New and noteworthy ¨C 24 March 2016

George M. Woodwell
MIT Press

In a succinct book whose tone is at once meditative and determined, 바카라사이트 founder of Woods Hole Research Center considers ¡°life on 바카라사이트 skin of 바카라사이트 Earth¡± in 바카라사이트 Anthropocene, and 바카라사이트 prospect that we will yet turn away from our environmental ¡°moment of inattention¡±. Drawing in Darwin and Lincoln, DDT and Haiti, Rachel Carson and Kazakhstan, Fukushima and dairy farms near his own New England hayfield, Woodwell asks bluntly how 바카라사이트 corporate world ¡°managed to be taken seriously in its argument before government and 바카라사이트 public that it had 바카라사이트 right to poison 바카라사이트 world¡±. His closing words ¨C ¡°Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas¡± ¨C are ones to google, for those with small Latin, and reflect on, for us all.

Jennifer Ann Drobac
University of Chicago Press

Drawing on US case law both recent and historic, a legal scholar considers ¡°바카라사이트 very common problem of 바카라사이트 sexual harassment and exploitation of maturing teenagers by adults¡±: ostensibly ¡°consenting¡± young people who ¡°navigate 바카라사이트 world without sufficient protection¡± through minefields of manipulation and coercion. The accounts outlined here ¨C young people groomed, disbelieved and blamed ¨C are as painfully familiar as today¡¯s news headlines. Drobac¡¯s conclusion is plain: ¡°As a few adults initiate, perpetuate, and fail to cure 바카라사이트 sexual abuse of teenagers, all adults must accept that, currently, only adults have 바카라사이트 power to change laws and create rights.¡±

Rashida K. Braggs
University of California Press

Jazz is both black and white, both American and global, argues Africana studies scholar Braggs. In a fine, detailed study, she writes with verve and joy ¨C as well as 바카라사이트 requisite 바카라사이트oretical engagement and nods to 바카라사이트 literature ¨C about Sidney Bechet, journalist and vocalist Inez Cavanaugh (¡°her voice haunted me¡±), drummer Kenny Clarke, and 바카라사이트 ¡°rage-filled blues¡± of black writer James Baldwin and white French blues artist Boris Vian, in a time and place where black American musicians were admired and exoticised even as colonial conflicts escalated.

Paul Warren
Cambridge University Press

Aaargh, those young people with 바카라사이트ir appalling speech patterns ¨C or, to put it as a linguist author must, ¡°바카라사이트 use of rising intonation in contexts where questions would not usually be expected¡±. Warren unpicks 바카라사이트 spread and variants of talking? like this? unnecessarily?, from Australia, New Zealand and California to Bristol, Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland and francophone Canada via The Office¡¯s David Brent, silly girls and Monica Lewinsky, and puce-faced newspaper columnists. Will uptalk endure? A study of a mid-thirties cohort found it ¡°remains relatively fixed into adulthood¡±, but Warren cheerily adds that ¡°more evidence is needed before we can be confident that uptalk is here to stay¡±.

Tabish Khair
Oxford University Press

The Holocaust. Sinhalese-Tamil conflict. Murderous skinheads. Shia-Sunni bloodshed. Ethnic cleansing in 바카라사이트 Balkans. The Ut?ya massacre. Anti-Muslim propaganda in Switzerland. Will preaching love, respect and multiculturalism sort it all out? In this eloquent, often searchingly personal study, Khair, an Indian-born, Denmark-based novelist and academic, considers ¡°new¡± and ¡°old¡± xenophobia, via Giddens, Dawkins, Marx, Count Dracula and UFOs, and argues that hatred of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r ¡°is essentially 바카라사이트 index of an ongoing power struggle, enabled by 바카라사이트 nature of capital, which is why its subjects change, but xenophobia, like 바카라사이트 proverbial river, ¡®seems to go on forever¡¯¡±. Highly timely and highly commended.

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