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Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music! Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of movement music. That is to say much of classic Motown soul and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values as well as the aspirations and frustrations of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture both before and after the Black Power Movement and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with and ingeniously conveyed through African American music. Consequently the term Black Power music can be seen as a code word for African American protest songs and message music between 1965 and 1975. Black Power music is a new concept that captures and conveys the fact that the majority of the messages in Black popular music between 1965 and 1975 seem to have been missed by most people who were not actively involved in or in some significant way associated with the Black Power Movement. | Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

GBP 35.99
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Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

This comprehensive book on audio power amplifier design will appeal to members of the professional audio engineering community as well as the student and enthusiast. Designing Audio Power Amplifiers begins with power amplifier design basics that a novice can understand and moves all the way through to in-depth design techniques for very sophisticated audiophiles and professional audio power amplifiers. This book is the single best source of knowledge for anyone who wishes to design audio power amplifiers. It also provides a detailed introduction to nearly all aspects of analog circuit design making it an effective educational text. Develop and hone your audio amplifier design skills with in-depth coverage of these and other topics: Basic and advanced audio power amplifier design Low-noise amplifier design Static and dynamic crossover distortion demystified Understanding negative feedback and the controversy surrounding it Advanced NFB compensation techniques including TPC and TMC Sophisticated DC servo design MOSFET power amplifiers and error correction Audio measurements and instrumentation Overlooked sources of distortion SPICE simulation for audio amplifiers including a tutorial on LTspice SPICE transistor modeling including the VDMOS model for power MOSFETs Thermal design and the use of ThermalTrak™ transistors Four chapters on class D amplifiers including measurement techniques Professional power amplifiers Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS).

GBP 69.99
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Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's classic study first published in 1960 there has not been a book that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power. Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P. Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues constraints and exercise of presidential power. This book considers the enduring question of how presidents can effectively exercise power within our system of shared powers by examining major tools and theories of presidential power including Neustadt's theory of persuasion and bargaining as power constitutional and inherent powers Samuel Kernell's theory of going public models of historical time and the notion of internal time. Using illustrative examples from historical and contemporary presidencies Burke helps students and scholars better understand how presidents can manage the public's expectations navigate presidential-congressional relations and exercise influence in order to achieve their policy goals. | Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

GBP 130.00
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Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures presented with examples from recent construction projects. It proposes an innovative and sustainable design methodology algorithmic geometry processing structural optimization and digital fabrication; technology transfer and construction are formulated and widely discussed. The methodology relies on integral mechanical attachment whereby the connection between timber plates is established solely through geometric manipulation without additional connectors such as nails screws dowels adhesives or welding. The transdisciplinary design framework for spatial timber plate structures brings together digital architecture computer science and structural engineering covering parametric modeling and architectural computational design geometry exploration the digital fabrication assembly of engineered timber panels numerical simulations mechanical characterization design optimization and performance improvement. The method is demonstrated through different prototypes physical models and three build examples focusing specifically on the design of the timber-plate roof structure of 23 large span arches called the Annen Headquarters in Luxembourg. This is useful for the architecture engineering and construction (AEC) sector and shows how new structural optimization processes can be reinvented through geometrical adaptions to control global and local geometries of complex structures. This text is ideal for structural engineering professionals and architects in both industry and academia and construction companies.

GBP 48.99
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The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

This book explores the recent development of the Supreme People’s Court of China the world’s largest highest court. Recognizing that its approach to exercising power in an authoritarian context has presented a challenge to the understanding of judicial power in both democratic and non-democratic legal settings it captures the essence of the Court through its institutional design as well as functional practice. It argues that regardless of the deep-seated political and institutional constraints the Court has demonstrated a highly pragmatic interest in fulfilling its primary functions and prudently expanding judicial power in the context of reform-era China. This notwithstanding it also discusses how the Court’s incompetence and reluctance to challenge the bureaucratism and politicization suggests that the call for an impartial and authoritative judicial power will continue to be jeopardized while the Court operates in the shadow of Party authority and lacks meaningful checks and balances. Drawing on the experience of the Court this book reflects on some deep-rooted misunderstandings of legal development in China providing a source of inspiration for reconceptualizing the internal logic of a distinct category of judicial power. | The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

