Un flusso di elettroni in una rete di distribuzione elettrica inizia inesplicabilmente a scorrere nel verso sbagliato, generando un blackout che paralizza la vita di cinquanta milioni di persone; un piccolo cumulo di rifiuti abbandonati su un canale di scolo ha il potere di suscitare una risposta affettiva in chi lo osserva; i grassi omega-3 interagiscono con gli elementi chimici nei cervello umano influenzando il nostro comportamento: la materia non è sostanza inerte, ma compone una fitta trama di entità non umane dotate di una potenza propria. Jane Bennett, la voce più autorevole dell'ecosofia contemporanea, descrive la «materialità vitale» che scorre attraverso tutti i corpi, organici e inorganici, invitandoci ad aprire la teoria politica alle forze non umane: se abbracciassimo un'idea di agentività che oltrepassa il dominio dell'umano e imparassimo a riconoscere attorno a noi la presenza di forze diversissime potremmo riuscire a coltivare politiche più responsabili e logicamente sostenibili. Riesaminando da questa nuova prospettiva Spinoza, Thoreau, Darwin, Deleuze, Kant e Platone, tra gli altri, 'Materia vibrante' ci insegna a tornare a osservare il mondo con lo sguardo incantato dell'infanzia, e ad aprirci alla meraviglia e alla potenza di un universo molto più vivo di quanto avessimo finora sospettato.

The concept of ‘live’ has changed as a consequence of mediated culture. Interaction may occur in real time, but not necessarily in shared physical spaces with others. The Digital Evolution of Live Music considers notions of live music in time and space as influenced by digital technology. This book presents the argument that live music is a special case in digital experience due to its liminal status between mind and body, words and feelings, sight and sound, virtual and real. Digital live music occupies a multimodal role in a cultural contextual landscape shaped by technological innovation. The book consists of three sections. The first section looks at fan perspectives, digital technology and the jouissance of live music and music festival fans. The second section discusses music in popular culture, exploring YouTube and live music video culture and gaming soundtracks, followed by the concluding section which investigates the future of live music and digital culture.

• gives perspectives on the function of live music in digital culture and the role of digital in live music
• focuses on the interaction between live and digital music
• takes the discussion of live music beyond economics and marketing, to the cultural and philosophical implications of digital culture for the art
• includes interviews with producers and players in the digital world of music production
• furthers debate by looking at access to digital music via social media, websites, and applications that recognise the impact of digital culture on the live music experience

Big and Small head out to play. They climb a hill and cross a stream, but with each new adventure, Small finds himself in trouble. Each time Small asks Bear for a little help, please! When they return home, it is Big who needs help from Small for something very important!

Sei sicura che l'uso della pillola sia la scelta giusta per te? Sai quali sono gli effetti sul tuo corpo? Conosci delle valide alternative? Il volume cerca di rispondere a tutte queste domande: un testo 'scomodo', di denuncia, contro la pillola anticoncezionale e il suo utilizzo, nel quale vengono presentati gli effetti collaterali che la contraccezione ormonale può avere sul corpo delle donne, e nel contempo una guida con consigli per poter vivere la sessualità e la relazione di coppia in modo naturale e creativo. Le famose terapiste Alexandra Pope e Jane Bennett ci illustrano gli effetti dannosi e le controindicazioni della pillola sulla salute della donna (depressione, calo della libido, emicranie, aumento di peso, fragilità ossea, malattie cardiovascolari, cancro all'utero ecc.) e dell'eventuale nascituro, dopo che se ne è smessa l'assunzione. Le autrici ci presentano altri tipi di contraccezione naturale diffusi (preservativo, temperatura basale, spermicidi, diaframmi ecc.), soffermandosi anche sulla loro affidabilità e su eventuali effetti.

Whether you're a businessperson beginning to work in the United States or a foreign student visiting for a semester, this new edition of American Ways will help you navigate America's diverse and changing culture. From the deep-seated attitudes that mark the American character to customs and everyday activities, American Ways explores the tapestry of the country's life, providing invaluable information on cultural values, politics, education, religion, and relationships.

In this revised edition, Gary Althen and Janet Bennett have added material that reflects some of the important changes that have occurred over the last decade. This edition features new material on American politics, reflecting the impact of the Bush administration as well as the election of the nation's first black president, and an updated chapter on the effects of social networking sites on meeting people and creating friendships.

