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TheShadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research.

• Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter
  
• Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by researchers who examine the subjectivities inherent in their ethnographic insights
  
• Explores the value, and limitations, of addressing the personal in ethnographic research
  
• Includes a critical discussion of the anthropologist’s self in the field
  
• Introduces imaginative rigor to ethnographic research to heighten confidence in anthropological knowledge

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The extremely short story genre is one of the most recent ones in Hispanic Literature. This selection of brief stories presents the most excellent tales of mini-fiction -- less than 400 words -- of literary tradition. Includes works by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Rafael Bernal, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and others.

Description in Spanish: La minificcion es uno de los generos mas recientes en la literatura hispanoamericana y, sin duda, uno de los mas interesantes y agradables de leer. Esta seleccion de cuentos brevisimos presenta las minificciones "relatos de menos de 400 palabras" mas relevantes de nuestra tradicion literaria. Este libro se puede leer de principio a fin, o bien, el lector puede optar por elegir los minicuentos al azar.

Autores incluidos: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Rafael Bernal, Paco Ignacio Taibo II y otros.
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Countering Terrorism evaluates the successes and failures of recent efforts by the U.S. government to reform our intelligence infrastructure. Posner challenges the over-politicized, now conventional wisdom that these reforms have threatened our civil rights and liberties..
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"This unique and well-tested voice consistently arrives in the future much earlier than anyone else." Nicholas Negroponte, Co-Founder of MIT's Media Lab "Stan Davis is a master at linking abstract truths and discoveries to specific business applications. What could be more useful? He is a national treasure." John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 On Blur: "Blur is fast, smart, and useful-a decoder ring that any business person can use to make sense of the turbulence in the world of work today." Alan Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company ".should be required reading for the millennium." Walter B. Wriston. Former Chairman and CEO, Citibank On Future Perfect: "If you want a hint of what's going on in the new economy, this vintage book will clue you in." Kevin Kelly, Executive Editor. Wired On 2020 Vision: ".a provocative masterpiece." Tom Peters, Author and management guru On The Monster Under the Bed: ".the single best book I've read in years about how all enterprises had better gain and deploy knowledge." Warren Bennis, Author and leadership expert ".a must for understanding how learning technologies are transforming our work and our play, our businesses and our schools, our entire lives." John Seely Brown, Former Director, Xerox PARC ".future visioning at its best." Peter M. Senge, MIT and author of The Fifth Discipline On Future Wealth: ".a valuable guide to the far-ranging, sometimes daunting financial and social transformations ahead." Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former Secretary of State ".maps out many astounding and profound societal changes likely to result from the Internet revolution." Frederick W. Smith, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Federal Express ".a mind-stretching look at how an efficient, transparent Internet-connected economy could work." Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma ".a compelling vision of our financial future." Art Ryan, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Prudential Insurance Company of America ".a formidable manual on how to make sense of risk and opportunities. it will make you work smarter as well as harder." Rudi Dornbusch, Ford Professor of Economics and International Management, MIT ".this book is essential reading if you want to master the new economy." Ken Lay, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Enron Corporation ".stimulates readers to think about how the revolution in information technology opens up new contracting possibilities for their human and financial capital." Bob Kaplan, author of The Balanced Scorecard.
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Blurred Vision is an anthology of new narrative art that blurs the line between fine art and comics. If you think comics still haven't grown up, if you're tired of middlebrow alternative comics that wallow in nostalgia and fetishize packaging, if you wish something would come along to slap comics in the face and say Here, swallow this - it's a bitter little pill made out of exactly what you need right now, well...here you go. Features work by: Motohiko Tokuta, Karl Stevens, Brian Stefans and Gary Sullivan, Michael Teague, D. Dominick Lombardi, Ethan Persoff, Stephen Lack and James Romberger, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dash Shaw, Mark Sunshine, Kevin Mutch, Henrik Rehr, Bishakh Som, Woojung Ahn, Toc Fetch, Henriette Valium, and Koren Shadmi..
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This is the second anthology of New Narrative Art from New York City based fine art publisher Blurred Books. With ten contributors that include well-known figures from both the fine art and alternative comics worlds, Blurred Vision 2 continues to explore the possibilities of comics like art - and art like comics. The cover is by New York City artist Kevin Mutch.

Features work by: Grant Shaffer, Ethan Persoff, Toc Fetch, Caleb Monroe and Noel Tuazon, D. Dominick Lombardi, Seve Rasnic Tem, Dash Shaw, Kevin Mutch, and Michael Teague..
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In the early twenty-second century, corporations are government Ten mega-corporations have rule over the entire world. The largest and most powerful of these companies is Summerstone, which was founded in the robotics industry and continues to be the sector's best.

Kat is an android - a Summerstone prototype. She wakes up in the middle of a field, spurned by the company that created her. Her journey to find out why takes her into the heart of the Summerstone corporation and to a group of people who just might be able to bring it to its knees.

Rodney is a loneboy - a contract killer. He's hired by Summerstone to do some of their dirty work, but his actions will forever change the course of the world.

And me? I was just a regular at a virtual reality bar. Now I'm something else entirely. Partly human, partly not. I live in a world where realities are interchangeable, data is the only language that matters and revolution waits in shadows..
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