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Mod på mat, Lærervejledning - Signe Gottschau Malm - Bog - Alinea - Plusbog.dk

Mod på mat, Lærervejledning - Signe Gottschau Malm - Bog - Alinea - Plusbog.dk

Mod på mat hjælper dine ikke så sprogstærke elever med de grundlæggende ord og begreber i matematik. Lærervejledningen til Mod på mat giver læreren en grund faglig introduktion, og en solid støtte i gennemførslen af undervisningen, gennem en omfattende side til side vejledning. Vejledningen rummer desuden kopiressourcer, som kan bringes i anvendelse i undervisningen. Med Mod på mat bliver matematikken en naturlig anledning til at arbejde systematisk med at udvikle og styrke de sproglige kompetencer hos eleverne. Der etableres med materialet en ramme, som det er nemt for læreren at træde ind i, og hvor eleverne støttes i at udbygge bade deres fagsprog og deres førfaglige sprog. Materialet støtter altså eleverne i bade at forstå og anvende de ord og begreber, som er helt grundlæggende for matematikken. Og som de øvrige læremidler maske tager for givet, at alle elever forstår. Mod på mat har fokus på: - - at eleverne skal kunne forstå og anvende grundlæggende ord og begreber i matematik - - at støtte op om elever med svage sproglige kompetencer - - at få alle med, når du som lærer introducerer nye faglige temaer, ord og begreber - - at styrke arbejdet med matematikkens mundtlige dimension. - Mod på mat er udviklet som et supplerende materiale, der nemt kan integreres i almenundervisningen eller benyttes i særligt tilrettelagte forløb for mindre elevgrupper.

DKK 1462.00
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Mat 10, Lærervejledning - Kaj Østergaard - Bog - Alinea - Plusbog.dk

Mat 10, Lærervejledning - Kaj Østergaard - Bog - Alinea - Plusbog.dk

Lærervejledningen til Mat 10 er delt op i to: - - En overordnet beskrivelse af faglige pointer, som stoffet er bygget op over og en didaktisk begrundelse for det faglige indhold og metode. Bl.a. elevernes aktive deltagelse og måden at arbejde med feedback. - - En side til side-vejledning, der beskriver hvert kapitel i grundbogen og giver faglige kommentarer til kapitlets aktiviteter, så det er overskueligt at sætte sig ind i kapitlet og nemt at foretage eventuelle fravalg. Det er her mål og kompetencer til hver aktivitet beskrives. -

DKK 1001.00
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Narkomania - Jennifer J. Carroll - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Narkomania - Jennifer J. Carroll - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll''s ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and unpacks the arguments and myths surrounding medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in Ukraine. What she presents in Narkomania forces us to question drug policy, its uses, and its effects on "normal" citizens. Carroll uses her findings to explore what people who use drugs can teach us about the contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space. With examples of how MAT has been politicized, how drug use has been tied to ideas of "good" citizenship, and how vigilantism towards people who use drugs has occurred, Narkomania details the cultural and historical backstory of the situation in Ukraine. Carroll reveals how global efforts supporting MAT in Ukraine allow the ideas surrounding MAT, drug use, and HIV to resonate more broadly into international politics and echo into the heart of the Ukrainian public.

DKK 1133.00
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Functional Awareness and Yoga - Nancy Romita - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Functional Awareness and Yoga - Nancy Romita - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Functional Awareness and Yoga is an essential book for all who wishes to deepen their yoga practice and discover strategies to reduce strain or discomfort on the mat as well as in daily life. It is also an excellent book of introductory concepts in anatomy as applied to yoga required during a yoga teacher training. Each chapter provides essentials in functional anatomy with over 60 practical illustrations. The chapters also apply specific postures in yoga with cues to support the practice on the mat. Finally, each chapter contains a mindful practice section to help readers integrate anatomical imagery into daily life in order to release unnecessary tension, improve posture, and support ease of movement. The reflective practice of Functional Awareness® changes how one goes through simple daily tasks in living and demonstrates how these small simple shifts can have a profound effect on ease in action and resilience in movement both on and off the yoga mat. Guiding readers through the essentials in body alignment by providing engaging explorations in body/mind awareness, the book offers a pathway to improve resilience and balance in action.