Finalmente in Italia un volume per rispondere a tutte queste domande: un testo 'scomodo', di denuncia, contro la pillola anticoncezionale e il suo utilizzo, nel quale vengono presentati gli effetti collaterali che la contraccezione ormonale può avere sul corpo delle donne, e nel contempo una guida con consigli per poter vivere la sessualità e la relazione di coppia in modo naturale e creativo. Le famose terapiste Alexandra Pope e Jane Bennett ci illustrano gli effetti dannosi e le controindicazioni della pillola sulla salute della donna (depressione, calo della libido, emicranie, aumento di peso, fragilità ossea, malattie cardiovascolari, cancro all'utero ecc.) e dell'eventuale nascituro, dopo che se ne è smessa l'assunzione. Le autrici ci presentano altri tipi di contraccezione naturale diffusi (preservativo, temperatura basale, spermicidi, diaframmi ecc.), soffermandosi anche sulla loro affidabilità e su eventuali effetti. Propongono informazioni sulla vita sessuale della donna, sul ciclo mestruale e uno stile di vita adatto a mantenerlo sano, sulla dimensione interiore della femminilità, per spingere la donna a riprendersi la giusta attenzione e considerazione per il proprio corpo, per il dono delle mestruazioni e per l'autogestione del ritmo della propria sessualità.

“The Handbook of Intercultural Training, Third Edition provides a thorough grounding in the history, concepts and methods underlying intercultural training.  The many analyses of tools, methods and approaches for specific contexts offer guidance in designing and conducting effective training interventions. The collected theoretical and practical information presented in this book is critical for professional interculturalists.” 

       -Lee Gardenswartz, Ph.D. and Anita Rowe, Ph.D., Partners, Gardenswartz & Rowe  

“This book is just in time and just for me. It's as if someone assembled all the interculturalists I admire and respect and bribed them to share their latest and best thoughts in a well-crafted chapter. You'll probably feel the same way.”

                                    -Sivasailam 'Thiagi' Thiagarajan, Ph. D., Workshops by Thiagi, Inc.

Completely revised with all new chapters, the Third Edition of the Handbook of Intercultural Training provides a state-of-the-art review of the field of intercultural training. Written by the leading authorities in intercultural studies, this definitively updated volume offers not only a convenient summary of research but also information on specific training techniques. It analyzes with depth and clarity regions of the world where intercultural issues have heightened--including Central and South America, Europe, and China, as well as Eastern Europe, Russia, and Israel. Other parts of the book examine theoretical and methodological issues inherent in understanding intercultural interactions and training and the contexts in which training takes place.

An essential reference of intercultural interactions across disciplines, the Handbook of Intercultural Training synthesizes information of special note for professionals, researchers, and students in management, educational psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, and gender studies, as well as a broad array of human services such as counseling and nursing.

Contributors:

Aysen Bakir, Illinois State University
Janet M. Bennett, Intercultural Communication Institute
Milton J. Bennett, Intercultural Communication Institute
Laurette Bennhold-Samaan, The World Bank
John W. Berry, Queen's University
Judith Blohm Ida Castiglioni, University of Milano Bicocca
Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, Riverside
Kenneth Cushner, Kent State University
Ina Ehnert, University of Bremen
Teresa Harrell, University of Minnesota
Stefan Kammhuber, University of Regensburg
Ata Karim, Kansas State University
Young Yun Kim, University of Oklahoma
Torsten Kuhlmann, University of Bayreuth
Daniel Landis, University of Hawaii, Hilo
Judith N. Martin, Arizona State University
Mark Mendenhall, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Sandra Mumford-Fowler
Kenji Noguchi
Gary Oddou, California State University, San Marcos
Joyce S. Osland, San Jose State University
R. Michael Paige, University of Minnesota
Margaret Pusch, Intercultural Communication Institute
George Renwick, Renwick and Associates
Joseph L. Soeters, Royal Netherlands' Military Academy
Gunter K. Stahl, Asian Business Area INSEAD
Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University, Fullerton
Harry C. Triandis, Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
Colleen Ward, University of Wellington
Donna Winslow, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics.

As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.

The great distance between Western Australia and the Mediterranean probably explains why so few of the contributors are from the region being considered. The 20 papers explore such topics as reproductive strategies and genetic structures of wild and naturalized legume populations, the need to collect new pasture and forage species, evaluating feeding value, the influence of storage conditions on seed viability, the plant genetic resources program in Turkey, political dimensions of collecting in situ plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, the current status and perspectives of conserving and utilizing agricultural diversity in Greece, and observations on the distribution and ecology of annual Medicago species in northern Tunisia. Only legume species are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)