• Contributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction Nick Bentley, University of Keele, UK-- Alice Ferrebe, Liverpool John Moores University, UK-- and Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK 1. 'The Choices of Master Samwise': Rethinking 1950s Fiction Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK 2. Angry Young Men? A Product of Their Time Matthew Crowley, University of Brighton, UK 3. 'Mere bird-watching indeed': Feminist Anthropology and Fifties Female Fiction Alice Ferrebe, Liverpool John Moores University, UK 4. Re-Reading the 1950s Homosexual Novel Martin Dines, Kingston University, UK 5. A Vision of the Future: Race and Anti-Racism in 1950s British Fiction Matti Roni, Brunel University of London, UK 6. Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On: The Politics of Youth in 1950s Fiction Nick Bentley, University of Keele, UK 7. Detective Fiction and the Prose of Everyday Life: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell in the 1950s Nicholas Birns and Margaret Boe Birns 8. Chance in the Canon: Uncertainty and the Literary Establishment of the Fifties Sebastian Jenner, Brunel University of London, UK Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Major Writers Index.
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the `Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.
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"Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: consumer capitalism and addiction
• Luxurious excess: the emergence of commodity culture
• Industrial modernity: the birth of the addict
• Intensified consumption and the expansion of addiction
• Drugs: intoxicating consumption
• Food: embodied consumption
• Gambling: dematerialised consumption.

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to survival, reproduction, and the well-being of that species. Consequently, the aesthetic impulse must have some important biological functions. A number of observations indicate that the aesthetic impulse is an inherent part of human nature, and therefore a primary impulse in its own right with several important functions: The aesthetic impulse may guide us toward what is biologically good for us, and help us choose the right fitness enhancing items in our surroundings. It is a valid individual fitness indicator as well as a unifying social group marker, and aesthetically skilled individuals get more mating possibilities, higher status and more collaborative offers. The book is written in a lively and entertaining tone, with beautiful color illustrations. It covers a wide field of aesthetic behaviors from cave art, graffiti, tattoos, and piercings over fashion, design, music, song, and dance. It presents an original and comprehensive synthesis of the empirical field, synthesizing data from archeology, cave art, anthropology, biology, ethology, behavioral- and evolutionary psychology and neuro-aesthetics. It is a must-read for people interested in biology, psychology, anthropology, architecture, design, fashion, body culture, art, and the evolution of aesthetics.
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• Part 1: Introduction. Informed consent: protecting the patient and the surgeon
• Aesthetic medicine - surgical pearls
• Aesthetic applications for fillers
• Part 2: Head and neck. Section 1: forehead and brow
• Brow lift
• Endoscopic brow lift made easy
• Section 2: Eyes. Upper blepharoplasty
• Asian blepharoplasty
• Midface descent and malar support
• Anatomical relationship of SOOF and ROOF in eyelid rejuvenation
• Non-surgical rejuvenation of the periorbital area
• Section 3: Facelift. High SMAS facelift
• Management of the neck
• The turkey neck - surgical management
• Platysma bands
• Section 4: Rhinoplasty. Prominent nose
• Aesthetic nasal tip surgery
• Crooked nose
• The Middle Eastern- Mediterranean nose
• The Oriental rhinoplasty
• Male rhinoplasty
• Cosmetic dermatology of the nose and medical rhinoplasty
• Part 3: Peri oral aesthetics and dentistry. Orthognathic surgery
• Implantology
• Aesthetic dentistry of the smile line
• Part 4: Breast. Small breast
• Breast reduction
• Mastopexy with mesh for breast ptosis
• Simultaneous augmentation and periareolar mastopexy: indications and limitations
• Asymmetric breast
• Male breast
• Part 5: Trunk / abdominal wall. Improving the waistline with the modified Brazilian abdominoplasty
• Post-bariatric abdominoplasty
• Non-excisional management of the anterior abdominal wall
• Body contouring following massive weight loss
• Gluteal augmentation
• Part 6: Upper and lower extremity. Rejuvenation of the arm
• Aesthetic management of the aging hand
• Inner thigh lift
• Inner thigh reduction: reshaping using a two way vector technique.

"Changing trends, ethnic and regional preferences, and a hands-on teaching method make cosmetic surgery uniquely challenging for novice and experienced surgeons alike. Aesthetic Surgery Techniques: A Case-Based Approach offers expert, real-world instruction by presenting chapters and patients in a classical fashion, providing a clinical perspective as you work through case after case, honing your knowledge and skills. A diverse, international group of highly reputable faculty takes you step by step through each case"--Publisher's description.

• Acknowledgments 1. What is a work of art? 2. What is a painting? 3. The Art World 4. Lawrence Carroll Enters the Art World 5. Why Painting's History Matters 6. An Art History Made for and by Artists 7. Interpreting Lawrence Carroll's Artworks 8. Why Lawrence Carroll's Paintings Matter Notes Lawrence Carroll: Selected Exhibitions Lawrence Carroll: Selected Collections Bibliography Index.
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Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll explains how he understands the medium of painting; shows what his art says about the identity of painting as an art; discusses the place of his paintings in the development of abstraction; and, finally, offers an interpretation of his art. The first monograph devoted to him, this philosophical commentary employs the resources of analytic aesthetics. Art historians trace the development of art, explaining how what came earlier yields to what comes later. Taking for granted that the artifacts they describe are artworks, art historians place them within the history of art. Philosophical art writers define art, explain why it has a history and identify its meaning. Pursuing that goal, Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll roams freely across art history, focused at some points on the story of old master painting and sometimes on the history of modernism, but looking also to contemporary art, in order to provide the fullest possible philosophical perspective on Carroll's work.
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• 1. Introduction: Real and Imagined Havana 2. Mapping the City: Walker Evans in Havana 3. Burt Glinn, Magnum Photos and the Cuban Revolution 4. David Bailey's Havana and the "Post-Special Period" Photobook 5. Advertising the City: "Nothing Compares to Havana" 6. Buena Vista Social Club's Afterimage 7. The Music Film and the City: Our Manics in Havana.
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Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses on a range of themes including: pre-revolutionary Cuba; the dream of revolution; and the metaphor of the city "frozen-in-time." The book also synthesizes contemporary debates regarding the notion of Havana as a real and imagined city space and fleshes out its theoretical insights with a series of stand-alone, important case studies linked to the representation of the Cuban capital in the Western imaginary. The interpretations in the book bring into focus a range of critical historical moments in Cuban history (including the Cuban Revolution and the "Special Period") and consider the ways in which they have been projected in advertising, documentary film and photography outside the island.
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• Contents List of Figures Preface: The Saint Denis Riot Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Immigrant Politics and The Union generale de Travailleurs senegalais en France (UGTSF) 2: Political Mobilization and Collective Action: Ivry-sur-Seine and the African Immigrant Rent Strikes of the 1960s and 1970s 3: From Private Tragedy to Cause Celebre: Five Deaths in Aubervilliers 4: Policing the Post-Colonial Order 5: Tuberculosis, Disease, Social Welfare Initiatives, and the Centre Bossuet 6: The Desire to Disperse: the Anti-Slum Campaign Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonialism. Within migration studies, many important analyses have focused on integration, yielding critical contributions to our understanding of immigration and identity. This work moves in a different direction. Factoring in the dynamics of colonialism, decolonization, and their effect on immigrant political activism and state policy in the postcolonial, Cold War era reveals that immigrants from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa were key players who shaped the development of public policy toward immigrants. Through this approach, we can understand how republicanism, colonial ideology, immigration policy, and immigrant political activism intersected in the post-colonial era, shaping the reception of African workers and affecting their lives and experiences in France.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Place Names Map Introduction: The Burden of Proof 1. Humanitarianism and Diplomacy: West African Migrants in the Congo Free State (c.1890-1903) 2. Behind the Casement Report (1903-4): Guides, Interpreters, and Interviewees 3. Before the Commission of Inquiry (1904-5): Travellers and Testifiers 4. The Silencing of Witnesses: The Stannard Trial (1906) and the Sheppard Trial (1909) 5. `Bringing hands to the English': Injured Bodies as Evidence Conclusion: A Humanitarian History from Below Bibliography Index.
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The humanitarian movement against Leopold's violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and self-sacrifice to provide evidence of atrocities for the colonial authorities, missionaries, and international investigators. Combining archive research with attention to recent debates on the relation between imperialism and humanitarianism, on trauma, witnessing and postcolonial studies, and on the recovery of colonial archives, this book examines the conditions in which colonised peoples were able to speak about their subjection, and those in which attempts at testimony were thwarted. Robert Burroughs makes a major intervention by identifying African agency and input as a key factor in the Congo atrocities debate. This is an important and unique book in African history, imperial and colonial history, and humanitarian history.
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• List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Foreword Introduction: In the Traditions of Professor Victor C. Uchendu and Professor Ifi Amadiume: African Women and the Challenge of Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance 1. The Mobile Ecosystem and Internet Access on the African Content: Asymmetry and the Gender Digital Divide 2. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Zimbabwe 3. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Tanzania, 2010 and 2015-2016 4. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Malawi, 2010 and 2015-2016 5. ICT, Diffusion of Knowledge to Women, Gender Inclusive Governance, and Impacts on Women's Lives in Three African Nations Conclusion References Index References Biography.
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How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.
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• Shared worlds
• Settler revolutions
• Violence
• Intimacies of empires
• Imperial eyes.

