Jan M. Padios is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

In 2011 the Philippines surpassed India to become what the New York Times referred to as "the world's capital of call centers." By the end of 2015 the Philippine call center industry employed over one million people and generated twenty-two billion dollars in revenue. In A Nation on the Line Jan M. Padios examines this massive industry in the context of globalization, race, gen...(展开全部)

奥山由之の新作『As the Call, So the Echo』は、2年余りにわたり、ある村で暮らす友人の家族と、その周りの人々の日々の情景を撮りためたシリーズです。 当初は作品として発表する予定ではなく、ただ目のまえの瞬間瞬間に反応し、受け入れ、シャッターを押したものであったそれらは、奥山にとって、ある時から止まってしまった「写真の持つ気配」を、もう一度再生させるきっかけとなったものです。 具体と抽象を行き来し、人々がつくり出すものや、ひとつの命から始まる広がり=球体のような関係性を豊かな色彩で描き出す本書(4章構成)は、表現者としての奥山の新たな出発点になるとともに、写真の原点ともいえる力を湛えています。 『As the call, So the echo』(呼びかけたから、こだまが返ってきたんだ)── いつだったか、たまたま開いた本で、気にな...(展开全部)

Witemeyer Returns with Her Trademark Blend of Adventure, Romance, and HumorGrace Mallory is tired of running, of hiding. But when an old friend sends an after-hours telegraph transmission warning Grac

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, nev...(展开全部)

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, nev...(展开全部)

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, nev...(展开全部)

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, nev...(展开全部)

The Fault Line - that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. Everyone must learn to deal with it. </P>Now, Geoffrey Moore, author of The Gorilla Game and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that helped guide the high-tech revo...(展开全部)

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical acc...(展开全部)