Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with...
The New Few: or a Very British Oligarchy
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This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in...
The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan
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In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown...
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry
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Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and...
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
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The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this...
Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism Through the Lens of Renaissance Humanism
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Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English language, yet education reform in the...
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
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Technology is increasingly shaping the future of our lives and economies. By 2020 1.4 million jobs...
Interface
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In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of...
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses
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The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are...
Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot
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One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in...