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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- PREFACE -- NOTE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERENCES -- Introduction -- I. 'Safe Legislative Progress', 1866-7 -- II. Leaping and Landing, 1867-8 -- III. 'The Utmost Reserve and Quietness', 1869-71 -- IV. Achilles from His Tent, 1872-4 -- V. The Condition of the People, 1874-6 -- VI. Decline and Fall, 1877 -80 -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who you are -- Ambition -- Open-mindedness -- Creativity -- Curiosity and learning -- Courage -- Integrity -- Self-reliance -- Grit -- Hard work and struggles in life -- Self-confidence -- Self-discipline : money and delayed gratification -- Health -- Positive mental attitude -- Dealing with loss -- How you treat other people -- Kindness -- Patience -- Fairness and justice -- Humility -- Respect for others -- Friendship -- Social intelligence -- Forgiveness and gratitude -- Appreciation of beauty -- Getting started -- An invitation -- Appendix: story matrix -- Additional reading -- Index.

Daring, audacious and mind-blowing - or terrifying, brutal and horrific. Scotland has been home to some of Britain''s most high profile robberies and Heist lifts the lid on some of those notorious raids, reopening the files on both solved and unsolved cases. By retracing the steps of the robbers and through interviews with experts and those who had their lives hit by the incidents, the book puts a new slant on some jaw-dropping crimes. From one of the highest profile art thefts of the modern era to an SAS style aerial assault on a bank, Heist tracks raids on everything from stately homes to in

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who you are -- Ambition -- Open-mindedness -- Creativity -- Curiosity and learning -- Courage -- Integrity -- Self-reliance -- Grit -- Hard work and struggles in life -- Self-confidence -- Self-discipline : money and delayed gratification -- Health -- Positive mental attitude -- Dealing with loss -- How you treat other people -- Kindness -- Patience -- Fairness and justice -- Humility -- Respect for others -- Friendship -- Social intelligence -- Forgiveness and gratitude -- Appreciation of beauty -- Getting started -- An invitation -- Appendix: story matrix -- Additional reading -- Index.

The project of cultural studies: heretical doubts, new horizons / Nick Couldry -- The nightmare voice of feminism: feminism and cultural studies / Carol A. Stabile -- Cultural studies: always already disciplinary / Randall K. Cohn, Sara Regina Mitcho, and John M. Woolsey -- From ideology critique to intellectuality: toward a neo-gramscian political pedagogy for cultural studies / Henry Krips -- Attack of the fifty-foot anthology! adventures in teaching cultural studies / Julie Rak -- The literary: cultural capital and the specter of elitism / Denise Albanese -- New aestheticism, the culture industry, and the postcolonial novel / Deepika Bahri -- Cultural studies and theory: once more from the top with feeling / Clare Birchall and Gary Hall -- Cultural studies in the discourse of new media / David Golumbia -- Lost objects: the museum of cinema / Sharon Willis -- Three dialects for media studies / Matthew Tinkcom -- What cultural studies did to anthropological ethnography: from baroque textual aesthetics back to the design of the scenes of inquiry / George E. Marcus -- Longing for the ethnographic / Lisa Breglia -- "So-called cultural histories": cultural studies and history in the age of one world / Michael Denning -- A Marxist methodology for cultural studies: analyzing (over)production of the commodity sign / Max Gulias -- Marxism after cultural studies / Randy Martin -- Out of context: thinking cultural studies diasporically / Grant Farred -- Toward a vulgar cultural studies / Eric Cazdyn -- Where is the "economy"? cultural studies and narratives of capitalism / S. Charusheela -- Cultural studies and "Latin America": reframing the questions / Sophia A. McClennen -- Cultural studies to come / Mahmut Mutman -- Do the math: cultural studies into public policy needs a new equation / Marcus Breen -- Culture and war / Timothy W. Luke -- Communication and cultural labor / Vincent Mosco -- Toward a green Marxist cultural studies: notes on labor, nature, and the historical specificity of capitalism / Michelle Yates -- Cultural studies: a conversation / Andrew Ross and Paul Smith

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This text provides a comprehensive examination of key concepts and theories in moral and political philosophy. With a clear focus on the essentials of each topic, Smith presupposes no prior knowledge and relates moral philosophy to social and political issues

For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture