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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength might and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless since September 11 a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture of modern- day Super Bowls was easy to portend; what was more difficult to predict was the imprint it would leave on U. S. citizens and American politics. Ben Fountain’s award-winning novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk reveals what passes for patriotism in a country that has reduced the sober and stark reality of combat to pageantry and production for the crowd back home leaving our troops to unwittingly play the part of entertainers destined to be sexualized just like the cheerleaders and dancers so frequently performing alongside them. | Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

GBP 48.99

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Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’ is introduced which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities technology and innovation (recombination) internationalization and international markets (reach) and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter including Apple IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business corporate strategy innovation and digital strategy as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment. | Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

GBP 35.99

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Victorian Comics

The Victorians are usually painted as prim proper and repressed. Yet it was in Victoria’s Britain that the comic paper was born and her subjects eagerly devoured their ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ and ‘Comic Cuts’. Originally published in 1976 this first ever compilation of Victorian comics is culled from England’s largest collection by its curator Denis Gifford. In these pages many forgotten figures of fun (such as Ally Sloper Chokee Bill Airy Alf and Bouncing Billy) live again not to mention such notorious episodes as the assault on the Albert Memorial by the Ball’s Pond Banditti and the capture of Pretoria by Weary Willie and Tired Tim. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1976 and contains comics from the Victorian era. The language used is therefore a reflection of its time and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

GBP 89.99

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Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives into all the key aspects of scriptwriting including structure genre character form and tone. Authors Ken Dancyger Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush explore myriad alternatives to the traditional three-act story structure going beyond teaching you how to tell a story by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original exciting material. Fully revised and updated the book includes new examples from contemporary and classic cinema and episodic series as well as additional content on strategies for plot character and genre; an exploration of theatrical devices in film; and approaches to scriptwriting with case studies of prolific storytellers such as Billy Wilder Kelly Reichardt Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kathryn Bigelow. Ideal for students of screenwriting and professional screenwriters wishing to develop their craft and write original scripts. | Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

GBP 34.99

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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

GBP 36.99

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Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization however is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. By turning care into a focal point a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual) to the corporate arena (organizational) and then to the global stage (impact). Nine keys are identified along this path for how companies can realize organizational excellence. While care may seem like a soft concept in the rough and tumble world of business it is argued how it is actually an inspired manner for providing direction structure and know-how that leads to powerful outcomes. Apple is profiled as a leading example of leveraging what is termed the technology of caring deeply. Other companies such as Nike IKEA Zappos Starbucks are also profiled. Finally a leadership canvas is provided to help activate the lessons shared in the book. | Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

GBP 24.99

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All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

GBP 35.99

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Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

First published in 1988. Moral innocence is of enduring interest because it seems to embody our ideals in their purest form. The place of moral innocence in politics is the central theme of Peter Johnson’s subtle and original book. Are there moral dispositions which are not only incompatible with politics but actually endanger it? If it is sometimes necessary to act badly in order to achieve desirable objectives what moral standpoints would exclude such a course at action? Peter Johnson demonstrates convincingly why philosophical accounts of morality past and present are unable to explain moral innocence: its full impact on politics can only be grasped by putting aside traditional theories. Literature provides the key to a deeper understanding of the relationship between politics and morality. Melville’s Billy Budd Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American reveal moral innocence at work in political circumstances of great intensity. Through these and other literary figures we see at last the specific character of moral innocence and why it is connected with political disaster. This closely reasoned yet deeply passionate book illuminates a problem of great contemporary interest and nowhere more so than in American public life. Original in theme and content it confronts central issues of concern to the modern mind not simply to academics both teachers and taught but to all those interested in how they might be governed. | Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

GBP 29.99

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Native American Survivance Memory and Futurity The Gerald Vizenor Continuum

According to Kimberly Blaeser Gerald Vizenor is the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century and Christopher Teuton rightfully calls him one of the most innovative and brilliant American Indian writers today. With more than 40 books of fiction poetry life writing essays and criticism his impact on literary and cultural theory and specifically on Indigenous Studies has been unparalleled. This volume brings together some of the most distinguished experts on Vizenor’s work from Europe and the United States. Original contributions by Gerald Vizenor himself as well as by Kimberly M. Blaeser A. Robert Lee Kathryn Shanley David L. Moore Chris LaLonde Alexandra Ganser Cathy Covell Waegner Sabine N. Meyer Kristina Baudemann and Billy J. Stratton provide fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts such as trickster discourse postindian survivance totemic associations Native presence artistic irony and transmotion and explore his lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to his most recent novels and collections of poetry Shrouds of White Earth Chair of Tears Blue Ravens and Favor of Crows. The thematic sections focus on Truth Games’: Transnationalism Transmotion and Trickster Poetics; ‘Chance Connections’: Memory Land and Language; and ‘The Many Traces of Ironic Traditions’: History and Futurity documenting that Vizenor’s achievements are sociocultural and political as much they are literary in effect. With their emphasis on transdisciplinary transnational research the critical analyses close readings and theoretical outlooks collected here contextualize Gerald Vizenor’s work within different literary traditions and firmly place him within the American canon. | Native American Survivance Memory and Futurity The Gerald Vizenor Continuum

GBP 39.99

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Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque in particular with Cervantes and Calderón to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting an altering the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba). Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

GBP 38.99

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Naptime at the O.K. Corral Shane's Beginner's Guide to Childhood Ethnography

Shane is back! The beloved heroine of students and faculty alike returns in this third volume of the acclaimed series focusing on the basic how-to’s and foundations of ethnographic studies of children and childhoods. The book opens with Shane trying to land a post-doc working in a department of cultural anthropologists studying children and childhood. Rather predictably Shane initially sees children as nothing more than small adults. But in this book she’ll be forced to reorient herself yet again. As usual she is aided by the spirits of the ancestors of senior colleagues of talking guinea pigs and gigantic head lice and through it all by her esteemed guide Billy the Literal Kid. This illustrated guide will orient the reader to the fundamental challenges in doing ethnographic research with children. The book begins by briefly exploring the history of research on children with children for children and by children. Throughout it is about doing research with children rather than on them highlighting their participant rather than object nature. Topics covered include: Foundations of child development Defining childhood The history essential theories and major works in the anthropology of childhood Children’s culture and popular Kinderculture Ethical concerns and IRBs Foundations of naturalistic inquiry with children Introduction to ethnographic methods with child participants including detailed guidance in observation and interview methods Practical guidelines for analyzing children’s artwork and other visual products Addressing the complexities of adult researcher subjectivities and roles This book is intended for the novice ethnographic researcher and student alike with learning at its core and is designed to encourage wider and deeper reading. It is a useful tool for teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Education Anthropology Childhood Studies Nursing Communications Media Studies Art Education and more as well as an essential volume for any faculty bookshelf. | Naptime at the O. K. Corral Shane's Beginner's Guide to Childhood Ethnography