Authors:Michael Ross, Joseph Garncarz, Manfred Grauer, Bernd
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Keywords: media, upheavals, overview, research, medienumbruche, analysis, tools, studies, digital
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 3837610233
ISBN-13: 9783837610239

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing info

Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emotions, intelligence, thought, upheavals
Number of Pages: 766
Published: 2003-04-14
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521531829
ISBN-13: 9780521531825

Upheavals of Thought is a big book in every sense of the word. It is a 700-page, deep-thinking, and far-ranging argument that emotions should be central to ethical thinking. From infancy on, we must find our way in the world, but, writes Martha C. Nussbaum, "without the intelligence of emotions, we have little hope." Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and an academic of tremendous scope. Here she immerses the reader in moral philosophy, anthropology, child psychology, music, classical thought, religion, and literature with a likable

Author: Sascha L. Goluboff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: synagogue, moscow, upheavals, russians, jewish
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-29
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0812218388
ISBN-13: 9780812218381

The prevalence of anti-Semitism in Russia is well known, but the issue of race within the Jewish community has rarely been discussed explicitly. Combining ethnography with archival research, Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue documents the changing face of the historically dominant Russian Jewish community in the mid-1990s. Sascha Goluboff focuses on a Moscow synagogue, now comprising individuals from radically different cultures and backgrounds, as a nexus from which to explore issues of identity creation and negotiation. Following the rapid rise of this transnational congregati