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In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships.

What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan's modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.

This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications and focusing on how to collaborate productively with data science teams.

The Closed Circle offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world's most influential Islamist groups operates. Lorenzo Vidino marshals unique interviews with prominent former members and associates of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, shedding light on why and how people join and leave the organization.

Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "e;here and now,"e; that their subjects live in the "e;there and then,"e; and that the "e;other"e; exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "e;other"e; and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).

Robert G. Hagstrom is one of the best-known authors of investment books for general audiences. Turning his extensive experience as a portfolio manager at Legg Mason Capital Management into valuable guidance for professionals and nonprofessionals alike, he is the author of six successful books on investment, including The Warren Buffett Way, a New York Times best-seller that has sold more than a million copies. In this updated second edition of Investing: The Last Liberal Art, Hagstrom explores basic and fundamental investing concepts in a range of fields outside of economics, including physics, biology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and literature. He discusses, for instance, how the theory of evolution disrupts the notion of the efficient market and how reading strategies for literature can be gainfully applied to investing research. Building on Charlie Munger's famous "e;latticework of mental models"e; concept, Hagstrom argues that it is impossible to make good investment decisions based solely on a strong knowledge of finance theory alone. He reinforces his concepts with additional data and a new chapter on mathematics, and updates his text throughout to reflect the developments of the past decade, particularly the seismic economic upheaval of 2008. He has also added a hundred new titles to the invaluable reading list concluding the book.Praise for the first edition:"e;I read this book in one sitting: I could not put it down."e;-Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk"e;Elegant and irresistible. Robert G. Hagstrom makes the complex clear as he confidently crisscrosses through the disciplines of finance, biology, physics, and literature. The only way to understand investing better, [Investing] shows, is to understand the world better. Ideas spark off the page at every turn. This is simply a gem of a book."e;-James Surowiecki, New Yorker"e;Investing is a brisk and engaging read, and it is a pleasure to be in the presence of Hagstrom's agile mind."e;-International Herald Tribune

This year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners include outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad.

Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.

Having returned to Russia in 1990 after two decades, the writer known as Abram Tertz creates a vivid picture of today's Russian intelligentsia and its role as conscience and critic since the fall of communism, as well as a chilling portrait of economic and political stagnation under Yeltsin.

Analyzing the right to die as a controversial social and political issue, this text examines its development in contemporary public policy. Case studies of policy-making in California, Massachusetts and Florida show the variations that have developed as laws are enacted by each state.

In a work that is both a fascinating social history and an engagingly written guide to the use of historical source material, the authors illuminate the quantititative methodology of social history which allows scholars to study groups of people and aspects of history previously ignored.

This study explores the passion with which Victorian male writers and artists gave meaning to the myth of Perseus and Andromeda and its medieval analogue, the legend of St George and the dragon. It demonstrates how men used the myth to exert their own gender on Victorian culture.

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action¿but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events.

In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.

George G. Szpiro guides readers through the puzzling world of paradoxes, from Socratic dialogues to the Monty Hall Problem.

When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it became known as a book on film that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliography. This work includes eighteen essays and a chapter on Marnie titled Does Mark Cure Marnie? Or, 'You Freud, Me Hitchcock.'

William Duggan¿a leading expert on innovation and strategic thinking¿offers a guide to navigating the maze from idea to implementation.

-- Jan Kirby-Gell, "Children Today"

Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans¿ exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction.

This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new dimensions of Seyla Benhabib¿s thought across critical theory, feminism, and democratic theory, foregrounding the intricate relationship between critique and universality.