The Hunger Games: Action-film feminism is catching fire Lisa Schwarzbaum Burning up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is both strong and vulnerable – a new kind of action heroine who has powered The Hunger Games: Catching fire to a $158m US debut. (Lionsgate) Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is a new type of female action film icon, and moviegoers should be very excited about that, writes Lisa Schwarzbaum. As Catching Fire ignites on movie screens around the world, this is what we know…
of the world’s human population for the first time in history. He gives considerable attention to changes in city planning, patterns of urban growth, and important differences between industrialized Europe and North America and the developing world, as well as the contrasts in urban design and living conditions between different sorts of political regimes— communist, capitalist, colonial, and fascist. Particularly revealing are Spodek’s discussions of the influence of prominent urban planners…
popular culture, and complete chapters on the media and pseudoscientific thinking Preface xv • An extensive treatment of critical thinking standards, hindrances, and dispositions • A clear and detailed discussion of the distinction between deductive and inductive reasoning • An abundance of thought-provoking marginal quotes, as well as “Critical Thinking Lapses”—outrageous errors in reasoning and thinking • An Online Learning Center that includes detailed chapter summaries,…
negotiation and negotiation strategies Time-based misunderstandings in international marketing negotiations Cultural misunderstandings during the negotiation process Differences in outcome orientation: Oral versus written agreements as a basis for trust between the parties Questions Notes References Appendix 16: Teaching materials A16.1 Case: McFarlane Instruments A16.2 Negotiation game: Kumbele Power Plant A16.3 Case: Doing business in China – A failure in getting paid 17 Intercultural marketing negotiations…
Selected recent articles from the multidisciplinary International Labour Review are assembled for the first time to illuminate questions such as how we should define equality, what equal opportunity means and what statistics tell us about differences between men and women at work, how the family confronts globalization and what is the role of law in achieving equality. There is an examination of policy – to deal with sexual harassment and wage inequality, for example, as well as part-time work, the…
linguistic basis of sovereignty and national identity. How many titles of social and economics books include the word ‘end’ or the prefix ‘post’: ‘The end of history’, ‘the post-industrial societies’, ‘post-modernism’, ‘post-capitalism’, ‘post-feminism’. There is a general awareness of change, but no clear vision of where it may all be leading. It seems we are not yet living in a new era, but have fallen off the edge of an old one. A world in transition But there are reasons why we ought…