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Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities : Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men
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ISBN: 303153039X Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Macmillan Palgrave,

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Aging. --- Prostate --- Cancer --- Aspect social. --- Patients.


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Wronged : victimhood in public discourse
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ISBN: 9780231193290 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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"The battle over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was described by the media as a "turning point' in America's history of female witnessing" (Time), a "tale of two internets" (Wired), and a "duel with tears and fury" (NYT). Each of these headlines highlighted a significant aspect of what the hearings revealed about American culture: the triumph of women's voices in the age of #MeToo; anxieties around echo chambers that divide political communication; and the hyperemotional nature of politics in the era of far-right populism. None, however, captured the deepest, and perhaps most insidious, character of this event as a battle over who is a victim. While these accounts describe or explain victimhood as a dominant discourse of Western cultures at large, they do not address what kind of world is a world of proliferating victims where two sides compete to establish their suffering as more legitimate than that of others? How did it come to be as it is today? What are the benefits of living in it? And, more importantly, what are the costs? In Wronged!, Lilie Chouliaraki's grapples how the proliferation of victims produces its own victims by obfuscating truth itself, and populating public discourse with too many voices of pain while selectively authorizing some of those voices over others. Just like the spread of fake news blurs the boundary between fact and rumor, competing claims to pain blur the line between systemic and tactical suffering. Chouliaraki examines this distinction to navigate the difference "between fighting for victimized people," which demands an account of the conditions of their suffering, and "promoting a victimhood culture," which encourages claims to pain. Fighting for the victimized is the moral drive of her argument, while promoting a victimhood culture is the object of her analysis"--


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How the Earth Feels : Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
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ISBN: 1478027843 Year: 2024 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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"By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased knowledge of planetary life was used to racialize Native peoples as fossils and curiosities. Further, the geological fantasy served to cement the notion that the Earth had been preparing for the presence of humans, and that humans were in fact the ultimate expression of the Earth's teleological development in a both scientific and spiritual sense. Counterposing a range of texts-from early European and US geological texts to Indigenous accounts of earthquakes to African American men's anti-slavery writing featuring geological tropes-Luciano reveals the workings of the geological fantasy as it operated across the racial and biopolitical discourses of the nineteenth-century United States. Luciano offers a rich and historically nuanced account of how imagined relations with the non-human world have long served as a means of avoiding engagement with the dynamics of racial and colonial power"--


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Reading audio readers : book consumption in the streaming age
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ISBN: 9781350358362 1350358363 9781350358386 1350358371 135035838X Year: 2024 Publisher: London ; New York : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Academic,

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"The first computational study of readers and reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data, to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: When it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?"--


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Generative Artificial Intelligence : What Everyone Needs to Know ?.
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ISBN: 9780197773550 0197773559 0197773575 Year: 2024 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,

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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know ? equips readers with the knowledge to answer pressing questions about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on every facet of society.


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Foolproof : why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity
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ISBN: 9781324074700 1324074701 9780008466756 0008466750 Year: 2024 Publisher: London, England : 4th Estate,

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Fake news. Alternative facts. Conspiracy theories. Misinformation is one of the defining problems of our age, and despite what we may think, we are all susceptible. So how and why does misinformation spread? And, more importantly, what can we do about it? Sander van der Linden, a Cambridge University professor and leading expert, takes us through the psychology of conspiratorial thinking and equips us with the tools needed to help stop the spread of misinformation once and for all.


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Le don du rien : essai d'anthropologie de la fête
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ISBN: 9782912868435 2912868432 Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris: Téraèdre,

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Pain : a textbook for health professionals
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ISBN: 9780323870337 0323870333 Year: 2024 Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Elsevier,

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Resource added for the Nursing-Associate Degree 105431, Practical Nursing 315431, and Nursing Assistant 305431 programs.


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Of hoarding and housekeeping : material kinship and domestic space in anthropological perspective
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ISBN: 9781805390923 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using case studies from the likes of the US, Japan, India, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.


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Penser l'incommunication
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ISBN: 9782385190019 238519001X Year: 2024 Publisher: Lormont : Le Bord de l'Eau,

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Pas de communication sans incommunication, c'est-à-dire sans difficultés à se faire comprendre, à écouter l'autre, ou tout simplement à partager quelque chose. L'incommunication n'est donc pas l'obstacle à la communication, mais sa condition même, au sens où elle oblige à négocier. L'incommunication est au coeur de notre expérience la plus privée comme au coeur de la société et de la politique. Le défi aujourd'hui consiste à revaloriser la communication humaine par rapport à la communication technique qui envahit nos vies jusqu'aux espaces les plus intimes. À force de s'abandonner aux performances techniques, l'humanité créé les conditions mêmes de l'acommunication et de la guerre. Cet ouvrage propose les clés théoriques pour sortir d'une telle contradiction.

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