DKK 1020.00
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Riemannian Geometry - Luther Pfahler Eisenhart - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Riemannian Geometry - Luther Pfahler Eisenhart - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

In his classic work of geometry, Euclid focused on the properties of flat surfaces. In the age of exploration, mapmakers such as Mercator had to concern themselves with the properties of spherical surfaces. The study of curved surfaces, or non-Euclidean geometry, flowered in the late nineteenth century, as mathematicians such as Riemann increasingly questioned Euclid''s parallel postulate, and by relaxing this constraint derived a wealth of new results. These seemingly abstract properties found immediate application in physics upon Einstein''s introduction of the general theory of relativity. In this book, Eisenhart succinctly surveys the key concepts of Riemannian geometry, addressing mathematicians and theoretical physicists alike.

DKK 885.00
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The Vigilante Thriller - Dr Cary Edwards - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Vigilante Thriller - Dr Cary Edwards - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This is a detailed examination of vigilantism in 1970s American film, from its humble niche beginnings as a response to relaxing censorship laws to its growth into a unique subgenre of its own. Cary Edwards explores the contextual factors leading to this new cycle of films ranging from Joe (1970) and The French Connection (1971) to Dirty Harry (1971) and Taxi Driver ( 1976), all of which have been challenged by contemporary critics for their gratuitous, copycat-inspiring violence. Yet close analysis of these films reveals a recurring focus on the emerging moral panic of the 1970s, a problematisation of Law and Order''s role in contemporary society, and an increasing awareness of the impossibility of American myths of identity.

DKK 1040.00
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Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries - - Bog - Emerald Publishing Limited - Plusbog.dk

Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries - - Bog - Emerald Publishing Limited - Plusbog.dk

This book deals with one of the great dramas of our day, the transformation of countries from economic backwardness, or a socialist somnolence, into greater efficiency and participation in the invigorating currents of international trade and investment. This book is about building market institutions and about the struggle to shed institutional baggage of the past. It is about new ''openings''. It is about liberalization of economic policies, about relaxing controls, and welcoming the influx of foreign capital and goods. Above all, the underlying theme of this book is the search for appropriate government policies, on issues vital to emerging nations (defined here as developing nations and former communist bloc countries), such as exchange rate management, acquisition of technology, privatization, capital flows, trade and direct investment.

DKK 796.00
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Renoir - William Gaunt - Bog - Phaidon Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Renoir - William Gaunt - Bog - Phaidon Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing his concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art is filled with optimism - his lifelong philosophy was that he painted because it gave him pleasure, and he shares that pleasure with those who see his work. It is almost always summer in his pictures, and in paintings like Moulin de la Galette, The Dance at Bougival and The Luncheon of the Boating Party he gives us an enduring record of contemporaries relaxing and enjoying their leisure.

DKK 932.00
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Inclusive Economic Theory - Ralph William (univ Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Pfouts - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Inclusive Economic Theory - Ralph William (univ Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Pfouts - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The goal of “Inclusive Economics” is to tie together various authoritative strands of contemporary economic theory into an easily comprehensible whole that illuminates the need for a broader approach to contemporary economic policymaking undistorted by obsolete 18th century rationalist assumptions about utility, ethics, worthiness and traditional culture. This is accomplished by elaborating the rationalist competitive ideal along the optimizing lines pioneered by Paul Samuelson (neoclassical economics); plumbing modifications necessitated by Herbert Simon's realist concepts of “bounded rationality” and “satisficing”; refined further by applying a pragmatist outlook to probe the consequences of relaxing Enlightenment teleological, ethical, spiritual and cultural taboos. The exercise will explain why competitive market economies guided by rational utility-seeking invariably are less productive, efficient, just and beneficent than most theorists concede, and will illuminate the full range of interventions needed to achieve better outcomes. We call this program in its entirety “Inclusive Economics”, including the integration of micro and macroeconomics.

