The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers’ desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale.Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail W. Pieper, is a collection of essays which g...

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human intervention implies a new understanding of the huma...

A full-color neuroscience text that skillfully integrates neuromuscular skeletal contentCovers both pediatric and adult issuesBeautiful full-color presentation with numerous imagesNeurorehabilitation in Physical Therapy delivers comprehensive coverage of the structure and function of the human nervous system. It also discusses normal motor development and motor control, as well as common treatment techniques in physi...

This expert guide integrates full-color illustrations with neuromuscular skeletal content to help readers quickly and effectively master this topicA Doody's Core Title for 2024!Providing comprehensive coverage of the structure and function of the human nervous system, Neurorehabilitation in Physical Therapy discusses normal motor development and motor control, as well as common treatment techniques in physical therapy. In order to ...

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lew...

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, neemt skiester Rachel Brewster deel aan de Nationale Kampioenschappen Slalom. Little Ray, zoals ze wordt genoemd, komt niet eens in de buurt van het podium. Maar wél slaagt ze in een andere missie: zwanger worden. Terug thuis in New England wordt Little Ray skileraar. Haar zoon, Adam, groeit op in een familie die spot met conventies, maar die ook alle vragen ontwijkt naar haar bewogen verleden. Jaren later, op zoek naar antwoorden, volgt Adam het spoor terug na...