Heres what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and play in the "City of Angels"from glitzy Hollywood to posh Beverly Hills, from Santa Monicas surf to Pasadenas parade, and beyond! An amalgam of mini cities connected by a web of freeways and boulevards, Los Angeles is at once classic and eccentric. In this indispensable city guide, ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. 10 maps detail favorite neighborhoods, and include an L.A. Metro Map.

2011 Edition. From Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, and beyond, here's what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and play in this gem of a city. Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter. ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 10 easy-to-use maps.

Performing Shame shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its withering influence.Chapter 1 analyses the projects’ key terms: shame, performance, and empathy. Chapter 2 probes the book’s key terms in light of a real-world study of an "empathy device" that aims to teach the public what it feels like to be disabled. Chapter 3 analyses how theatre intervenes in the practice of medicine via standardized patient actors who en...

Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation.Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer’s disea...

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population.Divided into four parts: Par...