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Lifestyle media ¿ books, magazines, websites, radio and television shows that focus on topics such as cookery, gardening, travel and home improvement ¿ have witnessed an explosion in recent years. Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring ideas about taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences to fashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes an appropriate lifestyle for particular social groups. Contemporary examples are used throughout, including Martha Stewart, House Doctor, What Not to Wear, You Are What You Eat, Country Living and brochures for gay an

AbstractIn New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, formal alliances between labor unions and community organizations have spurred successful workplace and policy organizing campaigns. As a result, the institutional form of the community–labor coalition is travelling to smaller, less unionized and more politically conservative cities, where the replication of established organizing strategies must contend with political, economic and institutional differences that often go unnoted. Comparing community–labor alliances in Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago, this article identifies heretofore unobserved conditions of possibility for successful urban labor organizing in the US. Compared to smaller cities, Chicago and the large urban areas from which ideal practices are abstracted feature higher levels of union membership, significantly more funding of basic social and neighborhood services, and larger immigrant communities. Operating with minimal human services and limited recourse to the social and institutional networks of immigrant workers, labor coalitions in St. Louis and Indianapolis face recurrent barriers to identifying workplace problems, mobilizing low‐wage workers and sustaining citywide reform campaigns. This indicates geographical limits to the current organizing model and highlights the limitations of urban scholarship derived from large cities unrepresentative of urbanity as a whole.

The article discusses John Bell's travel account The Travels of John Bell (1719) and focuses on the passages in which the author discusses the daily lives of common Chinese people. The analysis demonstrates that Bell's travelogue follows – to a certain extent – the established imagological trends characteristic of the 18th century and in doing so falls well within the cultural paradigm of the Enlightenment. At the same time, it becomes clear that the Scottish physician is no ordinary traveler: he manages to maintain a much more objective and level-headed attitude towards the East than many of his traveling contemporaries.

Photographers have become common targets of security practice in the public spaces of US and UK cities. The securitization of photography – where photographers are commonly stopped, questioned, told to surrender film or delete photos, and in some cases arrested – rests upon the invocation of a post-9/11 context and the preemptive security logics that characterize the 'war on terror'. Here, the spatio-temporality of the photograph and the photo-taking subject are in tension with preemptive security stances in which everyday, ordinary actions – such as photography – are rendered suspicious and worthy of potential intervention. Using examples of specific encounters between photographers and security personnel, this article interrogates the conduct of these interventions and the preemptive security stance that scopes ordinary actions and everyday urban spaces through flexible and dispersed acts. Finally, the article considers how this uncoordinated and dispersed practice travels across a wide variety of actors without clear, causal linkages. The practice is a mobile, circuitous one, and through its analysis the article argues for more attention to be paid to everyday, embodied, and dispersed practices of preemption.

'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton_____________________A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world._____________________ Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses'An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places - but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages

Considerată prima hartă a Valahiei la scară mare (cca. 1:57,000) și printre primele având la bază măsurători topografice, harta Specht (1790-91) a fost utiliza tă în numeroase studii
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tomuri ce furnizează informații suplimentare, precum: elemente de localizare, numărul și tipul construcțiilor, felul formațiunilor vegetale și altele. În ciuda caracterului inedit, anuscrisele păstrate sub formă de copie, la Biblioteca Academiei Române, au fost rareori utilizate în scop științific. Scopul acestui articol este de a explora veridicitatea datelor care exprimă, în unități de timp, distanțele dintre așezările de pe harta Specht. Analiza a constat în interpolarea datelor organizate întro bază de date istorico-geografică, pentru a reflecta două ipostaze ale mișcării populației: călătoria în orizontul local (în vecinătatea satului) și călătoria intrajudețeană, având ca pol reședința de județ. Pentru delimitarea zonei de studiu pe criterii relevante, ca studiu de caz a fost tratat județul Săcuieni, una dintre unitățile administrativ-teritoriale de tranzit între Muntenia și Transilvania. Pentru validare, hărțile obținute au fost comparate cu descrieri de călătorie din secolele XVIII-XIX. Având în vedere variabilele existente (mijloacele de deplasare, anotimpul, starea drumurilor, etc), rezultatele analizei corespund cu mărturiile istorice și cu situația reală. În concluzie, harta Specht împreună cu cele trei manuscrise complementare constituie o sursă veridică de date din perspectiva timpului estimat între așezări.
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This article aims at analyzing the relationship between intertextual and autobiographical memory in Georges Perec and Radu Cosaşu's writings, revealing several of their characteristics, similarities and paradoxes. Starting from the assumption that almost every book Georges Perec ever wrote (regardless of whether essays, autobiographical accounts, travel sketches, screen plays or novels), carries the stamp of his struggle to construct a plural identity (trying to harmonize his Jewish-Polish origin, the legacy of traumatic past-experiences - his father's death on the battle field when he was less than six, his mother's deportation to Auschwitz and her subsequent death etc.), and that for Cosaşu the identity "quest" is central, too, I intend to demonstrate that obliquity represents in both situations a key-concept. Moreover, when reading their childhood recollections, Georges Perec's notes on his journey to London or Radu Cosaşu's account of his puzzling travel to Moscow in 1968, we notice that the strategy of the oblique glance gradually generates a sort of "industrial production" of screen-memories or rather the memory of a whole generation. Besides, we can envisage the possibility of understanding their exploration of the "infra-ordinary" as an occasion for reconsidering the various interplays between writing and remembering, intertextuality and imagination, or - as Perec puts it - between "space as inventory" and "space as invention".

