discrimination in employment --- Personnel management --- Minorities --- Employment --- Berkeley Law --- 1995. --- admission policies. --- affirmative action. --- behind the scenes. --- california. --- cultural studies. --- discussion books. --- high profile case. --- higher education. --- insider perspective. --- journalism. --- law school. --- legal issues. --- minority students. --- nonfiction account. --- nonfiction. --- politics of race. --- racial discrimination. --- racial diversity. --- racial equality. --- racial issues. --- sociopolitical issues. --- students and faculty. --- united states. --- university of california. --- us history.
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This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals-including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition-to depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. It also sheds new light on what now drives political and cultural currents in a country at the heart of today's most perplexing geopolitical dilemmas.
Rois et souverains --- HISTORY / Middle East / General. --- Biographies --- Iran. --- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, --- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, --- Moḥammad Rezā Shāh, --- Muhammed Reza Pahlavi, --- Mokhammed Reza Pakhlevi, --- Muḥammad Riz̤ā Shāh, --- Riz̤ā Shāh, Muḥammad, --- Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, --- محمد رضا پهلوى --- Muḥammad Riz̤ā Pahlavī, --- محمد رضا پهلوى، --- Iran --- History --- Miḧemedreza Pehlewî, --- Miḧemed Reza Pehlewî, --- Pehlewî, Miḧemedreza, --- 1979. --- biographical. --- biography. --- discussion books. --- dramatic. --- engaging. --- geopolitical issues. --- global relationships. --- government and governing. --- history. --- insider perspective. --- intense emotion. --- interviews. --- iran. --- iranian culture. --- iranian history. --- iranian revolution. --- lifetime. --- modern history. --- modern iran. --- mohammad reza shah. --- monarchy. --- nonfiction. --- nuclear program. --- political insights. --- revolution. --- royalty. --- shah. --- shahs regime. --- true story. --- us iran relations. --- world history.
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How do modern women in developing countries experience sexuality and love? Drawing on a rich array of interview, ethnographic, and survey data from her native country of Kenya, Sanyu A. Mojola examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their relationships, schooling, employment, and finances in the context of economic inequality and a devastating HIV epidemic. Writing from a unique outsider-insider perspective, Mojola argues that the entanglement of love, money, and the transformation of girls into "consuming women" lies at the heart of women's coming-of-age and health crises. At once engaging and compassionate, this text is an incisive analysis of gender, sexuality, and health in Africa.
Women consumers --- AIDS (Disease) in women --- AIDS (Disease) --- HIV infections --- Young women --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Women --- Young adults --- Girls --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Women as consumers --- Consumers --- Attitudes. --- Prevention. --- Risk factors --- Sex factors --- Economic conditions. --- Sexual behavior --- Health risk assessment --- Diseases --- africa. --- african countries. --- aids. --- biomedical. --- coming of age. --- consuming women. --- developing countries. --- disease. --- ecology. --- economic inequality. --- employment. --- epidemic. --- ethnographic research. --- finances. --- gender and women studies. --- gender studies. --- gendered economics. --- health crisis. --- health. --- healthcare. --- hiv epidemic. --- hiv infection. --- hiv risk. --- hiv. --- kenya. --- love. --- modernity. --- outsider insider perspective. --- public policy. --- relationships. --- schooling. --- sexuality studies. --- sexuality. --- young african women. --- young kenyan women.
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The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process he provides a new perspective on many issues affecting Mexicans countrywide.
Public opinion --- Working class --- Democracy --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Attitudes. --- Political activity --- Public opinion. --- Employment --- Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Coyoacán, Mexico) --- Mexico --- Colonia Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Colonia Santo Domingo (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Santo Domingo (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Barrio del Pedregal de Santo Domingo (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Pedregal de Santo Domingo (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Pedregal Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Politics and government --- Political activity. --- Political sociology --- anthropology. --- compliant defiance. --- contemporary mexico. --- culture. --- democracy. --- emancipation. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- historians. --- human condition. --- ideological. --- insider perspective. --- mexican history. --- mexican society. --- mexicans. --- mexico city. --- mexico. --- modern history. --- national democracy. --- nonfiction. --- political change. --- political history. --- political. --- popular politics. --- social change. --- social science. --- social studies. --- subjugation. --- working class. --- Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Coyoacan, Mexico) --- Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico)
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