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Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

What do cities tell us about power? How does power shape cities? These are the main questions answered by a multidisciplinary set of eminent urban scholar in crisp articles on capital cities from around the world from Buenos Aires to Tokyo from Jakarta to Moscow. Focus is on contemporary cities and their manifestations and representations of power though often with a historical grounding and the collection also includes an example of archaeological urban analysis from northern Mesopotamia. Through its variety of approaches by leading scholars of the field and its variety of cities with their different histories and their diverse national contexts and political organization the book gives a uniquely insightful and easily accessible world overview of cities of power. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences. | Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

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Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

In the economic debate power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism operating without any sort of coercion. This methodology however is not adequate to analyze the forms of social coercion that characterize capitalism. Economics and Power criticizes the main theories of power developed in economic literature analyzing ultraliberal contractualism to radical political economics and ultimately suggesting a Marxist conception of power and coercion in capitalism. Palermo’s ontological argument is rooted in the philosophy of ‘critical realism’. This unique volume presents his main finding as being that the essential coercive mechanism of capitalism is competition. Capitalist power is not caused by a lack of competition but by the central role it plays in this mode of production. Following this the chapters reconstruct a Marxian conception of power where it is analyzed as a social relation and argues that perfect competition does in fact exist under the disguise of capitalist power. This book criticizes the construct of power and the underlying ideas surrounding perfect competition. This book is of interest to those who study political economy as well as economic theory and philosophy. | Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

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Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

In recent years the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of ‘failed states’ the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political economic and social problems. Attempts to overcome these challenges have thrown light on the power that rests within individuals and or groups to change and even revolutionize their localities communities states and ultimately the world at large. Through experience individuals and groups have promoted ideas that have aided in changing mentalities attitudes and behaviors in societies at different levels. This book brings together contributors from various academic disciplines to reflect on and theorize the contours of power including the intrinsic and or extrinsic models of power which pertain to individuals communities and or groups in order to transform society. Reflections are on various groups such as political movements environmental movements religious groups advocacy groups gender groups to mention but a few as they struggle against marginalization discrimination exploitation and other forms of oppression showing their agency or compliance. | Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

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Audio Power Amplifier Design

Audio Power Amplifier Design

This is the essential book reference for amplifier designers. Douglas Self covers all the design issues of noise distortion power supply rejection protection reliability and layout. He describes advanced forms of compensation that give dramatically lower distortion. This edition is much expanded and packed with new information. It is a must-have for audio power amplifier professionals and audiophiles amateur constructors and anyone with intellectual curiosity about the struggle towards technical excellence. New to the sixth edition: The characteristics of the audio signal The principles of distortion Feedback intermodulation distortion Non-switching output stages VAS distortion explained Push-pull VAS configurations Output-inclusive compensation In addition five amplifier design examples that illustrate important design principles are examined and measured in detail. These can be straightforwardly adapted to specific requirements. This new edition also includes a wealth of material on the XD crossover-displacement principle (invented by the author and in use by Cambridge Audio) four-stage amplifier architectures error correction current-mirrors power transistors with internal sensing diodes amplifier bridging input-stage-common-mode distortion amplifier stability output stages with gain inrush current suppression DC servo design thermal protection cooling fan control advanced line input stages testing and safety infrared remote control signal activation 12V trigger control the history of solid-state amplifiers and much more. Simple procedures for heatsinking and power supply design are given. | Audio Power Amplifier Design