DKK 811.00
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Invitation to Linear Programming and Game Theory - David C. Vella - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Invitation to Linear Programming and Game Theory - David C. Vella - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Written in a conversational tone, this classroom-tested text introduces the fundamentals of linear programming and game theory, showing readers how to apply serious mathematics to practical real-life questions by modelling linear optimization problems and strategic games. The treatment of linear programming includes two distinct graphical methods. The game theory chapters include a novel proof of the minimax theorem for 2x2 zero-sum games. In addition to zero-sum games, the text presents variable-sum games, ordinal games, and n-player games as the natural result of relaxing or modifying the assumptions of zero-sum games. All concepts and techniques are derived from motivating examples, building in complexity, which encourages students to think creatively and leads them to understand how the mathematics is applied. With no prerequisite besides high school algebra, the text will be useful to motivated high school students and undergraduates studying business, economics, mathematics, and the social sciences.

DKK 865.00
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Competition Law in Crisis - Bruce Wardhaugh - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Competition Law in Crisis - Bruce Wardhaugh - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

A common criticism of the competition rules posed by EU authorities is that they are too inflexible, thereby prohibiting adequate responses to economic and industrial shocks. Competition Law in Crisis challenges this suggestion through an examination of competition responses to crises past and present. With an analysis spanning the response of UK and EU competition authorities to the economic and commercial outfall of the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and potential responses to the climate crisis in the context of post-Brexit British industrial policy, the book argues that relaxing the competition regime is precisely the wrong response. The rigidity of competition rules in the UK and EU has both normative and positive implications for not just the methodology used in competition analysis, but also the role of competition law within the legal order of both jurisdictions. The book concludes with a discussion of the place of the competition in the UK''s and EU''s legal order.

DKK 865.00
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Signals and Systems A MATLAB Integrated Approach - Otkay Alkin - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Signals and Systems A MATLAB Integrated Approach - Otkay Alkin - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

”Continuous-Time Signals and Systems: A MATLAB Integrated Approach” represents a novel and comprehensive approach to understanding signals and systems theory. Many tools use MATLAB as a computational tool, but Alkin’s text employs MAT- LAB both computationally and pedagogically to provide interactive, visual re- inforcement of fundamental concepts important in the study of continuous-time signals and systems. "Discrete-Time Signals and Systems: A MATLAB Integrated Approach” represents a novel and comprehensive approach to understanding signals and systems theory. Many tools use MATLAB as a computational tool, but Alkin’s text employs MATLAB both computationally and pedagogically to provide interactive, visual reinforcement of fundamental concepts important in the study of discrete-time signals and systems.

DKK 976.00
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Buttoned Up - Erynn Masi De Casanova - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Buttoned Up - Erynn Masi De Casanova - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Who is today’s white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Sui t and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men’s bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up , based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures—New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati—Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now. Despite the expansion of men’s fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers’ accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men’s anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.

DKK 959.00
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The Overactive Pelvic Floor - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Overactive Pelvic Floor - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This textbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the Overactive Pelvic Floor (OPF) that provides clinical tools for medical and mental health practitioners alike. Written by experts in the field, this text offers tools for recognition, assessment, treatment and interdisciplinary referral for patients with OPF and OPF related conditions. The text reviews the definition, etiology and pathophysiology of non-relaxing pelvic floor muscle tone as well as discusses sexual function and past sexual experience in relation to the pelvic floor. Specific pelvic floor dysfunctions associated with pelvic floor overactivity in both men and women are reviewed in detail. Individual chapters are devoted to female genital pain and vulvodynia, female bladder pain and interstitial cystitis, male chronic pelvic and genital pain, sexual dysfunction related to pelvic pain in both men and women, musculoskeletal aspects of pelvic floor overactivity, LUTS and voiding dysfunction, and anorectal disorders. Assessment of the pelvic floor is addressed in distinct chapters describing subjective and objective assessment tools. State of the art testing measures including electromyographic and video-urodynamic analysis, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging are introduced. The final chapters are devoted to medical, psychosocial, and physical therapy treatment interventions with an emphasis on interdisciplinary management The Overactive Pelvic Floor serves physicians in the fields of urology, urogynecology and gastroenterology as well as psychotherapists, sex therapists and physical therapists.

