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As shopping has been transformed from a chore into a major source of hedonistic pleasure, a specifically Russian consumer culture has begun to emerge that is unlike any other. This book examines the many different facets of consumption in today's Russia, including retailing, advertising and social networking. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the inherently visual - not to say spectacular - nature both of consumption generally, and of Russian consumer culture in particular. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which brands, both Russian and foreign, construct categories of identity in order to claim legitimacy for themselves. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how consumer culture is being reinvented in Russia today, in a society which has one, nostalgic eye turned towards the past, and the other, utopian eye, set firmly on the future. Borrowing concepts from both marketing and cultural studies, the approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and will be of considerable interest, to researchers, students and practitioners wishing to gain invaluable insights into one of the most lucrative, and exciting, of today's emerging markets.

Review of the books "Land power and poverty: agrarian transformation and political conflict in Central America", by Charles Brockett, and "The agrarian question and peasant movements in Colombia: struggles of the national peasant associations 1967-1989", by Leon Zamose. Andrew notes that because of the vague use of the terms "peasant" and "peasantry", Brockett in his book is unable to provide an adequate assessment of the impact of the agrarian changes on specific sectors of the peasantry in Central America

Preliminary Material -- PATTERNS IN EARLY GREEK COLONISATION -- PRE-COLONIAL CONTACTS: QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS -- COMMERCIAL INTERCHANGES BETWEEN GREEKS AND NATIVES -- CORINTHIAN COLONIES AND THUCYDIDES' TERMINOLOGY -- THE HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION OF AL MINA -- THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE OΠKION TΩN OIKIΣTHPΩN OF CYRENE -- THE DATE OF THE GREEK PENETRATION OF THE BLACK SEA -- GREEK AND ROMAN SETTLEMENTS ON THE BLACK SEA COASTS: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- MEGARA HYBLAEA AND THE SICELS -- THE FOUNDATION OF THASOS -- ON THE GREAT LIST OF THEORI AT THASOS -- OIKHIOI ΠEPINΘIOI -- ADOPTED TEIANS: A PASSAGE IN THE NEW INSCRIPTION OF PUBLIC IMPRECATIONS FROM TEOS -- ABDERA AND TEOS -- A DEDICATION FROM THE CHERSONESE AT OLYMPIA -- THE FIFTH-CENTURY CLERUCHY ON LEMNOS -- RELIGION, WOMEN AND GREEK COLONIZATION -- THE ODYSSEY, HISTORY, AND WOMEN -- THASIAN CONTROVERSIES -- INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.

Introduction : the creation of the canon / G.A.J. Rogers -- Pt. I, Outsiders. Becoming and outsider : Gassendi in the history of philosophy / Margaret J. Osler ; Sir Kenelm Digby, recusant philosopher / John Henry ; Theophilus Gale and historiography of philosophy / Stephen Pigney ; The standing of Ralph Cudworth as a philosopher / Benjamin Carter ; Nicholas Malebranche : insider or outsider? / Andrew Pyle -- Pt. II, Insiders. Descartes. Excusable caricature and philosophical relevance : the case of Descartes / Tom Sorell ; Descartes' reputation / John Cottingham ; The political motivations of Heidegger's anti-Cartesianism / Emmanuel Faye ; Hobbes. Hobbes' reputation in Anglo-American philosophy / Tom Sorell ; A farewell to Leviathan : Foucault and Hobbes on power, sovereignty and war / Luc Foisneau ; Spinoza. Spinoza past and present / Wiep van Bunge ; Benedictus pantheissimus / Steven Nadler ; Locke. The standing and reputation of John Locke / G.A.J. Rogers ; The reputation of Locke's general philosophy in Britain in the twentieth century / Michael Ayers ; Leibniz. Leibniz's reputation : the Fontenelle tradition / Daniel Garber ; Leibniz's reputation in the eighteenth century : Kant and Herder / Catherine Wilson ; The reception of Leibniz's philosophy in the twentieth century / Robert Merrihew Adams

Introduction: a dynamic leader for Black women -- From Jim Crow to the Harlem renaissance -- Becoming Madam Walker -- Competitors and colleagues -- The beauty of hair and beyond -- Gaining independence and sharing empowerment -- A thriving legacy -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Sources -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

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