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Author: Laura Sell
Publicity and Advertising Manager, Duke University Press
As we start a new year and a new semester, we hope you'll be able to get out and see some of our authors at events around the U.S. You can also catch us at the MLA conference in Seattle and the AHA in New York City.
January 11: Marsha Gordon and Allyson Nadia Field, co-editors of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, show films and discuss their book at UCLA's Film and Television Archive.
7:30 pm, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
January 12: E. Patrick Johnson is joined by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub, to discuss Johnson's new book Honeypot at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
3:00 pm, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
January 22: Alexis Pauline Gumbs again joins E. Patrick Johnson, this time at Durham's Regulator Bookshop, to discuss Honeypot. This event is sponsored by Duke's Forum for Scholars and Publics.
7:00 pm, 720 9th St, Durham, NC 27705
January 23: E. Patrick Johnson heads west to Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe to read from Honeypot.
55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC 28801
January 23: Elspeth Brown lectures about her book Work! A Queer History of Modeling at UCLA's LGBTQ Studies department.
4:00 pm, Charles E. Young Research Library, 280 Charles E Young Dr N., Los Angeles, CA 90095
January 29: E. Patrick Johnson, author of Honeypot, will appear at Harvard Book Store.
7:00 pm, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
January 30: Elspeth Brown speaks about Work!at USC Libraries ONE Archives. A reception follows.
6:30 pm, 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Posted in Events on January 6, 2020 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
A Decade of Duke University Press
As we enter a new decade, we thought it would be interesting to take a look back at what was happening at Duke University Press ten years ago, in 2010, and consider how we plan to move forward in the 2020s.
Director of Duke University Press in 2010: Steve Cohn
Director in 2019: Dean Smith
We are excited to be starting a new decade at the Press with a new director. After serving as director for twenty-five years, Steve Cohn retired in June 2019 and Dean Smith took over our helm. Dean plans to continue our commitment to open access, deepen our partnerships with other units on campus, develop new products and business models, and expand into new subject areas.
As we expand the number of books and journals we publish, we need more staff to acquire, edit, produce, and market our products. We've also been expanding our efforts to become a more inclusive workplace through the efforts of our Equity and Inclusion group. In 2019 over half our staff participated in initiatives sponsored by that group. Think you'd make a great addition to our team? Check out our job openings.
Number of Books Published
We've increased the number of titles we publish each year and expect to continue expanding as we enlarge our editorial team with a new Editorial Director in 2020.
2010: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston
It's bittersweet to revisit our bestselling title of 2010, as jazz great Randy Weston passed away in 2018. Booklist called his autobiography "a moving testament to a life well lived."
2019: Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Our bestselling book of 2019 is also our bestselling book of the decade. Living a Feminist Life was called "an instant classic" by Bitch Magazine. And check out Sara Ahmed's latest book What's the Use?, published this October.
Top Selling Books of the Decade
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway
Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett
The Mexico Reader edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
The Affect Theory Reader edited by Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
Liquidated by Karen Ho
The Cuba Reader edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad
Number of Open-Access Books
2019: 80+
We are pleased to participate in several open access programs, including TOME (where we have more open-access titles than any other university press) and Knowledge Unlatched. You can find most of our open access books on the OAPEN platform.
Number of Open-Access Journals
Our efforts to make scholarship widely available also include the publication of two fully open-access journals: Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory and Environmental Humanities.
Number of Journals Published
In 2020, we look forward to adding two more journals to our publishing program: History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History and the Romanic Review. We've enjoyed expanding our list in subject areas including Asian studies, gender and feminist studies, language and literature, mathematics, and more.
Most Popular Articles on Social Media
Published in 2010: "Creaky Voice: A New Feminine Voice Quality for Young Urban-Oriented Upwardly Mobile American Women?" by Ikuko Patricia Yuasa, American Speech 85:3
Published in 2019: "The Trump Effect: Postinauguration Changes in Marketplace Enrollment" by David Anderson and Paul Shafer, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44:5
Twitter (@DukePress) Followers
2019: 33,800
Facebook (Duke University Press) Page Followers
Social Media was still pretty new in 2010, but the Press has been on Twitter since 2008 and Facebook since 2007. Over the decade we've added presences on YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. Please join us on all these sites!
In the next decade, we will celebrate our centennial (2026) and we look forward to continuing our work publishing bold, progressive scholarship for many more decades.
Posted in Press News on December 30, 2019 by Laura Sell. 2 Comments
W. Ian Bourland on the Legacy of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
In this guest post, W. Ian Bourland writes about artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode on the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of his death, December 21, 1989. Bourland is the author of Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s, which examines Fani-Kayode's art as a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Bourland is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art History at Georgetown University.
This month, Rotimi Fani-Kayode's would have been 64 years old. Instead, he died in a hospital for infectious diseases in north London, survived by his partner, the writer Alex Hirst. They had met six years earlier when Fani-Kayode returned to London after seven years in the United States. There, he received formal and informal educations in Washington and New York, at university and in the countercultural spaces of clubland, the black gay poetry, and the rapidly changing eighties art world. In so doing, he broke with his family's aspirations that he go into a "respectable" field, and consigned himself to permanent exile as an out gay man during a time of widespread homophobia and in the wake of the early days of the AIDS crisis. I explore this art and the context in which it was created in Bloodflowers.
From the time that Fani-Kayode knocked on Hirst's door, he was a fixture in the community spaces around Brixton. Intellectuals like C.L.R. James, luminaries of the Caribbean Arts Movement, experimental theatre producers, and local non-profit gallery owners all converged in this landscape south of the Thames; they were part of a larger movement on the part of the Greater London Council and leftist leaders—from Darcus Howe to Ken Livingstone—to push back against the austerity and xenophobia of the Thatcher years. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in this era of conservatism and in advance of the art sector boomtimes of the 1990s, Fani-Kayode's art existed below the radar for mainstream audiences. He published in the pages of Square Peg, a queer journal that Hirst co-edited; and showed his photographs at a range of smaller spaces throughout the city. Dozens of his black-and-white photographs of men were published by Gay Men's Press by 1988, and they circulated globally, mostly in specialist book shops. He also co-founded Autograph ABP, which continues to thrive to this day. It is now housed in a David Adjaye-designed building in the Shoreditch neighborhood that it shares with the Stuart Hall library. They recently staged a powerful show of portraits by South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi who, in many ways, is a successor of Fani-Kayode's.
To some extent, it is remarkable that Fani-Kayode's art has persisted. He died with few resources, his archive only preserved by the grace of friends like Hirst and Autograph director Mark Sealy. In the closing weeks of 1989, the "globalized" network of the contemporary art world that we now take for granted was in its infancy. The idea of professors and curators and academic journals taking his photographs seriously—taking contemporary African art seriously at all—seemed unlikely. And yet, the work survived: in shows in France, a collection with the publisher Revue Noire, and in 1996 in the landmark In/Sight exhibition of modern and contemporary African photography at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The museum still has some of those magnificent chromogenic prints, initially secured by the late Okwui Enwezor over two decades ago. They were on display this autumn alongside works by Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Robert Mapplethorpe, and others. Smaller solo shows have been held throughout the United States, and even as far away as Cape Town.
I came to know Fani-Kayode's work through the writing of Enwezor, Kobena Mercer, and Steven Nelson back in 2006. Then, he was widely celebrated as a key figure in the emerging field of contemporary African art history: he had written a powerful artist's statement declaring himself to be a Yoruban photographer working in Europe, and his virtuosic photographs drew freely on iconographies from the western Africa and its diasporas. These he put in dialogue with Baroque painting, photographic modernism, classical myth and Christian symbolism. In short, his oeuvre is an art historian's dream, and a source of boundless inspiration to viewers from many walks of life.
But I think Fani-Kayode was so important then, as now, for the visionary quality of his life and practice. This was literally true, in his invocation of a Yoruban "technique of ecstasy," states of reverie in his method. But it was also socially resonant. He built on histories of gay liberation and black radicalism, but merged them in provocative ways that put pressure on a range of cultural boundaries and stereotypes. His pictures figured subjects that we might now think of in terms of queer or intersectional identities and what Stuart Hall was then theorizing as "New Ethnicities." Moreover, Fani-Kayode was attuned to European history and contemporary politics—wary of ethno-nationalism and the lures of fascism, he thought of his camera as a weapon in a fight for survival fought every day by people of color, refugees, and exiles all over the world. Certainly these problems are as pressing today as they were in 1989.
I often felt a deep sadness writing Bloodflowers. I wondered what it would have been like for Fani-Kayode to survive long enough to see his work hang in some of the most important museums in the world, to see friends and contemporaries go on to great success, securing blue chip gallery representation, winning the prestigious Turner Prize. If only he had made it a few more years, he might have enjoyed the fruits of a post-Cold War world in which "difference" was suddenly so highly valued. Of course, Mercer and others wrote of the ambivalence with which such victories were won, the narrow path and creative strictures many black artists faced as the price of admission to the gilded circuit of fairs and biennials and wealthy dealers. As a singular voice and a defiantly independent artist, Fani-Kayode would have likely chafed at such expectations, but his perspective would have been a vital one as the decade unfolded.
Fani-Kayode is now widely recognized as one of the most important artists of the 1980s, is part of landmark group shows, and his reputation seems to grow with each passing year. He's even featured alongside peers like Yinka Shonibare in the textbook I use in many of my courses. Looking back during this season of retrospection, on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the apparent cultural and political sea change that it augured, it is easy to wonder how much progress we have made. Three decades later, it seems that the art world has caught up to Fani-Kayode's powerful example; in so many other ways, our collective work is only beginning.
You can read the introduction of Bloodflowers free online now, and purchase a paperback copy of for 30% off using the coupon code E19BRLND.
Posted in Art, Art History, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Photography on December 20, 2019 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
Our Editors Pick Their Books of the Decade
As we come to the end of a decade, our editors look back at some of the most influential books we've published since 2010.
Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director
I'm proud to have worked on a great number of field-changing and prize-winning books this decade, many of which had sway far beyond the academy. The one title that stands out for me is Christina Sharpe's In the Wake. I'd worked with Christina on her exceptional first book Monstrous Intimacies so knew there was more brilliance to come. I can still picture the room at MLA in Vancouver where I first heard her present In the Wake's powerful poetic text, compelling at so many layers at once. We were awed by her ability to move from the deeply familial and personal to the scale of world history without losing either the tone or the theory; by the stark realism of her account of Black death; and by the call to live on despite the weather. The book came out in November of 2016, by mid-March of the following year, artist Cauleen Smith had adopted the book's title for her contribution to the 2017 Whitney Biennial. I've since seen Sharpe's work deeply engaged by Torkwase Dyson and other artists. Her narrating of the wake, the ship, the hold, and the weather — along with the idea of wakework itself — has been taken up by writers, critics, activists and readers, who felt Sharpe had named something for their lives. This quick recognition —the sense of being recognized, seen, or heard — is unusual and deeply special. The book is an extraordinary gift to our ongoing political moment, one that will resonate for many years to come.
Courtney Berger, Executive Editor
It's been 10 years since we published Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (January 2010). When I first read the manuscript, I knew it would be important. I knew that Bennett's generous and reflective way of thinking and her engaging writing style would widen its audience beyond political theory (Bennett's home discipline). But I had no idea how influential the book would be, setting the stage for a decade of conversation and debate about "thing-power" and the agential capacities of the nonhuman. Bennett's plea to recognize the influence of nonhuman forces and things in the political realm and to decenter the human resonated with me and many others seeking new ways of thinking about our relationship to our environment. Influential books often provoke debate and this one certainly has done that. But, for me, the books that matter in the long run are the ones that invite me to think with them. Vibrant Matter is that kind of book. Bennett's ideas have generated critique, disagreement, and reflection, all of which has pushed scholarship in new and important directions. Notably, Mel Chen's Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012) builds upon Bennett's attention to the affective dimensions of the nonhuman material world, but shows us how race, sexuality, and disability have shaped our notions of liveliness and of who and what matters in this world. In The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (2017) Kyla Schuller extends this critique, illustrating how the 19th century sciences of "impressibility" and animacy helped to solidify ontologies of racial difference, ideas that have had an often unacknowledged afterlife in new materialist philosophies. Moreover, Bennett's work has helped to lay the ground work for innovative book series like ANIMA, edited by Mel Chen and Jasbir Puar, which brings queer, race, and disability theory to bear on our understanding of life and matter, and Elements, edited by Stacy Alaimo and Nicole Starosielski, which foregrounds the material elements as lively forces that shape politics and culture.
My task was to name one book of the decade, and as you see, instead I named one book, and two more, and then two book series. Maybe that's my way of dodging the task. But it also speaks to the expansive and generative quality of books, as they travel, intersect, and influence one another, as well as the vibrancy of the scholarly conversations I'm so privileged to be a part of. I can't wait to see which books make their mark in the coming decade. . . .
Gisela Fosado, Editor
Gloria Anzaldúa's brilliant book Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro is a work that is decades ahead of its time. Published in 2015, but written before Anzaldúa's untimely death in 2004, the book engages feminist and queer aesthetics, ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics, offering a new decolonial vision for our world. It's a must-read for all feminist scholars.
Elizabeth Ault, Editor
My book of the decade is Kristin Peterson's Speculative Markets. I arrived at Duke Press in 2012, mere weeks after defending my dissertation in American studies (focused on Black-cast sitcoms of the 1970s). I was pretty burnt out after 6 years of grad school, and feeling a little distant and alienated from the political passion and the joy of intellectual inquiry that had put me on an academic path in the first place. Speculative Markets was one of the first books I got to work on at the Press. Peterson's book, an ethnography of pharmaceuticals in Nigeria, wasn't an obvious fit with my areas of expertise. But the book begins with a blistering account of structural adjustment in the global 1970s and 80s, providing African perspectives on the global rise of neoliberalism, which had loomed large in my previous work. Thinking neoliberalism, the durability of colonial forms, speculation, and global anti-Blackness from Nigeria with Peterson introduced me to what cultural and medical anthropology and African studies can do. The book reoriented my perspective, introduced me to new conversations, and reminded me of the power of scholarship. It's helped me chart the course that has comprised my career here at the Press over the past 7 years, which is why it's my book of the decade.
Miriam Angress, Associate Editor
One of the books I'm joyful to have worked on is Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering, written by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with her daughter Rachel Elizabeth Harding. The author—an influential civil-rights activist—believed in the unity of all great spiritual teachings, and practiced multiple religions herself; she looked for the compassionate underpinnings of these traditions, such as the link she saw between Tibetan Buddhist teachings and lessons she learned from her mother as they visited dying relatives. Remnants incorporates stories of her civil rights leadership, co-founding an early integrated community center in Atlanta with her husband Dr. Vincent Harding, and working with friends and colleagues including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Anne Braden, Dr. Howard Thurman and Sue Bailey Thurman, and Sweet Honey in the Rock singer Bernice Reagon.
Rachel Harding (Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions at University of Colorado) worked with her mother on the memoir for a decade before Freeney Harding's death in 2004. After that, she excavated her mother's voice from journals, previously published material, recordings, and her own memories.
Sandra Korn, Assistant Editor
2011 was the year I realized that I was queer, and the year that I officially scrapped my parents' dreams that I would become a scientist, when I switched my undergraduate major to Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. It's also the year that Dean Spade first published Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law with South End Press. Same-sex marriage legalization and hate crime laws covering gender identity were slowly sweeping the U.S. state by state. Yet Dean Spade taught me that waiting for the courts to grant legal equality (the model adopted by the gay and lesbian rights movement) would never be sufficient to address the root causes of violence against trans people across the planet. Instead, Spade argues that trans liberation requires a grassroots movement, led by trans people most impacted by criminalization, surveillance, and detention and deportation. Duke Press published the second edition of Normal Life in 2015, and this book feels just as necessary as we head into 2020.
Posted in African American Studies, African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism & Theory, Press News, Race and Ethnicity, Religion on December 19, 2019 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
A Fool for Christmas Will Be Back in Stock Soon
A few weeks ago we were pleased to announce that, along with Horse & Buggy Press and the Duke University Libraries, we were bringing out a special limited edition of Allan Gurganus's beloved short story "A Fool for Christmas," which had never before appeared in print. Readers were excited and we sold out all the copies immediately. We are pleased to announce that a reprint is on the way. The book should be available for purchase on our website by Wednesday, December 14 and can be pre-ordered now by calling our customer service department at 888-651-0122. You can also check your local bookstores in the Triangle area. We'll be offering them the opportunity to restock next week as well.
Posted in In the News on December 13, 2019 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
Save 40% During Our Cyber Monday Sale
Today only! Save 40% on all in-stock books and journal issues during our special one-day-only Cyber Monday sale.
To get the discount, shop our website and enter the coupon code CYBER40 when you check out. Please note that the discount does not apply to journal subscriptions or society memberships. See all the fine print here.
Stock up on books for next semester's courses or get your holiday shopping done. Books ordered today will arrive in time for Hannukah and Christmas if shipped to a U.S. address. We cannot guarantee holiday arrival for international shipments.
But act fast, because this sale is over at 11:59 PM EST.
Posted in In the News, Press News on December 2, 2019 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
Preview Our Spring 2020 Catalog
We're excited to unveil our Spring 2020 catalog. Check out some highlights from the season below and then download a copy for a closer read. These titles will be published between January and July 2020.
On the cover we're featuring a portrait of writer and activist Margaret Randall, whose memoir I Never Left Home is on page one. Randall is the author of over 150 books of poetry and prose and she has lived a remarkable life that included harrowing escapes from a Mexican government crackdown, life among revolutionaries in Nicaragua and Cuba, and fighting the U.S. government after they attempted to take away her citizenship.
We are publishing several books that straddle the line between poetry and scholarship. We're pleased to welcome back returning authors David Grubbs and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Grubbs's The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. Gumbs offers the final book in her trilogy (begun with Spill and continued with M Archive): Dub: Finding Ceremony, which takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. And Ashon T. Crawley's The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which he meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the black church, theology, mysticism, and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life.
We're also pleased to welcome back returning author Amitava Kumar. Fresh off the tremendous success of his novel Immigrant, Montana (Alfred A. Knopf), Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book offers academics and all writers advice on style and process as well as inspiring examples from conversations with novelists and other writers.
Since we published the English translation of German novelist Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1 in 2005, readers have been asking us when they could get Volume 2. The wait is over! Volume 2 will be out in March. And Volume 3 is under contract with a translator, so we hope to have the whole trilogy available in English in the next few years. The novel is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.
Other returning authors include photographer William Craft Brumfield, whose new book Journeys through the Russian Empire juxtaposes his own contemporary photographs alongside those of nineteenth-century photographer Sergey Prokudin Gorsky. Jane Bennett, whose Vibrant Matter (2010) is one of our bestselling books of all time, returns with Influx and Efflux, which draws on Walt Whitman and other writers to explore the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences. Anthropologist Arturo Escobar's new book Pluriversal Politics continues his work in Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), showing how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
Other notable anthropology titles include Relations, by Marilyn Strathern, which provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Porkopolis by Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism. And in Writing Anthropology, editor Carole McGranahan brings together fifty-two anthropologists to reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment.
You'll also want to check out Poor Queer Studies, in which Matt Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. And in A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context.
And don't miss the exceptional journal issues in this catalog. To name a few: "Radical Care," upcoming from Social Text, draws on a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and black activism to consider how communities receive and provide care in order to survive environments that challenge their existence. "Trans Pornography," an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers insight into a largely neglected topic from both scholars and industry insiders. And "Revolutionary Positions," a Radical History Review issue, explores the impact of the Cuban Revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender.
There's so much more! We invite you to download the entire catalog and check out all the great books and journals inside. And be sure to sign up for our email alerts so you'll know when titles you're interested in are available.
Posted in Press News, Publishing on November 15, 2019 by Laura Sell. Leave a comment
Duke University Press, Duke University Libraries, and Horse & Buggy Press to Release Special Print Edition of Allan Gurganus's Holiday Story "A Fool for Christmas"
Allan Gurganus's "A Fool for Christmas" first charmed audiences when he read it on NPR's "All Things Considered" in 2004. Together with Duke University Libraries, which acquired Gurganus's archives in 2018, and Horse & Buggy Press, Duke University Press is pleased to be bringing the story into print for the first time in a limited edition with hand-printed letterpress covers.
The story is set during the Christmas season, when mall pet store manager Vernon Ricketts splits his time between selling irresistible puppies and kittens festooned with holiday bows and shielding the mall's loiterers from its over-zealous manager, "Terminator" Vanderlip. Just days before Christmas, Vernon notices a small, bedraggled girl in a worn overcoat desperately trying to blend into the mall's background. Sensing she's a runaway in trouble, Vernon feels obliged to help. His kindness and their chance encounter will produce a Christmas miracle that becomes a legend as it changes lives.
Allan Gurganus's fiction has been translated into sixteen languages. His books include Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All; White People; Plays Well with Others; The Practical Heart; and Local Souls. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, and the National Magazine Prize.
Dave Wofford of Horse & Buggy Press has designed over 150 books, including over 20 fine press titles that bear the H&B imprint, many which have won awards for their content and design. This includes It Had Wings, the 1997 publication which features eight pen and ink drawings Allan made to illustrate his oft anthologized short story (originally published by Knopf in White People). This hand-printed, hand-bound edition was produced in a limited edition of 335 signed and numbered copies and also included a "Story of the Story," in which Allan details turning a novella into a much shorter form after receiving insightful feedback from music composer Bruce Saylor, who in turn set the story to a musical score.
Gurganus created eleven hand-drawn color illustrations for this special edition.
In a new afterword for the story, Allan Gurganus says, "The seasonal reading of this tale always stirs discussion about the state of our imperiled nation: how can we live lives like his—making virtue a daily possibility?"
Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian & Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University Libraries says, "When Duke acquired the literary archive of Allan Gurganus, we knew we were adding a remarkable body of work to our already strong collection of writers in the southern literary tradition. We are delighted to work with Horse & Buggy Press and Duke University Press to bring this first publication of "A Fool for Christmas" out of the archive and onto the page— a gift to us all."
"We are honored to play a role in this publication," said Dean Smith, Director of Duke University Press. "Allan Gurganus is a wonderful writer and this holiday story is a compassionate and important one for our time."
Allan Gurganus will appear at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham to read his beloved story on December 12. He is available for interviews. Copies of the limited edition will be available at Triangle area bookshops.
The publication date is November 26, 2019.
Booksellers wanting more information or wishing to place an order for the book can contact Sales Manager Jennifer Schaper at jennifer.schaper@dukeupress.edu.
All other inquiries: Laura Sell, Publicity, lsell@dukeupress.edu or 919-687-3639.
Posted in In the News on November 11, 2019 by Laura Sell. 1 Comment
University Press Week: How to Be an Environmental Steward
Welcome to Day 3 of the University Press Week blog tour. Today's theme is How to Be an Environmental Steward. We asked some of our authors to answer the question,"What is one thing that more people need to understand about the current global climate crisis?"
Orrin Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University and co-author of Sea-Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores
Much of the CO2 we are putting in the air now will be with us for many years. If we don't control and lower CO2 emissions within the next 2 decades, climate change will be become a runaway event causing massive global migration, wars over water and migration patterns, critical sea level rise impacts and important, perhaps devastating changes in food sources. The time for action is now.
Shawna Ross, Assistant Professor of Modern British Literature and the Digital Humanities at Texas A&M University and author of "Teaching in Stormy Weather" (Pedagogy, vol. 19, issue 3)
"Climate change" is a loose and baggy monster of a word, as Henry James might put it. It should not be understood as a single phenomenon, but as a multifaceted problem that manifests in ways that differ profoundly depending on where you are on the globe. We all experience climate change in a local way, and our efforts to combat it must include careful attention to these local conditions.
Teena Gabrielson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming and author of "The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice" (Environmental Humanities vol. 11, issue 1)
In a visually saturated global culture, images are powerful means of communication. Today, there is growing awareness that those hit first and hardest by the escalating climate emergency disproportionately come from the world's most marginalized communities. To envision a more just and green future and create a more inclusive climate justice movement, we need a better understanding of the visual politics that shape the depiction of environmental injustice and visual strategies that disrupt and resist ways of seeing entrenched in dominant power hierarchies.
Cymene Howe, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
We need to understand that it is imperative to immediately transition away from fossil fuels and create a new, global energy infrastructure for a sustainable future. This is an incredible opportunity because we can learn from our past mistakes—where hydrocarbon extraction has led to both environmental destruction and social inequalities. We now have a chance to do it right. What if we were to see new energy sources—such as solar, wind and biofuels—as not only fuels but as the foundation for new political forms that are committed to environmental justice rather than the petrologics of endless growth and resource exploitation?
Nicole Welk-Joerger, PhD candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene" (Environmental Humanities vol. 11, issue 1)
As we approach this global dilemma, many of us place unreasonably high expectations on farmers and farm workers. They need to adapt to our changing tastes and continue to provide us with cheap and convenient food, all while mitigating their own contributions to the climate crisis. Our chance for a sustainable future relies on the recognition that food production and consumption are only one part of a much larger, interdependent system of questionable practices. The transportation and energy industries need to feel the same weight of blame and the necessity to adapt that many of the world's farmers currently experience.
Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropoogy at Rice University and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene.
There is no way to bend our current ecocidal trajectory through individual actions. If you want to fly less or recycle more, those are great choices, but they won't impact climate change. Individual consumption is simply the wrong scale of intervention. And the petrocultural powers that be want you to feel guilty and complicit. The fact is that all that matters where we are now in the neo-Pliocene is coordinated governmental initiatives aimed at developing the infrastructure of a post-growth global civilization committed to values of sustainability, peace and justice. If you want to help, my advice would be to take your guilt and fear and redirect those emotions toward principled passionate work to develop responsible and effective government. Maybe that's government of a liberal-democratic nature or maybe it's in the form of a non-state collective. If you can't find political leadership worthy of your support, become that leader yourself. The world will thank you for it.
Candis Callison is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts.
How we define and think about climate change has changed immensely in the last 30 years, and we're currently in the midst of a window of time (until 2030) defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to act (i.e. change infrastructure to decrease emissions) in order to limit long term impacts and the increase in global temperature. This is what defines climate change as a global crisis, but that shouldn't also foreclose on questions about what kind of crisis it is, for whom, and who has a seat at the table where decisions about how to act (and when) are being made. Many Indigenous communities, globally are already dealing with climate change impacts, yet diverse Indigenous knowledges, experiences, and histories that could offer profound insight into the climate crisis are often not at the table where decisions are being made—limiting the frameworks within which the climate crisis is considered and addressed.
Please continue on the blog tour by visiting the other university presses participating today. At University of Pittsburgh Press, author Patricia Demarco writes about global and local sustainability. Columbia University Press features a guest post from the author of Live Sustainably Now with tips to decreasing your carbon footprint. University of California Press offers a post by the author of forthcoming book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. Head to Yale University Press for a post with actionable steps on helping the environment and to University of South Carolina Press for photos from the authors of Carolina Bays about preservation of these unique ecological systems. Bucknell University Press offers a post by Tim Wenzell, editor of Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Writing on why ecocriticism makes us better stewards of nature. At Oregon State University Press, Marcy Cottrell Houle discusses her new book, A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon. University of Minnesota Press shares a post by Jennifer Telesca on the managed extinction of the giant bluefin tuna. University of Mississippi Press features author Jessica H. Schexnayder, whose work documents the dying histories of coastal communities. And University of Toronto Press has a post by sales rep Alex Keys, discussing the ways in which he is able to merge his job with his desire to be a better steward for the environment.
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University Press Week 2019: Read. Think. Act.
It's University Press Week! University Press Week highlights the extraordinary work of nonprofit scholarly publishers and their many contributions to culture, the academy, and an informed society. We'll be celebrating with displays at the Durham County Library's South Regional branch, the LGBTQ Center of Durham, North Carolina Central University, Durham's Riverside High School library, and around Duke University's campus at the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Music Library, the Office for Faculty Advancement, the John Hope Franklin Center, the Forum for Scholars and Publics, the Rubenstein Arts Center, the Center for Muslim Life, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. If you're in Durham please stop by and check out some of our recent titles and pick up a bookmark.
This year's University Press Week theme is "Read. Think. Act." It's is a particularly apt theme as many citizens around the globe continue to engage in important debates that will influence vital decision-making in the months ahead; in fact, this year's UP Week will begin exactly one year to the day before the 2020 Election Day in the U.S. Through this positive theme AUPresses members worldwide seek to encourage people to read the latest peer-reviewed publications about issues that affect our present and future—from politics to economics to climate change to race relations and more—and to better understand academic presses' important contribution to these vital areas of concern. To that end, AUPresses members have suggested a "Read. Think. Act. Reading List" that can serve as a starting place for any reader who wants to learn more. Our contribution to that list is Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsumani on America's Shores, by Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey, who argue that the only feasible response to climate change along much of the US shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat.
A blog tour has been set up to highlight university press books, authors, and editors that fit the "Read. Think. Act." theme. Today's tour features presses blogging about "how to be a better (global) citizen." Participating presses are University of California Press, University of Virginia Press, Purdue University Press, Georgetown University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Manchester University Press, University Press of Florida, and University of Minnesota Press. Check out their posts today and come back here Wednesday, when several of our authors and editors will be participating in a roundtable about the global climate crisis.
Please share your love for university presses and all they do for scholarship on social media this week with the hashtag #ReadUP.
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Alexander Soifer (né en 1948) est un mathématicien américain d'origine russe et auteur en mathématiques. Il s'intéresse principalement à la théorie des groupes, la géométrie et la combinatoire.