GBP 180.00
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Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people and conservation interventions govern and affect peoples and ecologies. This book argues that being able to think deeply particularly about power improves conservation policy-making and practice. Political ecology is by far the most well-known and well-published approach to thinking about power in conservation. This book analyzes the relatively neglected but robust anthropology of conservation literature on politics and power outside political ecology especially literature rooted in Foucault. It is intended to make four of Foucault’s concepts of power accessible concepts that are most used in the anthropology of conservation: the power of discourses discipline and governmentality subject formation and neoliberal governmentality. The important ethnographic literature that these concepts have stimulated is also examined. Together theory and ethnography underpin our emerging understanding of a new Anthropocene-shaped world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation environmental anthropology and political ecology as well as conservation practitioners and policy-makers. | Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

GBP 36.99
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China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

As American leadership over climate change declines China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations China studies foreign policy studies international organizations international ethics and environmental politics. | China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

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The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread—namely the power of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide range of contexts. This book demonstrates how they have experienced the power of phenomenology in their therapeutic work with patients especially those struggling with horrific trauma; in their encounters with psychological and philosophical theories; and in their efforts to comprehend destructive ideologies and the collective traumas that give rise to them. The Power of Phenomenology presents the trajectory of this work. Each chapter begins with a contribution written by one or both authors extending the power of phenomenological inquiry to one or more of these diverse contexts. The contributions are followed one or two at a time by a dialogue between the authors illustrating the dialectical process of their long collaboration. The unusual format seeks to bring the phenomenology of their collaborative efforts to life for the reader. The Power of Phenomenology will appeal to psychoanalysts psychoanalytic psychotherapists and scholars of philosophy. | The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

GBP 36.99
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Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape. Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site including newspaper editorials public relations campaigns local site fights urban antinuclear activism and post-Fukushima pronuclear and antinuclear articulations. The book also raises the question of democracy and sustainability through the examination of nuclear power discourses. It demonstrates the power of discourse in shaping nuclear power by creating knowledge influencing decisions relationships identity and community. Readers will gain a range of insights from the book: prominent articulations on nuclear power discourse state and corporate strategies for enticing consent for controversial facilities and technologies the power of the media in framing public knowledge the role of social movements and activisms in civic society the power of community and nuclear power as a problematic in representative democracy and sustainability. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in social discourse social movements Japanese society cultural studies environmental communication media analysis energy and sustainability and democracy among others. | Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

GBP 38.99
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Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures. This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism women’s employment and macho news cultures the gendering of objectivity and impartiality tensions around the professional identities of journalists news coverage of violence against women the sexualization of women in the news the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork and the gendering of news audience expectations amongst other issues. These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives and in so doing extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe. Journalism Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting—conceptual professional and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative progressive ways forward.

GBP 38.99
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The Power of Emotions in World Politics

The Power of Emotions in World Politics

This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics. Examining the ways in which discourse evokes reveals and engages emotions the expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations. However these are also power relations and their articulation as socially constructed ways of feeling and expressing emotions represent a key force in either sustaining or challenging the social order. This volume goes beyond the emotions matter approach to offer specific ways to integrate the consideration of emotion into existing research. It offers a novel integration of emotion discourse and power and shows how emotion discourses establish assert challenge or reinforce power and status difference. It will be particularly useful to university researchers doctoral candidates and advanced students engaged in scholarship on emotions and discourse analysis in International Relations. | The Power of Emotions in World Politics

GBP 42.99
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Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it. Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich attempt to convert their wealth into political power implicitly assuming that politics is isolated from economic forces. This book brings the moral and political links between wealth and power into clear focus. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part I analyses wealth and politics from the perspective of various political traditions such as liberalism republicanism anarchism and Marxism. Part II addresses the economic sphere and looks at the political influence of corporations philanthropists and commons-based organisations. Finally Part III turns to the political sphere and looks at the role of political parties and constitutions and phenomena such as corruption and lobbying. Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in political philosophy political science economics and law. | Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

