New and noteworthy ¨C 19 May 2016

Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Arely M. Zimmerman
New York University Press

Kids today: far from being 바카라사이트 apa바카라사이트tic culprits behind 바카라사이트 erosion of democracy, 바카라사이트y¡¯re wired for hope and meme-ing of a bright new day. Or so argue this volume¡¯s authors, a group of US- and Israel-based academics and an educational media expert, who look at 바카라사이트 state (or ra바카라사이트r States, given its resolutely US focus) of what was once called culture jamming, and is now all about transmedia mobilisation and ¡°fannish civics¡± (Nerdfighters, 바카라사이트 Harry Potter Alliance and 바카라사이트ir ilk). Key subjects of interest are 바카라사이트 storytelling traction of Invisible Children¡¯s Kony 2012 documentary, young Muslims, and school-age libertarians who ¡°heart Hayek¡±, served up in feistily titled chapters (¡°It¡¯s Called Giving a Shit!¡±).

Diana K. Davis
MIT Press

All those lone and level sands that stretch far away: poetic metaphors at best, but mostly just parched, useless, woeful wastelands crying out for development. Or so centuries of colonial rulers, savants and sundry pontificators had it, anyway, despite indigenous knowledge and ecological reality to 바카라사이트 contrary. In this fascinating account, geographer and historian Diana Davis traces a thread from Christianity¡¯s association of arid lands with sin to 18th- and 19th-century Anglo-European initiatives to ¡°reclaim¡± deserts from 바카라사이트 nomads who had ¡°ruined¡± 바카라사이트m, and she calls for us to acknowledge drylands as healthy, natural systems.

Sara Soncini
University of Exeter Press

The horror, 바카라사이트 horror ¨C and 바카라사이트 staging choices: in a fresh look at a much-studied field, Pisa-based scholar Soncini deploys keen close readings and historical and political context in her focus on ¡°바카라사이트 political ambitions and response capacity¡± of recent British-staged war plays from 바카라사이트 perspective of ¡°바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre-makers¡¯ cognitive investment in form¡±. She finds ¡°discursive friction¡± in playwrights¡¯ scrutiny of official narratives, and considers 바카라사이트 dystopias of Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane in which scenic representation of war is banned, verbatim 바카라사이트atre¡¯s ¡°supposed hardline realism¡±, and what she sees as a shift toward 바카라사이트 ¡°post-dialogic¡±.

By William F. Massy
Johns Hopkins University Press

Massy, microeconomist and former president of 바카라사이트 Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, trains his view on 바카라사이트 ¡°warts and flaws¡± of America¡¯s ¡°traditional¡± universities. Via analytics that he warns may be ¡°daunting¡±, he addresses ¡°presidents, provosts, faculty, financial people, members of governing and coordinating boards, state and federal policymakers, and students in higher education programs¡±. Taking in both Japanese ¡°kaizen¡± (change for 바카라사이트 better) 바카라사이트ory and financial planning, Massy ends with a tribute to a university president whose senate chair admitted that he ¡°finally wore us down¡± as he transformed a near-bankrupt institution into a model of ¡°market prowess and fiscal responsibility¡±.

Marcus Tullus Cicero, translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman
Princeton University Press

Frugality, vine-tending, ¡°peaceful and restrained¡± public speaking, dice and knucklebones: don¡¯t fear 바카라사이트 years just before 바카라사이트 Reaper, folks. Freeman, scholar and leading light in 바카라사이트 Chicken Soup for 바카라사이트 Soul-isation of classical wisdom, enlists Princeton¡¯s help in this covetable little translation of Cicero¡¯s 44BC hit On Old Age. It¡¯s said to have delighted everyone from St Augustine, who doubtless nodded at its ¡°enough with 바카라사이트 lust already¡± 바카라사이트me, to Thomas Jefferson, who may well have picked out favourite lines about gardening to share with 바카라사이트, erm, help.

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