Formation et carrière
Soifer a obtenu son doctorat en 1973 avec une thèse intitulée « Abelian Groups Having Minimal Systems of Generators » sous la direction de Leonid Kulikov au Moscow State Pedagogical Institute et il est professeur de mathématiques à l'université du Colorado depuis 1979. Il a été chercheur invité à l'université de Princeton de 2002 à 2004, puis à nouveau en 2006-2007. Soifer enseigne également des cours d'histoire de l'art et de cinéma européen. Ses publications comprennent 13 livres et plus de 400 articles.

Chaque printemps, Soifer, avec d'autres collègues mathématiciens, parraine les Olympiades mathématiques du Colorado (CMO) à l'université du Colorado à Colorado Springs. Soifer compile et écrit la plupart des problèmes pour le concours. La CMO a été fondée par Soifer le  et correspond à la déclinaison locale des Olympiades internationales de mathématiques.

À l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de l'Olympiade, l'université a produit un film à ce sujet. En , en reconnaissance de ses 35 années de leadership, les juges et les lauréats ont décidé en 2018 de renommer l'Olympiade mathématique du Colorado en olympiade mathématique Soifer.

En 1991, Soifer a fondé le trimestriel de recherche Geombinatorics et l'a publié avec le comité de rédaction.

Le graphe de Soifer, possédant 9 sommets et 20 arêtes, est un contre-exemple minimal à la preuve erronée d'Alfred Kempe du théorème des quatre couleurs, construit en 1997 par Alexander Soifer

Prix et distinctions
En , à l'université de Cambridge, Soifer s'est vu remettre le prix Paul-Erdős par la Fédération mondiale des concours de mathématiques.

Soifer est actuellement président de la Fédération mondiale des compétitions nationales de mathématiques. Son nombre d'Erdős est 1.

