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"In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments. Drawing on fieldwork in a Nanjing, China, toxicology lab that studies the influence of pesticides and other pollutants on male reproductive and developmental health, Lamoreaux shows how the lab's everyday research practices bring national, hormonal, dietary, maternal, and laboratory environments into being. She situates the lab's work within broader Chinese history as well as the contemporary cultural and political moment, in which declining fertility rates and reproductive governance and technology are growing concerns. She also points to how toxicology in China is a transnational endeavor tied to both local conditions and international research agendas and infrastructures, which highlights the myriad scales and scope of epigenetic environments. At a moment of growing concerns about toxins, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and climate change, Lamoreaux demonstrates that epigenetic research's proliferation of environments produces new kinds of toxic relations that impact multiple generations of humans"--

"Virtue is more than a word; it is a way to live. When applied to our professional life, when we cultivate virtue in ourselves and others and also flourish as a human. When applied to organizational life organizational engagement goes up. When we cultivate virtue, we deepen and strengthen relationships at work and in life"--

Welche Rolle spielt die Internationale Geschichte in der Geschichtswissenschaft? Welche neuen Perspektiven lassen sich identifizieren, welche Blindstellen lassen sich erkennen? Anhand der sechs Schlüsselkategorien »Diplomatie«, »Wirtschaft«, »Recht«, »Netzwerke«, »Familie« und »Wissen« wirft dieser Band einen frischen Blick auf eine historische Teildisziplin, die jüngst einen erheblichen Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren hat. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei eine exemplarische Auswahl empirisch fundierter Beiträge, die jeweils anhand eines historischen Falles das 19. und das 20. Jahrhundert für die Internationale Geschichte neu vermessen. Denn diese beiden Jahrhunderte müssen – so die zentrale Annahme des Bandes – viel stärker als bisher als zusammengehörige Epoche erfasst und Forschungsdiskussionen über die Jahrhundertgrenze hinweg direkter aufeinander bezogen werden.

"Homeward Bound shines a light on a neglected aspect of twentieth century Irish migration history. By using firsthand accounts with those who lived in and left Ireland and India following independence and settled in Britain, it offers new insights into lives in the late British Empire and the prompts for migration as it receded"--

"Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to the proposed construction of an incinerator and to unequal land use practices, and initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore"--

"This volume will focus on ethical dilemmas created by today's ever-changing technologies and how these issues have affected individuals, companies, and society to include policies, responsibilities, abuses, consequences, whistle-blowing, and other factors in a wide variety of technology areas"--

Media management & artificial intelligence -- Media business models -- Overview of AI -- Games -- Social networks -- Streamers -- Broadcasters -- Digital publishers -- Scripted -- Entertainment -- Factual -- Marketing content -- Creators -- Music -- Podcasters -- Esports -- The metaverse -- Future of the media business.

"An account of the paradoxical lives lived by creative professionals in contemporary China."

One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers--and why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this engaging study of New York State's Capital Region is an accessible glimpse into the social phenomena that influence contemporary cities. The rising economic fortunes of cities in the Rust Belt, Banks argues, are due in part to the markers of its previous decay--which translate into signs of urban authenticity on the internet. The City Authentic unpacks the odd connection between digital media and derelict buildings, the consequences of how we think about industry and place, and the political processes that have enabled a new paradigm in urban planning. Mixing urban sociology with media and cultural studies, Banks offers a lively account of how urban life and development are changing in the twenty-first century.