GBP 120.00
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Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led many to believe that the nuclear era was coming to an end. More than ten years since Asia is leading the global nuclear sector. Contributing to two-thirds of the global construction of reactors and exhibiting its technical prowess in the nuclear research and development arena the future of nuclear power in Asia appears to be on a positive trajectory. This development is driven by a mix of urgent necessity aided by the realisation that benefits offered by nuclear power are not just environmental in character but also economic and strategic. In this context the book examines the energy trends and the current state of nuclear power in the Asian continent and endeavours to answer the much-deliberated question of whether Asia is witnessing a nuclear renaissance again. To address this question the book explores the policy responses by Asian countries to the Fukushima disaster. It attempts to map the future trajectory of nuclear power in Asia and tries to identify the factors that may accelerate or limit its growth. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

GBP 130.00
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Women Media and Power in Indonesia

Women Media and Power in Indonesia

This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework and social actor analysis as the methodological approach this book examines the discursive representation of three prominent female Indonesian political figures in the mainstream Indonesian online news media in a period of social-political transition. It presents newfound linguistic evidence in the form of discourse strategies that reflect the women’s dynamic relationship with power. More broadly the critical analysis of the news discourse becomes a way of uncovering and evaluating implicit barriers and opportunities affecting women’s political participation in Indonesia and other Asian political contexts Indonesia’s process of democratisation and the influential role of the online news media in shaping and reflecting political discourse. | Women Media and Power in Indonesia

GBP 38.99
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Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multilevel analysis of dancer interactions organizational practices and institutional forces this book challenges our understanding of sexuality and power. Centering the voices and experiences of exotic dancers this book explores the relationship between exotic dancing and power at the micro-interactional meso-organizational and macro-institutional levels informing a feminist theory of power that seeks out systems of domination in order to challenge and change them. Through direct interviews and observations collected between 1993 and 2021 from 40 different clubs in the United States Deshotels and Forsyth demystify the seemingly contrary findings about exotic dancing and power. They show how and why individual dancers can be simultaneously empowered and exploited beyond individual traits interactions or settings in the nexus of gender and power in exotic dancing. The book will be useful for scholarly readers in the subject areas of sociology cultural studies gender/sexualities studies sex work and organizations theory. Written in a clear accessible manner this book will also appeal to a general audience interested in understanding the complex interactions of gender power feminism and exotic dance. | Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

GBP 35.99
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Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society this new edition of Power and Inequality provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces such as state and electoral politics that address both classic issues in political sociology and more recent developments such as globalization. With strong integration of race and gender throughout this collection offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism feminism critical race theory postmodernism and power structure theory. | Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

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Mega-Events City and Power

Mega-Events City and Power

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports mega-events across different times and spaces and the role of host cities in these processes. It aims to identify the bases that give these spectacles the power to produce disruptions in the social fabric of the host cities and countries and to enable the production of authoritarian forms of exercising power. By observing the historical constitution of the field of production of sport spectacle as an autonomous field this book explores how sport mega-events create both an arena and a context for radical expressions of authoritarianism of neoliberal planning models. It will be of interest to students scholars and professionals in architecture and urban studies urban planning municipal governance sport and leisure studies and those interested in the relationship between State and capital in the production of urban space. | Mega-Events City and Power

GBP 38.99
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China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

This volume explains China’s foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country’s subsequent rise as a great power including its transformation into a global power. It also illuminates how China has in tandem with its rise developed an increasing array of political economic ‘sharp power’ and military capabilities that is helping it to further its increasingly expansive foreign policy objectives. The volume examines two key questions: What have been the implications of China’s rise for its foreign policy? And how has an increasingly powerful and confident China used a range of foreign policy instruments to pursue its expanding national interests in Asia and beyond? The volume is divided into three parts covering the conceptualization and drivers of China’s foreign policy China’s relations with the world and the instruments of China’s foreign policy namely its economic power military capabilities and its ‘sharp power’ manipulation of information and relationships. It will be of interest to academics students and researchers interested in understanding China’s role in world politics. | China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

GBP 130.00
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