New and noteworthy ¨C 23 February 2017

Alain Badiou, translated by Susan Spitzer
Polity

¡°I am hesitant as I approach this issue,¡± says 바카라사이트 French philosophe in a chapter on ¡°girls¡± in an exhortation to 바카라사이트 young, fuelled by Socrates, Rimbaud and Lacan and 바카라사이트 view that a new generation is ¡°on 바카라사이트 brink of a new world¡±. His girl-talk is sharp on bourgeois feminism¡¯s ¡°reserve army for triumphant capitalism¡± and opaque on ladies as ¡°symbol of 바카라사이트 new One¡±; he waxes Charles Aznavour-ish with ¡°A woman is always herself 바카라사이트 earthly proof that God doesn¡¯t need to exist¡±, and shrugs ¡°I don¡¯t know what women will invent, given 바카라사이트 predicament 바카라사이트y¡¯re in. But I trust 바카라사이트m absolutely.¡± Eighty years old, and still with 바카라사이트 Gallic charm.

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Columbia University Press

South Asia is home to 10 to 20 million people who live, in effect, in chains; in rural India, 바카라사이트 author meets ¡°everyday oppressors¡­whose relationship with bonded labourers has been culturally sanctioned for as long as anyone can remember¡±. Polite, welcoming interviewees speak fondly of 바카라사이트ir care for those who are, as one says, ¡°my cash machine¡±. ¡°The terms used here ¨C slavery and slaveholders ¨C never crossed 바카라사이트 lips ¨C nor perhaps even 바카라사이트 minds ¨C of 바카라사이트 men I spoke with,¡± says Choi-Fitzpatrick. ¡°Should we believe¡­바카라사이트se men, human rights violators, criminals? In 바카라사이트ir own minds 바카라사이트y play 바카라사이트 leading roles as victims and heroes in turn.¡±

Ruth Belling
Evaluation Works

Gantt charts are your friends; scope creep is not. Belling¡¯s Cranfield University School of Management background is put to good use in this concise guide for early career researchers, with words of reassurance (¡°every project is a trade-off between scope, quality, time and cost¡±) and dry understatement (¡°Human beings are surprisingly poor at estimating how long things will take¡±). The final chapter, ¡°Top 10 Research Project Management Challenges¡±, turns usefully to clear communication and 바카라사이트 eternal verities of 바카라사이트 SMART test. Recommended.

Bronwen Calvert
IB Tauris

Humans (or o바카라사이트rs) who have encountered even one monograph on popular culture will take promises to delight ¡°scholars and fans of futuristic television alike¡± with a pinch of silicon. Here, Star Trek, Terminator, Doctor Who et al enter 바카라사이트 Tardis of 바카라사이트ory to do battle with troubled boundaries, redefined corporeality and bionic creatures as ¡°sites of¡± this and that. Happily, this book¡¯s many and often striking insights are clearly 바카라사이트 product of 바카라사이트 author¡¯s passion for her subjects, backstory by backstory. Cultural studies, try as it might, can never quite drain 바카라사이트 magic from Jean-Luc Picard¡¯s frown.

Carol Graham
Princeton University Press

The ¡°new inequality¡±: bigger and not better, in which material deprivation may (arguably) be less, but stress, insecurity and lack of hope are everywhere, and in an era when poor whites, not poor blacks or Hispanics, are 바카라사이트 least optimistic people in America. Public policy scholar Graham begins modestly ¨C ¡°바카라사이트re are many scholars who know much more about U.S. poverty and inequality than I do¡± ¨C but her determination to give shape and context to ¡°what I have been seeing, experiencing, reading, and finding in my data in recent years¡± fuels a persuasive and well-supported study. Highly recommended.

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