Sélection de publications
 The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden Springer, New York, 2015 lire en ligne (publisher: Birkhauser-Springer, Basel)
 Mathematics as Problem Solving Center for Excellence in Mathematical Education, Colorado Springs, 1987 lire en ligne
 How does one cut a triangle? Center for Excellence in Mathematical Education, Colorado Springs, 1990 lire en ligne
 Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Ten Years and Further Explorations Center for Excellence in Mathematical Education, Colorado Springs, 1991 lire en ligne
 Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics Center for Excellence in Mathematical Education, Colorado Springs, 1994 lire en ligne
 The Mathematical Coloring Book Springer, New York 2009 lire en ligne: The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators, has been in the works for 18 years.
 Mathematics as Problem Solving 2nd ed. Springer, New York 2009 lire en ligne
 How Does One Cut a Triangle? 2nd ed. Springer, New York 2009 lire en ligne
 The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations: From the Mountains of Colorado to the Peaks of Mathematics Springer, New York 2011 lire en ligne
 The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad; The Third Decade and Further Explorations: From the Mountains of Colorado to the Peaks of Mathematics Springer, New York 2017 lire en ligne
 Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics 2nd ed. Springer, New York 2010 lire en ligne
 Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Birkhäuser-Springer 2011 lire en ligne
 Life and Fate: In Search of Van der Waerden, paru en  en russe. Ce livre est le rapport d'une enquête historique de 20 ans sur la vie de l'algébristre du XXe siècle, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903-1996), auteur de l'Algèbre moderne. L'édition anglaise élargie, The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden lire en ligne, a été publiée par Birkhäuser-Springer en 2017.

Geombinatorics

Geombinatorics est une revue scientifique trimestrielle de mathématiques. Elle a été créée par le rédacteur en chef Alexander Soifer en 1991 et est publiée par l'université du Colorado à Colorado Springs. Le journal aborde des problèmes de géométrie discrète,  et combinatoire, ainsi que des domaines connexes. « Géombinatoire » est un mot-valise entre géométrie et combinatoire.

Le journal est répertorié dans Zentralblatt MATH, Excellence Research Australia et MathSciNet.

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Naissance en août 1948
Professeur à l'université du Colorado
Mathématicien américain du XXIe siècle
Mathématicien américain du XXe siècle

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Unless you've been in a coma for the past few weeks you've probably been inundated with news about the current implosion of the U.S. (and now world) economy. Inundated may be too mild a term. "Completely overwhelmed" may be more accurate. After 9/11, Americans were repeatedly warned to "be afraid, very afraid" and encouraged to go out and shop as an antidote to our fear and as an expression of patriotism. Given the tone and content of many of the conversations that I've had with people over the past few weeks, despite efforts on the part of national "leaders" to reassure us not to worry and that "help is on the way" if we just trust that wise minds are taking care of business, it seems like there's a greater inclination to "be afraid" than there is to shop.
This isn't surprising since for most of us there seems to increasingly be less to spend and more to fear. Yet as President Franklin Roosevelt announced during the first depression, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." While I've heard that quote hundreds of times over the years, it has only been very recently that I've given any serious thought to what it actually means. To fully appreciate these words they must be provided with some context. It was March of 1933, seventy five years ago, and Roosevelt was delivering his first inaugural address to the country.
The nation was experiencing the worst financial crisis of its history. The depression had reached its depth. Credit wasn't just tight, it was unavailable. There were massive foreclosures. The unemployment rate was through the roof. Banks all over the country had failed (and there was as yet no FDIC), international tensions were unprecedented with Fascism on the rise in Europe. It was truly one of our darkest hours as a nation. In his address, FDR's intention was not simply to inspire and reassure Americans that we could and would get through these terrible times, but to put things in perspective and provide a plan that would effectively meet the challenges of the day. But first he had to cool the flames of fear that four years into the crisis were burning nearly out of control.
What he was referring to with his now-famous quote, was the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." When he spoke these words, Roosevelt was acknowledging that it isn't the current situation that is our greatest threat, but rather our emotionally- driven reaction to it that undermines our ability to clearly assess the situation with clarity. He was acknowledging that fear that is intensified by inflammatory words and threats, whether they come from others or from our own mind, serves only to distort our perception of the reality in front of us and inhibits our ability to respond effectively. In so doing, Roosevelt was making a critical distinction between worry and concern, the former referring to feeling threatened and anxious and the latter having to do with being engaged and interested in something of importance and relevance to one's life. In other words, concern is worry minus fear.
Of course it's hard not to feel fearful when the ground beneath our feet (figuratively speaking) is quaking and threatening to collapse. Choosing not to feel afraid is often easier said than done. But Roosevelt did not admonish us not to fear. He merely reminded us of the dangers in believing everything you think or have been told. The appropriate response to fear is to examine it and question the assumptions that underlie it in order to respond to it in a way that addresses the concern that underlies it.
When we just react rather than respond to fear, we usually amplify it and get caught in a self- fulfilling, repeatedly reinforcing cycle which often ultimately leads to irrational thinking and panic. Roosevelt of course didn't put an end to the depression of the thirties with his historic address, but he did interrupt what was rapidly becoming a national hysteria that could have had unimaginable consequences without his eloquence, wisdom, and confidence in the human character. There are many other brilliant insights that he offered in his address that have been largely forgotten, overshadowed by the "fear" quote, but it behooves us, particularly in some of these trying times to recall them.
Roosevelt went on to say that : "We face our common difficulties [that] concern, thank God, only material things " (emphasis added). These last three words to me are the most powerful of his entire speech, for in them is contained the essential understanding that reminds us all that as difficult as things are, and as demanding as our personal, national and global challenges may be, we are dealing with material matters that only partially impact upon our overall quality of life. This is of course not to say that such concerns aren't extremely serious and in need of being addressed and corrected as quickly and effectively as possible. It is simply to help us to put things in perspective and remember what it is in our lives that truly matters. What it is that has meaning and purpose for us.
What it is that truly impacts upon the quality of our heart and soul, and what it is that ultimately sustains and nurtures us and those around us. The word crisis in Chinese is composed of two characters meaning 'danger' and 'opportunity'. Sometimes it takes a crisis to shake us out of the complacency of sleep-walking through a life driven by a script of material concerns in which we have lost sight of the purpose that underlies our need for work, money, and possessions. We can forget that these things are not ends in themselves, but rather means to greater ends. We may fail to ask ourselves the questions that can reveal the deeper needs and longings of the heart that can easily become neglected in our endless quest for "success".
But true fulfillment cannot come from material achievement alone. Although the body does require food to sustain itself, the heart cannot be filled by material accomplishment. There is a wonderful saying that you can't get enough of what you really don't need. Sometimes it takes a crisis to tell the difference between what you really need and what you merely want. Although Roosevelt didn't actually say that "This situation is a wonderful growth opportunity" (the New Age wouldn't come into being for another forty years!), he did remind us to look beyond the immediacy of our anxieties to the deeper lessons that might be contained within this crisis. He simultaneously acknowledged the seriousness of the situation pointing to the underlying conditions that had contributed to it and offered a powerful and practical response to it.
Roosevelt went on to state that "the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish." The grave danger that he alerted the nation to was not a failure of the banking system. That was merely a symptom. It was a failure of imagination, an absence of vision that underlay the systemic breakdowns that inevitably ensued. He further offered the extraordinary perspective that "happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort" and to "realize as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other".
In speaking of the inextricably interwoven nature of all of our relationships, Roosevelt reminded us that one of the "gifts" of this crisis was that it helped us to remember that our basic nature involves interconnectedness, and that when our lives are an expression of this truth, all difficulties become more workable. In acknowledging our common needs, interests and concerns, we become more able to operate interdependently with each other, other groups, and even other nations rather than reinforcing the illusion of separateness and the experience of isolation that fuels our sense of powerlessness and fear. Roosevelt would deliver three more inaugural addresses until 1945 when he died in office. He has always been considered one of our three most respected and beloved Presidents, along with Lincoln and Washington.
Before his tenure was over, Roosevelt would lead America out of two of the greatest challenges of its history: the depression and World War II. But perhaps his greatest accomplishment was in reminding Americans of what really mattered and inspiring them to find within their own hearts the strength, the spirit, the faith and the love that honors our deepest longings and our true purpose. When we are connected to the truth of our heart and to the hearts of others, not only do we see what truly matters and what is needed to fulfill the challenges that we face, but we see that we have within ourselves the ability to meet these challenges successfully. We also see that we are not alone, and that in working together in partnership with others we are capable of far more than we can in isolation or separateness. In ninety days we will be hearing the inaugural address of our next President. May we be blessed with a leader whose wisdom, judgment, compassion and ability to inspire matches that of FDR's. But let's not forget that even great leaders need the support of their constituents. America's founders envisioned a true partnership between citizens and representative- leaders. Our current situation awakens us to the challenge of fulfilling their vision. Imagine the possibilities.


