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"Explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations, and asks what image of reality appears if the 'real' is engaged through its approximations-the child in an adoptive family; the undocumented forced to as legal citizens; politically disappeared persons known only through their material remains?"--

"Unchecked climate change affects nearly everything on Earth, including the way humans communicate. In A Sense of Urgency, Debra Hawhee focuses our attention on new communication strategies that are emerging around the global climate crisis. At the heart of the story Hawhee tells are the challenges that our ecological future poses to rhetoric, and how those challenges demand that we learn to privilege more than our pasts and ourselves. The challenges of imagining futures under dramatically different climate conditions, of communicating climate science, and of offsetting human privilege all expose the limits of rhetoric as conceived by ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. The most glaring limit is the prominence those thinkers granted to precedent. When it comes to the climate crisis, precedent is not up to the task of addressing the problem at hand. Climate activists, scientists, artists, and scholars are trying to overcome this limitation, and A Sense of Urgency examines four departures from rhetoric's playbook that can be helpful in this struggle. Each of these departures presents new resources and different means of intensification in response to situations with few to no precedents. For Hawhee, thinking with these departures, and the attendant rhetorical strategies, can help people fathom both what is happening and what will happen if action is not taken. In this way, A Sense of Urgency is an indispensable guide in our search for new imaginative pathways"--

"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows how the FANGS became too powerful - and show us what we can do about it!"

"This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women's daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women were perceived by others, how they perceived themselves, how they fought for freedom. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. These are artifacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it. With variety and nuance, Hirsch cracks open the fissures of what we think we know to illuminate a much richer retelling: What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? What does a mobile phone have to do with femicides? Or Kim Kardashian's diamond ring with Elena Ferrante? Wide-ranging, subversive, witty, and superbly researched, this is a book that upends all our assumptions about, and presentations of, the past, proving it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it"--

"The cultural change denominated as "the new normal" goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited personal contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in societies all around the world: physical contact decreases while virtual reality expands and public spaces decline while artificial intelligence grows, leading to structural reconfigurations of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-Pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning global governmentality and challenging the biopolitics of the new normal, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more"--

This book explores how a sense of wonder and the musicality of silence can be a rehumanizing force in education, health and welfare, countering overly anthropocentric and instrumental worldviews. Wonder--in an aesthetic, philosophical, and spiritual sense--brings human beings in resonance with the world again.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: The Wavering Fortunes of the Fetus -- The Wavering Fortunes of the Fetus -- Part I: The Ascent of the Fetus -- 2: The 1960s and the 1970s -- The Seeds of Change Are Sown -- The Sexual Revolution -- Unveiling Pregnancy in the 1960s and the 1970s -- Medical-Pharmaceutical Disasters -- The Nestlé-Powder Milk Scandal and the Birth of La Leche League -- Gestating Dangerously -- Private and Hospital Referrals -- The Psycho-prophylactic Method -- Childbirth in the 1960s and the 1970s -- Iconic Pictures -- A Serene Pregnancy and a Sweet Birth -- Bibliography -- 3: The 1980s -- The Advent of Ultrasound -- Amniocentesis and CVS (Chorionic Villus Sampling) -- The Fear of Radiation -- The Horrifying Fetus -- The Birth of the New Fathers -- Thomas Verny and International Fetal Societies -- The Silent Scream: A Loud Deceit -- The Birth of Fertility Treatments -- Pregnancy in the 1980s -- The Delivery During the 1980s -- Starting Research -- Breaking Bad and Sad News -- Bibliography -- 4: The 1990s -- Fetal Images -- Bonding with Fetuses -- Fetal Primers and Magazines -- The Consumer Fetus -- 'Reborn' Fetuses and Dolls -- Motherhood on the Covers of Glossy Magazines -- Delivery in the 1990s -- The Rise of the Doula -- Fading Excitement at Birth -- From Star to Fallen Star -- Bibliography -- 5: The First Decade of the New Millennium -- The Revolution of Assisted Reproduction Technologies -- Frozen for Eternity -- The Twins Epidemic -- Wondrous and Miraculous Fetuses -- The Transparent Uterus -- Keepsake Ultrasound -- Belly Casts -- Ann Geddes's Misleading Talent -- Pregnancies of the Stars -- Sexy in the Consulting Room -- Losing a Child -- The Vanishing Twin and the Demise of Fetal Twins -- Bibliography -- 6: 2010-2019 -- The Viral Fetus -- The Royal Fetus.

This book draws on interview and photographic data from a study with fourteen trans people from British Columbia. It exposes the restrictive choreography of reproductive healthcare, and documents the improvisational tactics used by trans people in their pursuit of care that is competent, safe, and affirming.

"Examines the relationship between rhetoric and debt, arguing that they are fundamentally entangled in producing and disciplining who is deemed worthy of credit and how debt materializes differentially: as a credit to some and condemnation of others."

"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts of Businesses in Rural Areas evaluates growth trajectories and educational opportunities in rural areas. It further explores the inclusion efforts of marginalized groups in rural society. Covering topics such as the construction industry, rural populations, and workplace inclusivity, this premier reference source is a valuable resource for policymakers, investors, professionals, business leaders and managers, economists, sociologists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians"--