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Автор: Heimann Jim Название: Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir ISBN: 3836560763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836560764 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 5313.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) Описание: What's Wrong in Tinseltown? The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920-1960
In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous facade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, so too came get-rich-quick schemes, phony religions, organized crime, and corruption.
A visual history like no other, Dark City brings together images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and the author's extensive image library to reveal the true grit, grime, and sheer horror stories of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1950s. In large format, we roam through the back alleys, gin joints, tattoo parlors, gambling dens, nightclubs, and the most brutal crime scenes, to uncover a city crawling with murder and mayhem.
From Sunset Boulevard to a jazz-saturated Central Avenue, tabloid headlines chronicle the most famous celebrities and infamous crimes in a hopped-up city that provided inspiration for journalists, pulp fiction scribes, and filmland script writers in their creation of the noir genre. With rare vintage magazine reprints from the crime tabloids of the time, this is a uniquely evocative visual history through which the crime, crooks, crazies, and mean streets of the City of Angels are transformed from myth to reality.
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Автор: Williams Howard E. Название: Tasers and Arrest-Related Deaths ISBN: 1593327889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593327880 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.
Название: Hedonics of Taste ISBN: 1138876011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138876019 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale. This book, however, concentrates specifically on the hedonics of taste. The editor notes some important reasons for limiting the argument in this manner. First of all, this is an area of hedonics in which a handful of experimenters continued to do research during a period when hedonism might have been lost altogether. Secondly, the past ten years have seen quite a number of researchers turn their attention to taste preferences, and so it seems appropriate to celebrate the fact that new findings can be incorporated into a very old conceptual framework: the ancient concept of hedonism. The contributors approach their subject from many different angles. Historical, conceptual, and methodological chapters are presented; developmental aspects, psychological substrates, and the social considerations of hedonics are discussed. This volume offers viewpoints from dataphiles and theorists, mechanists and cognitivists, unifiers and disrupters -- a diversity that reflects the vital state of psychology today.
Автор: M. Vukobratovic; V. Potkonjak; V. Matijevic Название: Dynamics of Robots with Contact Tasks ISBN: 9048165156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048165155 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As robots are becoming more and more sophisticated the interest in robot dynamics is increasing. Within this field, contact problems are among the most interesting, since contacts are present in almost any robot task and introduce serious complexity to system dynamics, strongly influencing robot behavior.
Автор: Tashiro Cathy J. Название: Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans ISBN: 1594519838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594519833 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the first book to focus on the experiences of older Americans of mixed race, Cathy J. Tashiro explores questions of identity and the significance of family experiences, aging and the life course, class, gender, and nationality.
Автор: Vassilieva, Julia Название: After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image ISBN: 0415845939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415845939 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain.
Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of "local taste" in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.
Описание: This book explores the cultures of food practice across the spectrum of social stratification. It discusses the critical creativity and cultural capital employed by individuals, families and communities in an attempt to prepare healthy and desirable food. It was published as a special issue of Food, Culture & Society.
Автор: Du Toit, Tashi Hansen Du Toit, Pieter Название: Life after my mother`s stroke ISBN: 036777500X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367775001 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 2908.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tashi Hansen du Toit was 15 years old when her mother, Karen, suffered a severe haemorrhagic stroke which left her with multiple physical and cognitive impairments. This beautifully written and poignant account tells Tashi’s story from the first moments after her mother’s stroke, following her and her family through the experience of her mother’s hospitalisation and rehabilitation. Tashi offers a rare glimpse into the impact of her mother’s stroke on her family and on her life as a teenager as she juggles the stresses and demands of family, school, and friends alongside coping with her mother’s brain injury. As she describes how she is learning to cope with her unresolved grief three years on, she provides hope, perspective, and insight on how to work towards growth and acceptance despite the catastrophe of a parent’s stroke.Presenting the rarely heard adolescent perspective on parental brain injury, Tashi’s moving story also features Karen’s account as she comes to terms with her experience. This authentic book offers great support to others, particularly teenagers, who may be going through a similar experience. It is also valuable reading for those working in brain injury services and the education system, and for any professional or student involved in neurorehabilitation or supporting families of parents with brain injury.
Автор: Rural Sociological Societ Название: Persistent Poverty In Rural America ISBN: 0367298104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367298104 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Mukherjee, Shyama Prasad Название: Guide to research methodology ISBN: 0367256207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367256203 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13779.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The present book attempts to provide readers with a broad framework for research in any field. Attention has been given to provide illustrations from different disciplines. Problems of data collection using survey sampling and design of experiments as well as methods of data analysis and the associated use of models have been discussed.
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