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Power and Public Reason
Zachary Hoskins and Joan Woolfrey
This volume of Social Philosophy Today contains a selection of papers presented at the 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference (2016), an annual event sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The theme of the conference was "Power and Public Reason"; this volume invites wider discussion of the issues explored at the conference. Contributors include Noëlle McAfee, Gerald Gaus, and Paul B. Thompson.
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Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines: Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing
Lisa C. Huebner
In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provides a language for patients, nurses, and administrators to teach, conduct, and advocate for knowledgeable and skilled intimate care in a hospital setting. She also recommends best training practices and practical and effective policy changes to handle conflicts. Ruchti shows that "caring" is not just a personality characteristic but is work that is structured by intersections of race, gender, and nationality.
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Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Deidre Johnson
Deidre Johnson's biography of Edward Stratemeyer leaves little, if anything, to be desired. His entire history is covered here with, of course, special emphasis on his incredible "Syndicate" - a Syndicate which produced the most influential juvenile fiction of the 20th century (Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew to mention but a few) and whose influence is still felt to this day.
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Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement
Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee
This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today’s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2) the central role of rhetoric in democratic activist practices. In presenting a variety of political and rhetorical struggles in their specific contexts, editors Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee allow contributors to reflect on and elaborate possibilities for both activist approaches to rhetorical studies, and rhetorical approaches to activist projects, facilitating better understanding the socio-political consequences of this work.
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International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnational exchanges that occurred in Soviet-structured spaces – from clandestine schools for training international revolutionaries in Moscow to the International Brigades in Spain – the book uncovers complex webs of interaction, at once personal and political, that linked international communists to one another and the Soviet Union. The Spanish civil war, which coincided with the great purges in the Soviet Union, stands at the center of this grassroots history. For many international communists, the war came to define both their life histories and political commitments. In telling their individual stories, the book calls attention to a central paradox of Stalinism – the simultaneous celebration and suspicion of transnational interactions – and illuminates the appeal of a cause that promised solidarity even as it practiced terror.
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Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to the Bolshevik vision of the "children of October."
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The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of “heroic Leningrad” omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state’s myths, and they often found their own uses for the state’s monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union’s chief legitimizing myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory, and public commemoration.
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Essentials of Public Relations Management
Edward J. Lordan
Filling a gap in current PR literature, Essentials of Public Relations Management takes students to the next level. Designed to help students and professionals who have mastered the fundamentals of public relations, this book develops management skills needed for further career advancement. Appropriate for those in the fields of business, communications, journalism or political science, this down-to-earth study of the practical application of public relations covers: Relating to clients, Managing staff, Conducting and applying research, Coping with crises, Handling finances, Understanding the power and the problems of technology, Recognizing actual and potential legal issues, Defining professional ethics.
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Politics, Ink: How American Editorial Cartoonists Skewer Politicians, From King George III to George Dubya
Edward J. Lordan
This fun and extensively illustrated book tells the story of the American political cartoon, from its origins over 250 years ago to today. Edward Lordan gives us a tour of artists, politics, media, American society, and the technology of cartooning, including the work of Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, Currier & Ives, Thomas Nast, Dr. Seuss, Pat Oliphant, Draper Hill, Tom Toles, Ted Rall, Mike Keefe, and countless others. Interviews with today's political cartoonists—including Pulitzer winners Ann Telnaes and Signe Wilkinson—go behind the art form, to show how and why we respond to editorial cartoons as well as what syndication and the Internet mean to the future of political cartooning.
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Sports and Scandals: How Leagues Protect the Integrity of Their Games
Edward J. Lordan
Sports are inspiring and uplifting. They can also bring out some of the worst characteristics in human nature: narcissism, prejudice, greed. This book looks at the major sports scandals in modern American history, from the Black Sox fix of 1919 to the current concussion crisis in the NFL.
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The Case for Combat: How Presidents Persuade Americans To Go To War
Edward J. Lordan
From Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush, many American presidents have used their words to garner support to go to war. What are the techniques they employed to convince citizens to get behind their president in committing to combat? Are these methods effective—or ethical?
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Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Graham MacPhee
This radical reassessment shows how, after the Second World War, British national identity and culture was shaped in ways that still operate today. As empires declined, globalisation spread, and literature responded to these influences. As Graham MacPhee explains, postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions. In this way, they reveal both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism, as they seek to cope with the shock of post-imperial downsizing.