DKK 800.00
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All this is your World - Anne E. Gorsuch - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

All this is your World - Anne E. Gorsuch - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the Khrushchev era, Soviet citizens were newly encouraged to imagine themselves exploring the medieval towers of Tallinn''s Old Town, relaxing on the Romanian Black Sea coast, even climbing the Eiffel Tower. By the mid 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens each year crossed previously closed Soviet borders to travel abroad. All this is your World explores the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange in which a de-Stalinizing Soviet Union increasingly, if anxiously, participated in the transnational circulation of people, ideas, and items. Anne E. Gorsuch examines what it meant to be "Soviet" in a country no longer defined as Stalinist. All this is your World is situated at the intersection of a number of topics of scholarly and popular interest: the history of tourism and mobility; the cultural history of international relations, specifically the Cold War; the history of the Soviet Union after Stalin. It also offers a new perspective on our view of the European continent as a whole by probing the Soviet Union''s relationship with both eastern and western Europe using archival materials from Russia, Estonia, Hungary, Great Britain, and the United States. Beginning with a domestic tour of the Soviet Union in late Stalinism, the book moves outwards in concentric circles to consider travel to the inner abroad of Estonia, to the near abroad of eastern Europe, and to the capitalist West, finally returning home again with a discussion of Soviet films about tourism.

DKK 946.00
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Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art - Isobel Elstob - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art - Isobel Elstob - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Tessa Farmer, Mark Dion, Dorothy Cross and Ingrid Pollard reimag(in)es the Victorians in the ‘present’. Examining how recent paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films revisit and re-present nineteenth-century technologies, practices and events, the book’s rich interdisciplinary approach applies literary, media and linguistic theories to its analysis of visual art, alongside in-depth discussions of the Victorian inventions, concepts and narratives that they invoke. The book’s emphasis on how – and why – we represent the historical past makes its contribution particularly timely. And by drawing attention to the importance of historiography to the work of these artists, it also unravels the complicated history of History itself. This book will speak to diverse audiences including those interested in art history, visual culture, Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, as well as literature, histories of science and media, postcolonialism, museology, gender studies, postmodernism and the history of ideas.

DKK 986.00
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Drying Technologies for Foods: Part-III - Nema Majumdar - Bog - New India Publishing Agency - Plusbog.dk

Drying Technologies for Foods: Part-III - Nema Majumdar - Bog - New India Publishing Agency - Plusbog.dk

Drying is a crucial industrial process for the preservation and processing of food products. The food industry is continuously searching for cost-effective and energy-efficient drying techniques to remain competitive and meet the demand for high-quality dried food products. Despite the substantial technical literature available on food drying, it remains challenging for scientists and engineers to enhance existing drying systems and product quality. The book, consisting of 14 chapters, addresses various drying techniques, including freeze drying, atmospheric freeze drying, swell drying, multi-flash drying, electro-hydrodynamic drying, pulse combustion drying, foam mat drying, and ultrasound-assisted drying, as well as fluidized bed drying. Additionally, the book covers commodity-specific chapters, such as mushroom drying and the drying and roasting of cocoa and coffee beans. The book also addresses the degradation mechanism and kinetics of vitamin C degradation in fruits and vegetables, kinetics modeling of the drying process for the recovery of bioactive compounds, and energy calculation procedures for dryers. These topics will be beneficial in improving dryer operation and efficiency.