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John Perry
End of a Narcostate?
In Honduras, Biden's problems stem from the period when he was vice-president and the mildly reforming President Zelaya was ousted in a military coup. Neoliberal government was restored, but the corruption and drug-trafficking created a narcostate, led since 2014 by Trump's confidant Juan Orlando Hernández. When Hondurans voted to end JOH's mandate in 2017, the US ensured that a rigged result kept him in power. JOH is finally standing down as Hondurans go the polls again on Sunday.
If it were a narco lab, it would be working
Honduras is a failed state and, unless US policy towards it changes radically, many thousands more will head north. Since the military coup in 2009 there have been three corrupt elections. The last, in 2017, which saw Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) re-elected when he had clearly lost, led to even more repression. Persecution of human rights defenders is unceasing, even after international condemnation of the murder of Berta Cáceres five years ago. Seven were killed in 2020, and four young leaders from Garifuna communities, abducted in a single night seven months ago, are still missing. Curfews during the Covid-19 pandemic appear to have worsened the day-to-day violence: eleven corpses were found in the street in one week in January; bodies are being chopped up and left them wrapped in plastic. Perhaps the most emotive case occurred earlier this month: a doctor and student nurse, who had been working with Covid patients, were arrested for breaching the 9 p.m. curfew. The doctor was freed, but the nurse died in police custody. Protests erupted. Five people were arrested, tortured by the police and forced to confess to crimes they didn't commit.
Hurricane Eta hits the Mosquito Coast
Central America's 'Mosquito Coast', the home of the Miskito people, stretches between Honduras and Nicaragua. The border is at a point that juts out into the Caribbean: Columbus called it Cabo Gracias a Dios for the shelter it provided on his last voyage. As the storm that became Hurricane Eta formed above the seas of Venezuela on 30 October, it headed west towards the cape 2000 kilometres away, following the track of Hurricane Edith in 1971, Mitch in 1998 (which killed seven thousand people in Honduras and three thousand in Nicaragua), Felix in 2007, Ida in 2009 and many other lesser cyclones.
Whose Embassy?
Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, foreign embassies are 'inviolable': the host country's officials have a 'special duty' to protect them and can't enter without permission. When the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC was besieged last summer, the National Lawyers Guild said that the US government had flouted the convention by condoning the attacks and protecting those who were carrying them out.
The Hernández Brothers
Donald Trump said last year that migrant caravans, mainly of Hondurans, were coming to the US from 'shithole countries'. But now he says that the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, is doing a 'fantastic job'. Trump and JOH recently reached an agreement declaring Honduras to be a 'safe place' for asylum seekers trying to reach the US. JOH also promised to help the US tackle transnational criminal organisations. He's well placed to do this. Last November, his brother Tony was arrested in Miami and accused of drug trafficking and possessing illegal weapons. At his trial in New York, which concluded last week, the jury found Tony Hernández guilty. He faces at least 30 years in prison for bringing 200,000 kilos of cocaine into the US between 2004 and 2018, in packets often stamped with his own initials.
The Plunder Continues
A fraudulent election one year ago gave Juan Orlando Hernández a second term as president of Honduras. The protests that followed were violently repressed. By the year's end, 126 demonstrations had been held, leaving 30 people dead, 232 injured and more than 1000 in jail. But on 22 December 2017 the US government congratulated Hernández on his success, referring with no apparent irony to 'the close election result' and ignoring a call by the Organisation of American States for a new ballot.
After Ortega?
Nicaragua had a record 1.8 million tourists last year. It's a beautiful country, and in 2017 it officially became the safest in Central America. But after three days of political violence last month, one of the few certainties in 2018 is that it will lose both records. More than 40 people died in the protests, ostensibly over government social security reforms.
The Man with the Typewriter
On 9 April 1948, the Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán stepped out of his office with a group of friends to walk to Bogotá's Hotel Continental for lunch. An assassin confronted him in the street and shot him three times in the face and chest. He died shortly afterwards. His supporters caught the 20-year-old culprit, Juan Roa Sierra, and beat him to death. His body, naked except for a blue and red striped tie, was dumped in front of the Presidential Palace. It remained there for two days. 'El Bogotazo', the night of violence sparked by Gaitán's assassination, left more than 3000 people dead and Bogotá half in ruins.
Another Housing Privatisation Disaster
When the Ministry of Defence sold its armed forces housing in 1996, it already looked a bad deal: 57,000 houses were sold for £30,000 each, well under half the average house price at the time. Overnight, the sale created Britain's biggest private landlord and gave it a blue chip tenant – the MoD. Yet the company that won the contract, Annington, had just been set up and had no experience of management on such a scale.
Low Integrity
Twenty-four people have been killed by police in demonstrations since the presidential election in Honduras three weeks ago. The centre-left Alliance, headed by Salvador Nasralla, appeared to be the clear winner after 57 per cent of votes had been counted, but a suspiciously dramatic late swing towards the incumbent, Juan Orlando Hernández, gave him a lead of 1.5 per cent when the final count was in. Protests against election fraud sprang up nationwide. Some police units initially refused to take part in repressing them, but they were bought out with pay rises and, allegedly, bribes to top police officers.
Read more by John Perry on the LRB website
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua, where, perplexingly, he writes and edits books on British housing and social policy.


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We use only clean and safe Mercedes car, we are always on time and our drivers are really polite.
You don't have any surprice at the ned of the taxi service and you know how much a taxi cost from Ciampino airport to Rome, before to land in Rome airport.
Our driver will pick you up directly in the airport with your name written on sign to take you directly to your destination.
We cover, naturally at the fix cost all the areas aroud the best attraction of Rome like Pantheon, Navona suqare, Campo dei Fiori, Via del Corso, Via Veneto, Spanish steps ( piazza di Spagna ), Trevi Fountain ( Fontana di Trevi ), Colosseum ( Colosseo ) Piazza del Popolo, Gianicolo, Viale Marconi, Via Nazionale, Via MArsala, Via Cavour, exc..
This is a really high custom service; we will apply our fix rate from Ciampino airport to your Hotel, B&B, Apartment.
In 36 years we pratically served all the Hotels located inside the Aurelian walls ( see imagine above ).
Our fix cost cover even many hotels outside that and if you are not sure ask us and we will be glad to answer.
We will do our best to guarantee the flat rate.


Where to even begin!! This year truly has been an amazing one. We were blessed with our sweet #BabyAJ a year ago today and we never knew just how much it would change our entire world. This child…she's something special!! She rounds out the #thegirlsofbp and makes this foursome a very happy team of five.