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The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture
Graham MacPhee
Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual-now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy-have interpreted this new condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. Intellectuals-from Baudelaire to Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida-have explored how technology not only reinvents the visual, but also changes the nature of culture itself. The heartland of all such cultural analysis has been the city, from Baudelaire's flaneur to Benjamin's arcades. The Architecture of the Visible presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary approaches to visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York-two key world cities for over two centuries-Graham MacPhee analyzes how visual technology is revolutionizing the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture.
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Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited by insular conceptions of national literature, culture, and history, which serve to erase or marginalize the colonial and postcolonial locations in which British national identity has been articulated. This volume breaks new ground by drawing together a range of disciplinary approaches in order to resituate the relationship between British national identity and Englishness within a global framework. Ranging from the literature and history of empire to analyses of contemporary culture, postcolonial writing, political rhetoric, and postimperial memory after 9/11, this collection demonstrates that far from being parochial or self-involved, the question of Englishness offers an important avenue for thinking about the politics of national identity in our postcolonial and globalized world.
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Elysian Fields: Bart Feller, flute
Robert Maggio
Robert Maggio’s Elysian Fields is the title track of this album by the phenomenally talented Bart Feller. Bart Feller is Principal Flute of the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera and Santa Fe Opera Orchestras.
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Impulse: Clint Allen
Robert Maggio
This limited edition CD features Australian trumpeter Clint Allen, the infamous Dutch pianist/composer Martin Fondse, and the extraordinary Amsterdam-based Zapp 4 String Quartet performing new music by a host of renowned composers, including Robert Maggio’s Surfarara.
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Introductions: Electrum Duo
Robert Maggio
Debut CD by Electrum Duo, flute and percussion duet, showcases Maggio’s Touching Heaven.Electrum Duo is hailed by The New York Times as “a bounty of creative equanimity in an unorthodox pairing.” This duo is comprised of flutist Sophia Anastasia and percussionist Ralph Sorrentino.
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Matthew Korbanic: 8 String Guitar
Robert Maggio
New and dynamic arrangements of classical music for 8 string guitar, featuring the release of Traveling Songs for solo flute and guitar by Robert Maggio.
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Open Road
Robert Maggio
The passionate and powerful Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus presents its 2nd commercial recording – Open Road. Featuring the title work, Open Road, composed by Robert Maggio, and commissioned by PGMC for the start of their 25th anniversary year. This album contains music from previous PGMC concerts, as well as pieces recorded especially for this project.
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Orchestra 2001 Music Of Our Time: Volume 5
Robert Maggio
Robert Maggio’s River Song leads off this 2 CD set of contemporary music for chamber orchestra, including works by James Primosch, George Rochberg, Anna Weesner, George Crumb, Arne Running, David Finko and Jay Reise.
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Polkastra: “I Do” The Wedding Album
Robert Maggio
“The perfect album for any couple entering an ‘altared’ state!” - Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Corigliano. Works on this album include Robert Maggio’s arrangement of O Sole Mio.
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Robert Maggio: Jackson Sounds
Robert Maggio
Driving and romantic music for a ballet by the extraordinary choreographer Matthew Neenan and Ballet X, beautifully performed by cellists Thomas Kraines and Jie Jin. Jackson Sounds synthesizes contemporary pop songs and a Nepalese folk song, transforming them into the dynamic cello duet for Matthew Neenan’s modern classical choreography.
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Robert Maggio: Riddles
Robert Maggio
This album features five of Robert Maggio’s chamber pieces in truly riveting performances by Audrey Andrist, Bart Feller, Colette Valentine, Daniel Grabois, David Fedele, James Stern, Nathan Williams, Robert Koenig, Scott St. John, and Tara Helen O’Connor. Compositions on this Album: Duo Concertante; Fluano Pianute; Riddle; Divide; Phoenix.
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Robert Maggio: Seven Mad Gods
Robert Maggio
Robert Maggio’s debut album of chamber music received glowing reviews in Fanfare and American Record Guide, and featured soulful and stirring performances by Bart Feller, Kathleen Nester, Don Liuzzi, Fred Sherry, Jonathan Spitz, Hugh Sung, John Koen, and Scott St. John.
Compositions on this Album:
Winter Toccata (I Can’t Believe You Want To Die)
Two Quartets (desire, movement, love, stillness)
Barcarole (seven mad gods who rule the sea)
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Robert Maggio: String Quartets
Robert Maggio
Lyrical, passionate, melodic, and rhythmically charged chamber music, featuring soulful variations on American and Italian folk songs; brilliantly performed by the world-class Corigliano and Borromeo String Quartets.
Compositions by Robert Maggio on this album:
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