DKK 1017.00
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The Political Economy of Bureaucracy - Steven Richardson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Political Economy of Bureaucracy - Steven Richardson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process. It addresses the common and vexing question of why managing federal agencies for results is so difficult by challenging traditional assumptions of institutional design and policy analysis. Using creative methods that focus on relationships that constrain the choices of executives and managers in a political hierarchy, the author reveals control and coordination as goals that are imperfectly achieved and often conflicting with one another. Despite decades of intense study, serious reform efforts and impressive technological advances, the U.S. government remains a typical bureaucracy that fails to meet citizens’ expectations. Clearly, policy analysis is missing something. The problem may rest with "machine" models of government. Rules, especially those governing expenditures, are assumed to be feasible and effective. Analysis of the federal government as a complex system of relationships between semi-autonomous agents helps explain the disconnect between policy and results. The solution is to roll back micro-management of ends and means; policymakers should focus on objectives and facilitate implementation by selectively relaxing constraints that prevent experimentation needed to determine the most effective methods. This book devotes unusual attention to the interaction between executive and legislative branches of government and between political appointees and career civil servants. Most studies of government policy take existing institutional structure for granted. Different conclusions emerge from this analysis by virtue of the systems view that accepts status quo hierarchies but questions the effectiveness of the rules that govern policy implementation. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers focussing on Economic Theory, Public Choice, Institutional Economics and Political Science, as well as to those working in the public sector interested in Public Administration, Public Policy, and Organizational Behavior.

DKK 1147.00
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Time-Inconsistent Control Theory with Finance Applications - Agatha Murgoci - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Time-Inconsistent Control Theory with Finance Applications - Agatha Murgoci - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book is devoted to problems of stochastic control and stopping that are time inconsistent in the sense that they do not admit a Bellman optimality principle. These problems are cast in a game-theoretic framework, with the focus on subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium strategies. The general theory is illustrated with a number of finance applications. In dynamic choice problems, time inconsistency is the rule rather than the exception. Indeed, as Robert H. Strotz pointed out in his seminal 1955 paper, relaxing the widely used ad hoc assumption of exponential discounting gives rise to time inconsistency. Other famous examples of time inconsistency include mean-variance portfolio choice and prospect theory in a dynamic context. For such models, the very concept of optimality becomes problematic, as the decision maker''s preferences change over time in a temporally inconsistent way. In this book, a time-inconsistent problem is viewed as a non-cooperative game between the agent''s current and future selves, with the objective of finding intrapersonal equilibria in the game-theoretic sense. A range of finance applications are provided, including problems with non-exponential discounting, mean-variance objective, time-inconsistent linear quadratic regulator, probability distortion, and market equilibrium with time-inconsistent preferences. Time-Inconsistent Control Theory with Finance Applications offers the first comprehensive treatment of time-inconsistent control and stopping problems, in both continuous and discrete time, and in the context of finance applications. Intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of finance and economics, it includes a review of the standard time-consistent results, bibliographical notes, as well as detailed examples showcasing time inconsistency problems. For the reader unacquainted with standard arbitrage theory, an appendix provides a toolbox of material needed for the book.

DKK 986.00
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After Critique - Mitchum (visiting Assistant Professor Of English Huehls - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

After Critique - Mitchum (visiting Assistant Professor Of English Huehls - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

After Critique identifies an ontological turn in contemporary U.S. fiction that distinguishes our current literary moment from both postmodernism and so-called post-postmodernism. This turn to ontology takes many forms, but in general After Critique highlights a body of literature--work from Colson Whitehead, Uzodinma Iweala, Karen Yamasthia, Helena Viramontes, Percival Everett, Mat Johnson, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Tom McCarthy--that favors presence over absence, being over meaning, and connection over reference. These authors'' interest in producing literary value ontologically rather than representationally stems from their sense that neoliberalism''s capacious grasp on contemporary language and discourse--its ability to control both sides of a conceptual debate or argument--has made it nearly impossible to write beyond neoliberalism''s grip. This is particularly distressing for authors invested in contemporary politics as neoliberalism renders any number of political problems circularly undecidable. Taking up four different political themes--human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice, and environmentalism--After Critique suggests that the ontological forms emerging in contemporary U.S. fiction articulate a version of politics that might successfully evade neoliberal appropriation. This is a politics which replaces critique and its reliance on representation with ontology and its ever-shifting configurations and assemblages.