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Samsung Galaxy SmartTag Plus is a Tile Pro challenger with ultra-wideband tech
by Emma April 8, 2021
Earlier this year, Samsung launched the Galaxy SmartTag, a Tile competitor that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to help you find your lost items. The South Korean tech giant has now announced the launch of the Galaxy SmartTag+, a beefed-up version with both Bluetooth Low Energy and ultra-wideband (UWB).
Thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB), Samsung says the Galaxy SmartTag+ can pinpoint the location of your missing item with greater accuracy than the standard SmartTag. It also uses augmented reality (AR) to visually guide you to the item using your smartphone's camera. However, you'll need to have an UWB-equipped smartphone to be able to use AR Finder guides. Samsung's best Android phones — including the Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra, come with UWB support.
Facebook is gearing up to compete with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft authentically with its own gaming console, the Oculus Quest 2, which will challenge your paradigm of what a next-gen console can be.
The Eufy Wi-Fi Smart Lock one-ups most other smart locks in a way that seems like it should have been obvious from the get-go by adding in a fingerprint scanner right on the keypad. That, combined with its sleek black exterior, makes this a unique, must-have product.<img src="https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w200h150crop/public/article_images/2021/03/samsung-galaxy-a52-10.jpg" alt="Keep your Galaxy A52 looking snazzy with the best cases" srcset="https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w300h225crop/public/article_images/2021/03/samsung-galaxy-a52-10.jpg 300w,
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Carrie Review
Movies By	Rich Heimlich on	 October 18, 2013
A shy teen struggles with callous classmates and an overprotective mother until she taps into a unique — but dangerous — ability in Carrie.
This is a remake of the classic 1976 horror film based on Stephen King's best-selling book of the same name. The story centers on social misfit Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), who wants nothing more than to be accepted by her peers. She just doesn't mesh with them and comes from a sheltered home where her devoutly religious mother (Julianne Moore) endlessly obsesses about the evil in everyone and everything. Carrie finds herself abused both mentally and physically at home and at school. It's during all of this strife that she discovers a natural ability with telekinesis that, left purely to emotion, can cause undue harm to people and things around her.
The original film captivated horror audiences worldwide and boasted an all-star cast including quirky Sissy Spacek in the lead role along with Piper Laurie playing her mother. Both were nominated for Academy Awards — virtually unheard of in a horror film. It even features a young John Travolta.
The remake, unfortunately, bears only a passing resemblance to the original. Nothing about this effort works. The story fails on several fronts. First, it skips over key background elements that helped set the stage for the original. Then it gives us a surrounding cast of single-note stereotypes. We don't buy into any of them.
The worst affront is in the casting. Moretz is growing into a skilled actress but just isn't the right choice at all as Carrie. The role calls for someone who naturally comes off as oddball — a bit of an Olive Oyl type. Spacek had that in spades. Moretz, meanwhile, has played almost nothing but attractive, self-assured leader types that stand in stark contrast to what's called for here. It's impossible to see her as the undesirable, social outcast.
At about the midpoint of the film, it seems that the producers realized the disconnect and decided to just go in an entirely different direction, opting for the easy payoff of campiness and effects. Not only doesn't it work, but the special effects are also jarringly terrible. They're so bad that Moretz ends up looking ridiculous bringing them about. The transformation from one extreme to the other is so complete that, by the end, we can't help but feel sorry for the bad guys, which is quite an unwanted achievement all its own.
Carrie's biggest psychic power is in its ability to dull everyone into a stupor while watching this misguided, unnecessary train wreck of a remake.


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Jansen may refer to:

People
 Jansen (surname), a Dutch surname, cognate of Johnson
 Pearl Jansen, a former South African beauty queen

Places
 Jansen, Saskatchewan, Canada
 Jansen, Colorado, United States
 Jansen, Nebraska, United States

Other uses
 Jansen AG, Swiss steel and plastic company, founded by Josef Jansen of Aachen
 Jansen (crater), lunar crater named after Dutch inventor of the telescope Sacharias Jansen
 Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, rare disease discovered by the orthopedic surgeon Murk Jansen
 Jansenism, Catholic theological movement named after the Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen

See also
 Janse, Dutch surname
 Janson (disambiguation), Scandinavian surname
 Janssen (disambiguation), Dutch surname
 Janssens, Dutch surname


A spirited international wheelchair basketball community provides lots of support for hundreds of men and women mobilized for action.
Hang-gliding is catching on as wheelers get out of the chair and into the air . . .
Snowskiing has become a popular winter sport for wheelchair users, who hit the slopes with abandon when the temperatures fall.
'Brutally competitive' hardly seems adequate to describe wheelchair hockey. As in quad rugby, the repair shops see lots of action after the game. There's even an electric 'power' wheelchair hockey movement.
Mark Simons lives on a horse ranch in Illinois, where he likes to horseback ride and, as shown above, to use his horsedrawn 'chair-iot'.
like this rugged model are a downhill success with hardy types.
and quick pivoting three-wheeled sportschairs are the rage.
who can ski just fine sitting down.
If you'd like something a little less intense, join those who enjoy wheelchair billiards, or the equally popular wheelchair bowling.
Trapshooting is one of many wheelchair sports sponsored by organizations like United Spinal Association, formerly the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Wheelchair racing has become a major sport, and every marathon finds wheelers among the ranks, pushing the limits of their skills -- and the public perception of what the disabled can do.
Weight training and gym workouts are important among chair users, to tone the upper body and stay trim. The 'No Boundaries' exercise equipment above is typical of products now available to help wheelers keep in shape.
Of course, you can muscle your way to the top, like mathematican Ken Archer, above, who won several wheelchair bodybuilding competitions, after retiring from a wheelchair racing career.
Just when you think you've seen it all, you discover Geno Rodgers, paralyzed from the shoulders down, who'll do just about anything to stay active. Here, he climbs a cliff in New Mexico -- in his chair!
To explore the range and depth of wheelchair sports, check out the list of contact addresses and internet links from Sports 'n Spokes magazine.
Disabled Sports USA, founded in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans, has local chapters in more than 80 cities and towns nationwide.
. . . Just get out there!


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"She projects the rolling passage work and multilayered textures of the Rachmaninov with plenty of power and sweep ... Chen's well-modulated, regulation pianism does justice to the Grieg ..."
"Her performance is a powerhouse packed with pianistic prowess ... she's equally responsive to the music's poetic gestures and moments of melodic suppleness. Grieg's concerto has never sounded more convincing than it does in Chen's performance."
Chinese pianist Sa Chen performs two of the best known of all piano concertos with conductor Lawrence Foster and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Sa Chen is the only pianist in history to have won awards at three top international piano competitions. In 2010, she also won China's Classical Elite Award in both Shanghai and Beijing in the categories Best Concerts of the Year and Best Recital Concert of the Year.