"What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims -- the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy -- ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than to others. How have these policies affected ordinary people? How do these two divergent nations now see each other and the world around them? Seeking answers to these questions, two Singaporeans set off to cycle around Peninsular Malaysia, armed with a tent, two pairs of clothes and a daily budget of three US dollars each. They spent 30 days on the road, cycling through every Malaysian state, and chatting with hundreds of Malaysians"--Publisher's description.

What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims?the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy?ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than to others. How have these policies affected ordinary people? How do these two divergent nations now see each other and the world around them? Seeking answers to these questions, two Singaporeans set o

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Praise for Win The Youth Sports Game -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The 5,854-Day Journey Begins -- 1. Peewee Sports-A Perfect Place to Start (U5-U6) -- 2. Select Sports: They Start Earlier than You Think (U7-U9) -- 3. Mama, Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up to Be Special -- 4. Travel-Team Roulette, Shenanigans with Coaches, and the Rankings Game (U10-U12) -- 5. How Can the U14 Opponents Drive Themselves Home? -- 6. The Stakes Are Bigger When It's a Teen Game (U12-U13) -- 7. Sports Means More -- 8. Tournacations, 180,000 Miles, and Seven Inches That Made a Difference (U13-U14) -- 9. How Adults Muck Up Youth Sports -- 10. Bigger Fields, Higher Nets, and Deeper Commitments (U15) -- 11. Coaches: The Good, the Bad, and the Yellers -- 12. Recruiting Videos-Don't Believe the Hype (U16) -- 13. Scouting the College Sports Landscape -- 14. Finding the Sweet Spot for College Recruitment Success (U17-U18) -- 15. Glossy Brochures and What "Lies" Within -- 16. Closing Out the Journey Toward College (U18-U19) -- 17. Your Kid May Be Special-but They're Not Getting a D1 Scholarship -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: The Sixteen-Year Sports Journey by the Numbers -- Appendix II: Fifty-Four Obstacles and Challenges That Youth Athletes Must Overcome -- Appendix III: What the College Coaches Had to Say -- Appendix IV: Suggested Further Reading -- Bibliography and Quote Sources -- Plates.

In this article I will present two arguments. First, the argument that the time travel television series historically provided viewers with a spectacular temporal and spatial alternative to the routine of everyday life, the regulation of television scheduling, and the small-world confines of domestic subjectivity. Taking the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, predominantly in a UK viewing environment, I will suggest that the special effect rendering of the time travel sequence expanded the viewer's material universe, and affectively wrenched the television set free from the strictures of scheduling and realist programming. Further, the time travel series readily and regularly took the domestic space, the ordinary day and the everyman/person into awesome environments and situations that suggested alternative lifestyles and behaviours, with a different existential tempo and rhythm. At a narrative, thematic, meta-textual, and aesthetically spectacular level, television time travel saw to the wonderful end of the working day. Case studies include Sapphire and Steal, Dr Who, and Quantum Leap. Second, the article will argue that rather than the contemporary time travel television series being an extraordinary alternative to ordinary life, they instead articulate convergence culture, deregulation, multiple channel viewing, and time-shift culture where there is no such thing as an ordinary working day or domestic viewing context.