"The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration,violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti discusses both established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context"-- Provided by publisher.

"For 25 years Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine A-Z has provided a comprehensive resource of the relevant aspects of pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, physics, statistics, medicine, surgery, general anaesthetic practice, intensive care, equipment, and the history of anaesthesia and intensive care. Originally prepared as essential reading for candidates for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar exams, this fully updated edition will also prove as invaluable as ever for all anaesthetists and critical care physicians, as well as operating department practitioners and specialist nurses. The alphabetical arrangement with extensive cross-referencing ensures a full understanding of topics. The succinct and clear text and make for easy quick reference. The exam preparation checklist is ordered by key topics to facilitate effective revision. The contents are easily accessible with the accompanying ebook. There has been a substantial addition of new entries as well as revision of existing ones. This acknowledges the breadth of information needed to satisfy the range of activities performed by anaesthetic, intensive care, nursing and other colleagues, and also reflects the ever-changing field in which they all work. The consolidation of the role of anaesthetists as 'perioperative physicians' is reflected in additional entries of particular relevance and also by the enhanced title of the book. The structured 'revision checklist' of entries which is particularly useful to those preparing for examinations has been further developed for this edition"--Publisher's description.

• Part I: Strategic architectures: Introduction
• Part II: World War II. Battle of Britain: winning by not losing ; Battle of the Atlantic: protecting the maritime lifeline ; Invasion of Russia: Hitler's strategic mistake ; Battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch: cracking German invincibility ; Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal: regaining initiative in the Pacific ; Strategic bombing offensive: breaking German airpower ; Invasion of Italy: deciding to fight somewhere in Europe in 1943 ; D-Day and Battle for Normandy: retaking the Continent ; Battle for the Rhine: attacking Germany's vitals ; Battle of Okinawa and the bombing of Japan: ending the war ; The strategic architectures of World War II
• Part III: The Korean War. Battle of the Pusan Perimeter: getting the most out of a bad situation ; Inchon: Operation Chromite: MacArthur's masterstroke ; Crossing the 38th parallel and driving north to the Yalu: the risks of overreaching ; Operations Ripper and Killer: recovery and frustration ; The strategic architectures of the Korean War
• Part IV: The Vietnam War. Battle of the Ia Drang Valley: not fighting the decisive battle ; Bombing campaign and high-tech initiatives: Operations Rolling Thunder and Igloo White: airpower and technology indecisive ; The Pacification program (1967-1968): failing to change behavior ; The Tet Offensive (1968): strategic disaster ; Vietnamization: never a winning strategy ; The final years (1969-1975): the losing path ; The strategic architectures of the VIetnam War
• Part V: The Iraqi Wars. Iraqi War I, Persian Gulf War: defeating Saddam, losing politically ; Iraqi War II, thirteen-year air conflict: the limits of airpower ; Iraqi War III, invasion of Iraq: winning without an endgame ; Iraqi War IV, the Insurgency and the Surge (2007-2008): relearning counterinsurgency ; Iraqi War V, the rise of ISIS: a new, more violent enemy ; The strategic architectures of the Iraqi Wars
• Part VI: Strategic architectures: The endgame.

"This groundbreaking book provides the first systematic comparison of America's modern wars, analyzing how and why the United States has moved from success to failure since WWII. As the United States enters a new period of uncertainty in the world, Caldwell makes the compelling case that leaders must think, plan, and prepare before shooting"-- Provided by publisher.