Author: Sara Ahmed
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: others, objects, orientations, phenomenology, queer
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822339145
ISBN-13: 9780822339144

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A quee

Author: Peter B. Kraska
Publisher: Waveland Press
Keywords: essential, orientations, eight, justice, criminal, theorizing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-11
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1577662288
ISBN-13: 9781577662280

The goal of this book is to encourage thinking about criminal justice. What theories direct the behaviors of the police, the courts, and corrections administrators? Are due process rights the foundation of actions, or is the control of crime an overriding concern? Are criminal justice personnel motivated by the need to diagnose and treat the individual offender, or are classification and management of groups the primary focus? Which goals are paramount: retribution, treatment, safety, social control, efficiency? What value choices guide theories? Does a bureaucratic system insure impa

Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introductory, orientations, volume, china, civilisation, science
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1956-01-01
List price: $212.99
ISBN-10: 052105799X
ISBN-13: 9780521057998

Dr Joseph Needham’s account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture. He begins by examining the structure of the Chinese language; he reviews the

Authors:Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: writings, collected, orientations
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0674643763
ISBN-13: 9780674643765

This volume contains a collection of writings by musician Pierre Boulez, who describes his own music and that of other composers, as well as the personalities and institutions with whom he has worked closely.

Author: Adam Morawiec
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, materials, processes, textures, crystallographic, rotations, computations, orientations
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-12-05
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540407340
ISBN-13: 9783540407348

The book is a comprehensive account of orientations and rotations of three-dimensional objects. The author’s interest in orientations stems from the field of crystallographic texture analysis...a branch of knowledge concerned with orientations of crystallites constituting polycrystalline materials. Essentially, Orientations and Rotations treats the mathematical and computational foundations of texture analysis. It contains an extensive and thorough introduction to parameterizations and geometry of the rotation space. Since the notions of orientations and rotations are of primary importan

Authors:Pamela S. Bacon, David Bagwell,
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Keywords: survival, guide, orientations, courses, online, creating
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 159158289X
ISBN-13: 9781591582892

Media specialists, particularly in large urban high schools, often cannot meet the individual instructional needs of every student. This book outlines an online unit that helps media specialists ensure that every student receives valuable—and consistent—information literacy instruction. The book contains a ten-step orientation course created by author Pamela S. Bacon for her students. It includes reproducible worksheets, explicit instructions, modeling, and patterning necessary to create a similar online orientation program in any secondary school. In addition, the book provides a model an

Authors:Kandice Chuh, Karen Shimakawa, Dorinne Kondo,
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: diaspora, asian, studies, mapping, orientations
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822327392
ISBN-13: 9780822327394

Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in place? Suggesting new directions for studies of the Asian diaspora, the prominent scholars who contribute to this volume raise important questions about the genealogies of these fields, their mutual imbrication, and their relationship to other disciplinary formations, including American and ethnic studies. With its recurrent themes of transnationalism, globalization, and postcoloniality, Orienta