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Raging Justice Review
Played on the Nintendo Switch
Developed by Makin' Games
Published by Team17
Every beat 'em up comes down to punching and kicking your way through thousands of people. Then at the end of the stage there's a giant boss waiting for you. That's the challenge of every beat 'em up, but there is always a hidden enemy lurking. One that will end your game just as fast as a power outage. After playing a few levels of any side-scrolling romp you will feel the excitement lessen. You may find the thoughts of your daily grind creeping into the forefront of your mind. That's when she strikes, the beast beneath the surface: it's boredom. Boredom is the joker to the beat 'em up's Batman. And just as tricky to deal with.
Raging Justice is a modern beat 'em up. It finds itself in a once glorious genre that evolution has passed by. New gamers may not find the joy in moving right while fighting a countless group of enemies. Regardless if you're an old school gamer or one of a new generation, boredom will use a beat 'em up to invade your life. How does Raging Justice protect you against such a real life foe?
Gameplay and Controls
The game follows the traditional route to a science: you clear the screen of enemies then the word "go" will flash in the corner. You scroll right until a new crop of cronies appear until you reach the boss. The game uses all four buttons on the Switch. Y is punch, X is kick, B is jump, and A is a multipurpose button. A is used to perform a grab. If you've ever played a 90s beat 'em up you'll remember how the grab was coupled with an attack button to do a grapple move. Raging Justice has that, but instead of touching the bad guy to initiate a grab, you have to press A. The same button is also used to pick up a weapon, to use the weapon another button is used. The constant switching of buttons can pose a problem at first. It's awkward, but after some time you will get the hang of it. Pressing B also allows you to make arrests. More on that later. Double tapping up or down on the thumbstick will perform a dodge in the respective direction. Double tapping right or left will do a dash. The dash will be the most useful move in your arsenal. It will come in handy when you get overrun. The game will tell you that there's a special move. You have to press X and Y at the same time. Pressing those two buttons at once isn't easy, so use ZR instead. Using the special will sap your health bar, as per tradition.
Of course there's a jump kick, and a jump punch move too. When an enemy falls to the ground, some ground 'n pound moves can be done. Think head stomps and kidney punches. It's something not seen in many beat 'em ups. So, it's clear that there are millions of ways to beat someone up. Boredom doesn't like that. You will find yourself discovering new ways to string attacks together the more you play the game.
Since the main characters are cops, you will have to ability to arrest the criminals that are dazed. Each bad guy has two bars: one is health, the second is an arrest meter. After a successful take down, the perp will drop some food. Food gives you health, as per tradition. If you want to take justice into your own hands then feel free to go nuts, skip the arrest. The game will call you a bad cop, and if you continue that behavior you're rewarded with a shot gun. For a limited time.
Every beat 'em up in history-almost-will have you saving someone. Most times it's a girlfriend. In Raging Justice, you'll be saving the mayor. The mayor has been taken after his crummy town has been invaded with psychopaths. It's a perfectly acceptable plot line for a beat 'em up. There are cutscenes that help move along the simple story. A twist at the end provides a nice payoff if you chose to pay attention to the drama. No one has ever played a beat 'em up for the story, so skip it.
Nothing state of the art in the way the game looks. The graphics are simple and fitting for a beat 'em up though. The colors are nice; the backgrounds are detailed and interesting. There is usually movement behind the mayhem.
The detail of the playable characters are well done. As are the enemies, but they are limited in variety. Seeing the same bad guys over and over does open the cracks for boredom to seep in. The game will allow a ton of enemies on screen at once, to the point that I lost track of my character many times.
The music in the game is nothing spectacular. The tunes won't be stuck in your head, and you won't find yourself whistling them at work. But, the soundtrack does add to the atmosphere of the game. There's a circus themed stage and the clown music is a nice touch. The sounds of the punches and kicks hitting the enemies are spot on. The stab sound of the knife is gruesome. The crack of the bat is authentic, and addictive. The sound effects in Raging Justice are great.
The best part of every beat 'em up is the thrill of mowing down many enemies. In some games when you hit the bad guys they fall to the ground with little reaction. There's a sick satisfaction in seeing the enemies in a beat 'em up feel pain, and Raging Justice pulls if off beautifully. You'll feel like your beating someone up. Stabbing the guy who tosses dynamite at you will make you feel bad for the dude. For a half second. Hitting someone with the baseball bat will bring the bloodlust out of the most timid of people. No other game in the storied genre does what this one does: lets you ride a lawn mower, you can literally mow down the enemy!
Replayability
This is where the game loses points. Raging Justice doesn't do a lot to keep you playing. Money is collected throughout the game, but it's not used for anything except keeping score. Getting a high score is the only reward Raging Justice has to offer. Not since the Atari days has anyone bragged about a high score. The game has a built in checklist of challenges, completing them provides nothing but a satisfaction of achieving something. The feeling doesn't last.
Boredom won't completely overtake you once you've finished the game: there are some organic ways the game might bring you back for a second play through. Each of the three characters are vastly different. Playing the game with each one does provide a bit more depth. Raging Justice can also be played with 2 players on the road. Pop those Joy Cons off the sides of your Switch and give one to a pal.
Seasoned fans of classic beat 'em ups will enjoy Raging Justice for as long as their thumbs will allow them to. If you're new to the genre than worry not, Raging Justice is a fine introduction to this style of gaming. The controls will seem a bit overwhelming at first, but you will get used to it. The hardest obstacle to overcome in any beat 'em up is boredom. Raging Justice picks up that baseball bat and splats your boredom all over the wall. But, after that end boss hits the dirt there isn't much to come back to.
6.5/10 – When compared to all games on the Switch.
8/10 – When compared to all beat 'em ups.
The game is worth your money and time. If you like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Golden Axe, you will like Raging Justice.
September 15, 2018 September 18, 2018 CB EdwardBeat 'Em Up Retrospective, Switch Reviewsjustice, nintendo, raging, review, switch
2 thoughts on "Raging Justice Review"
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Great, Thorough review, I had no idea this was out! I really have always loved this genre, it sounds like a must buy for me!
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Online Case Studies and a Process Description for Product Platform Planning
Anand Srinivasan
Asli Sahin
Janis P. Terpenny
Timothy W. Simpson
Soundar R. T. Kumara
Steven B. Shooter
Robert B. Stone, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Product Platform Planning is an emerging philosophy that calls for the planned development and deployment of families of related products. It is markedly different from the traditional product development process, which focuses on optimized designs for individual products. This is a relatively new development in engineering design, which is not typically a part of an engineer's education. Furthermore, it is different from traditional engineering topics in that it requires an integration of principles from both management and engineering design. All this makes for a new and different topic for which educational material needs to be developed. To address these needs, an online resource has been developed. This resource includes a set of three cases, a tutorial, and a glossary in a multimedia format hosted on the Internet. The tutorial developed for the website presents the basic concepts as well as current research on planning and architecting families of products. The case study section has three cases based on a family of popular power tools. The cases present information in the form of function diagrams, assembly diagrams, customer needs and market-segment data. Links are provided to helpful sites, as well as to relevant sections in the tutorial. Although product platform planning is a relatively new development, a variety of approaches have been used by the research community and practitioners in industry. A need was felt for a comprehensive, coherent source of knowledge in this field on which to base the case studies, and also as a means to providing a single source of information to users of this resource. Accordingly, a literature review was conducted and an overall process description was developed. This paper presents and describes the online learning resource which was developed. In addition, the literature review and the process description of platform planning that were developed are also detailed.
A. Srinivasan et al., "Online Case Studies and a Process Description for Product Platform Planning," Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (2005, Long Beach, CA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Sep 2005.
ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (2005: Sep. 24-28, Long Beach, CA)
Case Studies; Online Learning Tool; Product Platform Planning
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Q: how can NSLOG display multiple variables in one line i have three NSString variables
  NSString *text1;
    NSString *text2;
    NSString *text3;
    NSLog(@"%@"text1, text2, text3);
This displays only text1 variable
How can i display all of them in NSLog in one single line?
Thanks

A: Use a %@ format specifier for each string:
NSLog(@"%@ %@ %@", string1, string2, string3);

A: DEAR USE NSLOG FORMATER VARIABLE SPECIFIER LIKE THIS
int i = 5;
float f = 5.3;
double d = 66.76;
long int li = 22;
short int si = 12;
char c = 'W';
signed int sint = 34;
unsigned int uint = –23;
int o = 024;
int h = 0xAD;
long long ll = 45;
long double lf = 34.5;
unsigned long long ull = 12;
NSString *msg = @"NSLog Message";

//  DO NSLOG

NSLog(@" print int %d", i);
NSLog(@" print float %f", f); // use %e for exponential
NSLog(@" print double %f", d); // use %e for exponential
NSLog(@" print long int %li", li);
NSLog(@" print short int %i", si);
NSLog(@" print char %c", c);
NSLog(@" print signed int %i", sint);
NSLog(@" print unsigned int %u", uint);
NSLog(@" print octal %o", o);
NSLog(@" print hexadecimal %X", h);
NSLog(@" print long long %lld", ll);
NSLog(@" print long double %Lf", lf);
NSLog(@" print unsigned long long %llu", ull);
NSLog(@" print Object %@", msg);

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We regularly run training days for music teachers who want to learn more about String/Musicbabies. It is great fun and you will enjoy the time!
The next training day will be a combined Musicbabies/Stringbabies event and will take place in September of this year.


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Q: Integrar info propia de producto a boton de pago Necesito saber cómo integro un id de producto al botón de pago y como me lo informa luego Mercado pago.
Adjunto imagen para explicar mejor. Tengo listados de cupones,
todos deben llevar su id para luego poder identificarlo.

A: Ok, por lo que entiendo necesitas asignar un tipo de "id" a los botones o cupones que estás listando.
Lo que tienes que hacer es una de dos, generar el id de tu objeto desde tu backend y concatenarlo en el atributo "id" de tu HTML:
<?php

$pagos_ids = array('17625', '2882', '66244');

foreach( $pagos_ids as $pago_id ){
   echo 'Pagar';
}

El resultado renderizado
Pagar
Pagar
Pagar

Si no estás a gusto con usar el atributo "id", puedes usar el atributo "data":
Pagar
Pagar
Pagar

Recuerdas, esos ids los generas desde tu PHP, y ya que estén generados, después puedes manipular esos ids con JavaScript.
Espero haber respondido tu respuesta. Saludos.