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"In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship--in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film--and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: 'The essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert.' As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do"--

Das mehrfache Erzählen der gleichen Geschichte hat einen festen Platz in unserem Alltag und in unserer Kultur - sei es als Anekdote im Freundeskreis, als wiederholte Erzählung der Krankheitsgeschichte im Arzt-Patient-Gespräch oder auch als literarische Bearbeitung. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass dieses Phänomen bisher noch nicht Gegenstand interdisziplinärer Forschung war. Die Beiträge des Bandes behandeln das Wiedererzählen aus den Blickwinkeln verschiedener Forschungsrichtungen und beleuchten die Formen und Funktionen von Konstanz und Variation in den unterschiedlichen Erzählversionen in Zusammenhang mit ihren jeweils spezifischen Gesprächs- bzw. Entstehungskontexten.

The papers in this volume were presented at the third conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The theme of the 2012 conference was "Conflict, cooperation and transformation in everyday life." The fifteen papers presented across this volume and volume 45 cover a diverse range of topics, which are divided into two main categories: "Reflections on methods" and (interactions of) "Conflict and cooperation"; this volume focuses on the latter. The papers in this volume present a wide variety of qualitative methods and themes, such as sex-work in Poland, urban public places in the Netherlands, dancing during lunch break in Sweden, self-change in Papua New Guinea, immigration in Malta and the body online. Contributing authors to this volume and the previous come from Belgium, Canada, Sweden, The US, The Netherlands, and Germany, suggesting the thriving diversity of European SSSI in terms of its research themes and methods.

Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them. It presents, in the first person, the grounded and practical experiences of twins as they engage, both individually and together, the "who am I" and "who are we" questions of life. Here, the twins themselves are the stars. Dona Lee Davis conducted conversational interviews with twenty-two sets of identical twins attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the largest such gather

"This volume describes the role of social psychological factors in how political systems function in the 21st century. It presents new theories and evidence showing how attitudes, ideologies, communication, person perception, social cognition and group behavior constitute the foundations of political values; political perception and communication; social cognition and democracy; and identity, intergroup relations and political change. It will appeal to students and researchers in areas of social psychology, political science and public policy, and practitioners interested in the interplay of psychological processes and the functioning of political systems"--

This work offers a summary of the book 'THE SECOND COMING OF STEVE JOBS' by Alan Deutschman.Alan Deutschman is one of America's leading writers on change and innovation. In The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, he tells the story of Steve Jobs, Apple Computer CEO and co-founder. The first part of the book covers his period at NeXT. The author then writes about his success at Pixar, Jobs' Animation Studio, and thirdly about his comeback to Apple followed by the introduction of iMac. Deutschman interviewed nearly 100 colleagues and friends to draw this unprecedented portrait of Steve Jobs. However, Jobs himself apparently declined to be interviewed by Deutschman. Still, Deutschman provides a privileged look inside the man's life. He has succeeded in capturing some elements of Job's inner self which many are curious to discover.There is indeed a wide interest for Steve Job's life as he has become a world icon. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs offers a very thrilling story as it presents one of the greatest turnarounds: Steve Jobs had initially been fired from Apple in 1985 but made his comeback in 1997 and rescued the company he had originally co-founded. This book is a must read for all those wishing to discover the fascinating personality, life and successes of Steve Job.

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book places social and cultural dynamics at the centre of its evolution: language emerged and further developed in human communities already suffused with meaning and communication, mimesis, ritual, song and dance, alloparenting, new divisions of labour and revolutionary changes in social relations. The book thus challenges assumptions about the causal relations between genes, capacities, social communication and innovation: the biological capacities are taken to evolve incrementally on the basis of cognitive plasticity, in a process that recruits previous adaptations and fine-tunes them to serve novel communicative ends. Topics include the ability brought about by language to tell lies, that must have confronted our ancestors with new problems of public trust; the dynamics of social-cognitive co-evolution; the role of gesture and mimesis in linguistic communication; studies of how monkeys and apes express their feelings or thoughts; play, laughter, dance, song, ritual and other social displays among extant hunter-gatherers; the social nature of language acquisition and innovation; normativity and the emergence of linguistic norms; the interaction of language and emotions; and novel perspectives on the time-frame for language evolution. The contributors are leading international scholars from linguistics, anthropology, palaeontology, primatology, psychology, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, archaeology, and cognitive science.