DKK 879.00
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International Trade Policy Formation: Theory And Politics - Wolfgang Mayer - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

International Trade Policy Formation: Theory And Politics - Wolfgang Mayer - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Over the last four decades, the direction of research on international trade policy formation has been significantly influenced by Wolfgang Mayer's contributions to both the positive and normative theory of international trade and, in particular, to the political economy of actual policy formation. This volume consists of a collection of Mayer's original articles, selected with the objective to further facilitate the study and advancement of the theory of trade policy formation.Part I of this book deals with the pure theory of international trade, as the theoretical underpinning for the formation of trade policies. Specifically, it explores the robustness of the Heckscher-Ohlin framework and its two core propositions - the Stolper-Samuelson and Rybczynski theorems - by relaxing its underlying assumptions in four ways: limiting the inter-industry mobility of factors of production in the short run; allowing for industry economies of scale; introducing uncertainty of commodity prices; and endogenizing a country's supply of labor.Part II addresses issues related to first-best trade policies which had gained prominence during the period of multilateral trade liberalization under the auspices of the GATT, such as: the scope and limits of negotiated tariff agreements; first-best policy justifications for import restrictions and export promotions; and the use of import-quality standards as a substitute for tariffs.Part III explores the political economy of trade policy formation. It is a response to the observation that, in spite of wide agreement on a country's welfare-maximizing policies, they continue to deviate quite markedly from actually adopted policies. The models of Part III account for the political environment in which governments operate, with particular emphasis on majority voting by individuals with heterogeneous policy preferences.Part IV introduces a political-economy approach to explain the mixed success of conditional assistance programs, as designed by International Financial Institutions (IFIs). It calls for explicit incentives to motivate assistance-receiving governments to reform their economies when interest groups are powerful and IFIs have limited information on the competence and willingness of governments to implement reforms.

DKK 1024.00
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American Graphic - Rebecca B. Clark - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

American Graphic - Rebecca B. Clark - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

What do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically streamlined in the form of graphs, diagrams, and user interfaces. Clark's innovation is to ask what happens when the same moment in a work of literature is graphic in both ways at once. Her answer suggests the graphic turn in contemporary literature is intimately implicated in the fraught dynamics of identification. As Clark reveals, this double graphic indexes the unseemliness of a lust—in our current culture of information—for cool epistemological mastery over the bodies of others. Clark analyzes the contemporary graphic along three specific axes: the ethnographic, the pornographic, and the infographic. In each chapter, Clark's explication of the double graphic reads a canonical author against literary, visual and/or performance works by Black and/or female creators. Pairing works by Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon with pieces by Mat Johnson, Kara Walker, Fran Ross, Narcissister, and Teju Cole, Clark tests the effects and affects of the double graphic across racialized and gendered axes of differences. American Graphic forces us to face how closely and uncomfortably yoked together disgust and data have become in our increasingly graph-ick world.

DKK 837.00
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Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China - Wing Chung Ho - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China - Wing Chung Ho - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the experiences of individuals suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China. It illustrates how the experience of most Chinese sick workers can be understood as examples of Agamben’s notion of homo sacer – the ultimate biopolitical subject whose life is located within a domain of ‘double ambivalence’ in which they are constantly and disturbingly caught in-between the public and private, the productive and unproductive, and the culturally normative and the culturally deviant. The study looks at two of the most common occupational diseases in China – pneumoconiosis and heavy metal poisoning. Through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from one hundred individuals, this study details the experiences of four different groups of employees – battery workers, gemstone and jewellery workers, Japanese mat workers, and coalminers – as well as their family members, non-governmental organization workers, and healthcare and legal professionals in Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Beijing, and Hong Kong.Covering a wide range of issues related to occupational disease in China, this book focuses on the lived experiences of occupationally sick workers at the actor-power interface. Through their stories as well as the descriptions of their life-worlds and power relations they are living with, this book aims to shed light on how the socially marginalized encounter and understand domination in their everyday life in China, now and in the foreseeable future.

DKK 804.00
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